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President Bush denied funding to the UNFPA. Over the course of the Bush Administration, a total of $244 million in Congressionally approved funding was blocked by the Executive Branch.

Question: Which government official blocked funding to the UNFPA? Question: What was the name of the official who blocked UNFPA funding? Question: How much funding was blocked? Question: How had the UNFPA funding been initially approved? Question: Which branch of government denied the UNFPA funding?
In response, the EU decided to fill the gap left behind by the US under the Sandbaek report. According to its Annual Report for 2008, the UNFPA received its funding mainly from European Governments: Of the total income of M845.3 M, $118 was donated by the Netherlands, $67 M by Sweden, $62 M by Norway, $54 M by Denmark, $53 M by the UK, $52 M by Spain, $19 M by Luxembourg. The European Commission donated further $36 M. The most important non-European donor State was Japan ($36 M). The number of donors exceeded 180 in one year.

Question: Which European government contributed the most to the UNFPA in 2008? Question: Which European government contributed the least to the UNFPA in 2008? Question: Which non-European donor was most important to the UNFPA in 2008? Question: In 2008, over how many countries contributed to the UNFPA?
In America, nonprofit organizations like Friends of UNFPA (formerly Americans for UNFPA) worked to compensate for the loss of United States federal funding by raising private donations.

Question: What is one country in which nonprofit organizations try to make up for the loss of United States funding for the UNFPA? Question: What kind of organization is Friends of UNFPA? Question: What was Friends of UNFPA's previous name? Question: What type of United States funding does Friends of UNFPA try to replace? Question: Through what sort of donations does Friends of UNFPA raise money?
In January 2009 President Barack Obama restored US funding to UNFPA, saying in a public statement that he would "look forward to working with Congress to restore US financial support for the UN Population Fund. By resuming funding to UNFPA, the US will be joining 180 other donor nations working collaboratively to reduce poverty, improve the health of women and children, prevent HIV/AIDS and provide family planning assistance to women in 154 countries."

Question: In what month did U.S. funding of UNFPA resume? Question: In what year did U.S. funding of UNFPA resume? Question: Which president began funding UNFPA again? Question: The president said the U.S. would be joining how many donor nations? Question: The president said funding the U.N. Population Fund would help in how many countries?
The Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (Russian SFSR or RSFSR; Russian: Российская Советская Федеративная Социалистическая Республика, tr. Rossiyskaya Sovetskaya Federativnaya Sotsialisticheskaya Respublika  listen (help·info)) commonly referred to as Soviet Russia or simply as Russia, was a sovereign state in 1917–22, the largest, most populous, and most economically developed republic of the Soviet Union in 1922–91 and a sovereign part of the Soviet Union with its own legislation in 1990–91. The Republic comprised sixteen autonomous republics, five autonomous oblasts, ten autonomous okrugs, six krais, and forty oblasts. Russians formed the largest ethnic group. To the west it bordered Finland, Norway and Poland; and to the south, China, Mongolia and North Korea whilst bordering the Arctic Ocean to the north, the Pacific Ocean to the east and the Black sea and Caspian Sea to the south. Within the USSR, it bordered the Baltic republics (Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia), the Byelorussian SSR and the Ukrainian SSR to the west. To the south it bordered the Georgian, Azerbaijan and Kazakh SSRs.

Question: When did the RSFSR cease to be a part of the Soviet Union? Question: Which union did Russia belong to after 1922? Question: How many autonomous republics make up the RSFSR? Question: How many autonomous oblasts were part of the RSFSR? Question: How many krais were present in the RSFSR? Question: The RSFSR contains how many oblasts? Question: Which ocean is along eastern Russia?
Under the leadership of Vladimir Lenin, the Bolsheviks established the Soviet state on 7 November [O.S. 25 October] 1917, immediately after the Russian Provisional Government, which governed the Russian Republic, was overthrown during the October Revolution. Initially, the state did not have an official name and wasn't recognized by neighboring countries for five months. Meanwhile, anti-Bolsheviks coined the mocking label "Sovdepia" for the nascent state of the "Soviets of Workers' and Peasants' Deputies".

