Essays Tagged: "State Duma"

Russia.

ed by the three major universities in the country that have had great success, these are the Moscow State University, St. Petersburg University and Gorky State University. These three universities are ... .1The government is called the Federal Assembly which is composed of the Federation council and the State Duma. The Federal Council consists of 178 member upper house and the State Duma consists of 45 ...

(6 pages) 96 0 3.8 Oct/2003

Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays

Alexander Kerensky

cused of political offenses.Kerensky joined the Russian Labour Party and in 1912 was elected to the State Duma. As a socialist, Kerensky developed a strong following amongst industrial workers. He als ...

(3 pages) 24 0 4.0 Jul/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History

Russian federation country study

ssentially a myth. A Russian accurately characterized the relationships that existed between party, state and society as, ...The state absorbed the society, the Party absorbed the state, and the Party ... by cutting back on expenditures in real terms, almost 50 percent from 1993 to 1995.Like the United States, Russia has a three-tiered system of taxation. Federal taxes are enforced by Parliament, regi ...

(38 pages) 121 0 4.6 May/2005

Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays

Overview of the Russian Real Estate.

the subject of national political debate. Several proposed land codes worked their way through the State Duma, the lower house of Parliament, only to have the President reject them, largely because t ... erty rights. Finally, the Land Code of the Russian Federation (the "Land Code") was approved by the State Duma on September 20, 2001, by the Federation Council on October 10, 2001, and was signed by t ...

(15 pages) 38 0 3.0 Oct/2005

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Markets & Exchanges

Education in the pre-revolutionary Russia

ol formation in Russia gradually was developed because of the efforts from the side of power of the state and in connection with that the thrust to the education was becoming stronger in the people. C ... training committee.Most likely, by encouraging the pedagogical activity of priests in schools, the state was more worried about the moral training, than about the general formation of people.In concl ...

(2 pages) 1826 0 0.0 Oct/2008

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History

The Regression of Human Rights Under the Putin Administration Russia

reat deal of control over many aspects of society. Putin's Russia has evolved into an authoritarian state in which public debate on key political issues has disappeared and the once healthy multi part ... h the pro-presidential United Russia party, which controls more than two-thirds of all seats in the State Duma (Russia 2005). These changes have had not only a dramatic effect on the democratic integr ...

(7 pages) 27 0 5.0 Mar/2009

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Military & International Conflicts & Security

Russia's Economy

nt.Russia's current governmental organization, the Russian Federation, was formed as an independent state with the collapse of the communist USSR in 1991. The then President Boris Yeltsin adopted vari ... e, who is appointed by heads of regional executive and representative agencies. The lower house, or State Duma, is directly elected and has the power to approve the Prime Minister. Both their powers i ...

(12 pages) 30 0 0.0 May/2011

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Economics