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| | Leonid Brezhnev - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | In 1959 Brezhnev became Second Secretary of the Central Committee and in May 1960 was promoted to the post of President of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet, making him nominal head of state. | | | Brezhnev became Party First Secretary, Aleksei Kosygin became Prime Minister and Mikoyan became head of state. | | | Although Brezhnev was not made a Politburo member, he was instead appointed head of the Political Directorate of the Army and the Navy, with rank of Lieutenant-General, a very senior position. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonid_Brezhnev
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| | Leonid Brezhnev, 1906-1982 |
| | During World War II Brezhnev served as a political commissar in the Red Army, advancing in rank until he became a major general (1943) and head of the political commissars on the Ukrainian front. | | | As head of the party Brezhnev left many affairs of state -- e.g., diplomatic relations with noncommunist states and internal economic development -- to his colleagues Kosygin and Nikolay V. Podgorny, chairman of the Presidium. | | | After graduating (1935), he worked as an engineer and director of a technical school and also held a variety of local party posts; his career flourished under Stalin's regime, and by 1939 he had become secretary of the regional party committee of Dnipropetrovsk. |
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http://www.historyguide.org/europe/brezhnev.html
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| | Russia - The Brezhnev Era |
| | After several more personnel changes, Brezhnev assumed the chairmanship of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet in 1977, confirming his primacy in both party and state. | | | For instance, in December 1965 he succeeded in elevating Podgornyy to the ceremonial position of chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet, the highest legislative organization in the government, thus eliminating him as a rival. | | | Kosygin accepted the position of prime minister, which he held until his retirement in 1980. |
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http://countrystudies.us/russia/14.htm
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| | CNN Cold War - Historical Documents: Brezhnev's conversation with Dubcek |
| | This is difficult for me, Comrade Brezhnev, I still have a Party Congress ahead and I am completely unprepared for this Congress. | | | For this same reason we are considering new, independent decisions that would defend both the CPCz and the cause of socialism in Czechoslovakia. | | | If we said that this was all to be decided as soon as possible and before the Congress, this establishes a well-defined deadline. |
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http://edition.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/episodes/14/documents/call
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| | MSN Encarta - Brezhnev |
| | In 1977 Brezhnev replaced Podgorny as chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet and thus became head of state as well as head of the Communist Party. | | | From 1960 to July 1964 he served as chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet, the largely ceremonial position of head of state. | | | Brezhnev was elected as a full member of the Presidium in 1957. |
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http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761551585/Brezhnev_LeonidIlich.html
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| | Leonid Brezhnev |
| | As Khrushchev’s right-hand man, Brezhnev ascended to the post of President of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet in May 1960, making him the Head of State. | | | As Brezhnev took the title of General Secretary, he spoke positively of Stalin. | | | When the Red Army regrouped and began a counterassault, Brezhnev served under the senior political commissar, Nikita Khrushchev. |
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| | Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev, one of Stalin's henchmen, became the First Secretary of the communist Party of the USSR soon after Stalin's death (1953). | | | The inscription on the Mitterand's case read "To my beloved Francie from his faithful wife." Then Brezhnev opened his golden and diamond-studded cigarette case whose lid was adorned with the inscription "To Pushkin from Prince Vyazemsky." | | | His aide whispered, "Comrade Brezhnev, this is Indira Ghandi, not Thatcher..." |
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http://www.nctimes.net/~mark/htmjokes/leaders.htm
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| | A Different Kind of Brezhnev in the Making |
| | Brezhnev is more critical of the leader of today's Communist Party, Gennady A. Zyuganov, than he is of President Vladimir V. Putin. | | | The younger Brezhnev ran for Parliament in 1999 and won 2 percent of the vote. | | | Brezhnev has begun an improbably ambitious political campaign that, to date, has been propelled by little more than the fact that he is the grandson of the somber, stolid man who led the Soviet Union through 18 years of stagnation until his death in 1982. |
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http://personal.ecu.edu/conradtd/pols2010/Fall022010/FALL022010004.htm
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| | Luba Brezhnev - The World I Left Behind - Detroit Free Press Review |
| | Brezhnev's family was barred from seeing him in his final hours as doctors stood by and did nothing. | | | While we in the West probe so deeply into the peccadilloes of our politicians, the Russians knew little about the private lives of their leaders. | | | For 28 years, until his death in 1982, Leonid Brezhnev ruled the Soviet Union. |
