Why is Russia called and considered the bear nation?
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It has nothing to do with the Bible, the "Russian Bear" is a character who represented the nation of Russia in editorial cartoons, like Uncle Sam for the USA and John Bull for Britain.
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It was/is not just a dispute between the US and the USSR, but between various groups, all wanting the privelage of naming an element to honor a particular person.\nHaving an element named after your country is a pretty rare thing.  The United States has one (#95, Americium), so does Germany (#32, Germanium), and Poland (Polonium).  There are also a few named after famous people (Rutherfordium, Curium, Nobelium, Roentgenium, Einsteinium). But there are just too many places/people which deserve an element and too few elements to go around.\nWhile all the decision making process is going on after the element is discovered, it is given a temporty name and symbol just to fill space on the periodic table, names like Ununquadium (Uuq), which basically tell everyone that is hasnt been named yet.\n\nEven today, well after the USSR has collapsed, elements 112 and up dont have official names according to,\nhttp://www.webelements.com/index.html
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Ya Russian is agressor till 1980. Now also it is agressor in part of militray .
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all sides facing south= its at the north pole, so the bear is white.\nalso the correct spelling is colour, because we invented the language, not you, you just stole it and made a f***ing mess out of it.
197556
Bears North Pole\nPenguins South Pole
919693
You little kids need to study history.\nCommunisms's goal WAS to take over the whole world.\n"let Russia have their chosen government in peace", is so funny.   Is that a joke??\nStudy history.   Learn a little.
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Politics.  Russia is not cooperating, despite efforts by the US to be conciliatory. He is therefore showing them that if they don't cooperate, he can cause problems for them too.  It is NOT ideology: after slamming Russia he went to Kazakhstan, where the political situation is worse than Russia, and was very friendly, mostly because Kazakhstan has oil, is in Central Asia (the US lost its base in Kazakhstan's neighbor Uzbekistan and  may lose its base in another neighbor Kyrgyzstan).  All of these Central Asian states are near Afghanistan and Iran.
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There is no USSR. Are you referring to Russia?
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The Spectacled, or Andean Bear \nFew have been reported from eastern Panama and extreme northern Argentina. The spectacled bear is listed as vulnerable on the World Conservation\n\nGo to the site under sources to see and read more
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Russia because I live in Canada
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Nicholas II dragged russia into WWI.russia was unprepared to candle the military and economic costs.Their military had millions in it but they were poorly trained and their supplies began to run low becuase they had so many people.The Allied forces couldn't break through the Dardanelles to get them supplies from the south and the North sea was Frozen becuase its winter.Russia was forced into a corner with loads of pressure on the Czar which forced Czar nicholas to step-down becuuase of war-related shortages and enormous casualties from the feirce german  army.By this time russia had began seperating becuase  of  the growing revolt.The Bolsheviks leader V.I. Lenin took control of the lands through force.They took control of the government and got russia out of the war through the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk.Actually V.I. Lenin created the treaty by giving most of russia's western border along with the people in those lands to Germany which in turn got them out of the war. Some people literally went to bed russian and woke up germans. It stopped the war on the russian front which is all the russian people really wanted.
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The grizzly bear, Ursus arctos horriblis, has a range in this link which is a picture of a map. Slightly different range than brown bears in general since there are several races of these bears. There's brown bears in Russia I believe. I'll try to track down that information for you to if I can.\n\nFound it! Range for all Ursus arctos animals regardless of race or subspecies!
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Russia might have same ambitions as the erstwhile USSR, but it is certainly not the same power as USSR, economically, technically and most importantly politically. \n\nAnd I think this is a fact that no one can deny now. Also, the problems with other breakaway nations of USSR has made it weaker.
