But recovery is on the way under the tough new administration of President Vladimir Putin. |
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Vladimir smiled, and then he and the rest of our group headed up the walk towards the dacha. |
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Because of the Vaughn boffo, they were passed on pursuing Vladimir Guerrero, the Montreal slugger who had back problems. |
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And he clearly didn't like the way people were talking about his soul brother Vladimir. |
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Neither Chinese President Xi Jinping nor Russian President Vladimir Putin confirmed the alleged alliance contra mundum. |
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The two of them spent their lives working as stage designers and landscape painters in various provincial towns, ending up in Vladimir. |
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The icon of the Virgin of Vladimir acts in a similar way as a palladium of the Russian Church and state. |
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Vladimir Romanov was in the stands yesterday and will surely complete his takeover of the club in the week ahead. |
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Vladimir Romanov plans to help Hearts sign players ahead of his takeover bid. |
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He also implied the Russian Government of Vladimir Putin should now capitulate to Chechen demands for independence. |
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Her political nous and plain-speaking made her an instant hit on the political circuit, particularly with the Russian president, Vladimir Putin. |
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Starring the brusque and vulpine Vladimir Mashkov, Tycoon is an engaging product of the wild-and-crazy school of Eastern European filmmaking. |
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He's defending the chauvinist and imperialist Russian regime of President Vladimir Putin. |
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Vladimir could hear scattered gunfire on the right flank now, a staccato of pops amid the deeper roar of the artillery shells exploding to their rear. |
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Then Vladimir showed at the restaurant promptly at seven on the nose. |
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Mr Blair met Gen Musharraf midway through a whirlwind round of shuttle diplomacy which had seen him meet Russian president Vladimir Putin in Moscow the previous evening. |
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The president should engage directly with President Vladimir Putin to get the Russians onboard. |
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In Moscow, patriarch Kirill addressed an audience that included Russian President Vladimir Putin. |
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But it is not the reality of history, it is the mythology that is being promoted under Russian President Vladimir Putin. |
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And even as he plots defenses against American and allied air raids, he is taunting Vladimir Putin and his allies in Grozny. |
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However, Vladimir Putin has stepped it up and is giving us the opportunity to coin a new phrase connoting residency in crazy town. |
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On Tuesday, two senior Kremlin officials, Vladimir Avdeyenko and Boris Rapoport, quit their jobs. |
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More shocks were soon to follow as third seed Vassily Ivanchuk, needing to win in the final round to qualify, was outplayed by Group A winner Vladimir Malakhov. |
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Six poets Gumilyov, Akhmatova, Osip Mandelshtam, Sergey Gorodetsky, Vladimir Narbut and Mikhail Zenkevich joined forces, calling themselves the Acmeists. |
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After 14 years as president and premier, Vladimir Putin ended his 30-year marriage in June and his judo mentor died this month. |
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He replaced his brother Vladimir Rassate, who was deposed and blinded on the orders of their father Boris I, for his efforts to reconvert the country to paganism. |
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Vladimir Putin draws on his background as a master spy, testing and teasing the new regime in Kiev and its backers in Washington. |
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If Russian President Vladimir Putin is preparing for a new offensive, he could devastate Ukrainian forces. |
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Vladimir Putin famously ran agents for the KGB from 1985 to 1990 out of Dresden, which was then in communist East Germany. |
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Obsessed with inventing television, the boy wonder vied with Baird and the Russian national Vladimir Zworykin for the title of the medium's true father. |
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This is prima facia evidence of the delusional attitude that the administration had toward Vladimir Putin. |
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The article praises Vladimir Putin for fighting with oligarchs. |
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When Ruslana, the most famous Ukrainian singer, and heavyweight champion Vladimir Klitchko joined Victor Yushchenko on the podium, the crowd went wild. |
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As a cub reporter, he was there with his microphone in 1954 as the USSR Commissar's tried to force the wife of defector Vladimir Petrov to return to Moscow. |
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Sergei is an ex-military man who resembles Vladimir Putin, and he used to see Russia as a brother nation. |
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Vladimir Putin snatched Crimea from Ukraine as a strategic, patriotic, and touristic prize. |
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Introduced two years ago by President Vladimir V. Putin, the tax was designed to bring order to the chaos of the chronically underfinanced state budget. |
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With fighter jets, bombers, and nuclear-powered icebreakers, the Vladimir Putin regime is staking its claim in the Arctic. |
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Kim Jong Un is changing role models, steering Pyongyang away from Chinese autocrats toward the ultra-aggressive Vladimir Putin. |
