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	RUSSIA
		The Varangians/Russes got to Russia through their technology, the sailing ships that could actually take them to Greenland; but they came to rule the area through forms of large scale political organization that may have been rudimentary compared to Francia and Romania, but were beyond anything seen previously east of Moravia.
		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.
		Russia was as weary of war as a country could be, but the Provisional Government decided to stay in the war against Germany.
	www.friesian.com /russia.htm (8993 words)

	The My Hero Project - Paul Robeson's Heroes
		Explorers Among Robert Ballard's heroes are Jason and the Argonauts, Captain Nemo, Captain Cook and Joseph Campbell.
		Heroic Women Nobel Laureate Wangari Maathai writes about the heroic women who have inspired her.
		William Beebe, Sylvia Earle's hero, was a deep-sea diver and naturalist.
	www.myhero.com /hero.asp?hero=robesons_heroes (1328 words)

	Hero (Title) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The title of Hero is presented by various governments to their citizens for committing acts of self-sacrifice to the state, or for great achievements on the field of battle or in the labor force.
		The first Hero title that was presented was the Hero of Soviet Union, while it was followed with the Hero of Socialist Labor.
		Both the Hero of the Soviet Union and Hero of Socialist Labor titles were awarded until the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hero_(Title) (875 words)

	Russia liable for fate of prisoner - Europe - International Herald Tribune
		It ruled that Russia had failed to conduct a proper investigation into complaints that the man had been summarily executed on orders from a Russian general.
		The decision released Thursday, the first the court has made on a disappearance in Chechnya, found that Russia was liable for Yandiyev's death and noted that Russia had neither investigated the disappearance in a timely and thorough manner nor provided his mother an explanation for his disappearance.
		Russia insists that the number of disappeared people is smaller, and says its own investigations have found that the reported number of abductions is inflated because the tally includes runaways and refugees.
	www.iht.com /articles/2006/07/27/news/chechen.php (834 words)

	Hero of the Russian Federation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Hero of the Russian Federation (Russian: Герой Российской Федерации) is a Russian decoration and the highest honorary title that can be bestowed on a citizen by the Russian Federation.
		On the reverse, the words "Hero of Russia" (Герой России) appear in a 2x4 mm convex font, and a 1 mm serial number is placed in the top ray.
		Due to his heroism during the explosion and his attempts at preserving the lives of the crew, Lyachin was posthumously awarded the title, and the members of his crew were awarded with the Order of Courage.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hero_of_Russia (1325 words)

	Ex-spy's contact reportedly sick from radiation - CNN.com
		MOSCOW, Russia (CNN) -- Investigations into the death of Russian ex-spy Alexander Litvinenko took a new twist Thursday with reports that one of his contacts was in critical condition in a hospital after showing signs of radiation sickness.
		Officials previously have said that Russia would not allow the extradition of any suspects in the death.
		Litvinenko was buried in a sealed, airtight coffin to guard against the release of any traces still in his body of the deadly polonium-210 radioactive isotope.
	www.cnn.com /2006/WORLD/europe/12/07/uk.russia.spy/index.html (977 words)

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		Enemy at the Gates tells the story of a young man thrown into the role of the "hero of Russia" as he becomes an elite sniper and the basis for Russia's propaganda campaign [and their last-ditch effort to stay afloat as a nation at war].
		Vassili is essentially Russia's only hope left, and, by just being alive and well, provides the country with inspiration and courage to fight and win for the Motherland.
		Jude Law and Joseph Fiennes are effective as Russia's hero and her political officer respestively, and steely-eyed Ed Harris plays the archetype villain to perfection.
	www.geocities.com /zerogamer54/enemyatgates.html (586 words)

	Russia's Forces Suspend Attack Against Grozny
		By MICHAEL R. OZDOK, Russia, Jan. 7 -- Confronted with fierce rebel resistance, rising casualties and bad weather, the Russian military announced today that it was suspending its assault on the Chechen capital, Grozny.
		Instead, he was among the Russian commanders in Chechnya who were decorated with "Hero of Russia," the highest military award.
		When Russia forces began their assault on Grozny on Dec. 26, their plan was to surround the rebels in the city and pound them with artillery to weaken their resistance.
	partners.nytimes.com /library/world/europe/010800russia-chechnya.html (1369 words)

