Madrid and Moscow are also vying for the Games, in addition to New York and Paris. |
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After months of negotiation with the authorities, a Talmudist from Odessa was granted permission to visit Moscow. |
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What do these armchair counter-terrorists propose that Moscow should have done? |
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As it turned out, the Adygei president used that day to prepare a counteroffensive against Moscow. |
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Even before the EU summit, Paris, Berlin and Moscow had been scrambling to effect a rapprochement with Washington. |
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A new Moscow police web site lets users download passport applications and migration cards and even blow the whistle on crooked officers. |
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When the Soviet Union signed the SALT I Treaty, it chose to build its ABM sites around Moscow and Leningrad. |
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The Soviet national anthem and the Moscow Festival song were thumped out by the band. |
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Before conversion work began at the Intracom plant at Smolensk, a scale model was tested in a wind tunnel at the Zhukovsky Institute in Moscow. |
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The prisons retain a federal connection to the central administration in Moscow. |
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International Women's Day was marked in Moscow yesterday with a mass bathe. |
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Spectators watching the French aerobatic team perform during the air show at an airfield outside Moscow on Saturday. |
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What was possible in Moscow, however, was political in the satellite republics. |
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This weekend they will be revelling just as hard in Moscow, Russia, as they rave in Moscow, Ayrshire. |
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Forest fires burning in the woods outside Moscow have filled the city with smoke. |
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The faction of Moscow loyalists essentially waited and picked up the pieces of the shattered organization. |
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The parties will attend another working group session this month in Moscow to review the project and select engine and avionics suppliers. |
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Mr Akayev signed a resignation letter on Monday at the Kyrgyz embassy in Moscow. |
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I'll ask him why he's boycotting tomorrow's anniversary celebration in Moscow marking the end of World War Two. |
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Angry, he went back to Moscow and once again engaged in a life of revelry, drinking, gambling and womanizing. |
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He remained in the Russian League, playing with Dynamo in Moscow, until Sharks scout John Ferguson saw him while on a scouting mission. |
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She and her sister stayed in Moscow where they were reduced to burning books for warmth. |
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Later, he scathingly recalled the reluctance of friends to comment on his book because Moscow had not made its position known. |
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The biggest reference library was the Lenin Library in Moscow, developed from an 1862 foundation. |
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Not only does this help US commanders but it could herald a thaw in the relationship with Moscow. |
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He was largely responsible for the purging of the Moscow region and in 1938 and was transferred to the Ukraine to scourge the party there. |
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He had spent too long on the Moscow beat bullying refuseniks and political undesirables. |
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No claims of responsibility have been made for the subway attack, the worst terrorist attack in Moscow in five years. |
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Actual curses rolled from their tongues, free and easy, but to Moscow they added the venom of a true malediction. |
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The wine offerings are still solid, but craft spirits are center stage, with Nielsen reconstructing vintage cocktails such as the Moscow Mule. |
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But the CIA-produced Moscow Street Guide remained by far the best map of the city. |
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Upon Yushchenko's assumption of the presidency he immediately arranged to visit Moscow. |
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In the Moscow Treaty of July 12, 1920, Russia recognized Lithuanian independence and renounced all previous claims to it. |
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Washington is a town where balletomania is more diluted than in other national capitals like Paris, London, Moscow and Copenhagen. |
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The Bolshoi-trained artist says that pop music ballets were unheard of in his native Moscow. |
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Abkhaz and Ossetian leaders were immediately summoned to Moscow for consultations. |
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He will appear in a walk-on role in a Moscow Ballet production of Swan Lake along with the professional cast of top Russian artists. |
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Radio messages flew back and forth to Moscow asking what to do before the situation was resolved. |
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It was coordinated quadrennially with competitions in Varna, Moscow, and Helsinki. |
