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| | Soviet Union - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The main tasks of the congress were the election of the standing legislature, the Supreme Soviet, and the election of the chairman of the Supreme Soviet, who acted as head of state. | | | The Supreme Court supervised the lower courts and applied the law, as established by the Constitution or as interpreted by the Supreme Soviet. | | | The Supreme Soviet, which had an elected chairman who functioned as head of state, oversaw the Council of Ministers, which acted as the executive branch of the government. |
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| | AllRefer.com - Soviet Union [USSR] - Introduction Soviet Union or USSR Information Resource |
| | Hence the Constitution, Gorbachev's decrees, and laws passed by the Supreme Soviet, by the supreme soviets of the republics, or by the soviets (see Glossary) of the various subdivisions were often disobeyed with impunity. | | | The president and vice president were supposed to be elected by direct popular vote, but, by special exception, Gorbachev and Gennadii I. Ianaev were elected as the first president and vice president, respectively, by vote of the Congress of People's Deputies. | | | The committee was headed by the vice president of the Soviet Union, Gennadii I. Ianaev, who was named acting president, and included the chairman of the KGB, Vladimir A. Kriuchkov; the minister of internal affairs, Boris Pugo; the minister of defense, Dmitrii T. Iazov; and chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers, Valentin Pavlov. |
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http://reference.allrefer.com/country-guide-study/soviet-union/soviet-union13.html
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| | USSR Coup 1991 |
| | Soviet Union vice president Gennadiy Yanayev was named acting president. | | | The group announced that Gorbachev was ill and had been relieved of his state post as president. | | | He resigned as general secretary but remained president of the Soviet Union. |
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http://www.onwar.com/aced/data/uniform/ussr1991.htm
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| | Mikhail Gorbachev |
| | In 1988, Gorbachev was elected President of the Presidium and in 1989 he was elected Chairman of the Supreme Soviet. | | | In 1985 he was elected Member of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet, serving until 1990, and was also appointed Secretary General of the Polit Bureau of the CCCP, serving until 1991. | | | In 1970 he was elected Deputy to the Supreme Soviet, serving until 1990. |
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http://www.clubmadrid.org/cmadrid/index.php?id=127
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| | Gorbachev, Mikhail |
| | In October 1988 Gorbachev was able to consolidate his power by his election to the chairmanship of the presidium of the Supreme Soviet (the national legislature). | | | In May 1989 Gorbachev was elected chairman of this Supreme Soviet and thereby retained the national presidency. | | | He graduated with a degree in law in 1955 and went on to hold a number of posts in the Komsomol and regular party organizations in Stavropol, rising to become first secretary of the regional party committee in 1970. |
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http://www.britannica.com/nobel/micro/240_44.html
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| | George Bush Presidential Library and Museum |
| | Mikhail Gorbachev's resignation as President of the Soviet Union culminates a remarkable era in the history of his country and in its long and often difficult relationship with the United States. | | | Statement on the Resignation of Mikhail Gorbachev as President of the Soviet Union | | | Working with President Reagan, myself, and other allied leaders, President Gorbachev acted boldly and decisively to end the bitter divisions of the cold war and contributed to the remaking of a Europe whole and free. |
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http://bushlibrary.tamu.edu/research/papers/1991/91122500.html
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| | The Avalon Project : Joint Message of Assistance to the Soviet Union from President Roosevelt and Prime Minister ... |
| | Joint Message of Assistance to the Soviet Union from President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill : August 15, 1941 | | | The following is the text of a joint message from President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill delivered personally on Friday afternoon, August 15, by the British and American Ambassadors to Josef Stalin, President of the Soviet of Peoples Commissars of the U.S.S.R.: | | | The Avalon Project : Joint Message of Assistance to the Soviet Union from President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill : August 15, 1941 |
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http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/wwii/joint.htm
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| | NATO Press Release 21 Aug. 1991 |
| | We call for immediate restoration of President Gorbachev to his rightful office and for the renewal of the process of political and economic reform in the Soviet Union. | | | This attempted removal of President Gorbachev, in direct contravention of the rule of law, raises serious questions about the future of the Soviet Union, in relations with Europe and with the world at large. | | | We urgently appeal to those responsible in refrain from all threat or use of force against the democratically elected governments and representatives of the Baltic peoples and elsewhere. |
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http://www.nato.int/docu/comm/49-95/c910821a.htm
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| | US Department of State Dispatch: The crisis in the Soviet Union - statements by President Bush - includes information ... |
