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 | | In March 2000, he won election in his own right as Russias second president with 53% of the vote. | | | Russia is a federation, but the precise distribution of powers between the central government and the regional and local authorities is still evolving. | | | Russia has acquiesced (despite misgivings by some) in enlargement of NATO by members first of the former Warsaw Pact and most recently by the Baltic states that were forcibly integrated into the Soviet Union. |
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Russia |
| | The treaty of 15 Jan., 1772, between Russia and Prussia sanctioned the iniquitous division of Poland, which was desired by Frederick II and was hastened by the policy of the Polish nobility and, to a great extent, of the clergy. | | | On 25 April, 1807, Russia and Prussia signed the convention of Bartenstein, by which those two powers became allied against France; and on 14 June of the same year the decisive defeat of Bennigsen at Friedland led Alexander to conclude with Napoleon the treaty of Tilsit, which was ratified 12 Oct., 1808, at Erfurt. | | | The boundaries of Russia are: on the north, the Arctic Ocean; on the west, Sweden, Norway, the Baltic Sea, Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Rumania; on the south, the Black Sea, Turkey, Persia, the Caspian Sea; Afghanistan, and China; on the east, the Pacific Ocean. |
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| | BIGpedia - Russia - Encyclopedia and Dictionary Online |
| | This recovery, along with a renewed government effort in 2000 and 2001 to advance lagging structural reforms, have raised business and investor confidence over Russia's prospects in its second decade of transition. | | | Russia is fairly sparsely populated and has extremely low average population density due to its enormous size; population is densest in the European part of Russia, in the Ural Mountains area, and in the south-eastern part of Siberia. | | | Russia saw its economy contract severely for five years, as the executive and legislature dithered over the implementation of reforms and Russia's industrial base faced a serious decline. |
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| | RUSSIA |
| | The terms of the controversy may be examined in The Penguin Historical Atlas of Russia [John Channon and Robert Hudson, Viking, 1995, p.15] and the Royal Families of Medieval Scandinavia, Flanders, and Kiev by Rupert Alen and Anna Marie Dahlquist [Kings River Publications, Kingsburg, California, 1997, p.151]. | | | Above is Tsar Nicholas II, costumed in the long robes of Mediaeval Russia. | | | Russia would then always be hindered by autocratic government that alternatively smothered dissent and innovation and then, alarmed at the backwardness of the country, attempted to impose top-down reforms and development -- which then would be resisted by a national conservatism that the government in its phase of being threatened by change would have loved. |
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| | Russia |
| | In 21.8.1991 the national tricolour was firstly raised upon the White House (the building of the Government of Russia). | | | On the 25th of December 2000 the Federal Law On National Flag of Russia was adopted. | | | This holiday was introduced with a decree No 1714 of president B. Eltsin on 20 of august 1994. |
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| | NewsFromRussia.Com Our News Export Moved |
| | Russia's main security agency has uncovered spying activities by four British diplomats, a Federal Security Service duty officer said Wednesday. | | | Nazarbayev said that strategic decisions from now on will be made by newly appointed Deputy Prime Minister Karim Masimov Nazarbayev's former chief aide, who is seen as one of the most influential figures in the president's inner circle More details... | | | Russia's main KGB successor agency said Thursday that a spy gadget hidden in a fake rock that allegedly had been used by a purported British spy ring in Moscow was a highly sophisticated device, as complex as space technology More details... |
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| | Russia |
| | In a decision that took Russia and the world by surprise, Boris Yeltsin resigned on Dec. 31, 1999, and Vladimir Putin became the acting president. | | | Rulers of Russia Since 1533 - Name Ruled1 Born Ivan IV the Terrible 1533–1584 1530 Theodore I 1584–1598 1557 Boris... | | | Russia was initially alarmed in 2001 when the U.S. announced its rejection of the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty of 1972, which for 30 years had been viewed as a crucial force in keeping the nuclear arms race under control. |
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| | United Russia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The current head of the United Russia is Duma speaker and former Interior Minister Boris Gryzlov, elected as a party leader in November 2002. | | | A number of ministers in Putin's government as well as many regional governors and other senior government officials throughout Russia are members of United Russia. | | | United Russia is a relatively new party in the Russian parliament but has been making great gains in recent federal and local elections due to the popularity of Putin. |
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| | USAID Europe and Eurasia: Russia |
| | On March 30-31, 2005 U.S. Supreme Court Justices O’Connor, Ginsburg, and Kennedy hosted a delegation of high-ranking Russian judges in Washington, DC for a briefing on the status of rule of law in Russia... | | | On April 26, 2005, U.S. Federal Judges Paul Magnuson and Steven Williams met with a working group that is addressing amendments to the Russian Federation (RF) laws on education... | | | Students from Moscow’s Anglo-American School have raised approximately $500 to support the fight against HIV in Russia. |
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| | Russia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Russia is considered the Soviet Union's successor state in diplomatic matters. | | | Russia saw its comparatively developed centrally planned economy contract severely for five years, as the executive and the legislature dithered over the implementation of reforms and Russia's aging industrial base faced a serious decline. | | | Population is densest in the European part of Russia, in the Ural Mountains area, and in the south-western parts of Siberia; the south-eastern part of Siberia that meets the Pacific Ocean, known as the Russian Far East, is sparsely populated, with its southern part being densest. |