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They begin in Moscow and terminate in either Vladivostok, the eastern Russian port, or Beijing in China. |
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He also believes that Moscow wants to use the threat of unleashing ethnic conflict in the Crimea as an instrument to keep Ukraine in line. |
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On Oct.23, 2002, Chechen rebels seized a Moscow theater and held hostages for three days. |
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Dudayev became the avatar of Chechen independence, and was elected president in October 1991 amid warnings and sabre-rattling by Moscow. |
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But the desire for a deeper understanding of the forest and its creatures led him back to Moscow to study zoology. |
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The Moscow Center proceeded to add several new items to the London KGB residency's monitoring task. |
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The monumental tomb was an identical copy of the tomb of Lenin, which can still be seen in Moscow. |
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Her frantic parents, after finding no restorative medical treatment in Moscow, sent her to Europe to consult various doctors. |
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In his second, he sought an accommodation with Moscow, even coming close to agreeing total nuclear disarmament with Mikhail Gorbachev. |
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Izvestia said a Moscow lawyer tried this month to buy all the leftover copies of the issue in question from the magazine. |
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For example, an official resident permit is still required for legal residence and work in Moscow. |
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Both Moscow and Beijing are trying to win influence in the Asia-Pacific region and in Central Asia, in particular. |
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The Moscow State Circus is famous worldwide thanks to its spectacular displays from acrobats, clowns, gymnasts, trapeze artists and lots more. |
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Kim returned home Aug.18 after a three-week round-trip railway trip across the vast expanse of Siberia to Moscow and St. Petersburg. |
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Officials in Kyiv and Moscow will be watching the Belarusian election campaign very closely. |
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Most of the wormseed of commerce comes from the steppes of the northern portion of Turkestan whence it finds its way to Moscow and Western Europe. |
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If the U.S. moves to sanction Putin and his pals next week, Moscow will definitely strike back. |
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The Moscow protest was not sanctioned, which meant every participant risked arrest. |
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Washington and Moscow developed cluster bombs capable of carrying chemical weapons like sarin or tear gas. |
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Yushchenko had been poisoned with dioxin during the campaign, most likely by allies of Moscow. |
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Moscow is conveniently two-faced when it comes to disarming pro-Russian separatists. |
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In all these episodes, Moscow was confronted with popular, democratic revolutions against its domination. |
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After the war he became physician to the Commonwealth embassies in Moscow and turned many a stone in search of mayfly larvae, to the bafflement of his footsore minders. |
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Kursk lies 315 miles south of Moscow and straddles the main Moscow-Rostov railway line. |
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Or Moscow could stop cooperating on international sanctions on Iran, easing pressure on Tehran and helping Russian businesses. |
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Later in an echo of Moscow interview Kadyrov said that the operation would be over in 20 minutes. |
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Does Venediktov have any hope that echo of Moscow will survive this battle? |
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As a laundryman in Paris in 1920, he co-founded the French Communist Party, and in 1923 went as its delegate to the Communist International in Moscow. |
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Ponomarev had similar criticism of Edward Snowden, perhaps the most famous American today living in Moscow. |
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Last July in Moscow, Magnitsky was given a posthumous punishment for his effrontery by being put on trial for tax evasion. |
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On a recent afternoon, the head of the Social Inquiry Foundation, Maria Gaidar, received two elderly ladies in her Moscow office. |
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Before that, in 1936, he had lectured at the University of Moscow. |
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From 1931 to 1976 he worked in various diplomatic legations in Moscow. |
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His erratic behaviour in handling Russian oil pipelines prompted Moscow to seek alternative routes of supply. |
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According to some reports the bomb contained material which was also found in bombs which exploded last year in blocks of flats situated in the suburbs of Moscow. |
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A maiden race winner on his debut last season, Moscow Ballet was beaten less than a length into second by Snow Ridge in the Royal Lodge Stakes at Ascot. |
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The Eurasia Union leader assured Gubareva that Moscow will support its friends in all kinds of civil conflicts in Ukraine. |
