The document summarizes Russian cryptography techniques, including block ciphers and modes of operation. It discusses the history of block ciphers and competitions like NIST AES. It specifically covers the Russian standards GOST 28147-89 and GOST R 34.12-2015 named Kuznyechik. It also reviews modes of operation like ECB, CBC, CTR, and padding techniques. Implementation results for Kuznyechik show encryption speeds of over 5GB/s on GPU. References are provided for further reading.