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2 unusual facts about Duma


Church of the Saviour, Baku

The land parcel of 1400 square sazhens (6373 m²) for the church was assigned by the City Duma on January 30, 1885.

Valeriy Skvortsov

After a leg injury forced him to stop competing, Skortsov continued as a high jump trainer in Moscow (Dinamo) and then went to work as the head of Duma security.


Alexander Michaeletos

He stars as Xan, a twelve-year-old boy who befriends a cheetah called Duma, and acts with Eamonn Walker, Campbell Scott, and Hope Davis.

Alexander Rovt

The first was in Rossosh, Russia in partnership with Igor Olshansky, the son of a member of the Duma (in whose district the plant was located) and the Norwegian agricultural company Yara International.

Anton Bakov

In 1994, Anton Bakov was elected a Serov county deputy of Sverdlovsk Oblast Parliament - Sverdlovsk Oblast Duma and the Chairman of the Duma Legislative Committee.

Casualties of the Second Chechen War

In September 2006, Anatoly Kulikov, deputy chairman of the Russian State Duma committee on security said that In the 12 years of our Russian antiterrorist war in the Chechen Republic, aggregate losses among the federal forces, illegal armed groups and civilians are estimated at about 45,000 people.

Dmitriy Abramenkov

He worked as a crane operator and locomotive technician, then as staff leader of the All-Union Komsomol of the Smolensk AES, chairman of the District Committee of People's Control, instructor of the City Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, and following election to the State Duma, Master of Production Training at the Roslavl Technical School for Rail Transport.

Duma Nkosi

Duma Moses Nkosi (born 7 June 1957) is the former mayor of the Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality from 2001 to 2008, succeeded by Lentheng Helen Mekgwe.

Enduring Stockpile

The New START treaty signed in 2010 commits to lowering that limit to 1,550 warheads, and was ratified by the Russian Duma on January 26, 2011.

Fyodor Golovin

Fyodor Alexandrovich Golovin (1867-1937), Russian politician, a founder of the Constitutional Democratic party and chairman of the Second Duma

Ivan Tsykler

In 1689 after revolt of Peter I against Sophia he notified Peter about Sophia's conspiracy; for this he was elevated to the rank of the Duma nobleman and was sent as voivode to Verkhoturie.

Makoma

It is made up of 6 siblings (3 brothers and 3 sisters): Nathalie Makoma, Annie Makoma, Pengani Makoma, Tutala Makoma, Duma Makoma, Martin Makoma and a non-family member, Patrick Badine.

Nicola Emmanuelle

Whilst concentrating on Movie Soundtracks over the next six years; including Pride, Duma, Racing Stripes, Tsotsi and The Constant Gardener Emmanuelle started writing again, culminating in her returning from 2007 to her first love of jazz and has been working with her band ever since, performing at venues across the UK and Europe, writing and singing her own material as well as original arrangements of the classic American Songbook.

Padonkaffsky jargon

It was popularized by the padonki subculture on websites like Udaff.com and Fuck.ru (currently defunct) created by entrepreneur Egor Lavrov and Konstantin Rykov, now a deputy of the Duma.

Pavel Milyukov

At Progressive Bloc meetings near the end of October, Progressives and left-Kadets argued that the revolutionary public mood could no longer be ignored and that the Duma should attack the entire tsarist system or lose whatever influence it had.

Pravda

The Communist Party of the Russian Federation, which gained new ground in Russia after the 1996 Duma elections, finally purchased Pravda.

Romanian Orthodox Church

In December 2007 Russian Duma United Russia’s MP Konstantin Zatulin accused the Romanian Orthodox Church of “proselytism” against the Russian Orthodox Church in Moldova (and Transnistria) with the aim of annexing these territories into Romania.

Rusnano

#Evgeny Fedorov, Chairman, State Duma Committee on Economic Policy and Entrepreneurship

Russian legislative election, 1999

The centrist coalition of four factions and groups (Unity, OVR, Russia’s Regions, and People's Deputy) controlled a firm majority of 235 out of 450 Duma seats.

Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty

The ratification also got tricky because the chairman of the foreign affairs committee of the Duma, Dmitry Rogozin, disagreed with his Federation Council counterpart Margelov.

Subdivisions of Kiev

As of 1917, there were 8 Raion Councils (Duma), which were reorganized by Pavlo Skoropadskyi into 17 raions.

United States resolution on Armenian Genocide

"The Armenian Genocide resolution is a proper test for American democracy. It will uncover priorities of the United States – good relations with Turkey or historical truth", Russian State Duma member, Konstantin Zatulin told a news conference in Yerevan on 21 October 2007.

Vladimir Vladimirovich Kara-Murza

In 2011, Kara-Murza published his first book, "Reform or Revolution: The Quest for Responsible Government in the First Russian State Duma", which recounts the unsuccessful attempt by the Constitutional Democratic Party to form a government during the short existence of the first Russian Parliament in April–July 1906.


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