#state duma

[ohsoromanov]

The day of the opening of the first State Duma on 27 April 1906. 

РУССКИЕ ВЕДОМОСТИ 28 апреля 1906 года        С утра 27 апреля Петербург очень мало напоминал столицу, радостно приветствующую открытие Государственной Думы. Скорее он напоминал город, готовящийся к встрече с неприятелем. Всюду на всех улицах парадировали войска всех родов оружия и полиция, кон��ая и пешая, вооруженная винтовками. Еще накануне вечером как солдатам, так и городовым было роздано по 180 боевых патронов каждому. По всем главным улицам и во многих дворах также были расположены войска. Возле фабрик и заводов — усиленные патрули и наряды городовых с винтовками. В университетском дворе и во дворе Академии наук были спрятаны казаки. В здании Кадетского корпуса на Васильевском острове расположен биваком полк солдат. В больницах с утра шли спешные приготовления на случай несчастий на улицах. У Таврического дворца и по дороге к нему — конные и пешие воинские части. В самом здании дворца расположены были целый сводный полк из гвардейских частей и сотня вооруженных винтовками городовых. В довершение картины вся Дворцовая площадь занята была войсками, и военным же кольцом были оцеплены все местности, прилегающие ко дворцу. Дома и улицы хотя и украсились с утра флагами, но все выглядело бедно. Ни торжественных арок, ни щитов с приветственными надписями.         Во многих частях города магазины, закрывшиеся с утра, вскоре начали торговать. Хозяева хотели праздновать, но рабочие накануне заявили, что праздновать не намерены и встанут на работы. В обычный час утром гудков не было, но рабочие явились на работы и пожелали работать. Администрациям заводов пришлось уступить, и все обошлось без инцидентов. Кучки народа, кое-где сходившиеся, немедленно разгонялись полицией. Общее настроение было удрученным. Там и сям слышалось: "Разгонят! Непременно разгонят! Вишь, сколько войска нагнали!" На возражение, что стрелять не станут, можно было слышать ответ: "Как не станут? Ведь 9 января стреляли в иконы, а это не то что народные представители!" 

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🤬 The State Duma Committee on Information Policy has recommended for adoption in the first reading a bill banning the propaganda of ‘Childfree ideology’. This is another violation of freedom of speech.

The State Duma Committee on Information Policy recommended to adopt the document in the first reading. This is reported by RIA.

The bill suggests a ban on ‘propaganda of refusal to give birth to children’ in the Internet, media, films and advertising. Its authors are the speaker of the State Duma Vyacheslav Volodin, the speaker of the Council of Federation Valentina Matvienko, as well as a group of deputies and senators.

The bill was introduced in the State Duma on 25 September, with 169 deputies voting in favour. Fines for ‘public propaganda of Childfree’ will be from 50 to 400 thousand rubles for individuals and up to 5 million rubles for legal entities.

The authorities continue to fight the non-existent ‘childfree movement’ because of the record birth rate decline in Russia. However, this fight will not help to increase the birth rate.

To increase the birth rate in Russia, it is necessary to immediately stop the criminal war in Ukraine, because it is precisely because of it that prices have risen several times and hundreds of thousands of Russians have died. People do not want to give birth in conditions of war, they have no confidence in the future.

[theancientwise]

Il modo in cui la guarda...

L'interesse con cui la ascolta raccontargli il suo passato...

Il suo timido abbassare lo sguardo e il suo sorriso...

Lo stupore e l'esitazione di lui quando lei vorrebbe andare via...

La sua paura che la sua presenza le dia fastidio...

Il suo desiderio di meritare la fiducia di lei e il voler stare con lei, anche solo per un'ora...

La gioia e il sollievo di lui quando lei accetta il suo invito...

è palese, signori: tancredi, anche se non lo ammetterebbe mai, è profondamente innamorato di rosa. Io mi rifiuto di credere che stiano creando una storyline così bella e dolce tra loro due solo per farla mettere insieme a marcello alla fine. MI RIFIUTO CATEGORICAMENTE.

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Ioanna Avraam and Masayu Kimoto

Ioanna Avraam as “Prudence Duvernoy” and Masayu Kimoto 木本正裕 as “Gaston Rieux”, “Lady of the Camellias Die Kameliendame”, choreo, staging and light by John Neumeier, music by Frédéric Chopin, set and costume by Jürgen Rose, based on the novel of the same name by Alexandre Dumas fils, Wiener Staatsballett Vienna State Ballet, Wiener Staatsoper, Vienna, Austria.