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A hypersonic weapon launched from New York could reach Moscow in less than 40 minutes. |
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Moscow appears to be laying the rhetorical framework for such an intervention with its proposed aid mission. |
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Soviet Russia annexed Ukraine in 1922, after a war that had commenced in 1917, when the bolsheviks took Moscow. |
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The Ukraine government is demanding from Moscow the identity of the Russian fsb officers who acted as advisers. |
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A nine-year-old Russian girl living in Moscow, Kristina Pimenova, just topped that number. |
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Either Moscow was implacably belligerent or shared the same rational interests as the United States. |
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Living in Moscow you can almost kid yourself you live in the freest, hippest, edgiest city on earth. |
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While exploring Moscow and Siberia, Makhorov and Raskalov explain what motivates their adventures. |
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Zarif arrived in Moscow to expand cooperation with Russia and pay homage to his sugar daddy for making all of this possible. |
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Third, we also know from the archives in Moscow, Havana and Hanoi, that Kennedy was right to resist his hawks. |
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Lev, the son of a Moscow intelligentsia family, was luckier than the fictional Ivan Denisovich. |
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Things did turn sour, though, when Chechen rebels seized a Moscow theater. |
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Alexander is currently posted in Moscow, his second appointment to Russia. |
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It is approaching midnight in a cafe on the outskirts of Moscow and a group of enthusiasts are waxing lyrical on the subject of their favourite car, the Lada. |
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The ultimate classic in Russian travel is the Trans-Siberian Express, a legendary 17-day luxe train journey from Moscow to Vladivostok that rumbles for nearly 6,000 miles. |
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If I wasn't in Moscow very soon, I would miss tomorrow's train. |
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When somebody broke into her rented Moscow apartment in September, she decided it was time for her to get out of there. |
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Moscow Flyer also proved to be the pick of Geraghty's winners last year, taking the Queen Mother Champion Chase and the 10-year-old as his banker once again this year. |
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She sulked and anguished in her hotel room in Moscow and felt as if her boy had died. |
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Stalin, now one of the top men in the party, was sent there by Lenin to ensure that grain was getting shipped to Moscow. |
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The test fraud spanned from Romania to Moscow and Alicante, Spain, and the cheaters were from the U.S., Egypt, Japan, and Russia. |
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On a 1957 trip to Moscow, Alsop was entrapped by a handsome young KGB spy and the incident was caught on camera. |
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After its defeat in Afghanistan, Moscow wanted Dostum controlling the amu Darya. |
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In their meeting, Mao made explicit both his patience on Taiwan and animus against Moscow. |
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Putin also blamed Ukrainian nationalists for attacking the orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate in Ukraine. |
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In Moscow, patriarch Kirill addressed an audience that included Russian President Vladimir Putin. |
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The trade flouts a March 2014 prohibition on all exports of weaponry and military equipment to Moscow. |
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In summer its narrow streets are thronged with tour buses, its bars and restaurants noisy with the polyglot banter of tourists from Idaho, Oslo and Moscow. |
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He has been assuring the world for weeks that Moscow is just a friendly observer to the chaos in Ukraine. |
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Many argue that Beijing and Moscow have differing interests, and indeed, some of them are irreconcilable. |
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Perhaps Washington can do to the Arabs what Moscow did to the Tatars? |
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There will be an international outcry, if, as reported, the black box is on its way to Moscow. |
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Blake escapes from the Scrubs, hides out near the prison, and then makes his way across Europe to Moscow. |
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Ongoing tensions between Moscow and Kiev could threaten those supply lines, leaving Russians there stranded. |
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Nobody remembers who presided over the 2008 Games in Beijing and only a few might recall Brezhnev in Moscow. |
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But at least in Moscow, a bribe or a good connection stand you a fighting chance to get what you need. |
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Clearly, all of the statements from Moscow and Kiev about a cease-fire for the period of the investigation have been forgotten. |
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In the last several months Pyongyang has launched a charm offensive directed at Moscow, Tokyo, and Seoul. |
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Akysonov has a gang of fascistic ultras known as the Lupine Hordes, which are intent on invading Moscow and restoring Holy Russia. |
