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 | | Their presence in Russia is due to emigrations of German Jews from Poland, and they still preserve their dialect of Hebrew German, which is the language of their Press. | | | And the future of Russia as a maritime power is moreover obstructed by political difficulties; the way from the Black Sea to the Mediterranean is closed by the Bosphorus and the Dardanelles; the way from the Baltic to the Atlantic is closed by Sweden, Germany, Norway, and Denmark. | | | The Jews are a scattered population, principally in the Governments of Western and Southern Russia. |
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| | Our Little Liberty - Gateway To Russia - News From Russia |
| | In late May of this year, a report on the so-called “oligarch conspiracy” was cast into the public arena. | | | Obviously, the possibility that law enforcement agencies could be used today to further political and economic interests poses a great danger to this freedom. | | | Recently many have started to talk about business’ responsibility to society, often interpreting this as help from the wealthiest entrepreneurs to the poorer segments of the population. |
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http://www.gateway2russia.com/art/Sources/EXPERT%20Magazine/Articles/Our%20Little%20Liberty_139090.html
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| | RADIO FREE EUROPE/ RADIO LIBERTY |
| | Yeven Marchuk, the secretary of the National Security and Defense Council, claimed this was evidence of the "end of Ukraine's multi-vector foreign policy." How he reached such a conclusion is impossible to understand with Kyiv going West to NATO and East to the EEC. | | | In December last year Kuchma complained that the West still perceived Ukraine "as the Soviet Union or a part of it," which, he said, was wrong because Ukraine is now an independent state. | | | In March at the Odesa summit of Moldova, Ukraine, and Russia, Kuchma said Ukraine would become an observer in the Eurasian Economic Community (EEC) as a step toward full membership of that body. |
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| | WHKMLA : History of Russia : Catherine the Great (1762-1796) : Foreign Policy |
| | Russia claimed to be the protector of the christian orthodox peoples living in the Ottoman Empire, a claim which repeatedly lead to conflicts during the coming century. | | | When Catherine the Great eliminated her husband, Czar Peter III., in a palace coup, she began an energetic rule. | | | Pavlac's Women's History Site at King's College; extensive biography from Ursula's History Web focusses on her wedding, rise to power, on her reforms; little on her foreign policy |
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http://www.stabi.hs-bremerhaven.de/whkmla/region/russia/cathforeign.html
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| | The result was that linguistic and ethnic divisions that had already begun to appear among the Russian people were solidified. | | | Alexis was tried and condemned to death, but before Peter announced his final decision, Alexis died; officially from apoplexy, more probably from violence. | | | Novgorod had trading connections with the West, but its relatively exposed position made it subject to repeated attacks by the Scandinavians, Germans, and Lithuanians. |
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http://mars.acnet.wnec.edu/%7Egrempel/courses/wc2/lectures/petersrussia.html
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| | Asia Times |
| | Moscow officials have little to say to their US counterparts except for reiterating the well-known Russian position on postwar reconstruction of Iraq: all political, economic and humanitarian issues should be conducted through the United Nations, particularly the Security Council, where Russia has veto power. | | | The Russian political leadership, most of all President Putin, now realize very clearly that Moscow has already lost its war regarding Iraq and it is time for damage control. | | | By contrast, after the US-Russia rapprochement that followed the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, Washington threw its political weight behind Moscow's bid for WTO membership, pushing forward talks that otherwise would have taken more time to realize. |
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| | Religion in Russia |
| | The Jewish population in the former USSR has been steadily decreasing since late 1980`s, when immigration to Israel and other countries has first been allowed. | | | Turkic speakers east of the Yenisey have kept to thier shamanistic beliefs, though a few converted to Christianity. | | | But as the war ended, restrictions were once again put on expressing such beliefs. |
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| | Russia On Autopilot, Muslim Genocide Continues |
| | Soviet embassies were picketed, Soviet goods boycotted, Soviet crimes were condemned.' Congress imposed trade sanctions on the USSR to force it to allow Jewish emigration to Israel. | | | Of 42 serious attacks against Russian journalists last year, half were believed to have been the work of the Yeltsin government. | | | Claims by Moscow and the Clinton Administration that Russia faces national break-up if Chechnya is allowed independence are nonsense. |
