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  Russia Profile - United Russia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
On January 24, 2002 United Russia held its General Council meeting which was presided over by chairman of the General Council Alexander Bespalov.
On February 8, 2002 the Unity party and the All Russia movement which were included in the United Russia party, announced the dissolution in line with their own decision.
United Russia undertakes the task to become a ruling party capable of ensuring support for the president’s initiatives, including that in crisis situations.
www.russiaprofile.org /resources/political/majorparties/unitedrussia/index.wbp   (772 words)

  
  United Russia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
United Russia is a relatively new party in the Russian Parliament but has been making great gains in recent federal and local elections due to the popularity of Putin.
The current head of the United Russia is Duma Speaker and former Interior Minister Boris Gryzlov, elected as a party leader in November 2002.
United Russia can be considered moderately nationalist on some issues, combined tendencies of pride over accomplishments by the Soviet Union (notably its centralism), but is not communist.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/United_Russia   (403 words)

  
 Russia - The United States
Russia viewed summitry with the United States as the mark of its continued status as a great power and nuclear superpower.
In its cooperation with the United States on strategic arms control, Russia declared that it was the successor to the Soviet Union in assuming the obligations of START, which had been signed in July 1991.
United States business leaders warned Yeltsin, however, that private investment in Russia could not increase appreciably under the still capricious and complex Russian laws, taxes, import duties, and governmental red tape.
countrystudies.us /russia/80.htm   (2384 words)

  
 NCSJ - Russia page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Russia identified strongly with the predominantly Orthodox Serbs, considering the territory of Yugoslavia within its sphere of influence and resented intervention by NATO and UN forces in the region.
Russia is concerned about the spread of Islamic guerilla and terrorist groups that actively seek to overthrow authoritarian governments in the region, especially in Uzbekistan.
Russia, France and Germany were opposed to U.S. pressure for a tougher UN Resolution on arms inspections in Iraq through late 2002 (UN Resolution 1441), and voiced strong opposition the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in early 2003.
www.ncsj.org /Russia.shtml   (10291 words)

  
 Tracking Nuclear Proliferation, 1998: Russia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Russia has occasionally stated that it had a capacity to dismantle about 2,000 nuclear weapons a year; it has at the same time reported that the rate of dismantlement was slowed down by the lack of suitable storage space for dismantled components.
In June 1995, Russia agreed to allow the United States to monitor the operation of the three reactors and to monitor the plutonium separated from the spent fuel produced in these units—without, however, inspecting the reprocessing plants where the plutonium is separated.
Russia has also joined the MTCR and the Wassenaar Arrangement, and it has recently ratified the CWC—thereby boosting confidence that cooperation in establishing common assumptions and ground rules for national export control laws and regulations, and their actual implementation, will proceed in the areas of advanced conventional arms and dual-use technologies, missiles, and chemical weapons.
www.ceip.org /programs/npp/russia.htm   (8156 words)

  
 washingtonpost.com: Russia's Party for One
United Russia is poised to collect more votes in national parliamentary elections Sunday than any party has in the dozen years since the Soviet collapse, according to polls and analysts.
In a popular supermarket chain, United Russia has bought what it calls an "advertising contract" requiring all clerks to wear party baseball caps and buttons, regardless of their political views.
United Russia is running an "issue-less" campaign and proud of it, said Nikonov, the strategist.
www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A40074-2003Dec5?language=printer   (1521 words)

  
 Putin's Legacy and United Russia's New Ideology
If this social contract is accepted, United Russia will have succeeded in cre­ating an ideological framework for national unity and a road map to national greatness; at the very least, it will have ensured its position as a ruling party until the presidential elections of 2012 or even beyond.
Energy superpower status under the guidance of United Russia is the key to Russia’s future, and anyone who would thwart Russia’s aspirations—oligarchs, opposition groups, terror­ists, foreign powers—is an “enemy.” Surkov seeks to rally popular support by identifying those who seek their own ends and oppose United Russia’s grand strategy as being among these common enemies.
United Russia must attempt to hold on to hundreds of thousands of its current members once President Putin is no longer at the helm.
www.heritage.org /Research/RussiaandEurasia/bg1940.cfm   (5779 words)

