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20 unusual facts about Kremlin


1980 in Afghanistan

Their subsequent discussion and joint signature of a document in the Kremlin is seen as a formal acknowledgment of the Afghan government's puppet status.

2008 Georgian spy plane shootdowns

According to the Kremlin press office, Putin expressed bewilderment over the fact that Georgia should conduct flights with military purposes over the Abkhazian conflict zone.

Albert Asriyan

The band also performed at major events such as the Rock Panorama of Baku-1988, Concert for the USSR government at Republic Concert Hall-Lenin Sarai in Baku, The State Central Concert Hall Russia in Moscow, Column Hall of the House of Unions at the Kremlin, as well as all over the country and outside.

Alla Dzhioyeva

Its first round took place on November 13 with Dzhioyeva running against 10 other candidates, including Anatoliy Bibilov, who carried the backing of both Kokoity and the Kremlin.

Dinar of Hereti

Today, on the north wall of the Throne Hall in the Moscow Kremlin, there hangs an image of Holy Queen Dinar mounted on a white horse, victorious over the enemy.

Dusha

As she had not been informed that the concert would be aired live on major Soviet television channels, she concedes to the request and performs in the Kremlin.

Hilary Minc

Minc was a close associate of the Polish Communist leader Władysław Gomułka in their joint meetings with Joseph Stalin at the Kremlin.

Joseph Finder

Finder published Red Carpet: The Connection Between the Kremlin and America's Most Powerful Businessmen (1983), about Dr. Armand Hammer's ties to Soviet intelligence.

Maurice G. Hindus

During the Cold War Hindus was very critical of the Soviet government, though he always distinguished between the Kremlin and the Russian people.

Oleg Pantyukhov

During the October Revolution he was the leader of the cadets who unsuccessfully defended the Kremlin from Bolsheviks.

Oscar Cesare

In October 1922 Cesare had the very rare privilege of gaining admittance to the Kremlin to paint sketches of the Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin.

Otto Wille Kuusinen

In Kremlin politics he was considered a liberal — and from its temporal distance his thinking pointed forward to perestroika.

Patricia Montandon

In 1987, Montandon designed The Banner of Hope, a mile-long, red-silk memorial inscribed with the names and ages of children killed in war, which was first presented in the Kremlin at an International Women's Congress.

Robert Meadows White

White visited Denmark in 1837, and travelled to Moscow, where he was arrested and suffered a short detention for visiting the Kremlin without an official order.

Rose Street

Milne's Bar, also has literary connections, with one of its rooms nicknamed the "Little Kremlin", because many members of the Scottish Renaissance such as Hugh MacDiarmid would meet there.

The President's Mistress

In Moscow, an agent in the Kremlin manages to get hold of a secret document identifying Donna Morton as a KGB agent sent to spy on the president.

Ture Nerman

Nerman was welcomed to live with the Kamenev family at the Kremlin.

Wajahat Khan

He has performed extensively around the world including performances at prestigious venues such as the Kremlin, the Acropolis of Athens, the Royal Albert Hall for the Proms, the Smithsonian Institution, Suntory Hall and the Glastonbury Festival.

Yitzchok Isaac Krasilschikov

He lived with his wife in a modest little apartment near the Kremlin, where, after each day working for the government, he returned home to immerse himself in Torah study during the night.

Zlata Razdolina

The composition was performed during the Anna Akhmatova centennial in Kremlin, 1989, and later in Finland, Sweden, the Czech Republic, USA and Israel.


Alla Yaroshinskaya

Despite this she succeeded in making copies of top-secret documents of the Politburo of the Central Committee, which she summarised in an article, Forty secret protocols of the Kremlin wise men, published by Izvestia and the Western press.

Anton incident

According to Finnish expert on Russia Ilmari Susiluoto, the case of Anton is part of the Kremlin public relations campaign.

Aramov Clan

The clan is based in the remote Kyrgyzstan, with their base, known as 'The Kremlin' situated on the outskirts of Bishkek.

Communist Party of the Russian Federation

In February 2005 the CPRF managed to beat the ruling pro-Kremlin party, United Russia, in elections to the regional legislature of Nenets Autonomous Okrug, obtaining 27% of the popular vote.

Coronation of the Russian monarch

At the conclusion of the Liturgy, the Tsar and his entourage proceeded to the nearby Archangel and Annunciation cathedrals within the Kremlin, where further rites were conducted.

Ernesto Cortázar II

Ernesto traveled to more than 25 countries and performed his original compositions for political figures such as President of Argentina Carlos Menem, Nikita Khrushchev leader of the USSR and entertained at various prestigious venues including The Kremlin (Russia) and The Mexican Presidential House.

