what is the name of the russian council
Anti-cult movement


of "traditional Islam", which is supervised by the Russian government. Next listed were "Pagan cults". In 2009 the Russian Ministry of Justice created a council which it named the "Council of Experts Conducting State Religious Studies Expert Analysis". The new council listed 80 large sects which it considered potentially dangerous to Russian society, and mentioned that there were thousands of smaller ones. Large sects listed included The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Jehovah's Witnesses, and what were called "neo-
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All-Russian Congress of Soviets


The All-Russian Central Executive Committee and Council of People's Commissars was elected by the Congress, naming Lenin the Chairman, and thus making him the head of government. At the opening of the Congress, Vladimir Lenin gave a speech saying that the "Soviet government will propose an immediate democratic peace to all the nations and an immediate armistice on all fronts" and declared "Long live the revolution!," uttering what are sometimes called the "Land Decree" and "Decree on Peace." The Third All-
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List of English words of Russian origin


") Sovnarkhoz (Russian: Совнархо́з) (Russian "Сове́т Наро́дного Хозя́йства", "Sovet Narodnogo Hozyaistva", Council of National Economy, usually translated as "Regional Economic Council") (historical) An organization of the former Soviet Union to manage a separate economic region. Sovnarkom (Russian: Сове́т Мини́стров СССР) (Russian "Sovet Ministrov SSSR", Council of Ministers of the USSR , sometimes abbreviated form Совми́н Sovmin was used; between 1918 and 1946 it was named the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR
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Seth Montfort


five musicians. Monfort moved the operations to Guerneville, California in what was formerly a mortuary. The "San Francisco Concerto Orchestra" then became "The Mortuary Orchestra of Guerneville". This name change was suggested by John Moran, performing and literary arts manager for the Sonoma County Arts Council. In addition to the name change, the now "Mortuary Orchestra of Guerneville" also had a new venue to perform at. The original name for the venue was the "Russian River Performing Arts Center" but was later renamed to
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Parkovy Avenue


majority of Perm's citizens agreed that the avenue needed a new name, but opinion varied greatly on what the new name should be. Some suggested the street be named after Tukhachevsky or Zhukov in keeping with Russian history, but overall the name "Park Avenue" was the most popular. On July 20, 1989 the Perm city council passed the final decision to rename the street Park Avenue. Houses along the street received new registered addresses. Park Avenue's western terminus is at the intersection of Kufonina Street. It crosses Rynochnaya
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Group of Narodnik Socialists


the General Council. “I gladly accept the honourable duty that you offer me, that of your representative on the General Council,” wrote Marx on March 24, 1870, to the members of The Committee of the Russian section (Marx-Engels Ausgewahlte Briefe, M.-L. 1934, S. 234). The members of the Russian section of the First International supported Marx in his struggle against the Bakuninist anarchists, propagated the revolutionary ideas of the International, did what they could to strengthen the ties between the Russian revolutionary movement and
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Second Polish Republic


Front as the Imperial Russian Army fell back. German and Austro-Hungarian armies seized the Russian-ruled part of what became Poland. In a failed attempt to resolve the Polish question as quickly as possible, Berlin set up a German puppet state on 5 November 1916, with a governing Provisional Council of State and (from 15 October 1917) a Regency Council ("Rada Regencyjna Królestwa Polskiego"). The Council administered the country under German auspices (see also Mitteleuropa), pending the election of a king. A
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Soviet (council)


Soviets (singular: soviet; , , literally "council" in English) were political organizations and governmental bodies of the late Russian Empire, primarily associated with the Russian Revolution, which gave the name to the latter states of the Soviet Russia and the Soviet Union. "Soviet" is derived from a Russian word signifying council, assembly, advice, harmony, concord, and all ultimately deriving from the Proto-Slavic verbal stem of *vět-iti "to inform", related to Slavic "věst" ("
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Cult


a variety of extralegal coercive measures, such as arbitrary arrests, forced labour, and physical torture, sometimes resulting in death. In 2008 the Russian Interior Ministry prepared a list of "extremist groups." At the top of the list were Islamic groups outside of "traditional Islam," which is supervised by the Russian government. Next listed were "Pagan cults". In 2009 the Russian Ministry of Justice created a council which it named "Council of Experts Conducting State Religious Studies Expert Analysis." The new council listed
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Soviet Union


. A number of organizations in Russian history were called "council" (). For example, in the Russian Empire the State Council, which functioned from 1810 to 1917, was referred to as a Council of Ministers after the revolt of 1905. During the Georgian Affair, Vladimir Lenin envisioned an expression of Great Russian ethnic chauvinism by Joseph Stalin and his supporters, calling for these nation-states to join Russia as semi-independent parts of a greater union, which he initially named as the Union of Soviet Republics of
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Council of People's Commissars on War and Navy Affairs (Soviet Russia)


Council of People's Commissars on War and Navy Affairs (, Soviet Narodnykh Kommissarov po voyenym i morskim dyelam) was the very first military government agency of the Soviet Russia initially named as the Committee on affairs of War and Navy. The council was created on November 8, 1917 (day after the October Revolution) on the decree of the 2nd All-Russian Congress of Soviets "On creation of the Provisional Workers' and Peasants' Government" which was the name of the Russian Sovnarkom. The Kornilov Affair sanctioned by Alexander
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List of heads of government of Russia


chaired from 1917–24 by Vladimir Lenin. That body was renamed Council of Ministers following a decree of the Supreme Council on 23 March 1946. After the fall of the Soviet Union, Boris Yeltsin, as the President of the Russian Federation, was automatically appointed as the Head of Government of the Russian Federation in the first two years of his mandate. The latter body took the previous name "Council of Ministers", the chairman of which became Viktor Chernomyrdin from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, replacing acting chairman Yegor Gaidar
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1990 Local Council of the Russian Orthodox Church


