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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The Russian Orthodox Church
Orthodox Church (ROC; Russian: Ру́сская правосла́вная це́рковь, tr. Rússkaya pravoslávnaya tsérkov), alternatively legally known as the Moscow Patriarchate
Patriarchate (Russian: Моско́вский патриарха́т, tr. Moskóvskiy patriarkhát),[5] is one of the autocephalous Eastern Orthodox Christian churches. The Primate of the ROC is the Patriarch of Moscow
Moscow and all Rus'
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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),[1][2] 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 Patronymics are still in use, including mandatory use, in many countries worldwide, although their use has largely been replaced by or transformed into patronymic surnames
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Protesters20,000 (Sevastopol)[18][19] 10,000 (Simferopol)[20] Volunteer units[19][21]5,000 (Sevastopol) 1,700 (Simferopol) Russian military forces20,000–30,000 troops[22] Ukrainian Armed Forces
Ukrainian Armed Forces defectors15,000[23] Protesters4,000–10,000 (Simferopol)[24][25] Ukrainian military forces5,000–22,000 troops[26][27] 40,000 reservists, partly mobilised (outside Crimea)[28]Casualties and losse
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The European Union
European Union (EU) is a political and economic union of 28 member states that are located primarily in Europe.[12] It has an area of 4,475,757 km2 (1,728,099 sq mi) and an estimated population of about 513 million. The EU has developed an internal single market through a standardised 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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VCheka, commonly known as Cheka, (from the initialism ChK, Russian: ЧК, IPA: [tɕɪˈka]) was the first of a succession of Soviet secret police organizations
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Coordinates: 40°N 100°W / 40°N 100°W / 40; -100 United States
United States of America Flag Coat of arms Motto: "In God
God We Trust"[1][a] .mw-parser-outpu
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Madeleine Jana Korbel Albright[1] (born May 15, 1937)[2][3] is an American politician and diplomat. She is the first woman to have become the United States Secretary of State. She served from 1997 to 2001 under President Bill Clinton. Born Marie Jana Korbelová, her family emigrated to the United States in 1948 from Czechoslovakia. Her diplomat father, Josef Korbel, settled their family in Denver, and she became a U.S
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The New York Times
The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as the NYT and NYTimes) is an American newspaper based in New York City
New York City with worldwide influence and readership.[6][7][8] Founded in 1851, the paper has won 127 Pulitzer Prizes, more than any other newspaper.[9][10] The Times
The Times is ranked 17th in the world by circulation and 2nd in the U.S. The paper is owned by The New York Times
The New York Times Company, which is publicly traded and is controlled by the Sulzberger family through a dual-class share structure.[11] It has been owned by the family since 1896; A.G
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Law enforcement in Kiev:4,000 Berkut 1,000 Internal Troops 3,000–4,000 titushky[20]Pro-government/anti-EU demonstrations: 20,000–60,000 (Kiev) 40,000 (Kharkiv)[21] 15,000 (Donetsk)[22] 10,000 (Simferopol)[23] 2,500 pro-Russia (Sevastopol)[24]CasualtiesDeaths: 100[25] Missing: 166[26] Injured: 1,100+[27][28] Arrested: 77[29]Deaths: 13[30] Injured: 272[28] Captured: 67[31]Deaths: 113 Injuries: 1,811Ministry of Healthcare totals (16 April 2014 @6:00 LST)[32] Dead and missing during entire conflict: 780Medical volunteer estimates[33]vte Ukrainian crisis
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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
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Soviet Union in 1986 and the title of Hero of the Russian Federation in 2008. He is the president of State Polar Academy. Chilingarov is a member of the United Russia
Russia party; he was a member of the State Duma
State Duma from 1993 to 2011[1] and is the current representative of Tula Oblast
Tula Oblast in the Federation Council.Contents1 Biography 2 Awards 3 References 4 External linksBiography[edit] He was born in Leningrad
Leningrad to Russian mother and Armenian father
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The FSK (Federalnaya Sluzhba Kontrrazvedki (Федера́льная Слу́жба Контрразве́дки), Federal Counterintelligence Service) was a state security organization, initially of the USSR, and, after its dissolution, of the Russian Federation. The FSK was the successor organization to the KGB. It existed from 1991 to 1995, when it was reorganized into the FSB.Contents1 Origin 2 Directors of the FSK 3 Restructuring into FSB 4 References 5 External linksOrigin[edit] The KGB
KGB was dissolved when its chief, Colonel-General
Colonel-General Vladimir Kryuchkov, used the KGB's resources in aid of the attempted coup of 1991 to overthrow Mikhail Gorbachev
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Antarctica
Antarctica (UK English /ænˈtɑːktɪkə/ or /ænˈtɑːtɪkə/, US English /æntˈɑːrktɪkə/ ( listen))[note 1] is Earth's southernmost continent. It contains the geographic South Pole
South Pole and is situated in the Antarctic
Antarctic region of the Southern Hemisphere, almost entirely south of the Antarctic
Antarctic Circle, and is surrounded by the Southern Ocean. At 14,000,000 square kilometres (5,400,000 square miles), it is the fifth-largest continent. For comparison, Antarctica is nearly twice the size of Australia
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Coordinates: 90°S 180°E / 90°S 180°E / -90; 180The Geographic South Pole. (The flag used on the flagpole is interchangeable.)Image taken by NASA
NASA showing Antarctica
Antarctica and the South Pole
South Pole in 2005.South Geographic Pole South Magnetic Pole
South Magnetic Pole (2007) South Geomagnetic Pole
South Geomagnetic Pole (2005) South Pole
South Pole of InaccessibilityThe South Pole, also known as the Geographic South Pole
South Pole or Terrestrial South Pole, is one of the two points where the Earth's axis of rotation intersects its surface
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The Wayback Machine
Wayback Machine is a digital archive of the World Wide Web
World Wide Web and other information on the Internet. It was launched in 2001 by the Internet
Internet Archive, a nonprofit organization based in San Francisco, California, United States. .mw-parser-output .toclimit-2 .toclevel-1 ul,.mw-parser-output .toclimit-3 .toclevel-2 ul,.mw-parser-output .toclimit-4 .toclevel-3 ul,.mw-parser-output .toclimit-5 .toclevel-4 ul,.mw-parser-output .toclimit-6 .toclevel-5 ul,.mw-parser-output .toclimit-7 .toclevel-6 ul display:none Contents1 History 2 Technical details2.1 Storage capacity and growth 2.2 Growth 2.3 Website exclusion policy2.3.1 Oakland Archive
Archive Policy3 Uses3.1 Limitations 3.2 In legal evidence3.2.1 Civil litigation3.2.1.1 Netbula LLC v
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