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That agreement resulted in Pyongyang's accession to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, but in the end Moscow did not build the promised reactors. |
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Moscow officials insist that the hospitals listed for closure lacked professional services and often stayed half empty. |
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A Russian pensioner has been arrested after allegedly masterminding a scam geared to lifting the credit card number of Western tourists visiting Moscow cyber cafes. |
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Now I spent the day in a town of 120,000, about 100 miles from Moscow called Clean, and I have never seen such well-mannered, such well-behaved and such ardent voters. |
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But the fact is that there is common ground with Moscow and Tehran to combat the biggest threat to all of us at this moment. |
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They also located individual subway and railroad stations and identified the entrance and exit ramps on the Moscow Ring Road, the automobile beltway that encircled the city. |
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A school shooting in north Moscow had politicians quickly blaming American culture as a corrupting influence on Russian youth. |
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Authorities in Moscow claim to have arrested an American spook wearing wigs and carrying an incriminating letter. |
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His ideas found a receptive audience in literate circles from Lisbon to Moscow, and they supply a convenient starting place for an examination of European political systems. |
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He laughed at rumors that Moscow is sponsoring the group with so much cash it could fly around in private helicopters. |
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But in 1991, as the former Soviet Union broke apart, Chechnya and Dagestan declared their independence from Moscow. |
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But Plotnikov had no sooner reached Moscow than he headed back to Dagestan. |
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The controversy that is now starting up about the tactics the Russian authorities used in freeing the Moscow hostages is just the media barking up the wrong tree as usual. |
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In 1987, The deer Hunter was hailed at the Moscow Film Festival as an important portrayal of the horrors of war. |
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It is suspected that the Moscow fire was principally the effect of Russian sabotage. |
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In 1592, an outer earth rampart with 50 towers was erected around the city, including an area on the right bank of the Moscow River. |
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Petersburg, now the M10 highway, was completed in 1746, its Moscow end following the old Tver road, which had existed since the 16th century. |
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During the Great Patriotic War, the Soviet State Committee of Defence and the General Staff of the Red Army were located in Moscow. |
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In November 1941, German Army Group Centre was stopped at the outskirts of the city and then driven off in the course of the Battle of Moscow. |
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On May 8, 1965 due to the actual 20th anniversary of the victory in World War II Moscow was awarded a title of the Hero City. |
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In 1991 Moscow was the scene of a coup attempt by conservative communists opposed to the liberal reforms of Mikhail Gorbachev. |
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Temperatures in the centre of Moscow are often significantly higher than in the outskirts and nearby suburbs, especially in winter. |
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The last decade was the warmest in the history of meteorological observations of Moscow. |
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The Patriarch of Moscow serves as the head of the church and resides in the Danilov Monastery. |
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The rebuilding of Moscow in the second half of the 18th century was necessitated not only by constant fires, but also the needs of the nobility. |
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For much of its architectural history, Moscow was dominated by Orthodox churches. |
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It is estimated that Moscow has over twice as many elevators as New York City and four times as many as Chicago. |
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As much as a third of historic Moscow has been destroyed in the past few years to make space for luxury apartments and hotels. |
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There are 96 parks and 18 gardens in Moscow, including four botanical gardens. |
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Before 2012 expansion of Moscow, MKAD was considered an approximate border for Moscow boundaries. |
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Another art museum in the city of Moscow is the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, which was founded by, among others, the father of Marina Tsvetaeva. |
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Moscow is the heart of the Russian performing arts, including ballet and film, with 68 museums 103 theaters, 132 cinemas and 24 concert halls. |
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Moscow was again the host of the competition in 2010, this time in Krylatskoye. |
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There are also seven horse racing tracks in Moscow, of which Central Moscow Hippodrome, founded in 1834, is the largest. |
