1) The anti-Yeltsin Duma approved a resolution in mid-March calling for restoration of the Soviet Union.

2) A second election was held and a new Duma convened in 1907, but it was even more polarized than its predecessor.

3) Despite this the Duma was reduced from a legislative to a consultative body and hedged by all manner of restrictions.

4) The Duma, packed by radicals, was dissolved by the Tsar in 1906.

5) The reductions in status of the Duma from a legislative to a consultative body illustrates this.

6) The hope is that a more reform-friendly Duma will emerge after the next election,[http:///Duma.html] due in three years' time.

7) But the road to Duma ratification is by no means clear.

8) The Russian Duma must also approve the treaty.

9) The statement passed by the State Duma appears aimed as a step toward Russia definitively breaking with its Soviet legacy.

10) The lower house of Russia's parliament, the Duma, passed legislation Friday limiting the ability of foreigners to invest in industrial sectors considered as strategic.

11) Russia's pro-Kremlin Duma or lower house of parliament rushed through the necessary legislation in less than a week.

12) Russian Orthodox Patriarchate Kirill said the Duma would not agree to remove "God" from the lyrics.

13) The Russian Duma began slowly passing reforms after the 1905 Revolution.

14) Communists and their allies control the largest bloc of seats in the 450-member Duma.

15) This parliament was also dissolved by decree, and a third Duma was elected and convened in the fall of 1907.

16) On Monday, after a summit noteworthy for the lack of warmth between the two men, Mr Clinton addressed the Duma.

17) Yet his proposals were denounced in the provinces, delayed in the Duma and rejected outright in the State Council.

18) And throughout they dominated the State Council, the upper house endowed with effective veto powers over Duma proposals.

19) Communists catapulted from 45 to 157 seats in the 450-seat Duma to dominate a fractious chamber divided by eight political parties.

20) Just six of those parties managed to cross the 5 percent threshold necessary for official status in the Duma.

21) Thereafter, the government's refusal to heed criticism in the press and in the Duma became increasingly intransigent.

22) Radical socialists urged that the Soviet was in a position to establish a revolutionary government in defiance of the Duma Committee.

23) MPs from the three nominal opposition parties in the Duma, the lower house of parliament, staged a walkout in protest.

24) Any future bilateral agreement, coming after the U.S. Senate and the Russian Duma ratify this one, will be harder to achieve.

25) It also barred Garry Kasparov, the former world chess champion, from running for the Duma.

26) The author has come to a different conclusion based on historic fact that it is a quasi legislative assembly body in Russia, which builds up the framework of legislative Duma afterwards.

27) This election season, the Kremlin went out of its way to prevent a true liberal, center-right party from running in the Duma elections.

28) Eventually in 1905, Nicholas II will be forced to grant a Duma, an assembly to Russia.

29) He also met with leaders of small parties unable to win representation in the Duma in recent elections, and pledged to ease Putin-era restrictions.

30) For the treaty to win final approval, a two-thirds majority of the Senate must vote for ratification, and the treaty must also win approval in the Russian Duma.

31) In 1999, the soft - spoken student of literature was elected to the State Duma Lower House.

32) The State Duma disproved information that kvass would be equated with alcohol and would be prohibited at the wheel.

33) The agreement still requires ratification from the full Senate and the Russian Duma.

34) Oleg Morozov is the first deputy speaker of the Russian Duma, the lower house of parliament.

35) Seleznev said an increasing number of State Duma members have visited China in recent years and they were all impressed by the rapid development of China.

36) The poll is likely to see the handful of opposition deputies in the current 35-seat United Russia-dominated Duma lose their seats.

37) Then he withdraws, eliminates basically all of its rights, and then the Duma will come back later on.

38) When a survey is finished, the instrument can duma the stored data into a portable persona computer by a build-in RS-232 standard interface.

39) Let the State Duma decide the destiny of the country.

40) Petrov says the law adopted by the Duma is one in a series of measures aimed at imposing more stringent conditions on foreign investment in industries the government wants to keep under control.

41) His anti-corruption package reached the Duma in severely truncated form, and his plan to publicize the incomes of top Russian officials was defeated.

42) This makes one think of the Duma during appearance symbolizes the collapse of the Czar tyranny.