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| | FSB (Russia) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Russian president Vladimir Putin was head of the FSB from July 1998 to August 1999. | | | This law described the FSB role in the regions: | | | In September 1998, the FSB staff had received only half of their salaries and the distribution of meal allowances had stopped at the beginning of the year. |
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| | Encyclopedia4U - History of post-communist Russia - Encyclopedia Article |
| | It is worth noting also that no Soviet leader since Stalin, by virtue of tacit party protocol to avoid such an extreme centralization of power, served as both premier and party chief (the Soviet-era most comparable to Russia’s state executive, as the state presidency was effectively a titular ceremonial post). | | | Yeltsin continued as President of Russia until December 31, 1999, and was succeeded by his prime minister, Vladimir Putin. | | | Russia concocted a new method of privatization, distributing free state-issued vouchers to all citizens in the forth quarter of 1992, who were had the opportunity to bid for shares of privatized firms at special auctions with these vouchers with a face value of 10,000 rubles. |
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| | Russia-United States Relations |
| | But Russia's much-anticipated democratic revolution is not yet complete, and it has yet to assume the seat reserved for it at the table of democratic powers. | | | Russia's military-industrial complex is a shadow of its former Soviet self. | | | Yeltsin and his advisers looked to the West, and the United States in particular, as models to emulate and allies to assist in the completion of their revolution. |
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| | Russia - The United States |
| | From its high point in September 1993, when the United States Congress approved US$2.5 billion in aid to Russia and the NIS, the amount had declined to less than US$600 million for 1996. | | | United States business leaders warned Yeltsin, however, that private investment in Russia could not increase appreciably under the still capricious and complex Russian laws, taxes, import duties, and governmental red tape. | | | Russia viewed summitry with the United States as the mark of its continued status as a great power and nuclear superpower. |
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| | United Russia Makes Campaigners of Cashiers |
| | But United Russia, which is leading in opinion polls, risks alienating voters by bombarding them from all sides, while the supermarket campaign would certainly run afoul of laws in the West, analysts said. | | | The supermarket campaign is one of the more unusual attempts to court voters in the run-up to the Dec. 7 Duma elections. | | | "In Russia, this is not a problem of the election law but due to the fact that workers are not defended at all," he said. |
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| | In March 2000, he won election in his own right as Russias second president with 53% of the vote. | | | Russia is a federation, but the precise distribution of powers between the central government and the regional and local authorities is still evolving. | | | Russia has acquiesced (despite misgivings by some) in enlargement of NATO by members first of the former Warsaw Pact and most recently by the Baltic states that were forcibly integrated into the Soviet Union. |
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| | Russian Elections United Russia Grabs a Gigantic Lead |
| | Michael McFaul, a Stanford University expert on Russian elections, said the combined strong showing for United Russia, LDPR and Homeland meant that nationalists were in ascendance, and would set the tone for political debate for at least the next four years. | | | Speaking at Central Elections Commission headquarters Sunday night, Lyubov Sliska, a deputy speaker from United Russia's faction in the last Duma, had sharp words for her counterparts in Homeland. | | | As of 1:30 a.m., with 17 percent of the vote tallied, United Russia had 36.3 percent, the Central Elections Commission reported. |
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| | The St. Petersburg Times - Overview |
| | MOSCOW— Inefficient bureaucracy has only gotten worse since President Vladimir Putin took office six years ago, with the number of state employees increasing more than 10 percent in 2005 alone, according to a new report by the State Statistics Service. | | | MOSCOW— A court opened hearings Thursday on a Briton and an American who have been confined to a remote eastern village after crossing the frozen Bering Strait on foot and entering Russia without going through a border checkpoint. | | | MOSCOW— Russia appears to be signaling to U.S. officials that if it is not admitted to the WTO, American firms will be barred from taking part in the... |
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| | FSB - MN-FILES - MOSNEWS.COM |
| | Boris Gryzlov, speaker of State Duma, the lower house of the Russian parliament, admitted on Friday, March 31, that the a number of requirements made of Russia by its partners in the WTO accession process “are quite valid”. | | | FSB (Federalnaya Sluzhba Bezopasnosti, the Federal Security Service) is the state security organization in Russia, charged with intelligence, counterintelligence, and combating crime (the latter mainly being organized crime, terrorist activities, illegal drug and arms trafficking, contraband, and corruption). | | | Despite Partnership, Russia Still Spying on U.S. Even as the U.S. and Russia are cooperating to resolve international crises and track militant Islamic groups, Moscow is working at least as hard at stealing U.S. military and industrial secrets as during the Soviet era, current and former intelligence officials say. |
