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The Nation State in the Twenty First Century - AP Central  President Ahmadinejad's rise to power and the steps he has taken during his ... comparison, because while Mexico is becoming more democratic, Russia is ... party rule, the 2000 elections definitively established Mexico as a multiparty ... legislature, and Party A wins 30 percent of the vote, it will get 30 seats. ...... Page 29...
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Mikhail Gorbachev - Wikipedia  Gorbachev Era  Revolutions of 1989  Dissolution of the Soviet Union. Leader of the Soviet ... Gorbachev later expressed regret for his failure to save the USSR, though he has .... With responsibility over personnel, working together with Andropov, 20 percent of the .... In the elections, many Party candidates were defeated.
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From Kuchma to Yushchenko - Taras Kuzio  Problems of Post-Communism, vol. 52, no. 2, March/April 2005, pp. 2944.  2005 M.E. Sharpe ..... 15 percent of KPU supporters to his cause when he doubled...
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Calvin Coolidge - Wikipedia  John Calvin Coolidge Jr was the 30th President of the United States (192329). A Republican lawyer from Vermont, Coolidge worked his way up the ladder ... Soon after, he was elected as the 29th vice president in 1920 and succeeded .... In 1904, Coolidge suffered his sole defeat at the ballot box, losing an election to the...
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Boris Yeltsin - Wikipedia  Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin was a Soviet and Russian politician and the first President of the ... On 29 May 1990 he was elected the chairman of the Russian Supreme ... second round he defeated Gennady Zyuganov from the revived Communist ... Within a few years of his presidency, many of Yeltsin's initial supporters had...
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Boris Yeltsin | president of Russia | Britannica.com  In 1991 he became the first popularly elected leader in the country's history, ... His victory in the first direct, popular elections for the presidency of the Russian republic ... growth dimmed Yeltsin's prospects for reelection to the Russian presidency. ... a communist challenger in the second round of elections held in July 1996.
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The Warrior Who Would Rule Russia: A Profile of Alexander Lebed.  Aug 6, 1996 ... curity adviser by the recently reelected President Boris Yeltsin. Lebed, who himself .... since he has assumed his new role as Yeltsin's chief security aide, he has been uninhibited ... contested Russian republic until December 31,2001. .... Following Russia's presidential election on June 16, 1996, which.
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Last days of the USSR - Financial Times  Aug 19, 2011 ... Two decades after the coup that triggered the fall of the Soviet ... August 19 1991: tanks in Red Square ... Gorbachev, as he later told investigating prosecutors, was not ... Yeltsin, the newly-elected president of the Russian Soviet Republic, ... as he has continuously insisted  under house arrest at Foros?
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BYE, BYE TO BORIS | New York Post  Apr 24, 2007 ... When he was a small boy, his family moved to a nearby town so his father could find work. ... At age 11, Yeltsin lost two fingers on his left hand while trying to take ... itself a sovereign nation - Yeltsin won Russia's first presidential election. ... rally the country against an August 1991 coup by Soviet hard-liners.
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The New York Times > CFR > International > Ukraine's Orange ...  Apr 12, 2005 ... But what will come next for the new president--and the rest of the former Soviet Union?. ... Corruption accelerated after Kuchma's election as president in 1994. .... of civic and party activists, crucial in organizing the mass protests. ... Yushchenko declared himself president and took the oath of office in an...
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The Putin Murders | La Russophobe  A Brief History of Putintime March 1997 45-year-old former KGB agent ... in polls, Vladimir Putin is elected president of Russia in a massive landslide (he wins ... FSB to explain to the Russian Parliament what poison gas was applied during the ... and work of secret services from the former Soviet republic of Turkmenistan,...
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Vladimir Putin - Wikipedia  He was reelected President in 2004 with 72% of the vote. During Putin's first presidency, the Russian economy grew for eight straight years, and GDP measured...
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Opposition recipe: Russia's only chance is to succumb to external ...  Sep 8, 2016 ... "Putin's regime has practically completed the transformation from the so-called ... He promised that the explosion would cost Russia a lot, "because Putin will ... part in the presidential election in 2008 as a single opposition candidate. ..... up to the grid of information developed by the Free World you so envy.
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Chechnya * | Country report | Freedom in the World | 2002  Moscow responded by instituting an economic blockade of the republic and ... Boris Yeltsin sent 40,000 Russian troops into Chechnya by mid-December 1994 and ... While calling for the withdrawal of most Russian forces from the breakaway...
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Boris N. Yeltsin, Who Buried the U.S.S.R., Dies at 76  Apr 25, 2007 ... The last Soviet president and, for a time, his rival for power, Mikhail S. Gorbachev, ... He made no mention of Mr. Yeltsin's role in his own rise to power. .... who were threatening to overthrow Mr. Gorbachev, the last Soviet leader. ... the Communist Party Politburo in 1987, the Communist coup attempt in 1993,...
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Boris Yeltsin - Wikipedia  Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin was a Soviet and Russian politician and the first President of the ... Rather than creating new enterprises, Yeltsin's democratization led to .... On 11 March 1985, Mikhail Gorbachev was elected General Secretary of the CPSU ... resign from the post of First Secretary of the Moscow Communist Party.
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UKRAINIANS ELECT A NEW PRESIDENT - NYTimes.com  Jul 12, 1994 ... The victory by the industrialist, Leonid D. Kuchma, shocked nationalists, ... western Ukraine and the Russian-speaking eastern part of the country.
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Shevardnadze Survives Again - tribunedigital-chicagotribune  Sep 1, 1995 ... Eduard Shevardnadze, the former Soviet foreign minister who helped Mikhail ... Shevardnadze narrowly escaped assassination by car bomb as he ... He made the most of his million-dollar wounds during a televised ... The new constitution gives sweeping powers to the future president. ... August 29, 1995.
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Vladimir Putin Facts - Biography - YourDictionary  At Leningrad State University, Putin was the school's judo champion in 1974. ... said he had received "good but not great grades," though he was a "meticulous" student. ... Around the time Putin went to East Germany, Soviet leader Mikhail ... to grant Yeltsin immunity from any future criminal or administrative investigations.
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Newsline - August 6, 1996 - Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty  Aug 6, 1996 ... President Boris Yeltsin returned to work at the Kremlin 5 August after ... on 6 August after they started receiving back wages, ITAR-TASS reported. ... another idea opposed by the NDR since it wants to maintain good ..... Stan Markotich ... with the united opposition's presidential candidate, Petar Stoyanov.
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Assessing Russia's Democratic Presidential Election - Harvard ...  The Russian presidential election that occurred this summer was the single most ... people voted in a democratic election to select the leader of their country. ... in the Russian election; why Yeltsin won; to what extent the election was free and fair; ... On June 16, he won 35% of the votes casts; on July 3, he managed 54%.