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  Russian Election
The Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR) was first officially registered in December 1992, although it has been active since 1988.
In December 1995, the party finished second after the Communist Party with 11.18 percent.
The party has branches in 55 subjects of the federation, as well as in Kazakhstan, the Baltics, the South Caucasus, and Ukraine.
www.rferl.org /specials/russianelection/parties/liberald.asp   (260 words)

  
 Liberalism in Russia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
It is limited to liberal parties with substantial support, namely those that have had a representation in parliament.
Based on their ideals, various early 20th-century liberal parties evolved, the most important of them being the Constitutional-democratic Party, headed by Pavel Milyukov.
The so-called Liberal Democratic Party of Russia is not at all "liberal" - it is a nationalist, right-wing, populist party.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Liberalism_in_Russia   (587 words)

  
 ipedia.com: Liberal Democrats (UK) Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
The party was formed in 1988 by the merger of the Liberal Party and the short lived Social Democratic Party (the two parties had already been in an alliance for some years).
The Liberal Democrats are descended from the Liberal Party which dominated British politics for much of the 19th and early 20th centuries.
The Liberal Democrats are a member party of the Liberal International and their 11 MEPs form part of the ELDR group in the European Parliament.
www.ipedia.com /liberal_democrats__uk_.html   (2437 words)

  
 Russian Election
(Liberal Russia faction of Viktor Pokhmelkin and the Republican Party of Boris Fedorov)
Liberal Russia was born in late 2001 after Duma deputies Sergei Yushenkov, Vladimir Golovev, and Yulii Ryabov left the Union of Rightist Forces (SPS) because of "ideological differences with party leader Boris Nemtsov." Shortly thereafter, Berezovskii offered to finance the new party and was made a co-chairman at its congress on 22 December 2001.
On 7 December 2002, a rival faction of Liberal Russia held a congress in St. Petersburg at which is confirmed Berezovskii as party leader and expelled Yushenkov, Pokhmelkin and Boris Zolotukhin.
www.rferl.org /specials/russianelection/parties/newcourse.asp   (380 words)

  
 American Political Parties
The party eventually fades because farmers' situation improved in the late 1890s and because their political agenda was assumed by the major parties.
The Democratic Party by the late 1960s is deeply fragmented and seemingly incapable of dealing with the violence and turmoil, social and political, caused by the Vietnam War.
Fueled by the increasingly "liberal" social agenda of the Democrats and spurred on by the rise of a militant and extremely well-organized Evangelical Christianity, most southern states begin voting Republican in considerable majorities.
www.mury.k12.ut.us /MHS/apus/handouts/politicalparties.htm   (1489 words)

  
 Russia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Russia has a tradition of making colossal mistakes that keep it from becoming the superpower that it should be, given its resources and its extension.
Russia should decide which one it is: either ally with Israel against the common enemy, or grant Chechnya the same independence that Russia advocates for Palestine.
Russia is one of the few spots of the world where life expectancy is decreasing, where even soldiers are under-nourished, where subpolar regions have no heating, where millions of workers have not been paid for months.
www.scaruffi.com /politics/russia.html   (7495 words)

  
 The World at War - Global Timeline 1918-48
The period from 1918 to 1948 was one of lost peace, of unrest, instability, economical crisis, crimes, suffering, war and eventually the cold war and peace.
Among the casualties the First World War is liberal idealism and confidence in the achievements of science and technical advance to further the progress of man. Into the void will come a new and darker idealism forged in the fires of war and destruction.
Russia renounces any authority in Poland and the Baltic states and acknowledges the independence of Ukraine and Finland.
worldatwar.net /timeline/18-48.html   (3424 words)

  
 Gateway: For Want of a Nail Timeline
A new anti-slavery party, the Southern Union, is formed and conflict between abolitionist and pro-slavery views soon dominates SC political life.
This is symptomatic of the rise of many societal problems such as the problem of oppression of fls, the rise of industrialism and large corporations, urbanization leading to the rise of slums, and wage issues arising from ineffective unions.
Russia survived due to the backwardness of most of the population, Britain by the ability of its system to handle reform.
www.alternatehistory.com /gateway/analyses/FWOAN-timeline.html   (10811 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Europe | Russia Duma election must stand
Russia's Supreme Court has turned down an opposition appeal to invalidate the results of last year's elections to the lower house of parliament, the Duma.
This case was brought by a rare alliance of communists and liberals, united by their opposition to the party of power.
Russia's main liberal parties were voted out of parliament altogether.
news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/europe/4102191.stm   (308 words)