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http://brezhnev.com/revdfp.htm
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| | Union of Soviet Socialist Republics: The Brezhnev Era |
| | A new “Brezhnev” constitution was promulgated in 1977, but differed little from the preceding Stalin constitution. | | | In 1973, Brezhnev toured the United States and met with Nixon. | | | In 1966 the position of first secretary of the CPSU again was called general secretary (as it had been until 1952), and the presidium of the supreme soviet reverted to the name politburo (short for political bureau). |
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http://www.factmonster.com/ce6/world/A0861697.html
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| | Brezhnev |
| | 1976 Leonid Brezhnev opens 25th congress of CPSU | | | 1988 Former Soviet President Brezhnev's son-in-law sentenced to 12-yr (bribery) | | | 1982 U.S.S.R. KGB-chief Yuri V Andropov succeeds Leonid Brezhnev as U.S.S.R. leader |
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http://www.brainyhistory.com/topics/b/brezhnev.html
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| | Brezhnev |
| | Word has come through that Khrushchev has been removed from his posts, with Brezhnev now the First Secretary of the Communist Party and Kosygin now Premier of the Soviet Ministers. | | | Indeed, the RVSN has asked if Komarov could transfer officially from the VVS to the RVSN, a move that Kamanin vigorously opposes. | | | The Voskhod 2 crew briefs the State Commission from 10:00 to 13:00. |
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http://www.astronautix.com/astros/brezhnev.htm
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| | Read background history concerning the SALT II treaty as well as the text of the document, signed by President Carter and General Secretary Brezhnev in Vienna June 18, 1979. | | | The History Guide is privately maintained by a former college professor. | | | The speech has come to be known as the Brezhnev Doctrine. |
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http://www.pearsoncustom.com/allpages/brezhnevleonid_bot.html
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| | CNN Cold War - Profile: Leonid Brezhnev |
| | Named chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet in 1960, he resigned in 1964 to become Khrushchev's direct assistant as second secretary of the Central Committee. | | | Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev, leader of one of the two most powerful nations in the world, was born to Russian parents in the Ukrainian mining town of Kamensk in 1906. | | | Little is known about his youth, except that at age 15 he went to work in the steel mill that employed his father. |
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http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/kbank/profiles/brezhnev
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| | Brezhnev Doctrine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The Brezhnev Doctrine was a Soviet policy doctrine, introduced by Leonid Brezhnev in a speech at the Fifth Congress of the Polish United Workers' Party on November 13, 1968, which stated: | | | The Brezhnev Doctrine was superseded by the facetiously named Sinatra Doctrine in 1988. | | | The doctrine was used to justify the invasions of Czechoslovakia that terminated the Prague Spring in 1968 and of the non-Warsaw Pact nation of Afghanistan in 1979. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brezhnev_Doctrine
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| | Temperament in Revolution: Gorbachev |
| | His decision, the decision that would eventually effect virtually all in the civilized world, was typical of Brezhnev. | | | However, to get his man Tikhonov as a candidate member of Poltiburo, Brezhnev needed the support of the other powerful Politburo members, Suslov and Andropov. | | | Brezhnev, although the most powerful Communist leader, had not completed the installation of all his cronies into the Politboro. |
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| | Luba Brezhnev - The World I Left Behind - New York Times Book Review |
| | According to a recent Russian public opinion poll, a majority of citizens would like to return to Soviet life as it was under Brezhnev - that is, before the extraordinary changes under Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin. | | | Indeed, after almost being arrested by the secret police in 1937, Brezhnev was appointed to fill the post of a man who had just been executed in the purges. | | | Brezhneva, years later, asked her father how his brother could have served a system that almost destroyed him, he answered, 'The times were like that. |
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| | Leonid Ilich Brezhnev |
| | For four years (1960-64) he served as the titular head of the USSR. | | | After helping to oust Khrushchev in 1964, Brezhnev became first secretary (later general secretary) of the Communist party. | | | Brezhnev first ruled the country in tandem with Prime Minister Aleksei KOSYGIN and later as the first among the "collective leadership" of the party. |
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| | Brezhnev and Kosygin |
| | The XXIII Congress also discussed and approved the Eighth Five-Year Plan for the period 1966-1970. | | | Leonid Brezhnev's position of leadership among the 12 politicians sitting in the Presidium was based on his standing as First Secretary of the Central Committee, that is, as the number-one apparatchik in the Soviet realm. | | | Brezhnev and other Presidium members refrained from speaking at the congress of abuses committed during the Stalin era; but they also did not try to rehabilitate Stalin. |
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http://mars.acnet.wnec.edu/~grempel/courses/russia/lectures/45brezkos.html
