To everyone's astonishment he seemed no more like the run-of-the-mine Russian ambassador than George Babbitt was like Fyodor Pavlovitch Karamazov.

* Ambassador to Russian Federation is Rimantas Šidlauskas, ambassador to the Republic of Lithuania is Vladimir Chkhikvadze.

Soon the Regent replaced Bismarck as envoy in Frankfurt and made him Prussia's ambassador to the Russian Empire.

He gradually gained in Peter's confidence serving first as the Russian ambassador to Constantinople, then as the head of the secret police.

Mary also welcomed the first Russian ambassador to England, creating relations between England and Russia for the first time.

The Russian ambassador to Serbia asserted that Russia will use its veto power unless the solution is acceptable to both Belgrade and Kosovo Albanians.

Through the Polish nobles whom Russia controlled and the Russian Minister to Warsaw, ambassador and Prince Nicholas Repnin, Empress Catherine the Great forced a constitution on the Commonwealth at the so-called Repnin Sejm of 1767, named after ambassador Repnin, who de facto dictated the terms of that Sejm ( and who ordered the capture and exile of some vocal opponents of his policies to Kaluga in Russian Empire., including bishop Józef Andrzej Załuski and others ).

" However, it was Andropov himself who recalled Yakovlev back to high office in Moscow in 1983 after a ten year de facto exile as ambassador to Canada after attacking Russian chauvinism.

Stevenson's legendary " Don't wait for the translation " speech to Russian ambassador Valerian Zorin during the Cuban Missile Crisis inspired dialogue in a courtroom scene in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country.

The Russian ambassador in Bern ordered Bakunin to return to Russia, but instead he went to Brussels, where he met many leading Polish nationalists, such as Joachim Lelewel, co-member with Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels at Brussels.

He appeared in various roles in the comedy series The Seven Faces of Jim from 1962, alongside Jimmy Edwards and June Whitfield, as well as parts in Bold as Brass and Foreign Affairs ( as the Russian ambassador Grischa Petrovitch ).

* Melrose Kai-Banya, ambassador of the Republic of Sierra Leone to the Russian Federation

The reasons for this break are less clear and simple than those of the split with Austria, but there several key events occurred over the winter of 1799 – 1800 that helped: Bonaparte released 7, 000 captive Russian troops that Britain had refused to pay the ransom for ; Paul grew closer to the Scandinavian countries of Denmark and Sweden, whose claim to neutral shipping rights offended Britain ; Paul had the British ambassador in St. Petersburg recalled and Britain did not replace him, with no clear reason given as to why ; and Britain, needing to choose between their two allies, chose Austria, who had certainly committed to fighting Napoleon to the end.

According to the memo, the offer was turned down by an " amazed and smiling " Russian ambassador who said Russia did not have any need for this.

* Afif Safieh ( 1950-), Palestinian diplomat, ambassador to the Russian Federation.

The Russian ambassador in Constantinople categorically refused to mediate because the Russian government was afraid of allowing Mamluks to return to Georgia, where a strong national liberation movement was on the rise which might have been encouraged by a Mamluk return.

The Russian ambassador added:

Through his association with Graf Goertz, Prussian ambassador at the Russian court, Kotzebue became secretary to the Governor General of Saint Petersburg.

Another son, Ivan Andreevich ( 1725 – 1811 ), was the Russian ambassador in Stockholm and then, for 16 years, the Chancellor of the Russian Empire ( 1781 – 97 ).

The most well-known was Karl de Struve ( 1835 – 1907 ), who served successively as Russian ambassador to Japan, the United States, and the Netherlands.

* The Mystery of Unction Russian Orthodox Cathedral of St. John the Baptist, Washington, DC

Ft. Lewis Washington and the 9th Infantry Division was the testing unit to employ HMMWV in the new concept of a Motorized Division to counter the Russian Motorized units.

Many sources, including the Washington Post, attribute this to Russian roulette.

In 1962, the family moved to Georgetown in Washington, D. C., and Albright began studying international relations and continued studying Russian at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University in Washington DC.

In Washington, D. C., he had a residence on Farragut Square near the home of Baron Karl von Struve, Russian minister to the United States.

In addition, the exposure of the tunnel under the Russian embassy in Washington was a second intelligence failure that could not be blamed on Ames.

Joseph Rosenthal was born on October 9, 1911 in Washington, D. C. His parents were Russian Jewish immigrants ; however, he converted to Catholicism during his youth.

Even as he served as a Titular Councillor, drafting legal protocols, in Catherine ’ s Civil Service, he lauded revolutionaries like George Washington and praised the early stages of the French Revolution, and found himself enamored of the Russian Freemason, Nicholas Ivanovich Novikov, whose publication “ The Drone ” offered the first public critiques of the government, particularly with regards to serfdom.