Question: Who led the group which created the Soviet state? Question: Who was the leader of the Bolsheviks in 1917? Question: Which group originally created the Soviet state? Question: Which government was overthrown during the October Revolution? Question: What body was overthrown by the October Revolution? Question: How long did the new Russian Soviet state go unrecognized by other countries? Question: For how long did the Soviet Union go unrecognized? Question: What name did people opposed to the Bolsheviks use for the Soviet state? Question: What derisive label was given to the USSR by the enemies of the Bolsheviks?
On December 30, 1922, with the creation of the Soviet Union, Russia became one of six republics within the federation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. The final Soviet name for the republic, the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, was adopted in the Soviet Constitution of 1936. By that time, Soviet Russia had gained roughly the same borders of the old Tsardom of Russia before the Great Northern War of 1700.

Question: When was the Soviet Union created? Question: On what date was the Soviet Union created? Question: How many republics were in the USSR? Question: How many republics made up the USSR by the end of 1922? Question: What name for Russia was listed in the Soviet Constitution? Question: What document renamed the country the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic? Question: When did the Soviet Union include the final Russian name for its republic in the Constitution? Question: In what year was the name Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic adopted? Question: In which war was Russia involved in 1700? Question: In what year was the Great Northern War fought?
On December 25, 1991, following the collapse of the Soviet Union, the republic was renamed the Russian Federation, which it remains to this day. This name and "Russia" were specified as the official state names in the April 21, 1992 amendment to the existing constitution and were retained as such in the 1993 Constitution of Russia.

Question: When did the Soviet Union break up? Question: When was Russia renamed the Russian Federation? Question: What event led to Russia being renamed the Russian Federation? Question: Which name did Russia take after the fall of the Soviet Union? Question: What is the current official name of Russia? Question: When was the current name for Russia added to the Russian constitution? Question: When was Russia made an official state name of the Russian Federation? Question: What 1993 document confirmed Russia as an official state name of the Russian Federation?
The international borders of the RSFSR touched Poland on the west; Norway and Finland on the northwest; and to its southeast were the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Mongolian People's Republic, and the People's Republic of China. Within the Soviet Union, the RSFSR bordered the Ukrainian, Belarusian, Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian SSRs to its west and Azerbaijan, Georgian and Kazakh SSRs to the south.

Question: Which country did the RSFSR border on the west? Question: What country borders Russia on the west? Question: Which countries did the RSFSR border on the northwest? Question: Along with Norway, what country borders the RSFSR on the northwest? Question: Which countries did the RSFSR border on the southeast? Question: Along with the Mongolian People's Republic and the People's Republic of China, what country did the RSFSR border to its southeast? Question: Which Soviet countries did the RSFSR border on the west? Question: Which Soviet countries did the RSFSR border on the south? Question: In the USSR, what SSR did the RSFSR border along with the Kazakh SSR?
The Soviet regime first came to power on November 7, 1917, immediately after the Russian Provisional Government, which governed the Russian Republic, was overthrown in the October Revolution. The state it governed, which did not have an official name, would be unrecognized by neighboring countries for another five months.

Question: When did the Soviet regime first become powerful? Question: When did the Soviet government assume power? Question: Which government was in power before the Soviet regime? Question: What body governed Russia prior to the Soviet government? Question: What was the name of the republic the Russian Provisional Goverment ruled? Question: Which revolution led to the Soviet regime's rise to power? Question: What event led to the assumption of power by the Soviet government? Question: How long was the state of the Soviet regime unrecognized by other countries? Question: In months, for how long was the new Soviet state unrecognized?
On January 25, 1918, at the third meeting of the All-Russian Congress of Soviets, the unrecognized state was renamed the Soviet Russian Republic. On March 3, 1918, the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk was signed, giving away much of the land of the former Russian Empire to Germany, in exchange for peace in World War I. On July 10, 1918, the Russian Constitution of 1918 renamed the country the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic. By 1918, during the Russian Civil War, several states within the former Russian Empire had seceded, reducing the size of the country even more.

