* 1951 – Vladimir Tismăneanu, Romanian-American political scientist

* Vladimir Tismăneanu

The Economist considers it a centre-right party, communist only in name, whereas Romanian political scientist Vladimir Tismăneanu argues that the party is communist in the classical sense, as it has not changed much since the fall of the Soviet Union.

* Vladimir Tismăneanu, Stalinism pentru eternitate, Polirom, Iaşi, 2005 ISBN 973-681-899-3 ( translation of Stalinism for All Seasons: A Political History of Romanian Communism, University of California Press, Berkeley, 2003, ISBN 0-520-23747-1 )

* Vladimir Tismăneanu, Stalinism pentru eternitate, Polirom, Iaşi, 2005 ISBN 973-681-899-3

Although Vladimir Tismăneanu argued that the Black Books comparison between Communism and Nazism was both morally and scholarly justifiable, others have rejected the comparison.

* Vladimir Tismăneanu, Stalinism for All Seasons: A Political History of Romanian Communism, University of California Press, Berkeley, 2003.

* Vladimir Tismăneanu, Stalinism for All Seasons: A Political History of Romanian Communism, University of California Press, Berkeley, 2003, ISBN 0-520-23747-1

Brucan also claimed to have been invited to Moscow by Soviet politicians Mikhail Gorbachev and Anatoly Dobrynin, who endorsed criticism of Ceauşescu and a Romanian version of Glasnost ; based on the personal testimonies of Gorbachev's advisers, the scholar Vladimir Tismăneanu has disputed Brucan's account in its entirety.

Writing in 2006, Vladimir Tismăneanu criticized Brucan, arguing that, despite his renunciation of Communism, Brucan had continued to support authoritarianism in public life and to display a taste for intrigue, and that he had attempted to transform the FSN into a " big party ", virtually replacing the PCR.

* Vladimir Tismăneanu, Stalinism pentru eternitate, Polirom, Iaşi, 2005 ISBN 973-681-899-3 ( translation of Stalinism for All Seasons: A Political History of Romanian Communism, University of California Press, Berkeley, 2003, ISBN 0-520-23747-1 )

Ultra-nationalist and neo-fascist involvement, as part of an Iron Guard revival in connection on the nationalist discourse of the late years of Ceauşescu's rule and the rise of the Vatra Românească and România Mare parties, was not itself excluded from the scenario ; according to Vladimir Tismăneanu: " gave the most devastating indictment of the new union of far left and far right in Romania ".

* Vladimir Tismăneanu, " Cei pe care zeii îi iubesc mor tineri-despre I. P. Culianu " (" Those Whom the Gods Love Die Young-on I. P. Culianu "), in Cotidianul, May 19, 2006

* Vladimir Tismăneanu, Stalinism pentru eternitate, Polirom, Iaşi, 2005.

* Vladimir Tismăneanu, Stalinism for All Seasons: A Political History of Romanian Communism, University of California Press, Berkeley, 2003 ISBN 0-520-23747-1

Latest history says ( Vladimir Dedijer ) that the person who's being arrested is Ferdinand Behr, German by nationality who tried to save Gavrilo's life not to be beaten by the crowd.

" The death of Gaidar is a heavy loss for Russia ," says Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.

Unlike all the other characters, Vladimir has a sense of the passage of time ( only he says he remembers the events of Act I, although it is possible Lucky might recall them: see Lucky and Vladimir ).

The entry " Ъ " in Vladimir Dahl's dictionary ( 1863 – 1868 ) says:

In July 2011 was reported that specialist car builder CPP ( Coventry Prototype Panels ) has acquired Zagato, it says Vladimir Antonov is funding CPP and its recent acquisitions, but that CPP Milan s. r. l.

The banner, a reference to the famous photo of Vladimir Herzog hanged in prison after torture, says: " The military dictatorship in Brazil, according to Folha de S. Paulo ".

Balakirev, now having the full score, wrote of their enthusiastic response and ' how delighted everyone is with your D-flat bit love theme — including Vladimir Stasov, who says: " There were five of you: now there are six!

The Unofficial Opus Dei Webpage says: Father Vladimir Felzmann, an ex-Opus Dei member and leader, tells about a discussion with José Maria Escrivá, founder of Opus Dei: after he ( Escrivá ) insisted that with Hitler's help the Franco government had saved Christianity from Communism, he added: " Hitler against the Jews, Hitler against the Slavs, this means Hitler against communism.

Vladimir laughs saying the target is yourself, Dante asks since whenever did he play fair, Vladimir then tells Dante that he killed his mother, Dante says killing him will make it more fun, Vladimir says they both know revenge is a pointless exercise and will not make them better but it will make them feel more empty, he then talks about the pistol saying it used to belong to his grandfather Kirill Markov who made the Markoves the most powerful Mafia clan in the empire and was rumored to be the then tsarina's lover and assassin, he then talks about his farther who made the Markovs the legitimate and noble house he also says that he can't let him marry his daughter.

Dante says he's getting boring and although Jena may be unlucky enough to be his daughter she isn't anything like him, Vladimir says he's trying to sure himself and he then tells Dante that they used to call him a Hero and all he's doing is showing him how the empire works and then says the next shot will kill him, if anyone deserves to die the gun clicks and Vladimir tells Dante that he is what happens to heroes.

" If Vladimir was impressed by this account of his envoys, he was yet more so by political gains of the Byzantine alliance.

In a 1985 interview with Gregory Lucente, Calvino stated If on a winter's night a traveller was " clearly " influenced by the writings of Vladimir Nabokov.