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However, when final voting commenced on July 6, 2005, Moscow was the first city to be eliminated from further rounds. |
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The most titled ice hockey team in the Soviet Union and in the world, HC CSKA Moscow comes from Moscow. |
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Other big ice hockey clubs from Moscow are HC Dynamo Moscow, which was the second most titled team in the Soviet Union, and HC Spartak Moscow. |
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The most titled Soviet, Russian, and one of the most titled Euroleague clubs, is the basketball club from Moscow PBC CSKA Moscow. |
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Moscow had more winners at the USSR and Russian Chess Championship than any other city. |
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In football, FC Spartak Moscow has won more championship titles in the Russian Premier League than any other team. |
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Moscow hosts the annual Kremlin Cup, a popular tennis tournament on both the WTA and ATP tours. |
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Slava Moscow is a professional rugby club, competing in the national Professional Rugby League. |
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In bandy, one of the most successful clubs in the world is 20 times Russian League champions Dynamo Moscow. |
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Nightlife in Moscow has moved on since Soviet times and today the city has many of the world's largest nightclubs. |
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Moscow is located within the central economic region, one of twelve regions within Russia with similar economic goals. |
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The finance minister, a true Aunt Sally figure, was dispatched to Moscow in search of backing. |
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The city of Moscow is divided into twelve administrative okrugs and 123 districts. |
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However, contemporary Moscow has also engulfed a number of territories outside the MKAD, such as Solntsevo, Butovo, and the town of Zelenograd. |
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Moscow also hosts some of the government bodies of Moscow Oblast, although the city itself is not a part of the oblast. |
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Since the 1998 Russian financial crisis, business sectors in Moscow have shown exponential rates of growth. |
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Many new business centers and office buildings have been built in recent years, but Moscow still experiences shortages in office space. |
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The Mil Moscow Helicopter Plant is one of the leading producers of military and civil helicopters in the world. |
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Sukhoi, Ilyushin, Mikoyan, Tupolev and Yakovlev aircraft design bureaus also situated in Moscow. |
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The Poljot Moscow watch factory produces military, professional and sport watches well known in Russia and abroad. |
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Moscow hosts headquarters of the many of telecommunication and technology companies, including 1C, ABBYY, Beeline, Kaspersky Lab, Mail. |
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Moscow also ranked first in the 2007 edition and 2008 edition of the survey. |
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However, Tokyo has overtaken Moscow as the most expensive city in the world, placing Moscow at third behind Osaka in second place. |
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In 2008, Moscow ranked top on the list of most expensive cities for the third year in a row. |
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In 2014, according to Forbes, Moscow ranked the 9th most expensive city in the world. |
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The Moscow State University library contains over nine million books, making it one of the largest libraries in all of Russia. |
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Moscow is one of the financial centers of the Russian Federation and CIS countries and is known for its business schools. |
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The headquarters of the Russian Academy of Sciences are located in Moscow as well as research and applied science institutions. |
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The Greater Ring of the Moscow Railway forms a ring around the main part of Moscow. |
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Moscow metro system is famous for its art, murals, mosaics, and ornate chandeliers. |
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Today, the Moscow Metro comprises twelve lines, mostly underground with a total of 203 stations. |
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The Moscow Metro is one of the world's busiest metro systems, serving about ten million passengers daily. |
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It was built alongside of Little Ring of the Moscow Railways, taking some of its tracks into itself as well. |
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New tram models have been developed for the Moscow network despite the lack of expansion. |
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The Moscow International Business Center is a projected new part of central Moscow. |
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Situated in Presnensky District, located at the Third Ring, the Moscow City area is under intense development. |
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The area is the only spot in downtown Moscow that can accommodate a project of this magnitude. |
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Moscow is home to nearly all of Russia's nationwide television networks, radio stations, newspapers and magazines. |
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In 2003 he was a member of the jury at the 25th Moscow International Film Festival. |
