The Moscow rules are rules-of-thumb said to have been developed during the Cold War to be used by spies and others working in Moscow. The rules are associated...
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Moscow Rules is a 2008 spy novel by Daniel Silva. Featuring Gabriel Allon as a spy/assassin who works undercover as an art restorer, Moscow Rules explores...
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Gentleman in Moscow is a 2016 novel by Amor Towles. It is his second novel, published five years after Rules of Civility (2011). The protagonist is the fictional...
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Moscow is the capital and largest city of Russia. The city stands on the Moskva River in Central Russia, with a population estimated at over 13 million...
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Amor Towles (redirect from The Rules of Civility)
He is best known for his bestselling novels Rules of Civility (2011), A Gentleman in Moscow (2016), and The Lincoln Highway (2021). Towles began writing...
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stakeholders on the importance they place on the delivery of each requirement; it is also known as MoSCoW prioritization or MoSCoW analysis. The term MOSCOW itself...
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Moscow, third Rome (Russian: Москва — третий Рим; Moskva, tretiĭ Rim) is a theological and political concept asserting Moscow as the successor to ancient...
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Tony Mendez (category People of the Central Intelligence Agency)
Baglio, a more lengthy account of the Canadian Caper. The Moscow Rules: The Secret CIA Tactics That Helped America Win the Cold War (2019), with Jonna Mendez...
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The Moscow theater hostage crisis (also known as the 2002 Nord-Ost siege) was the seizure of the crowded Dubrovka Theater in Moscow by Chechen terrorists...
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The Moscow trials were a series of show trials held by the Soviet Union between 1936 and 1938 at the instigation of Joseph Stalin. They were nominally...
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C'mon You Know (redirect from Moscow Rules (song))
Know is the third solo studio album by English musician Liam Gallagher, released on 27 May 2022 through Warner Records. Andrew Wyatt served as the album's...
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Torpedo Moscow (Russian: ФК "Торпедо" Москва, FK Torpedo Moskva), known as Torpedo Moscow, is a Russian professional football club based in Moscow that competes...
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Jonna Mendez (category People of the Central Intelligence Agency)
Helped Win the Cold War New York: Atria Books, 2003. ISBN 9780743428538, OCLC 54680464 Co-author Antonio J Mendez; The Moscow Rules: the secret CIA tactics...
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Basil's Cathedral in Moscow. Unusually for the Allon series, this novel is a sequel to the previous one (Moscow Rules), with many of the same characters,...
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FC Spartak Moscow (Russian: Футбольный клуб «Спартак» Москва, romanized: Futbolʹnyy klub «Spartak» Moskva, pronounced [spɐrˈtak mɐˈskva]) is a Russian...
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1980 Summer Olympics (redirect from Moscow 1980)
represented at the Moscow Games, the smallest number since 1956. Led by the United States, 66 countries boycotted the games entirely, because of the Soviet–Afghan...
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Mission to Moscow (1994) - Financial Information". The Numbers. Eller, Claudia (1993-10-10). "Police Academy' Forced to Play by Moscow Rules". The Los Angeles...
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in a special forces unit.In Moscow Rules, Allon states under interrogation in Lubyanka by the FSB that he fought in the Yom Kippur War and 1982 Lebanon...
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The Principality of Moscow or Grand Duchy of Moscow (Russian: Великое княжество Московское, romanized: Velikoye knyazhestvo Moskovskoye), also known simply...
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The Moscow Armistice was signed between Finland on one side and the Soviet Union and United Kingdom on the other side on 19 September 1944, ending the...
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derived from the historical name 'Центральный спортивный клуб армии', English: Central Sports Club of the Army), commonly referred to as CSKA Moscow or CSKA...
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Objective Moscow, subtitled "The Death of Soviet Communism", is a board wargame published by Simulations Publications Inc. (SPI) in 1978 that simulates...
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"Locomotive"). During the Communist rule, Lokomotiv Moscow club was a part of the Lokomotiv Voluntary Sports Society and was owned by the Soviet Ministry of...
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The city of Moscow gradually grew around the Moscow Kremlin, beginning in the 14th century. It was the capital of the Grand Duchy of Moscow (or Muscovy)...
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Hewitt, Hugh (July 29, 2008). "Moscow Rules spy novelist Daniel Silva (interview transcript of Hugh Hewitt Show)". The Hugh Hewitt Show. Retrieved August...
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Kremlin (redirect from Moscow Kremlin State Historical and Cultural Museum-Reserve)
The Moscow Kremlin or simply the Kremlin is a fortified complex in Moscow, Russia. Located in the centre of the country's capital city, it is the best...
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Spies Passing in the Night - CIA". www.cia.gov. Retrieved 2024-05-02. "'Moscow Rules': How The CIA Operated Under The Watchful Eye Of The KGB". NPR.org....
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Ivanovich the Fair (Russian: Иван II Иванович Красный, romanized: Ivan II Ivanovich Krasnyy; 30 March 1326 – 13 November 1359) was Prince of Moscow and Grand...
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Russian Orthodox Church (redirect from Patriarchate of Moscow and all the Rus')
pravoslavnaya tserkov', abbreviated as РПЦ), alternatively legally known as the Moscow Patriarchate (Russian: Московский патриархат, romanized: Moskovskiy patriarkhat)...
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against the West". In Moscow Rules: What Drives Russia to Confront the West (2019), he argued that leaders of the Western world repeated the same mistakes...
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