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  Transcaucasian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The Transcaucasian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic was a short-lived (1922–1936) Soviet republic, consisting of Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan, which were traditionally known as the Transcaucasian Republics in the Soviet Union.
The republic\'s roots date back to the dissolution of the Russian Empire in 1917, during the Russian Revolution, when the provinces of the Caucasus seceded and attempted to form their own federal state called the Transcaucasian Federation.
In 1936, the republic was dissolved and the three countries became the Georgian, Armenian and Azerbaijan SSR respectively.
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 Transcaucasia - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Transcaucasia
Of the Transcaucasian territories, Georgia joined Russia voluntarily in the early 19th century, while the rest of the region was captured by Russia from Persia and Turkey later in the century.
The period of Russian rule was one of rapid economic and cultural advance and the emergence of a native intelligentsia with autonomist views.
After the Russian Revolution of October 1917, the region separated from Russia to become the Transcaucasian Federation, but was conquered by the Red Army with the help of local communists in 1920 (and thereafter renamed the Transcaucasian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic).
encyclopedia.farlex.com /Transcaucasia   (320 words)

  
 Georgia (republic) - Search View - MSN Encarta
Georgia (republic) (in Georgian, Sakartvelo), republic in the Transcaucasia region of western Asia, bordered by the Black Sea on the west, Russia on the north, and Azerbaijan, Armenia, and Turkey on the south.
The climate in the republic is marked by wide regional variations, ranging from humid, subtropical conditions in the Colchis Lowland to drier and more continental conditions in the eastern uplands.
The Republic of Georgia was once the Soviet Union’s wealthiest per capita, but there has been a marked decline in economic performance since the dissolution of the USSR in 1991.
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 The Embassy of the Republic of Azerbaijan to the Hellenic Republic
The Embassy of the Republic of Azerbaijan to the Hellenic Republic
The Democratic Republic of Azerbaijan guarantees on its territory, the civil and political rights to all citizens, irrespective of their nationality, religion, social status and gender.
As a result, the country's area, which in the period of the Azerbaijani Democratic Republic in 1920 was 114,000 square kilometres, was reduced in 1920-1921 to 86,600 square kilometres.
www.azembassy.gr /eng/ar/history.shtml   (3894 words)

  
 Wikinfo | Republic of Georgia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Republic of Georgia is a country to the north-east of the Black Sea in the south Caucasus.
In February 25, 1921 the Democratic Republic of Georgia was occupied by Soviet Russia and was incorporated into a Transcaucasian Federative Soviet Socialist Republic uniting Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan.
Since military coup d'etat of December 22, 1991-January 6, 1992, Georgia was governed by the regime of Eduard Shevardnadze (former 1st Secretary of the Communist Party of the former Georgian SSR and former Minister of Foreign Affairs of the former Soviet Union).
www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Republic_of_Georgia   (664 words)

  
 Georgia (country) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A former republic of the Soviet Union, it shares borders with Russia in the north and Turkey, Armenia, and Azerbaijan in the south.
With their respective autonomous republics abolished, the Georgian SSR was briefly granted some of their territory, until 1957.
From November 1990 to March 1991, one of the leaders of the National Liberation movement, Dr. Zviad Gamsakhurdia (1939-1993), was the Chairman of the Supreme Council of the Republic of Georgia (the Georgian parliament).
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 Transcaspian Region - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Transcaspian Region
The principal Turkmen tribes are the Tekkes of Merv and Attok, the Ersaris, the Yomuds, and the Gokluns, all speaking varieties of a Turkic language and descended from the Mongol invaders who swept across Asia in the 13th century.
Conquered by Tsarist Russia 1877–1900, the region became part of the Turkestan Soviet Socialist Autonomous Republic in 1921, and a constituent republic of the USSR in 1925.
The republic, with its strict, secular leadership, succeeded in avoiding the religious and interethnic violence experienced by neighbouring Tajikistan during the early 1990s.
encyclopedia.farlex.com /Transcaspian+Region   (550 words)

  
 The Embassy of the Russian Federation in the Republic of India
The republic was assigned the role of a bridgehead for the implementation of their ambitious plans to create a feudal caliphate on the territory between the Black and the Caspian seas.
All told, the federal targeted programme for the economic and social rehabilitation of the Chechen Republic envisages the restoration of 4,550 private blocks and 2,630 municipal flats, with a total floor space exceeding 500,000 sq m, in 2002 and 2003.
Federal support is being rendered to amateur performers and for the restoration and conservation of historical and cultural monuments.
www.india.mid.ru /nfr2003/nf_ch.html   (12398 words)

