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Russia's economy and politics under President Vladimir Putin.

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...hat Is Man....7 4. Methodological Principles of Spiritual Self-Perfection....8 5. What Religious Associations Should Do....12 6. Conclusion....13 Russia Is Dying....14 President Putin — Is He Going to Save Russia?....15 Space, God, Man, Evolution....16 Hell, Paradise, the Holy Spirit, the Abode of the Creator — What to Choose and How to Attain?....18 God Can Be Co...

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...excursion to the Empress Catherine’s famous progress across the steppes of Russia; improvised settlements ap- peared at each turn of the road, village...

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... one-half; the Indus, less than one-third; the Euphrates, one-fifth; the Rhine, one-fifteenth. It exceeds in extent the whole of Europe, exclusive of Russia, Norway, and Sweden....

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...!” If a rag picker had offered to do a diplomatic service for the Emperor of Russia, the monarch could not have been more astounded than the mate was.... ...gentleman, and two well dressed, lady like young girls, together with sundry Russia leather bags. A strange place for such folk! No car riage was wai...

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... I have forgot- ten. Over all this hung the oppressive shadow of the great Russian empire—the shadow lowering with the darkness of a new-born national... ...e Man of St. Helena in view of his deplorable levity in the conduct of the Russian campaign. It was during the memorable retreat from Moscow that Mr. ... ...tuted Polish kingdom under the sceptre of Alexander I, Autocrat of all the Russias. This kingdom, created by the Vienna Congress as an ac- knowledgmen... ...- sian Empire against either Persia or Turkey. Its first campaign, against Russia itself, was to be its last. In 1831, on the out- break of the Revolu... ...arrest and hurried off in a body beyond the Dnieper to the nearest town in Russia proper. From there they were dispersed to the dis- tant parts of the... ...parts of the empire. On this occasion poor Mr. Nicholas B. penetrated into Russia much farther than he ever did in the times of Napoleonic invasion, i... ...Mr. Nicholas B. received these communications with outward phlegm, but the Russian showed a warm sympathy for his prisoner. “As a soldier my- self I u... ...tch” (my great-grandfather’s name was Stephen, and the commandant used the Russian form of polite address)—”tell me why is it that you Poles are alway... ...ys looking for trouble? What else could you expect from running up against Russia?” He was capable, too, of philosophical reflections. “Look at your N...

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...n. Over all this hung the oppressive shadow 31 Joseph Conrad of the great Russian Empire—the shadow lowering with the darkness of a new-born national... ...uted Polish kingdom under the sceptre of Alexander I., Autocrat of all the Russias. This kingdom, created by the Vienna Congress as an acknowledgment ... ...because, being a separate organisation, it took no part in the wars of the Russian Empire against Persia or Tur- key. Its first campaign, against Russ... ...arrest and hurried off in a body beyond the Dnieper to the nearest town in Russia proper. From there they were dispersed to the distant parts of the E... ...parts of the Empire. On this occasion poor Mr. Nicholas B. penetrated into Russia much farther than he ever did in the times of Napoleonic inva- 57 J... ...Mr. Nicholas B. received these communications with outward phlegm, but the Russian showed a warm sympathy for his prisoner. “As a soldier myself I und... ...h”—(my great- grandfather’s name was Stephen and the comman- dant used the Russian form of polite address)—”tell me why is it that you Poles are alway... ...ys looking for trouble? What else could you expect from running up against Russia?” He was capable, too, of philosophical reflections. “Look at your N... ...h those Germans and Austrians and all those nations. But no! He must go to Russia looking for trouble, and what’s the consequence? Such as you see me,...

