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2233 Kuznetsov

It was named after Nikolai Ivanovich Kuznetsov (1911–44), a Russian intelligence agent, WWII partisan, and posthumous Hero of the Soviet Union.

Age of consent reform in Canada

Hilary Cook, spokeswoman for gay rights group Egale Canada believes the bill is "an attempt to score partisan points".

Alan Frumin

A 1968 graduate of Colgate University in Hamilton, New York and Georgetown University Law Center, Frumin's entire career has been devoted to giving Congressional procedural advice to one and all on a non-partisan basis.

Anthony Chiappone

Chiappone was then defeated in the Democratic Primary in June 2005 by the team of Louis Manzo and Jersey City Superintendent Charles T. Epps, Jr. After once again defeating "Team Doria" for the non-partisan 2006 Bayonne municipal election for the position of Councilman At-Large, Chiappone aligned himself with the wife of deceased Glenn Cunningham, Sandra Bolden Cunningham, to once again seek state legislative office in the 31st District.

Atlantic Community

The Advisory Board of the Atlantic Community is non-partisan, and includes journalist Marvin Kalb, UK Liberal Democrat Lord Wallace, and German diplomat Jürgen Chrobog as members.

Battle of Lijevče Field

At this time, Yugoslav Partisan forces began a troop build up near Bosanski Petrovac and Sanski Most.

Bevil Higgons

He wrote a Jacobite tragedy The Generous Conqueror, or the Timely Discovery (1702) which opened well but was found partisan, according to Charles Gildon.

Bill Cannastra

Alan Ansen's poem "Dead Drunk: In Memoriam William Cannastra, 1924-1950" appeared in Partisan Review, Vol XXVI, No 4, 1959.

Bill Roggio

The journal states that it is a publication of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, which describes itself as non-partisan but has been called "neoconservative" by various resources.

Blagoj

Blagoj Jankov Mučeto, Macedonian partisan who was declared a People's Hero of Yugoslavia

Brigitte Kwan

After the fall of the Qing dynasty and the increasing attacks against the Qing Manchu, she fell in love with a Han Chinese, a Sun Yat-sen partisan and military commander Wong Sung-mong Huang Zhongwen (Chinese: 黄仲文) Huang Zhongwen born Y.S. Wong (Chinese: 黄玉书), rumored to be part of the Tongmenghui, was tutored by an Imperial scholar - Jìnshì (進士), and a trained physician (daifu - 大夫), before fighting in Sun Yat-sen's army in the Northern Expedition.

Bronislav Kaminski

As the result of Operation Bagration, the anti-partisan activities of the brigade were halted and its personnel (6 -7 thousand persons - some sources give 3-4 thousand) was collected at SS training camp Neuhammer .

Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good

Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good (CACG) is a non-partisan, Roman Catholic, non-profit 501(c)(3) organization in the United States, which aims to promote "the fullness of the Catholic social tradition in the public square".

Charles Gary Allison

From 1963 to 1969 he chaired a non-partisan White House youth program under both the Lyndon B. Johnson and Richard M. Nixon administrations, during which time he worked on a master's degree in international relations at Georgetown University.

Conference for Progressive Political Action

L.E. Sheppard, President of the Order of Railway Conductors, presented a resolution calling for a continuation of the CPPA on non-partisan lines as a political pressure group.

David Zurabishvili

In 1996 together with Levan Ramishvili, Givi Targamadze and Giga Bokeria he co-founded the Liberty Institute, a non-profit, non-partisan, liberal public policy advocacy foundation based in the capital Tbilisi.

Draper Committee

The Presidents Committee to Study the United States Military Assistance Program ("Draper Committee") was a bipartisan committee, created in November 1958 by U.S. President Eisenhower to undertake a completely independent, objective, and non-partisan analysis of the military assistance aspects of the U.S. Mutual Security Program (MSP).

Eberhard von Mackensen

In March of that year, Mackensen was the first senior officer to be informed by Kurt Mälzer of a partisan attack in Rome against the SS Police Regiment Bozen.

Elaine Scruggs

Elaine Scruggs (Non-Partisan), mayor of Glendale, Arizona, relocated from Pasadena, California with her husband Larry in 1971.

Elpida Karamandi

In April 1942 she left Bitola and went to the First Bitola Partisan detachment.

Francisco Barrio

On February 24, 2005, he expressed interest in becoming the PAN presidential candidate and campaigned for a few months before quitting on July 7, arguing partisan favoritism towards the former minister of the interior, Santiago Creel.

Giga Bokeria

In 1996, together with Levan Ramishvili, Givi Targamadze and David Zurabishvili, Bokeria co-founded Liberty Institute, a Georgian non-profit, non-partisan, liberal public policy advocacy foundation, taking the job of coordinating human rights programs and later the position of senior legal advisor.

