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  President article - President title Latin chairman executive head state republic legislature - What-Means.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
President for Life is a title assumed by some dictators to ensure that their authority or legitimacy is never questioned.
Rather, he or she is called a president in an older sense of the word to denote the fact that he or she heads the cabinet.
In these countries, the sash is a symbol of the presidency's continuity, and presenting the sash to the new president is a key part of the inauguration ceremony.
www.what-means.com /encyclopedia/Presidents   (1857 words)

  
 List of leaders of the Soviet Union - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
An approximately chronological listing of Soviet leaders (heads of the Central Committee of the Communist Party and President of the Soviet Union).
The first position of importance was that of the Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet, informally translated as President of the Soviet Union.
The "Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet" was the equivalent of President of the state while "Chairman of the Council of Ministers" and "Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars" were equivalent to Premier or Prime Minister.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_leaders_of_the_Soviet_Union   (598 words)

  
 Italy - Open Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Italy was a charter member of NATO and the European Union, and hence joined the growing political and economic unification of Western Europe, including the introduction of the Euro in 1999.
The 1948 constitution established a bicameral parliament (Parlamento), consisting of a Chamber of Deputies (Camera dei Deputati) and a Senate (Senato della Repubblica), a separate judiciary, and an executive branch composed of a Council of Ministers (cabinet), headed by the president of the council (prime minister).
The president of the republic is elected for 7 years by the parliament sitting jointly with a small number of regional delegates.
open-encyclopedia.com /Italy   (1252 words)

  
 List of Presidents of Niger|President Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
president in an older sense of the word to denote the fact that he or she heads the ''cabinet''.
In FranceFrench legal terminology, the president of a court consisting of multiple judges is the foremost judge; he chairs the meeting of the court and directs the debates (and this thus addressed as "Mr President", ''Monsieur le Président'', or appropriate feminine forms).
In general, a court comprises several chambers, each with its own president; thus the most senior of these is called the "first president" (as in: "the First President of the Court of Cassation is the most senior judge in France").
www.echostatic.com /List_of_Presidents_of_Niger|President.html   (2071 words)

  
 List of Aragonese Presidents|President Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Several presidents have ruled until their death in democracydemocratic countries, but they have not actually been made and/or proclaimed themselves as President for Life.
*List of Presidents of the Czech RepublicCzech Republic
*List of Presidents of the Dominican RepublicDominican Republic
www.echostatic.com /List_of_Aragonese_Presidents|President.html   (2071 words)

  
 Latvia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Latvia has land borders with its two fellow Baltic states — Estonia to the north and Lithuania to the south — and Russia and Belarus to the east.
Latvia is historically and culturally divided in four or five distinct regions, see regions of Latvia.
The ethnic mix of the population of Latvia is largely the result of massive immigration during the years of Soviet occupation, which resulted in a decline of the share of ethnic Latvians from around 80% in 1935 to 52% in 1989.
www.worldhistory.com /wiki/L/Latvia.htm   (971 words)

  
 President   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The first European president was the President of France, a post created in the Second French Republic Second Republic of 1848.
Rather, he or she is called a president (history of the term) president in an older sense of the word to denote the fact that he or she heads the ''cabinet''.
Under the French French Third RepublicThird and the French Fourth RepublicFourth Republics/, the "President of the Council" (of ministers) was the head of government, with the President of the Republic a largely symbolic figurehead.
www.infothis.com /find/President   (2214 words)

  
 Russia, Baltics, Latvia - JRL 2-25-05
In parallel, she is also lobbying the West to recognize that the end of WW II led to the occupation of the Baltic countries by the Soviet Union.
He said the EU cannot tell Latvia what to do, but said the border treaties between Russia and Estonia and Latvia should be signed as soon as possible.
Latvia’s and Lithuania’s appeals to Bush are seen as an indication of their frustration with the EU’s “pragmatic” approach to Russia.
www.cdi.org /russia/Johnson/9068-26.cfm   (976 words)