Question: What numbered meeting of the All-Russian Congress of Soviets occurred on January 25, 1918? Question: Which official name was Russia given at the start of 1918? Question: On January 25, 1918, what was the official name given to the Soviet state? Question: Which treaty did Russia sign in order to give land and gain peace during World War I? Question: To which country did Russia give land during World War I? Question: What did Russia receive in return for signing the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk? Question: On what date was the country renamed the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic? Question: What war resulted in Russia shrinking further during 1918? Question: During what 1918 conflict did states secede from Russia?
In 1943, Karachay Autonomous Oblast was dissolved by Joseph Stalin, when the Karachays were exiled to Central Asia for their alleged collaboration with the Germans and territory was incorporated into the Georgian SSR.

Question: When was the Karachay Autonomous Oblast ended? Question: Which oblast was broken up in 1943? Question: Who broke up the Karachays' oblast? Question: Who eliminated the Karachay Autonomous Oblast? Question: Where were the Karachays sent after their oblast was broken up? Question: To where were the Karachays exiled? Question: Why were the Karachays exiled? Question: Which SSR received the land of the Karachays' oblast? Question: What republic was the territory of the Karachay Autonomous Oblast transferred to?
The RSFSR was established on November 7, 1917 (October Revolution) as a sovereign state. The first Constitution was adopted in 1918. In 1922 the Russian SFSR signed the Treaty on the Creation of the USSR.

Question: On what date was the RSFSR established? Question: What event led to the establishment of the RSFSR? Question: In what year was the Constitution adopted? Question: The Treaty on the Creation of the USSR was signed in what year?
The economy of Russia became heavily industrialized, accounting for about two-thirds of the electricity produced in the USSR. It was, by 1961, the third largest producer of petroleum due to new discoveries in the Volga-Urals region and Siberia, trailing only the United States and Saudi Arabia. In 1974, there were 475 institutes of higher education in the republic providing education in 47 languages to some 23,941,000 students. A network of territorially-organized public-health services provided health care. After 1985, the restructuring policies of the Gorbachev administration relatively liberalised the economy, which had become stagnant since the late 1970s, with the introduction of non-state owned enterprises such as cooperatives. The effects of market policies led to the failure of many enterprises and total instability by 1990.

Question: How much of the USSR's electricity was produced in the RSFSR? Question: What two countries produced more petroleum than Russia in 1961? Question: How many institutions of higher education did Russia possess in 1974? Question: In how many languages were students in institutions of higher education being educated in 1974? Question: How many students were in institutions of higher education in Russia in 1974?
On June 12, 1990, the Congress of People's Deputies adopted the Declaration of State Sovereignty. On June 12, 1991, Boris Yeltsin was elected the first President. On December 8, 1991, heads of Russia, Ukraine and Belarus signed the Belavezha Accords. The agreement declared dissolution of the USSR by its founder states (i.e. denunciation of 1922 Treaty on the Creation of the USSR) and established the CIS. On December 12, the agreement was ratified by the Russian Parliament, therefore Russian SFSR denounced the Treaty on the Creation of the USSR and de facto declared Russia's independence from the USSR.

Question: On what date was the Declaration of State Sovereignty adopted? Question: Who became president on June 12, 1991? Question: On what date were the Belavezha Accords signed? Question: What agreement did the Belavezha Accords supersede? Question: When did the Russian Parliament ratify the Belavezha Accords?
On December 25, 1991, the Russian SFSR was renamed the Russian Federation. On December 26, 1991, the USSR was self-dissolved by the Soviet of Nationalities, which by that time was the only functioning house of the Supreme Soviet (the other house, Soviet of the Union, had already lost the quorum after recall of its members by the union republics). After dissolution of the USSR, Russia declared that it assumed the rights and obligations of the dissolved central Soviet government, including UN membership.

