For instance, leading figures in the legislative and executive branches have put forth opposing views of Russia's political direction and the governmental instruments that should be used to follow it.

For much of Russia's history this was Russia's main centre of international maritime trade, conducted by the so-called Pomors (" seaside settlers ") from Kholmogory.

For this reason Serbia had Russia's full support.

For example, the Cyrillic name of Russia's IDN ccTLD is рф.

For some years, Tyumen was Russia's easternmost railhead, and the site of transhipment of cargoes between the railway and the cargo boats plying the Tyumen, Tobol, Irtysh, and Ob Rivers.

For example the Chairman of the All-Union Central Executive Committee ( TsIK ) was taken by Mikhail Kalinin, who would retain his chair as Russia's TsIK.

For two centuries, the Demidov plants produced a large portion of Russia's iron and steel.

His other books include The Shook-Up Generation ( 1958 ), Orbit of China ( 1967 ), War Between Russia and China ( 1969 ), The 900 Days: The Siege of Leningrad ( 1969 ), " The Gates of Hell " ( 1975 ), Black Night, White Snow: Russia's Revolutions 1905-1917 ( 1978 ), Without Fear or Favor: The New York Times and Its Times ( 1980 ), Journey For Our Times ( autobiographical, 1983 ), China: 100 Years of Revolution, ( 1983 ), The Long March: The Untold Story ( 1985 ), Tiananmen Diary: Thirteen Days in June ( 1989 ), The New Emperors: China in the Era of Mao and Deng ( 1992 ) and his last, Heroes of My Time ( 1993 ).

For instance, President Vladimir Putin has declared the region Russia's " sphere of influence ", and strategically vital for Russia.

For those who understood Russian it was obvious that what he meant was Germany's defeat and Russia's imminent victory, but the Germans never understood this and applauded ", she remembered.

For many years there was confusion amongst botanists over the generic names Amaryllis and Hippeastrum, one result of which is that the common name " amaryllis " is mainly used for cultivars of the genus Hippeastrum, widely sold in the winter months for their ability to bloom indoors.

The show was first announced in The New York Times on October 5, 1961: " For the winter of 1962, Laurents is nurturing another musical project, The Natives Are Restless.

For the next ten years, the team would winter at NAS Key West, Florida.

For example, during the 872-day Siege of Leningrad, reports of cannibalism began to appear in the winter of 1941 – 1942, after all birds, rats and pets were eaten by survivors.

For example, the Norwegian Mountain Touring Association maintains over 400 cabins stretching across hundreds of kilometres of trails which are used by hikers in the summer and by skiers in the winter.

For more than two thousand years, since the time of Emperor Wu of Han, the month containing the winter solstice has almost always been the 11th month.

For the next few years, Cukor alternated between Rochester in the summer months and Broadway in the winter.

For the winter, Hannibal found comfortable quarters in the Apulian plain.

For instance, Arctic House in Hunt Hall takes a swim in Lake Superior in the middle of winter.

For the Athenians, and Themistocles personally, the winter would be a testing one.

For example, developing cells in the meristems contain small provacuoles and cells of the vascular cambium have many small vacuoles in the winter and one large one in the summer.

For instance, Wyeomyia larvae typically get frozen into solid lumps of ice during winter and only complete their development in spring.

For example, volunteer winter wheat will germinate to quite high levels in a following oilseed rape crop, usually requiring chemical control measures.

For winter solar gain it is desirable to use deciduous plants that drop their leaves in the autumn gives year round passive solar benefits.

For starting under winter conditions, a specially volatile starting fuel was required, contained in a small auxiliary fuel tank.

For example, Mount Baker recorded the largest single-season snowfall on record in the world in the winter of 1998 – 1999 with.

For example, variable limits were introduced in Oct 2010 on a 52-mile stretch of Interstate 80 in Wyoming, replacing the winter season speed reduction from 75 to 65-mph that had been in place since 2008.