Note: Original quality of photographs might be affected by compression algorithm of the website where they are hosted.

Source and more info at: Photographer Ashley Taylor Website Photographer Ashley Taylor on Instagram

via: Ioanna Avraam on Instagram Summer with the Avraams on Instagram

[projectcatzo]

The reason there's no dancer in Gaiden/Echoes is because the Valentia church implemented its own Footloose ordinance

[enyementv]

The Chairman of the Leadership Council meets with the Chairman of the Russian State Duma.

President Rashad Alimi Meets with Russian Duma Chairman in Moscow Strengthening Bilateral Relations On Wednesday, President Dr. Rashad Muhammad Alimi, head of the Presidential Leadership Council, met with Vyacheslav Volodin, Chairman of the Russian State Duma, in Moscow. The meeting focused on enhancing the strong bilateral relations between Yemen and Russia, as well as discussing the latest…

[shenefelts]

The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas With The NS Seal Of Approval; You’re Welcome (Fake Real) Page Preview

Everybody thinks they have one another beaten, embarrassing really.

Even the janitor thinks that if Operation Don’t Mop As Hard On Thursday goes through and somebody falls that he won’t be fired but promoted, what a guy.

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[duncangabi]

MILKING THE COW WITHOUT FEEDING IT - THE CASE OF THE SOEs IN PAPUA NEW GUINEA

By Dr Joseph Ketan PNG POLITICIANS have been milking the proverbial cash cow without feeding it. The cow will inevitably die of starvation. The cash cows are the SOEs – state owned enterprises – notably Kumul Consolidated Holdings Limited (KCHL), Kumul Mineral Holdings Limited (KMHL), and Kumul Petroleum Holdings Limited (KPHL). These three holding companies manage all SOEs in the…

[ohsoromanov]

The opening of the first State Duma on April 27th, 1906 [part 1]

His Imperial Majesty Emperor Nicholas II at the opening of the assembly of the State Council and the State Duma in the Winter Palace, St. Petersburg, May 10 (April 27, old style), 1906.

The footage shows the entrance of Tsar Emperor Nicholas II, his mother Empress Maria Feodorovna and his wife Empress Alexandra Feodorovna into St. George's Throne Room at the Winter Palace.

The solemn service was performed by His Eminence Metropolitan Anthony in cooperation with the Metropolitans of Moscow - Vladimir (Epiphany), Kiev - Flavian (Gorodetsky), bishops and court clergy.

At the end of the video, Tsar Nicholas II sits on the throne.

Cameraman: Alexander Karlovich Yagelsky, 1906. Restored by Nikolay Mayorov, From the collection of the Russian state archive of film and photo documents. {x}

Nicholas wrote in his diary about the event:

A significant day of reception at the State Council and the State Duma, and the beginning of the official existence of the latter. Mom arrived at 8 o'clock from Gatchina and went with us by sea to St. Petersburg. The weather was summery and windless. On the “Peterhof" we went to the fortress, and from there along it to the Winter [Palace]. We had breakfast at 11 1/2. At one o'clock in the afternoon and 3/4 at night, the exit to St. George's Hall began. After the prayer service, I (said) read the welcoming speech. The Council stood to the right, and the Duma to the left of the throne. They returned in the same order to the Malachite [room]. At 3 o'clock we boarded the steamer and, having transferred to the Alexandria, set off back. We arrived home at 4 1/2. I studied for a long time, but with relief in my heart, after the successful completion of the previous celebration. In the evening we went riding. Знаменательный день приема Госуд. Совета и Госуд. Думы и начала официального существования последней. Мама приехала в 8 час. из Гатчины и отправилась с нами морем в Петербург. Погода была летняя и штиль. На “Петергофе” пошли к крепости и оттуда на нем же к Зимнему. Завтракали в 11 1/2. В час и 3/4 начался выход в Георгиевскую залу. После молебна я (сказал) прочел приветственное слово. Госуд. Совет стоял справа, а Дума слева от престола. Вернулись тем же порядком в Малахитовую. В 3 часа сели на паровой катер и, перейдя на “Александрию”, пошли обратно. Приехали домой в 4 1/2. Занимался долго, но с облегченным сердцем, после благополучного окончания бывшего торжества. Вечером покатались.

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Russian version

Государь Николай II на открытіе I-ой Государственной Думы. Часть I.