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She received a first grade in mountaineering and became director of the Moscow State University alpinism club. |
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In the pre-war years the production of yperite was prepared at 6 plants in Moscow, Chapaevsk, Stalingrad, Dzerzhinsk, Berezniki and Stalinogorsk. |
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He's gone from Hawaii to Hong Kong to Moscow and supposedly to Cuba, following the well-worn trail of my luggage. |
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A 65-YEAR-OLD Russian man fell unconscious and died on a Larnaca airport airbridge late on Monday shortly after arriving to Cyprus from Moscow. |
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Shostakovich was briefly in Moscow, and he was summoned to the theater. |
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It was David Moyes who has opened my eyes,'' said 25-year-old Drenthe, who moved to Alania Vladikavkaz, 1200 miles south of Moscow. |
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But the striker, who has since moved from CSKA Moscow to Alania Vladikavkaz, has managed only one goal in their five group matches so far. |
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As a consequence, he was sent to the Chief Artillery Administration in Moscow and the research firing ground in Kolomna. |
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Like Kremlinologists struggling to understand the latest signals coming out of Moscow, we can only guess. |
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To achieve long-term results, in 2010 in Moscow they created a charitable foundation known until August 2013 as the Ladoga Foundation. |
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Moscow State Circus has arrived in Newcastle for a week of incredible gymnastics, juggling, rollerskating and trapeze work. |
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The project is part of UK Russia Year Of Culture and was the idea of former Moscow resident Mo Jenya Rosato, who lives in Belfast. |
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Central'naja nauchnoissledovatel'skaja laboratoriaja Glavokhota RSFSR, Moscow, Russia. |
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Basil's Cathedral, a Russian Orthodox church in Moscow, that he built entirely from origami paper. |
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While in Russia, she visited a Moscow market where a salesclerk was using the abacus to tally sales and make change for customers. |
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The Mayor of Moscow is the leading official in the executive, leading the Government of Moscow, which is the highest organ of executive power. |
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As of 2014 London ranks as one of the most expensive cities in the world, alongside Tokyo and Moscow. |
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In Russia the Moscow State University offers Gaelic language, history and culture courses. |
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In 1505, an Italian known in Russia as Aleviz Novyi or Aleviz Fryazin arrived in Moscow. |
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The Expressionists in Germany and the Futurists in Moscow mounted productions of his plays. |
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Finally, the two armies engaged in the Battle of Borodino on 7 September, in the vicinity of Moscow. |
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Napoleon entered Moscow on 14 September, after the Russian Army had retreated yet again. |
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In October, with no sign of clear victory in sight, Napoleon began the disastrous Great Retreat from Moscow. |
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However, on orders of the city's governor Feodor Rostopchin, rather than capitulation, Moscow was burned. |
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Napoleon attempted suicide with a pill he had carried after nearly being captured by the Russians during the retreat from Moscow. |
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During October 1944, he and Eden were in Moscow to meet with the Russian leadership. |
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The leaders were also fearful of Communist influence orchestrated from Moscow. |
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Nirenberg first announced his results to a small audience in Moscow at a 1961 conference. |
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A Moscow court ruled that the Salvation Army was a paramilitary organisation subject to expulsion. |
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On 29 March 1940 his long association with Tribune began with a review of a sergeant's account of Napoleon's retreat from Moscow. |
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Lloyd Webber accepted the challenge of managing the UK's entry for the 2009 Eurovision Song Contest, to be held in Moscow. |
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He acceded to the IOC presidency during the troubled political period of the Games of the XXII Olympiad in Moscow. |
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Moscow was the first city to be eliminated, followed by New York and Madrid. |
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Winter daytime temperatures rarely fall below freezing and are milder than places such as Moscow and Newfoundland which lie at similar latitudes. |
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In 1571, the Crimean khan Devlet I Giray, supported by the Ottomans, burned Moscow. |
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The Moscow offensive, which resumed in October 1941, ended disastrously in December. |
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In addition, Western embassies in Moscow were isolated, with their personnel being denied contact with Soviet officials. |
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This idea was fully incorporated in the resolution of the 2003 Moscow Legal Forum. |
