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	Guardian Unlimited Special reports Kremlin's grand facelift tarnished
		Of particular pride is a glass dome placed in the middle of an elegant 18th century court yard in the Senate Palace, in imitation of the glass pyramid the late François Mitterrand erected by the side of the Louvre in Paris.
		The Senate Palace had housed Lenin's historic wood-panelled flat and the offices from which Stalin directed the second world war, amid hundreds of priceless tsarist-era bronze and crystal chandeliers.
		Daniel Deveau announced this week that he had launched a criminal investigation into the contracts awarded by a leading Kremlin official to a Swiss firm, Mabetex, which was involved in the refurbishment of the Kremlin buildings.
	www.guardian.co.uk /yeltsin/Story/0,2763,205438,00.html (862 words)

	kremlin_e3
		The Moscow Kremlin contains fine examples of Russian architecture of the 15th to 17th centuries: the Cathedrals of the Dormition, the Annunciation and the Archangel, Ivan the Great's Bell Tower, the Faceted Palace, the Terern Palace, the Senate Building, the Large Kremlin Palace and the Armoury.
		During the storming of the Kremlin in 1917 the clock was damaged.
		The State Kremlin Palace was built between 1959 and 1961.
	www.moskva.ru /guide/kremlin/kremlin_e3.html (862 words)

	Oklahoma State Senate Artwork Artist - Harold "H" Holden
		Harold Holden's studio is near Kremlin, Oklahoma, where he lives with his wife Edna Mae.
		Oklahoma State Senate Artwork Artist - Harold "H" Holden
		His public monuments include: "Boomer," Enid, Oklahoma; "The Rancher," Ranching Heritage Center, Lubbock, Texas; "Crossing the Red," Altus, Oklahoma; "Holding the Claim;" Enid, Oklahoma; "Keeper of the Plains," Enid, Oklahoma; "Vision Seekers," Altus, Oklahoma and Enid, Oklahoma; "Corporal Noah V. Ness," Ness City, Kansas; and "Headin' to Market," Stockyards City Main Street, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
	www.oksenate.gov /senate_artwork/artist_harold_holden.html (197 words)

	Ten Remembered: Gallagher-Iba Memorial
		This month he unveiled two paintings commissioned for the Oklahoma State Senate Chambers and in March will dedicate the official bust of former governor David Walters.
		In 1997 he received the Oklahoma Sculpture Society’s lifetime achievement award and in 2001 received the Governor’s Art Award.
		He has created large public monuments for Enid, Altus, the Oklahoma City Stockyards, Lubbock, Texas and Ness City, Kansas.
	pio.okstate.edu /memorial/sculpture.html (169 words)

	A Magical History Tour Of the Kremlin's Towers
		One thing that I've always loved about the Kremlin is that each of the 20 towers along its walls is unique, almost a personality of its own.
		To the right, behind Lenin's mausoleum, is Senatskaya bashnya which was named for its proximity to the former building of the tsarist Senate.
		A Magical History Tour Of the Kremlin's Towers
	www.themoscowtimes.com /stories/1996/09/03/039.html (169 words)

	Russia : The Best Architectural Landmarks
		Surrounding them are palaces where Russia's President Vladimir Putin and his predecessors have reigned, from the flowered columns of the Grand Kremlin Palace to the classical triangular Senate Building.
		The Kremlin (Moscow): This red brick fortress encloses a complex of 15th-century cathedrals that serve as Russia's best-preserved window onto that era, with their gold domes and pointed arches.
		Palace Square (St. Petersburg): The Russian baroque Winter Palace looks across this square-- the stage for the Russian Revolution -- toward the Alexander Column (celebrating the victory over Napoleon) and the curved facade of the General Staff building.
	www.frommers.com /destinations/print-narrative.cfm?destID=404&catID=0404020894 (262 words)

