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I did not expect the call of a muezzin in Simferopol. Not that hearing the chosen being invited to their devotions troubles me. I appreciate this caut...
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The bureaucratese mumbo jumbo about "not meeting standards" simply doesn't stand up as others join in. Was it because of Russia's Goliathan response to Georgia's legitimate claims to protect its territory? Fear of military engagement should Russia pursue other illegal land grabs like Ukraine's Crimea? Threats of energy cut-offs to Europe?
Following Russia's over-the-top response in Georgia last summer, most members favoured Ukraine's admission. To counter, Russia revved up its aggression. It refused to withdraw from occupied territory, threatened Ukraine with nuclear attacks, and distributed newly issued Russian passports to Ukraine's citizens.
Returning to NATO's latest rejection, much of the blame also rests with President [Victor Yushchenko]. His pro-NATO rhetoric over his four-year ...
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...-partisan missions, as it later was in the Crimea, Belarus , Poland and Yugoslavia . He was moved la...
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The new version, unveiled Friday by Gov. Gen. Michaëlle Jean and Prime Minister Stephen Harper during a ceremony in Ottawa, is called simply the Canadian Victoria Cross and it will be nearly identical to its British cousin. The most significant change will see the words "For Valour" changed to the Latin "Pro Valore." It will also be crafted from an alloy of three metals, while the original medal was made from Russian cannons captured in Crimea. The Canadian VC will be created from a piece of the cannon metal used to make the British medals, naturally occurring metals from across Canada, and a bronze Confederation medallion that was commissioned in 1867.
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...(41) . During a 1985 summer vacation in Crimea, Trudeau was asked to advise Mikhail Gorbachev, a ...
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Others were the parent of the coming upper middle class that formed a new industrial and urban based aristocracy. Since the beginnings of the industrial revolution in the 1760s, the upper middle class, wealthy entrepreneurs and professionals, had rapidly outstripped the traditional aristocracy in both economic and political terms.
... At the conclusion of the Crimean War in 1855, the British public was not really con...
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... regional departments in the Republic of Crimea, oblasts, and cities of Kyiv and Sevastopol. [SPF]...
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... seminar at an annual library conference in Crimea, a major professional event in the CIS, and to org...
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... their bishops along the southern shores of Crimea. . But it is not until the eighth century that we ...
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... regularly with Ukrainian forces in Crimea and western Ukraine," all the while promising it w...