Gottscheerish

Most Gottscheerish speakers live in Moschnitze valley (Črmošnjiško-Poljanska dolina) between Kočevske Poljane and Črmošnjice, where some Gottscheer families collaborated with the partisan movement and therefore were allowed to stay.

International Press Institute

The award is co-sponsored by the US-based Freedom Forum, a non-partisan, international foundation dedicated to free press and free speech.

Iraqi Partisan movement, 1979–88

Headquarters of the partisan units were established in Kirkuk and as-Sulemaniyah, and bases were established in Irbil.

Jeta Amata

Jeta’s latest film, Black November was premiered at the United Nations during the General Assembly in 2012 and was also screened at the Kennedy Center as well as the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. The film inspired sponsoring of a bi-partisan resolution on the Niger Delta of Nigeria members of the 112th United States Congress, H.CON.RES.121.

John J. Sie

Sie is a member of the Committee of 100, a non-partisan organization composed of outstanding American citizens of Chinese descent.

Josiah Grout

After participating in 17 battles, he was wounded on April 1, 1863 at the Skirmish at Miskel Farm against the Confederate partisan John S. Mosby, near Broad Run, Virginia, and was discharged due to his wounds on October 1, 1863.

Leandro Mbomio Nsue

He is an African Partisan and has always been next to President Teodoro Obiang.

Ljubo Novaković

He was captured by Yugoslav Partisans in January 1942 and taken to the Partisan-liberated town of Foča.

Michael Worsnip

He is author of the book Priest and Partisan: A South African journey on anti-Apartheid activist and fellow Anglican priest, Father Michael Lapsley.

Mladen Stojanović

On 29 or 30 December 1941, Stojanović arrived in the area of Grmeč in western Bosanska Krajina, which was in the zone of responsibility of the 1st Krajina National Liberation Partisan Detachment.

No. 352 Squadron RAF

During the war, 27 pilots became casualties, of whom 10 were killed, including the Squadron Commander and both Flight Commanders, and Franjo Kluz, first partisan pilot and national hero of Yugoslavia.

Non-Partisan Association

There are, and have also been in the past, Non-Partisan Association political parties in the nearby municipalities of Burnaby, Richmond and Surrey.

The Non-Partisan Association (NPA) is a civic-level electoral organization in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

Nonpartisanism in the United States

In 2009, in the wake of a scandal that emerged following the release of several "hidden camera" videotapes, Republican politicians called for an IRS investigation of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, claiming the organization had engaged in improper partisan political activities as well as various forms of fraud.

Orji Uzor Kalu

The Njiko Igbo Movement is a non-partisan and apolitical initiative spearheaded by Dr. Kalu to help secure the presidential seat for a Nigerian citizen of Igbo extraction.

Partisan Ranger Act

Only two partisan rangers groups were exempt and allowed to continue to operate to the very end of the war: The Mosby's Raiders, and the McNeill's Rangers.

Pedro González de Mendoza

he was the partisan of the Princess Isabella, afterwards queen, while his eldest brother Diego Hurtado de Mendoza, 2nd marquis of Santillana, remained however faithful to king Henry IV of Castile, till his rather controverted death in December 1474.

Philippa of Lancaster

The medieval French poet Eustache Deschamps dedicated one of his ballads to "Phelippe en Lancastre," as a partisan of the Order of the Flower.

Proud Politics

ProudPolitics is a Canadian cross-partisan organization dedicated to increasing the number of openly LGBT public officials in Canadian politics.

Republic of Užice

The 1974 Yugoslav partisan feature film The Republic of Užice covers the events surrounding the existence of the Republic of Užice.

Rippon, West Virginia

On November 18, 1864, Union Captain Richard Blazer and his Independent Scouts were searching for Confederate Colonel John S. Mosby's Partisan Rangers.

Rodrigo Ávila

Ávila himself was not substantially involved in partisan politics until he was asked by the ARENA leadership to run as mayor of Santa Tecla, a small suburb of San Salvador.

Saburov

Alexander Nikolayevich Saburov (1908-1974), one of the leaders of Soviet partisan movement in Ukraine and western Russia during the German-Soviet War

Shmuel Dovid Ungar

They made their way to Bistritz, which was under partisan control, but when the Germans attacked that city the following month, they fled and spent the winter hiding in mountain caves and subsisting on starvation rations.

Soviet partisans in Latvia

In 1944 and 1945 in Courland they formed many small partisan units (2 to 12 men each) but very active.

Sveto Letica

Letica was born in 1926 in Podgora, where he was involved in creating a Partisan Navy in 1942.

United States Senate election in Tennessee, 2012

Mark E. Clayton, Vice President of Public Advocate of the United States (non-partisan/non-profit); ran for U.S. Senate in 2008 but lost in the Democratic primary


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