He returned with a number of objects, which went to the Russian Arkangel's Regional Museum.

A Russian MiG takes off from Ashland Regional Airport

* Regional Service broadcasts to specific geographical zones in 17 languages: English, Arabic, Bengali, Burmese, Chinese, French, Hindi, Indonesian, Korean, Persian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swahili, Thai, Urdu, and Vietnamese

* Hrodna Regional Executive Committee, in Belarusian, Russian, English and Chinese

At the same time, many Komsomol managers joined and directed the Russian Regional and State Anti-Monopoly Committees.

From 1955 to 1962, he was First Secretary of the Sverdlovsk Regional Party Committee ; he was appointed by Nikita Khrushchev himself to take charge of economic planning and personnel selection in urban areas of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic ( RSFSR ).

The Saransk Regional Museum is dedicated primarily to the history of the city, while the Mordovian Museum of Visual Arts has an excellent collection of works by Russian masters Stepan Erzia and Fedot Sychkov.

Regional specializations with core courses and electives are available in Asian Studies, Middle Eastern Studies, Latin American and Caribbean Studies, or Russian, Eastern and Central Europe Studies.

* Vladimir Anatolyevich Yakovlev ( b. 1944 ), Russian politician, Minister of Regional Development

He remains active in the region as organizer of a major Russian website ( www. cato. ru ) and a conference on " Freedom, Commerce, and Peace: A Regional Agenda " in Tbilisi, capital of Georgia.

As the Regional Director of North Karelia she was instrumental in establishing " soft borders " between Finnish border regions and the Karelian Republic on the Russian side.

Regional varieties include the Baltic Lock, the Russian Snaplock, the Roman Lock, and the Spanish Snaplock or Agujeta Lock, precursor to the Miquelet patilla lock.

These included the artist Ivan Bilibin ( 1901, Russian Museum ), Moldovtsev ( 1901, Krasnodar Regional Art Museum ), and the engraver Mate ( 1902, Russian Museum ).

Sunset over the cloudy Pacific coastline as viewed in ( about ) 1982 from the Russian Ridge Open Space Preserve ( part of the Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District ).

The Provisional Government refused to accept the " Power Act " and sent more Russian troops to Finland, where, with the co-operation and support of Finnish conservatives, Parliament was dissolved and new elections announced.

After the Finnish non-socialists won the October 1917 Parliamentary elections, they established an informal truce with the Russian Provisional Government, a situation which was completely disrupted by the Bolshevist revolution in October.

:::: a ) shall announce elections to the State Duma in accordance with the Constitution of the Russian Federation and federal law ;

That conflict reached a climax in September and October 1993, when President Boris Yeltsin used military force to dissolve the parliament and called for new legislative elections ( see Russian constitutional crisis of 1993 ).

At the Russian parliamentary elections in 1995, with a threshold excluding parties under 5 %, more than 45 % of votes were unrepresented ( in 1998, Russian Constitutional Court found the threshold legal, taking into account limits in its use ).

In a period immediately after the Russian Revolution, the mode in which democracy was organised ( elections within workplace ' soviets ') automatically disenfranchised capitalists ( who weren't a part of the workforce ); however, Marxists such as Lenin argued that other forms of a ' dictatorship of the proletariat ' in more developed countries would include capitalists among the electorate.

The first European country to introduce women's suffrage was the Grand Duchy of Finland — then a part of the Russian Empire with autonomous powers — which also produced the world's first female members of parliament as a result of the 1907 parliamentary elections.

Each faction in the State Duma, the lower house of the Russian parliament has the right to nominate a candidate for the presidential elections.

In November 1917, it won a plurality of the national vote in Russia's first-ever democratic elections ( to the Russian Constituent Assembly ), but soon split and the remaining faction of this party who remained loyal to Alexander Kerensky was defeated and destroyed by the Bolsheviks in the course of the Russian Civil War and subsequent persecution.

The split had not been completed before the Russian Constituent Assembly elections, the first meaningful electoral test between the parties in the peasant soviets a few weeks after the Assembly elections showed the parties had roughly equal support in the peasantry.

In the late 17th century and early 18th century the Polish – Lithuanian Commonwealth had been reduced from the status of a major European power to that of a Russian protectorate ( or vassal or satellite state ), with the Russian tsar effectively choosing Polish – Lithuanian monarchs during the free elections and deciding the outcome of much of Poland's internal politics, for example during the Repnin Sejm, named after the Russian ambassador who unofficially presided over the proceedings.

However, Russian President Vladimir Putin changed the law to abolish elections for regional governors, and on 21 October 2005 Abramovich was reappointed governor for another term.