Misfortune befell the Wings six days after their championship ; defenseman Vladimir Konstantinov, one of the Wings ' " Russian Five ", suffered a brain injury in a limousine accident, and his career came to an abrupt end.

Vladimir Dedijer argued that this rejection was " one of the primary personal motives which pushed him to do something exceptionally brave in order to prove to others that he was their equal ".

In the same time Vladimir Obruchev wrote a fiction novel Plutonia, where the hollow Earth's interior possessed one inner ( central ) sun and was inhabited by prehistoric species.

In later tradition the number of icons of Mary attributed to Luke would greatly multiply ; the Salus Populi Romani, the Theotokos of Vladimir, the Theotokos Iverskaya of Mount Athos, the Theotokos of Tikhvin, the Theotokos of Smolensk and the Black Madonna of Częstochowa are examples, and another is in the cathedral on St Thomas Mount, which is believed to be one of the seven painted by St. Luke the Evangelist and brought to India by St. Thomas.

In 2003, Polgár scored one of her best results: an undefeated clear second place in the Category 19 Corus chess tournament in Wijk aan Zee, Netherlands, just a half-point behind future World Champion Viswanathan Anand, and a full point ahead of then-world champion Vladimir Kramnik.

Vladimir Lenin, leader of both the Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic | RSFSR and the Soviet Union from 1917 to 1924, was one of the most influential figures of the 20th Century.

Initially a supporter of Joseph Stalin after Vladimir Lenin's death, he came to oppose a large number of Stalin's policies and was one of Stalin's most prominent victims during the " Moscow Trials " and purges of the Old Bolsheviks in the late 1930s.

His first grandson was named Vladimir I the Great named after his grandfather, respectively one of his sons Boris was named after his great-grandfather.

Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky (, ; – 6 January 1945 ) was a Russian and Soviet mineralogist and geochemist who is considered one of the founders of geochemistry, biogeochemistry, and of radiogeology.

Volgograd hosts one of the few floating churches in the world: the floating church of Saint Vladimir of Volgograd.

Vladimir is at times hostile towards his companion, but in general they are close, frequently embracing and supporting one another.

Act II opens with Vladimir singing a recursive round about a dog, which could illustrate the cyclical nature of the play's universe, and also point toward the play's debt to the carnivalesque, music hall traditions, and vaudeville comedy ( this is only one of a number of canine references and allusions in the play ).

He was one of the numerous sons of Vladimir the Great, presumably his second by Rogneda of Polotsk, although his actual age ( as stated in the Primary Chronicle and corroborated by the examination of his skeleton in the 1930s ) would place him among the youngest children of Volodymyr.

Finnish composer Einojuhani Rautavaara wrote three piano concertos, the third one dedicated to Vladimir Ashkenazy, who played and conducted the world première.

Between 1903 and the fall of the Russian Empire in February 1917, he was a leading Bolshevik and one of Vladimir Lenin's closest associates, working both within Russia and abroad as circumstances permitted.

Notable Russian scientists include Dmitri Mendeleev, Nikolay Bogolyubov, Andrei Kolmogorov, Ivan Pavlov, Nikolai Semyonov, Dmitri Ivanenko, Nikolai Lobachevsky, Alexander Lodygin, Alexander Popov ( one of inventors of radio ), Nikolai Zhukovsky, Alexander Prokhorov and Nikolay Basov ( co-inventors of laser ), Georgiy Gamov, Vladimir Zworykin, Lev Pontryagin, Sergei Sobolev, Pavel Yablochkov, Aleksandr Butlerov, Andrei Sakharov, Dmitry Ivanovsky, Sergey Korolyov and Mstislav Keldysh ( creators of the Soviet space program ), Aleksandr Lyapunov, Mikhail Dolivo-Dobrovolsky, Andrei Tupolev, Yuri Denisyuk ( the first practicable method of holography ), Mikhail Lomonosov, Vladimir Vernadsky, Pyotr Kapitsa, Igor Sikorsky, Ludvig Faddeev, Zhores Alferov, Konstantin Novoselov, Fyodor Shcherbatskoy, Nikolai Trubetzkoy etc.

Vladimir Komarov was one of the first on this treacherous path.

* Vladimir Peter Tytla, ( 1904 – 1968 ) known as Bill Tytla was one of the original Disney animators.

Containing work by a myriad of authors, which included J. P. Donleavy, Edward Albee, Joseph Heller, Thomas Pynchon, John Barth, Vladimir Nabokov, Bruce Jay Friedman, himself, and Louis-Ferdinand Celine, this was one of the first American anthologies devoted to the conception of black humor as a literary genre ; the publication also sparked nation wide interest in black humor.

* Camera Obscura, one of the translated titles of Laughter in the Dark, a 1932 novel by Vladimir Nabokov

Among its famous inmates were the influential revolutionary poet Vladimir Mayakovsky, a Russian revolutionary Nikolai Bauman, the founder of the KGB Felix Dzerzhinsky ( who was one of the few individuals to stage a successful escape from the prison ), and the writers Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and Yevgenia Ginzburg.

White, a neurosurgeon and a professor of neurological surgery who was inspired by the work of Vladimir Demikhov, performed a highly controversial operation to transplant the head of one monkey onto another's body.

Gary Simpson produced this show which featured guests like Vladimir Zworkin, one the pioneer inventors of TV, discussing and showing television technology ( explaining how TV worked to the new medium's first viewers.

During one of these visits, in September 1934, RCA's Vladimir Zworykin was shown the first multiple-dynode photomultiplier, or photoelectron multiplier.