Clinton also will stress that it is imperative for the international community to speak with one voice on the issue, but administration officials acknowledge there is still deep resistance to military strikes among the Russians, the French, the Chinese and other Security Council members.
The announcement led to a heated dispute with the authorities in Moscow and panic among the ethnic Russians in Turkmenistan.
Unlike many other peoples in history, the Hungarians have survived as a separate nation with an Asiatic language like no other in Europe, boxed in among the Germans, the Russians and the southern Slavs.
That reflects a fundamental lack of confidence among the people who know the country best the Russians themselves caused by endemic lawlessness.
Cubans, Italians and Russians were among the arrivals on Monday.
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NATO, after all, has been assuring everyone that it is now a defence-cum-peacekeeping outfit that threatens absolutely nobody, least of all its old adversaries the Russians (among whose fellow-Slavs are the Serbs).
Looking at the poll, there hardly seems to be an overwhelming desire among Russians for their country to distance itself from the current Syrian regime.
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Inflation is, by a very wide margin, the single most sensitive issue among Russians.
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In the ensuing disorder, the region gained a reputation among Russians as a haven for bandits and, in 1994, President Boris Yeltsin sent in his troops.
Many conservatives seem to think that the US will become more popular among Russians if it antagonizes, criticizes, confronts, disparages, and generally makes life difficult for their government.
In Russia, the State Duma (lower house of parliament) features a spoof draft law submitted by deputy Sergei Ivanov, in which he proposes banning the consumption of garlic - popular among Russians - in public places.
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Although dissatisfaction with the regime is most evident among the middle classes, older, poorer and less cosmopolitan Russians have been peeling away from Mr Putin too.
His views may not appeal to ordinary Russians, but they will to those among the elite who failed to play in the same sandpit as Mr Putin.
The Russians, Germans, Czechs, Turks, Lithuanians among others also have plenty of archives still to open up.
They say the country's business model of attracting foreign investors, among them many Russians, with low taxes and lax financial regulation has backfired and must be upended.
Far from promoting reconciliation, the event will leave most Russians yawning and expose, or even sharpen, differences among those who do care about history.
Toward that end, they have (among numerous other concessions) signaled a willingness to cashier the deployment in Eastern Europe of missile defenses that the Russians claim, preposterously, to find threatening.
Among smart Russians in their 20s, there was a mood of wild, intoxicating exhilaration as they revelled in the downfall of an oafish gerontocracy, made money and enjoyed spending it.
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