  
 Transcaucasia: Free Encyclopedia Articles at Questia.com Online Library
It comprises the Republics of Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan.
The federation was dissolved in May, 1918, into the republics of Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia.
After the three republics were conquered by the Red Army, the Transcaucasian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic was formed; it joined the USSR in Dec., 1922, becoming one of the four original federated republics.
www.questia.com /library/encyclopedia/transcaucasia.jsp   (1288 words)

  
 flag of Transcaucasian Federation flags, Fahnen, Flaggen, FOTW bei Nationalflaggen.de   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The horizontal tricolour yellow-fl-red (better orange-fl-red) was the flag choosen for the Federative Democratic Republic of Transcaucasia, created on 22 April 1918 and disappeared on 26 May of the same year.
The war between the Transcaucasian Federation and Turkey began on 13 April 1918.
"Transcaucasian Federation, short-lived state established in 1917 after the Bolchevik seizure of power, declared in April 1918 to be an independent Republic.
www.nationalflaggen.de /flags-of-the-world/flags/transc.html   (235 words)

  
 Abkhazia, Georgia and the Caucasus
The territory of the independent Mountain Peoples' Republic of 1918, which was recognised internationally, coincided precisely with that pan-Caucasian area that had been involved in the mountain peoples' national liberation campaign in the nineteenth century and developed under the banner of Shamil.
The Transcaucasian Democratic Federal Republic (ZDFR) broke up after the formation of the Mountain Peoples' Republic and on the same day, 26 May 1918, following an ultimatum by Turkey, the Democratic Republic of Georgia was proclaimed (the Azerbaijan Republic was proclaimed on 27 May and the Armenian Republic on 28 May).
The third AGNK congress was held in Sukhum in the context of the political turbulence in Chechnya (on 1-2 November 1991).
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 MINISTRY OF SOCIAL SECURITY   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
1918 was the minister of the finance and foodstuffs, then a minister of trusteeship of the Transcaucasian Democratic Federal Republic, and from the middle of December up to 7 of February 1919 as the RA minister of public trusteeship and labor.
After Mugrus treaty about the cease-fire Khatisyan was appointed as the minister of foreign affairs of the Republic of Armenia.
On 2 of December 1920 signed Alexandropols peace treaty, and then moved to Paris, where continued activity in the Armenian National delegation in the beginning as the vice-president, then chairman, participated in conference in Lozan.
www.mss.am /eng/about/ministers/khatisyan.htm   (270 words)

  
 Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Indeed, South Azerbaijan became the heart of all democratic processes in Iran during the late XIX th century and the first half of the XX th century.
As a result, the country's area, which in the period of the Azerbaijani Democratic Republic in 1920 was 114,000 square kilometers, was reduced in 1920-1921 to 86,600 square kilometers.
In addition, on July 7, 1923 at the initiative of the Moscow leaders of the Bolshevists, the so-called Nagorno-Karabakh autonomous region, with a predominantly Armenian population, was artificially carved out of a part of the territory of historical Karabakh, the majority of population of which constituted Azerbaijanis.
www.mfa.gov.az /eng/azer/history.shtml   (3894 words)

  
 Nagorno-Karabakh - Nagorno-Karabakh Republic
It is closely tied to the Republic of Armenia and uses its currency, the dram.
Reportedly, one of the suggestions put forward was the withdrawal of the occupying forces from the Azeri territories adjacent to Nagorno-Karabakh, and holding referenda (plebiscites) in Nagorno-Karabakh and Azerbaijan proper regarding the future status of the region.
Taiwan (ROC) - Republic of China (diplomatically sometimes known as Chinese Taipei (or other names), regarded by UN as "Taiwan, Province of China", the political status of the ROC and the legal status of the Taiwan Island (and its outlying islands) are in dispute)
www.naturemagics.com /world-guide/nagorno-karabakh-republic.shtm   (3122 words)

  
 NKR Office in Washington, DC
The years of 1918-1920 proved to be some of the most difficult in the history of Karabakh Armenians, as the ancient Armenian region of Artsakh became a subject of territorial disputes.
On May 28, the Azerbaijani Democratic Republic and the Republic of Armenia were declared.
The agreement signed by the Seventh Congress of Karabakh with the Azerbaijani government is to be considered breached by the latter in the light of the organized assault of Azerbaijani armed forces on the peaceful population of Karabakh and annihilation of the population of Shoushi and [surrounding] villages.
www.nkrusa.org /nk_conflict/nk_1918_1920.shtml   (1911 words)

  
 The Quest for Democratic Security: Peaceworks: Publications: U.S. Institute of Peace
This idea was not yet the concept of democratic security but, rather, a mechanical process to maintain peace based on diminishing the factors of war making at the time.
Whereas the admission of the Czech Republic passed without difficulty, that of Slovakia met with resistance from Hungary, which was preoccupied with the rights of the large Hungarian minority in Slovakia, notably with regard to its cultural identity: language, education, and other relevant attributes.
Concerning the three Transcaucasian states (Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia), there seems to be a tacit agreement that they should all join at the same time, even if the official policy is that every country should be admitted on its own merits.
www.usip.org /pubs/peaceworks/pwks26/chap2_26.html   (6771 words)