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| | I don’t know about anybody else, but if I was in charge of killing the most powerful family in Russia and the success of my political party depended on it, I would make very sure that none of the family would be alive to threaten that position. | | | There were many attempts to clutch at the royal fortune by people claiming to be the missing grand duchess, but so far none have proved to be real. | | | One of Anderson’s biggest supporters was the son of Dr. Eugene Botkin - family doctor to the Romanovs who was also murdered with them at the Ipatiev House. |
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| | Russia World - A lively web access for political and economic questions. | | | Russia on the Web is a service mark of The Transnational Institute | | | Institute for Journalism in Transition - Here you can read their journal "Transitions," and access other resources for journalists concerned with Russia and Eastern Europe. |
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| | Although Russian law criminalizes acts that constitutesexual or domestic violence, Human Rights Watch found that Russian lawenforcement does not effectively ensure that incidents of violence againstwomen are actually investigated and prosecuted, and in fact has sometimesobstructed their investigation and prosecution. | | | Human Rights Watch also discovered serious failings in the government'scollection of forensic evidence, evidence which is a practical requirementin the prosecution of sexual assault cases in Russia. | | | The government of Russia fails to afford victims of violence the protectionof the law required by the international human rights treaties to whichRussia is a party. |
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| | Latvia, Russians - Johnson's Russia List 6-4-03 |
| | The newspaper argued that Russia will not do so, because that would make it appear laughable. | | | Headlines: Support Johnson's Russia List :: JRL RAS: POLITICS: Business, Reform, Ministerial Turnover; LAW: Terrorism, Hatred; SOCIETY; ETHNICITY, and more... | | | Russia has never been particularly upset when it has been caught in a web of lies, but it has always panicked about the possibility that it might become laughable. |
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| | In 'Little Russia,' little interest in Putin's politics - U.S. News - MSNBC.com |
| | A recent PBS special on Putin, for example, was titled "Return of the Czar." An article in the Wall Street Journal cited a Russian poll that found half of those Russians who support the president also "love" him, while 24 percent of his supporters "fear" him. | | | Although the broadcast format is heavily talk radio, it mostly stays out of Russian politics, he said. | | | More than 320,000 residents of New York City were born in Russia and the former Soviet Union, according to the New York Census in 2000. |
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Russian Language and Literature |
| | From the Greek clergy came the polemical works, and the hatred of the Latins that became fixed in the hearts of the Russian people. | | | Basil Nikititch Tatishsheff (1685-1750) gathered the chronicles, the synaxaria, and the historical documents, and subjecting them to critical analysis, wrote the "History of Russia". | | | It is a book of a moral character, in which are propounded the rules for living according to the precepts of the Faith and Christian piety, the duties of man as a member of the family, and the way to govern the home well and to care for domestic economy. |
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| | LITTLE RUSSIA IN US |
| | These pages present geographical, administrative, environmental, political and economic information, as well as an overview of the main religious trends in Russia. | | | General information from the CIA World Fact Book and | | | Over the past decade Little Russia readers posted more than 1000 recipes and comments to all kinds of Russian foods and dishes. |
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| | The Christian Science Monitor csmonitor.com |
| | Clinton could still turn the tide in a relationship that critics say has been one of the shortcomings of his foreign policy. | | | Search the Monitor Historic Archive for articles from 1908 to 1980. | | | This week, Clinton pledged to share antimissile technology with other "civilized" nations, though he did not mention Russia specifically. |
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http://www.csmonitor.com/durable/2000/06/02/p9s1.htm
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| | Russian Music |
| | These are sounds now rising throughout Russia on the crest of a religious resurgence since the fall of the Communist regime in 1991. | | | For those who stayed behind, some of the reasons for this "obscurity" seem fairly obvious. | | | They are also heard in a steady stream of recordings of Russian liturgical music making its way to the West: something new under the sun, since the faith was driven underground in the Soviet Union in the 1920's, at the dawn of the recording era. |
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| | NCPA - International Issues - West Squandered Billions On Russia - To Little Avail |
