President Kennedy, already two quiet demands down, still refused Thursday to be drawn into delivering a public ultimatum to Moscow.

Washington refused to support Churchill's plan to use Eisenhower's army for political maneuvers against Moscow.

The ROCOR was instituted in the 1920s by Russian communities outside then Communist Russia, which refused to recognize the authority of the Moscow Patriarchate headed by Metropolitan Sergius Stragorodsky.

In this role he took part in the 1969 international conference of the Communist parties in Moscow, where his delegation disagreed with the " official " political line, and refused to support the final report.

Following the breakup of the Soviet Union, Moscow refused to recognise Ukrainian sovereignty over Sevastopol as well as over the surrounding Crimean oblast, using the argument that the city was never practically integrated into the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic because of its military status.

" In Russia, the government had refused to consider the church for registration as a religious organization, which became the subject of proceedings before the European Court of Human Rights in the case of Church of Scientology Moscow v. Russia.

Nikolai Rubinstein offered him a professorship at the Moscow Conservatory but he refused, stating that his musical knowledge was basically empirical and that he did not have enough knowledge of music theory to take on such a position.

One example is London Zoo female giant panda Chi Chi ; when taken to Moscow Zoo for mating with the male giant panda An An, she refused his attempts to mate with her, but made a full sexual self-presentation to a Russian zookeeper.

Sigismund refused to agree to the boyar's request to send prince Władysław to Moscow and his conversion to Orthodoxy.

Even his own settlements at Saratov and Samara refused to open their gates to him, and the Don Cossacks, hearing that the patriarch of Moscow had anathematized Stenka, also declared against him.

The PCI in particular had been developing an independent line from Moscow for many years prior, which had already been exhibited in 1968, when the party refused to support the Soviet invasion of Prague.

In December 1992, Russia withdrew all its vessels and ammunition from the Poti naval base, but an ethnic Georgian commander of one landing ship refused to obey Moscow ’ s order and displayed a Georgian flag.

In 1969, Enrico Berlinguer, PCI deputy national secretary and later secretary general, took part in the international conference of the Communist parties in Moscow, where his delegation disagreed with the " official " political line, and refused to support the final report.

In October 1944, Churchill traveled to Moscow and agreed to divide the Balkans into respective spheres of influence, and at Yalta Roosevelt signed a separate deal with Stalin in regard of Asia and refused to support Churchill on the issues of Poland and the Reparations.

Alexander I ( despite having almost lost the war by the standards of the time ) refused to capitulate, leaving the French to wallow in the abandoned city of Moscow with little food, shelter ( large parts of Moscow had burned down ) and winter approaching.

Vvedensky refused to come into the Moscow Patriarchy as a layman and died unreconciled.

His agent refused to publish it and suggested the Atheist Journal in Moscow might buy it but no one else would.

The Government of the DRG refused to enter any military alliance, referring to its policy of neutrality and noninterference, but suggested to start negotiations on political settlement of the relations between two countries in the hope that this would apparently lead to the recognition of Georgia's independence by Moscow.

Upon the departure of the court for St. Petersburg, the palace fell into disrepair, so that Catherine II refused to make it her Moscow residence.

113, subtitled Babi Yar ) by Dmitri Shostakovich was first performed in Moscow on 18 December 1962 by the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra and the basses of the Republican State and Gnessin Institute Choirs, under Kirill Kondrashin ( after Yevgeny Mravinsky refused to conduct the work ).

For political reasons, therefore, CSKA Moscow refused to play in Tel Aviv.

And the Soviets also refused to grant visas to the Israelis, to allow them to come play in Moscow.

He also said that his Russian controller had ordered him, too, to join the pair in their flight to Moscow but that he had refused.

Moscow was the only major world capital Mobutu never visited, although he did accept an invitation to do so in 1974.

Edigu forced the Grand Prince of Moscow to accept the Khan's supremacy in 1408.