been broken actions Uniates and "splitters - autocephalists" and condemns the decision of the Council of Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of their institution (parallel ROC) church structures in the USSR. The most important act of the first day of meetings, he was elected Patriarch. Local Council approved the procedure for electing the proposed Council of Bishops: In addition to the three candidates from the Council of Bishops at the Local Council have been proposed as candidates names metropolitans Krutitsa Juvenal, Minsk Filaret, Pitirim of Volokolamsk, Stavropol
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Council of Labor and Defense


and Peasants' Defense was originally conceived as an emergency body dedicated solely to the mobilization of Russia's resources for the fighting of the civil war. Lenin himself was named as chairman, Leon Trotsky sat as the People's Commissar of War, Leonid Krassin as head of the extraordinary commission of supply, and Joseph Stalin as the representative of the All-Russian Executive Committee. The organization quickly emerged as what historian Alec Nove has called the "effective economic cabinet" of the nation, with the power to issue legally binding decrees
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Names of Rus', Russia and Ruthenia


was originally called Russia (Rosseia)". Pointing to the difference between Latin and Russian names, French captain Jacques Margeret, who served in Russia and left a detailed description of "L’Empire de Russie" of the early 17th century that was presented to King Henry IV, stated that foreigners make "a mistake when they call them Muscovites and not Russians. When they are asked what nation they are, they respond 'Russac', which means 'Russians', and when they are asked what place they are from,
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September 2016 Deir ez-Zor air raid


an accusation that they would later repeatedly try to justify by presenting what they considered to be evidence. This claimed evidence can be exemplified by the Russian U.N. permanent representative's statements, as reported by a pro-Syrian government outlet, during the special U.N. security council meeting, which the U.S. envoy to the U.N. later referred to as "a stunt". During the security council meeting, the Russian representative stated that "Russia believes the United States attack on the Syrian Army was not a mistake," declared that the "
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March Days


, the Sejm established a Military Council of Nationalities, with Armenian, Azerbaijani and Georgian representatives, which had troops at its disposal. When a large group of Russian soldiers withdrew from the Ottoman front line in January 1918, the head of the council, Georgian Menshevik Noe Ramishvili, ordered their disarmament. The Russian soldiers were stopped near Shamkhor station and, upon a refusal to surrender, were attacked by Azerbaijani bands in what became known as the "Shamkhor massacre". The Baku Soviet played out this incident into its favor against
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Konstantin Kosachev


elected Chairman of the Federation Council Committee on International Affairs. Kosachev was included in the sanctions list of individuals and entities adopted the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine. On 21 September 2015, Kosachev was named representative of the Government of the Mari El Republic in the Russian Federation Council. In April 2018, the United States imposed sanctions on him and 23 other Russian nationals. Kosachev headed the State Duma's delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) from 2004 to 2012. He served as vice
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Kerch Strait incident


Russian Federation's FSB opened fire at the flotilla belonging to... the armed forces of Ukraine". Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko convened the Ukrainian National Security and Defence Council, describing the Russian actions as "unprovoked and crazy". Russia did not immediately or directly respond to the allegation, but Russian news agencies cited the Federal Security Service (FSB) as saying it had incontrovertible proof that Ukraine had orchestrated what it called a "provocation" and would publicise its evidence soon. A report by the Russian FSB said that Ukraine had
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Council of Ministers of the Russian Empire


The Council of Ministers of the Russian Empire was the highest executive authority of the Russian Empire, created in a new form by the highest decree of October 19, 1905 for the general "management and unification of the actions of the chief heads of departments on subjects of both legislation and higher state administration". The ministers ceased to be separate officials, responsible to the emperor, each only for their actions and orders. Earlier, in 1861, there was a body with the same name, chaired by the emperor, along
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Cape Berg


used by Russia at the time, members of the expedition went to the shore near Cape Berg, on what is now known as October Revolution Island. They raised the Russian flag on the shore and named the new territory Tayvay Land (, "Zemlya Tayway"), after the first syllable of their icebreaker's names, charting parts of the Laptev Sea coast of what they believed to be a single island. Later the new discovery was named "Emperor Nicholas II Land", (Russian: "Zemlya Imperatora Nikolaya II
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Chicago Council on Global Affairs


. Among its recent publications, the Council released reports for initiatives in global hunger and arming Ukraine. According to Rajiv Shah, the Council's 2009 report, "Renewing American Leadership in the Fight Against Global Hunger and Poverty," served as a "road map" for the U.S. government's Feed the Future. In February 2015, the Council partnered with the Brookings Institution and the Atlantic Council to produce "Preserving Ukraine's Independence, Resisting Russian Aggression: What the United States and NATO Must Do" a report urging the
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Russian Party


was selected by the three Great Powers to become King of Greece in 1833. During the early period of the monarchy, the three parties remained active, although Otto was an absolute monarch. When Otto arrived in Greece, he was a minor and thus a Regency Council made up of three Bavarians ruled in his name. The chief of the Council, Josef Ludwig von Armansperg was a liberal Bavarian and he was perceived as being hostile to the Russian Party. In 1833, the leaders of the Russian Party, including Theodoros Kolokotronis
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Russians in Estonia


what is now Estonia dates back to the late 17th century when several thousand Russian Old Believers, escaping religious persecution in Russia, settled in areas then a part of the Swedish empire near the western coast of Lake Peipus. In the 18th century after the Great Northern War the territories of Estonia divided between the Governorate of Estonia and Livonia became part of the Russian Empire but maintained local autonomy and were administered independently by the local Baltic German nobility through a feudal Regional Council (). The second period of influx of Russians followed the
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Project 5-100


much money is needed to follow through on everything, and then communicates what it thinks ought to be done to the Russian Ministry of Education and Science in terms of continued support of the Project’s selected Universities. The members of the International Council are: The Chairman is Olga Golodets, the deputy Prime Minister for social affairs of the Russian Federation. The Deputy of Chairman is Olga Vasilieva, the Minister of Education and Science of the Russian Federation. The following are the specific objectives and key performance indicators for the universities: In
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Tchaikovsky (song)