Givi Javakhishvili

In 1961 Givi Javakhishvili was heading the delegation of Georgian SSR in Moscow at Congress of the CPSU where he gave the famous speech demanding the removal of Joseph Stalin from Kremlin Mausoleum of Moscow.

History of Czechoslovakia

Although the communist-led government initially intended to participate in the Marshall Plan, it was forced by the Kremlin to back out.

House of Soviets

Palace of the Soviets, a project to construct an administrative center and a congress hall in Moscow, Russia, near the Kremlin

Ibragimkhalil Daudov

Russian investigators say Daudov brought his wife and another woman to Moscow in 2009 to carry out a suicide attack on people celebrating New Year's Eve near the Kremlin, but their bomb exploded hours earlier in a Moscow suburb.

Moscow Kremlin

The nearest stations to the Moscow Kremlin are: Biblioteka Imeni Lenina (Sokolnicheskaya Line), Arbatskaya (Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya Line), Alexandrovsky Sad (Filyovskaya Line) and Borovitskaya (Serpukhovsko-Timiryazevskaya Line).

New Kosovo Alliance

He is the founding owner of Mabetex, the Swiss-based project-engineering firm that has managed significant engineering projects ranging from restorations in the White House in the United States to the rebuilding the Kremlin in Moscow.

Nikolai Budarin

Since 2007 he is a member of the Russian parliament, the State Duma, representing the pro-Kremlin United Russia party.

Nikolai Erdman

After Stanislavsky's actor Vasily Kachalov thoughtlessly recited Erdman's satirical fables to Stalin during a night party in the Kremlin, their author's fate was sealed.

Novgorod Kremlin

Novgorod Kremlin (also Detinets) stands on the left bank of the Volkhov River in Veliky Novgorod about two miles north of where it empties out of Lake Ilmen.

Project Russia

Vladimir Zhirinovsky, a Russian politician, the founder and leader of the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia, stated that the Kremlin had made the Project Russia in order to create a unitary state.

Putin's Kiss

The situation reaches a head when her friend and fellow journalist Oleg Kashin is violently beaten; though his attackers are never identified, it is speculated by many that they were working for the Kremlin in some capacity.

Reagan Era

Tom Clancy wrote three best-selling novels that illuminate the Reagan era: The Hunt for Red October (1984), Red Storm Rising (1986), and The Cardinal of the Kremlin (1988).

Russia–Ukraine relations

On 11 August 2009, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev posted a videoblog on the Kremlin.ru website, and the official Kremlin LiveJournal blog, in which he attacked Viktor Yushchenko, for what Medvedev claims is the Ukrainian President's responsibility in the souring of Russia–Ukraine relations and "the anti-Russian position of the current Ukrainian authorities".

Russian architecture

These ambitious Kremlin cathedrals (among them the Dormition and Archangel Cathedrals) were imitated throughout Russia during the 16th century, with new edifices tending to be larger and more ornate than their predecessors (for example, the Hodegetria Cathedral of Novodevichy Convent from the 1520s).

Rustem Adagamov

In 2009 Kremlin's press department had invited him to cover Wednesday's meeting between Dmitry Medvedev and his visiting Indian counterpart Pratibha Patil.

Sokolnicheskaya Line

The remaining part of the Frunzenskaya Branch went along the Kremlin's western wall past the Russian State Library and into the future site of the Palace of Soviets on the bank of the Moskva River and terminated near the infamous Gorky Park.

Stanislav Belkovsky

Belkovsky since he has been actively engaged in a campaign to discredit Mikhail Khodorkovsky and is said to be close to Russian Prime Minister and leader of the Kremlin Silovik faction, Igor Sechin who was fighting by this time the growing influence of current president Dmitry Medvedev, seen as more liberal.

Strategy-31

These "counter-actions" included the “Choose Health, Be Like Us!” festival (July 31, 2009), a youth sports festival (August 31, 2009), the “Division” military-sports festivity (October 31, 2009), an action of the pro-Kremlin “Young Russia” movement (December 31, 2009), and the “Winter Amusements” festivity (January 31, 2010).

The Girl in the Kremlin

The Girl in the Kremlin is a 1957 American thriller which puts forth the premise that Joseph Stalin (played by Maurice Manson) faked his own death in 1953 and then moved to Greece with a fortune in Soviet currency.

Tsar Cannon

It is known to have been mounted on a special frame with a fixed inclination angle in Red Square near the Place of Skulls in order to protect the eastern approaches to the Kremlin, indicating that it originally did have a practical application.

Western Australia Police Pipe Band

It was represented at the Sydney Edinburgh Tattoo in 2010 and the Kremlin Zoria in Moscow's Red Square.