  
 JRL #6187 - Economy, Demography, Yeltsin, Kagarlitsky, Nuclear Talks, NATO, Latvia, Skinheads, Jack/ Self-Censorship, ...
Robert Liuzzi, president of CF Industries, a leading U.S. fertilizer producer, told a congressional panel last week that granting Russia market economy status would allow it "to dump nitrogen fertilizers into the United States with impunity." The Russian company that makes popular Stolichnaya vodka also wants Washington to deny Moscow's request.
Dyachenko was her father's public relations adviser when he was president and last October married Valentin Yumashev, a former presidential administration head who co-wrote a book with Yeltsin.
Along with neighbours Estonia and Lithuania, Latvia hopes to be one of the first post-Soviet states admitted into the North Atlantic Treaty Organization next fall, when the alliance expands eastward.
www.cdi.org /russia/johnson/6187.htm   (10278 words)

  
 CER | Latvia assesses the risk of Mad Cow Disease
Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia, at a meeting of their defense ministers, moved one step closer to defense integration by agreeing to a joint weapons procurement policy, as well as to the establishment of a joint inventory and accounting system and a joint maintenance facility for naval mine-hunter fleets.
Latvia may face the risk of Mad Cow Disease (BSE), due to past imports of milk substitutes used to feed to calves, the German federal veterinary service warned during a visit to Latvia.
Mortgage lending by Latvia's commercial banks almost doubled in 2000, rising 91 percent and accounting for 11 percent of total bank lending of LVL 1.09 billion.
www.ce-review.org /01/7/latvianews7.html   (1130 words)

  
 Female Presidents   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Acting President of the Congress and acting Deputy Head of State 1978-79.She was President of Partido Revolucionario de los Izquierda Nazional Gueiler 1979-94, Exile in France 1980-82, Ambassador in Embassy to West Germany 1982-83, and to Venezuela 1983-86 and since 1993 She was deposed by the 129
During the Civil War the President was killed and as the highest ranking remaining official, she became Acting President (27.10.93-5.2.94).
She was Vice-President 1984-86 and President of Sri Lanka Maha Jana Party 1984-86, Leader of United Socialist Alliance 1988 and since 1993 Leader of People’s Alliance and Deputy Leader of Sri Lanka Freedom Party, 1993-94 Chief Minister of the Colombo Province and in a few months in 1994 Prime Minister.
www.guide2womenleaders.com /Presidents.htm   (2349 words)

  
 Ellipsis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
In some programming languages (Perl, Ada etc), a shortened 2-character ellipsis is used to represent a range of numbers.
The above command in Perl would iterate through the list of integer numbers from 1 to 100.
In computing, the ellipsis character in the Unicode encoding is encoded as hexadecimal 0x2026, which is displayed as “…”.
leessummit.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/...   (1003 words)

  
 A Step At A Time: The Shrinking List
Reflections on the world post-9/11, by a writer, translator and musician who engaged for many years in the debates of the Cold War, and who tends to see the world's present troubles as a continuation of the old common struggle with tyranny and oppression.
Russia is unlikely to sign the treaties with Estonia and Latvia in the near future, and this situation will strain relations between Moscow and Brussels, since the European Union insists on the speedy conclusion of the treaties between Russia and the two Baltic countries.
Symptomatically, in comments devoted to the release of the book History of Latvia: The 20th Century, the Russian Foreign Ministry accused the Latvians of harboring "sentiments of the historic revanche" that are being supported "at the highest state level" (mid.ru, February 2).
halldor2.blogspot.com /2005/03/shrinking-list.html   (742 words)

  
 Mold -- Latvia
Fibre2fashion.com,: The Central Statistical Bureau of Latvia (CSB) is a state administrative institution under the supervision of the Ministry of Economy, and it is responsible...
ABC News: RIGA, LATVIA Pauls Raudseps was once part of the movement that wrested this tiny Baltic nation from behind the Iron Curtain 15 years ago this week.
ABC Online,: US President George W Bush is in the Baltic republic of Latvia as part of a tour to mark the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II in Europe.
bluegrouper.com /feb2004/Mold/Latvia.html   (5270 words)