this song are actually Russian-Americans whose names Gershwin altered for the purposes of his lyric. For example, one of the names in the song is "Dukelsky"; this is actually the birth name of Vernon Duke, an American composer of Russian ancestry. Stanisław Moniuszko, Witold Maliszewski and Leopold Godowsky are actually Polish, not Russian, but all three were born in what was then part of the Russian Empire. Ira Gershwin began his career writing lyrics for his brother George Gershwin. Ira, the more self-effacing
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Tsardom of Russia


them Muscovites and not Russians. When they are asked what nation they are, they respond 'Russac', which means 'Russians', and when they are asked what place they are from, the answer is Moscow, Vologda, Ryasan and other cities". The closest analogue of the Latin term "Moscovia" in Russia was “Tsardom of Moscow”, or “Moscow Tsardom” (), which was used along with the name "Russia", sometimes in one sentence, as in the name of the
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1988 Local Council of the Russian Orthodox Church


the Soviet Union. The bishops' meeting adopted the names of ascetics for the canonization of the Local Council. The participants of the cathedral had to have all the bishops of the Russian Church, according to the election - two representatives from the clergy and laity of each diocese, as well as representatives of the religious schools, the governors and the abbesses of monasteries The Local Council opened on June 6 with a Divine Liturgy at the Cathedral of the Holy Trinity Lavra of St. Sergius. Arriving at the Cathedral, were 272 representatives
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All-Russian Congress of Soviets


. The first "soviets" appeared during the 1905 Russian Revolution as councils (soviets) of workers in those cities that were captured by mass strikes (strike action). Enterprises that were participating in those strikes had delegated to those councils their delegates to coordinate joint actions. In various locations those councils carried different names such as "Soviet of workers deputies", "Delegate assembly", "Assembly of deputies", "Commission of elected", and others. By October of 1905 the "Soviet of workers deputies"
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Federation Council (Russia)


that regional executives have a say in choosing delegates to the Federation council. Since 2000, the Federation Council has largely remained a stable body. However, critics have charged that Putin's tactics in reforming the Council were blatantly undemocratic and anti-federal, arguing that the reforms created a rubber stamp body for the executive branch and the ruling United Russia party, similar to what the Soviet of Nationalities was during the Soviet period. As set in Article 101 of the Russian Constitution, the Federation Council “shall elect among its deputies
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Alexander von Stieglitz


Baron Alexander von Stieglitz () (1814–1884) was a Russian financier. He was the first governor of the State Bank of the Russian Empire, the predecessor organization to today's Central Bank of the Russian Federation. Stieglitz was born in Saint Petersburg to banker Baron Ludwig von Stieglitz who was a founder of the banking-house "Stieglitz and Co". After completing his education at the University of Dorpat in what is now Tartu, Estonia, he entered the state services as a member of the Manufacture council of the Ministry
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Sergey Lisovsky


the field of culture - is one of the leaders of the Russian festival Kinotavr, as well as a member of the Public Council for advertising, the President of the Russian Association of Regional TV companies, Chairman of the All-Russian Confederation of creative. He loves risky sports. He is fond of driving a helicopter, mountain climbing, hang gliding, golf, pilotage. In 1995 he participated in the Dakar Rally, finishing 47th in the SUV category. During the investigation of what happened March 1, 1995 in Moscow
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Foreign relations of Russia


claimed this would diminish "Russian aggression". The post-Maidan conflict in Ukraine is usually blamed on "Russian aggression". NATO-sponsored analysts have described what they call a cybernetic "Russian aggression" against Ukraine in the 2010s. Russia is a member of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), Union of Russia and Belarus, Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), Paris Club, and the North Atlantic Cooperation Council (NACC). It signed the NATO Partnership for Peace initiative on 22
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Korenizatsiya


power in Republic administrations and the party, including for a time the creation of a special group of soviets called "natssoviety" (nationality councils) in their own "natsraiony" (nationality regions) based on concentrations of minorities within what were minority republics. For example, in Ukraine in the late 1920s there were even natssoviety for Russians and Estonians. This policy was meant to partially reverse decades of Russification, or promotion of Russian identity culture and language in non-Russian territories that had taken place during the imperial period.
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Local Council of the Russian Orthodox Church


the local councils of the Russian Church, and even in the phrase "all-Russian Local Council", the widespread use of the term in the modern sense, it's the beginning of the 20th century in preparation for the All-Russian Council of the Orthodox Russian Church, which opened in August 1917, more than half of the council were laymen. Later regulations of the Russian Orthodox Church understand the local council as a collection of bishops and other representatives of the clergy, religious and laity of the local Russian Orthodox
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2004 Russian presidential election


The 2004 Russian presidential election was held on 14 March 2004. Incumbent President Vladimir Putin was seeking a second full four-year term. He was re-elected with 71.9% of the vote. Candidates are listed in the order they appear on the ballot paper (alphabetical order in Russian). Observers representing the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe and the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, cited what they called abuses of government resources, bias in the state media and instances of ballot stuffing on election
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People's Soviet of the Donetsk People's Republic


The People's Council (), formerly the Supreme Council (), is the legislature of the unrecognised Donetsk People's Republic. The first legislative body of the Donetsk People's Republic was the Supreme Council (), which was established by pro-Russian protesters in early April 2014. It is not clear as to what the composition of this body was. That body adopted a constitution on 14 May 2014, after having held a referendum on independence from Ukraine. This constitution provided for the establishment of a new body,
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Cherkessk


arrest, the initial "Yezhovo-" was dropped, and the city received its present name in 1939. What is now Cherkessk was established in 1804 as a Russian military fort on the Kuban River, what was then the border with Circassia, on the spot where in 1790 Russian troops under the command of General Johann Hermann von Fersen (Ivan Ivanovich Herman fon Fersen) defeated the Ottoman Batal Pasha. In honor of the victory over Batal Pasha, the fort was named Batalpashinskaya; it was a redoubt surrounded by an earthen rampart
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Bavarian Soviet Republic


