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  • 81Russian Intelligence Services —    Following the 1991 August putsch, Russian President Boris Yeltsin began to systematically dismantle the KGB. Over the next year, several different services were created, all of which reported to the president through a newly established… …

    Historical dictionary of Russian and Soviet Intelligence

  • 82Federation treaty of 1992 —    On 31 March 1992, Boris Yeltsin adopted a series of agreements collectively known as the Federation Treaty to address the concerns of regional elites and the new country’s national minorities. The new relations weakened the power of the… …

    Historical Dictionary of the Russian Federation

  • 83federation — UK [ˌfedəˈreɪʃ(ə)n] / US noun [countable] Word forms federation : singular federation plural federations 1) a country made up of individual states with the power to make their own decisions, but with a national government responsible for areas… …

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  • 84federation — fed|er|a|tion [ ,fedə reıʃn ] noun count 1. ) a country made up of individual states with the power to make their own decisions, but with a national government responsible for areas such as foreign policy and defense: the Russian Federation 2. )… …

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  • 85The Man Who Was Thursday — Infobox Book name = The Man Who Was Thursday: a Nightmare title orig = translator = image caption = author = G. K. Chesterton illustrator = cover artist = country = United Kingdom language = English series = genre = Thriller novel publisher = J.W …

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  • 86Russian Civil War — Clockwise from top: Soldiers of the Don Army in 1919; a White infantry division in March 1920; soldiers of the 1st Cavalry Army; Leon Trotsky in 1918; hanging of workers in Yekaterinoslav by the Czecho …

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  • 87Russian Armenia — (Armenian: Ռուսական Հայաստան) is the period of Armenia s history under Russian rule beginning from 1829, when Eastern Armenia became part of the Russian Empire to the declaration of the Democratic Republic of Armenia in 1918.BackgroundFor… …

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  • 88Russian language — Russian русский язык (russkiy yazyk) Pronunciation [ˈrusʲkʲɪj jɪˈzɨk] Spoken in Russia, countries of the fo …

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  • 89The Slavs in America —     The Slavs in America     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► The Slavs in America     The Slavic races have sent large numbers of their people to the United States and Canada, and this immigration is coming every year in increasing numbers. The… …

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  • 90Federation of American Scientists — The Federation of American Scientists (FAS) [ [http://www.fas.org Federation of American Scientists] ] is a non profit organization formed in 1945 by scientists from the Manhattan Project who felt that scientists, engineers and other innovators… …

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