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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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http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/ru.html
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| | Cornell University Society for the Humanities |
| | 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. | | | White had his Victorian villa built for his use as president of the university in 1871. | | | The son of Horace White, a prosperous Syracuse banker, and his wife Clara Dickson, White was able to travel and study abroad for three years following his graduation from Yale in 1853. |
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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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http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/ru.html
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| | William Thomas White -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article |
| | 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. | | | 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 served as Finance Minister until August 1, 1919. |
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http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/encyclopedia/w/wi/william_thomas_white.htm
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| | Guide to the Andrew Dickson White Papers,1832-1919 |
| | White served in many diplomatic roles, as Minister to Russia from 1893 to 1894 and Ambassador to Germany from 1897 to 1902. | | | White resigned the University presidency in 1885, and traveled extensively in Europe. | | | White was instrumental in developing the history and political science departments at Cornell, and took special interest in the library and the architecture of the new university. |
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| | Russia |
| | 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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http://www.brainyencyclopedia.com/topics/russia.html
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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. | | | Russia: Where Did The Motherland Bloc Come From -- And Where Is It Going? |
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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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http://mondediplo.com/2001/02/07russia
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| | News From the Soviet Union |
| | 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. | | | Secondly -according the present law in Ukraine, a newspaper can only be closed after the Supreme Court decides! |
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http://www.northstarcompass.org/nsc0102/newssu.htm
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| | NCSJ- Home |
| | 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. | | | 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. | | | Both Canada and Russia oppose U.S. proposals to alter the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty that Washington says is required in order to push ahead with the system and guard against missile launches by "rogue states" such as North Korea and Iran. |
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http://www.ncsj.org/auxpages/121200Goussinsky.shtml
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| | ipedia.com: White Article |
| | White is often associated with Conservatism (as opposed to Communism), particularly in the years following World War I, with civil wars fought between "Reds" and "Whites", for instance the Civil War in Russia and the Civil War in Finland. | | | Arthur Charles Fox-Davies has argued that white can be considered a tincture in heraldry separate from its use to represent argent, and in fact the labels borne on the arms, crests and supporters of members of the British Royal Family other than the reigning sovereign are invariably shown as white. | | | The RGB coordinates of white are 255 255 255. |
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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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http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Boris+Yeltsin
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| | Mary Dejevsky |
| | Politicians and environmentalists around the world cheered yesterday when after a long period of vacillation, Russia finally moved to ratify the Kyoto Protocol, the international treaty on countering climate change. | | | Not the countryside, where the late grape harvest is peacefully nearing its end and the white cows graze untroubled, as they have for generations. | | | France is burning because politicians ignored the problems of its immigrants |
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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. | | | Unfortunately for Rybkin, the Justice Ministry had already registered the Liberal Russia party led by the politicians who had expelled Berezovskii. | | | 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. |
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http://www.rferl.org/specials/russianelection/bio/rybkin.asp
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| | ANTHONY KUBEK: The Morgenthau Plan and the Problem of Policy Perversion |
| | White opined that if the Russians needed two million German laborers to reconstruct their devastated areas, he saw nothing wrong with it; it was "in the interest" of Russia and even Germany that the labor force come from the ranks of the Gestapo, the S.S., and the Nazi party membership. | | | Actually it was Dr. Harry Dexter White, Morgenthau’s principal adviser on monetary matters and finally Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, who conducted most of the important business of the Department. | | | As White had certainly anticipated, the economic condition of Germany was desperate between 1945 and 1948. |
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| | NIS Observed |
| | 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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| | Duchess of Devonshire Ball |
