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	Union of Soviet Socialist Republics - Search View - MSN Encarta
		The Soviet Union was formed in December 1922 as a federal union of the RSFSR and those neighboring areas under its military occupation or ruled by branches of the communist movement.
		Three-quarters of Soviet territory was in the RSFSR (two-thirds of that in Siberia and the Russian Far East) and 12 percent in Kazakhstan.
		The Soviet Union, as heir to the former territory of the Russian Empire, was exceptionally diverse in its national composition.
	encarta.msn.com /text_761553017__1/Union_of_Soviet_Socialist_Republics.html (19085 words)

	Union of Soviet Socialist Republics — Infoplease.com
		Union of Soviet Socialist Republics: Early Years - Early Years The USSR was the successor state to the Russian Empire (see Russia) and the short-lived...
		Union of Soviet Socialist Republics: The Gorbachev Era - The Gorbachev Era Brezhnev died in 1982 and was replaced by Yuri Andropov, the recent head of the...
		Union of Soviet Socialist Republics: The Brezhnev Era - The Brezhnev Era In a well-prepared and bloodless move by CPSU leaders, Khrushchev was ousted from...
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/world/A0850044.html (437 words)

	Kim - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		It has been used as both a male and a female name, but is currently most common as a female name.
		In the Scandinavian countries, Denmark in particular, it is more common as a male name.
		In the early Soviet Union quite a few newborn Russians were called Kim after the "Kommunistichesky Internatsional Molodyozhi", or "Youth Communist International", see Names in Russian Empire, Soviet Union and CIS countries.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Kim (213 words)

	The Sexy Russian Mafia
		Russian enforcement agencies, not understanding the difference between entrepreneurship and crime, arrested and imprisoned entrepreneurs for a variety of "crimes." When they discovered that the business system was profitable, they pushed out the struggling young entrepreneurs and took over.
		The function of defining newly-permitted business activities in the former Soviet Union as Mafia organized crime and lawlessness, while continuing to participate in such activities, determines the social standard of acceptable and unacceptable behavior in a country where beating the system was part of the system.
		For the newly-formed democratic order in the former Soviet Union to begin to examine and set boundaries in a free enterprise system it must define not only legalities in terms of social and business acceptability but also determine who is conducting himself and a business in a socially-acceptable fashion and what is normative behavior.
	members.tripod.com /~orgcrime/russexy.htm (4259 words)

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		Soviet troops intervened in the 1956 Hungarian Revolution and cited the Brezhnev Doctrine, the Soviet counterpart to the U.S. Johnson Doctrine and later Nixon Doctrine, and helped oust the Czechoslovak government in 1968, sometimes referred to as the Prague Spring.
		The KGB (Committee for State Security), served in a fashion as the Soviet counterpart to both the FBI and the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) in the U.S. It ran a massive network of informants throughout the Soviet Union, which was used to monitor violations in law.
		The Soviet Union occupied the eastern portion of the European continent and the northern portion of the Asian continent.
	www.gamecheatz.net /games.php?title=Soviet_Union (7242 words)

	U.S.-Russian Cooperation Can Reduce Nuclear Risks of Soviet Breakup
		The backbone of the former Soviet Union was its military- scientific complex.
		A14.) With the breakdown of central authority in the former Soviet Union, old KGB controls on the movement of military scientists and engineers have grown slack, and press reports are rampant that Iran, Libya, and other countries are attempting to lure these experts into their employ.
		Using Russian space science expertise and launch systems, the U.S might be able to put its astronauts back on the moon by the end of the decade instead of 2010 or later and on Mars late next decade instead of around 2025.
	www.heritage.org /Research/MissileDefense/BG882.cfm (3895 words)

	Names in Russian Empire, Soviet Union and CIS countries - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The patronymic of a person is based on the first name of his or her father and is written in all documents.
		The correct transliteration of such feminine names in English is debated: sometimes women's names are given in their original form, sometimes in the masculine form (technically incorrect, but more widely recognized).
		This is widespread in naming people of ethnic minorities and citizens of Central Asian or Caucasian republics of the former Soviet Union, especially if a person is a permanent resident and speaks the local language.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Names_in_Russian_Empire,_Soviet_Union_and_CIS_countries (1223 words)

	Ukraine (03/07)
		Although Russian is very widely spoken, in the 1989 census (the latest official figures) 88% of the population identified Ukrainian as their native language.
		Urgent measures for radiation and worker safety as well as structural improvements to the "sarcophagus" erected by the Soviet Union are largely complete, and the contract for construction of the new shelter to be built around the sarcophagus is expected to be awarded in 2007.
		Soviet Ukraine joined the United Nations in 1945 as one of the original members following a Western compromise with the Soviet Union, which had asked for seats for all 15 of its union republics.
	www.state.gov /r/pa/ei/bgn/3211.htm (5229 words)