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...Virgin Soil by Ivan S. T urgenev T ranslated from the Russian by R. S. T ownsend A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publicat... ...versity. 3 Turgenev Virgin Soil by Ivan S. T urgenev T ranslated from the Russian by R. S. Townsend INTRODUCTION T urgenev was the first writer who w... ...both Slavic and universal imagination enough for it, to interpret mod- ern Russia to the outer world, and Virgin Soil was the last word of his greater... ...v’s powerful and antipathetic fellow-novelist, Dostoievsky, and many other Russian writers: but as he was the greatest artist of them all, his individ... ...d badly, from the romantic malady of his century, and that other malady of Russia, both expressed in what M. Haumand terms his “Hamletisme.” But in Vi... ... portraits, 4 Virgin Soil wonderfully traced psychological studies of the Russian dreamers and incompatibles of last mid-century, of which the most m... ... cast in the woman’s figure of Mariana who broke the silence of “anonymous Russia.” Ivan T urgenev had the understanding that goes be- neath the old d... ...d in a fit of homesickness “Crow, crow, You are grizzled, I know, But from Russia you come; Ah me, there lies home!” called him back to his mother cou... ...ing is the list of T urgenev’s chief works: ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS OF WORKS: Russian Life in the interior: or, the Experiences of a Sportsman, from Fren...

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...y “aristocratic” he meant something very differ- ent from the quality of a Russian prince, let us say, or an English peer. He meant an intensity, a cl... ...imes in romantic flashes he was adored by German princesses or eloped with Russian grand-duchesses! But such fancies were hors d’oeuvre. The modern bi... ... You have pride. But we are both intellectuals. We both belong to what the Russians call the Intelligentsia. We have ideas, we have imagination, that ... ...the one by some miracle of en- noblement—and neglecting the Frenchman, the Russian, the German, the American, the Indian, the Chinaman, and, in- deed,... ...e bridges eastward beneath the grey-blue clouds towards Ger- many, towards Russia, and towards Asia, which still seemed in those days so largely the E... ... made a Free Trade speech at Croydon. The Japanese had torpe- doed another Russian ironclad and a British cruiser was ashore in the East Indies. A man... ...rned with Lionel, discoursing upon autocracy and assassination, Japan, the Russian destiny, and the government of Peter the Great. That excursion was ... ...e round world and feel the icebergs away there. Or did this wind come from Russia? He wasn’t quite clear just how he was oriented, he had turned about... ...red to him that something of their easy-going free- dom was to be found in Russian novels. A photographic en- largement of somebody with a vegetarian ...

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...moment of silence, ‘since then I have been in war in Germany, in Spain, in Russia, in France; I’ve certainly carried my carcase about a good deal, but...

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...nourable gathering of leading men, Englishman meeting German and Frenchman Russian, brothers in their offences and in their disaster, upon the hills o... ...ttle League of (Allied) Nations (excluding the 5 H G Wells United States, Russia, and most of the ‘subject peoples’ of the world), meeting obscurely ... ...erican model that was said, so far as it went, to be highly efficient, and Russia, secured by a stringent administration against internal criticism, h... ...est region of the eastern Ardennes. There was the report of an attack upon Russia by the Chinese and Japanese, and of some huge revolutionary outbreak... ... of panic, in order to use their bombs first. China and Japan had assailed Russia and destroyed Moscow, the United States had attacked Japan, India wa... ...ting millions of homeless people. In Canada, in South America, and Asiatic Russia there were vast accumulations of provision that was immovable only b... ...e. And prominent upon it, and indeed for a time quite dominating it, was a Russian named Karenin, who was singular in being a congenital cripple. His ... ...d to which my father went 160 The World Set Free after his expulsion from Russia…. That London of my memo- ries seems to me like a place in another w... ...nce? I should have been an embittered, spiteful, downtrodden member of the Russian Intelligenza, a conspirator, a prisoner, or an assassin. You, my de...

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... was increased by the inferiority of France at that time, as compared with Russia and En- gland. France a third-rate power! This cry came up again and...

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...promoted to the rank of vice-admiral. His voyages by land over Germany and Russia had been counted as naval campaigns. On seeing the portrait he cordi...

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... its principles everywhere. I presume that Judge Douglas could not go into Russia and announce the doctrine of our national Democracy; he could not de... ... could not denounce the doc- trine of kings and emperors and monarchies in Russia; and it may be true of this country that in some places we may not b...

