Word: russia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...past few months Lenin has ceased to be of any political consequence. Kaminev, weak and moderate, has been installed in the shoes of the great one; but these shoes are so big and strong that Kaminev has to go where they take him. The men who are really ruling Russia (Rykov, Zinovien, Stalin and their friends), ceased some time ago to fear Lenin and have directed their policies through such figureheads as Kaminev, Tchitcherin and Kalinin...
...trial of Archbishop Tikon, former Patriarch of the Greek Orthodox Church in Russia, was definitely fixed for April...
...Department of State has canceled the authorization for a visa for Mme. Kalinin, wife of the President of the so-called Soviet Republic of Russia. The presence of Mme. Kalinin in this country is rendered wholly undesirable by the deep feeling which has been aroused by the execution of Vicar General Butchkavitch. The action of the department is taken especially in protest against this execution...
Failure. Bishops Nuelsen, Bast, and Blake of the Methodist Episcopal Church will not journey to Russia as planned. The All Russian Church Congress has been abandoned. It was to have met in Moscow this week...
Though Austria has been invited to the 1924 Olympic Games, the International Committee resolved to bar Germany. It was pointed out that the spectacle of German athletes in the Grand Parade of the Nations might stir more than the memories of those present in the Paris Stadium. Russia, too, was barred. By invitation of President Masaryk of the CzechoSlovak Republic, the Olympic Congress of 1925 will be held in Prague. Pope Pius granted an audience to the International Olympic Committee and praised their efforts for clean, moral sport...