The Bavarian Soviet Republic () was a short-lived unrecognised socialist state in Bavaria during the German Revolution of 1918–19. It took the form of a workers' council republic. Its name is variously rendered in English as the Bavarian Council Republic or the Munich Soviet Republic (; the German name "Räterepublik" means a republic of councils or committees; council or committee is also the meaning of the Russian word "soviet") after its capital, Munich. It was established in April 1919 after the demise of Kurt Eisner's
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Iasyr Shivaza


father's Dungan name "Jiujiuzi" (Җюҗюзы, rendered in Russian as "Jumaza" or "Джумаза"). His Kyrgyz name ("Yasır Cumaza uulu Şivaza"; , previously spelled "Jasьr Ƶumaza uulu Şivaza" in the Uniform Turkic Alphabet and written as ياسىر شىۋازا in the Perso-Arabic script) was taken from his Russian name. Yasir Shiwazi was born on 18 May (or 5 May according to Russian sources) 1906 in the village of Sokuluk () some 30 km west of Bishkek, in what
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International reactions to the Saudi-led intervention in Yemen (2015–present)


April, the ICRC (Red Cross) and the World Food Program (WFP) said aid delivery had become difficult-to-impossible, with WFP suspending operations, due to ongoing fighting, air transport restrictions, and the destruction of Sanaa airport. On 1 May, the UNSC held an emergency meeting, called by Russia, to discuss the crisis. The council did not agree on a Russian-drafted statement demanding an immediate ceasefire in what the Russian delegate called "amazing indecision." Diplomats said they rejected the Russian
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National Organization of Russian Scouts (Scouts-in-Exile)


in Russia and became Chief Scout of the Russian Scouts in exile. On March 22, 1921 a General Russian Scoutleaders congress took place and "The Council of Russian Scouts" was founded as an umbrella associations for Russian Scout groups working all around the world, that most troops joined. Other names used at this time were "Organisation of Russian Scouts Beyond The Borders" and "L´Association Nationale des Scouts Russes". In 1926, the now traditional and still used Russian Scout and Guide badges were introduced: For the Scouts the
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What Is to Be Done?


What Is to Be Done? Burning Questions of Our Movement () is a political pamphlet written by the Russian revolutionary Vladimir Lenin (credited as N. Lenin) in 1901 and published in 1902. Lenin said that the article represented "a skeleton plan to be developed in greater detail in a pamphlet now in preparation for print". Its title is inspired by the novel of the same name by the 19th century Russian revolutionary Nikolai Chernyshevsky. In "What Is to Be Done?", Lenin argues that the working class will
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Foreign involvement in the Venezuelan presidential crisis


Robert Ellis of the United States Army War College described 400 Wagner Group mercenaries provided by Russia as the "palace guard of Nicolás Maduro". Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov denied the deployment of Russian mercenaries, calling it "fake news". Two nuclear weapon-capable Russian planes landed in Venezuela in December 2018 in what "Reuters" called a "show of support for Maduro's socialist government". On 3 March 2019, Russian Federation Council speaker Valentina Matviyenko told Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodríguez that Russia will make every effort to
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Soviet (council)


(Council or Senate) of the modern Russian Parliament. Its untranslated name is Сове́т Федера́ции (Soviet Federatsii). The term soon came to be used outside the former Russian Empire following 1917. The Limerick Soviet was formed in Ireland in 1919. A soviet republic was established in Bavaria on 7 April 1919. In 1920, the "Workers' Dreadnought" published "A Constitution for British Soviets" in preparation for the launch of the Communist Party (British Section of the Third International). Here the focus was on "
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Andrey Milekhin


field of advertising in Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation, member of , expert with the council for administration of legislation of on advertising and for protection against unfair competition, affiliated to Federal Anti-Monopoly Service. Member of Association of Graduates of Saint Petersburg State University. Andrey Milekhin is the Head of Center of Case Research at the . He is a member of the academic board at the , member of the Interagency Coordination Council of the Russian Academy of Sciences, named "Social factors and indicators of the development
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Russians of Croatia


, the NDH government issued a directive that exempted Russians in the NDH from any discrimination or reprisals as long as they were politically loyal; political loyalty was to be certified by Russian colonies′ leadership, namely the Representation of Russian Emigration ("Predstavništvo ruske emigracije") in Zagreb. As early as in July 1941, a campaign was launched to recruit the Russians in the NDH to what would be in September instituted as the Separate Russian Corps (later known in German as "Russisches Schutzkorps Serbien"). The commander of the
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Council of Labor and Defense


Army in wartime, STO took a broader approach to planning than it had in its earlier iteration. The new name and function of STO was ratified in December 1920 by the 8th All-Russian Congress of Soviets, the formal legislative authority of Soviet Russia. STO was recognized as a commission of the Council of People's Commissars (Sovnarkom), to be headed by the leading People's Commissars themselves, a representative of the Russian trade unions, and the chief of the Central Statistical Agency. STO was directed to establish a
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Sergey Glazyev


named economic security advisor for the Federation Council of Russia and head of the Council's analytical department. He was also associated with Rogozin and Aleksandr Lebed in the short-lived nationalist political project, the Congress of Russian Communities. In 1999, he resigned once again to run for the Duma, and was elected this time as an independent on the list of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation. This time, however, he clashed with the party's leadership and, in 2003, he abandoned the party to help form
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National Organization of Russian Scouts (Scouts-in-Exile)


