The Tallinn Process, as the negotiations have been dubbed, reflects growing fear among the non-Russian republics that Mr Boris Yeltsin's White House - the Russian parliament - is as great a threat to their sovereignty as the Kremlin.
White said the Russian and Iranian governments, longtime friends and allies to al-Assad, are constantly assessing the situation.
The White House approached Russian officials, who contacted Iranian officials, who passed a warning to Assad, and the regime restrained itself.
The bust, called Odore di Femmina - Russian White, contrasts its delicate representation of pretty blooms with their sharp ceramic edges, which, as the artist explains in the adjacent text panel, creates a floral version of the femme fatale.
After all, on 4 October 1994, within days of his storming of the Russian White House, Yeltsin issued a decree ordering the round-up and expulsion of "persons of Caucasian nationality" from Moscow, a diktat ominously reminiscent of Josef Stalin's anti-semitic actions at the time of the Doctors' Plot in 1952-53 when "persons of Jewish nationality" were incarcerated and, in many cases, eliminated.
" It reflects "growing fear among the non-Russian republics that Mr. Boris Yeltsin's White House -- the Russian parliament -- is as great a threat to their sovereignty as the Kremlin.
The church and its convent are firmly in white hands, although Russian pilgrims of all affiliations flock there to worship.
Instead of being ushered in to see the president through the front door of the White House, the Russian leader merely saw Mr Bush senior during a stop-by visit at the National Security Council.
There are exceptions, of course, and two of my favorites are both produced in New York: the Channing Daughters Tocai Friulano, a crisp dry white made from a Friulian grape, and a minerally white Rkatsiteli, a Russian grape grown by Dr. Konstantin Frank Vinifera Wine Cellars in the Finger Lakes district.
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Amateur video show by Russian television depicted a white streak of light like the cloud from a jetliner quickly expanding to a large white ball that eventually sent shock waves throughout the city of Chelyabinsk.
And Mr. Putin enraged the White House last year by banning the Russian operations of U.S. nongovernmental groups that promote political reform.
I'm not just talking about deflationary spirals, Russian implosion or the most corrupt White House since Warren G.
The five-year decline for white women rivals the catastrophic seven-year drop for Russian men in the years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, said Michael Marmot, director of the Institute of Health Equity in London.
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The White House has expressed deep concern over the conflict and said it rejected a Russian demand that Saakashvili step down.
Anyone in Russia or around the world who disagrees with the current Russian government and with the outcome of the elections, will tie a white ribbon on a bag, a coat, a car, or on a window of their apartment.
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White House National Security Council spokesman Ben Rhodes said Obama reiterated U.S. concerns that continued Russian arms sales to Syria "only perpetuate the conflict" during the meeting in Mexico.
Robertson inadvertently gave Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez exactly what he wanted - the specter of a US plot to assassinate him - as an excuse to ratchet up repression and arm his regime with Russian-built offensive weapons, he has forced the public, the media, and the White House to confront the problem while there is still time to act.
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One of the Russian locals rented out his services to us as a guide, offering a ride in his old white Zhiguli, right into the camps.
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