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Vladimir Zhirinovsky
Vladimir Volfovich Zhirinovsky Vladimir Volfovich Zhirinovsky (born 1946) led the extreme nationalist Liberal Democratic Party of Russia to surprising success in the Russian parliamentary elections of December 1993. Zhirinovsky proved himself a master of the media available to Russian... Read more |
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Waldemar
Waldemar For Russian rulers thus named, use Vladimir.... Read more |
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Vladimir Lossky
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Vladimir
Vladimir , city (1989 pop. 350,000), capital of Vladimir region, W central European Russia, on the Klyazma River. A rail junction, it has industries producing machinery, chemicals, cotton textiles, and plastics. Tourism is also important. Founded in the early 12th cent. by Vladimir II of Kiev, it... Read more |
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Vladimir de Pachmann
Vladimir de Pachmann , 1848-1933, Russian pianist, studied with his father, a violinist, and at the Vienna Conservatory. He devoted himself almost exclusively to playing Chopin's smaller piano pieces, and he was known as a colorful, eccentric performer.... Read more |
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Vladimir Tatlin
Vladimir Tatlin , 1885-1953, Russian painter and sculptor, known as the Father of Russian constructivism . After graduating (1910) from the Moscow Academy of Fine Arts, he traveled to Paris where he was so influenced by Picasso 's reliefs that he became a sculptor. After the Russian Revolution,... Read more |
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Vladimir Machek
Vladimir Maček , 1879-1964, Croatian political leader. He headed the Croatian Peasant party from 1928. A vigorous opponent of the dictatorship of King Alexander of Yugoslavia, he fought for Croatian autonomy and was imprisoned several times. After Alexander's death, Maček was granted... Read more |
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grand duchy of Moscow
grand duchy of Moscow state existing in W central Russia from the late 14th to mid-16th cent., with the city of Moscow as its nucleus. Its formation and eventual ascendancy over other Russian principalities and over the Tatars of the Golden Horde (see Golden Horde, Empire of the ) came about... Read more |
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Jewish Legion
JEWISH LEGION Four battalions of Jewish volunteers in the British army during World War I. On the urging of Russian Zionist Vladimir Ze Read more |
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Vladimir Jabotinsky
Vladimir Evgenevich Jabotinsky Vladimir Evgenevich Jabotinsky (1880-1940) led the Revisionist Zionist party. He fought for a Jewish state extending on both sides of the Jordan River. Vladimir Jabotinsky was born on Oct. 18, 1880, in Odessa, the Jewish cultural center of southern Russia. He... Read more |
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From Empire to Anarchy: Postcommunist Foreign Policy and International...
...to a more "pragmatic" position during 1994. The Fundamentalist Nationalists, whose most extreme proponent is Vladimir Zhirinovsky, have proposed the reintegration of the old empire and virulent anti-Western policies that are appealing to only a small... |
 "The Independent (London, England)")
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Election of speaker gives reformist camp a boost
...slipped into acrimonious anarchy yesterday when Vladimir Zhirinovsky mounted the podium to threaten...furious and fist-banging Mr Zhirinovsky withdrew his candidature...psychiatric hospital," Mr Zhirinovsky shouted yesterday from a... |
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Russia's spiritual wilderness: freedom cannot take root without moral renewal.
...Faced with chaos bordering on anarchy, a quarter of Russia's...ultra-nationalist Vladimir Zhirinovsky's party in the last election...Alexander Solzhenitsyn has called Zhirinovsky "an evil caricature of a...to grey politicians. But Zhirinovsky is not to be ... |
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Ignoring Soviet plight will put West in peril
...third with 6 million votes. Zhirinovsky is a fascist. His solution...their name he ravaged Europe. Zhirinovsky has been dismissed as a clown...clownish fascists lined up behind Zhirinovsky ready to mobilize the unemployed...scenario. The other is simple ... |
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Save Russia Now
...third with 6 million votes. Zhirinovsky is a fascist. His solution...their name he ravaged Europe. Zhirinovsky has been dismissed as a clown...clownish fascists lined up behind Zhirinovsky ready to mobilize the unemployed...scenario. The other is simple ... |
 "The Buffalo News (Buffalo, NY)")
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RELATIONS WITH RUSSIA AT RISK AFTER CHECHNYA
...military adventure Vladimir Zhirinovsky, the ultranationalist leader...the West ("either me or Zhirinovsky") is a sham. If Zhirinovsky didn't exist, Yeltsin would...Russia from the darkness of anarchy and repression. MIKHAIL GORBACHEV... |
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RUSSIA: POLITICIANS, MUSLIMS ALLEGE CONSPIRACY IN SADDAM TRIAL.
...assessment," LDPR leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky told IPS, "especially when...Britain and Turkey," said Zhirinovsky. He added that the republic...the Iraqi oil," he said. Zhirinovsky, who had strong ties to the...Nations, is under the sway of anarchy and ... |
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RUSSIA: POLITICIANS, MUSLIMS ALLEGE CONSPIRACY IN SADDAM TRIAL
...negativeassessment," LDPR leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky told IPS, "especiallywhen...Britain and Turkey," said Zhirinovsky. He addedthat the republic...the Iraqi oil," he said. Zhirinovsky, who had strong ties to the...Nations, is under the sway of anarchy ... |
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Yeltsin says he will not resign as communists, oligarchs grapple for...
...a history of lurching from anarchy to despotism, with no leader...the irrepressible Vladimir Zhirinovsky, the ultra-nationalist...parliamentary elections. Zhirinovsky, whose party is the third...2007. While outsiders see Zhirinovsky and his lieutenants as ... |
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Communists accuse Yeltsin of `raping' their country
...enfant terrible, Vladimir Zhirinovsky, who said "moral" Russians...constructive approach to head off anarchy, which would be the worst...ministries for themselves. Mr Zhirinovsky and Grigory Yavlinsky, leader...as well as members of Mr Zhirinovsky's party, ... |
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