Fleur-de-lis with Saint George and for the girls the three Snow-Drops. In the years 1929 and 1930 "The Council of Russian Scouts" changed their name to the National Organization of Russian Scouts and established a National Headquarters in Brussels. The National Headquarters later moved to Belgrade. Russian Scouting, as the Association Nationale des Scouts Russes was recognized as a member of the World Organization of the Scout Movement, in exile, from 1922 to 1945. During this time the Russian Scouts were active members of the
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Romanov Empire (micronation)


successor of the All-Russian Imperial Throne, and its claimed "predecessor", the Roman and Byzantine thrones. Romanov Empire is the only state in the world in which the principle of sortition is used to form the upper House of Parliament of the State Duma." The nation's website proclaims a council of ministers (similar to the council of ministers set up by the actual Russian Empire), composed of the following: After he was named Emperor, Nicholas III wrote a letter to Vladimir Putin requesting land in Yekaterinburg
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Unification council of the Orthodox churches of Ukraine


to the Russian news agency Vesti, on 8 December 2018 presidential advisor Rostislav Pavlenko met with Filaret and three of Filaret's bishops behind closed doors. It remains unknown what they were talking about behind closed doors. On 10 December, Filaret said the UOC-KP might not participate at the unification council because of the disagreement with the Ecumenical Patriarchate concerning the procedure of vote of said council. The same day, the press secretary of the UOC-KP, Zorya, issued an official communiqué which states that "[t]he fact
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Samoset Council


Samoset Council is a Boy Scout council headquartered in Weston, Wisconsin that serves north central Wisconsin. Founded in 1920, the council gets its name from an early Boy Scout camp in the Town of Harrison named Camp Sam-O-Set. The Council is served by Tom Kita Chara Lodge of the Order of the Arrow. What is now Samoset Council first began as the Wausau Council in 1920. In 1926 the Wausau Council merged with the Merrill Council, to create the Lincoln - Marathon Council. It was not until 1930
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Anna Politkovskaya


. In his comments on the end of the trial, Andrew McIntosh, Chairman of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe's Sub-Committee on the Media and Rapporteur on media freedom, expressed frustration at what he perceived to be a lack of progress in investigating the murder, or the inability of the Russian authorities to find her killers: Two years ago, in its Resolution 1535 (2007), the Assembly called on the Russian Parliament closely to monitor the progress in the criminal investigations regarding the murder of Anna Politkovskaya
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Trud (Russian newspaper)


Trud (, ) is a Russian newspaper. "Trud"'s first issue was on February 19, 1921, in Moscow, in what was then the Soviet Union. Under the Soviet state, the paper published the work of famous writers and poets, including Vladimir Mayakovsky, Nikolai Rubtsov, Yuri Nagibin, and Yevgeny Yevtushenko. Prior to the dissolution of the Soviet Union, "Trud" was the press organ of the All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions. It emphasized labor and economic analyses and included official decrees
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Kiev Metro


announcements used Ukrainian exclusively. One local story suggests that Yivga Kuznetsova, then a student of Kiev university, forced the local city council to make all the announcements in Ukrainian only. The lexical similarity of the languages allowed every station to have a Russian translation and these were often given in Russian language literature and media. However some Ukrainian names for stations were different from Russian ones, and to signify this, those stations were sometimes semi-translated into Russian, effectively blending Ukrainian words into Russian grammar. Examples of this include ploshcha
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Anna Karenina


what is probably the least smooth-talking and most contradictory Tolstoy yet." Gessen found Schwartz's translation to be formally closer to the original Russian, but often weighed down with details as a result; Bartlett's translation, like Pevear and Volokhonsky's, was rendered in more idiomatic English and more readable. The title has been translated as both "Anna Karenin" and "Anna Karenina." The first instance "naturalizes" the Russian name into English, whereas the second is a direct transliteration of the actual Russian name
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Donetsk People's Republic


Russian ITAR-TASS the declaration was voted by some regional legislators; however, there are claims that neither the Donetsk city council nor district councils of the city delegated any representatives to the session. The political leadership initially consisted of Denis Pushilin, self-appointed as chairman of the government, while Igor Kakidzyanov has been named as the commander of the "People's Army". Vyacheslav Ponomarev became known as the self-proclaimed mayor of the city of Sloviansk. Ukrainian-born pro-Russian activist Pavel Gubarev, an Anti
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Valdai Discussion Club


The Valdai Discussion Club is a Moscow-based think tank and discussion forum, established in 2004. It is named after Lake Valdai, which is located close to Veliky Novgorod, where the Club’s first meeting took place. In 2014, the management of the Club was transferred to the Valdai Club Foundation, established in 2011 by the Council on Foreign and Defence Policy, the Russian International Affairs Council, Moscow State Institute of International Relations, and Higher School of Economics. The Valdai conference is closely linked with Russian President Vladimir
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Hungarian Soviet Republic


the Margit Ring prison on the night of 20 March 1919. For the Social Democrats, an alliance with the KMP not only increased their standing with the industrial working class, but also gave them a potential link to the increasingly powerful Russian Communist Party, as Kun had strong ties with prominent Russian Bolsheviks. Following Lenin's model, but without the direct participation of the workers' councils (soviets) from which it took its name, the newly united Socialist Party created a government called the Revolutionary Governing Council, which proclaimed the
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Provisional All-Russian Government


under ataman Krasilnikov. The next morning Vologodsky called for a PA-RG Council of Ministers. The Directory was dissolved and the remaining cabinet members voted for its former Minister of War, Admiral Kolchak, to be named Supreme Leader of All-Russia ("Verkhovnyi Pravitel"). He promoted himself to full admiral. The arrested SR politicians were expelled from Siberia and ended up in Europe. The Supreme Leader issued the following manifesto to the population: The Provisional All-Russian Government has fallen. The Council of Ministers,
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Russians


ethnic Russians, regardless of what country they live in and irrespective of whether or not they hold Russian citizenship. Under certain circumstances this term may or may not extend to denote members of other Russian-speaking ethnic groups from Russia, or from the former Soviet Union. The latter word refers to all people holding citizenship of Russia, regardless of their ethnicity, and does not include ethnic Russians living outside Russia. Translations into other languages often do not distinguish these two groups. The name of the Russians derives from the Rus'
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International recognition of Abkhazia and South Ossetia


in the United Nations Security Council. In July 2008, in a speech to Russian ambassadors on Russian foreign policy, Dmitry Medvedev opined that "for the European Union, Kosovo is almost what Iraq has proved to be for the United States" and that they acted unilaterally in pursuit of their own self-interests and undermined international law in the process. Latvian newspaper "Diena" on 28 August 2008 argued that Medvedev's decree was "a blow below the belt" for Russia's ally Serbia. "If the changes in
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Jacob Chappuzeau


two other captains captured three Swedish vessels in what was the Russian fleet's first successful battle. For this, he was awarded a gold medal by the Tsar, and promoted to Captain, 2nd class. Jacob married a noblewoman, Anne Kellermann, in St Petersburg,and had 10 children. That he was held in high regard is proven by the fact that the godfather of one of his daughters was Count Fyodor Apraksin, Admiral and member of the Russian Supreme Privy Council. His eldest son, Alexander Chappuzeau (1720-
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Russian America


