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  Russia. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
In 1547, at the age of 17, Ivan IV (Ivan the Terrible; reigned 1533–84) was crowned czar of all Russia.
Russia did, however, resist the idea of resorting to military intervention in Iraq in order to eliminate weapons of mass destruction, and as the United States pressed in 2003 for a Security Council resolution supporting the use of force, Russia joined France in vowing to veto such a resolution.
Russia’s reputation suffered internationally, however, in late 2004 when it threw its support behind government candidates in Ukraine and the Georgian region of Abkhazia; in both elections, the candidates Moscow opposed ultimately succeeded despite strong resistance on the part of the existing governments to change.
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 Russia -> History on Encyclopedia.com 2002   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
After the victory of Dmitri Donskoi (reigned 1359-89) over the Tatars at Kulikovo in 1380, the grand duchy of Vladimir was bequeathed, without the sanction of the Golden Horde, to his son Vasily (reigned 1389-1425), and its rulers began to be called grand dukes of Moscow or Muscovy (see Moscow, grand duchy of).
In 1547, at the age of 17, Ivan IV (Ivan the Terrible; reigned 1533-84) was crowned czar of all Russia.
The invasion of Dagestan by Islamic militants from Chechnya in 1999 and a series of terrorist bombings in Russia during Aug.-Sept., 1999, however, led to Russian air raids on Chechnya in Sept., 1999, and a subsequent full-scale ground invasion of the breakaway republic that again devastated its capital and resulted in ongoing guerrilla warfare.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: The Religion of Russia
In 1080 the antipope Clement III sent a letter to the Metropolitan Ivan II (dead in 1089), proposing to the latter the union of the Russian Church; Ivan answered, however, enumerating the heresies of the Latins (Marcovitch attributes this letter to the Metropolitan Ivan IV, who, according to Golubinsky, died in 1166).
Under Honorius III (1216-1227) St. Hyacinth, with other religious of the Order of St. Dominic, preached the Catholic faith in southern Russia, and founded a convent at Kieff, while a religious of the same order in 1232 was appointed bishop of that city, out of which, however, the Dominicans were driven in 1233.
Wherefore, Russia did not accept the decree of union of the Council of Florence; on the contrary, she drew from it arguments to proclaim the superiority of her Orthodox faith over the pliant faith of the Greeks, and to prepare the way for her religious autonomy.
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 CHAPTER III Perspectives on NATO, Russia and Future European Security
There is an acrosstheboard support for the concept that Russia should be part of the new security architecture and for a charter of strategic cooperation between an enlarged NATO and Russia, provided only that this new system is comprehensive and does not divide the region between Germany and Russia into protected and unprotected states.
In this way, NATO enlargement could prompt Russia to reconciliation with the present borders of its influence, and as in the case of Germany, it could open a new chapter of friendly cooperation between Russia and her neighbors, who would no longer think of Moscow as a threat.
The preSoviet Russia was an empire, and the postSoviet Russia is in transition from empire.
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 RUSSIA
Russia would then always be hindered by autocratic government that alternatively smothered dissent and innovation and then, alarmed at the backwardness of the country, attempted to impose top-down reforms and development -- which then would be resisted by a national conservatism that the government in its phase of being threatened by change would have loved.
When Ivan III marries a granddaughter of one of the last of the Palaeologi Emperors, he is in a position to claim the Throne of Constantinople --the city just having fallen to the Ottomans.
Russia was as weary of war as a country could be, but the Provisional Government decided to stay in the war against Germany.
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 Timeline Russia to 1910
Russia in 1997 had 49 regions of ethnic Russians, 6 frontier territories, 11 autonomous districts, the cities of Moscow and St. Petersburg and 20 republics populated by ethnically distinct minorities.
The alliance of Russia, Austria and Prussia was formed after the downfall of Napoleon and later all European rulers signed the agreement except the prince regent of Great Britain, the pope and the sultan of Turkey.
1828 Russia conquered the Armenian provinces of Persia, and this brought within her frontier the Monastery of Etchmiadzin, in the Khanate of Erivan, which was the seat of the Katholikos of All the Armenians.
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 NIS Observed
Andrei Kokoshin, in addition to supervising the synthesis of Security and Defense Councils, has been directed by President Yel'tsin to work with Chernomyrdin to produce and submit within one month a new plan outlining military development and reform.
He "confirmed Russia's intention to cooperate with Syria as a key player in the Middle East settlement," a Russian foreign ministry spokesman said in a briefing in Moscow on 22 February.
The exaggerated importance that Russia places on the internal affairs of the Baltic states may come primarily from the states' former status as members of the Soviet Union.
www.bu.edu /iscip/digest/vol3/ed0304.html   (4354 words)

  
 THE DYNAMICS OF RUSSIAN WEAPON SALES TO CHINA: Part III
Russia's June 1996 national security concept propounds a policy of equidistance from all major powers as Russia concentrates on the CIS, a policy that openly brings China closer to it and distances the United States further from Russia.
Russia and China are able to create a powerful economic alliance in Asia which will determine the climate on the market of the Asian- Pacific region in the future.
Russia, in the April 1996 communique after Yeltsin's summit in Beijing, decisively adopted China's position that regards U.S. power and the specter of a unipolar and unbalanced global order as a threat.
www.milnet.com /rusmil97/ruswepp3.htm   (3054 words)

  
 Face of Russia
Prince Ivan III renounces Russia’s allegiance to the Mongols.
Russia’s ten centuries tell a tale of enduring ambivalence towards the West in all its manifestations: from ancient Byzantium, to autocratic Prussia, to revolutionary France, NATO, and contemporary America.
The Face of Russia explores the dominant strains of Russian culture, essentially a tale of three cities: Kiev, Moscow, and St. Petersburg.
www.pbs.org /weta/faceofrussia/text-only.html   (817 words)