  
 FOXNews.com - Russian Liberal Politician Shot Dead - U.S. & World
Yushenkov, a Liberal Russia party leader, was shot three times in the back and died later of his wounds, a Moscow police spokesman said.
Liberal Russia is a small party and is not believed to pose a serious challenge to the pro-Kremlin parties in the Duma elections.
The Liberal Russia party was founded last year with the financial backing of Boris Berezovsky, a self-exiled tycoon and Putin opponent who was elected one of its co-chairmen, along with Yushenkov.
www.foxnews.com /story/0,2933,84439,00.html   (798 words)

  
 CNN - Russian parliament postpones vote on Chernomyrdin - September 4, 1998
MOSCOW (CNN) -- Russia's opposition-dominated lower chamber of parliament voted Friday to postpone a vote on prime minister-designate Viktor Chernomyrdin, avoiding a confrontation with President Boris Yeltsin as pressure mounted on opposition lawmakers to compromise.
The decision to postpone a vote appeared to indicate the hard-liners were no longer confident of winning their confrontation with Yeltsin and were looking for a way out.
Russia has been operating with an interim government since Yeltsin fired the previous prime minister on August 23 and named Chernomyrdin acting prime minister.
www.cnn.com /WORLD/europe/9809/04/russia.02/index.html   (837 words)

  
 Russia: History, Geography, Government, and Culture — FactMonster.com
Russia maintained that a political solution was impossible until Islamic militants in Chechnya had been vanquished.
In a decision that took Russia and the world by surprise, Boris Yeltsin resigned on Dec. 31, 1999, and Vladimir Putin became the acting president.
During 2003, there were 11 bomb attacks against Russia that were believed to have been orchestrated by Chechen rebels.
www.factmonster.com /ipka/A0107909.html   (3097 words)

  
 Terror-99
But it was Russia's liberal, pro-democratic parties that were dealt the harshest blow.
In early 2000, critics of the Kremlin released a documentary titled The Attempt on Russia, which argued that security agencies were behind the 1999 bombings.
Russia's new parliament, he said scornfully, will be filled with secret service officials and bureaucrats.
eng.terror99.ru /publications/107.htm   (1418 words)

  
 American Hegemony - A Timeline   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Similar actions were taken against anti-nazi resistance groups in other liberated territories, for example in Germany, where an average of $6 million was spent supporting the Nazi intelligence network of General Reinhard Gehlen until he was replaced by the CIA in 1954.
With varying degress of success liberalization programs are undertaken in Soviet Russia and its satellites to undo the worst of the persisting crimes of Stalin's regime.
The 2002 election of the liberal canidate Luiz Lula to the presidency demonstrates how foreign economic pressures are put to bear in the form of self-fulfilling prophecies: "For months international investment banks have been downgrading Brazil's government bonds, saying that a Lula presidency would likely lead to a default.
www.flagrancy.net /timeline.html   (12642 words)

  
 Russia: History, Geography, Government, and Culture — Infoplease.com
During the reign of Alexander I (1801–1825), Napoléon's attempt to subdue Russia was defeated (1812–1813), and new territory was gained, including Finland (1809) and Bessarabia (1812).
Russia maintained that a political solution was impossible until Islamic militants in Chechnya had been vanquished.
Russia was initially alarmed in 2001 when the U.S. announced its rejection of the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty of 1972, which for 30 years had been viewed as a crucial force in keeping the nuclear arms race under control.
www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0107909.html   (3464 words)

  
 Russian Important Events, Russian chronology of history, Russia Important Events on RussiansAbroad.com
Russia fights Britain, France, Sardinia, and Ottoman Empire in Crimean War; Russia forced to accept peace settlement dictated by its opponents.
Russia and China pull most of their troops back 100 kilometers along common border.
Russia and Kazakstan agree to unify their armies by end of 1995.
www.russiansabroad.com /russian_history_5.html   (5140 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Europe | US shares Russia poll concerns
If United Russia and its allies are to gain a two-thirds majority, they would be able to amend the Russian constitution, potentially paving the way for Mr Putin to stand for a third term as president.
Twenty-three parties were competing for half of the 450 places in the State Duma of parliament, in the fourth such election since the collapse of communism in the early 1990s.
Mr Zhirinovsky's misleadingly-named Liberal Democrats will be expected to support the president on most of his decisions as they did in his last parliament, he says.
news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/europe/3300483.stm   (634 words)

