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 | | Despite White House spin about assuaging Duma deputies' fears, the arms-control agreements produced by the Helsinki summit reveal a vast discrepancy between the way the executive branches of Russia and the U.S. view nuclear weapons. | | | To further sweeten the deal the White House proposed a START III deal with the same 2007 deadline, by which time the U.S. would be allowed 2,000 warheads and the Russians 2,500. | | | China stated that an Uighur gathering held outside its embassy in Bishkek on 17 February was an act of interference in its domestic affairs. |
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| | Swiss news from swissinfo, the Swiss news platform |
| | According to Kyrgyzstans interior ministry, five people died and around a hundred were injured when crowds clashed with police on Thursday and seized Bishkeks White House, the seat of government. | | | Both the United States and Russia have military bases outside the capital Bishkek. | | | A second night of unrest in the capital Bishkek saw at least three people killed. |
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| | In 21.8.1991 the national tricolour was firstly raised upon the White House (the building of the Government of Russia). | | | We could say that white, blue and red flags were in used in Russia from about 1667, mainly in the quartered form with a blue cross, while from 1697, after the visit of Peter the Great to Netherlands, the triband design became the preferred one. | | | On the 25th of December 2000 the Federal Law On National Flag of Russia was adopted. |
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| | William Thomas White -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article |
| | White did not hold a seat in the (Click link for more info and facts about Canadian House of Commons) Canadian House of Commons at the time, and in fact had never campaigned for public office before. | | | White was initially a (A person who favors a political philosophy of progress and reform and the protection of civil liberties) Liberal, but his views diverged from the party's policies on some key matters. | | | White was responsible for managing Canada's finances during (A war between the allies (Russia, France, British Empire, Italy, United States, Japan, Rumania, Serbia, Belgium, Greece, Portugal, Montenegro) and the central powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, Turkey, Bulgaria) from 1914 to 1918) World War I. |
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| | White House of Russia The White House of Russia, also known as the Russian White House, is a Russian constitutional cr... | | | Ivan V of Russia Succeeded by: Peter I... | | | Feodor III of Russia Feodor III of Russia (In 1676 to his death. |
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| | In 21.8.1991 the national tricolour was firstly raised upon the White House (the building of the Government of Russia). | | | We could say that white, blue and red flags were in used in Russia from about 1667, mainly in the quartered form with a blue cross, while from 1697, after the visit of Peter the Great to Netherlands, the triband design became the preferred one. | | | On the 25th of December 2000 the Federal Law On National Flag of Russia was adopted. |
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| | Cornell University Society for the Humanities |
| | During the years White lived in his house in the center of the Cornell campus, he was active with his Board of Trustees, concerned with students and faculty and worked tirelessly to promote the further development of the university. | | | White had his Victorian villa built for his use as president of the university in 1871. | | | Diplomacy was White's second career, and his most important posts were United States Minister to Germany and Russia and finally Ambassador to Germany from 1897 to 1902. |
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| | RADIO FREE EUROPE/ RADIO LIBERTY |
| | Glazev first came to fame as an economics wunderkind and was considered one of the brightest members of former President Boris Yeltsin's cabinet until 1993, when he resigned in protest over the storming of Russia's White House, or legislature. | | | Motherland landed 37 seats in Russia's 450-seat lower house of parliament, or Duma -- much to the consternation of many liberal-minded Russians, who see in Motherland an attempt to legitimize a growing nationalistic streak in the country's politics. | | | Further, he says, the scare over the party's nationalistic bent may itself be an artificial creation meant to send voters streaming back toward the relative security of a more moderate Kremlin. |
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| | In October of 1993 when the government of Yeltsin (a la Gorbachev) attacked the defenders of the White House (Supreme Soviet), the defenders were patriots, non-communists and even fascists of Barkashov who were defending the White House. | | | The organized workers of Russia, the All-Russia Federation of Workers Unions "Defense of Labor" and other progressive unions throughout the country will not give up the economic and also the political struggles against the capitalist regime of President Putin, will not give up their determination to organize the Russian working class. | | | * After the court again stated that he had been held unlawfully and the newspaper had been closed against the law, Gorobets came with these court documents to the editorial office and again he was barred from entering his office. |
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| | Russia through the small screen, by Sylvie Braibant and Carole Sigman |
