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| | Pravda.RU Converting Dollars to Gold |
 | | Russian Finance Minister Alexey Kudrin said on Sunday that Russia's economy was strong enough to cushion the impact of a possible war in Iraq, seeking to ease worries that volatile world oil prices could batter the country's economy. | | | The Russian government has allocated 7.5 billion roubles (USD 240 million) for the reconstruction of Chechnya in 2003, according to Nikolai Koshman, the head of state construction agency Gosstroi. | | | Cooperation with the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) is a priority of Russia's energy policy, said Russian Deputy Energy Minister Alexander Voronin, heading the delegation of observers at a regular OPEC conference in Vienna. |
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| | History of Russia |
| | However, the weaknesses of the Russian economy and the inefficiency and corruption in government were hidden only for a brief period under a cloak of fervent nationalism. | | | The Mensheviks believed that Russian socialism would grow gradually and peacefully and that the tsar’s regime should be succeeded by a democratic republic in which the socialists would cooperate with the liberal bourgeois parties. | | | They swept away the tsarist secret police, so despised by Russians of all political persuasions, along with other tsarist institutions, but ensured the survival of their own regime by replacing it with a political police of considerably greater dimensions, both in the scope of its authority and in the severity of its methods. |
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| | Russia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The arrest of Russia's wealthiest businessman Mikhail Khodorkovsky on charges of fraud and corruption in relation to the large-scale privatizations organized under then-President Yeltsin has caused many foreign investors to worry about the stability of the Russian economy. | | | At the close of this Russian Revolution of 1917, the Bolshevik wing of the Communist Party under Vladimir Lenin seized power and formed the USSR. | | | Repeated devastating defeats of the Russian army in World War I led to widespread rioting in the major cities of the Russian Empire and to the overthrow in 1917 of the Romanovs. |
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| | Russia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The arrest of Russia's wealthiest businessman Mikhail Khodorkovsky on charges of fraud and corruption in relation to the large-scale privatizations organized under then-President Yeltsin has caused many foreign investors to worry about the stability of the Russian economy. | | | Repeated devastating defeats of the Russian army in World War I and the deterioration of the economy the war caused led to widespread rioting in the major cities of the Russian Empire and to the overthrow in 1917 of the Romanovs. | | | The Russian Orthodox Church is the dominant Christian religion in the Federation. |
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| | Russia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The arrest of Russia's wealthiest businessman Mikhail Khodorkovsky on charges of fraud and corruption in relation to the large-scale privatizations organized under then-President Yeltsin has caused many foreign investors to worry about the stability of the Russian economy. | | | At the close of this Russian Revolution of 1917, the Bolshevik wing of the Communist Party under Vladimir Lenin seized power and formed the USSR. | | | The political dissolution of Kievan Rus divided the Russian people in the north from the Belarusians and Ukrainians in the west. |
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| | Eulogy for America - PRAVDA.Ru |
| | Multi-national corporations, who outsourced jobs and threw employees out of work, and who retained ornate office buildings in the late United States while profiting from virtual slave labor in other nations, were never asked to be "patriotic," nor were they chastised for disloyalty when their practices harmed the national economy. | | | This practice continues today under George W. Bush, the modern-day Nero who fiddled while America burned, and who now enriches his cronies with tax cuts, oil profits and lucrative "rebuilding" contracts, while deceiving his supporters in the poor and middle classes into believing their friends and relatives are dying in Iraq for "freedom and democracy." | | | And while Clinton"s lies wrought neither death nor destruction, the lies of George W. Bush have, to date, resulted in the deaths of over one thousand Americans, and the slaughter of over one hundred thousand Iraqis, many of them innocent men, women and children. |
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| | Russian Civil War - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | War Communism saved the Soviet government during the Civil War, but much of the Russian economy ground to a standstill. | | | The initial groups that fought against the Communists were local Cossack armies that had declared their loyalty to the Provisional Government. | | | There were also conservative and nationalist "governments" being formed by the Bashkirs, the Kirghiz and the Tatars (see Idel-Ural State) as well as a Siberian Regional Government in Omsk. |
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| | In Setback for Communists, Yeltsin Is Handily Elected Leader of Russian Republic |
| | All in all, the elections in the Russian republic were a major defeat for the Communist Party, which waged a strong campaign to block Yeltsin, and indirectly a defeat for President Mikhail S. Gorbachev, whose leadership of the Soviet Union and whose policies are the major target of Yeltsin's coalition. | | | As president of the Russian Parliament, Yeltsin was already the chief executive and in effect the leader of the Russian republic, by far the largest in the Soviet Union with three-quarters of its territory, just over half its population and the bulk of its resources and industry. | | | The republic's presidency also gives Yeltsin a hefty new lever in his dealings with Gorbachev, which should prove especially important as they move toward a market economy and negotiate a new agreement binding Russia and the other 14 republics that make up the Soviet Union. |
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| | Marxism and the political economy of Paul Sweezy Part 1: Early influences |