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Thatcher supported the American plan to boycott the Moscow Olympics, as did Parliament. |
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Following his visit to China, Nixon met with Soviet leaders, including Brezhnev in Moscow. |
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Communists and others rallied in Moscow to protest the Russian government's economic plans. |
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There are currently 48 students enrolled in residential and extension degree programs at the United Methodist Seminary in Moscow. |
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The tradition of the Paris or Moscow metro is of palaces of light, underground. |
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In Russia and Ukraine, major English language newspapers like the Moscow Times and the Kyiv Post use a compact format. |
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There is a report Wittgenstein visited Moscow a second time in 1939, travelling from Berlin, and again met the philosopher Sophia Janowskaya. |
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By 1960, they reached Leningrad and Moscow, and by 1975 they were to be found in Archangelsk and Astrakhan. |
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The first international office opened in Houston, Texas, followed by more in the United States, Moscow and Singapore. |
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Winters are not as cold as one might expect, considering that Moscow and Labrador in Newfoundland lie on the same latitude. |
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Shatura Power Station in Moscow Oblast and Kirov Power Station in Kirov Oblast are the two largest peat power stations in the world. |
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Rotterdam has one of the best European Skylines together with Frankfurt, London, Madrid, Paris, Warsaw and Moscow. |
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All of us were being paid regularly, wined and dined overmuch and had the whole theater world of Moscow for our enjoyment. |
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By the time the German attack froze to a halt before Moscow on December 5, 1941, it literally could not go any further. |
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They eventually took on the imperial title of Tsar, and Moscow was described as the Third Rome. |
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After the measured victories at Smolensk and Borodino Napoleon occupied Moscow, only to find it burned by the retreating Russian army. |
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In 1991 the Communist Party in Moscow collapsed, ending the USSR, which split into fifteen independent states. |
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As forecast in the Moscow Declaration in 1943, a subtle difference was seen in the treatment of Austria by the Allies. |
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By 1947, the Soviets had imposed a communist government in Bucharest, which was friendly and obedient towards Moscow. |
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The Russian capital itself, Moscow, also had a number of Dutch immigrants, mostly working as craftsmen. |
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European Russia includes Moscow and Saint Petersburg, the two largest cities in Russia. |
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The Mongol Empire invaded Kievan Rus' in the 13th century, destroying numerous cities including Ryazan, Kolomna, Moscow, Vladimir and Kiev. |
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Moscow gradually absorbed the surrounding principalities, including formerly strong rivals such as Tver and Novgorod. |
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After the fall of Constantinople in 1453, Moscow claimed succession to the legacy of the Eastern Roman Empire. |
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Although the German army had considerable early success, their attack was halted in the Battle of Moscow. |
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Moscow Metro and Saint Petersburg Metro are the oldest in Russia, opened in 1935 and 1955 respectively. |
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Rodnover worshippers at the wooden temple of the Slavic Kremlin, Podolsky District, Moscow Oblast. |
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The oldest and largest Russian universities are Moscow State University and Saint Petersburg State University. |
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A number of churches were demolished, including the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in Moscow. |
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As Moscow rose to power, Theophanes the Greek, Dionisius and Andrei Rublev became vital names associated with a distinctly Russian art. |
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The Bolshoi Ballet in Moscow and the Mariinsky Ballet in St Petersburg remain famous throughout the world. |
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The 1980 Summer Olympics were held in Moscow while the 2014 Winter Olympics were hosted in Sochi. |
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A huge military parade, hosted by the President of Russia, is annually organised in Moscow on Red Square. |
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The most visited destinations in Russia are Moscow and Saint Petersburg, the current and former capitals of the country. |
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The Red Army stopped the seemingly invincible German Army at the Battle of Moscow, aided by an unusually harsh winter. |
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During this time, Yeltsin took over what remained of the Soviet government, including the Moscow Kremlin. |
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Their successors supported the idea that Moscow was the proper heir to Rome and Constantinople. |
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By the end of the century, it was ready to vie with Moscow for supremacy in Russia. |
