Nikolai Patrushev

Nikolai Patrushev
Nikolai Platonovich Patrushev (Russian: Никола́й Плато́нович Па́трушев) (born 11 July 1951) is a Russian politician and security and intelligence officer
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Eastern Slavic Naming Customs
Eastern Slavic naming customs are the traditional ways of identifying a person by name in countries influenced by East Slavic languages (Russian, Ukrainian and Belorussian: in Russia, Belarus, Ukraine
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Russian Orthodox Church
Autocephaly recognized universally de facto, by some Autocephalous Churches de jure. Canonicity mostly recognized:

Partially recognized autocephaly by Constantinople and the Church of Greece
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Patronymic
A patronymic, or patronym, is a component of a personal name based on the given name of one's father, grandfather (i.e., an avonymic), or an even earlier male ancestor. A component of a name based on the name of one's mother or a female ancestor is a matronymic. Each is a means of conveying lineage. In such instances, a person is usually referred to by their given name, rather than their patronymic. Patronymics are still in use, including mandatory use, in many countries worldwide, although their use has largely been replaced by or transformed into Patronymic surname">patronymic surnames
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Annexation Of Crimea By The Russian Federation
Protesters

10,000 (Simferopol)

---> Volunteer units Russian military forces

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European Union
The European Union (EU) is a political and economic union of 28 member states that are located primarily in Europe. Its members have a combined area of 4,475,757 km2---> (1,728,099 sq mi) and an estimated total population of about 513 million. The EU has developed an internal single market through a standardised European Union law">system of laws that apply in all member states in those matters, and only those matters, where members have agreed to act as one
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Cheka
VCheka, commonly known as Cheka, (from the initialism ChK, Russian: Russian language text" xml:lang="ru">ЧК, IPA: [tɕɪˈka]) was the first of a succession of Soviet secret police organizations
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United States
Coordinates: 40°N 100°W / 40°N 100°W

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	Arthur Chilingarov Artur Nikolayevich Chilingarov (Russian: Артур Николаевич Чилингаров; born 25 September 1939) is an Armenian-Russian polar explorer. He is a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, he was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union in 1986 and the title of Hero of the Russian Federation in 2008. He is the president of State Polar Academy [...More...]
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