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Russian President Boris Yeltsin Signs a Bill Limiting Religious Freedom in Russia, September 26, 1997 На фото: Russian President Boris Yeltsin Signs a Bill Limiting Religious Freedom in Russia, September 26, 1997, автор: admin

Публикация №1188907200 04 сентября 2007

After receiving entreaties from the Vatican, U.S. leaders, and human-rights groups, Russian president Boris Yeltsin in July 1997 rejected a bill that would limit religious freedom in Russia. Then, in September, he stunned foreign observers by signing the legislation, which recognized only the "traditional religions" of Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, and Judaism. Wholeheartedly supported by the Russian Orthodox Church and the heavily nationalist Duma, Russia's ruling legislative body, the law was supposedly instituted to protect against dangerous cults. It would also allegedly protect the religious freedoms of non-Orthodox Christians, but many critics maintained that its purpose was to consolidate the power of what was once Russia's state church...

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Russia in World War I На фото: Russia in World War I, автор: admin

Публикация №1188907113 04 сентября 2007

Russia was one of the greatest losers of World War I (1914-1918). Its armies were defeated on the battlefield; much of its territory was occupied by enemies; both its reigning Romanov dynasty and the vaguely democratic government that replaced it were toppled by domestic political turmoil; authority fell into the hands of extremists, who presided over one of the most repressive regimes in history; and the price of peace was a massive loss of territory, population, and resources. Was Imperial Russia doomed to such terrible catastrophe?..

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New Law Legalizes the Purchase and Sale of Urban Land--A First in Russian History, October 26, 2001 На фото: New Law Legalizes the Purchase and Sale of Urban Land--A First in Russian History, October 26, 2001, автор: admin

Публикация №1188907038 04 сентября 2007

Reversing generations of Russian and Soviet history, Russian President Vladimir Putin in October 2001 signed legislation legalizing the purchase and sale of land in urban and industrial areas. This accounted for only about 2 percent of Russia's vast land mass, yet the Land Code--which gave foreigners virtually the same rights of ownership as Russians--was epochal nonetheless. Creating a market for land, and a new source of value, could only be good for Russia's faltering economy, but the significance of the new law (just one of several sweeping reforms put through parliament by the president) extended far beyond economics. At a time when unrest in Russia raised occasional fears of a Communist return to power, the Land Code signified a sharp break with the Marxist - and czarist - past...

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Revolutionary Russia and the Balkans На фото: Revolutionary Russia and the Balkans, автор: admin

Публикация №1188906900 04 сентября 2007

Russia's protective role of the Balkans has been a long-lasting cliché of European politics. Bound to their larger neighbor by Orthodox Christianity, Slavic roots, and a common heritage of opposition to the Muslim Turks, the Balkan peoples, many have argued, found earnest and reliable protectors in their Russian neighbors. Russia faithfully supported their revolts against the Ottoman Empire, crafted diplomacy to safeguard their interests, and intervened directly to help them achieve independence from Muslim rule. Russia in this view was noble, helpful, and beneficent...

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Post-Cold War Espionage Between the United States and Russia: How Has the Mission Changed? На фото: Post-Cold War Espionage Between the United States and Russia: How Has the Mission Changed?, автор: admin

Публикация №1188906831 04 сентября 2007

The ideological conflict between capitalism and communism sparked the Cold War, fought by the two countries that emerged most powerful from World War II--the United States and the Soviet Union. Espionage between the two superpowers was a major component of the Cold War. When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991 and the Cold War ended, the nature of espionage between the United States and Russia changed dramatically...

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Russia as Part of the West На фото: Russia as Part of the West, автор: admin

Публикация №1188906701 04 сентября 2007

British statesman Winston Churchill once famously referred to Russia as a "riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma." The consternation expressed in his statement at least partly derived from the question of Russia's identity as a nation. For many observers, Russia is undeniably part of the West. A Christian nation since the conversion of its people in 988, Russia has been intimately tied to Europe by culture, trade, and diplomacy, as well as by faith. The basis for its laws and social organization, from the tsars through the communists to its current leaders, has shared many commonalities with the West. The development of its art, science, and philosophy had pronounced Western influences and went a long way toward influencing the West itself...

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Chechnya and Russia: A War of Succession На фото: Chechnya and Russia: A War of Succession, автор: admin

Публикация №1188906480 04 сентября 2007

In February 2000, Russian military forces retook the city of Grozny, capital of the breakaway republic of Chechnya. Chechen separatists, who had declared Chechnya's independence in 1991 from the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) as it was dissolving, fled once again into the surrounding Caucasus Mountains. Anxious to restore a sense of normality to the besieged capital, Russian officials quickly began to plan a government to replace the one established by Aslan Maskhadov who had been elected to the Chechen presidency in 1997 and who had also fled the capital. The recapture of Grozny, the capital of Chechnya, was a significant victory for Russia whose army had crossed into Chechnya in October 1999 and restarted a war that the outside world had hoped was ended three years earlier...

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Russia Agrees to Take the World's Nuclear Waste: But Where to Put it? На фото: Russia Agrees to Take the World's Nuclear Waste: But Where to Put it?, автор: admin

Публикация №1188906364 04 сентября 2007

With already serious nuclear waste problems and a very poor track record in nuclear safety, Russia has approved plans to import more spent nuclear waste from elsewhere in the world for reprocessing. Russia claims that it will use the profits to clean up its considerable nuclear waste problem, but there is worldwide skepticism about its ability to do so and fear of the consequences for the planet if its efforts are unsuccessful...

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Alexander, I, Tsar of Russia (1777-1825) На фото: Alexander, I, Tsar of Russia (1777-1825), автор: admin

Публикация №1188906148 04 сентября 2007

Russian Tsar who defeated Napoleon and attempted to bring constitutional reforms to his country...

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Collapse of Tsarist Russia На фото: Collapse of Tsarist Russia, автор: admin

Публикация №1188906049 04 сентября 2007

By early 1917 the military defeats and social strains of World War I had created a political crisis in Imperial Russia. Over several unseasonably warm days in February and March of that year, angry crowds gathered in the capital of Petrograd (formerly and once again St. Petersburg), and the capital garrison refused to suppress the disturbances. Isolated at military headquarters near the front, Tsar Nicholas II did not realize the gravity of the situation until too late. He waited too long to return to the seat of his government and was forced to abdicate in Pskov, where his train was diverted...

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