	RUSNET :: CIS Today :: 2005/05/16
		Saddam Hussein's Iraq allocated 90m barrels of cut-price oil to Russia's presidential council, in return for Moscow's support against sanctions, a US Senate committee investigating the UN administered Iraq oil-for-food programme has alleged.
		Tens of thousands of young people in red-and-white T-shirts bearing Soviet-style stars marched down one of Moscow's main avenues Sunday in a patriotic rally organized by a nationalist pro-Kremlin youth group.
		The town of Beslan in south Russia saw the opening of a psychological rehabilitation center Sunday, the Russian ITAR-TASS news agency reported.
	www.rusnet.nl /news/2005/05/16 (262 words)

	The Independent Online - News
		Drought may still be Montana farmers’ No. 1 risk, says Kremlin wheat farmer Larry Johnson, but Senate Bill 218 seeks to protect farmers from potential risks likewise damaging: liabilities associated with the introduction of genetically engineered wheat in Montana.
		SB 218 was sent to the Senate Judiciary Committee Feb. 4 and should either be approved or tabled in the Senate this week.
		There are currently no genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in Montana’s wheat crop, but by 2010 there could be, “and the problem is that when [GMOs] are put out in the environment, the genie is out of the bottle,” says SB 218 sponsor and Senate President Jon Tester, D-Big Sandy.
	www.missoulanews.com /News/News.asp?no=4677 (262 words)

	President of Russia The Presidential Residences
		The Working Residence of the President of the Russian Federation at the Kremlin is in the Senate building (in the 19th century it was called the offices building, and in the 20th century it was called the USSR Council of Ministers building).
		The residence of the Russian President in the Senate Palace consists of work and representative sections.
		The Senate building was built in 1779-1787 by Russian architect Matvei Kazakov in the style of classicism.
	www.kremlin.ru /eng/articles/atributesEng09.shtml (262 words)

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		The State Kremlin Palace was designed by the architects Posokhin, Mndoyants, Lvov and Kochetov, and constructed in less than two years.
		The State Kremlin Palace is the only modern architectural structure in the Kremlin.
		Opposite Senate Square there is a grey building - the Palace of Congresses, which was built in 1961.
	www.moskva.ru /guide/kremlin/kremlin_e5.html (262 words)

	Fifth United States Congress -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
		(United States journalist who reported on the October Revolution from Petrograd in 1917; founded the Communist Labor Party in America in 1919; is buried in the Kremlin in Moscow (1887-1920)) John Reed (Federalist), At-Large
		(Click link for more info and facts about President of the Senate) President of the Senate- (3rd President of the United States; chief drafter of the Declaration of Independence; made the Louisiana Purchase in 1803 and sent out the Lewis and Clark Expedition to explore it (1743-1826)) Thomas Jefferson
		(United States printer (born in England) whose press produced the first American prayer book and the New York City's first newspaper (1663-1752)) William Bradford (Federalist) and then Ray Greene (Federalist)
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/F/Fi/Fifth_United_States_Congress.htm (1613 words)

	Best of Russia --- Architecture --- Kremlin
		The Konstantino-Yeleninskaya Tower served as the Kremlin torture chamber in medieval times and stands on the site of the white-stone Timofeyev Tower, through whose gates Dmitry Donskoy led his troops in 1380 to the historic battle of Kulikovo against the Mongol and Tartar armies.
		The Senate Building looks onto Senate Square, where in February 1905 the terrorist Ivan Kalyaev, a member of the Socialist Revolutionary Party, threw a bomb at the carriage in which the uncle of Tsar Nicholas II, Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich, was traveling.
		The Lobnoye Mesto, a circular stone platform on Red Square not far from St. Basil's Cathedral, was built in the early 16th century and used primarily as a platform from which the Tsar's edicts were read out, special church sermons were given and the sentences of convicted criminals were aired.
	www.bestofrussia.ca /kremlin.html (2456 words)

