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	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: State Duma (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The State Duma (Russian: Государственная дума (Gosudarstvennaya Duma), common abbreviation: Госдума (Gosduma)) in the Russian Federation is the lower house of the Federal Assembly of Russia (legislature), the upper house being the Federation Council of Russia.
		The Federation Council of Russia (Ð¡Ð¾Ð²ÐµÑ‚ Ð¤ÐµÐ´ÐµÑ€Ð°Ñ†Ð¸Ð¸, Sovet Federatsii) is the upper house of the Federal Assembly of Russia (parliament of the Russian Federation), according to the 1993 Constitution of the Russian Federation.
		Furthermore the Duma was later to have a larger effect on Russia as it was one of the contributing factors in the February Revolution, which lead to the abolition of the autocracy in Russia.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/State-Duma (2753 words)

	Federal Assembly - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Federal Assembly of Russia, the Russian federal parliament
		Federal Assembly of Switzerland, the Swiss federal parliament
		Federal Assembly of Czechoslovakia, the former Czechoslovak federal parliament
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Federal_Assembly (119 words)

	Russia - MSN Encarta
		The Federation Council has 178 members—two representatives from each of the 89 administrative units that make up the Russian Federation—who are appointed by the executive and legislative bodies of each unit.
		Russia is divided into 89 administrative units: 21 nominally autonomous republics, 6 territories known as krays, 10 autonomous national areas called okrugs, 49 oblasts (regions), 1 autonomous region, and the cities of Moscow and Saint Petersburg, which have federal status.
		Each federal okrug is headed by an appointed presidential envoy who is responsible for overseeing local regions’ compliance with federal legislation and for determining their eligibility for federal funds.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761569000_14/Russia.html (1733 words)

	Official Website of the G8 presidency of the Russian Federation in 2006
		The federal budget for 2005 was approved on the basis of a projected GDP of 18,720 billion rubles and inflation of 7.5% - 8.5%.
		Russia’s foreign trade in the first quarter of 2005 was 32.3% up on the same period of last year, to $68.2 billion: exports were up by 34.5% at $49.5 billion, and imports were up by a 26.9% at $18.7 billion.
		Russia also accounts for about 80% of the money supply and the foreign exchange reserves of the central banks of the CIS countries.
	en.g8russia.ru /g8/members/russia (920 words)

	Federation Council (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The Federation Council is the upper chamber of the Federal Assembly - the parliament of the Russian Federation, first elected 12 December 1993 simultaneously with the adoption of the new Constitution.
		The first organ called a "Federation Council" was formed 17 July 1990 within the office of the Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR and included the chairmen of the Soviets of the autonomous republics, oblasts, and okrugs (31 persons) and the chairmen of certain oblast, krai, and city soviets (31 persons).
		Statute of federal organs of power for the transition period approved by Presidential decree stipulated that the Federation Council consisted of the chairmen of the legislative (representative) organs of power and the chief executives of each subject of the federation until the end of the terms of the current convocation of Soviets (March 1995).
	www.cityline.ru /politika/e/fs/sf.html (1027 words)

	The EU's relations with Russia - Summary of political & economic situation in Russia
		Article 1 states that Russia shall be a democratic, federal state based on the rule-of-law, with a republican form of government.
		Russia has made considerable progress in achieving macro-economic stabilisation and is currently pursuing a successful transition to a market economy.
		Russia's ratification of the Energy Charter Treaty, WTO accession, and, in perspective, the establishment of a Common European Economic Space with the EU would also contribute prominently to boost FDI inflows.
	ec.europa.eu /comm/external_relations/russia/intro/sit.htm (1151 words)

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		I am grateful to the Federal Assembly and the government for pooling efforts without delay to elaborate and implement decisions of vital significance for the country.
		The discussion of laws on improving federal relations and changing the situation in the social and tax spheres was a major event of the past few months.
		The changing of the principles of formation of the Federation Council raises the question of arranging a permanent dialogue between heads of constituent members of the Russian Federation and the head of state on basic problems of state power.
	www.fas.org /news/russia/2000/russia-000710a.htm (6757 words)