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...erusalem on that day—to purchase eighteen shirts and lay in a sea stock of Russia ducks,—was the work of four-and-twenty hours; and on the 5 Thackera... ...ing up to the steamer’s side to convey us travellers to shore. There were Russian schooners and Greek brigs lying in this little bay; dumpy little wi... ...he deuce knows why, for what good can the En- glish, or the French, or the Russian party get out of such a bankrupt alliance as this?) perpetually pul... ...and smoked cool pipes on his house-top, as we looked over the hill and the Russian palace to the water, and the Seraglio gardens shining 58 Notes on ... ...o with the business, and drugs the Sultan’s cham- pagne for the benefit of Russia. As the Pontiff of Mussulmans passed into the mosques a shower of pe... ...e covered with Christian, Jew, and Heathen. In the cabin we were Poles and Russians, Frenchmen, Germans, Spaniards, and Greeks; on the deck were squat... ...arched court, and up a stone staircase, which turned out to be that of the Russian consul’s house. His people welcomed us most cordially to his abode,... ...fortable little room, under a dome of its own, where the representative of Russia sat. Women with brown faces and draggle-tailed coats and turbans, an... ...o Grand Cairo bacco, whereof the fragrant tubes were three yards long. The Russian amenities concluded, we left the ladies still un- der the comfortab...

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...n at Y edo. Satisfactory arrangements have been made with the Em- peror of Russia, which, it is believed, will result in effecting a continuous line o... ...aph between America and Eu- rope, by the way of Bering Straits and Asiatic Russia, which was sanctioned by Congress at the last session, has been un- ... ... and sup- port as well of this Government as of those of Great Britain and Russia. Assurances have been received from most of the South American Stat...

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... of honor; he also had the orders of the Golden Fleece, of Saint-Andrew of Russia, that of the Prussian Eagle, and nearly all the lesser Orders of the... ...ary to talk; Spaniards have no public 46 A Start in Life conveyances; and Russians no roads. There is no amusement except in the lumbering diligences... ...g, “I have the grand cross of the Legion of honor, that of Saint Andrew of Russia, that of the Prussian Eagle, that of the Annunciation of Sardinia, a...

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...ouched to France’s yoke, And Austria bent, and Prussia broke, And the firm Russian’s purpose brave Was bartered by a timorous slave, Even then dishono... ...valled light sublime - Though martial Austria, and though all The might of Russia, and the Gaul, Though banded Europe stood her foes - The star of Bra...

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... him the greatest sovereign on the face of the earth, beating the Emperor of Russia all to noth ing, and leaving the Great Mogul immeasurably behind. ...

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...oque controversy. The idea of a reunion of the two great state churches of Russia and En- gland had always attracted him. But hitherto it had been a t... ...lle, the naval disaster in the Dardanelles, the sinking of the Falaba, the Russian defeat in the Masurian Lakes, all deepened the bishop’s impression ... ... and throwing a spray and tracery of lantern spots upon the dark; here was Russia under the noontide, and so great a battle of artillery raging on the... ...ghtful battle, where the German phalanx of guns pounds its way through the Russian hosts. Here is a young German talking to two wounded Russian prison... ...the roadside. He is a German of East Prussia; he knows and thinks a little Russian. And they too are saying, all three of them, that the war is not Go... ...ench and Germans? Why someday shouldn’t French, German, Dutch and English, Russian and Pole, ride together under this new star of mankind, the Souther... ... passion of a mission. The English were indolent, the French decadent, the Russians barbaric, the Americans basely democratic; the rest of the world w... ...churches have been damned and lost. Kept churches. Lackey churches. Roman, Russian, Anglican; it matters not. My church indeed was twice sold, for it ...

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...ut these people go on. They go on as though nothing had changed…. Strikes, Russia, nothing will warn them. There are men on that Commission who would ... ...shillings a head a week. You could run over all Europe, barring Turkey and Russia, without even a passport. You could get to Italy in a day. Never wer...