	Russia Faulted in Captive’s Death in Chechnya
		Russia was responsible for the disappearance and presumed death of a prisoner detained in Chechnya and had failed to properly investigate complaints that the man had been summarily executed on orders from a Russian general.
		Russia insists that based on its own investigations, the number of disappeared people is smaller than the estimate by the rights group, and that the tally includes runaways and refugees.
		Russia also says families in the Caucasus report their sons missing or abducted when they actually have left home to join the rebels.
	fairuse.100webcustomers.com /fairenough/nyt339.html (811 words)

	RADIO FREE EUROPE/ RADIO LIBERTY
		Russia's Foreign Ministry said on October 4 it saw no need for mediation by the OSCE, which negotiated the return of the four Russian officers to their country.
		Russia's chief carrier, Aeroflot, announced it was canceling all flights through the end of October.
		The recent reburial of the remains of Maria Fyodorovna, the Danish princess who married the future Aleksandr III of Russia in 1866, is the latest episode in a long-standing effort to cultivate the idea of restoring the monarchy in Russia.
	www.rferl.org /reports/rpw/default.asp (2926 words)

	Airborne Troops
		He got the title of the Hero of Russia for participation in the Moscow events of October 1993.
		However, "Ryazan, Russia, 23 June: A senior Russian general said on Saturday Russia would be unable to meet a commitment to remove its military base from Georgia's breakaway Abkhazia region by 1 July because the local population was stopping the base's contingent leaving.
		Russia "is determined to completely comply with the Istanbul agreements," under which the base of Russia's 10th Airborne Regiment in Gudauta, with a personnel of 1,045 and 400 vehicles, is to be withdrawn by 1 July, Col-Gen Georgiy Shpak, commander of Russia's Airborne Troops, has told reporters.
	www.fas.org /irp/world/russia/fbis/AirborneTroops.html (2080 words)

	FIFA.com The Official web site of the Fédération Internationale de Football Association
		Russia introduced creative midfielder Aleksandr Marenich at half-time in an attempt to bring more penetration to their play and, although it was the Czechs who started the brighter, Aleksandr Prudnikov found space in the area to thump the ball past Marek Stech and give his side the lead in their first attack following the re-start.
		With neither side able to grab the decisive goal, the game was settled by the dreaded penalty shoot-out, and the stage was thus set for Russia's Pomazan to become his side's hero. In the game's decisive moment, the keeper denied Petr Wojnar, leaving Evgeni Korotaev to strike the decisive spot-kick and send his team-mates wild with delight.
		Russia's Pomazan was clearly one of the finest keepers on show, his superb performance throughout the tournament key to ensuring the trophy would be making its way to Moscow.
	fifa.com /en/comp/index/0,2442,117869,00.html?comp=U17&year=2005&... (681 words)

	Derzhavinsk / Imeni Gastello
		Gastello was nominated Hero of the Soviet Union, one of the first in the period of war awarded this title.
		The Hero of the Soviet Union was the first of the two highest awards in the Soviet period (the other one was Hero of Socialist Labor).
		Since the number of Heroes increased, on August 1, 1939, they were also decorated with the Gold Star, to differentiate them from the holders of the Order of Lenin.
	www.globalsecurity.org /wmd/world/russia/derzhavinsk.htm (1234 words)

	The Jamestown Foundation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		On December 29, President Vladimir Putin conferred Russia's highest award, the Hero of the Russian Federation, on Ramzan Kadyrov, the pro-Moscow Chechen government's first deputy prime minister and son of the late Chechen president.
		According to the corresponding presidential decree, the younger Kadyrov was awarded "for courage and heroism displayed during the discharge of official duties," Newsru.com reported on December 29.
		Ramzan's father, Akhmad Kadyrov, was awarded a "Hero of the Russian Federation" on May 11, two days after he was killed by a bomb detonated beneath the VIP stands in Grozny's Dinamo Stadium.
	www.jamestown.org /email-to-friend.php?article_id=2369047 (416 words)

