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  Soviet Union - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Soviet Union was established in December 1922 as the union of the Russian (colloquially known as Bolshevist Russia), Ukrainian, Belarusian, and Transcaucasian Soviet republics ruled by Bolshevik parties.
Modern revolutionary activity in the Russian Empire began with the Decembrist Revolt of 1825, and although serfdom was abolished in 1861, its abolition was achieved on terms unfavorable to the peasants and served to encourage revolutionaries.
After the dissolution of the Soviet Union on December 25, 1991, the Russian Federation claimed to be the legal successor to the Soviet state on the international stage.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Soviet_Union   (6788 words)

  
 The Embassy of the Russian Federation in the Kingdom of Thailand   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Russians and Caucasian highlanders repulsed nomad raids together in the 11th century, and fought the Mongol-Tartar invaders side-by-side in the 13th century.
The division's strike units are the 70th, the 71st, the 72nd and the 291st motorised regiments and the 50th self-propelled artillery regiment.
Federal support is being rendered to amateur performers and for the restoration and conservation of historical and cultural monuments.
www.thailand.mid.ru /chech3.html   (11812 words)

  
 LLRX.com - A Guide to Russian Legal Research
Federative relations were formed on the basis of the Constitution of the Russian Federation, the Federative Treaty and agreements between the federal center and the subjects of the federation.
According to the Constitution of the Russian Federation, the Federal Assembly (the Parliament of the Russian Federation) is the permanently functioning representative and legislative organ of the Russian Federation.
The procedure for the formation of the Federation Council is established by the Federal Law of the Russian Federation "On the Formation of the Federal Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation (07.08.2000)" (http://www.100mb.ru/~grankin/docs/ru_zak002.htm).
www.llrx.com /features/russia.htm   (10122 words)

  
 2005 Country Report on Human Rights Practices in Russia
The Russian Federation has a weak multiparty political system with a strong presidency, a government headed by a prime minister, and a bicameral legislature (Federal Assembly) consisting of a lower house (State Duma) and an upper house (Federation Council).
Although federal forces were believed to have engaged in fewer abductions, this was to some extent offset by the increasing role of the pro-Moscow Chechen security forces under the command of Deputy Prime Minister Ramzan Kadyrov, either by themselves or in joint operations with federal forces.
Federal forces stated this was for the relatives' protection, but human rights groups alleged that the relatives would be used in a potential trade for hostages at the school.
www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61671.htm   (19642 words)

  
 Iraq Lessons - CDI Russia Weekly #262
Meanwhile the Russian Federation was forced to finance the entire troop re-deployment program, housing programs, as well as the creation of a new combat infrastructure and army reform aspects.
Russian military observers serve under the UN flag in Bosnia, Croatia, East Timor, Sierra Leone, West Sahara and the Middle East.
The list of rookie officers includes 180,600 military-school graduates, 26,500 reservists serving on contract, 2,200 sub-lieutenants from military-district courses, as well as 4,100 former sergeants and sergeant-majors.
www.cdi.org /Russia/262-14.cfm   (2960 words)

  
 Guides to Russian History
This catalog lists the holdings of eighteenth century Russian books in the libraries of the Russian Federation, specifically the State Historical Library (GPIB), the Russian National Library, the Russian State Library, the library of the Academy of Sciences (BAN) and the library at Moscow State University.
It is primarily a list of 139 sources that are used throughout the rest of the volume.
There is also s lengthy section of supplementary material with tables listing the city officials, a chronological hsitory of the Winter Palace from 1708-1730, a table on the icnography of the tsars, the hydrography of St. Petersburg, meteogology of St. Petersburg, to name but a few of the titles of the nineteen supplements.
www.library.uiuc.edu /spx/class/SubjectResources/SubSourRus/rushistbib.htm   (6309 words)

  
 Russian Politics, Siberia - Johnson's Russia List 2-19-03
In this paper Professor Olekh considers the issue of the amalgamation into larger units of the territorial formations that currently constitute the Russian Federation, again focusing on the implications for Siberia.
In 2002 the Russian establishment anxiously awaited the administrative reform being prepared inside the Presidential Administration by the Kozak commission.
From the start rumors circulated among politicians and journalists that the Kremlin intends to reconfigure the administrative-territorial division of the country by merging existing units into a smaller number of subjects of the federation and eliminating all or some of the ethnically based units (republics and autonomous districts).
www.cdi.org /russia/johnson/7069-3.cfm   (767 words)

  
 Dmitrii Antonovich Volkogonov Papers (Library of Congress)
Tight restrictions on access to Russian archives were a hindrance to his research, and although he served in the military and was a Communist Party member for over forty years, he found only one archives fully open to him, the Central Archive of the Ministry of Defense.
Modern Russian history, according to Volkogonov, began in the 1870s and 1880s with the births of the participants in the events that led to the Russian Revolution and continued through World War II.
The small group of records from the Archive of the Institute of Military History of the Ministry of Defense and the Russian Academy of Sciences (AIVI MO RAN) consists of copies of material that is a part of the Central Archive of the Ministry of Defense.
www.loc.gov /rr/mss/text/volkogon.html   (3753 words)