	The State of Russia: A Way to an Effective State (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		I am grateful to the Federal Assembly and the government for pooling efforts without delay to elaborate and implement decisions of vital significance for the country.
		The discussion of laws on improving federal relations and changing the situation in the social and tax spheres was a major event of the past few months.
		The changing of the principles of formation of the Federation Council raises the question of arranging a permanent dialogue between heads of constituent members of the Russian Federation and the head of state on basic problems of state power.
	russia.shaps.hawaii.edu /fp/russia/putin20000708.html (6761 words)

	Kommersant - Russia's Daily Online
		Executive power in the Russian Federation is exercised by the Government of the Russian Federation, which consists of the Chairman of the Government, Deputy Chairmen of the Government and federal ministers.
		The Federal Assembly - Parliament of the Russian Federation is the supreme representative and legislative body of the Russian Federation.
		Judges of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation, of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation, of the Supreme Arbitration Court of the Russian Federation are appointed by the Federation Council following nomination by the President of the Russian Federation.
	www.kommersant.com /tree.asp?rubric=6&node=351&doc_id=-114 (559 words)

	Russia, Government, Politics, Putin Power, Putin Speech to Cabinet Members, the Heads of the Federal Assembly, and ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		We are meeting after the Federal Government of the Russian Federation prepared and sent 2006's prospective budget to parliament based on the President's Annual Address to the Federal Assembly.
		The Federation's subjects should exercise the right to determine these rates but, to prevent confusion, the rates should not be higher than those determined by the Federal government.
		I ask that we provide additional means from the federal budget towards subsidising interest rates on credits of up to eight years, for the construction and modernization of livestock breeding facilities.
	www.cdi.org /russia/johnson/9239-24.cfm (3210 words)

	AllRefer.com - Russia - The Parliament - Structure of the Federal Assembly \| Russian Information Resource
		Russia's legislative body was established by the constitution approve d in the December 1993 referendum.
		All federal jurisdictions participated in the December 1995 legislative races, although the fairness of voting in Chechnya was compromised by the ongoing conflict there.
		The Federal Assembly is prescribed as a permanently functioning body, meaning that it is in continuous session except for a regular break between the spring and fall sessions.
	reference.allrefer.com /country-guide-study/russia/russia150.html (1077 words)

	Duma - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Though Russia was an empire, rather than a democracy, the State Duma is sometimes formally compared to the lower house of a parliament (the State Council being compared to the upper house).
		The State Duma (Russian: Государственная дума (Gosudarstvennaya Duma), common abbreviation: Госдума (Gosduma)) in the Russian Federation is the lower house of the Federal Assembly of Russia (parliament), the upper house being the Federation Council of Russia.
		Under Russia's 1993 constitution, there are 450 deputies of the State Duma (Article 95), each elected to a term of four years (Article 96).
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Duma (616 words)

	East European Constitutional Review
		Russia's new Land Code is intended to serve as a comprehensive framework regulating rights of ownership, purchase, and sale of land in Russia.
		In 1996, the Duma passed an agrarian-backed version of the Land Code, which was rejected by the Federation Council, and in 1997 the Duma adopted a new version that passed the Federation Council but was vetoed by the president.
		One other notable feature of the Federation Council's vote was the fact that over one third of the old members chose not to be present for the vote, whereas only three new members failed to vote.
	www.law.nyu.edu /eecr/vol11num3/focus/remington.html (3050 words)

	Pravda.RU President Vladimir Putin Says Russia is Threatened by Extremists
		In his address to the Federal Assembly of Russia, analogous as is said to US President's State of the Nation Address, Vladimir Putin, the President of Russia, touched upon the principal threats faced by the nation.
		The Ministry of Interior of Russia is participating in three peacemaking missions in Kosovo, East Timor (5 servicemen) and Bosnia and Gertsegovina (38 servicemen).
		According to the PR Department of the St. Petersburg Hertzen Pedagogical University, the conference sponsored by UNESCO is organised by the Ministry of Education of Russia, the Northwestern Section of the Russian Pedagogical Academy, and the administration and Legislative Assembly of the city of St. Petersburg.
	newsfromrussia.com /world/2002/04/18/27760.html (1911 words)