| | The Clinton administration, which responded to the report in a letter, said the main conclusions were balanced, and a central problem was Russia's own failure to embrace change. | | | Russia has been plagued by corruption, a rebellious parliament, heavy turnover among government ministers and limited grass-roots support for capitalist changes. | | | While the money may have helped prevent the Communists from returning to power, the country's economy is worse off than before. |
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| | History House: Starvin' the Peasants |
| | Upon questioning, the locals guessed they had been there maybe two months. | | | Russia's indomitable peasantry had long been trained just not ask, we suppose. | | | Presumably grumpy at not being allowed to sell the grain that was left, Vyshnegradskii had no interest in actually distributing the stuff. |
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| | The principal issue in foreign policy was the "Eastern Question," maintaining pro-Russian regimes in the Black Sea Straits. | | | The result was the Crimean War of 1853-56, in which Russia suffered a bitter defeat at the hands of a coalition of Western European states and Turkey. | | | Any sign of liberalism in Russia was brutally suppressed. |
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| | Russia A little comparison between EU & US from Russian POV StrategyPage.com |
| | From the security POV, one should note that Russia is looking into closer ties with Israel, who has an extended AND SUCCESSFUL antiterrorist experience, by contrast with Russian and American troops alike (can you say "Iraq" ?). | | | That little fact has to be taken into account, and I think President Putin does take it into account, because he has the best interests of his country at heart, and as a consequence aims at establishing links with the best partners. | | | Moreover, Israel has no history of supporting Islamist rebellions in Chechnya or Tadjikistan to weaken Russia, therefore it is a more trustworthy partner than the US from Russia's POV. |
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| | Paul Karpuk, Central Connecticut State University |
| | I believe Gogol’ to have settled on a compromise solution, partially for purposes of expediency but also perhaps for personal reasons, according to which he considered Ukraine as having led an existence independent of Russia for a time but as doing so no longer. | | | The debate centered on whether Ukraine was a nation in its own right, with its own cultural and linguistic tradition completely distinct from that of Russia, or an indigenous part of Russia which simply became detached from it for a time due to historical accident. | | | Nikolaj Gogol’’s interest in Ukrainian history spawned a number of works both finished and unfinished which shed considerable light on the writer’s views concerning the history of his native land. |
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| | Russian Resources Page |
| | Help with Russian Visas information courtesy of the US Government or try this commercial site Visas - Russia Page | | | All the Hotels "in the world", with extensive links in their Russian section or Tourintel or All Russia Hotels | | | BISNIS - Commercial Information on Russia and the NIS a remarkably good government site |
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http://www.russianadoption.org/ejd1.htm
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| | Little Russia - definition of Little Russia in Encyclopedia |
| | The country is often referred to as the Ukraine in English. | | | Until well into the 19th century, there has been no perception of a "national" (as opposed to regional) difference between these tribes. | | | Ukraine (Україна, Ukrayina in Ukrainian; Украина in Russian) is a republic in eastern Europe which borders Russia to the east, Belarus to the north, Poland, Slovakia and Hungary to the west, Romania and Moldova to the south-west and the Black Sea to the south. |
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| | For Russia, little loss, little gain thebulletin.org |
| | In fact, for several months now, Russia and the United States have been trying to reach an understanding that would allow them to avoid a confrontation over the ABM Treaty. | | | Similarly, Russia has no reason to be concerned about any missile defense system, since no defense will ever be able to intercept every missile. | | | The threshold of an "unacceptably large nuclear attack" in the United States or in Russia is no longer thousands or even tens of weapons. |
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| | Little Russia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | For political reasons, Ukraine as a proper name for the nation became accepted only in the 20th century when the term Little Russia mostly fell out of use. | | | The term was adopted by Muscovy, to refer to the Cossack Hetmanate of Left-bank Ukraine, when it fell under Russian protection, after the 1654 Treaty of Pereyaslav. | | | Today, many Ukrainians consider the modern usage of Little Russia offensive, as it often implies the denial of a separate Ukrainian national identity, an opinion not uncommon among Russian nationalists. |