Russian America (, "Russkaya Amerika") was the name of the Russian colonial possessions in North America from 1733 to 1867. Its capital was Novo-Archangelsk ("New Arkhangelsk"), which is now Sitka, Alaska, USA. Settlements spanned parts of what are now the U.S. states of California, Alaska and two ports in Hawaii. Formal incorporation of the possessions by Russia did not take place until the Ukase of 1799 which established a monopoly for the Russian–American Company and also granted the Russian Orthodox Church
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1917 Sfatul Țării election


recorded by previous Russian Imperial censuses. Of the 150 Diet members of Sfatul Țării, 105 were Moldavians, 15 Ukrainians, 13 Jews, 6 Russians, 3 Bulgarians, 2 Germans, 2 Gagauzians, 1 Pole, 1 Armenian, 1 Greek, 1 unknown. The first session of Sfatul Țării was held on , and chose Ion Inculeț as its president. On , Sfatul Țării elected the Pantelimon Erhan Cabinet (named the Council of Directors General), with nine members and with Pantelimon Erhan as President of the Council of Directors
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Konstantin Menshov


ahead of silver medalist Michal Březina. He won the bronze medal at the 2013 Russian Championships but was not named in the Russian team for the 2013 European Championships. The decision did not contravene regulations which stated that only the top two qualified automatically and the third skater could be determined by the coaches' council. However, an appeal was signed by the president of the Saint Petersburg figure skating federation, Oleg Nilov, and some competitors. Russian Minister of Sport Vitaly Mutko ordered the executive committee of the Russian figure skating federation to
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Obsolete Russian units of measurement


A native system of weights and measures was used in Imperial Russia and after the Russian Revolution, but it was abandoned after July 21, 1925, when the Soviet Union adopted the metric system, per the order of the Council of People's Commissars. The Tatar system is very similar to the Russian one, but some names are different. The system existed since ancient Rus', but under Peter the Great, the Russian units were redefined relative to the English system. Until Peter the Great the system also used Cyrillic numerals
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Civic Chamber of the Russian Federation


freedoms in developing and implementing state policy. Public councils are aimed at monitoring activities of federal executive authorities, including public procurement. Public councils have been established at 53 federal bodies of power (e.a. Federal Security Service, Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Internal Affairs). In 2015 the Civic Chamber and Russian Governmental Expert Council introduced a new procedure for establishment of councils, with 75% of public councils members to be nominated by the Civic Chamber of the Russian Federation and the rest 25% by the Russian Governmental Expert Council
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Samashki massacre


no organized resistance in Samashki. It was surely planned with the idea to kill as many as possible, in order to achieve a threatening effect." The head of the Department of Caucasian Studies at the Russian Academy of Sciences compared the massacre to that of "Khatyn in Belarus, Lidice in Czechoslovakia" and said that the name Samashki "sounds more sinister than My Lai in Vietnam." The English-language newspaper "The Moscow News" wrote in an editorial: "What the Russians did in Samashki is what the
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Wignacourt Arch


Councils on what to call the arch. The former said that it should be called "Fleur-de-Lys Gate", while the latter insisted on using the name "Wignacourt Arch". In September 2013, the Santa Venera council took the Birkirkara council to court and accused it of causing "historical damage" by calling the arch with an incorrect name. The councils agreed on using the name "The Wignacourt Arch known as the Fleur-de-Lys Gate" in August 2014. Reconstruction of the arch began
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Belarusian resistance movement


disbanded. Part of it was included into Russian SFSR, and part was joined to the Lithuanian SSR to form the LBSSR, Lithuanian–Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic, informally known as "Litbel". While Belarus National Republic faced off with Litbel, foreign powers were preparing to reclaim what they saw as their territories: Polish forces were moving from the West, and Russians from the East. Eventually, it was the foreigners who prevailed. When the Red Army entered Minsk on January 5, 1919, the Rada (Council)
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Holy See–Soviet Union relations


and Rome until the persecutions in 1945. Some Ruthenians, resisting Polonisation, felt deserted by the Vatican and returned to the Russian Orthodox Church during the Pontificate of Pope Pius XI. During the brief papacy of John XXIII, there were attempts to reconcile with the Russian Orthodox Church in the hope of reducing tensions with the Soviet Union and contributing to peace in the world. The Second Vatican Council did not condemn Communism and did not even mention it, in what some have called a secret agreement between the Holy See and the Soviet
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Lindsey Graham


, Russia, because of "what the Russian government is doing throughout the world." Graham also said the U.S. should aim to "drive the Russian economy into the ground." On January 5, 2017, Graham condemned President Obama for abstaining from UN Security Council Resolution 2334, which condemned Israeli settlement building in the West Bank and eastern Jerusalem as a violation of international law. In October 2017, in the wake of the Tongo Tongo ambush which killed four U.S. soldiers, Graham expressed surprise that there were a thousand U.S.
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Russian military intervention in Ukraine (2014–present)


forces. "Officially he just went on leave," the news reader said. After a series of military defeats and setbacks for the Donetsk and Lugansk separatists, who united under the banner of "Novorossiya", a term Russian President Vladimir Putin used to describe southeastern Ukraine, Russia dispatched what it called a "humanitarian convoy" of trucks across the Russo-Ukrainian border in mid-August 2014. Ukraine reacted to the move by calling it a "direct invasion". Ukraine's National Security and Defense Council published a
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Head of the Republic of Adygea