The activists from Moscow found it difficult to gain traction over the issue with local residents who, like most Russians, accept political corruption as a given that is useless to protest.

Since Moscow would not accept Mieczysław Moczar, Edward Gierek was drafted as the new leader.

Courts in Khanty-Mansiysk and Omsk have approved Farimex ' claims and arrested Telenor's US $ 1, 8 bn worth shares in VimpelCom in March, 2009, but Telenor refuses to accept the legal premises and appeals the verdicts to the regional court of Tyumen, which is the last court of appeal before the federal level in Moscow.

Moscow could not accept this interpretation.

From Buda, in March 1440, he published an encyclical calling on all Russian bishops to accept the union, but when he at last arrived in Moscow ( Easter, 1441 ), and proclaimed the union in the Kremlin church, he found that the Grand Duke Vasily II of Moscow and most of the bishops and people would have none of it.

According to Benjamin Gitlow's 1940 memoir, I Confess, Wolfe was directed by the Comintern in April 1929 to be removed from his post in Moscow and to instead accept a dangerous assignment to Korea as part of the campaign against the Lovestone group in the American Communist Party.

Dr. Kenneth Alibek adds: “ Long before my emigration, I resigned from the Soviet Army, left my administrative and scientific positions in Moscow, refused to accept a Russian citizenship, informed Russian security officials that I would be leaving for the United States, became jobless for more than 9 months and, after I got my parents ’ blessing, I left the former Soviet Union ( it was not Russia ).

Since Moscow would not accept the appointment of Moczar, Edward Gierek was drafted as the new First Secretary of the PZPR.

Moscow continued to accept runners from the regions of Cossack Hetmanate completely disregarding the authority of hetman and spreading rumors that in truth Moscow does not support candidacy of Vyhovsky.

But in the summer of 1921, Zeth Höglund, together with Fredrik Ström and Hinke Bergegren, represented Sweden in the third congress of the Comintern held in Moscow, and Höglund worked hard to make the Swedish party accept the Twenty-one Conditions for membership in the Communist International, including changing the name from Sweden ’ s Social Democratic Left Party to the Swedish Communist Party.

In 1437, Isidore was appointed Metropolitan of Kiev and Moscow and all Rus ' by Emperor John VIII Palaeologus to draw the Russian Orthodox Church into communion with the Roman Catholic Church and secure Constantinople's protection against the invading Ottoman Turks.

On 24 April 2006, and without first consulting his diocese or clergy, Bishop Basil of Sergievo wrote to the Patriarch of Moscow requesting that he and the Diocese of Sourozh as a whole ( and not simply those elements who wished to go with him ) be released from the jurisdiction of the Moscow Patriarchate to be received into the jurisdiction of the Ecumenical Patriarch, to exist alongside Constantinople's Patriarchal Exarchate for Orthodox Parishes of Russian Tradition in Western Europe, based in Rue Daru in Paris.

This canon affirms Constantinople as having ' equal privileges ' to ' Old Rome ', and assigns Constantinople the right to appoint bishops over ' barbarians ' – which according to Constantinople's interpretation ( not shared by the Moscow patriarchate ) gives Constantinople the right to appoint bishops in all areas outside canonically-defined territories.

* drew the conclusion from that that it ' does not recognize the validity ' of Constantinople's reception of Basil into its jurisdiction, ' and considers that it contradicts the holy canons '; Moscow announces that ' Bishop Basil remains within the jurisdiction of the Moscow Patriarchate and any decision regarding his future situation is the prerogative of the hierarchy of the Russian Orthodox Church '.

Regarding Constantinople's actions, Moscow:

Given the creation of the Moscow IFF and the political decision to organize only one " A " festival for all socialist countries, Karlovy Vary was forced to alternate with Moscow between 1959 and 1993.

By the October 1941, the rapid German drive to Moscow, triggered the decision to relocate the Moscow automotive manufacturer ZIS to the Volga town of Ulyanovsk.