| | The attention that the battle for NTV and its parent company has attracted is symptomatic of the importance television plays in Russian political life and the passions it arouses in viewers. | | | The first revolution was a political one, symbolised by Boris Yeltsin and the battle for the White House in Moscow. | | | During the Kursk crisis, when the Russian navy submarine sank off the coast of Murmansk, the privately-owned NTV beat the two other national networks (the semi-public ORT, and the public RTR) by broadcasting the now infamous scene of a nurse administering a sedative to a crewman’s grief-stricken mother (3). |
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| | Gusinsky, wanted in Russia in a multimillion-dollar fraud case, was taken into custody at his villa in Cadiz in southern Spain, where he had been under house arrest, according to law enforcement officials. | | | CNN correspondent Steve Harrigan said the battle for control over NTV is often seen in the West in black and white terms, as a clear threat to freedom of the press in Russia. | | | The NTV coup was surrounded by a number of contradictory court decisions suggesting that courts in Moscow and Saratov, which first banned Tuesday's shareholders meeting and then reversed their decisions, had come under pressure from Media-MOST's foes. |
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| | savethemales.ca - Lifting the Curtain on the Invisible Government |
| | Dall, who was married to Franklin Roosevelt's daughter Anna, spent many nights at the White House and often guided FDR around in his wheelchair. | | | Col. Dall personally confronted Louis Howe over Russian agents he saw meeting Howe in the White House. | | | FDR advisers Henry Morgenthau and Harry Dexter White arranged for U.S. treasury printing plates to be sent to Russia so the Communists could print their own US money. |
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| | Old Missiles Force START II on Russia |
| | In December, when the White House decided to bypass the UN Security Council, ignore Russia altogether and bomb Iraq, officials here became so incensed they shelved START II. | | | The START II treaty has languished in front of the lower house of parliament since 1993. | | | What the Russian government hopes for is that heads remain cool long enough to ratify START II and to negotiate a third agreement, START III, so that Russia and the United States reduce weapon stockpiles simultaneously. |
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| | Boris Yeltsin - encyclopedia article about Boris Yeltsin. |
| | Gorbachev was held in the Crimea while Yeltsin raced to the White House of Russia in Moscow to defy the coup. | | | ?л??и?) (born February 1, 1931) was President of Russia from 1991 to 1999. | | | He resigned on December 31 1999, and in accordance with Russian Constitution, prime minister Vladimir Putin became an Acting President until new elections were held on March 26 2000. |
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| | The Postmodern President: The White House Meets the World (Chatham, NJ: Chatham House, 1988. | | | "Parties, Voters and Foreign Policy", In Vicki L. Hesli and William M. Reisinger, eds., The 1999-2000 Elections in Russia: Their Impact and Legacy. | | | "Voting in a Floating Party System: the 1999 Duma Election", Europe-Asia Studies, 53, 3, 2001, 419-443, with Neil Munro and S.L. White. |
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| | [ Russian Election Special ] |
| | Like many members of the Communists of Russia faction in the Supreme Soviet, Rybkin remained inside the White House during the October 1993 crisis, when President Boris Yeltsin ordered troops to fire on the building to enforce his decree dissolving the opposition-dominated parliament. | | | When the pro-government Our Home Is Russia Duma faction tried to re-elect Rybkin as speaker in January 1996, the Communist Party and its allies rejected him in favor of one of their own, Gennadii Seleznev. | | | Unfortunately for Rybkin, the Justice Ministry had already registered the Liberal Russia party led by the politicians who had expelled Berezovskii. |
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| | With Democrat Bill Clinton in the White House, Gingrich was in effect the national leader of the Republicans, Dobell said. | | | Canadian parliamentary expert Peter Dobell says Russias choice of participants in the G-8 speakers summit is worth watching. | | | He also made sure the Canadian speaker is officially part of the New York remembrance ceremonies to honour victims of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks this coming Wednesday. |
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| | The Moscow Times - Daily News on Business, Politics and Culture in Russia and the CIS |
| | The White House is not conducting an official review of its Russia policy over the Kremlin's drive to consolidate power. | | | Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov denied that Russia was in talks to sell missiles to Syria, but Israeli officials Thursday continued to press Moscow over the issue. | | | Sergei Bagapsh headed for a landslide victory in a rerun with his former opponent as his running mate, according to unofficial results released Thursday. |
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| | The White House said the move was part of its push to | | | Search WASHINGTON, May 16 (UPI) -- President Bush banned officials of the Belarusian government and their families and business associates from traveling through or visiting the United States. | | | Tuesday, May 16, 2006 E-mail this page to a friend Print Version Russia Criticized For Allowing Racial Discrimination Friends of a student from Senegal who was killed in April hold his picture during a rally in his memory in St. Petersburg on April |