  
 The Embassy of the Russian Federation in the Republic of India
Federal parties should have a real influence in the regions so that the latter could influence the top power and administrative bodies as a whole, said Mr.
The Federal Railway Transport Agency is headed by Mikhail Akulov, a deputy communications minister in the former Government.
He noted that by then the Chechen government, not the federal centre, would oversee the restoration of the republic devastated by the civil war.
www.india.mid.ru /nfr2004/nf13.html   (11577 words)

  
 REPUBLIC OF ARMENIA
The Constitution of the Republic of Armenia, also adopted on July 5, 1995, lowered the number of parliamentary seats from 190 to 131, beginning with the next regularly scheduled parliamentary elections in 1999.
Extraordinary sessions may be convened by the President of the Republic at the initiative of the Government, or at least one third of the total number of deputies; and by the Chairman of the National Assembly at the initiative of the Government or at least one third of the total number of deputies.
Situations in the Republic of the Russian Federation and Checnya.
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 Chechnya, the White Book (long) [Free Republic]
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The introduction of the Shariah court, many of whose laws contradict Islam, was crowned with the shooting executions in city squares, which reminded one of the dark Middle Ages but did not check the tsunami wave of grave crimes in the republic.
The republic is ill, and everyone suffers from the effects of this disease -- Chechnya, its closest neighbours, and Russia as a whole.
www.freerepublic.com /forum/a38ea55eb2187.htm   (19196 words)

  
 Pravda.RU OSCE: Russian presidential elections not truly democratic in some respects
Spiritual leaders of the Commonwealth of Independent States believe that religion should become the foundation for national ideology in the former Soviet republics that are now part of the CIS More details...
The Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation has posted the comparative analysis of the presidential elections in 2000 and 2004.
The work to repair the Roksky tunnel on the Transcaucasian highway, one of the two principal routes across the Central Caucasian Ridge, linking Russia with Transcaucasia, has finished, Emergency Situations Minister of North Ossetia (a republic in the North Caucasus) Major-General Boris Dzgoyev More details...
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 Main Page - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
1971: People's Republic of China replaced the Republic of China as China's representative at the United Nations.
George W. Bush nominates Ben Bernanke to succeed Alan Greenspan as chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve.
Hurricane Wilma moves into the Atlantic Ocean after bringing damaging winds and torrential rain to Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula and then southwest Florida, United States.
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 Library of Congress / Federal Research Division / Country Studies / Area Handbook Series / Georgia (Caucasus) / ...
Armenia, Vision of a Republic: The Independence Lobby in America.
Aspaturian, Vernon V. The Union Republics in Soviet Diplomacy: A Study of Soviet Federalism in the Service of Soviet Foreign Policy.
Human Rights and Democratization in the Newly Independent States of the Former Soviet Union.
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 RADIO FREE EUROPE/ RADIO LIBERTY
Two people were killed on July 14 and two others injured when a homemade bomb exploded outside the home in Tskhinvali of Bala Bestayev, who heads a militia formation subordinate to the Defense Ministry of the unrecognized Republic of South Ossetia, regnum.ru and Caucasus Press reported.
Additionally, 58 homes in the border zone will be destroyed and their residents relocated; the funds will provide compensation.
Boris Anokhin, a spokesman for Russia's Federal Corrections Service, announced in Astana on July 13 that Kazakh authorities have extradited Zelimkhan Sampiev to Russia, Interfax-AVN reported.
www.rferl.org /newsline/2-tca.asp   (1051 words)

  
 Dick Cheney and Bush's Other Warmongers [Free Republic]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
We are still a free republic, no thanks to those on either side of the ideological spectrum ready to sell us out at the drop of a hat to ersatz leaders hungry for power and/or money, and to whom American sovereignty means very little in their own Grand Scheme Of Things.
And Dick Cheney being a member of the CFR (along with a startling percentile of Dubya's Inner Circle), you can be sure some tasty Internazism will be a main course in the Bush Administration should Cheney get the nod and they move forward...the same dish we could expect from a Gore/Whoeverthehellhepicks ticket.
At the time of the Harken investment, UBS was a joint-venture partner with BCCI in a bank in Geneva, Switzerland.
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 Paradox Interactive Forums - VIP - Middle East, Caucasia, Persia, and Central Asia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
I've checked once more the country name tag but i could not find Azerbaijan, although there is Georgia and Armenia and while Azerbaijan declared herself independent before Armenia.
I think creating a revolter tag for Masavat Republic of Azerbaijan (or the Khanate of Nahchevan) is going to be my first suggestion.
I have the flags for Azerbaijan republic and Baku Commune ready.
www.europa-universalis.com /forum/showthread.php?t=113444&page=2   (3351 words)

  
 Embassy of the Republic of Azerbaijan in Georgia
Embassy of the Republic of Azerbaijan in Georgia
* Welcome from Ambassador * About the Republic of Azerbaijan * Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict *
© Embassy of the Republic of Azerbaijan in Georgia, 2005.
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