The official investigation that the Moscow City Prosecutor's Office has been carrying out for three and a half years failed to provide positive information on the gas agent that killed hostages, possible antidote to that agent, the number of hostages released by the operation, the number of militants who had seized the theater ( hostages claimed that they saw more than 50 militants, whereas only 40 hostage takers were in the building according to the official version ), and the names of officials who had made the decision about the assault.

His armoured spearhead captured Smolensk in a remarkably short time and was poised to launch the final assault on Moscow when he was ordered to turn south towards Kiev ( see Lötzen decision ).

Born in Moscow, Rush County, Indiana, McCoy would eventually weigh 160 pounds, stand 5 ' 11 ", and go on to a record 81 wins ( 55 by KO, with 6 losses, 9 no decision, and 6 disqualifications ).

" The decision to make Nakhchivan a part of modern-day Azerbaijan was cemented March 16, 1921 in the Treaty of Moscow between Bolshevist Russia and the newly founded Republic of Turkey.

The 600th anniversary of Nesîmî's birthday was celebrated worldwide in 1973 by the decision of UNESCO, and representatives from many countries took part in the celebrations held both in Azerbaijan and in Moscow, Russia.

Gates cited the American Communist Party's failure to declare its independence from Moscow as decisive in his decision to leave the organization.

The book Sword and Shield, by Christopher Andrew, based on the Mitrokhin Archive smuggled out of Russia in the early 1990s by a KGB archivist, says that the Soviets independently broke into Japanese PURPLE traffic ( as well as the Red predecessor machine ), and that decrypted PURPLE messages contributed to the decision by Stalin to move troops from Far Eastern Asia to the area around Moscow for the counterattack against Germany in December 1941 as the messages convinced the Soviet government that there would not be a Japanese attack.

In July 2007, a Moscow court ruled that Visa's decision to cut off payments to allTunes was illegal.

Radić was imprisoned within months of his return to Yugoslavia and the Central Committee of the now-banned Peasant Party was quick to renounce his seemingly rash decision to affiliate with Moscow.

The Central Committee recognizes that the international position of the Russian revolution ( the revolt in the German navy which is an extreme manifestation of the growth throughout Europe of the world Socialist revolution ; the threat of conclusion of peace by the imperialists with the object of strangling the revolution in Russia ) as well as its military position ( the indubitable decision of the Russian bourgeoisie and Kerensky and Co. to surrender Petrograd to the Germans ), and the fact that the proletarian party has gained a majority in the Soviets – all this, taken in conjunction with the peasant revolt and the swing of popular confidence towards our Party ( the elections in Moscow ), and, finally, the obvious preparations being made for a second Kornilov affair ( the withdrawal of troops from Petrograd, the dispatch of Cossacks to Petrograd, the surrounding of Minsk by Cossacks, etc.

In 1938, due to an incident when an instructor defected to the West using a glider, the Soviet government reversed its decision regarding glider training, banned the sport of gliding and shut down the Moscow Glider Factory.

Hitler instead moved away from Moscow ( a decision which he would reverse in the near-future ) and wanted more strategic encirclements to weaken the Soviets further.

NATO immediately expressed regret over Russia's decision to suspend the treaty, describing it as " a step in the wrong direction ", but hoped to engage Moscow in what was described as constructive talks on this issue.

" Following the judgement the decision was taken to introduce into the London Cathedral the Statutes of the Russian Orthodox Church in Moscow.

On April 3, 2009 representatives of the new owner of FC Torpedo Moscow, ZiL, appealed that decision.

Later that day, the decision to bring troops of the Transcaucasian Military District, then commanded by Col. Gen. Ivan Fedyuninsky, into the matter was made in Moscow.

The decision to convert the Jugendweihe into a socialist ceremony was taken in Moscow in May 1953 when the Politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union passed a resolution on " Measures for the Recovery of the Political Situation in the GDR ", which suggested a socialist alternative to Christian Confirmation.