" Charles Gounod uses the theme in his Fantaisie sur l ' Hymne National Russe ( Fantasy on the Russian National Hymn ).

set to Lvov's tune and published in 19th and 20th century hymnals as the Russian Hymn.

The Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic had no anthem, and used exclusively that of the Union: the Internationale from 1917 to 1944 and the Hymn of the Soviet Union from 1944 to 1991.

Musically, the chords are reminiscent of the National Anthem of the Soviet Union, known in Russian as " Hymn of the Soviet Union " (" Государственный гимн СССР ").

The album Rasseya, released in 2004, includes a remake of one of their older songs and a rock rendition of the Hymn of the Russian Federation.

To the tune of a Susa march, they bid Japan " Please Hello " and are followed by a Gilbertian British Admiral, a clog-dancing Dutch Admiral, a gloomy Russian and a dandified Frenchman all vying for access to Japan's markets.

The Russian word kuchka also spawned the terms " kuchkism " and " kuchkist ", which may be applied to artistic aims or works in tune with the sensibilities of The Mighty Handful.

The Russian Federation itself had abandoned the Soviet hymn, replacing it with a tune by Glinka.

The tune of this instrumental anthem, which was chosen by Boris Yeltsin in the early 1990s and favored by the Russian Orthodox church, went without lyrics for several years.

Their first real success came in 2000 with the remake of a very popular Russian tune, " Oriental Song ".

The show's theme tune is an arrangement by Alan Hawkshaw of part of the Promenade from Pictures at an Exhibition by Russian composer Modest Mussorgsky.

However they used the tune of the Russian song May There Always Be Sunshine by Arkady Ostrovsky, who was never credited because of political reasons.

Balakirev himself indicated in the score that the coda should be played similarly to the Russian Tropak, again a traditional Russian tune.

Vizbor would record songs with a traditional Russian seven-string guitar that was often slightly out of tune.

Throughout the film, it is learned that the Krakozhian language is mutually intelligible with Russian, and that the Krakozhian national anthem is musically close to that of Albania ( or the tune of Vajacki marš ).

The Worker's Marseillaise (, Rabochaya Marselyeza ) was a Russian revolutionary song set to the tune of the Marseillaise.

In the 1999 film adaptation, " Beasts of England " is retitled " Beasts of the World " and " Comrade Napoleon " is replaced by a song titled " Beloved Leader Napoleon ", put to the tune of the Russian song " V Put ":

The Borat segments on Da Ali G Show use a rock rendition of a Russian folk tune, " Korobeiniki ", as the theme song.

The tune of " Word Up " was also used by Russian rapper Noize MC in his ironic song " Heroin Fest ".

Bell founder Derck could not tune his bells well, so some of the bells were recast by Russian bell founders in the 19th century.

The album featured a line-up of songs very " Russian " in both lyric and tune, and wasn't initially met with much public appreciation ( in retrospect, however, it is considered by most critics one of his best records ).

Their name is taken from a 19th Century tune generally described ( inaccurately ) as a Russian Gypsy song, made popular by Django Reinhardt among many others.

It uses a Russian tune, this time in the tonic major key and includes another blazing rendition of " God Save the Tsar " prophesying the triumph of the Slavonic people over tyranny.

At the peak of the song's success, a New York company used the melody in a commercial for " Rokeach Ga-filte-fish ", arguing that the tune was an old Russian folk-tune and thus in the public domain.

By the 1860s, the Russian Empire – continued as the Soviet Union – became the largest contiguous state in the world, and the latter's main successor, Russia, continues to be so to this day.

A Russian edition V Mire Nauki was launched in the Soviet Union in 1983, and continues in the present-day Russian Federation.

Tajikistan is slowly rebuilding itself with an integrated government and continues to permit a Russian military presence to guard their border with Afghanistan and the basing of the Russian 201st Motorized Rifle Division that never left Tajikistan when it became independent.

A constant flow of illegal narcotics continues to transit Tajikistan from Afghanistan on its way to Russian and European markets, leaving widespread violent crime, corruption, increased HIV incidence, and economic distortions in its wake.

Development continues, with around 100 ballistic missile flight tests ( not including those of the US ) in 2007, mostly by China, Iran and the Russian Federation.

A judicial row periodically continues over the naval hydrographic infrastructure both in Sevastopol and on the Crimean coast ( especially lighthouses historically maintained by the Soviet or Russian Navy and also used for civil navigation support ).

Debate still continues as to whether he had been forced to write it, and it is known that some years beforehand he had seen many of his Trotskyist friends arrested and killed by the Russian secret police.

A few speakers of the Ninilchik Russian dialect are still alive in 2008, including one married couple who continues to speak the language to each other.

The tradition of the classic Russian novel continues with such authors as Mikhail Shishkin and Vasily Aksyonov.

The traditional power trio continues to be represented by newer groups such as Muse, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Subways, Biffy Clyro, Wolfmother, Radio Moscow, Cog, Back Door Slam, Russian Circles, Los Lonely Boys, The Fall of Troy, The Wombats, Johnny Foreigner, State Radio, Junkyard Choir, The Young Knives, Rose Hill Drive, Seether, The Steepwater Band, Super 400, North Mississippi Allstars, The Joy Formidable and the John Mayer Trio, among many others who have sprung out of the jam band scene.

He continues ..." the Russian language is like the English ... both these languages are like the dish which is called in Moscow ' Solianka ', and into which everything goes except you and me ..." In spite of the difficulties, he goes on to develop a special vocabulary of a new language, all of it his own.

The company continues to dominate a large part of the Russian space program, and a considerable part of the World's space program, with its Soyuz rockets and spacecraft having become the only crewed spacecraft conducting regular flights and the exclusive crew transport vehicle for the International Space Station after the Space Shuttle retirement.

The American cardiologist Bernard Lown and the Russian cardiologist Yevgeniy Chazov were motivated in conscience through studying the catastrophic public health consequences of nuclear war in establishing International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War ( IPPNW ) which was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1985 and continues to work to " heal an ailing planet ". World wide expressions of conscience contributed to the decision of the French government to halt atmospheric nuclear tests at Mururoa in the Pacific in 1974 after 41 such explosions ( although below-ground nuclear tests continued there into the 1990s ).

The Vaganova Ballet Academy continues to be the associate school of the former Imperial Russian Ballet, although it is now known as the Mariinsky Ballet.

The former Soviet ( now Russian ) national airline, Aeroflot, continues to use the hammer and sickle in its symbol.

The 4 string Russian domra continues to be used and taught in Ukraine despite the fact that it has been replaced by the 3 string domra in Russia proper.

:* Alexander Zelitchenko: a Russian psychologist, philosopher, theologian and historian in his Svet Zhizni ( Light of Life ) continues elaboration of Spengler's theory from the point of view of developmental psychology correcting some minor errors and shows how changing one other cultures develop human psyche creating new patterns of mental activity.

Today, the Commonwealth of Independent States continues to use Russian language as their working language.

Lombard Street then continues through the Russian Hill neighborhood and onto the Telegraph Hill neighborhood.

Dan Blumenthal of the American Enterprise Institute has written that the actual Russian problem with the INF is that China is not bound by it and continues to build up their own Intermediate-Range forces.

The division of the Cossacks in the Russian Civil War and the Second World War continues to be a controversial issue today.

The fall of the yers is fully reflected, more or less to the Russian pattern, although the terminal ъ continues to be written.