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Solzhenitsyn also has publicly expressed admiration for some notorious anti-Semites, such as the Slavophile writers Vladimir Soloukhin, Valentin Rasputin, and Vasily Belov. |
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Russian President Vladimir Putin pounced quickly Sunday, denouncing the economic blockade of the Donbas. |
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In short, it looks as if Russian President Vladimir Putin sold a stake to China because he needed cash quickly. |
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Diplomat Kofi Annan meeting with Vladimir Putin in Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation. |
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There are parallels between the KaiserOs expansionist Germany and Vladimir PutinOs expansionist Russia. |
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Main characters Estragon and Vladimir spend the entire play waiting for salvation in the shape of friend Godot, whom many take to stand for God. |
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It had been hit flush by a Vladimir Guerrero line drive in the bottom of the fifth. |
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The Beslan Mothers Committee finally secured an invitation to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Kremlin Sept. |
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Communist writers Maxim Gorky and Vladimir Mayakovsky were active during this time. |
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Born in Krivoy Rog in the eastern Ukraine in 1968, Vladimir Malakhov started his training in ballet when he was just four years old. |
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Russian President Vladimir Putin will scrap his plan to watch sumo and kabuki during his Japan visit Sept. |
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So when Vladimir Guerrero uncharacteristically fell into a slump early in July, Hatcher went to the videotape. |
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Former Hearts owner Vladimir Romanov claims he will be assassinated in a gangland hit if he goes home to Lithuania. |
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Hearts chairman Vladimir Romanov has been strutting his stuff alongside Sandra Kniazeviciute in a promo clip for Dance With a Star. |
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The only constants in the five lineups so far have been Darin Erstad batting leadoff, Vladimir Guerrero hitting third and Garret Anderson fourth. |
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Vladimir Dinets of the University of Tennessee, observed that crocodiles use twigs as bait for birds looking for nesting material. |
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In 1169, as the Kievan Rus' state was full of internal conflict, Andrei Bogolyubsky of Vladimir sacked the city of Kiev. |
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From 1283 he acted as the ruler of an independent principality alongside Dmitry, who became Grand Duke of Vladimir. |
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By 1304, Yury of Moscow contested with Mikhail of Tver for the throne of the principality of Vladimir. |
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Both the Orbit and the Pinnacle are riffs on an idea sketched out in 1917 by Vladimir Tatlin for a monument to international communism. |
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The story focuses on tramps Vladimir and Estragon who are waiting for someone. |
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The prison as Melies had designed it in 1899 looked as if waiting for Vladimir and Estragon to step on to recite their lines. |
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Possibly Russian President Vladimir Putin instructed Rogozin to be irked. |
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He has been elected a deputy for Vladimir Putin's United Russia party after winning a seat on the regional council in his home town of Stavropol. |
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Russian President Vladimir Putin was hard to pin down when it comes to question related to a looming new Cold War. |
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Crucial, too, was Stalin's attraction to a particularly extreme socialist ideology, Vladimir Lenin's Bolshevism. |
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These Angels have the baserunners that complement the big boppers like Vladimir Guerrero, Jose Guillen, Garret Anderson and Troy Glaus. |
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Serkin's admirer Vladimir Horowitz would doubtless disapprove this shortchanging of his friend. |
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Eugene Goostman is an AI chatterbot built by Vladimir Veselov, Sergey Ullasen and his team and developed by i-Free. |
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Petersburg, Yekaterinburg, Smolensk, Saratov, Voronezh, Vladimir, Nizhniy Novgorod and other Russian cities. |
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But he hadn't banked on an owner loopier than a night on the tequila with Vladimir Romanov, Charles Green and Giovanni de Stefano. |
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Of the great romantic pianists, Vladimir Horowitz and Serkin are the only ones still actively concertizing. |
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The Angels' Chone Figgins, right, is safe at second base on a ground ball by Vladimir Guerrero. |
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Virile solos were turned in by Garanian himself, tenor saxist Ivan Volkov, drummer Vladimir Zurkin and trumpeter Viktor Gusseinov. |
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Forster, Rosamond Lehmann, Vladimir Nabokov, Christopher Isherwood and Malcolm Lowry. |
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With Russia's President Vladimir Putin, they discussed, for example, the Vienna peace talks for Syria. |
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In 1917 the German government allowed Russia's communist Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin to travel through Germany from Switzerland into Russia. |
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Hobson, Rosa Luxemburg, and Vladimir Lenin argued that WWI was caused by inequality. |
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Afghanistan remained a British protectorate until 1919, when a treaty with Vladimir Lenin included the granting of independence to Afghanistan. |
