Directors from nations such as Poland ( Roman Polanski, Krzysztof Kieslowski, and Andrzej Żuławski ), Argentina ( Gaspar Noe and Edgardo Cozarinsky ), Russia ( Alexandre Alexeieff, Anatole Litvak ) and Georgia ( Gela Babluani, Otar Iosseliani ) are prominent in the ranks of French cinema.

Freedom House, an international organisation funded by the United States, ranks Russia as " not free ", citing " carefully engineered elections " and " absence " of debate.

By area Turkmenistan ranks fourth among the former Soviet republics, after Russia, Kazakhstan, and Ukraine.

According to a report from the United States-China Economic and Security Review Commission, " Israel ranks second only to Russia as a weapons system provider to China and as a conduit for sophisticated military technology, followed by France and Germany.

Amur Oblast ranks sixth in Russia for gold mining, and has the largest gold reserves in the country.

The war split the ranks of the three partitioning empires, pitting Russia as defender of Serbia and ally of Britain and France against the leading members of the Central Powers, Germany and Austria-Hungary.

By early April the Polish forces concentrated in the lands of Lublin and Volhynia, ready to be sent to Russia, joined the ranks of Kościuszko's forces.

After receiving her Ph. D., she continued to teach at the Saint Petersburg University of the Ministry of Interior of Russia. She also continued her career as a police officer, being promoted to the ranks of Captain in September 2002 and Major in 2005.

The oblast ranks seventh in Russia in industrial output, while the processing industry predominates in the local economy.

The oblast also has a developed agricultural sector, which ranks 33rd in Russia in agricultural production.

The Table of Ranks (; Tabel ' o rangakh ) was a formal list of positions and ranks in the military, government, and court of Imperial Russia.

Category: Military ranks of Russia

Category: Military ranks of Russia

* 1998 – Alfa-Bank is reorganized from limited liability company into open joint stock company ; Euromoney ranks Alfa Bank The Best Bank in Russia for the second straight year ; Alfa Bank merges with Alfa Capital, then a sister company of Alfa Group ; subsidiary bank opens in Novosibirsk ;

* 1999 – Euromoney ranks Alfa Bank The Best Bank in Russia for the third straight year ; Global Finance also names Alfa Bank The Best Russian Bank ; despite the financial crisis 14 new retail branches and offices open across Russia ;

* 2005 – Interbrand ranks Alfa Bank 9th strongest brand in Russia ; Mikhail Fridman becomes the member of the Public Chamber of Russia ; Alfa Bank issues US $ 225 million of subbordinated unsecured Eurobonds ; S & P, Fitch and Moody's upgrade Alfa Bank's rating during the year ;

There were different yesaul posts and ranks in Cossack Hosts in Imperial Russia:

In later Imperial Russia, higher ranks of state service ( see Table of Ranks ) were automatically granted nobility, not necessarily associated with landownership.

There is a general consensus that the United States is the nation with the highest CNP and that mainland China's CNP ranks not only far behind the United States but also behind the United Kingdom, Russia, France and Germany.

Category: Military ranks of Russia

Category: Military ranks of Russia

The independent Russia inherited the ranks of the Soviet Union, although the insignia and uniform was altered a little, especially the re-introduction of the old Czarist crown and double eagle.

Alexander Alexandrovich Romanov was born on 10 March 1845 in Saint Petersburg, Russia, the second son of Emperor Alexander II of Russia and his wife Maria Alexandrovna ( Marie of Hesse ).

His second war with Russia, which began in 1826, ended in a string of costly defeats after which Persia was forced to cede nearly all of its Armenian territories and Nakhchivan.

The decline culminated in the War of Spanish Succession, which ended with the relegation of Spain to the status of a second rate western power, although it remained, with Russia, the leading colonial power of the 18th century.

Today China, India, South Korea, Japan and Russia play important roles in world economics and politics. China today is second largest economy of the world and fastest growing economy.

As West European economic growth accelerated during the Industrial Revolution, sea trade and colonialism which had begun in the second half of the 18th century, Russia began to lag ever farther behind, creating new problems for the empire as a great power.

Though India continues to have a military relationship with Russia, Israel has emerged as India's second largest military partner while India has built a strong strategic partnership with the United States.

In central-east Europe Italian is first in Albania and Montenegro, second in Austria, Croatia, Slovenia, and Ukraine after English, and third in Hungary, Romania and Russia after English and German.

* The second day of New Year ( A holiday in Kazakhstan, Macedonia, Montenegro, New Zealand, Romania, Russia, Slovenia, Switzerland, Ukraine ):

* 1993 – In Moscow, Russia, George Bush and Boris Yeltsin sign the second Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty ( START ).

In the correspondence of Metternich and other leaders of the repressive policies that followed the second fall of Napoleon in 1815, Jacobin is the term commonly applied to anyone with liberal tendencies, such as the emperor Alexander I of Russia.

However others, pointing to Marx's encounter with late 19th-century Russian populism and Marx and Engels's preface to the second Russian edition of the Manifesto of the Communist Party ( 1882 ), have argued that Marx evinced a growing conviction in his late writings that revolution could in fact emerge first in Russia.

This recovery was interrupted twice, first by a banking crisis and the bankruptcy of Banka Baltija, Latvia's largest bank, in 1995 and second by a severe crisis in the financial system of neighbouring Russia in 1998.

During the second half of the 19th century, the armies of a number of nations besides Russia ( including Colombia, Chile, Mexico, Portugal, Norway, and Sweden ) adopted the Pickelhaube or something very similar.

In the second half of the nineteenth century and beginning of the twentieth century in Russia, painters such as Vasily Polenov, Isaac Levitan, Valentin Serov, Konstantin Korovin and I. E. Grabar were known for painting en plein air.

According Steve White, during the Putin presidency Russia made clear that it had no intention of establishing a " second edition " of the American or British political system, but rather a system that was closer to Russia's own traditions and circumstances.

Russia is second only to Brazil in volume of the total renewable water resources.

Russia has the world's largest forest reserves, known as " the lungs of Europe ", second only to the Amazon Rainforest in the amount of carbon dioxide it absorbs.

Russia is the world's leading natural gas exporter and second largest natural gas producer, while also the largest oil exporter and the largest oil producer.

Russia has the world's second-largest railway network, second only to that of the United States, with a total track length of as of 2011.

The House of Romanov (, ) was the second and last imperial dynasty to rule over Russia, reigning from 1613 until the February Revolution abolished the crown in 1917.

An 18th century genealogy book claimed that he was the son of the Prussian prince Glanda Kambila, who came to Russia in the second half of the 13th century, fleeing the invading Germans.

The Holstein-Gottorps of Russia retained the Romanov surname and sought to emphasize their matrilineal descent from Peter the Great, through Anna Petrovna ( Peter I's elder daughter by his second wife ).

Between May and August 1900, a second journey to Russia, accompanied only by Lou, again took him to Moscow and Saint Petersburg, where he met the family of Boris Pasternak and Spiridon Drozhzhin, a peasant poet.