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| | Duma |
 | | The State Duma (Russian: Государственная дума (Gosudarstvennaya Duma), common abbreviation: Госдума (Gosduma)) in the Russian Federation is the lower house of the Federal Assembly of Russia ( parliament), the upper house being the Federation Council of Russia. | | | It stated in part that Tsar's ministers could not be appointed by and were not responsible to the Duma, thus denying representative government at the executive level. | | | Under Russia's 1993 constitution, there are 450 deputies of the State Duma (Article 95), each elected to a term of four years (Article 96). |
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http://www.hallencyclopedia.com/Duma
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| | ACLS Humanities Program in Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine: Recipients |
| | Volodymyr PRYSHLYAK (Lutsk), Lesya Ukrainka Volyn State University. | | | Aliaksandr SMALIANCHUK (Grodno), Yanka Kupala Grodno State University. | | | Society and state of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania during the Livonian War (1558-70). |
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http://www.acls.org/humanities-byruuk-recips.htm
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| | MAJOR STAGES OF REPRESENTATIVE (LEGISLATIVE) POWER HISTORY IN RUSSIA AND ESTABLISHING OF THE COUNCIL OF FEDERATION |
| | Before the Resolution on election (appointment) of new members to the Council of Federation has come into force in accordance with the new Federal Law, acting members of the Council of Federation, representing subjects of Federation ex officio, were obliged to continue their work. | | | From 1812 to 1865 Chairman of the State Council was simultaneously Chairman of the Cabinet. | | | According to the Constitution, the Supreme Soviet had the power to elect the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet, to form the Government and the Supreme Court of the USSR, to appoint Prosecutor-General of the USSR. |
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http://council.gov.ru/inf_e/history_e.htm
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| | W4343: Imperial Russia |
| | Later one of the senior guards infantry regiments in the Imperial Army was named the Preobrazhensky. | | | She was elected empress by the Supreme Privy Council on the condition that she accept a number of provisions ("points," punkty) curtailing her powers. | | | Russian law had not been codified since the law code of 1649 (and wouldn't be until the reign of Nicholas I), and courts functioned more according to custom, corruption, or whim than according to state law. |
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http://kmpicker.tripod.com/courseref.html
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| | Creation of the Catholic Grand Priory of Russia 1797 |
| | His imperial majesty grants to the order of Malta full and entire liberty to establish and follow, in its new institutions in his dominions, its own form of government; and he admits and takes under his special protection the execution of the rules and statutes adopted or its interior administration. | | | ARTICLE V. His imperial majesty leaves the nomination of the said Maltese chaplain to his most eminent highness the grand-master, and that, not only at present, but for ever. | | | The above-mentioned conventual chaplains shall be named to the commanderies according to their seniority in the order and their statutable capacity. |
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http://www.wingnet.net/~osj/creat.htm
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| | CIA - The World Factbook -- Russia |
| | Constitutional Court; Supreme Court; Superior Court of Arbitration; judges for all courts are appointed for life by the Federation Council on the recommendation of the president | | | In addition, a string of investigations launched against a major Russian oil company, culminating with the arrest of its CEO in the fall of 2003, have raised concerns by some observers that President PUTIN is granting more influence to forces within his government that desire to reassert state control over the economy. | | | chief of state: President Vladimir Vladimirovich PUTIN (acting president since 31 December 1999, president since 7 May 2000) |
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http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/rs.html
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| | Russian Revolution of 1917, series of events in imperial Russia that culminated in 1917 with the establishment of the ... |
| | Nicholas dissolved the Duma; the deputies accepted the decree but reassembled privately and elected a provisional committee of the State Duma to act in its place. | | | The decisions of the Congress of Soviets on peace and land evoked widespread support for the new government, and they were decisive in assuring victory to the Bolsheviks in other cities and in the provinces. | | | The Congress of Soviets, which supported the government, declared in favor of state monopolies of bread and other necessary items. |
