Search results for "Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Russia)" - New World Encyclopedia

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  • ) was established immediately following the abdication of Nicholas ... For most of the life of the Provisional Government, the status of ...
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  • and returned Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Shah of Iran, to Iran's Peacock ... who led the opposition. The leaders of the 1979 Islamic revolution ...
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  • leader, and the most prominent member of the Constitutional Democratic ... Pavel was born in Moscow in the upper-class family of Nikolai Pavlovich ...
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  • who served as the first prime minister of the Russian Empire, replacing ... Witte served under the last two emperors of Russia, Alexander III ...
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  • denotes Russians citizens and/or residents of Korean descent living on Sakhalin ... The Sakhalin Koreans experienced slaughter at the hands of the Russians ...
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  • statesman. He was the ninth President of Israel, serving from 2007 to ... and led Alignment and Labor. At the time of his retirement in 2014, he ...
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  • January 23, 1806) was a British politician of the late eighteenth and early ... tenure, which came during the reign of George III, was dominated by ...
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  • He is best remembered for his direction of British foreign policy through ... Some of his aggressive actions, now termed liberal interventionist ...
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  • ) was a series of protests and political events that took place in ... The protests were prompted by reports from several domestic and foreign ...
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  • country in Eastern Europe that borders Russia to the north and east, Ukraine ... The history of Belarus is a story of domination by foreign powers ...
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  • regime from 1933 to 1945. He was one of Adolf Hitler's closest ... Heidelberg University in 1921, on the basis of a doctoral thesis on eighteenth ...
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  • Meiji-jidai) denotes the 45 year reign of Emperor Meiji, running, in ... revolution that brought about the fall of the Tokugawa shogunate and ...
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  • The union of Austria and Hungary, also known as the Dual (that of ... The newly created Austro-Hungarian Empire was a good example of a ...
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  • from the 1920s onward. He served as Chairman of the Council of People's ... deeply implicated in the worst atrocities of the Stalin years – the forced ...
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  • George I, King of the Hellenes Georgios A' Vasileus ton Ellinon; ... as a constitutional monarch, the reigns of his successors would prove ...
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  • who served as Bundeskanzler (Chancellor) of West Germany from 1974 to 1982 ... the conditions for peaceful resolution of conflict, and to end war. Speaking ...
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  • – September 11, 1971) assumed leadership of the Soviet Union during the ... Khrushchev is remembered for his rejection of the “personality cult” ...
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  • territories, establishing the Empire of the Great Qing. The Qing Dynasty ... with Han Chinese culture, and saw the height of Imperial Chinese influence ...
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  • and scientist who served as the chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021, ... Safety from 1994. As the first female leader of the world's third largest ...
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  • The Russian Revolution of 1905 began as a wave of mass political and ... By the end of 1905, the revolution resulted in a number of reforms ...
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  • KGB (transliteration of "КГБ") is the Russian-language ... intelligence (internal security) division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation ...
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  • The Republic of Finland is a Nordic country situated in Northern Europe ... Finland consistently ranks high on a number of international analysis ...
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  • Propaganda is a specific type of message presentation directly aimed ... situations, propaganda involves deception of the audience, for a purpose ...
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  • Republic and Slovakia. During the 74 years of its existence, it saw several ... In November 1989, Czechoslovakia joined the wave of anti-Communist ...
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  • The Association of Southeast Asian Nations, [http://www.aseansec.org/64 ... AH-see-ahn in English (the official language of the bloc) ...
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  • The Tatars are people of Turkic origin living mainly in Russia but ... state to be incorporated into imperial Russia was the Crimea, which was ...
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  • George Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, KG, GCSI ... from the Indian but he also had a sense of obligation towards the people ...
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  • 2, 1754 – May 17, 1838), 1st Prince of Benevento, then Prince of Talleyrand ... peace with Austria through the 1801 Treaty of Lunéville and with Britain ...
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  • is one of the seven emirates that constitute the United Arab Emirates ... The modern emirate of Dubai was created with the formation of the ...
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  • [[Image:Stećak.jpg|thumb|250px|Radimlja necropolis of stećak in ... place. Apart from the occasional application of the word to modern cemeteries ...
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  • who served as the second Supreme Leader of North Korea from 1994 to 2011 ... become the heir apparent for the leadership of the Democratic People's ...
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  • ; Postal map spelling: Tientsin) is one of four municipalities of ... The urban area of Tianjin is located along the Haihe River, and is ...
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  • began in 1873, just prior to the Treaty of Ganghwa in 1874 between Japan ... representing the whales. Indeed, the history of Korea is replete with invasions ...
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  • Lithuania, officially the Republic of Lithuania, is a country in northern ... 780,000 residents between 1940 and 1954. Of them, an estimated 120,000 ...
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  • The Nuremberg Trials were a series of trials most notable for the ... There was a second set of trials of lesser war criminals that was ...
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  • with creating a comprehensive picture of contemporary Russian society ... His literary career began in the early 1860s with the publication ...
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  • known as a tank tactician and an advocate of the concentrated use of armored ... His strong advocacy of France's role in world affairs ensured ...
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  • country in Central Europe and a member state of the European Union. Though ... for more than 40 years, until the breakup of the Soviet empire in 1989. ...
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  • Athos comes under the direct jurisdiction of the Ecumenical Patriarchate ... Though land-linked, the habitable peninsula of Mount Athos is accessible ...
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  • August 12, 1762 – June 26, 1830) was king of the United Kingdom of Great ... in politics, especially in the matter of Catholic emancipation, though ...
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  • 039;s Marxist People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA) government ... The initial Soviet deployment of the 40th Army in Afghanistan began ...
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  • Greenland, (Greenlandic: Kalaallit Nunaat, meaning "Land of the ... ice sheet, which covers over 80 percent of its land mass. ...
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  • for educational reform, and President of the Board of Trade. He later ... Several monuments honor his legacy in the City of Birmingham. Throughout ...
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  • , (August 16, 1913 - March 9, 1992) was head of the Zionist underground ... as prime minister--and in the view of many, his singular accomplishment ...
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  • penalty; or grant clemency, or the lessening of the punishment, by means of ... Public debate invariable surrounds the pardoning of a criminal, despite ...
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  • ‎; (July 28, 1971 – October 27, 2019) was the Iraqi-born leader ... by the Shura Council, who were representing those members of the Islamic ...
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  • or 日本海軍 Nippon Kaigun), officially Navy of the Greater Japanese ... During World War I, a force of Japanese destroyers supported the Allies ...
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  • as the War in Chechnya was fought between Russia and Chechnya from 1994 to ... religious clash. Some Chechens, the majority of whom are Muslim, began to describe ...
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  • The Kingdom of Denmark is geographically the smallest and southernmost ... the North Sea on the west, and a majority of its land mass lies on a peninsula ...
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  • ) was a Russian novelist and dramatist who was regarded as an equal ... forbidden for its unflattering description of the Russian nobility. His principal ...
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