State Council members. By the adoption of the new constitution after the numerous discussions the powers and the duties of the President of Adygea was fixed. On December 28, 2010, the Federal Law was adopted, which establishes that the name of highest official of the Federal subjects of the Russian Federation (the head of the highest executive body of the state) cannot contains the titles and phrases that constitute the name of the position of the head of state - the President of the Russian Federation. This law establishes until January
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Southern Bug


meaning the "White river". "Bug", a Russian name, became established during the colonial period in Ukraine and known internationally. It was a misnomer given by a Russian geologist at the beginning of 20th century. On March 6, 1918 the Central Council of Ukraine (Tsentralna Rada of the Ukrainian People's Republic) adopted the law "For the administrative-territorial division of Ukraine", dividing Ukraine into numerous lands. One of those lands in the upper stream of the river was named "Boh land"
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Molokan


Pavilovich Pabloff" (Ivan son of Pavil (Paul) (Pavlov), whose mother's maiden name is "Samarin" become "Juan Pablo Pabloff de Samarin" or "Juan Samarin Pabloff". In all these instances, tracing family history can become very difficult Otherwise they adhere to the common naming practices. A lot can be learned from a Russian head stone which will commonly go back to use of the Russian naming practices regardless of what they used while alive. If translated correctly you should learn the names of the
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Lorna's Silence


the baby's last name, she says "Moreau," which was Claudy's last name. Despite Fabio having told her not to talk about it, Lorna brings up the baby to the Russian during their second meeting. The Russian says through his interpreter that a baby is out of the question, and Fabio gets angry with Lorna for bringing it up. After the Russians' departure, Fabio roughs out Lorna and shouts that she must do exactly what he tells her to. Lorna crouches down while holding her stomach.
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World Peace Council


including Vera Brittain, Michael Tippett, and Sybil Morrison, criticised the WPC-affiliated British Peace Committee for what they saw as its "unquestioning hero-worship" of the Soviet Union. In 1950, several Swedish peace organizations warned their supporters against signing the WPC's Stockholm Appeal. In 1953, the International Liaison Committee of Organizations for Peace stated that it had "no association with the World Peace Council". In 1956, a year in which the WPC condemned the Suez war but not the Russian suppression of the 1956
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Antonie Pannekoek


writing on workers' councils. He regarded these as a new form of organisation capable of overcoming the limitations of the old institutions of the labour movement, the trade unions and social democratic parties. Basing his theory on what he regarded as the practical lessons of the 1917 Russian Revolution, Pannekoek argued that the workers' revolution and the transition from capitalism to communism had to be achieved by the workers themselves, democratically organised in workers' councils. He was a sharp critic of anarchism, social democracy and Vladimir Lenin and Leninism.
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Sevmash


total production was 10%, according to figures published by Centre for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies. The centre ranked Sevmash as the 7th most successful enterprise of the Russian defense industry in 2009, based on a comparison of key financial and operational indicators. The construction of the enterprise had its origins in the first 5-year plan when the decision was made to significantly expand shipbuilding capacity. The building of what became SEVMASH began in 1936. The shipyard was developed in accordance with resolution of the Council of Labour and Defence under the Council
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UVB-76


conversations are available online, and seem to be in Russian. The phone calls mentioned the "brigade operative officer on duty", the communication codes "Debut", ""Nadezhda"" (Russian for "hope", both a noun and a female name), ""Sudak"" (an alternate name for the Zander, and also a town in Crimea) and ""Vulkan"" (volcano). The female voice says: On July 17, 2015, the station broadcast what appeared to
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International Delphic Council


, with the request, the first Delphic Games for adults in Moscow from 1 to 10 December 2000 let to hold. This request was granted. Later, however, the Russian NDC split off from the International Delphic Council. Today, various Russian websites and Pressa claim, the Delphic idea was originated by the Russians in 2000. Despite the withdrawal of the Russian National Delphic Council from the International Delphic Council, the Russian delegations took part in the International Delphic Games in 2007 and 2009. This confirm also the illustrated Delphic calendars
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Russian Professional Basketball League


the possibility of merging with the VTB United League, to produce greater competition between the Russian basketball clubs. They suggested that the new league would be named the Eastern European Professional Basketball League. In July 2012, the Council of VTB United League gave a definitive decision. It was decided that the PBL league would continue for one more year, with some of the games of the VTB United League that took place between two Russian clubs being counted as PBL games. The first tier Russian clubs then replaced the PBL with the VTB
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Orthodox Church in America


had included mainly Russians, Ukrainians, Galicians, and Rusyns. Prior to the 13th All-American Sobor in November 1967, a proposal was prepared to change the name of the Church from the Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church of America to the "Orthodox Church in America". The Council of Bishops, already aware of the proposal, forbade a vote on the matter. After much debate however, a non-binding straw poll was permitted. The result of the poll was decidedly in favor of the name change. As
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Russian International Affairs Council


The Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) – is a non-profit academic and diplomatic think tank established by the presidential decree dated 2 February 2010. The founders of the RIAC are the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Ministry of Education and Science, Russian Academy of Science, the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs and Russian news agency Interfax. The Russian International Affairs Council was founded on orders of then-President Dmitry Medvedev to contribute to Russia's soft power efforts. The RIAC activities are aimed at strengthening
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Farkhad Akhmedov


became the first Azerbaijani-Russian senator in history; representing the Krasnodar region in the Russian Federation Council. Akhmedov was Chairman of the Committee on Legal and Judicial Affairs in the Russian Federation Council from 2004 – 2009. He helped push through several laws regarding child protection, animal rights, and also in favor of decreasing bureaucracy within the state and increasing transparency for Russian officials. 2007–2010 – Elected Senator representing the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug region in the Russian Federation Council. 2007–2010 Member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe
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Emblem of the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic


and autonomous republics were translated into Russian. Under the Law of May 8, 1940, the Uzbek script was translated from the Latin alphabet into a new Uzbek based on Russian graphics. The 4th session of the Supreme Council of Uzbekistan on January 16, 1941, considered the question of changing the name of the republic on the arms and adopted a decree according to which the text of the inscriptions was translated into a new alphabet, and the name began to look like "Ӯз.С.С.Р." In the edition of the Constitution
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Caucasian Imamate


did reach a point where they pushed the Russians back hard enough to warrant a full-scale attack. In 1832, Shamil and Ghazi launched a failed attack on Vladikavkaz, which was at the time a Russian military fort mockingly named "Ruler of The Caucasus". The Russians countered, launching an assault on what was as close to capital as the Imamate had, Gimry. This resulted in the seizure of the town by the Russians and the death of Ghazi Muhammad. Shamil himself was the only man to escape the battle
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Ukrainian People's Republic


1921 Treaty of Riga) extend control over what would ultimately become the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic and (in 1922) a founding member of the Soviet Union. On 10 June 1917, the Ukrainian Central Council declared its autonomy as part of the Russian Republic by its First Universal at the All-Ukrainian Military Congress. The highest governing body of the Ukrainian People's Republic became the General Secretariat headed by Volodymyr Vynnychenko. The Prime Minister of Russia Alexander Kerensky recognized the Secretariat, appointing it as the representative governing body of the Russian
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Carnegie Corporation of New York


The Carnegie Corporation of New York is a philanthropic fund established by Andrew Carnegie in 1911 to support education programs across the United States, and later the world. Carnegie Corporation has endowed or otherwise helped to establish institutions that include the United States National Research Council, what was then the Russian Research Center at Harvard University (now known as the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies), the Carnegie libraries and the Children's Television Workshop. It also for many years generously funded Carnegie's other philanthropic organizations, the Carnegie Endowment for
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International recognition of Abkhazia and South Ossetia


. On 21 August 2008, rallies were held in Tskhinvali and Sukhumi at which the people of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, respectively, appealed to Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and the Russian Federal Assembly for official recognition of their independence as sovereign states. South Ossetian President Eduard Kokoity flew to Moscow on 23 August 2008 to address the Federation Council of Russia, and in his appeal stated "what the Georgian leadership has done in South Ossetia can only be described as a Caucasian Stalingrad." On 25 August 2008, President of Abkhazia Sergei
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Condoleezza Rice's tenure as Secretary of State


by its rules ... I think that kind of behavior is going to continue to draw comment about the distance between Russian behavior and something like this and what would be expected of a responsible member of the G8." Though there was some question over whether or not Rice could convince Russia not to block the United States's move to refer Iran to the United Nations Security Council in early 2006 (because of Russia's economic and diplomatic ties to Iran), Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov eventually called Rice to confirm that Russia had
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Said Gafurov


United Nations Security Council Resolution 1973 which caused a large controversy in Russian political circles and was followed by the public exchange of opinions between Russian President Medvedev and Prime-Minister Putin. In February 2014 Gafurov declared what he considered should be the principles of Ukrainian settlement: Later on Gafurov changed his position on Crimea based on the fact that the economic politics of the Ukrainian oligarchy putschists since the 2014 coup d'état had destroyed the economy of the Ukraine; and that the Crimean people (including the Crimean Tatars) would not agree to return
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Burgher people


with the establishment of a legislative council in Ceylon. Burghers were defined as those whose father was born in Sri Lanka, with at least one European ancestor on one's direct paternal side, regardless of the ethnic origin of one's mother, or what other ethnic groups may be found on the father's side. Because of this definition, Burghers almost always have European surnames (mostly of Portuguese, Dutch and British origin, but sometimes German, French or Russian). The Portuguese arrived in 1505 in what outsiders then called
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Permanent Representatives of Russia to international organisations


Vienna, Austria, the Republic The Permanent Representatives of the Russian Federation to the statutory and other bodies of the Commonwealth of Independent States in Minsk e, Belarus is the source of the name of the Republic Belarus, not on the list of ambassadors. The Permanent Representatives of the Russian Federation to the Council of Europe Strasbourg e, the French Republic The Permanent Representatives of the Russian Federation to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in Brussels, Belgium (part-time representative in 1998-2003. Appointed by the Ambassador
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Russian military intervention in Ukraine (2014–present)


the "Atlantic Council" released "Hiding in Plain Sight: Putin's War in Ukraine", a report which they said provided "irrefutable evidence of direct Russian military involvement in eastern Ukraine". On 17 May 2015 two Russian soldiers of the 3rd Guards Spetsnaz Brigade were captured by Secret Service of Ukraine during a battle near town Shchastya (Lughansk oblast, Ukraine). On 18 May they were transferred to Kiev. On 19 May a spokesman for the Russian Defense Ministry stated that the two named prisoners were not active servicemen
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Shanghai Cooperation Organisation


follow the alphabetical order of the member state's name in Russian. The charter also dictates that the Council of Heads of Government (that is, the Prime Ministers) shall meet annually in a place decided upon by the council members. The Council of Foreign Ministers is supposed to hold a summit one month before the annual summit of Heads of State. Extraordinary meetings of the Council of Foreign Ministers can be called by any two member states. The United States applied for observer status in the SCO, but was rejected in 2005
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Group of Seven


the leader of the country that holds the presidency of the Council of the European Union and the Council President now also regularly attends. Until the 1985 Plaza Accord no one outside a tight official circle knew when the seven finance ministers met and what they agreed. The summit was announced the day before and a communiqué was issued afterwards. Following 1994's G7 summit in Naples, Russian officials held separate meetings with leaders of the G7 after the group's summits. This informal arrangement was dubbed the Political 8 (P8) – or
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