Article: RUSSIA: RUSSIANS STILL BEWILDERED BY INDEPENDENCE DAY.(Brief Article)

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Getty Images;  June 12, 2008 ;     242 words ... ... Images 06-12-2008 RUSSIA-HEAT-INDEPENDENCE-DAY Full Size JPG (2086 ... international competition to mark Russia Day national holiday ... Moscow on June 12, 2008. Russia’s Independence Day was declared a state ...

Article: Russia Marks Independence Day
AP Online;  June 13, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... Kremlin on Thursday to celebrate Russia's independence day, marking the rebirth of the ... we honor our motherland, our Russia. We honor the country of a thousand ... formally known as the Day of Russia, has been celebrated on June ...

Article: For Abkhazia, a 'Special' Independence Day; This ...
The Washington Post;  October 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... considered Sept. 30 their independence day. On Tuesday, for the first ... After war broke out between Russia and Georgia in August, Russia recognized the independence ... independence was recognized by Russia and Nicaragua. . . . We ...

Article: RUSSIA: PUTIN CELEBRATES RUSSIAN INDEPENDENCE ...
IPR Strategic Business Information Database;  June 15, 2003 ;     560 words ... ... President Vladimir Putin started a new Independence Day tradition on 12 June by receiving representatives ... Addressing the audience, Putin said that Russia greets this year's holiday as "a unified ... forces," RTR reported. "A country like Russia can be only a strong country," he said ...

Article: Russia's President congratulates Kyrgyzstan on ...
Times of Central Asia;  September 2, 2008 ;     358 words ... ... congratulated his Kyrgyz counterpart Kurmanbek Bakiev on Independence Day, press service of the Kyrgyz president reported."Kyrgyz ... multidirectional strategic partnership between Kyrgyzstan and Russia," the message read.Besides Medvedev Kyrgyzstan's president ...

Article: Russia's President Sends Message on Independence ...
Xinhua News Agency;  October 29, 2001 ;     321 words ... ... Sihanouk to congratulate the Cambodia's National Day -- Independence Day -- which falls on November 9 and his birthday, a press ... occasion of the birthday of the king, and Cambodia's Independence day "I sincerely wish yougood health and longevity as well ...

Article: RUSSIA: INDEPENDENCE DAY DEBUT OF PUTIN ...
IPR Strategic Business Information Database;  June 19, 2001 ;     603 words ...At 1700 local time on Russian Independence Day on 12 June, RTR television broadcast a new documentary, "Putin: Leap Year," on the Russian president's daily life, reported ...