| | President Yeltsin said that the Russian Supreme Soviet had met and declared unanimously that the coup was illegal and without effect, and he also mentioned the importance of the next meeting of the Union Supreme Soviet which will be held on August 26th. | | | And they are--this is the way he put it--they are vigorously trying to line up support for that Supreme Soviet to declare this coup illegal. | | | I have this morning spoken with Boris Yeltsin, the freely elected leader of the Russian Republic, and I assured Mr. |
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http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1584/is_n33_v2/ai_11323300
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| | deseretnews.com Gorbachev sees place for himself in history |
| | In a disastrous run for the presidency in 1996, he attracted less than 1 percent of the vote. | | | He is respectfully critical of President Vladimir V. Putin, saying the world should support his campaign against terror but proposing a compromise solution to the problem of Chechnya. | | | Asked why he had chosen the environment as his late-life mission, he harked back to his farm background and early acquaintance with nature, as well as his experience witnessing reckless land use by the mining industry during his years as a provincial governor in Stavropol. |
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http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,595100317,00.html
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| | The Delta Prize for Global Understanding |
| | The inaugural prize in 1999 went to former President Jimmy Carter, his wife Rosalynn and the Atlanta-based Carter Center. | | | Mullin and University of Georgia President Michael F. Adams will present the prize to Gorbachev during a ceremony at the Ritz-Carlton Buckhead. | | | "We’re delighted that Delta and the University of Georgia have chosen President Gorbachev to receive this prestigious award," said Matt Petersen, executive director of Global Green USA. |
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http://www.uga.edu/news/deltaprize/news-releases/010416.html
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| | totse.com Leonid Ilych Brezhnev |
| | 1977 Jun 16: Elected President of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, replacing Podgorny. | | | 1960 May - 1963: President of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR. | | | 1950, spring: Elected deputy to Supreme Soviet of the USSR. |
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http://www.totse.com/en/politics/political_spew/168050.html
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| | The Nobel Peace Prize 1990 - Presentation Speech |
| | It can now start to exercise its supremely important responsibility for the creation of an international community based on the rule of law and the establishment of peace between nations. | | | This transformation is inevitably a painful process, involving great sacrifice. | | | This has to a very large extent helped to promote international confidence. |
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| | BBC - History - The Soviet Union's Last Stand |
| | President Gorbachev was held a virtual prisoner by his own government. | | | On the morning of 3 August 1991, President Gorbachev held his last Cabinet meeting before he went on holiday to his luxury villa in the Crimea. | | | Boris Yeltsin had been elected as President of the Russian Republic and the challenge he provided to the old order was clear. |
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/war/coldwar/soviet_stand_01.shtml
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| | SGI Quarterly July, 2003 - Portraits of Global Citizens |
| | Following his resignation as president, I conveyed to him my confidence that for him as an individual this was just the beginning, and that his most important work lay ahead. | | | Your life is a model for a new age, a new kind of human being and a new thinking." Former president Gorbachev stated at the meeting that his friendship with Mr. | | | Since 1990, SGI President Ikeda has met many times with former Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev and members of his family. |
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http://www.sgi.org/english/Features/quarterly/0307/portraits.htm
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| | JDC programs worldwide Former Soviet Union Georgia President Shevardnadze awards JDC the Georgian Order of Honor |
| | Tblisi, Georgia - In what is being called an "enormous honor" to Georgian Jewry, Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze has bestowed his government's highest civilian award - the Order of Honor - to JDC Country Director in Georgia, Stanley Abramovitch and to JDC's Caucasus Regional Representative Meir Zizov. | | | By 26 centuries, I am alluding to President Shevardnadze's speech, wherein he recognized 2600 years of peaceful coexistence and Jewish presence in Georgia. | | | This is an area where the synagogues were kept open during Soviet repression, Abramovitch noted. |
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| | Russia |
| | After the death of Konstantin Chernenko, Gorbachev was chosen to become the new general secretary. | | | In November of 1991, Gorbachev resigned as general secretary, although he remained President of the Soviet Union. | | | On December 25, 1991, the Soviet Union collapsed and Boris Yeltsin became the first president of Russia. |
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http://www2.hawaii.edu/~jamiesas/factpage.htm
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| | FDR and the Soviet Union |
