According to the head of the Armenian Central Bank ’ s ( CBA ) department for financial system policies and analyses ( Vahe Vardanyan ) Armenian banks have no large asset concentrations in foreign markets, particularly in capital markets.

According to E. A. Wallis Budge, " as a Pantheus, i. e. All-God, he appears on the amulets with the head of a cock ( Phœbus ) or of a lion ( Ra or Mithras ), the body of a man, and his legs are serpents which terminate in scorpions, types of the Agathodaimon.

According to Xenophon, Agesilaus, in order to gain money for prosecuting the war, supported the satrap Ariobarzanes II in his revolt against Artaxerxes II in 364 BC ( Revolt of the Satraps ), and in 361 BC he went to Egypt at the head of a mercenary force to aid the king Nectanebo I and his regent Teos against Persia.

According to Greek mythology, the amphisbaena was spawned from the blood that dripped from the Gorgon Medusa's head as Perseus flew over the Libyan Desert with it in his hand.

According to the current Nobel Committee head Lars Gillensten, his nominee was discussed every year from 1946 to 1950, then again in 1957 ( it was finally awarded in 1958 ).

According to the Constitution of the Czech Republic, the President is the head of state while the Prime Minister is the head of government, exercising supreme executive power.

According to the National Agricultural Statistics Service USDA report, " All sheep and lamb inventory in the United States on July 1, 2005, totaled 7. 80 million head, 2 % above July 1, 2004.

According to Afghanistan's Chamber of Commerce and Industries deputy head, Khan Jan Alokozai, about 500 shipping containers of trade goods enter Afghanistan via Pakistan on a daily basis.

According to Orthodox teaching the position of “ First Among Equals ” gives no additional power or authority to the bishop that holds it, but rather that this person sits as organizational head of a council of equals ( like a president ).

According to Robert Evans, head of Paramount Pictures at the time, Coppola also did not initially want to direct the film because he feared it would glorify the Mafia and violence, and thus reflect poorly on his Sicilian and Italian heritage ; on the other hand, Evans specifically wanted an Italian-American to direct the film because his research had shown that previous films about the Mafia that were directed by non-Italians had fared dismally at the box office, and he wanted to, in his own words, " smell the spaghetti ".

According to Lang, propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels called Lang to his offices to inform him that The Testament of Dr Mabuse was being banned but that he was nevertheless so impressed by Lang's abilities as a filmmaker ( especially Metropolis ), he was offering Lang a position as the head of German film studio UFA.

According to news reports, Mr Tsvangirai was taken to hospital with head and neck injuries.

According to some of the adepts of the Jewish Merkabah mystical tradition, if one wished to " descend to the Merkabah " one had to adopt the prayer posture taken by the Prophet Elijah in I Kings 18: 42, namely to pray with one's head between one's knees.

According to the Hughston Health Alert, " Lacerations to the head, scalp, and face are the most frequent types of injury hockey.

* According to Alberti himself, in a short autobiography written c. 1438 in Latin and in the third person, ( many but not all scholars consider this work to be an autobiography ) he was capable of " standing with his feet together, and springing over a man's head.

According to the LTTE's then head of police, the force was to be assigned to tasks such as rehabilitation, construction, forest conservation and agriculture, but would also be used to battle the Sri Lankan military if the need arose.

According to Carla Ricci, “ The place she Magdalene occupied in the list cannot be considered fortuitous ,” because over and over Mary Magdalene ’ s name is placed at the head of specifically named women, indicating her importance.

According to Anthony King, "" The props in Blair's theatre of celebrity included ... his guitar, his casual clothes ... footballs bounced skilfully off the top of his head ... and carefully choreographed speeches-cum-performances at Labour Party conferences.

According to the legend, Meridiana ( or the bronze head ) told Gerbert that if he should ever read a mass in Jerusalem, the Devil would come for him.

According to the Constitution of Russia, the country is a federation and semi-presidential republic, wherein the President is the head of state and the Prime Minister is the head of government.

According to the Constitution of Russia, the President of Russia is head of state, and of a multi-party system with executive power exercised by the government, headed by the Prime Minister, who is appointed by the President with the parliament's approval.