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| | Brezhnev and the China Problem |
| | How exactly Brezhnev emerged as senior leader when Khrushchev was demoted is unknown. | | | From May 1960 he also served as chief of state until July 1964, when Mikoyan took the position. | | | In December 1965 the job of titular chief of state passed from Mikoyan to Podgorny, who thereafter apparently acquired a kind of influence his predecessors in that post had not enjoyed. |
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http://mars.wnec.edu/%7Egrempel/courses/russia/lectures/46brezhnev2.html
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| | Leonid Brezhnev Former President of the USSR Soviet Communist Party Leader Questia.com Online Library |
| | Unlike his volatile predecessor, Leonid Ilich Brezhnev brought relative stability and cautious leadership...experiences and by his close association with... | | | Customize your search: Leonid Brezhnev [refine search][refine search][refine search] | | | ...leaders of the Soviet Union, Leonid Brezhnev and his associates, are the...one wants to characterize Leonid I. Brezhnev and Aleksei N. Kosygin, the...22 Leonid I. Brezhnev:... |
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http://www.questia.com/library/history/european-history/russia/soviet-union/leonid-brezhnev.jsp
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| | CNN Cold War - Historical Documents: Speech by Leonid Brezhnev |
| | Discharging their internationalist duty toward the fraternal peoples of Czechoslovakia and defending their own socialist gains, the U.S.S.R. and the other socialist states had to act decisively and they did act against the antisocialist forces in Czechoslovakia. | | | It was known in the West as the "Brezhnev Doctrine" and would remain influential until 1989, when Mikhail Gorbachev denounced the policy. | | | CNN Cold War - Historical Documents: Speech by Leonid Brezhnev |
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http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/episodes/14/documents/doctrine
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| | Leonid Brezhnev |
| | Leonid Brezhnev, the son of a steelworker, was born in Kamenskoye, in the Soviet Union in 1906. | | | During the Second World War Brezhnev served as political commissar to the Southern Army. | | | After the war Brezhnev became party boss in Moldavia. |
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http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/COLDbrezhnev.htm
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| | Leonid Brezhnev |
| | Leonid I. Brezhnev : His Life and Work. | | | New York : Leonid I. Brezhnev : Pages from His Life. | | | After the ouster of Khrushchev, Brezhnev became the leader of the Soviet Union. |
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| | BBC NEWS Europe Russians remember Brezhnev |
| | The ailing Brezhnev was known for his verbal gaffes | | | Perhaps the worst part of Brezhnev's legacy was that the Soviet Union continued to slide into poverty after his death because of the inability of the Communist Party leadership to accept reform. | | | He had two heart attacks in his latter years, although this was revealed only after Mr Gorbachev's policy of glasnost - openness - set in in the late 1980s. |
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| | Sunbirds.com: L.I. Brezhnev - Russian Lacquer item |
| | Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev was the General Secretary of the Soviet Union from 1964 until his death in 1982. | | | It was impossible to rule the country on the basis of the decisions of a single individual. | | | "Brezhnev was the true representative of a bureaucracy which had grown tired of strong leaders. |
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| | MSN Encarta - Multimedia - Nixon and Brezhnev in Moscow |
| | Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev, left, toasted United States President Richard Nixon (1969-1974) in Moscow, marking the signing of the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty on May 26, 1972. | | | MSN Encarta - Multimedia - Nixon and Brezhnev in Moscow |
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| | Brezhnev, Leonid Ilich -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | Less than six years after the death of Leonid Brezhnev, his 18-year reign as Soviet leader was officially denounced as the era of stagnation. | | | Leonid I. Brezhnev succeeded Khrushchev as first secretary (later called general secretary) with Aleksei N. Kosygin as premier. | | | Having been a land surveyor in the 1920s, Brezhnev became a full member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) in 1931 and studied at the Dniprodzerzhinsk Metallurgical… |
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| | CNN Cold War - Historical Documents: Brezhnev-Kissinger talks |
| | President Nixon said there are new submarines being developed in the United States, but while there are 42... | | | Quite candidly, this would be quite impossible in present conditions in the United States. | | | For example, the United States will be entitled to MIRV 1,000 missiles and we will be entitled to MIRV 1,000 ICBMs. |
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http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/episodes/16/documents/kb.talks
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| | Monument to Brezhnev to Be Erected in South Russian City - NEWS - MOSNEWS.COM |
| | In the 1960s he became the leader of the Communist Party. | | | Brezhnev became a symbol of Soviet life during the second half of the 20th century. | | | The city mayor, Vladimir Sinyagovsky, supported the idea of a Krasnodar territory MP, Dmitry Shishov, and decided to erect the monument in the center of Novorossiisk to mark the city’s anniversary on September 11, or the anniversary of its liberation from German invaders on September 16, smi.kuban.info website reported. |