| | Throughout his presidency, Franklin Roosevelt was determined to pursue a peaceful accommodation with an increasingly powerful Soviet Union, an inclination reinforced by the onset of world war. | | | Glantz’s fine study neatly places both battles within the complex context of Roosevelt’s maneuverings aimed at holding the Grand Alliance together while constructing a lasting postwar peace.”—Warren F. Kimball, author of The Juggler: Franklin Roosevelt as Wartime Statesman | | | Although he reorganized federal offices and appointed ambassadors who shared his views, in the end he was unable to outlast his bureaucratic opponents or change their minds. |
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| | Enron: 1997 -- Press Release |
| | On hand during the ceremony will be former U.S. secretaries of state Henry Kissinger, Warren Christopher, Cyrus Vance and James A. Baker, III. | | | Also attending the ceremony will be Gorbachev's daughter, Irina Virganskaya. | | | Since 1992, Gorbachev has been president of the International Foundation for Socio-Economic and Political Studies (The Gorbachev Foundation) and president of Green Cross International. |
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| | USATODAY.com - Yeltsin a 'liar,' Gorbachev says |
| | He said Putin has helped bring stability to a battered Russia and praised his moves toward a warmer relationship with the United States as bold. | | | Like many Russians who see Yeltsin as an ineffectual leader who let corruption thrive, Gorbachev praised Yeltsin's hand-picked successor, President Vladimir Putin. | | | The last leader of the Soviet Union recalled his resignation as "the most dramatic day of my life." |
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| | Back from D.C., Rice offers inside look at U.S.-Soviet relations |
| | It was the president who signed away war power rights on Germany, the president who voted in the U.N. Security Council to support the gulf effort. | | | "U.S. policy has to be to deal with the president of the Soviet Union on his own terms because after all, there are things that you can only do with the president of the Soviet Union. | | | It is also important that the United States not try to choose the Soviet Union's leaders, she said. |
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| | Letter to Gorbachev, 1991: Peace in the Middle East; Preserving the Soviet Union |
| | The Honorable Boris Yeltsin, President of the Russian Republic | | | Soviet Ambassador to the United Nations; Ambassador to the United States | | | XP recommends to the present Government of the Russian Federation the points this letter makes, both about the need for Russia to serve as conscience and counterweight to the United States and about how what is now the meaningless Commonwealth of Independent States might be made a useful international grouping. |
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| | Former Soviet President Gorbachev Tells Putin to Sack the Government - MONEY - MOSNEWS.COM |
| | It wasn’t the president who chose that path —- it’s not up to him and he needs support. | | | Former President of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev said that Russia’s government should be sacked because of bungled social reforms and because ministers had strayed from the manifesto set out by President Vladimir Putin. | | | “The president is pursuing a very different course from the one set out in his state of the nation address when he was elected for a second term,” Gorbachev told the radio station. |
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| | AmIAnnoying.com |
| | He tried to make a comeback and ran for President of Russia, but got less than 1% of the vote and was punched by a voter (1996). | | | General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1985-91) | | | He has a huge birthmark on his forehead. |
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http://www.amiannoying.com/2002/view.aspx?ID=1991
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| | World War II: Alliance |
| | Joseph Stalin never revealed to his own people the full contributions of Lend-Lease to their country's survival, but he referred to the program at the 1945 Yalta Conference saying, "Lend-Lease is one of Franklin Roosevelt's most remarkable and vital achievements in the formation of the anti-Hitler alliance." | | | Lend-Lease matériel was welcomed by the Soviet Union, and President Roosevelt attached the highest priority to using it to keep the Soviet Union in the war against Germany. | | | Three months after the invasion, the United States extended assistance to the Soviet Union through its Lend-Lease Act of March 1941. |
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| | George Bush Presidential Library and Museum |
| | Marlin Fitzwater is Press Secretary to the President. | | | In other words, I view that the President of the United States primarily deals with the President of the Soviet Union. | | | Q. -- -- between the United States and the Soviet Union. |
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| | Gorbachev, Mikhail -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | Profile of the former president of the Soviet Union and general secretary of the Communist Party. | | | Soviet official, the general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) from 1985 to 1991 and president of the Soviet Union in 1990–91. | | | Gorbachev was also the first general secretary of the Communist party not to have served in the armed forces during World War II. |
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| | George Bush Presidential Library and Museum |
| | Note: The President met with the Chancellor at approximately 10:30 a.m. | | | President Bush emphasized that the United States supports perestroika and glasnost and had suggested a variety of technical economic assistance measures in support of President Gorbachev's efforts. | | | Chancellor Kohl congratulated President Bush on the success of the NATO summit. |
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| | Features Page |
