Membership in the Commonwealth of Independent States, as well as the 1996 treaty on the Union of Russia and Belarus and the Treaty of the Formation of a Union State in 1999, has confirmed a close partnership with Russia.

The highest-ranking Greens ever elected in the nation were: John Eder, a member of the Maine House of Representatives until his defeat in November 2006 ; Audie Bock, elected to the California State Assembly in 1999 but switched her registration to Independent seven months later running as an independent in the 2000 election ; and Richard Carroll, elected to the Arkansas House of Representatives in 2008 but switched parties to become a Democrat five months after his election.

* Clack, Beverly ( 1999 ) ' Thealogy and Theology: Mutually Exclusive or Creatively Independent ' from Feminist Theology: The Journal of the Britain and Ireland School of Feminist Theology No. 21, May 1999 Lisa Isherwood, et al.

The first couple of issues contained work from now-professional comics creators Rufus Dayglo, Boo Cook, Henry Flint and PJ Holden and won the best Self Published / Independent Comic Award at the 1999 National Comics Awards.

As a founder and former member of the Revolutionary Front for an Independent East Timor ( FRETILIN ), Ramos-Horta served as the exiled spokesman for the East Timorese resistance during the years of the Indonesian occupation of East Timor ( 1975 to 1999 ).

* U. S. Policy Toward Northeastern Europe: Report of an Independent Task Force, Council on Foreign Relations Press ( July 1999 ), ISBN 0-87609-259-8

Prior to the fall of 1999, the Asherton Independent School District served Asherton.

* Noel Grisham ( died 1999 in Round Rock, Texas ; birth date unknown ) helped lay the foundation for Round Rock Independent School District ( RRISD ) to become the academically successful district it is today.

* British Independent Film Awards ( 1999 ): Nomination for Best Actress for Little Voice ( 1998 )

* " Accidental Heroes of the 20th Century – 35: Christine Keeler, Call Girl ", The Independent, 1999.

The House passed its version of the Financial Services Act of 1999 on July 1, 1999, by a bipartisan vote of 343-86 ( Republicans 205 – 16 ; Democrats 138 – 69 ; Independent 0 – 1 ), two months after the Senate had already passed its version of the bill on May 6 by a much-narrower 54 – 44 vote along basically-partisan lines ( 53 Republicans and 1 Democrat in favor ; 44 Democrats opposed ).

A similar system was proposed by the Independent Commission in 1999, known as Alternative vote top-up ( AV +).

From 1998 to 1999, he chaired the Independent Commission on Policing for Northern Ireland, better known as the Patten Commission, which had been established in 1998 as part of the Belfast Agreement.

In 1994, Central was completely bought by Carlton and on 6 September 1999 was rebranded as Carlton Central, though the registered company name remained Central Independent Television Limited.

* 1999: The Lost Son – nominated for Best Actor in a British Independent Film by BIFA

The Independent Counsels law expired in 1999, and was effectively replaced by Department of Justice regulation 28 CFR Part 600, under which Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald was appointed to look into the Plame affair.

After the Vajpayee Government came to power under the umbrella of the National Democratic Alliance, he was appointed Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting ( Independent Charge ) on October 13, 1999.

* 1999: The Independent Presbyterian Church of Brazil allowed the ordination of women as either clergy or elders.

Street-Porter became editor of the Independent on Sunday in 1999.

These three films, along with the other important works of Ceylan such as Kasaba ( 1997 ) and Mayıs sıkıntısı ( 1999 ) have also won awards at the other major international film festivals ; including the Angers European First Film Festival ( 1997 and 1999 ), Ankara Film Festival ( 2000 ), Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival ( 1999, 2002 and 2006 ), Bergamo Film Meeting ( 2001 ), Berlin Film Festival ( 1998 ), Brothers Manaki Film Festival ( 2003 ), Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema ( 2001 ), Cannes Film Festival ( 2003, 2004 and 2006 ), Chicago Film Festival ( 2003 ), Cinemanila Film Festival ( 2003 ), European Film Awards ( 2000 ), Istanbul Film Festival ( 1998, 2000, 2003 and 2007 ), Mexico City Film Festival ( 2004 ), Montpellier Mediterranean Film Festival ( 2003 ), San Sebastián Film Festival ( 2003 ), Singapore Film Festival ( 2001 ), Sofia Film Festival ( 2004 ), Tokyo Film Festival ( 1998 ) and the Trieste Film Festival ( 2004 ).