  
 Russia, Putin Power, United Russia Party - JRL 9-26-04
To begin with, the CPSU was in itself strong, while United Russia borrows influence from the president.
But even assuming that the enormous investment in United Russia was not in vain and the party is viable, it still has a long way to go to become a new CPSU.
The task of such a party is to imitate public support for the head of the state, approving all his initiatives and aiding him in fighting his political opponents, if, of course, the secret services fail to cope with that on their own.
www.cdi.org /russia/johnson/8381-5.cfm   (948 words)

  
 AEI - Short Publications
For the United States, Russia is crucial in the global war on terrorism; nuclear nonproliferation; the world’s energy security; and the containment of a resurgent authoritarian China, which increasingly threatens the interests of the United States and its allies in Southeast Asia.
Post-Soviet Russia has removed all the restrictions on foreign travel and immigration and was found to be in formal compliance with the emigration provision of the amendment in 1994.
Russia is to stay a nuclear superpower and the regional superpower, but it seems to have settled for the role of one of the world’s great states, rather than a global superpower engaged in a worldwide competition with the United States.
www.aei.org /publications/pubID.24606,filter.all/pub_detail.asp   (4203 words)

  
 Russia Initiative, Wisconsin Conference of The United Methodist Church
They are the first clergy couple to be ordained in the Russia Conference and are the only United Methodist pastors in the Kaliningrad Region of Russia (a 15,000 square km section of Russia, separated from the rest of the country by Poland, Lithuania and the Baltic Sea).
Natasha Botov is the pastor of the United Methodist congregation in Sovietsk, a community of 35,000 on the Lithuanian border.
Wisconsin and Russia United Methodist Churches Connecting in Mission and Ministry: Brochure is in two different versions—PDF or HTML.
www.wisconsinumc.org /russiainitiative   (733 words)

  
 The crisis in United Russia
This is the background to United Russia’s spectacular defeat in the Nenetskii autonomous district.
A liberal United Russia would be nice they say but the article was not too demanding, adding that in the course of consultations and compromises nothing might be left of the liberal platform.
The fact that the Kremlin considers that United Russia is useless explains why they prefer to win elections by cheating and changing the rules in their favour.
www.marxist.com /crisis-united-russia150605.htm   (3239 words)

  
 United Russia - MN-FILES - MOSNEWS.COM   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
United Russia (Yedinaya Rossiya) was formed as a party on December 1, 2001.
In its manifesto, United Russia proclaimed the following goals: external and internal security of the country, economic competitiveness and freedom, fight against poverty, social defense of the needy, support for education, public health, culture and ethics.
The insolvency administrator of what was once Russia’s largest private oil company Yukos had confirmed on Tuesday, Oct. 24, that German bank Deutsche Bank is interested in acquiring Yukos and its debts.
www.mosnews.com /mn-files/unitedrussia.shtml   (550 words)

  
 Russia
Russia currently supports efforts by a Special Working Group formed under the NATO-Russia Council to explore the future structure of a TMD system that would be in the interest of all European countries, and to develop a framework for the joint use of force against non-strategic ballistic missiles.
Russia and China supported the idea of coordinating their political efforts aimed at preventing global destabilization and continuing the dialogue with the United States.[2] According to an "informed source," both Russia and China anticipated the US withdrawal from the ABM Treaty and coordinated their political positions accordingly.
Commenting on suggestions that Russia and China cooperate on developing their own ABM system as a response to US NMD, Deputy Prime Minister Ilya Klebanov said on 2 March 2001 that any talk of possible Russian responses was premature, since the United States has not abandoned the treaty.
www.nti.org /db/nisprofs/russia/treaties/abm.htm   (11139 words)

