Instead of squashing a scandal, it is fueling China’s feminist movement - it could ultimately pose a challenge to the party itself. Yet the Chinese Communist Party’s choreographed response to a tennis star’s sexual assault allegations has backfired spectacularly. And unsurprisingly, the government there is trying to silence the dissent. Under the terms of the Berlin Treaty of 1878, Ruse’s fortifications were dismantled.Four years after the #MeToo movement rocked global halls of power, one of its most politically consequential cases to date is unfolding in the unlikeliest of places: China. In October 1811, Kutuzov surrounded the Turkish army to the northwest of Ruse, in the vicinity of Slobodzei.ĭuring the Russo-Turkish War of 1877–78, about one-half of the Russian army (the Rushchuk detachment) was tied down in the vicinity of Ruse, and there was stubborn fighting at the approaches to Ruse. The Turks lost as many as 5,000 dead and captured the Russians lost about 500. The Russians used artillery fire and counterattacks to repel the Turks and force them to retreat. Kutuzov, fought Turkish forces of about 60,000 men, commanded by the vizier Ahmet Pasha. On June 22 (July 4), 1811, 4 km south of Ruse, a Russian army of 15,000 men, commanded by General M. During the Russo-Turkish War of 1806–12, after an unsuccessful attack in July 1810 and a siege in September 1810, the Russian forces compelled the Turkish garrison at Ruse to capitulate. In all the Russo-Turkish wars, Ruse, together with the fortresses of Silistra (Silistria), Shumen (Shumla), and Varna, made up the strategically significant rectangle of fortresses that marked the division between eastern and western Bulgaria and served as a sector of flanking operations from the Danube to the Balkans. From the 15th century it was a Turkish stronghold and commercial and administrative center, called Rushchuk. It was an economic and military center until the sixth century, when it was destroyed. Ruse was founded by the Romans in the first century A.D. It also has an institute of agricultural mechanization and rural electrification. Ruse is an important cultural center, with opera and drama theaters, a historical museum, and a library. Ruse also has oil refining and produces textiles, leather, and furniture. The food industry accounts for one-fifth it produces sugar, meat, milk, canned goods, and wines. The chemical industry accounts for one-tenth of Ruse’s industrial ouput it produces varnishes and paints, simulated parquet flooring, and artificial leather. Machine building accounts for more than one-third of Ruse’s industrial output it includes shipbuilding and ship repair and the production of computer equipment, instruments, electrical goods, machine tools, and agricultural machinery. A new port, Ruse-Vostok, has been under construction since 1975. Much of the population works in transportation. The railroad and automobile bridge between Ruse and Giurgiu, Rumania, is a major artery on the principal land route linking Bulgaria with Rumania and the USSR. Ruse is one of Bulgaria’s major industrial and transportation centers and its main Danube port. The city has a polytechnic institute and is noted for its old churches and mosques.Ī city in northern Bulgaria. Click the link for more information. was born there. He came from a Sephardic Jewish background, spent most of his early years in Vienna, and, fleeing Nazism, emigrated to England in 1939 just before the outbreak of World War II. , 1905–94, English novelist and essayist, b. Under Turkish rule (15th–19th cent.) Ruse, known as Ruschuk, served as a military base. B.C.) as Prista, it became a Roman naval station. Ruse is the seat of an Eastern Orthodox metropolitan and of a Roman Catholic bishop. It has shipyards, a petroleum refinery, and varied manufactures, including chemicals, dyes, varnishes, heavy machinery, computer hardware, foodstuffs, and textiles. Click the link for more information., Romania. An important inland port, Giurgiu is connected by two oil pipelines with Ploieşti. 71,875), S Romania, in Walachia, on the Danube River opposite Ruse, Bulgaria, with which it is linked by a bridge. The chief river port of Bulgaria, it is also an industrial and communications center a bridge spans the Danube to link Ruse with Giurgiu Giurgiu 170,209), NE Bulgaria, on the Danube River bordering Romania.