	Russia found liable for missing prisoner \| The San Diego Union-Tribune
		MOSCOW – The European Court of Human Rights found Russia responsible yesterday for the disappearance and presumed death of a prisoner detained in Chechnya and ruled that Russia had failed to conduct a proper investigation into complaints that the man had been summarily executed on orders from a Russian general.
		The decision released yesterday – the first decision the court has made on a disappearance in Chechnya – found that Russia was liable for Yandiyev's death.
		Russia had neither investigated the disappearance in a timely and thorough manner nor provided his mother any explanation of his disappearance, the ruling said.
	www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20060728/news_1n28russia.html (472 words)

	Russia says same again \| \| The Australian (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Russia captain Shamil Tarpishchev has named world No.3 Davydenko and former world No.1 Safin, along with Dmitry Tursunov and Mikhail Youzhny, for the December 1-3 tie at the Olympic Sports Complex, keeping faith with the line-up that beat the United States 3-2 in September's semi-finals.
		Youzhny, hero of Russia's 2002 Davis Cup-winning team, is included in the squad even though he sustained a serious ankle injury at last month's St Petersburg Open.
		Youzhny clinched Russia's first title four years ago when he came from two sets down to beat France's Paul-Henri Mathieu in the decisive fifth rubber in the Paris final.
	www.theaustralian.news.com.au /story/0,20867,20787823-23216,00.html (222 words)

	Russia, Military Exercises, Navy - CDI RW 5 November 2004
		The lack of proper practice has taken its toll: The late air wing commander of the Kuznetsov, General Timur Apakidze, plunged to the ground in his Su-33 at an air show near Pskov in July 2001 and was fatally injured.
		Apakidze held the Hero of Russia rank for being the first Russian pilot to takeoff and land on the deck of the Kuznetsov.
		During the latest exercise, an Su-25 UTG jet crash-landed on deck, apparently because the pilot's approach was too fast.
	www.cdi.org /russia/329-9.cfm (785 words)

	Court Slams Russia Over Chechen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The case was brought by his mother, Fatima Bazorkina, after she saw TV footage in 2000 in which a Russian officer ordered her son to be shot.
		Russia had argued that there was no formal order to execute Mr Yandiyev and no hard evidence that he was dead.
		But the judges said it had to be presumed that he was dead and they held Russia liable for his death.
	www.truthout.org /docs_2006/072706G.shtml (764 words)

	EU: Challenge Russia on Human Rights Abuses (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		At Friday's summit, EU leaders should make known their serious concern about the human rights climate in Russia and urge Russia to take immediate steps to remedy urgent problems, such as the crackdown on civil society and impunity for grave and systematic abuses in Chechnya.
		Hundreds of groups did not meet the deadline, often due to technical and bureaucratic obstacles put in the way by authorities, and were forced to suspend their activities for days or weeks.
		Russia has completely failed to ensure accountability for any of the abuses in Chechnya.
	www.yubanet.com /artman/publish/article_46344.shtml (1090 words)

	Dead 50 years, Stalin a hero in Russia (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		MOSCOW -- Russia's greatest paradox could well be that Josef Stalin, the ruthless Soviet god who conquered Adolf Hitler and created a superpower, will live on in Russian folk memory as a hero -- rather like the French with their far more innocent Napoleon.
		A genuine civil war is being fought in Russia between productive people aspiring to a better life (in the Western sense of the word) and others who nurse an ideology of resentment for the loss of Russia's superpower status, or even an affection for Stalin's Russia.
		It is hard for Russia to build on a past that offers little choice beyond the excessive costs of czarism or communism.
	seattlepi.nwsource.com.cob-web.org:8888 /opinion/112229_stalin13.shtml (985 words)

	Essential Background: Overview of human rights issues in Russia (Human Rights Watch, 31-12-2005)
		Russia slipped deeper into authoritarianism in 2005, as a series of political changes that President Vladimir Putin proposed in the aftermath of the September 2004 Beslan massacre became law.
		As part of Russia’s policy of “Chechenization” of the conflict, pro-Moscow Chechen forces under the command of Ramzan Kadyrov have played an increasingly active role in the conflict.
		Russia continues to refuse access to Chechnya to the U.N. special rapporteurs on torture and extrajudicial executions.
	hrw.org /english/docs/2006/01/18/russia12218.htm (1627 words)