For a quarter of the year the flocks and herds are fed on the upper pastures, but the true limit of the wealth of a district is the number of animals that can be supported during the long winter, and while one part of the population is engaged in tending the beasts and in making cheese and butter, the remainder is busy cutting hay and storing up winter food for the cattle.

For the first time since 2002, PSV was eliminated from European football before the winter.

For season transfers, see transfers winter 2011 – 12 and transfers summer 2012.

For season transfers, see transfers winter 2011 – 12.

For some closely related jerboa species mating usually happens a short time after awaking from winter hibernation.

For nine Saturday nights in winter of 1969, Vartan starred in the Doppia coppia variety nights of RAI, performing her hits " Irrésistiblement " (" Irresistibilmente ") and " Le jour qui vient " (" Una cicala canta ") in Italian.

For deserts, puddings and pies are each served once a week.

For most of their histories, China, India and the Middle East were each unified under a single dominant power that expanded until it reached the surrounding mountains and deserts.

For the deserts of Morocco, Milius used many locations in the Almeria region, some of which had been previously used in historical epics such as Lawrence of Arabia and El Cid, as well as several Spaghetti Westerns, though he claims to have discovered the beach where Raisuli rescues the Perdicaris family after their escape.

Hunting For Bambi is a series of hoax videos publicized in 2003 that center around a fictional competition to hunt semi-naked women with paintball guns in the deserts of Las Vegas.

For example, there is a significant difference in access to water as well as humidity between temperate rainforests and deserts.

Rainfall is concentrated in the summer months, and extensive areas that are deserts in winter become summer swamps.

Dust storms happen in summer and sometimes in winter, coming from the Arabian Peninsula's deserts or from North Africa.

He spent the winter of 1861-62 in Egypt, from which he went over the deserts of Sinai and of Edom to Syria, reaching Jerusalem on 19 April 1862.

These high pressure cells shift towards the poles in the summer and towards the equator in the winter, playing a major role in the formation of the world's tropical deserts and the Mediterranean Basin's climate.

The Asian Desert Warbler ( Sylvia nana ) is a typical warbler which breeds in the deserts of central and western Asia and the extreme east of Europe ( Volga Delta area east to western Inner Mongolia in China ), and migrating to similar habitats in southwestern Asia ( Arabia to northwestern India ) and the far northeast of Africa ( Red Sea coastal regions ) in winter.

During migration and winter they also occur in chaparral, lowland brushy areas, deserts and semi-desert regions.

Typical of " high deserts ", summer temperatures can be exceedingly hot, while winter temperatures can be very cold.

Yet Josephine said of that time from about 1901 to 1929, " We would wander over the deserts of Nevada, Arizona and California with a camping outfit during the pleasant fall, winter and spring months.

The Kit consists of two, double-sided, 9-panel board maps covering all four Memoir ' 44 map environments-countryside, beach, winter and deserts These oversize boards are 13 x 17 hexes deep, opening up the Breakthrough format to new, more expansive scenarios.

One was a Cyprian fable about doves escaping from a sacrificial fire only to fall into another fire later on ( demonstrating that wrong-doers eventually get their just deserts ), and the other was a Carian fable about a fisherman who espies an octopus in the winter sea and wonders whether or not to dive after it, since this is a choice between his children starving or himself freezing to death ( i. e. you're damned if you do and damned if you don't ).

It is much less migratory than the other North American falcons, but in winter it does withdraw somewhat from the northernmost and highest-elevation parts of its breeding range and spreads west to the deserts and Pacific coast of California, east to about the 100th meridian, and south to Baja California Sur, Jalisco, and Hidalgo.

In winter it is more widespread, ranging to low deserts and occasionally to towns.

A resident species, but during the winter months it usually deserts the higher parts of its summer zone.

The trading party usually left New Mexico in early November to take advantage of winter rains to cross the deserts on the trail and would arrive in California in early February.