  
 Close Up Foundation Civics Education | Democracy in Russia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
They believed that, although it was important for Russia to keep its republics together, violently suppressing the political aspirations of citizens was contradictory to democratic ideals.
Some observers think that the roots of democracy are becoming firmly established in Russia and point to the fact that 67 percent of the citizens voted in the elections as evidence.
Russia's Aleksandr Lebed--A transcript of NewsHour correspondent Elizabeth Farnsworth's News Maker interview with former general and former Russian National Security Advisor Aleksandr Lebed, who negotiated the cease fire between the Russian Federation and the Chechen rebels.
www.closeup.org /russia.htm   (5892 words)

  
 CBC News In Depth: Liberal Party
The Liberal Party of Canada selected Stéphane Dion as its new leader on Dec. 2, 2006, as part of its efforts to rebuild and prepare to face an election battle in the not-too-distant future.
In 2004, Dryden, as a Liberal candidate, was elected to the House of Commons as the MP for York Centre.
Calling the Liberal party of the mid-1980s "pretty restrictive," Italian-born Joe Volpe recruited legions of new party members from the ethnic communities he observed as in need of a more active role in government.
www.cbc.ca /news/background/liberals/leadershiprace.html   (3449 words)

  
 Russian Election
Eurasia Party-Union of Patriots of Russia, Abdul-Vakhed Niyazov
Party of Social Justice, Larisa Babukh, Maria Lazutova, Mikhail Karpenko, Anatolii Sidorenko, Boris Tomaev, Anatolii Shabanov, Vladimir Shadrikov
Russian Communist Workers Party- Russian Party of Communists, Anatolii Kruchkov, Viktor Tyulkin
www.rferl.org /specials/russianelection/parties.asp   (103 words)

  
 The Imperial Presidency: This Far and No Further
The anarchists distributed leaflets of their own by printing them and dropping them out of tenement windows in Manhattan; they were charged under the Sedition Act for publishing "disloyal, scurrilous, and abusive language" about the government, and with attempting to "curtail...production" of munitions, though there was no evidence of any such efforts.
Worse, in the West's view, Moscow was the headquarters of the Communist International, the world federation of Communist parties, and the West saw any and all Communist insurgencies and movements as being controlled by the Soviets.
Representative Ron Dellums, a liberal Democrat, was joined by 53 other Democrats in filing a suit against Bush in federal court in November 1990.
www.iraqtimeline.com /imperial.html   (15170 words)

  
 SparkNotes: The Russian Revolution (1917-1921): The Communist Revolutionaries
On the opposite side of the spectrum lay the Bolsheviks, a growing group of intellectuals, workers, soldiers, and radicals under the leadership of Vladimir I. Lenin and Leon Trotsky.
It would be foolish to suggest that no conservative forces existed in Russia at this time; however, the revolutionary mood not only overshadowed moderates and rightist forces, but probably pushed them into the distinct minority among the population as a whole.
Russia, therefore, turned radical because the stifling autocracy had for too long persuaded the people that reform within the structure was basically impossible.
www.sparknotes.com /history/european/russianrev/section8.rhtml   (726 words)

  
 Civics Online - [Re]Envisioning the Democratic Community
To his disappointment, two parties were developing by the end of his first term.
Acting independently of party dogma, Arthur also tried to lower tariff rates so the Government would not be embarrassed by annual surpluses of revenue.
Feeling that the future peace of the world would depend upon relations between the United States and Russia, he devoted much thought to the planning of a United Nations, in which, he hoped, international difficulties could be settled.
www.matrix.msu.edu /~civics/timeline   (18022 words)

  
 A Timeline of CIA Atrocities
Unlucky nations are targeted for a wide variety of reasons: not only threats to American business interests abroad, but also liberal or even moderate social reforms, political instability, the unwillingness of a leader to carry out Washington’s dictates, and declarations of neutrality in the Cold War.
The following timeline should confirm that the CIA as we know it should be abolished and replaced by a true information-gathering and analysis organization.
Gehlen inflates Soviet military capabilities at a time when Russia is still rebuilding its devastated society, in order to inflate his own importance to the Americans (who might otherwise punish him).
www.huppi.com /kangaroo/CIAtimeline.html   (5388 words)

  
 November 5, 1937 - The Hossbach Conference
Today, nonetheless, Britain, France, Russia, and the smaller states adjoining them, must be included as factors in our political calculations.
Poland -- with Russia at her rear -- will have little inclination to engage in war against a victorious Germany.
Military intervention by Russia must be countered by the swiftness of our operations; however, whether such an intervention was a practical contingency at all was, in view of Japan's attitude, more than doubtful.
www.historyplace.com /worldwar2/timeline/hossbach.htm   (4133 words)

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