In response to the Kishinev pogrom in 1903 President Theodore Roosevelt and Secretary of State John Hay met with B ' nai B ' rith's executive committee in Washington, D. C. B ' nai B ' rith President Simon Wolf presented the draft of a petition to be sent to the Russian government protesting the lack of opposition to the massacre.

Dudley won the " Best Original Musical or Comedy Score " Oscar for her music ; The Gathering ( 2002 ) a Anthony Horowitz thriller directed by Brian Gilbert and starring Christina Ricci ; The Grotesque ( 1997 ) released in the US as Gentlemen Don't Eat Poets a British film starring Alan Bates, Theresa Russell and Sting ; Hollow Reed ( 1996 ) a drama directed by Angela Pope and set in Bath ; Knight Moves ( 1992 ) American thriller directed by Carl Schenkel and starring Christopher Lambert ; Lucky Break ( 2001 ) a British feelgood comedy starring James Nesbitt and based around a prison escape ; The Miracle Maker ( 2000 ) an animated feature film made for TV by BBC Wales with Russian model makers ; Monkeybone ( 2001 ) an American film combining live-action and stop-motion animation starring Brendan Fraser and Bridget Fonda ; Perfect Creature ( 2007 ) a New Zealand made horror / thriller film starring Leo Gregory ; Pushing Tin ( 1999 ) a comedy-drama film directed by Mike Newell based around air traffic controllers in New York ; The Pope Must Die ( 1991 ) a comedy film starring Robbie Coltrane the score was co-written with Jeff Beck ; Silence Like Glass ( Zwei Frauen ) ( 1989 ) German made but set in a cancer ward at a hospital in America ; Tristan & Isolde ( 2006 ) a Ridley Scott romantic drama based on the medieval romantic legend of Tristan and Iseult and starring James Franco and Sophia Myles ; The Walker ( 2007 ) a drama written and directed by Paul Schrader set in Washington, D. C .; Her TV music includes scores for all episodes of Jeeves and Wooster with Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie ; Lynda La Plante's Above Suspicion ; Kavanagh QC with John Thaw and The Tenth Kingdom an American epic fantasy TV miniseries written by Simon Moore.

Washington and Lee offers 42 undergraduate majors ( including interdisciplinary majors in neuroscience, medieval and Renaissance studies, and Russian area studies ), 20 minors, and additional interdisciplinary programs in African-American studies, East Asian studies, environmental studies, Latin American and Caribbean studies, poverty and human capability studies ( Shepherd Program ), and women's and gender studies.

William H. Seward and Russian representative Edouard de Stoeckl met in Washington D. C. and negotiated a treaty for the annexation and sale of the Russian American territory of Alaska to the United States for $ 7, 200, 000.

* In 2004, Russian model Tatiana Sorokko performed with the Russian National Orchestra, on tour in the United States, and she was the narrator at the Wind Quintet's debut performance of Jean-Pascal Beintus ' Wolf Tracks, at The Phillips Collection in Washington, D. C.

" Kennan again contemplated resigning from the service, but instead decided to accept the Russian desk at State Department in Washington.

According to the VENONA files, on September 13, 1944, the KGB New York station sent a message to Moscow that Vladimir Pravdin, a NKVD ( the predecessor of the KGB ) officer working under cover as a correspondent for the Soviet news agency TASS, had been trying to contact a person by codename " BLIN " ( the Russian word for pancake ) in Washington, but that " BLIN " had been refusing to meet, citing a busy schedule.

This work was later automated by E. Garfield, A. I. Pudovkin of the Institute of Marine Biology, Russian Academy of Sciences and V. S. Istomin of Center for Teaching, Learning, and Technology, Washington State University and led to the creation of the HistCite software around 2002.

The Russian Minister in Washington, Eduard de Stoeckl, noted, “ The Cabinet of London is watching attentively the internal dissensions of the Union and awaits the result with an impatience which it has difficulty in disguising .” De Stoeckl advised his government that Britain would recognize the Confederate States at its earliest opportunity.

Vokoun in net for the October 13, 2011 game between the Washington Capitals | Capitals and Pittsburgh Penguins | Penguins to honor the members of Lokomotiv Yaroslavl who died in a 2011 Lokomotiv Yaroslavl air disaster | plane crash near the Russian city of Yaroslavl.

After Kryptos, however, he went on to make several other sculptures with codes and other types of writing, including one called Antipodes which is at the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, D. C., an " Untitled Kryptos Piece " which was sold to a private collector, and a Cyrillic Projector with encrypted Russian Cyrillic text, which included an extract from a classified KGB document.

Russian ; English translation 1988, pp. 1021 – 1096 ; Washington, D. C.

At the time, The Washington Post called Kasyanov " the most powerful ally of big business remaining in the Russian government.

The facility now houses the largest collection of Russian space artifacts outside of Moscow, and the second largest collection of space artifacts in the world, second only to the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D. C ..