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The Amur Tiger isn't really all that powerful in comparison to a Brown Bear:\nhttp://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/3a/Tigerbearpred.jpg\nSpecifically note the part stating:\n"tigers can handle bears, black or brown, of almost their own weight"\n\nThey may predate on fully grown Brown Bears, but still only Brown Bears smaller then themselves (which would only include fully grown females, and subadults), and their ambushing method doens't really appear to give the Bear much of a chance, making it not look much like a fight when the events do occur.\nDue to the fact that male Manchurian Brown Bears (the Bears that live with the Siberian Tigers) average at larger sizes, they would likely be the more dominant and powerful animal, considering that the Tigers don't even really attempt ambushes on them (due to their larger size), despite the tremendous advantage that would give in attempting to kill.\nThe Tiger named Dale, that was reported to predate on "Brown Bears twice it's size", as later mentioned by the Siberian Tiger researcher, Dale Miquelle (who also happens to be the person that Tiger was named after) the mentioning of it predating on Bears twice its size was somewhat of a misquote, due to the fact that despite the fact that he did become a rather succesful predator of Brown Bears, the bears he predated on where not actually twice his size, but rather about the same size as himself, or somewhat smaller, and whoever originally heard about that incident made the assumption that size didn't matter, for some reason, and theirfore mentioned "twice his size", due to the fact that this is how large the Brown Bears can get.\n\nHowever, depending on your definition of predator, the Brown Bear may not quallify for the title, due to the fact that it isn't a strict predator, often feeding on such things as plant roots and berries in the place of killing other animals for food as the Tiger does...making it seem, to me atleast, that the Brown Bear maybe shouldn't really be considered as such.\nIf in your view the Brown Bear isn't a real predator, then it obviously shouldn't be put on the list, though otherwise, they should probably be placed over the Tiger...\nAnd for Brown Bear vs. Polar Bear:\n\n"Four big polar bears -- including three 1,000-pound males with bloody muzzles and yellow-stained fur -- were dining together on whale carcasses at a sand spit about a mile outside the northeastern Alaska village of Kaktovik.\n\nDespite the odor from rotting bowhead and the sound of chomping jaws, the midnight scene at the bone dump along the Arctic Ocean was remarkably peaceful. Recorded as part of a three-year study of polar bear feeding behavior, it showed that these predators were willing to share discarded remains with each other, said federal biologist Susi Miller.\n\nBut then the majestic rulers of Beaufort Sea ice met their match: a scrappy tundra grizzly.\n\nAs Miller and a colleague watched from the cab of a pickup, a small brown bear sow emerged from the darkness and ambled up the spit, trailed by two yearling cubs.\n\nWithout hesitation, the grizzly lunged at the first polar bear, huffing and snarling, driving it into the lagoon. Soon the second, third and fourth polar bears had joined it, leaving the food to a gnarly little bruin about one-third their size."\n\n\n"But the biggest surprise may be the growing number of brown bears crashing the party on Barter Island. And guess who is dominating?\n\n"Out of the interactions that we saw, the brown bears tended to be a lot more aggressive," Miller said. "These brown bears ruled the roost."\n\nAll from:\nhttp://www.adn.com/front/story/6415667p-6294323c.html\n\nIn these wild conflicts, the Brown Bears seem to be dominating despite their smaller size...\n\nThe Bengal Tiger probably deserves mention, and the Jaguar quite possibly does as well.\n\nEDIT: the Killer Whale, despite being i
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mongolia, northen part of canada and russia
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Sitka, Alaska, formerly belonged to Russia
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If Soviet=Russian then the last time it was in 1960 in Squaw Valley (Gold Winners - Canadians Robert Paul and Barbara Wagner). Mind you that in 2002 in Salt Lake City BOTH Russian pair and Canadian pair (again! David PELLETIER/Jamie SALE) won the gold medal because of the scandal with a French referee.\n\nBy the way, DMITRIYEV, Artur / MISHKUTYONOK, Natalya are Russians. In 1992 the Soviet Union didn't exist anymore and Russia was the member of a so-called "Unified team" (ex USSR).