Его Императорско�� Величество Государь Императоръ Николай II Александровичъ на открытіе Перваго созыва Государственнаго Совѣта и Государственной Думы въ Зимнемъ Дворцѣ, г. Санктъ-Петербургъ, 10 мая (27 апрѣля по старому стилю) 1906 года. Тронная комната - часть I.

Входъ Его Императорское Величества Государя Императора Николая II Александровича съ Государынями Императрицами Маріей Ѳеодоровной и Александрой Ѳеодоровной въ Георгіевскій тронный залъ Зимняго дворца.

Торжественное богослуженіе осуществляетъ Высокопреосвященнѣйшій Митрополитъ Антоній въ сотрудничествѣ съ митрополитами, московскимъ - Владиміромъ (Богоявленскимъ), кіевскимъ- ​Флавіаномъ​ (​Городецкимъ​), архіепископами, епископами и придворнымъ духовенствомъ.

Въ концѣ Его Императорское Величество Государь Императоръ Николай II Александровичъ возсѣдаетъ на престолѣ.

Операторъ: Александръ Карловичъ ​Ягельскій​, 1906 годъ. Изъ собранія Россійскаго государственнаго архива кинофотодокументовъ. {x}

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It Takes a Village

A portrait of the ideal Russian family, per Global Orthodox State Duma drafting law that would prohibit the promotion of childlessness The State Duma is drafting a law that would prohibit the “promotion of childlessness,” according to an RIA Novosti interview with Irina Filatova, a member of the Duma’s cross-party working group on the defense of traditional values. The MP emphasized that the…

[starlightervarda]

I can't sleep so Star Trek TOS/SNW dashboard simulator

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to this day I can't understand why they're called the Three Musketeers if there's FOUR of them? Did Dumas just forget his own main character???

🪴 plantdad Follow

You've got to be kidding me

🪆 chekovsgunman Follow

I know right? A mistake like this would never happen in Russian literature!

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🩺 therealmccoy Follow

After months of taking care of everyone else on this giant tin can I really earned this shore leave. Now I get to drink, relax, flirt with some lovely ladies and sleep until noon 😎 Just what the the doctor ordered!

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Update: A fucking purple tree ate five crewmen. Again.

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Despite being among humans for close to a decade, I still find their tendency to overcomplicate and avoid aspects of social situations to be confusing at best and infuriating at worst. So much time is wasted on tedious matters such as who gets to 'make the first move' or 'not come off too strong'.

For example, everyone aboard my vessel is keenly aware of Lt. Uhura and Engineer Scott's 'budding romance'. But their need to extend their oddly avoidant courtship ritual, rather than outright state their interest in one another, is pointless, as well as frustrating to witness.

Why do they do this? Why not 'get it over with', as they say?

I encourage answers from all cultures, human or otherwise.

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I'm sorry Scotty and Nyota are WHAT

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DELETE THIS

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SPOCK NOOO HE DOESN'T THINK OF ME LIKE THAT 😭

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But I do! I thought you knew and were just being nice about it!

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DMing you rn 😳

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You're welcome.

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PSA: If you visit Antares VII, stay clear of any yellow plants, their pollen can have some...inconvenient effects on the biology of humanoid peoples.

My XO and I suffered through troubling symptoms until it was almost too late. Thankfully, we figured out a cure in time.

🪴 plantdad Follow

I can only find info on the symptoms. What was the cure? 👀

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Do I really have to say it?

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The galaxy if Klingons didn't exist

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Wow. Humans are openly advocating for our disappearance yet Klingons are the bad guys? I thought your federation stood for peace.

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Cry harder you genocidal wrinkly-faced bitch I hope your planet gets sucked into a black hole

#If you think a joke is on par with what they do then book an MRI because you might have brain damage #fuck Klingons and anyone that sympathizes with them

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So I can either skim through this asteroid belt on Warp 2 for 3 hrs or on Warp 5 for 15 mins

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Erica no! That's not how navigation works!

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FLOOR IT???

🚀 mitchiemitch Follow

ERICA NO

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HOW ABOUT WARP 7 FOR 15 SECONDS?

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ERICA YOU'RE GOING TO CRASH THE SHIP

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I AM GOING TO HARNESS LIGHT-SPEED TO ZIGZAG THROUGH THE VOID

🚀 mitchiemitch

ERICA P L E A S E

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🐴 sirsilverfox Follow

I know some species are very private, but you'd think they'd share the important stuff, esp when we should trust each other by now.

