(n.) The citadel of a town or city; especially, the citadel of Moscow, a large inclosure which contains imperial palaces, cathedrals, churches, an arsenal, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) The protesters were confronted by a much larger group of pro-Kremlin activists, which led to scuffles.
(2) In the UK, Litvinenko wrote a series of anti-Kremlin articles.
(3) The video is done in the style of a news report for Russia's Kremlin-controlled Channel One channel, which normally praises Putin in every broadcast.
(4) The Kremlin's initial reaction to stories dubbing Russia a corrupt "mafia state" and kleptocracy was, predictably, negative.
(5) The Kremlin has so far refrained from dealing with mounting anger against people from Russia's turbulent North Caucasus region, as well as migrant workers from central Asia, which has grown as the country's oil-fuelled economic boom has given way to the hardship of the global financial crisis.
(6) Believed to have served as a Soviet spy, Sechin previously worked as Putin's deputy chief of staff and deputy prime minister and is considered to be a leader of a conservative bloc within the Kremlin.
(7) Peering out from his Kremlin perch, Putin sees a European continent divided between wealthy and poor countries, between north and south, and senses an opportunity.
(8) Once a dream destination for children from across the Soviet Union, the huge Crimean children’s camp Artek is one of the Kremlin’s most prized projects in the region.
(9) The row blew up after Luzhkov criticised the Kremlin last week, questioning Medvedev's decision to suspend a Moscow-St Petersburg road-building project.
(10) The chances of retaliation against the eurozone by the Kremlin over the coming months are high.
(11) In the past few years the Kremlin has paid increasingly close attention to the internet, and may want control over a resource as influential as Vkontakte.
(12) According to Lukyanov, the Kremlin is “perplexed” by Trump because it’s not clear what his priorities are nor whether he can work with Congress to achieve them.
(13) Vladimir Zhirinovsky, leader of the nationalist Liberal Democrat party, which enjoys a cosy relationship with the Kremlin, said he suggested beginning a campaign designed to help Berezovsky return to Russia when the two men met "by chance" in January at a hotel near the Red Sea.
(14) The Canadian troops will join a total of 4,000 soldiers Nato is deploying to the Baltic states and Poland to help deter the Kremlin’s threat after its actions in Crimea and its stoking of military conflict in eastern Ukraine .
(15) They have already forced government exporters to sell their dollars, and same will happen for banks I guess, so in a sense, capital controls are already in place,” said Sergei Guriev, an exiled economist who fled Russia after criticising the Kremlin.
(16) The US and EU have both imposed sanctions in response to what they said was Russia's failure to force pro-Kremlin militia in eastern Ukraine to stand down.
(17) Navalny leads the field of challengers but remains far behind Kremlin-backed acting mayor, Sergei Sobyanin.
(18) It is also a significant morale boost for the embattled Syrian strongman as well as the Kremlin.
(19) Kremlin-backed TV channels were jammed into the airspace, Russian-language newspapers disseminated stories and content produced in Moscow, while NGOs, funded by Russian money, offered up talking heads on every issue under the sun.
(20) When asked, the Kremlin did not say whether it might offer Haftar any military support, describing the talks with him as business as usual.
Russia
Definition:
(n.) A country of Europe and Asia.
Example Sentences:
(1) "There is … a risk that the political, trade, and gas frictions with Russia could lead to strong deterioration in economic relations between the two countries, with a significant drop in Ukraine's exports to and imports from Russia.
(2) A shrinking populace is perhaps a greater challenge than any problems with Russia.
(3) He said Germany was Russia’s most important economic partner, and pointed out that 35% of German gas originated in Russia.
(4) Mindful of their own health ahead of their mission, astronauts at the Russia-leased launchpad in Kazakhstan remain in strict isolation in the days ahead of any launch to avoid exposure to infection.
(5) One is that the issue of whether the World Cup should go ahead in Russia and Qatar still firmly remains on the table.
(6) When asked why the streets of London were not heaving with demonstrators protesting against Russia turning Aleppo into the Guernica of our times, Stop the War replied that it had no wish to add to the “jingoism” politicians were whipping up against plucky little Russia .
(7) The governing body said then that Russia’s hosting of the 2018 tournament was not in jeopardy.
(8) When allegations of systemic doping and cover-ups first emerged in the runup to the 2013 Russian world athletics championships, an IOC spokesman insisted: “Anti-doping measures in Russia have improved significantly over the last five years with an effective, efficient and new laboratory and equipment in Moscow.” London Olympics were sabotaged by Russia’s doping, report says Read more We now know that the head of that lauded Moscow lab, Grigory Rodchenko, admitted to intentionally destroying 1,417 samples in December last year shortly before Wada officials visited.
(9) Others said it might appeal to Russia, Assad's chief ally, which backs talks between the regime and the opposition.
(10) It’s unclear too whether Google will continue to pay Mozilla to be the default browser in countries outside the US, Russia and China when the current deal ends in December.
(11) That would be the first step towards banning Russia’s track team from next year’s Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.
(12) Solzhenitsyn was exiled from the Soviet Union in 1974 and returned to Russia 20 years later.
(13) To be sure, when Russia withdrew Cuba's only deterrent against ongoing US attack with a severe threat to proceed to direct invasion and quietly departed from the scene, the Cubans would be infuriated – as they were, understandably.
(14) To a large extent, the failure has been a consequence of a cold war-style deadlock – Russia and Iran on one side, and the west and most of the Arab world on the other – over the fate of Bashar al-Assad , a negotiating gap kept open by force in the shape of massive Russian and Iranian military support to keep the Syrian regime in place.
(15) As the US and the European Union adopted tougher economic sanctions against Russia over the conflict in eastern Ukraine and downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 , Russian officials struck a defiant note, promising that Russia would localise production and emerge stronger than before.
(16) Russia Facebook Twitter Pinterest Russian dolls in the likeness of Russia’s President Vladimir Putin and the US president-elect, Donald Trump.
(17) Sechin warned the west earlier this week that expanding sanctions over Russia's annexation of Ukraine's Crimea region would only make the political situation deteriorate further, according to Reuters.
(18) We need to start hitting companies within Russia … [to] destabilise their economy.
(19) Russia has no national museum of Stalin's repression but Moscow has two Gulag museums.
(20) Russia's most widely watched television station, state-controlled Channel One, followed a bulletin about his death with a summary of the crimes he is accused of committing, including the siphoning of millions of dollars from national airline Aeroflot.