| | The sleeves of blue brocade with creves of white crepe pearled and studded gold. | | | The Grand Duke Michael of Russia in a Henry IV. | | | A gold crown incrusted with emeralds, diamonds, and rubies, with a diamond drop at each curved end and two upstandinh white ostrich feathers in the middle, and round the front festoons of pearls with a large pearshaped pearl in the centre falling on the forehead. |
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| | The Almanach de Chivalry , The International and Royal Council for Orders of Chivalry . |
| | A branch of the Order was created in Russia after the Congress of Vienna. | | | Grand Master: H.I.H. Grand Duchess Maria Vladimirovna of Russia (Maria I, Titular Empress and Autocrat of All the Russias (b. | | | Knights Grand Cross wear a more elaborate uniform with more extensive silver braid, a white plumed hat instead of the black plumes common to the lower ranks, while the badge is worn from the broad Riband of the Order on the left hip and the breast star. |
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| | Bashkiria (Russia) |
| | The word used in the law text is "синный", which indeed is the same word as the one in the law prescribing the flag of the Federation of Russia. | | | Bashkortostan — small encyclopedia (in Russian), with the description of the state flag, state coat of arms and historical coats of arms and symbols | | | According to the book Winds of Change [r4f96], the Law On the National Flag of the Republic of Bashkortostan dated 25 February 1992 (Article 2), and Constitution of 24 December 1993 (Article 158) both simple state «blue, white and green» with the Kurai flower (with seven petals) as «gold». |
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| | A branch of the Order was created in Russia after the Congress of Vienna. | | | Established by Duke Charles Frederick 1735 and named for his wife the Grand Duchess Anne Petrovna of Russia, daughter of Peter the Great. | | | Badge: of similar design to that of Saint Andrew, having the black, double-headed eagle with outstreached wings, upon which was an eagle in white enamel superimposed upon a cross with V-shaped ends, enamelled red, edged white, resting upon a star with golden rays. |
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| | savethemales.ca - Lifting the Curtain on the Invisible Government |
| | 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. | | | Col. Dall personally confronted Louis Howe over Russian agents he saw meeting Howe in the White House. | | | 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. |
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| | Silk's Cocoon -- White Wings -- James Nathan Post -- Writings -- 18 |
| | Silk's Cocoon -- White Wings -- James Nathan Post -- Writings -- 18 | | | How sad when the right to make public statements against the government is being newly granted in Russia to see that right attacked in America. | | | The movement to amend the Constitution to ban burning the Stars and Stripes as a political statement is well-intentioned, but a terrible mistake. |
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| | process.asp?collection=private&item=andl |
| | The ANDL was the product of the formation of Britain's National Service League in 1902, the apparent threat posed by Japanese naval and military victories over Russia in mid 1905, Australians' increasing habit of looking to government to solve defence and social problems, and the energy of a Sydney solicitor and militia colonel, Gerald Campbell. | | | William Mackenzie took charge from Campbell and wound up the ANDL in 1938, donating its records to the Australian War Memorial. | | | Letters received from 6 September 1909-10 June 1912. |
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| | Univex Mercury II in Russia! |
| | He married the white Russian woman and his descendants formed the family of Russian nobles. | | | This fact means that there weren't the racial segregation in Russia. | | | Abram served in Russian army and reached the rank of General. |
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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. | | | 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. | | | The missiles Russia would like to scrap were built in Ukraine when it was part of the Soviet Union. |
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| | CIA - The World Factbook -- Russia |
| | note: 72,000 km system in European Russia links Baltic Sea, White Sea, Caspian Sea, Sea of Azov, and Black Sea (2004) | | | 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. | | | Russia's manufacturing base is dilapidated and must be replaced or modernized if the country is to achieve broad-based economic growth. |
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| | Find in a Library: [Nicholas II, of Russia, in armor, on white horse, leading the Imperial Army in World War I |
| | [Nicholas II, of Russia, in armor, on white horse, leading the Imperial Army in World War I | | | Find in a Library: [Nicholas II, of Russia, in armor, on white horse, leading the Imperial Army in World War I | | | Subjects: Nicholas -- II, -- Emperor of Russia, -- 1868-1918 -- Military service. |
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| | The Almanach de Chivalry , The International and Royal Council for Orders of Chivalry . |
| | A branch of the Order was created in Russia after the Congress of Vienna. | | | Badge: of similar design to that of Saint Andrew, having the black, double-headed eagle with outstreached wings, upon which was an eagle in white enamel superimposed upon a cross with V-shaped ends, enamelled red, edged white, resting upon a star with golden rays. | | | Grand Master: H.I.H. Grand Duchess Maria Vladimirovna of Russia (Maria I, Titular Empress and Autocrat of All the Russias (b. |
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| | Encyclopedia4U - Russia - Encyclopedia Article |
| | 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 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 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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| | Professor Richard Rose |
| | 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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