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| | Little Russia |
| | Russia grew to be so beautiful that on her 10th birthday she was asked to marry a British prince but she refused the offer. | | | Once there lived a country that never had a name.The Queen was pregnant 15 times but her children were unborn. | | | On Russia's 15th birthday she declared she would marry anyone who can give her a name for their country. |
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| | Russia: little progress made toward free market - EUbusiness |
| | The EU has been pressing Russia for energy reforms as a condition of classifying it as a market economy. | | | From one standpoint, the EU's insistence on energy reform may have few precedents in its involvement in the economic policies of Russia, which is not an EU member country. | | | On 29 May, Interfax reported that European Commission President Romano Prodi called Russia's adoption of world energy prices "the main issue" in supporting market-economy status and membership in the World Trade Organization. |
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| | History House: Russia's Dark Enlightenment |
| | But all good things must come to an end; his eventual return accompanied his decision that an uneducated Russia with peasant sensibilities and a medieval way of life was not for him. | | | Humorous as we may find them, contemporary foreigners saw these antics simply as what was to be expected of a hopelessly backward people. | | | Determined to change it, he had made literacy a requirement for nobles to marry, and encouraged the speaking of French and the learning of art and music at his court. |
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| | The Ukraine becomes a German puppet state; German forces shortly land on the Aaland Islands, and on the 7th Germany and Finland sign a peace treaty. | | | Finland is not spared the agonies of Russia, and civil war begins at the end of the month. | | | The Allies for various reasons, including keeping Russia in the war and the fear of world communism, intervene in the struggle. |
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| | Central Europe Review - Film: Chekhov's Post-perestroika Russia |
| | However, with the coming of perestroika his reputation was re-evaluated and murky truths dug up from his past. | | | Click here for the first in this pair of articles on "chamber films" which are character-driven. | | | Of all the national cinemas in the world, that of Russia has the most fruitful relationship with literature. |
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| | Encyclopedia: Little Russia |
| | Similarly, the term Little Russian for Ukrainian language, which implies it being simply a dialect of the Russian language, or Little Russians for the Ukrainian nation, have mostly fallen out of use. | | | Tsar (Bulgarian цар, Russian царь, listen; often spelled Czar or Tzar and sometimes Csar or Zar in English), was the title used for the autocratic rulers of the First and Second Bulgarian Empires since 913, in Serbia in the middle of the 14th century, and in Russia from 1547 to... | | | However, for political reasons, "Ukraine" as a proper name for the territory became totally accepted only in the 20th century when the term "Little Russia" mostly fell out of use. |
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| | After deportation from Russia, resettlement, and the persecution of the Soviet years, the Molokans became victims of the painful transition period to uneasy democracy. | | | With their economic prospects in tatters and little hope of their children finishing their education, families upped sticks and left, many trying their luck in the West, especially the United States and Canada. | | | The lorries which ferried their surplus back to Russia and Ukraine no longer came, air travel became too expensive, the railways never seemed to run. |
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| | The Harvard Crimson :: News :: After 25 Years, Little Russia To Close Its Doors |
| | When Schiller came to the United States in 1973, his background writing films about fine arts and his wife Victoria’s experience as a high school German teacher were of little use. | | | Friends of the family who needed work often found jobs at Little Russia. | | | Little Russia’s current spot could have a new tenant within a few months, according to Alan Shapiro, the owner of Gnomon Copy who manages the building. |
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| | MSN Encarta - Search Results - Little Russia |
| | Little is known of his life except that he eventually became a monk. | | | Ireland is a little Russia in which the longest way round is the shortest way home. | | | Breshkovsky, Catherine, full name Yekaterina Konstantinovna Breshko-Breshkovskaya (1844-1934), Russian revolutionary leader, known as the Little... |
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| | Mythusmage Opines: Russia's Dirty Little Secret |
| | The post also has much to say on the essential nature of Russian government and society, a society where speaking truth regarding matters that may embarrass the current government. | | | At the same time, Russia's reaction shows a defensiveness and denial of the truth on the part of Moscow that is even worse. | | | I know little beyond the fact the Finns are supposed to be rewriting their history. |