| | Sweezy’s turn to Marxism, and his study of political economy in particular, took place under the impact of the Great Depression, which not only shattered the world economy but also all those economic theories that maintained such an event was impossible. | | | While Sweezy was not the leader of an organised political tendency, he played a significant political role in the US and internationally—both through the Monthly Review magazine he established in 1949, and his writings on Marxist political economy and American capitalism. | | | This orientation was to be reflected both in his writings on political economy and in the Monthly Review. |
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| | Guide to the Russian collections |
| | Another strength of the collection is represented by pre-1917 Russian language periodicals published outside Russia by dissident and émigrés groups and outlawed political parties (eg Budushchee from 1911-1913; Iskra from 1901-1905; Nakanune from 1899-1902; Narodovolets from 1897-1903; and Svobodnoe Slovo from 1898-1905). | | | Research in former Soviet archives on issues of historical political economy | | | The Library possesses a wealth of historic periodical material issued by Russian and Soviet institutions and learned societies, including the Academy of Sciences and its dependent institutes. |
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| | "The Role of Politics in Contemporary Russian Antisemitism" by Betsy Gidwitz |
| | Between 50 and 80 percent of the Russian economy is said to be in Jewish hands, with the influence of the five Jews among the eight individuals commonly referred to as "oligarchs" particularly conspicuous. | | | Russian Jews, Ukrainian Jews, and several Israelis are the dominant figures in the international money laundering scandal that captured world attention in the waning days of summer in 1999. | | | Initial mainstream Russian press reporting was defensive in nature and did not dwell on the ethnic background of alleged participants. |
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| | Soviet Glossary |
| | Russian colloquial expression for a person of the party apparatus, i.e., an individual who has been engaged full time in the work of the CPSU (q.v. | | | Russian was given equal and official status with local languages in all non-Russian republics; it was made the official language of state and diplomatic affairs, in the armed forces, and on postage stamps, currency, and military and civilian decorations. | | | Soviet and Western experts believe that damage to the people's health, to the economy, and to the environment will be felt for decades. |
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| | Lenin's Revolution - Paul Mattick |
| | And as the steady capitalization of the Russian economy promised a reluctant but nonetheless necessary democratization of its political structure, there was, perhaps, not even room for a bourgeois revolution in the Western sense of term. | | | This is an extensive analysis--with respect to the country as a whole and to specific districts--of the social composition, structure, membership, and political activity of Russian social democratic groups from 1889 to 1907. | | | In view of this possibility, it made some sense to change the "rule" of historical ascendance and to try to base the Russian revolution on the political dominance of the working class, especially since the Russian bourgeoisie was itself an ineffective minority. |
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| | Important Russian Events |
| | Russian Communist Party leader Gennady Zyuganov unveiled the resurgent party's plan to rescue the declining economy of the former superpower. | | | Russian Deputy Prime Minister for the Economy Aleksandr Shokhin expressed caution about a proposal to unite the Belarus currency on a one-to-one basis with the Russian ruble because Moscow will be forced to absorb the loss of the devalued currency, which currently trades on the open market at a 10-to-one ratio. | | | Russian officials have denied that the material originated from Russia's military stockpiles, a claim that German police have challenged on the strength of laboratory tests that trace the material to Russia. |
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| | Russia, Russian Americans, U.S. Economy - JRL 11-16-04 |
| | :: Support Johnson's Russia List :: U.S.-Russian Relations :: Chechnya :: Ukraine :: YUKOS :: Economy & Business | | | Russian-speaking Americans are also concerned about the long-term US economic prospects: 51% of those surveyed by Press Release Group indicated that they expect the economy to become worse during George Bush’s second term as president. | | | Russia, Russian Americans, U.S. Economy - JRL 11-16-04 |
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| | THE RED MAFIA: A LEGACY OF COMMUNISM |
| | The third section addresses the underground economy in the latter years of the Soviet Union as the framework from which the current Russian mafia, the subject of the fourth section, developed. | | | The evidence suggests that the Russian mafia phenomenon is a direct outgrowth of the informal economy and related corruption that was a significant part of the economy of the Soviet Union. | | | Simis tells many stories about defending people involved in the underground economy in the Soviet Union, several of which involve people who reported criminal activity and corruption to the authorities and, as a result, were forced to leave town or were themselves prosecuted. |
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| | Stalin School of Falsfification - Chapter 6 |
| | The fact is that the proposal to shut down the Putilov shops was introduced in the Political Bureau at the beginning of 1928 by comrade Rykov himself as Chairman of the All Russian Council of National Economy. | | | Thus the initiative in this affair was wholly in the hands of Rykov as Chairman of the All-Russian Council of National Economy. | | | Is that the governmental work of the members of the collegium, of the Presidium of the All-Russian Council of National Economy? |
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| | Communist Parties first started to be widely established across the world in the early 20th century, after the creation of the Communist International by the Russian Bolsheviks. | | | This called for a socialist planned economy under the administration of a democratic government, and a multi-party system of free elections. | | | Former ruling Communist parties in the Eastern bloc organized themselves according to the principle of democratic centralism, according to the model of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. |
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| | White House Daily Briefing Transcript |
