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After the Russian Federation has conquered the Crimea, the country's government provides on the peninsula worldwide best travel conditions for self-torturers and masochists.
The Federation Bosnia-Herzegovina consists of ten cantons.
Ladies and gentlemen, please stand for the national anthem of the Russian Federation performed by the Sretensky Monastery Choir.
On New Year's Eve, Putin thanked the citizens of the Russian Federation for their willingness to stand for the country's interests.
By the way, Tom is still wondering why the celebration of the Constitution Day of Russian Federation was canceled a few years ago.
Movie subtitles
How much better it would've been if we'd joined up with the Workman's Federation. and served our class.
On behalf of the Federation.
How did Her Highness react to the idea of a European Federation?
Does Your Highness believe that federation could be a solution to Europe's economic problems?
Victor, the Medical Federation meets next month in Berne.
We should wait and present our findings at the Federation.
Roy, here's that Women's Federation story.
Eh, boy. Do you want to work in Palermo as the Federation's secretary?
This is Balok, commander of the flagship Fesarius of the First Federation.
It has been decided that I will conduct you to a planet of the First Federation, which is capable of sustaining your life-form.
First Federation vessel is in distress.
Captain, in the past 20 years thousands of lives have been lost on this quadrant, lives that could have been saved if the Federation had a treaty port here.
I'm Captain James T. Kirk of the starship Enterprise, representing the United Federation of Planets.
The Federation prisoners have attacked their guard and escaped.
That's unimportant, it came from the Federation.
My typist needed the Communist Federation letterhead so one day when he turned his back, just as a joke.
How did Her Highness react to the idea of a European federation?
Does Your Highness believe that federation. would be a possible solution to Europe's economic problems?
She's the comrade sent along by the Federation yesterday.
We have the honor of having with us a comrade from the Federation who has to report on the activities, of comrades in the provinces.
Our government will offer it to the lnternational Space Research Federation. It will fly to Venus.
It has been decided that I will conduct you to a planet of the First Federation which is capable of sustaining your life form.
The First Federation vessel is in distress.
You see, my husband and I are on an animal-purchasing expedition for the Mid-Continent Wildlife Federation.
Do you want to work in Palermo as the Federation's secretary?
What good will a European federation contribute to our economy?
Moreover, whatever the opposition that I shall be forced to express about the federation proposal, and especially about the customs union. I shall never call in question the lofty sentiments enthusiastically expressed by the prime minister.
Why don't you suggest it to the Federation?
All security personnel, Federation prisoners have escaped.
Special ambassador for the United Federation of Planets.
But now, for some reason, you have attacked us, and apparently, you're holding several special representatives of our Federation.
I'm sure that, from this day forward, your planet and our Federation will attain the deepest friendship.
News and current affairs
Montenegro, Serbia's junior partner in the Yugoslav federation, mostly boycotted the election while Albanians in Kosovo ignored them.
A new Partnership and Cooperation Agreement (PCA) between the EU and the Russian Federation must be negotiated.
It could only be a European matter, if the EU were a real federation.
Europe would need to have political institutions more typical of a federation than of a confederation of states.
Yes, Blatter has finally resigned, but only after he and dozens of Federation members once again showed their scorn for honesty and the law.
Chechnya should remain part of the Russian Federation.
But the last few years have made clear the absence of majority support for a European federation by the states that make up Europe, a point underscored by the debate surrounding the failed Constitutional Treaty.
The federation has become a distant prospect, but still receives homage in politicians' speeches, as if a different end result was inconceivable.
Yugoslavia's federation failed because, in uniting so many differences, it could be held together only by undemocratic, even authoritarian, means.
This will be considered tragic only for those who see a stable European federation as Europe's manifest destiny.
Europe's leaders cannot decide if the eurozone is a federation akin to the United States or a group of independent states.
In this sense, as the historian Harold James has noted, mutualization turned out to be dynamite, not cement, for the new US federation.
Only after the Civil War did the US decide to operate the federation according to the liability model - an approach that has underpinned stability and limited individual states' debt levels ever since.
But federation has been made less, not more, likely by a crisis that tragically set one proud nation against another.
Hamilton argued - against James Madison and Thomas Jefferson - that the debts accumulated by the states during the War of Independence should be assumed by the federation.
True, America's original thirteen colonies were a loose federation, and many Americans considered themselves citizens of their state first and of the US second as late as a century after the Revolution.
But the balcony of the Students' Federation of Universidad de Chile no longer exists, having been replaced by the tall buildings and modern subway stations that have marked the intervening years of Chile's history.
Some counsel retreating to the original six countries as an inner core that creates a federation within the larger union.
Unless political power in Europe is Europeanized, with the current confederation evolving into a federation, the eurozone - and the EU as a whole - will disintegrate.
By contrast, if the currency union's political deficit is addressed now, first by establishing a fiscal union (a common budget and common liabilities), a real political federation will be possible.
In the years since the collapse of the Soviet Union, neither EU nor European national policymakers have devised a coherent strategy setting out the relationship that Europe wants with the Russian Federation.
But that arrangement failed financially and economically, and the US soon moved towards a full federation.