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| | President of Russia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The President is the head of state and his main task is to preserve and protect the rights and liberties of the Russian people, which are granted under the Constitution of Russia. | | | The President also has a special copy of the Russian Constitution that is used during the inauguration. | | | The President of Russia (ru: Президент России) is the highest position within the Government of Russia. |
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| | BIGpedia - Russia - Encyclopedia and Dictionary Online |
| | This recovery, along with a renewed government effort in 2000 and 2001 to advance lagging structural reforms, have raised business and investor confidence over Russia's prospects in its second decade of transition. | | | Russia is fairly sparsely populated and has extremely low average population density due to its enormous size; population is densest in the European part of Russia, in the Ural Mountains area, and in the south-eastern part of Siberia. | | | Russia saw its economy contract severely for five years, as the executive and legislature dithered over the implementation of reforms and Russia's industrial base faced a serious decline. |
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| | European Forum - Country Updates - Russia Update |
| | Russia remains heavily dependent on exports of commodities (oil, gas, timber) and its industrial base is increasingly dilapidated and in desperate need of modernisation or replacement. | | | Russias response was surprisingly mild with Putin assuring the Russians that the development did not threaten Russian security. | | | Russia's relations with its more immediate neighbors are of less priority and dominated by oil, gas and other economic issues. |
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| | United Russia - MN-FILES - MOSNEWS.COM |
| | It declares itself a party of the majority which elected Putin, & majority of national success and political centrism.” The party’s main slogan was formulated by the president: & must together make Russia a strong, united country”. | | | The party list for the 2003 parliamentary elections was headed by Boris Gryzlov, Minister of Interior and former leader of Unity’s parliamentary group. | | | Russia still needs to finish bilateral WTO negotiations with the United States, Australia and Moldova. |
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| | Russia Today - Media Monitoring Service by Russia Today |
| | WALKER'S APPEAL ADVENTURER Karl Bushby is to appeal against the Russian authorities' decision to deport him, his father Keith said yesterday. | | | Nadia Petrova, of Russia, celebrates her 6-1, 6-3 victory over Anna-Lena Groenefeld, of Germany, during the semifinals of the Family Circle Cup Tennis | | | Russia Falls Short on Nuclear Weapons Obligations, U.S. Diplomat |
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| | Encyclopedia: Politics of Russia |
| | Russia's legislative body was established by the constitution approved in the December 1993 referendum. | | | Because Russia's new constitution remained in dispute in the Federal Assembly at the time of ratification, the Federation Treaty and provisions based on the treaty were incorporated as amendments to the 1978 constitution. | | | Imperial Russia is the term used to cover the period of Russian history from the expansion of Russia under Peter the Great, through the expansion of the Russian Empire from the Baltic to the Pacific Ocean, to the deposal of Nicholas II of Russia, the last tsar, at the start... |
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| | Politics of Russia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Politics of Russia (the Russian Federation) takes place in a framework of a federal presidential republic, whereby the President of Russia is both head of state and head of government, and of a pluriform multi-party system. | | | Russia's legislative body was established by the constitution approved in the December 1993 referendum. | | | Because Russia's new constitution remained in dispute in the Federal Assembly at the time of ratification, the Federation Treaty and provisions based on the treaty were incorporated as amendments to the 1978 constitution. |
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| | FSB Counterintelligence Cases - Russia / Soviet Intelligence Agencies |
| | During the course of further investigation it was ascertained that the officer was not acting alone, but with two accomplices, one of whom continued to serve in the Center for Space Reconnaissance of the GRU [Main Intelligence Directorate] of the General Staff. | | | Noting the speed with which he was tried and sentenced in the usually slow court system, Orekhov alleged that he was targeted for retribution by the security services because of his human rights work. | | | In December 1995 FSB agents confiscated material on human rights abuses in Chechnya from a group of Russian human rights activists on their way to an international meeting. |
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| | On The Russian Elections 2003 |
| | We all have our own little Russia, and only if you put them all together is the picture unified, and we can see how great and rich Russia is. It has everything [needed] to build a decent life for each person. | | | Motherland's other leader, Dmitrii Rogozin, said his bloc will push to increase social spending, fight corruption, and remove Anatolii Chubais as the head of Unified Energy Systems (EES), Russia's electricity monopoly, Ekho Moskvy reported on 8 December. | | | But as long as voters are satisfied with vague promises to stand with the president, Unified Russia will not be the last party to run a content-free parliamentary campaign. |
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| | Liberalism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The influence of Keynesianism on Franklin D. Roosevelt 's New Deal has led liberalism to be identified with the welfare state in the United States and in Canada. | | | This was a consequence of the choice of American liberals for Franklin D. Roosevelt 's New Deal, influenced by the ideas of British economist John Maynard Keynes, therefore leading liberalism to be identified with the so-called " welfare state ". | | | Liberalism is a political current embracing several historical and present-day ideologies that claim defense of individual liberty as the purpose of government. |
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