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This time it concerns Dobby the house-elf character's alleged resemblance to Russian President Vladimir Putin. |
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Russian President Vladimir Putin, among others, warned that the project would increase the danger of accidental nuclear war. |
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Rosa Luxemburg and Eduard Bernstein have criticised Vladimir Lenin that his conception of revolution was elitist and essentially Blanquist. |
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Fearing he might be a threat to the safety of his reign, Vladimir stopped treating Olaf as a friend. |
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Vladimir Putin, the current president of Russia, is the head of the United Russia party, but is not its member, thus formally is independent. |
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Vladimir also discovered other similar observations from various scientists, some dating back to the 19th century. |
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Contact with the Byzantine Empire increased, culminating in the Christianization of Kievan Rus' in 988, during the reign of Vladimir the Great. |
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Like Vladimir, Yaroslav was eager to improve relations with the rest of Europe, especially the Byzantine Empire. |
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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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Upon the transferring of the metropolitan seat in 1299, the Dormition Cathedral, Vladimir was chosen as the new cathedral. |
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In cultural and social affairs Vladimir Putin has collaborated closely with the Russian Orthodox Church. |
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Ivan Argunov, Dmitry Levitzky, Vladimir Borovikovsky and other 18th century academicians mostly focused on portrait painting. |
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Notable philosophers of the late 19th and the early 20th centuries include Vladimir Solovyev, Sergei Bulgakov, and Vladimir Vernadsky. |
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The Bolsheviks, led by Vladimir Lenin, pushed for socialist revolution in the Soviets and on the streets. |
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A large part of this was done according to the Bolshevik Initial Decrees, government documents signed by Vladimir Lenin. |
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The Soviet government headed by Vladimir Lenin gave small language groups their own writing systems. |
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In the 10th century, around 980, the efforts were finally successful when Vladimir the Great was baptized at Chersonesos. |
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On their return to Vladimir two years later, they found that the capital had been seized by their young brother Mikhail Khorobrit. |
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A year later, his uncle Svyatoslav, offended by his ousting from Vladimir, went to the Horde to secure the throne for himself. |
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Mikhail, the Grand Prince of Tver, who ascended the throne of Vladimir in 1305, was one of the most beloved of medieval Russian rulers. |
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Now, unless the people doing the waiting are named Vladimir and Estragon, extended waiting on display is, well, turgid. |
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In the same year the expedition of Vladimir Rusanov was lost in the Kara Sea. |
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After the deaths of his childless brothers Stefan, Iosif and Vladimir, his father became a monk. |
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To escape poverty, he moved south to Vladimir where he became a coachman in the Murom forests. |
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Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov may have taken his alias, Lenin, from the river Lena, when he was exiled to the Central Siberian Plateau. |
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About 1697, Anadyrsk was the launching place for Vladimir Atlasov's conquest of Kamchatka. |
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Another prominent architect was Vladimir Shukhov, famous for Shukhov Tower, just one of many hyperboloid towers designed by Shukhov. |
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Morris Bullock and Vladimir Dioumaev at Brookhaven developed a tungsten-based catalyst for combining a ketone and an organic silicon compound to form an alkoxysilane. |
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Most notable are Jane Short and Fred Rich, both Liverymen of the Goldsmiths' Company, together with Phil Barnes, Vladimir Bohm and Stephen Bottomley. |
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Chairman Roman Romanov, the son of owner Vladimir, has made it clear that he has no intention of paying Burley a penny to cover the 20 months he had remaining on his contract. |
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All summer, we have been bombarded with comment and analysis about why Vladimir Romanov has turned this supposedly once great club into a laughing stock. |
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Russian scientist and federal politician Artur Chilingarov, the leader of the mission, took part in the Mir dives as did Russian leader Vladimir Putin. |
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Cameron did not attend the games but denied it was a boycott in protest at Russia's laws, having previously raised the issue of gay rights in the country with Vladimir Putin. |
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In May 2000, President of Russia, Vladimir Putin, decreed that new federal districts be formed, and Khabarovsk became the center of the Far Eastern Federal District. |
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Russian President Vladimir Putin gave commands to ink a deal with Armenia on developing a joint provincial air defense framework in the Caucasian collective security province. |
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In the days when structural analysis of literature was fashionable Stith Thompson and Vladimir Propp both produced schemas for examining themes and motifs found in folktales. |
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The comments of former whaling fleet captain Vladimir Dobralskiy echo the kill-at-all-costs credo that operated for years in the Soviet Union's whaling industry. |