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| | Little Miracles adoption agency - Russia Adoption - Family Forums |
| | Please note that there may not be a way to contact the author of this post unless they left contact information. | | | I am getting some information from them, but would like personal references as well. | | | While it will be a little while before we can begin another adoption, we are gathering and researching all agencies and Little Miracles has really hit home for us. |
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| | Via the WWW to Russia - Week 12 |
| | A little bit about this poet/bard, along with lyrics, audio and video clips. | | | In Working Class and Modern World, No.6, 1988. |
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| | Peter Murrell is Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Maryland and Chair of the Academic Council of the IRIS Center. | | | East View Publications.Books,periodical,maps,other information resources from Russia and the CIS | | | English, good daily information about economics and politics in Russia |
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| | Little Russia Children Page |
| | Russian story telling tradition is one of the oldest and richest in the world. | | | These stories, or skazki, were passed down orally from generation to generation, until finally recorded in print in the late eighteenth century. | | | The astonishing variety and breadth of Russia's peoples, stretching from the Baltic coast to the furthest reaches of Siberia, contributed countless fantastic tales comprising a shared folk heritage. |
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| | Books : Little Mother of Russia: A Biography of Empress Marie Fedorovna (1847-1928) |
| | I have always looked on Czar Alexander III as a less well-known figure, so when I saw this biography of his wife I read it because I wanted to know more about her husband. | | | I found this a rewarding read, since the life of Dagmar, wife and widow of Alexander III, is full of the events which made Russia a centerpiece of history from 1881 to 1928 (when Dagmar died). | | | This biography of the last Dowager Empress of Russia should be shelved next to Robert K. Massie's Nicholas and Alexandra. |
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| | Savvy Traveler - A Little Russia in Brooklyn (06/22/01) |
| | For more on Ritchie and his international career as Elvis, visit his website at www.elvisshow.com. | | | "Little Odessa." My first stop is the beach itself, just two blocks away, where I can feel the cool Atlantic breezes and soak up the Slavic atmosphere. | | | On a sunny spring day like this, I like to sit at the Café Tatiana for an hour or two, reading a book and watching the Russian parade pass by. |
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| | History of Imperial Russia - Week 9 |
| | A page of links to texts, documents, Russia's "Disadvantaged Position" after the Crimean War, and others. | | | Many links to more information such as a link to the Siege of Sebastopol. | | | Excerpts from Chapter One of a book by George P. Landow, Professor of English and Art History, Brown University. |
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| | EIN |
| | The following are excerpts from a speech made last month by the current Secretary of Defense, William Perry, to the Society of American Engineers. | | | I went there to observe the dismantlement of a nuclear submarine... | | | It's a win for America -- the submarine we saw being dismantled will never again threaten American cities. |
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| | Alaska Journal of Commerce: Little hope for Alaska-Russia link 09/30/02 |
| | Alaska stopped its service in 1998 and Aeroflot did the same a year later. | | | But the airline didn't get a jet aircraft for the Adak flight, blaming new mail-hauling rules in Alaska and new regulations on combination cargo and passenger airplanes following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. | | | Since Reeve Aleutian Airways folded shortly before Christmas in 2000, freight forwarders and executives have been forced to use a long and expensive route through Asia, a flight that sometimes takes several days because of layovers. |
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| | CSEEES - Russia |
| | The publishers of some of the best travel guides on the market have made available a condensed version of the information that you'd find in their book on Russia. | | | If you're interested in learning Russia, here are the universities that offer it. | | | A nice overview of Russia and concerns particular to the traveller - concise but useful |
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| | Spend a day in Palo Alto's 'Little Russia' |
| | "Exposure: The Many Faces of Russia and the former Soviet Union," a photography exhibit on display in the Koret Gallery through July 14, will be open during the fair. | | | For more information about any of the day's events, call 493-9400 or 493-0563, ext. | | | Theme of Jewish Community Center's annual Russian Fair is 'Celebrating Children' |
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