Russia s Pipeline to Empire

Russia s Illiberal Liberal Empire

God bless the Russian delegation.

Or to make you a grand duchess of the Holy Russian Empire?

Permanent Representative of the Republic of Belarus to the United Nations

Yes, Russia is emerging from its humiliation following the collapse of the Soviet Union. Heir to an imperial tradition that has shaped its national identity, Russia is resuming in the Middle East a role and status more in tune with the one it had from the Czarist era to Soviet times.

Belarus, China and Russian Federation draft resolution

(Signed) B. Yeltsin President of the Russian Federation

Let Russia Be Russia

For the Republic of Belarus

The Presidents of the Russian Federation and Belarus believe that the Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus will enter the twenty first century in a new capacity as the Union State.

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The Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus, hereinafter referred to as the Contracting Parties ,

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Belarus and the Russian Federation joined in sponsoring the draft resolution.

In fulfilment of the aims and tasks entrusted to the Union of Belarus and the Russian Federation by the Charter of the Union of Belarus and the Russian Federation,

Belarus, India, Russian Federation.

Russian Federation, USA

Substantive session of 1997

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Abstaining Belarus, Central African Republic, Côte d apos Ivoire, Romania, Russian Federation.

Besides, excluding Ukraine from eventual EU membership will encourage Russia's imperial ambitions. This will diminish Russia's chances of ever becoming a full democracy, for it can rule an empire only as a militarized state.

The dream of empire is, indeed, the gulag that imprisons the Russian mind. Most Russians do not regard Europe s approach to their country s borders as a sign that they have, at long last, fully united with the civilization of which they are a part, but as a source of insecurity.

Joint Declaration by President of the Republic of Belarus A. G. Lukashenko and President of the Russian Federation B. N. Yeltsin

Russia and China The Movie

Germany, Europe, and Russia

Russia and America at the Oscars

Belarus (2006), Romania (2006), Russian Federation (2008), Slovakia (2008)

The Russian Federation and Belarus have completed the path from the Association to the Union of the two States.

Treaty between the Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus on the Equal Rights of Citizens

A revived Russian empire, whether it is constructed by force or through economic coercion, is not in anyone s interests. Reigning in Russia s illiberal liberal empire is the central question of European security today.

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Joint Kazakh Russian communiqué on the State visit of the President of the Russian Federation to Kazakhstan

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The Government of the Republic of Belarus

Permanent Representative of Kazakhstan to the United Nations

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The Russian Federation and the Republic of Kazakhstan shall create joint educational establishments (a Russian Kazakh university and a Kazakh Russian university, as well as preparatory schools).

When the deputy head of the presidential administration, Vyacheslav Volodin, said during a recent Valdai Discussion Club meeting in Sochi that Putin is Russia and Russia is Putin, he was expressing a profound Russian reality. In no other country has the ruler s persona from Catherine the Great and Ivan the Terrible to Lenin and Stalin made such a deep mark on national history.

The Russian Federation and Belarus started coordinated operational efforts to counter cross border crime.

54. Mr. SYARGEEU (Belarus) said that his country firmly supported the establishment of an international criminal court.

The seventeenth century united this spiritual mission with imperial expansion, which eventually encompassed a landmass spanning 11 times zones. In the early twentieth century, the imperial and spiritual mission became one, as Russia became the bastion of world communism.

Also at the same meeting, the representative of the Russian Federation introduced draft resolution E CN.4 2005 L.43, sponsored by Belarus and the Russian Federation.