  
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Russia stretches across Eurasia and has varied climate, terrain and vegetation.
www.phonecardsmile.com /phone_card_to/Russia.html   (235 words)

  
 Pravda.RU United Russia party holds nationwide subbotnik
Russia is concerned about Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's statement that he is free from his former promise not to physically hurt Arafat More details...
The State Duma United Russia majority party is holding a nationwide subbotnik (a day of voluntary work to clean the country) on Saturday More details...
They are the treaty between Russia and Ukraine on cooperation in using the Azov-Kerch water area and the treaty on the state border More details...
newsfromrussia.com /main/2004/04/24/53605.html   (1596 words)

  
 Online NewsHour: Russia's Big Winner -- December 8, 2003
The United Russia party of President Vladimir Putin won Sunday's parliamentary election by a large margin, soundly defeating the Communist Party.
TOBY GATI: The results of these elections really are the culmination of several trends that we've seen in Russia; the suppression of a free press, the pressure on civic society, the use of government apparatus and of the apparatus of the police to keep opposition in check.
In any case, it is not the Russia certainly that I expected and many expected, and it's not a Russia based on the rule of law.
www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/europe/july-dec03/russiaelection_12-08.html   (1803 words)

  
 The Heritage Foundation Research: Russia and Eurasia
The best option for the U.S. and Russia is a pragmatic and realistic relationship based on the cooperative pursuit of common interests.
Vladislav Surkov's February 2006 speech to a United Russia political seminar combines democratic and market rhetoric with deliberate actions of power centralization and ideological and economic nationalism bordering on protectionism....
Russia's NGO Law: An Attack on Freedom and Civil Society by Yevgeny Volk, Ph.
www.heritage.org /Research/RussiaandEurasia/index.cfm   (649 words)

  
 NewsFromRussia.Com United Russia Party official killed in Chechnya
A gang that acted in Avtury is involved with the murder of Tamara Khadzhiyeva, the leader of a United Russia party office of Chechnya's Shali district, RIA Novosti was told in the republic's prosecutor's office on Sunday.
The Japanese government has announced a new "course of measures" vis-a-vis Russia in an effort to speed up the process of regaining the possession of four southernmost Kuril islands.
An information base providing security and control over the situation at Russia's continental shelves will be created in the Russian North, including in the Barents Sea region More details...
newsfromrussia.com /main/2004/07/18/55065.html   (1361 words)

  
 Interfax
United Russia's federal ticket in Duma elections includes only Putin - Gryzlov // Oct 2 2007 7:06PM
United Russia proposes Putin as sole leader of federal party ticket // Oct 2 2007 6:52PM
United Russia federal list might be personally led by Putin - sources // Oct 2 2007 5:17PM
www.interfax.ru /index.html?lang=e   (405 words)

  
 United Russia: Last news - Pravda.Ru   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
United States of Russia to save the nation from final
Vladimir putin sent greetings to the all russian meeting of deputies from the united russia
Russia to seek U.S. court decision to lift curbs on Russian uranium
english.pravda.ru /filing/United_Russia   (329 words)

  
 Russia - US Department of State
United States Expresses Shock Over Murder of Russian Journalist
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, in collaboration with researchers from the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna, Russia, have discovered a new basic component of the universe -- element 118.
“Anna Politkovskaya was one of the bravest and most respected investigative journalists in Russia,” says Paula Dobriansky, U.S. under secretary of state for democracy and global affairs, at the ceremony.
usinfo.state.gov /eur/europe_eurasia/russia.html   (471 words)

  
 RIA Novosti
The Patriarch of Moscow and all Russia Alexy II said on Tuesday that the world community should take into consideration the opinion of Serbs when determining Kosovo's status.
Russia has no plans to import spent nuclear fuel
MOSCOW, October 2 (RIA Novosti) Putin to remain in power/ Putin can ensure United Russia parliamentary majority/ Gazprom to choose one more Shtokman partner in October/ Potanin, Prokhorov to split assets/ Russia to build space center in Indonesia
en.rian.ru   (1072 words)

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