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Legislative elections were held in the Russian Empire from 26 March to 20 April 1906. At stake were the 497 seats in the State Duma of the Russian Empire , the legislative assembly . Election for the First State Duma , which only ran from 27 April to 8 July (O.S.) 1906, returned a significant bloc of moderate socialists and two liberal parties ...
Sergei Witte. Coming under pressure from the Russian Revolution of 1905, on August 6, 1905 (O.S.), Sergei Witte (appointed by Nicholas II to manage peace negotiations with Japan after the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–1905) issued a manifesto about the convocation of the Duma, initially thought to be a purely advisory body, the so-called Bulygin-Duma.
1 April - Alexander Yakovlev, Russian engineer and airplane designer (d. 1989). 4 June - Ivan Knunyants, Soviet chemist (d. 1990). 5 August - Wassily Leontief, Russian economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1999). 8 September - Andrei Kirilenko, Soviet politician (d. 1990) 25 September - Dmitri Shostakovich, Russian composer and pianist (d. 1975).
Nicholas II's opening speech before the First Duma and State Council (1906). The Coup of June 1907, sometimes known as Stolypin's Coup (Russian: Третьеиюньский переворот, romanized: Tretyeiyunskiy perevorot "Coup of June 3rd"), is the name commonly given to the dissolution of the Second State Duma of the Russian Empire, the arrest of some its members and a fundamental ...
The Russian Revolution of 1905, [a] also known as the First Russian Revolution, [b] was a revolution in the Russian Empire which began on 22 January 1905 and led to the establishment of a constitutional monarchy under the Russian Constitution of 1906, the country's first.
Russian President Vladimir Putin basked in a victory early Monday that was never in doubt, as partial election results showed him easily securing a fifth term after facing only token challengers ...
Elections to the Second Duma were held according to the same rules as in the First Duma (multi-stage elections for curia). At the same time, the election campaign itself took place against the background of a fading but continuing revolution: "agrarian soil riots" in July 1906 covered 32 provinces of Russia, and in August 1906 50% of counties ...
On the campaign trail, Trump noted fears of a 'rigged' election. Since his victory, the president-elect has dropped all mentions of poll tampering.