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| | RUSNET :: CIS Today :: 2005/08/01 :: Safety fear overruled for Putin\'s floating reactors |
| | Earlier this year Greenpeace asked Russias Federal Security Service to ban the production and export of the floating plants, arguing that they would be easy targets for terrorist attacks. | | | Despite the warnings of environmentalists, the Federal Nuclear Energy Agency has said that it will complete the first of several plants by 2011 and put it into operation at the northern port of Severodvinsk, on the White Sea. | | | But the nuclear industry appears to have won over President Putin, who has accused environmental groups of impeding Russias economic development. |
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| | GENEALOGY OF THE IMPERIAL HOUSE OF RUSSIA |
| | Alexei, Grand Duke, Tsesarevitch of Russia, b at Peterhof 12 Aug 1904; Kt Order of Saint Andrew, Gd Cross Orders of Saint Alexander Nevsky, the White Eagle, Saint Anne and Saint Stanislas, Hetman of all the Cossacks, etc, Kt of the Order of the Seraphim, murdered at Ekaterinburg 16/17 Jul 1918. | | | George Mikhailovich, Grand Duke of Russia (so named by his grand-father the late Grand Duke Wladimir, at his birth) b at Madrid 13 Mar 1981, | | | Princess Tatiana Constantinovna, b at Saint Petersburg 23 Jan 1890; d at Jerusalem 28 Aug 1970; m (morganatic, renounced her rights to the throne) 1stly at Pavlovsk 6 Sep 1911, Constantin Alexandrovitch, Prince Bagration-Mukhransky (b at Tiflis 14 Mar 1889; ka nr Yaroslavl 1 Jun 1915) see Part IIB, BAGRATION (former ruling House of Georgia). |
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| | July 28 Encyclopedia Article @ 216.92.85.60 |
| | 1998 - Monica Lewinsky scandal: Ex-White House intern, Monica Lewinsky receives transactional immunity in exchange for her grand jury testimony concerning her relationship with US President Bill Clinton. | | | 1942 - World War II: USSR leader Joseph Stalin issues Order No. 227 in response to alarming German advances into Russia. | | | Under the order all those who retreat or otherwise leave their positions without orders to do so will be immediately killed. |
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| | White House of Russia The White House of Russia, also known as the Russian White House, is a Russian constitutional cr... | | | Catherine I of Russia Catherine I of Russia (In 1727) Originally she was given the birthname of Martha Skavronskaya and... | | | Russia, Ohio Russia is a village located in 2000 census, the village had a total population of 551. |
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| | white house - OneLook Dictionary Search |
| | Phrases that include white house : the white house, white house station, white house chief of staff, white house fellow, white house of russia, more... | | | White House : The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language [ home, info ] | | | White House : The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy [ home, info ] |
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| | 5 August 1998 |
| | In response to assurances from Lew that the Vice President had returned from Russia with serious pledges and assurances from the Russians to expedite their ISS tasks, Rep. Sensenbrenner asked that a 30 July 1998 NASA briefing to the White House be entered into the record. | | | He stressed again that the White House wants to focus on immediate needs and that anything else was not open for discussion since "we have not reached the point where we can assume that the Russians will not meet their commitments". | | | James Sensenbrenner opened the hearings by admonishing the White House that it is a standing Committee rule that witnesses are to submit their prepared testimony to Committee staff at least 48 hours in advance of the hearing - not late the night before, as was the case for this hearing. |
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| | White Russia on Encyclopedia.com |
| | White House Fact Sheet On Overseas Private Investment Corporation of The United States Activity In Russia. | | | WASHINGTON, DC - President Bush meets with the President of Russia, Vladimir Putin, in the Oval Office of The White House, Tuesday November 13, 2001. | | | President Bush meetswith the President of Russia, Vladimir Putin, in the Oval Officeof The White House, Tuesday November 13, 2001. |
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| | SPACE.com -- House Bill Would Stop Russia Space Funds |
| | A House of Representatives subcommittee passed a bill that would cut off U.S. funding of the Russian space program unless the White House certifies that Russia is not aiding Irans development of weapons of mass destruction. | | | It is unclear whether such a law would curtail U.S. funding of the Russian space program, since the White House might certify that Russia is not aiding Iran. | | | In order to become law, the bill must pass the full House and the Senate, and be sent to the White House for President Clintons signature. |
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| | Pravda.RU The White House Believes That Saddam Hussein Is Dead |
| | The White House has confirmed the holding of talks between the United States and North Korea with China's participation next week, specifying that Russia, Japan and South Korea may join in "in the future", Sean McCormack said to journalists in Washington. | | | He is the White House deputy press secretary and the official spokesman of the National Security Council under the president. | | | The head of the White House adminstration Andrew Card, believes that Saddam Hussein is dead. |
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