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The ceremony was held in the presence of Vladimir Putin, President of the Russian Federation and Sabah Al-Ahmed Al-Sabah, Emir of the State of Kuwait. |
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Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin attended a production launch ceremony at a factory in Tolyatti in central Russia, signing the first Lada Largus vehicle assembled there. |
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Terrorists are attempting to use the Middle East and North Africa as a springboard to destabilize other countries, Russian President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday. |
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There is the element of Czardom in Vladimir Putin's rule and style. |
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But what do the memories of the Soviet Union, Communism, Bolshevism or even Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin now mean for normal citizens of the Russian Federation? |
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Boris had abdicated in 889, leaving the throne to his son Vladimir, who had immediately identified himself with the boyar aristocracy which Boris had done his utmost to crush. |
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Some of the reforms under Yeltsin were scaled back by Vladimir Putin. |
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In 1917, two revolutions occurred within the Russian Empire, which led to the collapse of the Imperial Government and the rise of the Bolshevik Party led by Vladimir Lenin. |
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To commemorate the event, Vladimir built the first stone church of Kievan Rus', called the Church of the Tithes, where his body and the body of his new wife were to repose. |
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About the same time, Russian prince Yaroslav of Vladimir, and subsequently his sons Alexander Nevsky and Andrey II of Vladimir, travelled to the Mongolian capital. |
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Choreographed by Tolstukhin Vladimir, this ballet is vividly brought to life on stage by 40 young dancers of the Russian State Ballet Academy of Perm. |
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Following Bogdanov's lead, Vladimir Shamov and Sergei Yudin in the USSR pioneered the transfusion of cadaveric blood from recently deceased donors. |
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In 2004, the small Ainu community living in Kamchatka Krai wrote a letter to Vladimir Putin, urging him to reconsider any move to award the Southern Kuril islands to Japan. |
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In 1238, when the Mongols first invaded Kievan Rus and his elder brother Yuri was killed in battle, Yaroslav left Kiev for Vladimir, where he was crowned grand prince. |
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Later Marxists, such as Vladimir Lenin and Leon Trotsky developed the notion of dialectical materialism which characterized later Marxist philosophy and method. |
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After a lengthy conference, he returned to Vladimir with honours. |
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Though NATO leaders gave assurances that the system was not targeting Russia, both presidents Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev criticized it as a threat. |
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Alexander seemed to have no chance of claiming the throne of Vladimir. |
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Though he died in Gorodets, Alexander was laid to rest in the city of Vladimir, in the Great Abbey at The Church of the Nativity of the Holy Mother of God. |
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This view was held in particular by Vladimir Belinsky, Isaak Khalatnikov, and Evgeny Lifshitz, who tried to prove that no singularities appear in generic solutions. |
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In 1247, when their father died, Andrey and Alexander went to Karakorum in Mongolia, where Andrey was appointed the next Grand Duke of Vladimir by Guyuk khan. |
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Russian President Vladimir Putin has complimented Narendra Modi, India's prime minister, with the Bharatiya Janata Party's victory in the parliamentary election. |
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In 1695 explorer Vladimir Atlasov became commander of Anadyrsk. |
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It was spuriously invented by Russian President Vladimir Putin to give him an excuse to occupy Crimea and warn Ukraine not to get too close to the European Union. |
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But, he was talking more about Vladimir Nabokov and John Updike. |
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On his return to Vladimir, he received from Alexander the easternmost lands of Vladimir, including the towns of Nizhny Novgorod and Gorodets on the Volga. |
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After Alexander died in 1263, Andrey aspired to add Vladimir to his possessions, but was thwarted in his designs by his younger brother Yaroslav of Tver. |
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The princely house of Suzdal and Nizhny Novgorod, which has been known since the 14th century as the House of Shuisky, descends from Andrey II of Vladimir. |
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Vladimir Nabokov, asked whether sometimes his characters didn't break free of his control, replied that they were galley slaves, kept severely under his thumb at all times. |
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Vladimir Voronin, who had been President of Moldova since 2001, eventually resigned on 11 September 2009, but the Parliament failed to elect a new president. |
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But Mark Teixeira flew out to left field, Vladimir Guerrero flew out to right and Torii Hunter hit a check-swing ground ball to second base to end it. |
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Vladimir Rozenblit, a 20th generation direct descendant of Zacuto. |
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President Bush may think he's as thick as thieves with his pal Vladimir Putin, but hopefully someone at the White House is reading the English edition of Pravda. |
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