How are we supposed to enjoy my weekly dinners if you all don't tell me what to watch out for :/ This is the third time this happens to the same person and I had to get the answer why from our CMO

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Wait what did I miss while I was gone

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Spock got wasted on my chocolate fudge cake and hit his head on the counter ://///

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[napoleonic-sexyman-tournament]

(limited to Europe because there are limited slots per poll)

*The Long 19th century is the period between the French Revolution and the The First World War.

The French Revolution: The original, the classic. It's got Robespierre and Marat and a Guillotine.

The Serbian Revolution: Resisting Ottoman Rule? Forming a new state? Creating a Constitution? Serbia kicked it off in the Balkans nevermind that it took three tries and three decades.

The Greek Revolution: Have you become hopelessly invested in the idea of Greece as the cradle of civilization? Do you want to die fighting for it in a way that is tragic and romantic? Then you might be Lord Byron.

The Carbonari Uprisings: Secret societies are more your speed? Here is one in Italy doing their best to try to make liberal reform happen.

The Decembrist Revolt: So, a bunch of officers came back from Napoleonic Europe wanting to see constitutional change and possibly the abolition of serfdom. Sounds reasonable, right? Right??

The July Revolution: Can you hear the people sing? You know the one, barricades and the most iconic painting in French history. Louis Philippe ends up on the throne and he is....sexy to someone.

The November Uprising: Congress Poland decides that they are sick of the tsar. Poland undertakes a tragically doomed struggle against Russia.

The Belgian Revolution: The Belgians decide to file for divorce from The United Netherlands. Leopold of Saxe-Coburg ends up on the throne and he's sexy.

The 1848 Revolutions: The Springtime of the People! Revolutions everywhere: France, Hungary, Poland, Austria, The Italian and German States.

The January Uprising: The third time is the charm on kicking out the tsar and making a Polish state, right?

The Paris Commune: Napoleon III abdicates and leaves after being thumped by the Prussians. For two months, a communist people's regime rules Paris.

The Russian Revolution of 1905: This is not the one with Lenin yet! This is the one that forces Nicky to create a Duma. Some consider it the dress rehearsal for what would come next.

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Aleksandra Liashenko Олександра Ляшенко

Aleksandra Liashenko Олександра Ляшенко as “Prudence Duvernoy”, “The Lady of the Camellias Die Kameliendame”, choreo, staging and light by John Neumeier, music by Frédéric Chopin, set and costume by Jürgen Rose, based on the novel of the same name by Alexandre Dumas fils, Wiener Staatsballett Vienna State Ballet, Wiener Staatsoper, Vienna, Austria

Note: Original quality of photographs might be affected by compression algorithm of the website where they are hosted.

Source and more info at: Photographer Marian Furnica Website Photographer Marian Furnica on Instagram (Personal) Photographer Marian Furnica on Instagram (Photography) Photographer Marian Furnica on Instagram (Ballet Photography)

via Aleksandra Liashenko on Instagram

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Word List: The Count of Monte Cristo

A List of Beautiful Words used by Alexandre Dumas in "The Count of Monte Cristo"

Abbé - a member of the French secular clergy in major or minor orders—used as a title

Adroit - having or showing skill, cleverness, or resourcefulness in handling situations

Ascendancy - governing or controlling influence; domination

Beneficent - performing acts of kindness and charity

Benignant - serenely mild and kindly

Clematis - any of a genus (Clematis) of vines or herbs of the buttercup family often having three leaflets on each leaf and usually white, red, pink, or purple flowers

Complacency - self-satisfaction especially when accompanied by unawareness of actual dangers or deficiencies

Denunciation - a public condemnation

Encumbrance - something that encumbers; impediment, burden

Eulogistic - pertaining to a commendatory oration or writing especially in honor of one deceased

Fraught - full of or accompanied by something specified—used with "with"

Furrows - deep wrinkles

Inconstancy - the quality or state of being inconstant (i.e., likely to change frequently without apparent or cogent reason)

Inscrutable - not readily investigated, interpreted, or understood; mysterious

Munificence - the quality or action of great liberality or generosity

Nasturtiums - any of a genus (Tropaeolum) of herbs of Central and South America with showy spurred flowers and pungent edible seeds and leaves

Nothingness - the quality or state of being nothing: such as nonexistence, utter insignificance, or death

Poetical - poetic; being beyond or above the truth of history or nature; idealized