During regional elections of 11 October 2009 United Russia won a majority of seats in almost every Russian municipality.

Opposing both communism and the " wild " capitalism of the 1990s, the party scored a major success in the 1993 Russian Duma elections, receiving a plurality vote.

In the 1993 Duma elections, the pro-reform party supporting President Boris Yeltsin, Russia's Choice, received only 15 % of the vote, and the new Communist Party of the Russian Federation only 12. 4 %.

After the dissolution of the Supreme Soviet, and the adoption of the new constitution in October 1993, the first multiparty elections took place in the Russian Federation in December 1993.

Presentation of electoral associations of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation ( KPRF ) for the parliamentary elections of 2011

CPRF was endorsed by Sergey Baburin's People's Union for the 2007 Russian parliamentary elections.

A complement of legislation governs elections in the Russian Federation.

Foundation principles on which elections and citizens ’ electoral rights are enshrined in the Constitution and clarified in the Law on Basic Guarantees of Electoral Rights and the Rights of Citizens of the Russian Federation to Participate in a Referendum ( Basic Guarantees ).

Previous presentations have been on French, Spanish, Russian, Italian, German and Japanese.

Too often in the past Russian tactics have been used to justify like tactics on our part.

In fact, one of the major reasons for the failure of the ill-starred expedition appears to have been a lack of full information on the extent to which Cuba has been getting this Russian military equipment.

Somehow, the pictures and stories of Soviet T-34 tanks on Cuban beaches and Russian Mig jet fighters strafing rebel troops has brought home to all of us the stark, blunt truth of what it means to have a Russian military base 90 miles away from home.

) In most sports, as in most walks of life, the angels are on the side of those who begin young, and the Russian competitor of 16 has at least thirteen years of training behind him.

The savage barbarian hordes of red Russian Communism descended on the Athens that was mighty Metronome, sacking and despoiling with their Bolshevistic battle cry of `` Soak the rich '!!

With detectors sensitive to three mass intervals and based on a few counts, the second and third Russian space probes indicate that the flux of the smallest particles detected is less than that of larger ones.

We stood under a gigantic tree in the rolling country just outside of Moscow looking at silent flowers on the grave of a Russian poet and writer who cherished the love for his country to the point of foregoing the highest international honor.

She did not go so far as to say, as was done on other occasions, that Abstraction as well as Impressionism were a Russian invention that had been discarded as unwanted by the people of the U.S.S.R.

Among the subjects discussed will be Russian restrictions on poets and writers in the USSR ( Channel 9 at 9:30 ).

A veteran diplomat with an extraordinary knowledge of Russian language, history and literature, Kennan recalls how, at the time of Hitler's attack on the Soviet Union in 1941, he penned a private note to a State Department official, expressing the hope that `` never would we associate ourselves with Russian purposes in the areas of eastern Europe beyond her own boundaries ''.

With justified bitterness the author speaks of `` what seems to me to have been an inexcusable body of ignorance about the nature of the Russian Communist movement, about the history of its diplomacy, about what had happened in the purges, and about what had been going on in Poland and the Baltic States ''.

With three fine Russian films in recent months on World War 2, -- `` The House I Live In '', `` The Cranes Are Flying '' and `` Ballad Of A Soldier '' -- we had every right to expect a real Soviet block-buster in `` The Day The War Ended ''.

The Russian abacus, the schoty ( счёты ), usually has a single slanted deck, with ten beads on each wire ( except one wire which has four beads, for quarter-ruble fractions.

Van Vogt was born on a farm in Edenburg, a Russian Mennonite community east of Gretna, Manitoba, Canada.

* 1377 – Russian troops are defeated in the Battle on Pyana River because of drunkenness.

Disposal of waste by simply dumping it at the shoreline such as here at the Russian Bellingshausen Island | Bellingshausen base is no longer permitted by the Protocol on Environmental Protection

The highest grade amethyst ( called " Deep Russian ") is exceptionally rare and therefore, when one is found, its value is dependent on the demand of collectors.

A total of 83 North Kuril Ainu arrived in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky on September 18, 1877 after they decided to remain under Russian rule.

* 1912 – Russian troops open fire on striking goldfield workers in northeast Siberia, killing at least 150.

The 1000-page autobiographical manuscript Récoltes et semailles ( 1986 ) is now available on the internet in the French original, and an English translation is underway ( these parts of Récoltes et semailles have already been translated into Russian and published in Moscow ).

* Russian Americans-Russian cuisine, with particular impact on Midwest

* 1242 – During a battle on the ice of Lake Peipus, Russian forces, led by Alexander Nevsky, rebuff an invasion attempt by the Teutonic Knights.