Alternative formal name of Russia.

A cocktail consisting of coffee liqueur, vodka, and milk. / (history) A White Guardist, a Russian who supported the tsar in the 1917 Revolution and the Russian Civil War (1917–1923), and afterward.

A cocktail containing vodka and a coffee-flavoured liqueur such as Kahlúa. / Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see Black, Russian.

Pertaining to Black Russia. / Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see Black, Russian.

One of a set of hollow nesting dolls, usually wooden and decorated. / (figuratively) An issue or situation which repeatedly reveals more levels of complexity.

Of or relating to Russians with tsarist sympathies in the period directly following the 1917 Revolution. / (obsolete) Of or relating to Belarus, literally "White Russia," or its language.

Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, the name for modern day Russia before the collapse of the Soviet Union (1917-1991).

(historical) The Russian state from 1721 to 1917.

(idiomatic, games) A deadly game in which a person loads a single bullet in the cylinder of a revolver, spins the cylinder so that the bullet's location is unknown, points the muzzle at his/her head, and pulls the trigger. In its most lethal form, played by multiple participants each of whom takes a turn until the weapon discharges.

An oleaster, Elaeagnus angustifolia.