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http://www.emayzine.com/lectures/russianrev.html
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| | MARBC - Archive |
| | The Russian Government, in conjunction with leaders of the United States Congress, is planning an ambitious housing initiative. | | | A delegation from the Ministry of Atomic Energy of the Russian Federation will be meeting with members of the Pennsylvania-Russia Business Council to finalize arrangements for the upcoming Russian-American Innovation Technologies Trade Show and Conference to be held October 2001. | | | Pennsylvania - Russia Business Council will be hosting a round table with a government delegation from the Republic of Moldova lead by Mr. |
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http://www.ma-rbc.org/archive.html
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| | Russia by Donald Mackenzie Wallace |
| | Procureur, who is directly subordinated to the Minister of Justice. | | | Code of Laws might imagine that the Council of State is a kind of | | | Thus crowned and robed their Majesties sit in state, while a proto- |
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http://www.selfknowledge.com/rsdmw1b.htm
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| | Russian Memorandum of Advice to Serbia |
| | The Council of Ministers considers it its loyal duty to inform your Imperial Majesty of these decisions which it has made. | | | 3 -- To authorize the Ministers of War and of Marine, in accordance with the duties of their offices, to beg your Imperial Majesty to consent, according to the progress of events, to order the mobilization of the four military districts of Kiev, Odessa, Moscow, and Kazan, and the Baltic and Black Sea fleets. | | | Having considered the declaration made by Marshal Sazonov in its relation to the information reported by the Ministers of War, Marine, and Finance concerning the political and military situation, the Council of Ministers decreed: |
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http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/wwi/1914/russmemo.html
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| | Living With Russia - Global Policy Forum - Nations and States |
| | Note particularly the quaint insinuation that Russia’s "consent" is required for Western investment in the newly independent states. | | | Moreover, in Central Europe the anti-communist opposition—Solidarity in Poland, Sajudis in Lithuania and Charter 77 in Prague—represented a critical mass that was subsequently capable of undertaking democratic reforms. | | | For a compelling case for a much more discriminating Western aid policy toward Russia, see Michael McFaul, "Getting Russia Right", Foreign Policy (Winter 1999-2000), pp. |
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http://www.globalpolicy.org/nations/future/0228bzki.htm
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| | Blackbourn, 'Progress and Piety: Liberals, Catholics and the State in Bismarck's Germany', in Blackbourn, Populists and Patricians, pp. | | | Skocpol, 'Bringing the State Back In: Strategies of Analysis in Current Research', in P.B. Evans, D. Rueschemeyer and T. Skocpol (eds.), Bringing the State Back In (1985), pp. | | | Weber, 'The Nation State and Economic Policy' (Freiburg Inaugural Lecture - 1895) and 'The Profession and Vocation of Politics', in P. Lassman and R.Speirs (eds.), Weber: Political Writings (1994), pp. |
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http://www.uea.ac.uk/~v666/ma/list.htm
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| | Patricia Herlihy, The Alcoholic Empire: Vodka and Politics in Late Imperial Russia (New York: Oxford University Press, 2002), in Slavic Review v. | | | Dan Healey, Homosexual Desire in Revolutionary Russia: The Regulation of Sexual and Gender Dissent (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2001), in The American Historical Review (February 2003): 293-294. | | | Affirmative Action Assistant for Sonoma State Office of Affirmative Action. |
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http://crab.rutgers.edu/~lbernste/publications.html
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| | KEYNOTE ADDRESSES “Gosudarstvennye prestupleniia v Rossii kontsa 19—nachala 20 vv.,” International Conference on “The History of Law and the State” in Samara, Russia, 14-15 May 2001. | | | “Peter Waldron, Between Two Revolutions: Stolypin and the Politics of Renewal in Russia (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 1998),” in The Historian 62 (Winter 2000): 463-64. | | | “Krasnyi terror v bol’shevistskoi Rossii” [“Red Terror and the Origins of the Soviet State”], in Rossiia v XX v.: Istoriia i istoriografiia, vol. |
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http://tigger.uic.edu/~daly/homepage/CV2004.doc