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| | Brezhnev, Bush and Baghdad |
| | Many Russians who fled Brezhnev's USSR because they could not speak freely are in a state of shock in today's America. | | | Determined President Bush, it seems, has an invisible tape in his head playing out a collection of keywords--evil, compassionate, terrorism, national security, liberation, promoting democracy. | | | Those who stayed in Russia are equally dismayed--they welcomed American help to bring down Communists, only to see, ten years later, the White House employing strategies akin to what America used to condemn about the Kremlin--an expansionist foreign policy, disregard for public opinion, propaganda rhetoric and manipulation. |
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| | Brezhnev stagnation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The stagnation effectively continued under Brezhnev's successors, Yuri Andropov and Konstantin Chernenko, until the Perestroika social reform programme was initiated by Mikhail Gorbachev in 1985. | | | The stagnation period (застой - zastoy in Russian) refers to a period of crisis in the history of the Soviet Union that started during Leonid Brezhnev's time as chairman of the Communist Party. | | | It was the time in which social ills like crime and soaring alcohol and drug abuse began to take shape, and also the time in which dissidents within the country began to surface, smbolised by men like Shcharansky and Sakharov. |
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http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brezhnev_stagnation
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| | America's Brezhnev Doctrine |
| | A mirror image of the Brezhnev Doctrine is the American Doctrine. | | | In May ’68, Moscow sent its tanks into Czechoslovakia to crush the “Prague Spring&; and gave us “The Brezhnev Doctrine of Limited Sovereignty.” To wit, once the Communist system has been imposed on a nation, said Moscow, there is no turning back. | | | Rather than trying to instruct these people on how to believe, behave, and vote, we shall one day have to settle for them raising a regime in Iraq that simply does not threaten us or our vital interests. |
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| | Rich Lowry on Social Security & Election 2004 on National Review |
| | Bush has made himself more vulnerable to the charge than the average Republican by endorsing Social Security reform in his acceptance speech at the GOP convention. | | | Bush thus demonstrated his willingness to confront the Democratic equivalent of the Brezhnev Doctrine when it comes to entitlements — once established, entitlements never recede, but only grow larger. | | | Bush dares to imagine something other than a 70-year-old New Deal model for dealing with retirement. |
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| | The Intergalactic Triumvirate: Billy Graham, Ronald Reagan And Leonid Brezhnev |
| | I asked how Reagan and Brezhnev would communicate with Jesus Christ, and Bill replied that there would be an intermediary interpreting Scripture for the two heads of state. | | | This intermediary would be none other than Billy Graham. | | | Before I get going on my real topic, let me mention that, according to one of useless-knowlege.com's contributors, a spaceship launched some years ago and now leaving the solar system has been traveling at a speed of about 1,000,000 miles a day, which comes out to around 11.6 miles a second. |
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| | Aha! Jokes > Funny True Stories > Brezhnev at his speech |
| | In fact, there was a report near the end of Brezhnev's life that he went down to south Russia to deliver a speech on science, and accidently gave the wrong speech - on culture - and didn't even know it until it was over. | | | Jokes > Funny True Stories > Brezhnev at his speech | | | There was a famous anecdote that the reason Brezhnev's (a former ruler of Russia) speeches ran six hours is because he read not only the original, but the carbon copy. |
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| | Brezhnev-2000 |
| | Sponsored by the Brezhnev 2000 Campaign - Last updated on 8/23/03 |
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| | Bloomberg.com: Asia |
| | The invasion, led by former Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev, left 15,000 soldiers dead between 1979 and 1989 and is officially referred to as ``military action'' rather than a war. | | | Until the regime ended in 1991, the Soviets tried to whitewash their involvement in Afghanistan as soldiers fought for control of the country with Mujahideen guerillas such as Osama bin Laden. |
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| | Luba Brezhnev - The World I Left Behind - The Memoir of Leonid Brezhnev's Niece |
| | Luba Brezhnev - The World I Left Behind - The Memoir of Leonid Brezhnev's Niece | | | As Dramatic as a Russian novel, the memoir of Leonid Brezhnev's Niece. | | | The stirring true story of one woman's world of privilege, persecution, and secrets -- told with passionate intensity and an acute sense of history. |
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| | Leonid Brezhnev |
| | Find where Leonid Brezhnev is credited alongside another name | | | Discuss this person with other users on IMDb message board for Leonid Brezhnev | | | You may report errors and omissions on this page to the IMDb database managers. |
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| | Letter to Brezhnev (1985) |
| | Discuss this movie with other users on IMDb message board for Letter to Brezhnev (1985) | | | I have seen this movie and would like to comment on it |
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