	The Hindu : U.S. backing terrorists: Russia
		Russia has bluntly accused the United States of supporting terrorists and separatists, the first time such a charge has been made in Moscow since the end of the Cold War.
		Ilyas Akhmadov, identified as ``Foreign Minister'' of the breakaway republic of Chechnya, had been received in the State Department as a private Russian citizen and that the meeting did not represent a shift in the U.S. policy of refusing to recognise Chechnya's independence.
		Meanwhile, Russia doubled its air war against rebel camps in southern mountains in Chechnya amidst reports that the Federal troops suffered the highest one-day toll since Moscow launched an all-out attack on the rebels.
	www.hinduonnet.com /thehindu/2000/01/15/stories/03150006.htm (555 words)

	Karelin's Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Holds a title of a “Hero of Russia”, nine times world champion, three times Olympic champion, sports guru in classical wrestling, high ranking tax police officer.
		Since 1987 he hasn't lost a single fight on the sporting arena, won his first gold medal in 1988 in Seoul in the age of 20.
		In 1996 he won his third Olympics in Atlanta and was awarded a title of the “Hero of Russia”.
	edinstvo.tripod.com /karelin.htm (124 words)

	Whims of Fate [The Voice of Russia]
		On April 25 of 1947 an Italian government representative handed the Russian Consul General in Genoa the bronze badge of the Garibaldi Guerrilla Brigade and a gold medal for valour, both intended for the family of the fallen Russian hero.
		In Russia it took the authorities another 15 years to officially acknowledge Poletayev’s heroic act though and to lift the official stigma of traitor from everyone who happened to be taken prisoner during that war.
		In 1962 Fyodor Poletayev was posthumously awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.
	www.vor.ru /English/whims/whims_013.html (646 words)

	Russian Admiral Named Patron Saint Of Nuclear Bomber Force
		Historic Russian admiral Fyodor Ushakov - a hero of Russia's wars against Turkey and Napoleon Bonaparte - was designated the patron saint of nuclear-armed, long-distance Russian bombers by the Orthodox Church on Monday.
		But his reforms of the navy were not popular in the upper echelons of the Russian imperial administration and Tsar Alexander I forced Ushakov to retire to Tambov province south-east of Moscow in 1807, where he died in 1817 aged 73.
		Ushakov's canonisation as a saint in 2004 follows a strong tradition in Russia of close relations between the Orthodox Church and the state, which was revived after the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union.
	www.spacewar.com /news/russia-05zm.html (384 words)

	Characters - Kiselev, Miroslav
		He graduated with a gold medal from Malinovsky Tank Academy, received the Hero of Russia for his distinguished leadership in Chechnya, commanded the Carpathian Military District's Iron Division, then the 14th Army in the Transcaucasus Military District.
		He was the head of Russia's General Staff Academy for five years before being appointed to his present position as Defense Minister.
		After the fall of communism in Russia Kiselev was one of many Russian officials instructed to begin quiet negotiations with the west.
	www.gateworld.net /omnipedia/characters/k/kiselevmiroslav.shtml (387 words)

	Pravda.RU Russia Celebrates Navy Day
		Navy Day, one of the first vocational holidays in Russia, has been observed annually on the last Sunday in July since its institution at Navy Minister Nikolai Kuznetsov's proposal on July 22, 1939 when the decision on the construction of a powerful oceanic fleet in the Soviet Union was taken.
		The very necessity of constructing a regular military fleet in Russia was urged by this country's ambition to overcome territorial, political and cultural isolation that became at the turn of the 18th century the main obstacle for the economic and social progress of the Russian state.
		Russia's breakthrough to the Baltics in 1703 stimulated intense construction of the Baltic fleet which routed the Swedish vessels at Grengam in 1720, winning the title of the most formidable navy in the Baltic Sea and earning Russia the status of a great sea power.
	newsfromrussia.com /society/2001/07/29/11223.html (1657 words)

	NBC: Girl becomes ‘anti-Barbie’ icon - World News - MSNBC.com
		Voting for Pisklova turned into an Internet phenomonen in Russia, as web users expressed their views on much more than on the choice of a regular-looking girl over long-legged models with touched up photos.
		As far as the head of the beauty pagent is concerned, the popularity of the "Stop Barbie" campaign represents the start of a protest culture in Russia.
		The Pisklova cause drew plenty of discussion in Russia chat rooms, mostly from supporters such as "Boris" who claimed that she had become the symbol for a new revolutionary movement.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/4749107/?GT1=3256 (1078 words)

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