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| | Imperial Russia, 1815-1917 - Position Paper |
| | He took such measures as urging the abolition of the selling of peasants, which was rejected by the state council. | | | The Decembrist Society was basically a group of liberal military noblemen who sought to set up a constitutional monarchy after the death of Alexander I. They came from the war in the west, leaving them with the impression of western democratic countries which reflected badly on their own monarchical state. | | | Pestel, leading figure of the Decembrist movement stated: "The desirability of granting freedom to the serfs was considered from the very beginning; for that purpose a majority of the nobility was to be invited in order to petition the Emperor about it. |
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http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~pvteach/imprus/papers/02b.html
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| | Liberating Russian Serfs |
| | Any further delay could be disastrous to the state. | | | The matter of the liberation of the serfs, which has been submitted for the consideration of the State Council, I consider to be a vital question for Russia, upon which will depend the development of her strength and power. | | | There may be various views on the draft presented, and I am willing to listen to all the different opinions. |
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http://www.libertystory.net/LSDOCLIBERATINGRUSSIANSERFS.htm
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| | EXPERT COUNCIL & SELECTION COMMITTEE |
| | OLGA GORDEEVA: honoured worker of culture of the Russian Federation, senior research associate of Textiles, Tapestries and Costumes Division of the State Historical Museum, curator of the museum's collections of Russian and oriental textiles, ethnographic costumes, carpets, shawls and kerchiefs. | | | Main goal of Selection Committee is to establish and maintain confidence between exhibitors and the public, both in buying and selling. | | | YULIYA RYBAKOVA: senior research associate of scientific expertise division of Grabar Scientific Centre of Art Restoration, graduated from Russian State Humanitarian University with speciality "historian-museologist", specialist in 20 century painting, participated in Russian scientific conference. |
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http://www.moscow-antiques.com/html/01/expert_council.html
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| | BLITZ - RUSSIAN STATE HISTORIC ARCHIVES (RGIA) |
| | This printed contains a listing of all the fonds in the Russian State Historic Archive which were open as of January 1, 1993. | | | This mulit-volume catalog series lists the publications in the reference library of the Russian State Historic Archives, which is one of the most important repositories of official publications of central institutions of prerevolutionary Russia. | | | The RGIA holdings include fonds (collections) from the State Council, Duma, Senate, Holy Synod and all the Ministries of Imperial Russia including the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Finance, Trade and Industry, Agriculture, Education as well as collections from private stock companies, banks and scientific and educational societies. |
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http://feefhs.org/BLITZ/BLITZFA.HTML
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| | The Murder of Russia's Imperial Family, Appendix |
| | The Soviet government, or "Council of People's Commissars' (also known as the "Sovnarkom") was made up of the following, Wilton reported: | | | "In order not to leave myself open to any accusation of prejudice, I am giving the list of the members of the [Bolshevik Party' s] Central Committee, of the Extraordinary Commission [Cheka or secret police], and of the Council of Commissars functioning at the time of the assassination of the Imperial family. | | | Effective governmental power, Wilton continued (on pages 136-138 of the same edition) is in the Central Committee of the Bolshevik party. |
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http://library.flawlesslogic.com/tsar_3.htm
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| | Department of History: Faculty Profiles |
| | Significant recent publications include: A Reluctant Parliament: Stolypin, Nationalism and the Politics of the Russian Imperial State Council, 1906-11. | | | Her primary research interests lie in Russian political and social history through the 1917 revolutions with a special concentration on the structure and politics of the Russian Imperial State Council after 1906. | | | Academic International Press, 2002; The Legislative Chamber History Overlooked: The State Council of the Russian Empire, 1906-1914, in Anna S. Geifman, ed., Russia under the Last Tsar: Opposition and Subversion. |
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http://www.xu.edu/history/faculty.cfm?faculty_id=141
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