So Xan takes his dad's motorbike with Duma riding shotgun in the sidecar and they head off into the wide yellow yonder. |
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All parties in the Duma are relegated to playing the role of a minority party. |
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The first such treaty dates back to 1990 but was never ratified by the Russian Duma. |
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In the early 20th century, the czar called the Duma together and dissolved it at will. |
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The Duma rejected all the principal demands of the soviet and expressed confidence in the police as the guardians of law and order. |
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An aggressive, obstructionist Duma dominated by Communists blocked any attempt at reform. |
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In 1999, his party barely made it into the Duma, winning a mere 6 percent of the vote. |
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One of the signers of this letter was Pavel Milyukov, who in 1905 became the head of the Constitutional Democratic party in the first Duma. |
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At that time, opposition was concentrated in the Supreme Council of Russia and later in the Duma, the lower chamber of parliament. |
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When the Third Duma met in late 1907 it had, not surprisingly, a preponderantly right-wing complexion. |
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The deputation left the meeting under the protection of certain members of the Duma. |
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Congress in the United States and the Duma in Russia became less willing to take risks in the interests of international security. |
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One was dominated by moderate bourgeois members of the Duma and would later become the Provisional Government. |
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With this support, the Duma decided to form a temporary government to take the place of the tsar. |
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He is also going to be presenting his own legislation to the Duma, and he has to deal with taxes and corruption. |
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Meantime, resentment by extreme nationalists and Communists in the Duma was increasing. |
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It gave preparatory study to projects which would later be debated by the Duma and State Council. |
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In March, the Duma passed in a first reading a bill banning rallies in virtually all public places. |
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In the Duma the liberals now called for a government responsible to parliament. |
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His office at the Duma had pictures of him in a military uniform, mingling with soldiers and civilians. |
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Left-wingers in the Duma say a red flag should replace the current presidential tricolor. |
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First he tried to form a new parliamentary group in the Duma, but failed. |
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In 2011 the BNP's Nick Griffin went to Moscow to observe Russia's Duma election. |
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Konstantin Zatulin, a Duma deputy handling relations with former Soviet republics, is more belligerent. |
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These were the elections for the State Duma and the Council of the Federal State Assembly. |
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The music and words and the decision by the Duma are not overly significant. |
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An obstructionist Duma that is in the hands of reactionaries and special interests like the kleptocrats was of benefit to no-one except those parties. |
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His primary concern was to ensure a decisive victory for the United Russia party in the March elections for the Regional Duma. |
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Putin signed the law on December 13, after it was approved by the State Duma. |
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Last April, shortly after annexation, the Duma voted for the law allowing gaming zones in Crimea. |
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The results of the parliamentary elections have thereby played a crucial role, because at least some from them could profit from the elections to the Duma. |
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More than 70 opinions on the bill were submitted to the State Duma by legislative assemblies of the regions. |
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There are people in the Duma who share that analysis and we should work with them to strengthen their position. |
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Both chambers of the Federal Assembly have been informed of this decision, and an appropriate bill is being introduced in the State Duma. |
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In the early 1800s, Alexander I began to carry out further plans to westernize the government by attempting to create a Duma, or representative body. |
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Last Thursday, following a week of media frenzy, the Kremlin's response to the Beslan tragedy reached the lower chamber of Parliament, the state Duma. |
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In the pre-dawn attack on July 31, assailants hurled firebombs into a bedroom of the Dawabsheh family's home in the West Bank village of Duma. |
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March 20, 1994, elections were held in the House of Representatives, who on May 26 was called Tver City Duma. |
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On balance, the three-way relationship that prevailed between December 1993 and December 1995 among the Duma, President and bureaucracy can be assessed as workmanlike, thanks largely to Duma chairman Ivan Rybkin. |
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I snapped up the two volumes one day at the bookstand in the State Duma — the Russian legislature — and devoured them over the next couple of nights. |
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For all its cantankerousness and venality, the Duma is a definite improvement on the monochrome puppet legislatures of the past. This election is not just for show. |
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The Duma, the Communist-dominated lower house of the Russian parliament, up in arms at this sophism, has asked the Constitutional Court for a ruling. |
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Because, in the preceding election to the Duma, political broadcasts made under an entitlement to free air time have to be paid for if the party fails to cross a certain poll threshold. |
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A bit boho, a bit tickly, the tassel has been spotted on people outside fashion shows – the likes of Olivia Palermo, Miroslava Duma and The Man Repeller's Leandra Medine. |
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Today, I urge the President of the Russian Federation to come clean and support the rapid ratification of the Protocol and to ensure the speediest possible reintroduction of it to the Duma. |
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A draft law that would convert Russia's military forces from a conscript to a predominantly professional basis by 2007 was approved by Putin in March 2003, and passed its first reading in the Duma in May. |
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For about five years now a bill has been in the Sate Duma which stipulates a 50-60 thousand roubles fine with the truck being impounded, but nothing has changed so far. |
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Two important visits today: one from Artur Chilingarov, president of the Duma, and a second one from Albert II of Monaco, who had made a short stop at the Princess Elisabeth station to resupply his plane. |
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If they think the French Senate is undemocratic, they should look at the Russian tsarist Duma, which the Bolsheviks effectively utilized to propagate their revolutionary program. |
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Russia's President Vladimir Putin has destroyed almost every check and balance on his power, be it the Duma, regional governments, the oligarchs, NGOs or the independent media. |
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Russian television has gloated over Ukraine's chaotic politics, pointing up the advantages of Russia's stable system, in which decisions are taken by the Kremlin and rubber-stamped by the Duma. |
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The same remark applies to the territorial election commissions, half of the membership of which depends on the governor's choice, the other half on the regional Duma, as was the case in Kursk. |
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If Afghanistan is the last place to be militarily, according to our Russian former captain and now member of the Russian Duma, surely Pakistan is the last, last place one would want to be militarily. |
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As noted by the State Duma Committee of Foreign Affairs, the agreement meets the interests of Russia in terms of development of international contacts at various levels and directions. |
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I have met members of the Russian State Duma and the Federation Council. |
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Project Kesher is currently in the process of forming a national interfaith women's council that will communicate with the Duma on the needs of women and proposed solutions. |
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There has been a development regarding this in that today, after lengthy negotiations, I received a letter from Dmitri Rogozin of the State Duma, inviting us to go there on 20 January. |
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Smelling blood in the economic meltdown, the lower house of parliament, or Duma, took the offensive, calling for Yeltsin to resign. |
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His wife divorces him, he leaves his business in capable hands and moves to a beach house in Duma Key, a creepy island in Florida. |
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Cue lots of 'aah' moments with Duma sharing a bed with the boy, lounging by the pool and racing against a motorbike. |
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En route, they meet a drifter who helps Xan find a new home for Duma. |
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The Tver City Duma, the local parliament is composed of 33 deputies. |
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In the high, amphitheatrical Nicolai Hall that afternoon I saw the Duma sitting in permanence, tempestuous, grouping around it all the forces of opposition. |
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Omar and Fouzi are from the West Bank village of duma, 13 miles southeast of Nablus. |
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DuMa Safe, another company that makes childproof and babyproof products, makes deck shields for child safety. |
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