  
 FRANCIA
Some of the material might therefore be a little dated now; but there is also the virtue that these histories are going to be largely innocent of the brainless Marxism and the kinds of politically correct "race, class, and gender" analyses that have become popular in "post modern" academia.
The only drawbacks are that (1) Thompsett's lists are, indeed, genealogical, which means it is sometimes hard to find unrelated rulers in a succession, and (2) the entries are very summary, without any explanation of may be happening as, for instance, domains are divided among multiple heirs.
However, both Tompsett and WW-Person list Stephen Count of Champagne, Meaux, and Troyes (Tompsett twice, as son of both Herbert the Elder and Herbert, Count of Meaux, identified as "Herbert the Younger").
www.friesian.org /francia.htm   (14169 words)

  
 Pravda.RU From Dar concerning articles in PRAVDA.Ru about Latvia and democracy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
It is custom in open, free publications in democratic countries, such as the United States, France, and Latvia, for newspapers to print the actual text of opinion letters, in whole or in part, so that readers may actually see for themselves what was written and what is being reacted to.
Also, as Latvia prepares to enter the European Union, I am sure that any legal problems will be resolved for the benefit of all.
It is ironic, isn't it, that is Europe -- the EU, the OSCE -- that have been the greatest help for Russians in Latvia, and not Russian nationalists in Russia itself with their paranoid, aggressive positions.
english.pravda.ru /letters/2001/07/04/9325.html   (1032 words)

  
 Guide and Index to Lists of Rulers
One motivation is that history is often not taught anymore in terms of dynasties and rulers, since this is thought (by an academic elite comfortably supported by the taxpayers) to be too elitist and too removed from the life of the people.
The arrangement of these lists thus follows Bryce's principle of universalist ideology, centering on Rome but extending to similar to ideas outside of the Roman world.
The systematic treatment is as follows in the list below, but the list in the box at right simply gives the actual internet files in which basic historical material, with lists and genealogies, is contained.
www.friesian.com /histindx.htm   (3012 words)

  
 European Union Legal Materials   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The Draft Constitution was completed and presented to the President of the EU by the President of the Convention on July 18, 2003.
Consisting of the heads of state (presidents and prime ministers) of EU members, the European Council meets twice a year, usually in January and June.
Treaty concerning the accession of the Czech Republic, the Republic of Estonia, the Republic of Cyprus, the Republic of Latvia, the Republic of Lithuania, the Republic of Hungary, the Republic of Malta, the Republic of Poland, the Republic of Slovenia and the Slovak Republic to the European Union (16 April 2003)
www.law.columbia.edu /library/Research_Guides/internat_law/eu   (8383 words)

  
 Pravda.RU RUSSIAN CITIZENS DETAINED IN LATVIA FACE LIFE SENTENCES
She wrote about it in letters she addressed to Russian and France presidents, as well as to the governments of both countries.
Vladimir Putin, the president of the Russian Federation, has sent a welcome address to participants and guests of the Fair of Social and Cultural Projects Perm-2000 which opened today in the Uralian city of Perm.
A spokesman for Russian President on the State Duma Alexander Kotenkov denied the reports of Mass media that Putin intended to provide the final variant of the text of Russia national anthem to the State Duma to be ratified.
english.pravda.ru /society/2000/12/05/1302.html   (1570 words)

  
 Latvia News - Media Monitoring Service by EIN News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Latvia's Foreign Minister compliments Anna Busa for her work at the UN International Atomic Energy Agency
Latvia's Cabinet of Ministers approves the country's delegation to the 6th WTO Ministerial Conference
Latvia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs contacts embassies of the countries affected by earthquake
www.einnews.com /latvia   (822 words)

  
 GuruNet — Content Map
List of Presidents of the British Virgin Islands
List of presidents of the Canadian Pacific Railway Limited
List of Presidents of the French National Assembly
www.gurunet.com /cm-dsid-2222-letter-1L-first-25001   (70 words)

  
 The Washington Monthly
All Rove has to do is doctor up some new evidence showing that Rumsfeld acted without the president's knowledge when he blah, blah, blah...or simply start the rumor mill going when Rumsfeld suddenly finds himself deeply desirous of spending more time with his family.
After all we now we have resignations, abu ghraib, a war that has no case and the list goes on, I am beginning to think this was planned and if we had stuck with the ICC they all would be open to prosecution.
Interestingly, terrorist warnings also boost support for the president on issues that are largely irrelevant to terrorism, such as his handling of the economy.
www.washingtonmonthly.com /archives/individual/2004_10/004865.php   (13574 words)