	Embassy of Russia in Ghana (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Ivanov and with the leadership of the Federal Assembly of Russia.
		It is the first K. Annan's visit to Russia after September, 2001 events in the USA which confirmed the UN role in consolidation of world community's efforts aiming to find adequate collective solutions of urgent global and regional problems and joint counteraction to challenges of the XXI century.
		Aiming to achieve this goal Russia consider, that it is necessary to use fully the UN potential and advantages to respond the challenges of globalization posing new tasks and modifying of quality of international cooperation in economic, social and environmental spheres.
	www.ghana.mid.ru /nfr8.html (446 words)

	Chechnya news
		In Russia, however, the fundamental institutes of democracy are being limited: the Law âOn the Referendum of the Russian Federationâ adopted in 2004 de facto ruled out referendums initiated by groups of citizens or by opposition parties and turned it into an instrument of only the ruling regime.
		To be effectively modernised, Russiaâs armed forces need adequate conditions of conducting the military service and establishment of civil control mechanisms as two key conditions of success; the norms of international humanitarian law should be included in the normative documents by which the military in Russia should guide themselves; their rights should be effectively protected.
		Russia obviously fell short of its obligations under the UN Convention of 1951, thus refusing to share the burden of responsibility with the EU countries.
	www.hrvc.net /west/24-7-05.html (2876 words)

	RIA Novosti - Opinion & analysis - The CIS and Baltic press on Russia
		The main theme of the week is the adoption by the Latvian government of a unilateral declaration to the border treaty with Russia, which stipulates for the republic the possibility of returning to the territorial issue of Abrene (a district in Russia's Pskov region).
		The media point to Russia's growing imperial ambitions, citing Putin's statement that the disintegration of the USSR was the biggest geopolitical disaster of the last century.
		Russia's stand on March events in Kyrgyzstan is now seen as evidence of Moscow's inability to ensure stability in the region.
	en.rian.ru /analysis/20050506/39940728.html (2288 words)

	Russia MFA: Appeal of the State Duma of the Fed. Assembly of Russia Concerning Iraq - 11-11-02
		Russia MFA: Appeal of the State Duma of the Fed. Assembly of Russia Concerning Iraq - 11-11-02
		The threat of the United States of America carrying out a military operation against the Republic of Iraq to change the leadership of the state is causing the justified concern of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation and of the entire world community.
		The Russian Federation maintains long-standing close and mutually beneficial relations with the Republic of Iraq - one of Russia's large trade and economic partners - and is not indifferent to what is happening in Iraq, located near the State Boundary of the Russian Federation.
	www.iraqwatch.org /government/Russia/russia-duma-111102.htm (489 words)

	Pravda.RU President of Armenia: "Spheres of Cooperation Between Armenia and Russia Embrace New Directions."
		President of Armenia Robert Kocharyan spoke highly of relations with Russia at the meeting with the delegation of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of Russia headed by chairman of the Armenia-Russia group of deputies Nikolai Ryzhkov.
		An open letter to Russia President Vladimir Putin from Mikhail Chlenov, the president of Vaad (Russia's Federation of Jewish organizations and communities), and secretary general of the Eurasian Jewish Congress.
		Rescue works are continuing in the Karmadon Gorge, North Ossetia (Russia's autonomy in the North Caucasus, where on September 20th an avalanche left over 100 people buried under the thick ice on the bottom of the gorge)they have moved 131 metres closer to the entrance to the tunnel.
	newsfromrussia.com /cis/2002/10/16/38239.html (2074 words)