According to another tradition, Richard consulted a seer in the city of Leicester before the battle who foretold that " where your spur should strike on the ride into battle, your head shall be broken on the return.

According to tradition, Douglas was carrying the heart in a silver casket when he died at the head of the Scottish contingent at the Battle of Teba.

According to the Russian Empire Census of 1897, 1446 persons in the Russian Empire reported Ainu language as their mother tongue, 1434 of them in Sakhalin Island.

According to the 2002 Russian Federation census, no responders gave the ethnonym Ainu in boxes 7 or 9. 2 in the K-1 form of the census, though some still might exist.

According to what Aleut people told Japanese castaways, otters were decreasing year by year and their share in return of furs they made also were decreasing as Russian ships stopped coming to the island.

According to one theory, the term was loaned to Russian, where-in literary language-it first appeared in " Elysei ", a 1771 poem by V. Maikov.

According to Mircea Eliade, the medieval " Gioacchinian myth [...] of universal renovation in a more or less imminent future " has influenced a number of modern theories of history, such as those of Lessing ( who explicitly compares his views to those of medieval " enthusiasts "), Fichte, Hegel, and Schelling, and has also influenced a number of Russian writers.

According to the research of Russian anthropologist S. M. Shirokogoroff, in the Manchu tribe of the Amur river mothers used to put their male babies ' penises into mouths as a caress, since it was not considered a sexual act.

:: Example 3 ( semi-presidential republic ): According to Chapter 4, Article 84 of the Constitution of the Russian Federation:

According to the earliest Russian chronicle, a Varangian named Rurik was elected ruler ( knyaz ) of Novgorod in about 860, before his successors moved south and extended their authority to Kiev, which had been previously dominated by the Khazars.

According to security analyst Jeffrey Carr, use of ICQ may cause security problems because it was purchased by Russian investment company Digital Sky Technologies.

* 1905 – According to the Julian calendar which is used at the time, Russian workers stage a march on the Winter Palace that ends in the massacre by Czarist troops known as Bloody Sunday, setting off the Revolution of 1905.

According to the Soviet terminology, the peasants were divided into three broad categories: bednyaks, or poor peasants ; serednyaks, or mid-income peasants ; and kulaks, the higher-income farmers who had larger farms than most Russian peasants.

According to Russian sources, the official decision to launch Sputnik 2 was made on October 10 or 12, leaving the team only four weeks to design and build the spacecraft.

According to the data of the Maritime Board ( Morskaya Kollegiya ) of the Russian Government for 2004, 136. 6 million tons of cargo have been carried that year over Russia's inland waterways, the total cargo transportation volume being 87, 556. 5 million ton-km.

" According to his book " Cosmology and Human Destiny ", Mahmood argued that sunspots have influenced major human events, including the French Revolution, the Russian Revolution, and World War II.

According to Alexander Litvinenko, Russian presidential candidate Ivan Rybkin was drugged with the same substance by FSB agents during his alleged kidnapping.

* According to Russian chronicles, Novgorod attacks Finland with devastating results.

According to the Foreign Policy Research Institute, Russia has 112 think tanks, while Russian think tanks claimed four of the top ten spots in 2011 ’ s " Top Thirty Think Tanks in Central and Eastern Europe ".

According to the documentary Once Upon a Time, Sergio Leone, the film opened in medias res as the camera goes from focusing on a Russian hiding from the Nazis ' artillery fire to panning hundreds of feet away to show the German Panzer divisions approaching the walls of the city.

According to the census data of the Russian Empire, during the 19th century the ethnic Romanians decreased from 86 % ( 1817 ) to 47. 6 % ( 1897 ).

According to the Estonian Security Police, Russian influence operations in Estonia form a complex system of financial, political, economic and espionage activities in Republic of Estonia for the purposes of influencing Estonia's political and economic decisions in ways considered favourable to Russian Federation and conducted under the doctrine of near abroad.

According to the Centre for Geopolitical Studies, the Russian information campaign which the centre characterises as a " real mud throwing " exercise, has provoked a split in Estonian society amongst Russian speakers, inciting some to riot over the relocation of the Bronze Soldier.

According to Robert Nisbet Bain, “ No other Russian sovereign ever erected so many churches .”