  
 Russian Administrative Districts   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Russia is an asymmetrical federation consisting of several layers of jurisdictional authority.
They are now referred to as "gorod i podchinennye ego administratsii naselennye punkty" or "city and administrative units under its jurisdiction".
The Gorod (city) is the basic term for a Russian urban district.
polyglot.lss.wisc.edu /creeca/kaiser/admin.html   (1165 words)

  
 Why democracy is wrong
The issue is the composition of the demos, the decision-making unit in a democracy: it is a recurrent theme in the ethics of democracy.
The unit of decision is the nation state, based on a historic group: only their decisions are recognised as legitimate.
In the new protectorates, the majority of the population are excluded from the political and administrative structure by language and cultural barriers.
web.inter.nl.net /users/Paul.Treanor/democracy.html   (20174 words)

  
 Zionism And Its Impact
Weizmann's policy was basically in accord with that of the leaders of the yishuv, who held a conference in December 1918 in which they formulated their own demands for the peace conference.
The yishuv plan stressed that they must control appointments to the administrative services and that the British must actively assist their program to transform Palestine into a democratic Jewish state in which the Arabs would have minority rights.
Haganah's special Palmach units served as scouts and sappers for the British army in Lebanon in 1941-42.
www.wrmea.com /html/focus.htm   (6072 words)

  
 Georgia Area   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Unlike the federal government, but like many other U.S. States, most of the executive officials who comprise the governor's cabinet are elected by the citizens of Georgia, rather than appointed by the governor.
First to fall into Russian hands was the Eastern Georgian Kingdom of Kartl-Kakheti, which was almost totally devastated by Persian invasions in the last two decades of the 18th century.
In 1810 the Russian Empire managed to conquer and abolish the Western Georgian Kingdom of Imereti, which had a key role in the diplomatic efforts to maintain Georgian sovereignty in the west of the country and to unite Western Georgian regions.
www.georgia-area.com   (5935 words)

  
 Russian Federation.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
The defeat of the Russian Empire in World War I led to the seizure of power by the Communists and the formation of the USSR.
The brutal rule of Josef STALIN (1924-53) strengthened Russian dominance of the Soviet Union at a cost of tens of millions of lives.
Constitutional Court; Supreme Court; Superior Court of Arbitration; judges for all courts are appointed for life by the Federation Council on the recommendation of the president
www.hrd1.org /ru   (1425 words)

  
 --/ Russian Coal /--/ Samples   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
List of Coal Production and Coal Preparation Joint Stock Companies and Enterprises by Economic Region of the Russian Federation
Average Productivity of a Worker in Mining per Month and Shift (Ministry of Energy of the Russian Federation)
Growth Rates of Average Monthly Productivity of a Worker in Mining in the Coal Industry (Ministry of Energy of the Russian Federation)
www.rosugol.ru /eng/contents3.html   (361 words)

  
 Geografia d'Europa: Russia
note: the autonomous republics of Chechnya and Ingushetiya were formerly the autonomous republic of Checheno-Ingushetia (the boundary between Chechnya and Ingushetia has yet to be determined); administrative divisions have the same names as their administrative centers (exceptions have the administrative center name following in parentheses)
Judicial branch: Constitutional Court, judges are appointed for life by the Federation Council on the recommendation of the president; Supreme Court, judges are appointed for life by the Federation Council on the recommendation of the president; Superior Court of Arbitration, judges are appointed for life by the Federation Council on the recommendation of the president
anti-market and/or ultranationalist: Communist Party of the Russian Federation [Gennadiy Andreyevich ZYUGANOV]; Liberal Democratic Party of Russia [Vladimir Vol'fovich ZHIRINOVSKIY]; Agrarian Party [Mikhail Ivanovich LAPSHIN]; Working Russia [Viktor Ivanovich ANPILOV and Stanislav TEREKHOV]; Russian National Unity [Aleksandr BARKASHOV]
www.ub.es /medame/Rus_gpol.html   (363 words)

  
 Russia Government 1997 - Flags, Maps, Economy, Geography, Climate, Natural Resources, Current Issues, International ...
note : the autonomous republics of Chechnya and Ingushetia were formerly theautonomous republic of Checheno-Ingushetia (the boundary between Chechnyaand Ingushetia has yet to be determined); the cities of Moscow and St. Petersburgare federal cities; administrative divisions have the same names as theiradministrative centers (exceptions have the administrative center name followingin parentheses)
head of government: Premier and Chairman of the Russian Federation Government Viktor StepanovichCHERNOMYRDIN (since 14 December 1992), First Deputy Premiers and First DeputyChairmen of the Government Anatoliy Borisovich CHUBAYS (since NA March 1997),Boris Y. NEMTSOV (since NA March 1997)
Judicial branch Constitutional Court, judges are appointed by the Federation Councilon recommendation of the president; Supreme Court, judges are appointed bythe Federation Council on recommendation of the president; Superior Courtof Arbitration, judges are appointed by the Federation Council on recommendationof the president
www.photius.com /wfb1997/russia/russia_government.html   (400 words)

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