	ADEPT : Commentaries : Political Commentaries
		Under Kremlin's Memorandum the representation of Gagauz-Yeri (4 Senate mandates per 100,000 citizens with the right to vote) and Transdnistria (9 mandates per 400,000 citizens) in the Senate, the most important institution of the would-be federation, would be 7 and 4 times higher than that of Chisinau (13 mandates per 2,400,000 citizens).
		Transdnistria and Gagauz representatives shall vote as Tiraspol and respectively Comrat chooses to, otherwise risking to be recalled and replaced with others, more loyal to the cause pursued by the relevant subjects.
		Noteworthy, once both Moldova and Transdnistria accept the Memorandum, other parties to the pentagonal mechanism: Ukraine and OSCE holding on to the principle "we accept any formula of the conflict resolution that is acceptable to the conflicting parties" would accept it as well.
	e-democracy.md /en/comments/political/20031125 (2456 words)

	Best of Russia --- Architecture --- Kremlin
		The Senate Building looks onto Senate Square, where in February 1905 the terrorist Ivan Kalyaev, a member of the Socialist Revolutionary Party, threw a bomb at the carriage in which the uncle of Tsar Nicholas II, Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich, was traveling.
		The Konstantino-Yeleninskaya Tower served as the Kremlin torture chamber in medieval times and stands on the site of the white-stone Timofeyev Tower, through whose gates Dmitry Donskoy led his troops in 1380 to the historic battle of Kulikovo against the Mongol and Tartar armies.
		For more information about Moscow Kremlin please check their official website.
	www.bestofrussia.ca /kremlin.html (2456 words)

	New updates from the Cutting Edge
		Way cleared for stem cell research bill: House, Senate leaders agree on oversight
		Kremlin Following China's Lead: Setting up "Directed Capitalism" economy
		Putin Promotes Peace Conference in First Visit of Kremlin Leader to Israel
	www.cuttingedge.org /news_updates/newsupdates04-05c.html (2456 words)

	U.S. Ministers and Ambassadors to Russia
		Born in England, Henry Middleton was a member of South Carolina's State Senate before becoming Governor of that state.
		Newspaper editors, governors, generals and career diplomats have promoted American interests in the courts of the Tsars, the halls of the Kremlin, and directly to the people of Russia.
		During Middleton's term as Minister, trade, maritime and fishing agreements were signed between Russia and the United States, and the boundaries of Russian Alaska were accepted by Canada and the United States.
	www.usembassy.ru /links/print_ambassadors.php (2456 words)

	Commentary Magazine - Ten Questions about SALT II
		As part of a campaign for ratification of the SALT II agreement, ten questions and answers pertaining to the treaty have been sent by the Carter administration to all members of the United States Senate.
		...Thus, they probably want SALT to succeed so that their view of detente and the utility of cooperation with the West in some areas can be vindicated over the views of others in the Kremlin who may not be so enthusiastic about the SALT process...
		...Under the terms of the SALT II agreement, both sides are to reduce their overall forces to 2,250 weapons by the end of 1981...
	www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V68I2P23-1.htm (2456 words)

	Galactic Centre & Regulus in Historical Events
		Russia - Declaration of Independence, 24 Aug 1991, after forces led by the future President of Russia Boris Y'eltsin, stormed the Kremlin.
		The Senate still functioned, though Augustus, as princeps, or first citizen, remained in control of the government.
		Alexius II Comnenus becomes Byzantine Emperor, 24 Sep 1180 at the age of 11, with his mother acting as regent.
	www.celtic-casimir.aunz.com /hermetica/reggal2.html (2456 words)

	AP European History
		As far as the other components of the Absolutist of western civilization, Peter did control the Legal system by establishing the rubberstamp Senate, in which all legal documents and political policies had to go through him and receive his "stamp of approval".
		On top of this, he had them hung outside the wall of his government building; the Kremlin to show his power and might.
		The Streltsy or the politically active of Russia were opposed to his Westernization and they were suspected to be conspiring against Peter.
	www.gresham.k12.or.us /soc/apeuro/17s2.htm (2456 words)