  
 Russia: History
Ivan IV (Ivan the Terrible; reigned 1533–84) was crowned czar of all Russia.
In 1917, Russia was officially proclaimed the Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic, which in 1922 was united with the Ukrainian, Belorussian, and Transcaucasian republics to form the see
by Islamic militants from Chechnya in 1999 and a series of terrorist bombings in Russia during Aug.–Sept., 1999, however, led to Russian air raids on Chechnya in Sept., 1999, and a subsequent full-scale ground invasion of the breakaway republic that again devastated its capital and resulted in ongoing guerrilla warfare.
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 Royal Genealogies Part 6
When his brother, Tsar Alexander III was given a report on this event he wrote on the margin: "We must never forget that it was the Jews who crucified our Lord and spilled his priceless blood".
She escaped Russia on a British warship and lived her last twenty-five years in a "grace and favor" mansion provided by the British royal family and named (perhaps appropriately) Wilderness House.
In 1924, Cyril proclaimed himself "Tsar of all the Russias" and established his "court" in a village in Brittany.
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 Russia
The refusal was based on the results of a March 14 referendum, in which 90 percent of the city inhabitants voted against the construction.
The chairman of the Council of Muftis, Ravil Gaynutdin; the head of the Central Spiritual Board of Russia's Muslims, Talgat Tadzhuddin; and the head of the Coordinating Center of Muslims of the North Caucasus, Ismail Berdiev issued a joint statement denouncing terrorism.
In February, the Nizhniy Novgorod Diocese of the ROC said this decision was considered by the ROC as an "a priori" unfriendly move.
www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/irf/2004/35480.htm   (14222 words)

  
 Russia
AFP: Russia backs US reprisal strikes but unwilling to take part.
Russia is again confronted with the paradox of claiming to
Russia defaulted on most of its bonds and devalued the ruble.
www.cdi.org /russia/johnson/5443.html   (7623 words)

  
 Russian Cinema
Russia On Reels : The Russian Idea in Post-Soviet Cinema * This is the first book to deal exclusively with Russian cinema of the 1990s.
Cinema and Soviet Society : From the Revolution to the Death of Stalin (KINO - The Russian Cinema) * The story of Soviet film in the period covered by Peter Kenez is central to the history of world cinema.
In his book on his work, he admits that one of his techniques (he denies there is anything symbolic in his work) is to focus on an object for so long that the viewer inevitably begins to wonder at, and thereby increase the significance of it.
film.vtheatre.net /rcinema.html   (1299 words)

  
 Exhibitions and Conferences in Russia - RESTEC Exhibition Company / Conferences & Seminars
The conference will be held within the III All-Russia Day of Road Workers on 17-18 October 2002 in St. Petersburg.
The conference will discuss crucial issues in legal support to development of the transport systems infrastructure, ways to increase the competitiveness of road construction companies, and questions concerning design, construction and operation of roads and road facilities.
Simultaneously with the conference within the III All-Russia Day of Road Workers there will be held: the roundtable meeting "Environmental Safety in Construction and Operation of Transport Systems", as well as the IV International Specialized Exhibition "Roads.
www.restec.ru /conferences/conf-roads.en.html   (416 words)

  
 Andrei Pliguzov's Home Page
Andrei I. Pliguzov, Ph.D. Dumbarton Oaks, Research Assistant to the Director
On the Fate of the Copies of Ivan III's Statute of Law and Testament (O sud'be spiskov Sudebnika i Dukhovnoi Ivana III), The Russian Academy of Science, International Conference, Russian Academy of Science and UNESCO, Moscow, December 16, 1997
"Boian," "Iaroslavna," "Daniil of Moscow," "Ivan Kalita," "Metropolitan Petr," "Aleksandr Tverskoi," Semen Gordyi," "Ivan Krasnyi," "Dmitrii Donskoi," "Mikhail-Mitiai," "Peresvet," "Sergii Radonezhskii," "Vasilii Dmitrievich," "Stefan of Perm'," "Metropolitan Kiprian," "Andrei Rublev," "Feofan Grek," "Dionisii," "Metropolitan Fotii," "Metropolitan Iona," "Iosif Volotskii," "Pafnutii Borovskii," "Vassian Patrikeev," "Maksim Grek," "Silvestr," Evgenii Anisimov and Marc Raeff, eds.
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 Andrei Nikolaevich Kolmogorov
Shiryaev -- Andrei Nikolaevich Kolmogorov (April 25, 1903 to October 20, 1987).
Uspensky -- Preliminaries for semiotic epistles of Andrei Nikolaevich Kolmogorov
In the 20th century, many mathematicians in Russia made great contributions to the field of mathematics.
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 Russia
The members of this family bear the title Grand Duke/Grand Duchess of Russia (Imperial Highness) if children or grandchildren of an emperor, and Prince[ss] of Russia (Highness) if great-grandchildren (or senior agnate of a great-grandson) of an emperor, and Prince[ss] of Russia (Serene Highness) if more distantly descended from an emperor.
Lastly, though few members of the Romanov family ever seem to care about this, they all appear to be dynasts of the old duchy of Holstein-Gottorp, through their ancestor Emperor Peter III, and thus entitled to call themselves Princes of Holstein-Gottorp.
ALEXEI, Tsar and Autocrat of all the Russias 23 Jul 1645 (Moscow 20 Mar 1629-Moscow 30 Jan 1678); m.1st Moscow 26 Jan 1648 Maria Ilyinichna Miloslavskya (1625-Moscow 3 Mar 1699); m.2d Moscow 1 Feb 1671 Natalia Kirilovna Naryshkina (1 Sep 1651-Moscow 4 Feb 1694)
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