Question: What was the new name given to the RSFSR on December 25, 1991? Question: On what date was the USSR dissolved? Question: What body was responsible for the dissolution of the USSR? Question: What house of the Supreme Soviet was not functioning as of December 26, 1991? Question: What was one right of the Soviet government that the government of Russia assumed?
On January 25, 1918 the third meeting of the All-Russian Congress of Soviets renamed the unrecognized state the Soviet Russian Republic. The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk was signed on March 3, 1918, giving away much of the land of the former Russian Empire to Germany in exchange for peace during the rest of World War I. On July 10, 1918, the Russian Constitution of 1918 renamed the country the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic. By 1918, during the Russian Civil War, several states within the former Russian Empire seceded, reducing the size of the country even more.

Question: On what date was the state named the Soviet Russian Republic? Question: What body renamed the state the Soviet Russian Republic? Question: When was the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk signed? Question: The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk ceded land to what state? Question: What document renamed the state the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic?
Internationally, in 1920, the RSFSR was recognized as an independent state only by Estonia, Finland, Latvia and Lithuania in the Treaty of Tartu and by the short-lived Irish Republic.

Question: What treaty resulted in the recognition of the RSFSR by Latvia and other states? Question: Along with Estonia, Latvia, Finland and Lithuania, what state recognized the RSFSR in 1920?
For most of the Soviet Union's existence, it was commonly referred to as "Russia," even though technically "Russia" was only one republic within the larger union—albeit by far the largest, most powerful and most highly developed.

Question: What was the common name of the Soviet Union? Question: What was the largest republic in the Soviet Union? Question: Technically, what type of state was Russia?
Roughly 70% of the area in the RSFSR consisted of broad plains, with mountainous tundra regions mainly concentrated in the east. The area is rich in mineral resources, including petroleum, natural gas, and iron ore.

Question: What percentage of the RSFSR was made up of plains? Question: In what part of the RSFSR did tundra mainly exist? Question: Along with petroleum and iron ore, what resource was abundant in the RSFSR?
On December 30, 1922, the First Congress of the Soviets of the USSR approved the Treaty on the Creation of the USSR, by which Russia was united with the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic, and Transcaucasian Soviet Federal Socialist Republic into a single federal state, the Soviet Union. Later treaty was included in the 1924 Soviet Constitution,[clarification needed] adopted on January 31, 1924 by the Second Congress of Soviets of the USSR.

Question: On what date was the Treaty on the Creation of the USSR passed? Question: What body passed the Treaty on the Creation of the USSR? Question: Along with the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic and Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic, what state joined Russia to form the Soviet Union? Question: On what date was the 1924 Soviet Constitution adopted? Question: What body adopted the 1924 Soviet Constitution?
Many regions in Russia were affected by the Soviet famine of 1932–1933: Volga; Central Black Soil Region; North Caucasus; the Urals; the Crimea; part of Western Siberia; and the Kazak ASSR. With the adoption of the 1936 Soviet Constitution on December 5, 1936, the size of the RSFSR was significantly reduced. The Kazakh ASSR and Kirghiz ASSR were transformed into the Kazakh and Kirghiz Soviet Socialist Republics. The Karakalpak Autonomous Socialist Soviet Republic was transferred to the Uzbek SSR.

Question: During what span was there a famine in the Soviet Union? Question: What document was ratified on December 5, 1936? Question: What effect did the 1936 Soviet Constitution have on the size of the Russia? Question: What were the Kazakh ASSR and Kirghiz ASSR renamed per the 1936 Soviet Constitution? Question: What republic did the Karakalpak Autonomous Socialist Soviet Republic become a part of?
The final name for the republic during the Soviet era was adopted by the Russian Constitution of 1937, which renamed it the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.