On 24 March 2000, two days before the presidential elections, NTV Russia featured the Ryazan events of Fall 1999 in the talk show Independent Investigation.

Around May 1999, Philip Njaru wrote a newspaper article where he alleged ill-treatment of civilians conducted by the 11th Navy Battalion based in Ekondo-Titi.

He is the only one of the surviving terrorists to consent to interviews since 1972, having granted an interview in 1992 to a Palestinian newspaper, and having briefly emerged from hiding in 1999 to participate in an interview for the film One Day in September, during which he was disguised and his face shown only in blurry shadow.

Furthermore, the satirical newspaper Le Canard enchaîné revealed the astronomical " food expenses " paid by the Parisian municipality (€ 15 million a year according to the Canard ), expenses managed by Roger Romani ( who allegedly destroyed all archives of the period 1978 – 1993 during night raids in 1999 – 2000 ).

A reunion of navy veterans who had served aboard the USS Eldridge told a Philadelphia newspaper in April 1999 that their ship had never made port in Philadelphia.

The INLA strongly denied these rumours, and published a detailed account of the assassination in the March / April 1999 issue of The Starry Plough newspaper.

* Interview with Jeffrey Steingarten, author of The Man Who Ate Everything ( translated quote from a 1999 article in Norwegian newspaper Dagbladet ):

The INLA strongly denied these rumours, and published a detailed account of the assassination in the March / April 1999 issue of The Starry Plough newspaper.

The Cranford Eagle started publishing in 1999 as another community newspaper.

Space Moose was a Canadian underground comic strip that appeared in the University of Alberta's student newspaper, The Gateway, between October 3, 1989 and 1999.

A much more complete history of the town can be found on pp. 4 – 6 of the PDF version of Our Towns: Scotch Plains-Fanwood ( 2nd Annual ), ( Oct. 28, 1999, produced by the town's newspaper of record at the time ) as well as on the town's website.

In 1999 Hawke starred in Snow Falling on Cedars, in which he played a reporter named Ishmael Chambers, who, after being wounded in World War II, comes home to take over his family newspaper after his father's death.

On the occasion of Molde's 100-year anniversary in 2011, the readers of the local newspaper Romsdals Budstikke voted 1999 as the best year in the history of the club.

Ten years later, in 2009, Lastman gave an interview to the Toronto Star newspaper, citing he is proud of his decision to bring in the army during the Blizzard of 1999.

The paper went through a protracted period of crisis after his death before merging with the regional newspaper group Trinity in 1999 to form Trinity Mirror.

In a 1999 interview with the University of Regina's student newspaper, Kinsella explained that he could no longer write as he lost his ability to concentrate.

In 1999 she responded to a newspaper ad to do nude modeling for adult magazines.

Established in 1999, the Taipei Times is published by the Liberty Times Group, which publishes the Chinese language newspaper the Liberty Times which has a pro-Taiwan independence editorial line.

In 1999, her name was engraved in Canada's Walk of Fame and she was voted Canada's female athlete of the century in a survey of newspaper editors and broadcasters conducted by The Canadian Press and Broadcast News.

Canada's Athletes of the 20th Century as voted on in a 1999 survey of newspaper editors and broadcasters conducted by the Canadian Press and Broadcast News:

Since the newspaper market in 1999 has already been well-developed, The Sun adopted an aggressive marketing strategy to gain as much market share as possible, initially selling the paper for only $ 2.

Shanghai Daily (; Pinyin: Shànghǎi Rìbào ) is an English-language newspaper in China ( others such as China Daily and the English-edition of Global Times ) started in October 1999 and owned by Wenhui-xinmin United Press Group.

Although a respected newspaper during Edward King Gaylord's tenure, it became unabashedly partisan after Edward L. became its publisher ; in Oklahoma it was frequently referred to as " The Daily Disappointment ," and the Columbia Journalism Review dubbed it " The Worst Newspaper in America " in 1999.

It was described in full in December 2003 by the Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth, though news reports had circulated about the plot since January 1999.

Opposition media to the SPS or Milošević's administration were harassed by threats ; media members involved were fired or arrested ; independent media faced high fines ; state-sponsored paramilitaries seized radio equipment of opposition supporters ; and in April 1999, the owner and distributor of the most popular daily newspaper in Serbia was killed.

In 1999 the Express on Sunday newspaper claimed Cameron had rubbished one of its stories which had given an accurate number of subscribers, because he wanted the number to appear higher than expected.