	Random Works of the Web » Blog Archive » Personal name
		It is nearly universal for a person to have a name; the rare exceptions occur in the cases of mentally disturbed parents, or feral children growing up in isolation.
		Before the use of family names, people were often referred to by a description or nickname, their place of birth or residence, their occupation, or their parent’s name.
		In many families, single middle names are simply alternative names, names honoring an ancestor or relative, or, for married women, occasionally their maiden names.
	random.dragonslife.org /personal-name/7431 (1505 words)

	University of Kansas Libraries: Slavic Department (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Schaffner, Bradley L. Bibliography of the Soviet Union, its predecessors and successors.
		A Scholars' guide to humanities and social sciences in the Soviet Union: the Academy of Sciences of the USSR and the academies of sciences of the Union Republics.
		The Soviet political elite: brief biographies, indices and tables on 989 members and candidate members of the CPSU Central Committee from 1912 to 1969...
	www.lib.ku.edu /slavic/printres.shtml (1096 words)

	TED Case Study Template
		Although Iran and the CIS are the primary sources of caviar in the international market, other supposed exporters of caviar; such as Switzerland, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Iceland and Greenland do not differentiate between the roe of sturgeons and that of other types of fish.
		During the Roman Empire, caviar was a luxury that was displayed delicately among flowers and celebrated with the sounds of trumpets upon its arrival to the table.
		Although countries such as Canada, China, Romania, Turkey and the USA produce caviar in small quantities, Iran and the CIS are the primary sources of caviar on the international market.
	www.american.edu /ted/iran-caviar.htm (2189 words)

	Chronology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		September 1990: The Crimean Supreme Soviet calls upon the Supreme Soviets of the Soviet Union and Russian SFSR to nullify the decisions to strip Crimea of its autonomous status.
		The Russian Duma later condemned the new constitution, which declared Ukrainian to be the sole official language of the Crimea, as being discriminatory to the Russian population.
		He said while Tatars and other ethnic groups in Ukraine retained their names on government documents, the names of Russian speakers were regularly Ukrainized, and that his previous appeals in district and Crimean courts had not restored his identity.
	www.cidcm.umd.edu /inscr/mar/data/ukrcruschro.htm (9742 words)

	Personal name - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It is nearly universal for a human person to have a name; the rare exceptions occur in the cases of mentally disturbed parents, or feral children growing up in isolation.
		Japanese names of contemporary individuals and Hungarian names are usually "switched" when individuals that have such names are mentioned in media in Western countries; for instance, Koizumi Jun'ichirō is known as Junichiro Koizumi in English and Puskás Ferenc is known as Ferenc Puskás.
		Other cultures, such as the Chinese, give the animals nonhuman names, because it would be seen as offensive and disrespectful to the person of the same name; even cultures that give human names to animals sometimes do so to an ugly animal to insult the bearer of the name.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Personal_name (1533 words)

	Russian Important Events, Russian chronology of history, Russia Important Events on RussiansAbroad.com
		Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (Soviet Union) established, comprising Russian, Ukrainian, Belorussian, and Transcaucasian republics.
		All-Union Communist Party (Bolshevik) becomes Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU); name of Politburo is changed to Presidium.
		Soviet Union admits existence of secret protocols to 1939 Nazi-Soviet Nonagression Pact, which allotted to Soviet Union the Baltic countries, parts of then eastern Poland, and Moldavia.
	www.russiansabroad.com /russian_history_5.html (5140 words)

	Rus/SU/FSr: a short course
		The subject assigned is Soviet Union, although in 1920, the Soviet Union had still not yet been named, and the word Russia appears in the title.
		Dan was a Menshevik during the periods of the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union, but she was a revolutionary only against the Russian Empire.
		The art was produced during the period of the Soviet Union.
	www.indiana.edu /~libslav/slavcatman/rsufsr.html (2720 words)

	Communist party, in Russia and the Soviet Union — Infoplease.com
		Communist party, in Russia and the Soviet Union: Seizure of Power - Seizure of Power When the Russian Revolution began in Mar., 1917, the Bolsheviks were unprepared,...
		Communist party, in Russia and the Soviet Union: Under Stalin - Under Stalin After the death of Lenin (1924) dissident elements in the party were silenced as...
		Russians rockin' the art world; free from the Communist confines of the former Soviet Union and no longer isolated from the world's......
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/history/A0813072.html (318 words)

	Learn Russian language in Russia. Russian courses at Moscow State University(MGU)
		In this elite community are enlisted 6 languages recognized by the majority of the countries of the world as the most significant, obligatory element for education of young generation.
		In the majority of the East countries Russian is taught in the separate university centers and on Russian courses at the Russian centers of a science and culture.
		In the countries of America there are two numerous groups of the population which use Russian: immigrants from Russian empire, the USSR, Russia and the CIS (the USA, Canada, Argentina) and the experts prepared in the Soviet or Russian high schools.
	www.russianlanguage.ru (601 words)