| | Q: But the Russians say that Putin urged the President to avoid, "a humanitarian catastrophe." Was this conversation perhaps a bit more contentious than you've indicated? | | | FLEISCHER: We have credible evidence that Russian companies provided the assistance and the prohibited hardware to the Iraqi regime. | | | One, in terms of Chairman Greenspan, he is an occasional visitor to the White House where he speaks and meets privately with either the President or other senior administration officials to talk about the economy. |
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| | On the constituent assembly slogan: Is it applicable to Argentina? |
| | The idea of "sovereignty" may appeal to the patriotic instincts of the Argentine people, but the fact is that Argentina is not "sovereign" and never will be sovereign, to the degree that it is part of the capitalist world economy. | | | The Russian constituent assembly was an abortion; it played a reactionary role and was soon dispersed by the Bolsheviks, who at that time had won a decisive majority in the soviets. | | | The press would begin a ferocious campaign of denunciations against the "anti-patriotic" government. |
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| | The Power of Productivity: Wealth, Poverty, and the Threat to Global Stability by William W. Lewis, an excerpt |
| | The failure of the Russian economy was viewed in the late 1990s as perhaps the most serious economic problem in the world. | | | We found that the United States did not have a new economy nearly to the extent that Clinton and Greenspan claimed. | | | The replacement of the centrally planned economy in the Soviet Union with a "market economy" in Russia had resulted in a drop in GDP per capita of an amazing 20 to 30 percent. |
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| | The World Factbook 2004 -- Russia |
| | In addition, a string of investigations launched against a major Russian oil company, culminating with the arrest of its CEO in the fall of 2003, have raised concerns by some observers that President PUTIN is granting more influence to forces within his government that desire to reassert state control over the economy. | | | Russian 81.5%, Tatar 3.8%, Ukrainian 3%, Chuvash 1.2%, Bashkir 0.9%, Belarusian 0.8%, Moldavian 0.7%, other 8.1% (1989) | | | Repeated devastating defeats of the Russian army in World War I led to widespread rioting in the major cities of the Russian Empire and to the overthrow in 1917 of the imperial household. |
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| | Estonia |
| | Evangelical Lutheran, Russian Orthodox, Estonian Orthodox, Baptist, Methodist, Seventh-Day Adventist, Roman Catholic, Pentecostal, Word of Life, Jewish | | | Estonia: Economy - Economy In the years that it was part of the Soviet Union, Estonia provided the USSR with gas and... | | | Stabilizing Estonia: the international dimension of state security and ethnic integration policy. |
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| | RUSSIA: Neo-Nazis attack Jewish school |
| | Hatred of minorities in Russia has skyrocketed since the introduction of the market economy and especially since the 1998 economic collapse, as big businessmen and the political elite have sought to find a scapegoat for the crisis. | | | Russian activists have appealed for international solidarity and protest after thugs of the neo-Nazi Russian National Unity party, armed with metal chains, burst into a school where Jewish children were taking religious lessons in the town of Ryazan, 200 kilometres south-east of Moscow, on September 17. | | | Simultaneously the nation's mass media united to foment hatred against Muslims and dark-skinned peoples in general, culminating in a campaign of mass expulsions of black people from Moscow. |
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| | ALA Internet Resources: Russian studies |
| | The discussion list of the Russian Public Information Center project in Latvia, covering all aspects of Russian life, including history, politics, the economy, philosophy and culture. | | | For example, Internet users can now watch the news from Obshchestvennoe Rossiiskoe Televidenie (Russian Public Television), listen to the Moscow radio station Ekho Moskvy (Echo of Moscow), read current and historical documents, browse the online catalog of the Russian National Library, or view masterpieces from the Hermitage museum in St. Petersburg. | | | It offers access to all sorts of history-related Web sites by identifying major events in Russian history and linking them with explanatory and related materials on the Web. |
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| | AllRefer.com - Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin (Russian, Soviet, And CIS History, Biography) - Encyclopedia |
| | A second invasion of Chechnya (1999), prompted by a Chechen invasion of Dagestan and related terrorist bombings in Russia, proved popular with many Russians, and progovernment parties did well in the 1999 parliamentary elections. | | | In 1990, Yeltsin was elected to the Russian Republic's Supreme Soviet, was elected Russian president by that body, and resigned from the Communist party. | | | As president of an independent Russia, Yeltsin moved to end state control of the economy and privatize most enterprises. |
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| | History of Russia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | However, the weaknesses of the Russian economy and the inefficiency and corruption in government were hidden only for a brief period under a cloak of fervent nationalism. | | | The Mensheviks believed that Russian socialism would grow gradually and peacefully and that the tsar’s regime should be succeeded by a democratic republic in which the socialists would cooperate with the liberal bourgeois parties. | | | They swept away the tsarist secret police, so despised by Russians of all political persuasions, along with other tsarist institutions, but ensured the survival of their own regime by replacing it with a political police of considerably greater dimensions, both in the scope of its authority and in the severity of its methods. |
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| | SSSRconst |
| | In consequence of the solidarity of the workers of all nations, the Russian Socialist | | | The All-Russian Congress of Soviets is composed of representatives of urban soviets | | | The Russian Soviet Republic is organized on the basis of a free union of free nations, as a |
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