Recompense - to give something to by way of compensation

Repose - a state of resting after exertion or strain; heavenly rest

Speculators - someone who speculates (i.e., to review something idly or casually and often inconclusively)

Surmount - to prevail over; overcome

Tidings - a piece of news

Unpromising - appearing unlikely to prove worthwhile or result favorably

Vellum - a fine-grained unsplit lambskin, kidskin, or calfskin prepared especially for writing on or for binding books; a strong cream-colored paper

More: Word Lists ⚜ Writing Resources PDFs

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Bloody Sunday in 1905: The Massacre at the Tsar's Winter Palace

Bloody Sunday on 22 January 1905 was the massacre of peaceful and unarmed protestors by soldiers outside the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg, Russia. The crowd of workers and their families were led by Father Georgy Gapon (1870-1906), who had wanted to present Tsar Nicholas II (reign 1894-1917) with a petition for reforms. Over 1,000 people were killed, and many more were wounded in the incident.

Part of the Russian Revolution of 1905, Bloody Sunday led directly to a general strike and other forms of protest against the Tsarist regime. The protests involved peasants, industrial workers, the urban middle class, and elements of the military. Ultimately, there was no regime change, and the tsar held on to power by promising reforms and a new representative parliament, the Duma. The reforms proved to be disappointing in reality, and, following Russia's disastrous performance in the First World War (1914-18), two further revolutions in 1917 finally toppled the tsar and established a Communist government.

Background: An Unpopular Tsar

Tsar Nicholas II had reigned over the Russian Empire since 1894, but his absolute rule faced a major challenge with the January revolution of 1905, when workers, peasants, and elements of the military all called for political, social, and economic changes and a more representative system of government. A working class of factory workers had sprung up since industrialisation, while many peasants had gained the right to work their own land. The student class had also grown significantly. None of these groups was directly represented in Russia's legal classification of society into four tiers: the nobility, gentry, townsmen, and peasantry. Trouble against the tsar's authoritarian rule had been simmering away for quite some time, with various public disturbances breaking out against state authority. As the historian C. Read notes, "the army dealt with 19 disturbances in 1893; 33 in 1900; 271 in 1901 and 522 in 1902" (74). Politically-motivated assassinations were not uncommon and claimed victims in the police force, local government, and at ministerial level.

The simmering discontent was raised to boiling point by several new factors from 1901 onwards. The formation of worker unions led by police officials – an idea of police socialism, which came from Sergei Zubatov, the Moscow police administrator – backfired as these associations hid radicals in plain sight. The global economic slump of 1901 to 1905, which greatly increased unemployment, and Russia's losses in the Russo-Japanese War (1904-5) further dented the tsar's prestige and added to the woes of those who called for political and economic change. Actions of protest became increasingly violent. Vyacheslav Plehve, the conservative minister of the interior, was assassinated by a member of the Union of Social Revolutionaries in July 1904. Just as demonstrators planned to march on the Winter Palace, the tsar's official residence in St. Petersburg, news came of the fall of Port Arthur (in Manchuria) to the Japanese, one of Russia's key fortresses and a major naval base. The tsar was shown to be not only incompetent at running the economy but also at conducting wars.

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Russian State Duma has passed a law, in both its second and final third readings, prohibiting the adoption of Russian children by citizens of countries where "gender transition" is permitted. The State Duma deputies have also unanimously passed a bill to ban the “promotion of refusal to have children.”

This was reported by Meduza and Media Zone respectively, citing the website of the lower house of parliament.

The bill on prohibiting adoption introduces amendments to the Family Code, aimed at "eliminating any possibility of Russian children being adopted by representatives of the LGBTQ+ community," according to its explanatory note. 

Deputies noted that this effectively imposes a ban on adoption by citizens of NATO countries, as the majority of these nations legally permit gender transition.

The amendments also modify the article on “promoting non-traditional sexual relationships and gender transition” (6.21 of the Code of Administrative Offenses), with fines reaching up to 5 million rubles for legal entities. 

The concept of “LGBT propaganda” will now include the “promotion of a child-free lifestyle” if it involves “spreading information and/or engaging in public actions aimed at making the choice not to have children appear attractive, […] equating the social value of having children with not having them,” or “imposing the idea of rejecting parenthood.”

State Duma Chairman Vyacheslav Volodin stated that this law’s critics exist only “abroad,” claiming they “want to do everything to see our country disappear.”

Russia’s parliament started working on the legislation to ban the promotion of a “child-free” lifestyle in September, as the country faces its lowest birth rate in 25 years.