	The Embassy of the Russian Federation in the Republic of India (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Russia and India appealed to the United Nations’ General Assembly to draft and adopt as soon as possible a comprehensive convention on efforts against international terrorism, and an international covenant on efforts against nuclear terror acts.
		In his words, Russia advocates “liberalization of economic regimes”, but is against a situation where the extinction of whole industries in developing countries and on the so-called ‘developing markets’ upsets the social balance, leading to the growth of social-economic and political tension in individual parts of the world.
		Russia and France are both eager for practical partnership in power industry, and vouch to promote development projects for Russian oil- and gasfields—in particular, the Stockmann gas condensate deposit—with French-based companies actively engaged.
	www.india.mid.ru /nf43.html (7946 words)

	Perfumery and Cosmetics Association of Russia
		Established in September 1995, The Perfumery and Cosmetics Association of Russia (PCAR) represents a non-government non-profit organization as a professional federal-level union.
		PCAR was founded with the support of the Federal Assembly of Russia and the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Russian Federation.
		PCAR is a member of the of Commerce and Industry of Russia since 1996.
	www.pcar.ru /cgi-bin/main_article.pl?action=viewbody&type=11&id=1 (117 words)

	Support Slobodan Milosevic - Support Serbia! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation expresses profound concern over the activity of the International Tribunal for the prosecution of persons responsible for serious violations of international humanitarian law committed on the territory of the former Yugoslavia since 1991 (ICTY).
		The ICTY has not given a legal assessment to the aggression, and refused to bring to justice the leaders of the states that are part of NATO and which participated in the aggression against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
		Responsibility for the administration of justice, including with respect to crimes against humanity, should be laid upon the national judicial systems of the sovereign states that have formed on the territory of the former SFRY.
	www.aeronautics.ru /archive/yugoslavia/milosevic/news/article_00008.htm (365 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The State Duma of the Federal Assembly of Russia has just passed a decision to ratify the Treaty between the Russian Federation and the United States of America on further reduction and limitation of strategic offensive weapons, known as START-2 Treaty, as well as the 1997 package of agreements on anti-missile defence.
		This is a wise and important decision both from the point of view of the national interests of our nation and the interests of international peace and security as a whole.
		The conclusion of the START-2 Treaty enables Russia to ensuring its security on a par with the USA, on a lower than before level of strategic offensive weapons, which is two times as small as the current level under the START-1 Treaty now in force and.
	www.great-britain.mid.ru /pr_rel/pr18.htm (540 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Russian Foreign Ministry's Statement in connection with the vote by the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of Russia to ratify the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
		On 21 April 2000 the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation passed the Federal Law ratifying the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) by an overwhelming majority of votes.
		We are convinced that the earliest entry into force of the CTBT and its becoming universal meet Russia's national interests, as well as to the same extent the interests of mankind as a whole.
	www.great-britain.mid.ru /pr_rel/pr20.htm (303 words)

	Kommersant - Russia's Daily Online
		Russia InstigatesThey have found the guilty party in the recent mounting tensions with Syria that almost led to another Middle East war this summer.
		The Republic of Karelia is situated in northwestern Russia and is part of the Northwestern economic region of the Russian Federation.
		The Russian Federation or Russia is a democratic federal rule-of-law state with the republican form of government.
	www.kommersant.com (883 words)

	MOI / Press Service / Interviews / Speech of RF Minister of the Interior Army General Rashid Nurgaliyev at “a ...
		Army General Rashid Nurgaliyev focused on two issues, which were combating crime related to manifestations of extremism and crime fueled by nationalism, and the implementation of the corruption-related clauses of the RF President’s 2006 Address.
		However, the international terrorism’s intervention against Russia is going on, as is the export of religious extremism to the Caucasus, the Volga River District and Siberia.
		The Minister noted that the current anti-extremism law in the Russian Federation is as ever scrutinized and the Ministry of the Interior alongside other federal agencies do their best to improve it.
	eng.mvdrf.ru /index.php?docid=423 (1216 words)

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