  
 CLARKSDALEWEBINFO.COM
Karl Rove and the man who could indict him were in a federal courthouse throughout Friday morning and into the afternoon as President Bush's top political adviser testified in the ongoing investigation into who leaked the identity of a CIA operative.
Former Ecuadorean President Lucio Gutierrez headed home on Friday to try to regain power six months after he was ousted by Congress and sent into exile.
Before leaving, Gutierrez insisted that he was unjustly ousted and accused his successor, President Alfredo Palacio, of corruption and fabricating charges against him.
www.clarksdalewebinfo.com   (3800 words)

  
 2003 was a black year for journalists worldwide -DAWN - International; 03 May, 2004
Media freedoms in most countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), which includes all but the Baltic former Soviet republics, are only deteriorating, the RSF said.
Conditions for journalists are especially harsh in Belarus, Kazakhstan, Russia, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, whose presidents are included on the RSF's media 'predator' list.
The 10 nations in eastern Europe and the Mediterranean that joined the European Union at the weekend largely respected press freedom during 2003.
www.dawn.com /2004/05/03/int2.htm   (728 words)

  
 Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Finland, and Sweden - Travelogue
So in 1628 the day to launch came and the Vasa was a magnificent ship that would strike terror into the hearts of the Catholics.
A few minutes after it was launched it started listing to starboard and sank right there.
The very contrite head of the Joint Chiefs of the military had to go to the King and remind him that there were sound Swedish military considerations that are the reason Sweden remains a neutral nation.
www.travel-library.com /europe/baltics.trip.leeper+29.html   (8104 words)

  
 Worldwide Guide to Women in Leadership
Nevertheless, development was slow and it was not until the end of the 20th century that female ministers stopped being unusual.
Of the monarchies, there are Queens in Denmark, The Netherlands and the United Kingdom - and the British Queen is represented by female Governor Generals in Bahamas, Canada, New Zealand and Saint Lucia.
The 5 female Presidents are in Finland, Ireland, Latvia, The Philippines and Sri Lanka.
www.guide2womenleaders.com   (271 words)

  
 .: US News - Armitage Thanks Latvia for Staunch Support in Iraq, Afghanistan :. .: All American Patriots :.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
In Latvia September 13, Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage thanked Latvian President Vaira Vike-Freiberga and the people of Latvia for their "steadfast support" in Iraq and their "excellent efforts" in Afghanistan.
We feel that Latvia is such a key member of the coalition and involved in great momentous activities of our time.
And finally, as the president has indicated, Americans can get a wide variety of advice here in Latvia, and I've come to listen and gain insights from the president into the situation in the surrounding area.
www.allamericanpatriots.com /m-news+article+storyid-3190.html   (872 words)

  
 .: US News - White House Report, September 9: Iraq, Costa Rica, Indonesia, Latvia :. .: All American Patriots :.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
President George W. Bush discussed the situation in Iraq September 9 with General John Abizaid, the head of U.S. Central Command, U.S. Ambassador to Iraq John Negroponte and General George Casey, the commanding general of Multi-National Force in Iraq.
The press secretary condemned the terrorist attack against the Australian embassy in Indonesia and said the incident shows the true nature of terrorism, and presents a grim reminder that the United States remains engaged in a global war on terrorism.
Bailey is currently the president and founder of Operation Open Arms, a charitable organization, and had also served as a public relations consultant for Creative Alliance.
www.allamericanpatriots.com /m-news+article+storyid-3105.html   (790 words)

  
 Punditmania
DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE, U.S. The distribution of words in the speeches of American Presidents clearly shows that success in politics requires a much more balanced female / male type of man - at least in speech expression - than we might otherwise require in real life.
President's speeches are a near balance of both female and male elements in most cases, with few exceptions.
In fact, the President's speeches are not that different from speeches by the ladies.
www.lexiline.com /andiskaulins/blog/2003_10_01_punditmaniaarchive.htm   (5721 words)

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