| | University president honored - President Ed Elliott receives the James C. Kirkpatrick Excellence in Governance Award from Student Government Association President Jason Butler, senior. | | | Central’s first lady – Sandra Elliott observes as her husband, President Ed Elliott receives the Excellence in Governance Award from Jason Butler, senior, president of Student Government Association. | | | former president of the Soviet Union, spoke to a crowd of Central. |
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| | Mikhail Gorbachev |
| | On December 25, Gorbachev resigned as president, and the Soviet Union formally ceased to exist. | | | In 1987, Gorbachev and President Ronald Reagan of the United States signed a treaty that called for the elimination of all the intermediate-range nuclear missiles of the two countries. | | | Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeyevich, (1931-...), was the leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 to 1991. |
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| | Russian president laments death of Soviet Union in campaign speech - billingsgazette.com |
| | Russian president laments death of Soviet Union in campaign speech | | | Russian president laments death of Soviet Union in campaign speech - billingsgazette.com | | | Some Putin opponents had considered boycotting the presidential election, saying a fair vote was impossible in Russia today, and the refusal to debate in Thursday's program reflected the candidates' anger at the president's dominance of the campaign. |
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| | 1972 Canada/Soviet Union Summit Series |
| | In their private box, the president of the Soviet Union, Nikolai Podgomy and the prime minister, Alexi Kosygin smiled and shook hands. | | | Alexander Grinberg, who was born and raised in the Soviet Union, but now lives in Canada, commented on the series. | | | Henderson made a wild stab for the puck, but fell on his stomach. |
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| | Cheney says if Kerry had been president, Soviet Union likely would still exist |
| | Not a coward who has consistently voted to trash our military throughout his entire career as a senator and a MAN who cannot be bothered to do his job as a senate intelligence committee member! | | | 3) Cheney provides wise counsel to your President but your President is an intelligent man and knows when to take this advise and when to go with his point of view. | | | Democrat union leaders in the AFL-CIO also helped. |
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| | Guilford College - Former Soviet Union President Mikhail Gorbachev to Lecture on "Global Leadership" Oct. 6 |
| | Guilford College - Former Soviet Union President Mikhail Gorbachev to Lecture on "Global Leadership" Oct. 6 | | | In 1992, Gorbachev became President of the Gorbachev Foundation, a nonprofit, nonpartisan educational foundation, which articulates and addresses the challenges of the post Cold War world through the re-visioning of global priorities. | | | This year, he shared a Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Children's Album with President Clinton and Sophia Loren. |
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| | Alsos: Cold War Chronology: Soviet-American Relations, 1945-1991 |
| | It begins with the formal surrender of Japan that ended World War II, and it concludes in December 1991 with the resignation of Mikhail Gorbachev as president of the Soviet Union at the end of the Cold War. | | | This book provides a detailed chronology of important events in American-Soviet relations during the Cold War. |
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| | Smearing Reagan's legacy - The Washington Times: Editorials/OP-ED |
| | Reagan's campaign manager and two of the president's biographers if they were contacted by CBS to verify the historical authenticity of the film. | | | For years, liberal academics have tried to explain how the Soviet Union collapsed without giving credit to the U.S. president who challenged communism head on and won. | | | On the program, these authorities of the Reagan presidency debunked the movie's depiction of Ronald Reagan as callous to AIDS, oversimplistic in labeling people "commies" and accommodating to his wife's alleged consultations with an astrologer. |
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| | President Warfield - Soviet Union |
| | The Soviet Union collapsed in 1991 as a number of its republics declared independence. | | | The President Warfield web pages are copyright © 2003 by Roger Smith. | | | The USSR is a former country in eastern Europe and northern Asia which was established in 1922 as a union of Russia and other soviet republics. |
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| | Gen Sec Konstantin U Chernenko named President of Soviet Union April 11 in History |
| | Gen Sec Konstantin U Chernenko named President of Soviet Union April 11 in History | | | Gen Sec Konstantin U Chernenko named President of Soviet Union | | | Sooner or later, I need to begin to do what any candidate does in a presidential race; I need to begin to win." - Lamar Alexander |
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| | Entertainment.Globalization.Initiative |
| | Through the leadership of Dr. Laszlo and its members who include luminaries from the Dalai Lama and Desmond Tutu, to Milos Forman and Jane Goodall, the Club of Budapest has had an ongoing impact on opinion leaders around the world. | | | The Entertainment Globalization Initiative is honored to been chosen as the forum for the presentation of the "Declaration." It will not only make for a fascinating discussion, it may well have a significant impact on the future of the entertainment and media industries. | | | We are pleased to announce that Mikhail Gorbachev, former President of the Soviet Union, a member of the Club of Budapest, has agreed to address the Entertainment Globalization Initiative in the October 2nd Keynote presentation, from Moscow, on the subject of "Global Media and Ethics." |
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