	Stalinists/Solidarnosc/IMF Attack Workers - Polish Powderkeg
		Notwithstanding the rapprochement between Polish Stalinism and Solidarnosc, the PUWP is still indispensable to the Kremlin as a guarantor of Poland’s adherence to the Warsaw Pact.
		When the votes were counted after the June elections, Solidarnosc won an overwhelming mandate, taking all the seats it contested in the Sejm and all but one in the Senate.
		Solidarnosc was not supposed to be able to win a parliamentary majority and form a government until the elections scheduled for 1993.
	www.bolshevik.org /1917/no7/no07pol.html (4934 words)

	Best of Russia --- Architecture --- Kremlin
		T he Ivan the Great Bell Tower is the tallest structure in the Kremlin (81 m or 266 ft).
		The building was commissioned by Empress Catherine the Great to house meetings of the Moscow branch of the Senate, an advisory body that she had set up in 1711, and has been the official residence of the Russian President since 1991.
		When retreating from Moscow in 1812, Napoleon ordered the Bell Tower of Ivan the Great to be blown up, but the magnificent structure withstood the blast and only the contiguous belfries were destroyed.
	www.bestofrussia.ca /kremlin.html (4934 words)

	Blackstone Audiobooks - Audiobook - A Very Private Plot by William F. Buckley, Jr.
		To accumulate the evidence necessary to persuade the Senate, he needs the cooperation of Blackford Oakes, now retired.
		A Very Private Plot takes the listener inside the Kremlin, exhibiting a detailed knowledge and savoir faire characteristic of the author.
		He wants from Oakes an account of his covert activity ten years earlier, when Oakes served as chief of covert activities for the CIA.
	www.blackstoneaudio.com /audiobook.cfm?ID=1598 (4934 words)

	Nuclear accord slashes U.S., Russian stockpiles / After signing treaty, Bush and Putin square off over details
		Moscow -- In a gilded Kremlin hall, President Bush and President Vladimir Putin of Russia signed agreements Friday sharply reducing their nuclear arsenals from the peaks of the Cold War and committing themselves to be partners in a fight against terrorism and its sponsors.
		ARTICLE IV To become effective, the treaty must be ratified by the U.S. Senate and both houses of the Russian parliament.
		The five brief articles of the Treaty of Moscow require only that each side reduce its arsenals to between 1,700 and 2,200 warheads, although "each party shall determine for itself the composition and structure of its strategic offensive arms." A bilateral implementation committee will meet at least twice yearly until the treaty expires in 2012.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2002/05/25/MN156471.DTL (1204 words)

	TASK FORCE RUSSIA -- BIWEEKLY REPORT 18-31 JULY 1992 2ND REPORT TASK FORCE RUSSIA (POW/MIA) REPORT TO THE U.S.-RUSSIAN JOINT COMMISSION ON POW/MIAs 31 JULY 1992
		She said that the records are still in the Kremlin, that the fond is controlled by the President of Russia, and that General Volkoganov knows the status of the fond.
		The Moscow Office traces its roots to the February, 1992 visit to Moscow by Senators John F. Kerry and Robert Smith, Senate Select Committee on POW/MIA Affairs, and the subsequent establishment of the Joint US-Russian Commission on POW/MIAs in March 1992.
		In addition, we have included in an appendix a 10 June 1992 report produced by Commission member Trudy Peterson, which recounts the details of a visit made by her and other Commission personnel to four Russian archives.
	lcweb2.loc.gov /frd/tfrussia/tfrhtml/tfrsplit/tfr030.html (1204 words)

	NucNews - August 20, 2000
		Putin, who came under the most intense criticism of his presidency for not returning to Moscow from vacation to take charge of the rescue operation, was reported to be working in the Kremlin, where he met today with his prime minister and security officials.
		Although bipartisan support from senators such as George V. Voinovich, R-Ohio, and Jeff Bingaman, D-N.M., won passage in the Senate version of the defense bill, some House members object to the measure.
		20 - Norwegian divers on Monday were examining a Russian submarine similar to the sunken Kursk, studying the escape chamber and the possible consequences of opening the Kursk's rear hatch.
	nucnews.net /nucnews/2000nn/0008nn/000820nn.htm (1204 words)