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Both Tver and Moscow were young cities, so the outcome of their rivalry was far from being certain. |
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The claimers were backed up by Moscow and eventually settled at the Moscow Kremlin court. |
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Tverskoy District, with the administrative center in Tver, was established within Tver Okrug of Moscow Oblast. |
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There is a local bus station that interconnects Tver' with minor towns of Tver Oblast, neighboring oblasts, and Moscow. |
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In 1475, the manuscript made its way to Moscow into the hands of a government official Vasili Mamyrev. |
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During the retreat from Moscow, more French military personnel died of typhus than were killed by the Russians. |
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By the early 16th century the annexation of Pomor'e by Moscow was completed. |
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Ivan was an able diplomat, a patron of arts and trade, and founder of the Moscow Print Yard, Russia's first publishing house. |
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Ivan was proclaimed the Grand Prince of Moscow at the request of his father. |
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By Ivan's order in 1553 the Moscow Print Yard was established and the first printing press was introduced to Russia. |
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The first Russian printers, Ivan Fedorov and Pyotr Mstislavets, were forced to flee from Moscow to the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. |
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Basil's Cathedral constructed in Moscow to commemorate the seizure of Kazan. |
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In 1553, Richard Chancellor sailed to the White Sea and continued overland to Moscow, where he visited Ivan's court. |
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Unresisted, Devlet devastated unprotected towns and villages around Moscow and caused the 1572, Fire of Moscow. |
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On 26 July 1572, the horde crossed the River Oka near Serpukhov, destroyed the Russian vanguard of 200 noblemen and advanced towards Moscow. |
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Jenkinson returned to Moscow in 1572 in an attempt to restore the company's privileges, a task at which he was largely successful. |
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One of them, Richard Chancellor, sailed to the White Sea in 1553 and continued overland to Moscow. |
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As a result, False Dmitriy I entered Moscow and was crowned tsar that year, following the murder of Tsar Feodor II, Godunov's son. |
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False Dmitry II, allied with the Poles, appeared under the walls of Moscow and set up a mock court in the village of Tushino. |
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Under Mikhail, state affairs were in the hands of the tsar's father, Filaret, who in 1619 became Patriarch of Moscow. |
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Morozov abused his position by exploiting the populace, and in 1648 Aleksey dismissed him in the wake of the Salt Riot in Moscow. |
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The unexpected uprising swept up the Volga River valley and even threatened Moscow. |
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After that, the Kazan Khanate became a protectorate of Moscow, and Russian merchants were allowed to trade freely throughout its territory. |
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Following that year, Moscow organized several campaigns to impose control over Kazan, but the attempts were unsuccessful. |
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In the 16th century, Russia became the main trading partner of Kazan, and the khanate shared the economic system of Moscow. |
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They financed the Russian conquest of Siberia and Prince Pozharsky's reconquest of Moscow from the Poles. |
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Stenka Razin was born into an elite Cossack family and had made many diplomatic visits to Moscow before organizing his rebellion. |
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On April 14, ataman Yakovlev led elders to destroy the rebel camp and captured Razin, taking him soon afterward to Moscow to be executed. |
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One of Leo Tolstoy's first novellas, The Cossacks, depicts their autonomy and estrangement from Moscow and from centralized rule. |
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Kolzo, upon reaching Moscow, was granted an audience with Ivan despite having a Muscovite bounty on his head. |
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The triumphant atmosphere extended across the city, as church bells were tolled throughout Moscow to glorify Yermak. |
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Once in Siberia, Andrei reunites with a female singer with whom he had been in love in Moscow. |
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The Russian conquest of Kazan in 1552 prompted the Taibugid Khan of Sibir, Yadigar, to seek friendly relations with Moscow. |
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False Dmitri was married per procura to Marina Mniszech, and immediately after Godunov's death in 1605, he made his triumphal entry into Moscow. |
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Some people in Moscow swore allegiance to him on condition of his maintaining Orthodoxy and granting certain privileges to them. |
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From Moscow one route was northwest up the Moskva River to Volokolamsk and down the Lama River and Shosha River to the Volga. |
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