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Alexander Zhukov
Alexander Dmitriyevich Zhukov (russian: Александр Дмитриевич Жуков; born 1 June 1956) is a Russian economist and politician. Zhukov was a member of the State Duma from 1994 to 2004. He is the First Deputy Chairman of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly. Previously he was also the President of the Russian Olympic Committee. Early life Alexander Zhukov was born in 1956 in Moscow. His father was , Soviet writer and translator from English. He graduated from high school No. 444 in Moscow, then the Faculty of Economics of the Moscow State University (1978) with a degree in economics and mathematics. Then he studied at the Higher Economic Courses at the State Planning Committee of the USSR. Zhukov is an alumnus of Harvard Business School. Specialist in the field of currency, tax and customs legislation. Career Financist In 1980–91 Zhukov was an employee of the Monetary and Economic Department of the USSR Ministry of Finance: economist, senior expe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Deputy Chairmen Of The State Duma
Below is a list of office-holders: Russian Empire Russian Federation *The First Deputy Chairman is highlighted in bold. {, class="wikitable" ! Name ! Period ! Political party , - !colspan="3" align="center" , 1st State Duma of the Russian Federation, I Convocation (1994–1996) , - , Mikhail Mityukov , 17 January 1994–16 January 1996 , Democratic Choice of Russia, Democratic Choice , - , Alexander Vengerovsky , 17 January 1994–16 January 1996 , Liberal Democratic Party of Russia, Liberal Democratic Party , - , Valentin Kovalyov , 17 January 1994–18 January 1995 , Communist Party of the Russian Federation, Communist Party , - , Gennady Seleznyov , 25 January 1995–16 January 1996 , Communist Party of the Russian Federation, Communist Party , - , Alevtina Fedulova , 17 January 1994–16 January 1996 , Women of Russia , - , Artur Chilingarov , 10 June 1994–16 January 1996 , New Regional Policy , - !colspan="3" align="center" , 2nd State Duma of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
RIA Novosti
RIA Novosti (russian: РИА Новости), sometimes referred to as RIAN () or RIA (russian: РИА, label=none) is a Russian state-owned domestic news agency. On 9 December 2013 by a decree of Vladimir Putin it was liquidated and its assets and workforce were transferred to the newly created Rossiya Segodnya agency. On 8 April 2014 RIA Novosti was registered as part of the new agency. RIA Novosti is headquartered in Moscow. The chief editor is Anna Gavrilova. Content RIA Novosti was scheduled to be closed down in 2014; starting in March 2014, staff were informed that they had the option of transferring their contracts to Rossiya Segodnya or sign a redundancy contract. On 10 November 2014, Rossiya Segodnya launched the Sputnik multimedia platform as the international replacement of RIA Novosti and Voice of Russia. Within Russia itself, however, Rossiya Segodnya continues to operate its Russian language news service under the name RIA Novosti with its ria.ru website. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Democratic Choice Of Russia
The Democratic Choice of Russia (DVR; russian: Демократический выбор России; ДВР; ''Demokraticheskiy vybor Rossii'', ''DVR''), before 1994 Choice of Russia Bloc (VR; russian: Блок «Выбор России»; ВР; ''Blok «Vybor Rossii»'', ''VR'') was a Russian centre-right conservative-liberal political party. Later the party was self-disbanded and most members would merge into the Union of Right Forces. Background and establishment At the elections to the State Duma held on December 12, 1993, the Choice of Russia bloc (the predecessor to the Democratic Choice of Russia) received 15.51% of the vote, and consequently, 40 seats in the State Duma. On January 20, 1994, having lost influence over making economic decisions and opposed to the increase of budget expenditure, the leader of the Choice of Russia, Yegor Gaidar, resigned from the government headed by Viktor Chernomyrdin. At that point the Choice of Russia lost its status as a pro-governme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dignity And Charity
Dignity and Charity () was an electoral bloc in Russia. History Dignity and Charity was founded in October 1993 on the basis of the All-Russian Council of War and Labor Veterans, the All-Russian Society of the Disabled, and the Chernobyl Union of Russia. It was registered by the Central Election Commission on 10 November 1993. Vice-president of the Russian Academy of Sciences Konstantin Frolov was party leader. The party nominated 58 candidates on its federal list for the December 1993 parliamentary elections, including actor Nikolai Gubenko, president of the Russian Chernobyl Union Vyacheslav Grishin, actress Tatiana Doronina. The bloc supported separation of powers and proposed to increase spending on social welfare programs. In received 0.7% of the proportional representation vote, Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p1650 failing to cross the electoral threshold. However, it won three constituency seats in the State Duma; Kost ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1993 Russian Legislative Election
Parliamentary elections were held in Russia on 12 December 1993. Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p1642 They were the first parliamentary elections in post-Soviet Russia and the only time to the Federation Council,Nohlen & Stöver, p1656 with future members appointed by provincial legislatures and governors. Background The 1993 general election was taking place in the aftermath of the 1993 Russian constitutional crisis, a violent confrontation on the streets of Moscow which resulted in the dissolution of the previous Russian parliament by military force. Boris Yeltsin hoped to resolve the political turmoil by decreeing for the election to the new Russian parliament and the constitutional referendum to take place on 12 December 1993. Electoral system The new election law adopted for the 1993 Duma election stipulated half the 450 Duma members were elected by a party-list system of proportional representation, and half were elected as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russia
Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a List of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia, Northern Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, largest country in the world, with its internationally recognised territory covering , and encompassing one-eighth of Earth's inhabitable landmass. Russia extends across Time in Russia, eleven time zones and shares Borders of Russia, land boundaries with fourteen countries, more than List of countries and territories by land borders, any other country but China. It is the List of countries and dependencies by population, world's ninth-most populous country and List of European countries by population, Europe's most populous country, with a population of 146 million people. The country's capital and List of cities and towns in Russia by population, largest city is Moscow, the List of European cities by population within city limits, largest city entirely within E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deloitte & Touche
Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited (), commonly referred to as Deloitte, is an international professional services network headquartered in London, England. Deloitte is the largest professional services network by revenue and number of professionals in the world and is considered one of the Big Four accounting firms along with EY (Ernst & Young), KPMG and PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC). The firm was founded by William Welch Deloitte in London in 1845 and expanded into the United States in 1890. It merged with Haskins & Sells to form Deloitte Haskins & Sells in 1972 and with Touche Ross in the US to form Deloitte & Touche in 1989. In 1993, the international firm was renamed Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, later abbreviated to Deloitte. In 2002, Arthur Andersen's practice in the UK as well as several of that firm's practices in Europe and North and South America agreed to merge with Deloitte. Subsequent acquisitions have included Monitor Group, a large strategy consulting business, in Janu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boris Fyodorov
Boris Grigoryevich Fyodorov (russian: Борис Григорьевич Фёдоров) (13 February 1958 in Moscow – 20 November 2008 in London) was a Russian economist, politician, and reformer. Early life He was awarded a doctor of economics degree from the Moscow Finance Institute and authored over 200 publications. Career In 1988 working very closely with Fyodorov, Alexander Zhukov, and Kirill Ugolnikov (russian: Кирилл Угольников), Deloitte & Touche began providing services to the Soviet Union and continued with Russia.) was a General Director of Deloitte & Touche CIS and then became First Deputy Minister for Taxes and Levies of the Russian Federation. Later, he worked as the director of the tax department in the firm ''Vneshurkollegiya'' or ''Vneshyurkollegiya'' (russian: директор налогового департамента АО «Внешюрколлегия») The president of Vneshurkollegiya is Alexander Treshchev (russian: Алексан ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USSR Ministry Of Finance
The Ministry of Finance of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) (russian: Министерство финансов СССР), formed on 15 March 1946, was one of the most important government offices in the Soviet Union. Until 1946 it was known as the People's Commissariat for Finance (russian: Народный комиссариат финансов – ''Narodnyi komissariat finansov'', or "Narkomfin"). Narkomfin, at the all-Union level, was established on 6 July 1923 after the signing of the Treaty on the Creation of the USSR, and was based upon the People's Commissariat for Finance of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (RSFSR) formed in 1917. The Ministry was led by the Minister of Finance, prior to 1946 a Commissar, who was nominated by the Chairman of the Council of Ministers and then confirmed by the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet. The minister was a member of the Council of Ministers. During the Russian Civil War, and immediately afterwards, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harvard Business School
Harvard Business School (HBS) is the graduate business school of Harvard University, a private research university in Boston, Massachusetts. It is consistently ranked among the top business schools in the world and offers a large full-time MBA program, management-related doctoral programs, and many executive education programs. It owns Harvard Business Publishing, which publishes business books, leadership articles, case studies, and the monthly ''Harvard Business Review''. It is also home to the Baker Library/Bloomberg Center. History The school was established in 1908. Initially established by the humanities faculty, it received independent status in 1910, and became a separate administrative unit in 1913. The first dean was historian Edwin Francis Gay (1867–1946). Yogev (2001) explains the original concept: :This school of business and public administration was originally conceived as a school for diplomacy and government service on the model of the French '' Ecole des S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gosplan
The State Planning Committee, commonly known as Gosplan ( rus, Госплан, , ɡosˈpɫan), was the agency responsible for central economic planning in the Soviet Union. Established in 1921 and remaining in existence until the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, Gosplan had as its main task the creation and administration of a series of five-year plans governing the economy of the USSR. History Economic background The time of the October Revolution and the Russian Civil War which followed was a period of virtual economic collapse. Production and distribution of necessary commodities were severely tested as factories were shuttered and major cities such as Petrograd (now Saint Petersburg) were depopulated, with urban residents returning to the countryside to claim a place in land redistribution and in order to avoid the unemployment, lack of food, and lack of fuel which had become endemic. By 1919 hyperinflation had emerged, further pushing the struggling economic syst ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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