Question: What document changed the name of Russia in 1937? Question: What was Soviet Russia called as of 1937?
On March 3, 1944, on the orders of Stalin, the Chechen-Ingush ASSR was disbanded and its population forcibly deported upon the accusations of collaboration with the invaders and separatism. The territory of the ASSR was divided between other administrative unit of Russian SFSR and the Georgian SSR.

Question: Who ordered the deportation of the residents of the Chechen-Ingush ASSR? Question: What state was dissolved on March 3, 1944? Question: Why were the residents of the Chechen-Ingush ASSR deported? Question: Along with the RSFSR, what republic received territory from the former Chechen-Ingush ASSR?
On October 11, 1944, the Tuvan People's Republic joined the Russian SFSR as the Tuvan Autonomous Oblast, in 1961 becoming an Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic.

Question: On what date did the Tuvan People's Republic join the Russian SFSR? Question: What was the Tuvan People's Republic renamed when it joined the RSFSR? Question: What did the former Tuvan People's Republic become in 1961?
After reconquering Estonia and Latvia in 1944, the Russian SFSR annexed their easternmost territories around Ivangorod and within the modern Pechorsky and Pytalovsky Districts in 1944-1945.

Question: Along with Estonia, what country was taken over by the Russian SFSR in 1944? Question: Near what town did the RSFSR annex territory in 1944? Question: What modern districts of Estonia and Latvia were annexed by the RSFSR in 1944?
At the end of World War II Soviet troops occupied southern Sakhalin Island and the Kuril Islands, making them part of the RSFSR. The status of the southernmost Kurils remains in dispute with Japan.

Question: Along with Sakhalin Island, what islands were occupied by the Soviets after the Second World War? Question: What administrative division did Sakhalin Island become a part of? Question: The ownership of what islands are disputed with Japan?
On April 17, 1946, the Kaliningrad Oblast — the northern portion of the former German province of East Prussia—was annexed by the Soviet Union and made part of the Russian SFSR.

Question: On what date was Kaliningrad Oblast annexed? Question: What province of Germany did Kaliningrad Oblast form a part of? Question: What administrative division did Kaliningrad Oblast become a part of?
On February 8, 1955, Malenkov was officially demoted to deputy Prime Minister. As First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party, Nikita Khrushchev's authority was significantly enhanced by Malenkov's demotion.

Question: Who was demoted on February 8, 1955? Question: To what position was Malenkov demoted? Question: What position was held by Nikita Khrushchev? Question: Who benefited from the demotion of Malenkov?
On January 9, 1957, Karachay Autonomous Oblast and Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic were restored by Khrushchev and they were transferred from the Georgian SSR back to the Russian SFSR.

Question: When was the Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic transferred from the Georgian SSR? Question: What territory was transferred along with the Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic? Question: Who transferred the Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic in 1957? Question: What republic had the Karachay Autonomous Oblast previously been a part of? Question: To what republic was the Karachay Autonomous Oblast transferred in 1957?
In 1964, Nikita Khrushchev was removed from his position of power and replaced with Leonid Brezhnev. Under his rule, the Russian SFSR and the rest of the Soviet Union went through an era of stagnation. Even after he died in 1982, the era didn’t end until Mikhail Gorbachev took power and introduced liberal reforms in Soviet society.

Question: Who lost power in 1964? Question: Who assumed a position of power in 1964? Question: When did Leonid Brezhnev die? Question: Whose assumption of power ended the era of stagnation? Question: How did Mikhail Gorbachev end the era of stagnation?
On June 12, 1990, the Congress of People's Deputies of the Republic adopted the Declaration of State Sovereignty of the Russian SFSR, which was the beginning of the "War of Laws", pitting the Soviet Union against the Russian Federation and other constituent republics.

Question: On what date was the Declaration of State Sovereignty of the Russian SFSR adopted? Question: What body passed the Declaration of State Sovereignty of the Russian SFSR? Question: What was the name of the period inaugurated by the passage of the Declaration of State Sovereignty of the Russian SFSR? Question: What government was the Russian Federation fighting against during this period?