	Economic Issues No. 21--Improving Governance and Fighting Corruption in the Baltic and CIS Countries: The Role of the ...
		In one country, all enterprises in the construction materials industry have nominally been privatized, but the firms are all controlled by close relatives of a senior politician and the result is a cartel with strong government support.
		In several countries, lax bank supervision and weak enforcement of prudential regulations have enabled banks to lend mainly to their own shareholders, or to engage in otherwise risky lending, which has significantly weakened the banking system.
		In several countries, the IMF is preparing, with the cooperation of the authorities, reports on observance of standards and codes to help identify areas where transparency can be improved.
	www.imf.org /external/pubs/ft/issues/issues21/index.htm (3977 words)

	Ukraine (04/06)
		Ukraine controls the gas pipelines on its territory that are also used to transit Russian gas to Western Europe..The complex relationship between supplier, transporter, and consumer has led to some tensions, including Russia's decision to cut off gas supplies for three days in January 2006.
		Urgent measures for radiation and workers safety as well as structural improvements to the "sarcophagus" erected by the Soviet Union are largely complete, and the contract for construction of the new shelter to be built around the sarcophagus is expected to be awarded mid-2006.
		Historically, Soviet Ukraine joined the United Nations in 1945 as one of the original members following a Western compromise with the Soviet Union, which had asked for seats for all 15 of its union republics.
	www.state.gov /outofdate/bgn/u/51201.htm (4567 words)

	Grammatical gender - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Although he and she may be used for animals, particularly pets, by extension, and sometimes she is used to refer to countries, ships or machines, this is considered personification.
		Personal names often have language-specific forms that identify the gender of the bearer.
		Different names for the male and the female of a species are more frequent for common pets or farm animals.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Grammatical_gender (4297 words)

	Cal Poly Pomona
		This page once prominently displayed the flags of many of the countries where these languages are spoken.
		We have removed them: Countries are not languages.
		Each of the countries that once had flags on this page has minority language communities, and the languages that we cover are minority, and in some cases majority, languages in many other regions, including here in southern California.
	www.csupomona.edu /~pronunciation (335 words)

	Slavic & East European Studies: Selected Internet Resources (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Revelations from the Russian Archives (Library of Congress) - "the documents that the Library of Congress has here chosen from the 500 made available from the Russian archives cover the entire range of Soviet history from the October Revolution of 1917 to the failed coup of August 1991.
		The Empire That Was Russia: The Prokudin-Gorskii Photographic Record Recreated (Library of Congress) - photographic survey of eleven regions of the Russian Empire taken between 1909-1915.
		Russian and Soviet women's collections - bibliographic guide to works held in the British Library.
	www.library.yale.edu /Internet/slavic.html (2331 words)

	More on kim
		In the early Soviet Union quite a few newborn Russians were called Kim after the "Kommunistichesky Internatsional Molodyozhi", or "Youth Communist International", see Names in Russian Empire, Soviet Union and CIS countries.
		Kim is the Korean name for nori, a seaweed often used in food.
		Putting an end to rumors that she was leaving for one of several high-profile job openings around the country, Baylor University women's basketball coach Kim Mulkey signed a contract extension Thursday that will reportedly keep her at the university for the next 10 years at a salary of more than $1 million annually.
	www.progdevo.com /Kaw-to-Kry/kim.php (975 words)

	Russian and Post-Soviet Studies Resource Guide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Who was who in the Soviet Union : a biographical dictionary of more than 4,600 leading officials from the central apparatus and the republics to 1991.
		An expansion of A biographical dictionary of the Soviet Union, 1917-1988.
		FirstBook of demographics for the republics of the former Soviet Union, 1951-1990.
	menic.utexas.edu /creees/outreach/eeres/RusFSU/current.html (3586 words)

	Central-Eurasia-L Archive - Publications - Page 40
		Within the annual theme of 2002 "Russian Empire/USSR and Paradoxes of Modernization" the second issue of AI is dedicated to the topic of "Organization of Political Space of Empire and Nation".
		Many factors have added to the salience of Islamic sentiment in the country: the ideological vacuum in Azerbaijani society; the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict; the deteriorating social-economic situation, one million refugees; the destructive activity of foreign states, mainly Iran, in exporting radical Islamic ideas; and the Chechen war and refugees from the North Caucasus.
		PUTIN'S PRAGMATIC APPROACH TO CIS COUNTRIES IS PAYING OFF James Purcell Smith Since the beginning of 2001, Russian foreign policy changed its tone in relations with almost all CIS countries from a big brother attitude to a pragmatic approach.
	cesww.fas.harvard.edu /cel/cel_publ40.html (4621 words)

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	Gertrude - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Gertrude (also spelt Getrud) is a female forename.
		This human name article is a disambiguation page – a list of pages that might otherwise share the same title, which is a person's or persons' name.
		If an article link referred you here, you might want to go back and fix it to point directly to the intended page.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gertrude (125 words)

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