	09 Jun History: This Date
		In 1711 he abolished the boyarskaya duma, or boyar council, and established by decree the Senate as the supreme organ of state, to coordinate the action of the various central and local organs, to supervise the collection and expenditure of revenue, and to draft legislation in accordance with his edicts.
		Representatives of the various orders of society, assembled in the Kremlin, declared themselves for Peter, who was then proclaimed tsar; but the Miloslavsky faction exploited a revolt of the Moscow streltsy (musketeers of the sovereign's bodyguard} who killed some of Peter's adherents, including Matveyev.
		Ivan and Peter were then proclaimed joint tsars (Ivan the senior one) on 05 June 1682 by the boyar duma; and, because of Ivan's precarious health and Peter's youth, Ivan's sister Sophia Alekseyevna [27 Sep 1657 – 14 Jul 1704] was made regent when the two were crowned on 05 July 1682.
	h42day.0catch.com /history/h4jun/h4jun09.html (1204 words)

	THE UNITED STATES AND LIBYA
		The U.S. Senate and House were virtually unanimous in cheering on Reagan,<104> not even minding that the administration had seen fit to brief the Kremlin but not the U.S. Congress.<105> (Poindexter claimed he had intended to brief congressional leaders, but it had "slipped his mind."<106>) Again, world opinion was rather less sanguine.
		Although the December 1985 attack on Rome's airport was committed under Libyan sponsorship, the surviving member of the four-man terrorist team, according to reports on the Italian investigation, told investigators the team was trained in Syrian occupied areas of Lebanon.
		Six Libyan diplomats were expelled from the United States and, under Reagan, the Libyan embassy in Washington was ordered closed.<36> But the U.S. reaction was very different when similar assassinations or attempted assassinations were carried out by "friendly" governments.
	www.zmag.org /zmag/articles/ShalomLyb2.html (1204 words)

	Kremlin Threatens Radio Liberty Bureau
		The Kremlin regards Radio Liberty's coverage of the anti-terrorist campaign in the breakaway province as a tool that undermines its efforts to restore constitutional order in Chechnya.
		If the Kremlin took steps against the radio, the worsening of American-Russian relations would be serious.
		Moreover, the station's bid to launch a service in Chechen has apparently angered the Kremlin which sees the move as an attempt by the U.S. political lobbies to slam Russia for its alleged human rights abuses in the volatile region.
	www.newsmax.com /archives/articles/2001/5/14/80637.shtml (709 words)

	Kommersant: Events
		People, warmed with wine, were easy to get involved in a rebellion, and some 300 gathered at night and stormed into the city’s Kremlin killing several people to ring the alarm.
		This decision was approved by the Senate a few days before.
		Vasily Kirillovich Trediakovsky and Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov swear in as professors of the Academy of Sciences at St. Andrew the Apostle Church in St. Petersburg to become Russia’s first academicians.
	www.kommersant.com /page.asp?id=-6865 (744 words)

	THE UNITED STATES AND LIBYA
		The U.S. Senate and House were virtually unanimous in cheering on Reagan,<104> not even minding that the administration had seen fit to brief the Kremlin but not the U.S. Congress.<105> (Poindexter claimed he had intended to brief congressional leaders, but it had "slipped his mind."<106>) Again, world opinion was rather less sanguine.
		Although the December 1985 attack on Rome's airport was committed under Libyan sponsorship, the surviving member of the four-man terrorist team, according to reports on the Italian investigation, told investigators the team was trained in Syrian occupied areas of Lebanon.
		Six Libyan diplomats were expelled from the United States and, under Reagan, the Libyan embassy in Washington was ordered closed.<36> But the U.S. reaction was very different when similar assassinations or attempted assassinations were carried out by "friendly" governments.
	www.zmag.org /zmag/articles/Shalomlyb2.html (7471 words)

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