After the 2014 revolution, Russia refused to recognize the new interim government, calling the revolution a "coup d'état" and were accused of launching a covert invasion of the Crimean Peninsula in Ukraine. ... The revolution was followed by protests in some south-eastern regions, a standoff with Russia regarding the annexation of Crimea and Sevastopol, and eventual Russian invasion of Eastern Ukraine (denied by Russia). ... Masked green troops without insignia, identified as the Russian military by multiple worldwide sources, took over the Supreme Council of Crimea, which...

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Starting in 1998, the Russian Federation Government has been implementing an annual program that provides guaranteed free medical care to Russian citizens, funded by the state budget. ... Regional state guarantee programs were implemented in 60 federal regions of the Russian Federation in 2007, with a deficit of 65.4 billion rubles). ... Russia's medical care system comprises both self-sufficient and poorly integrated outpatient/polyclinic, emergency, and inpatient services. ... The number of hospital beds in Russia is sufficient to meet the country's needs for inpatient care. ... Ru...

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Bolshevik ideology primarily began to subside from its Marxist roots during the October revolution in 1917 in Petrograd, when the party first seized power from Kerensky's Provisional Government. ... However, Lenin's April thesis presents Marxist ideology, as he strongly emphasizes Russia's readiness for revolution as a result of WWI. ... The government continued with demolishing the old machinery of coercion, the legal system, the police, conscription, bureaucracy, and discipline in the Red Army. ... Lenin realized that Russia was too fragile to face war with Germany and w...

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Under the Chinese Communist Party, independent labour unions are banned, and the government's official All-China Federation of trade Unions is the only legal representative of workers. ... However, this regime change prompted backlash, with states including Russia and China accusing the UN of intervening with the intention of forcing regime change. ... Where states and governments fail to protect the rights of their citizens, the Responsibility to Protect defends these rights above the right of states to maintain sovereignty. ... Russia and China have opposed efforts in the Security Coun...

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This trend is also followed in countries such as Holland, Poland, Italy and Germany with these countries gaining more centralized power, allowing for more stable governments. ... For the Russian Campaign in 1812, Napoleon took 14,000 troops from the Kingdom of Holland, which ended in disaster, with only a small number of the initial troops from Holland returning. ... This then led to the Dutch welcoming the methods of the Prussians and Russians, rather than following French rule. By doing this, Napoleon would fail as being seen as a liberator following the arrival of Prussian and Russian rule ...

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Indeed, the previous decade had seen the nation's masses call for a 'constitutional government' and, by the beginning of the 1920's, elected politicians had come in from the peripheries to wield considerable, actual power. ... The Bolshevik revolution in Russia in 1917 and the Rice Riots of 1918 energized radical thought, and there were movements calling for universal male suffrage1, the social, economic and political liberation of women, and the end of the existing social order entirely. ... Party politics had, after a two-decade struggle, finally become a weight in g...

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As such this essay will discuss different subsets of legitimacy judging whether they are mutually exclusive or complementary whilst avoiding the conflation of 'more legitimacy' with 'better government'. ... Whichever way the situation is examined, it is always examined through the prism of a mind which has grown up and been socialised into thinking that their system of government is the best. ... Following on from the previous acknowledgement that those in our society have been socialised into considering democracy the best form of government for our society, we can state...

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