By developing plans to govern Russia, they are beginning to act like a Government-in-waiting.

The Statute sought to efficiently govern Russia by increasing population and dividing the country into provinces and districts.

"Revolution threatens" - he warned - "and an obscure peasant shall govern Russia no longer!"

It is not too soon for Mr. Yeltsin and his aides to develop a long-term strategy for governing Russia under an infirm President.

Alternatively, they favor creation of an emergency state council to govern Russia for two to five years.

His niece, Anna Ioannovna, governed Russia from 1730 to 1740.

The Mongolic peoples of the Golden Horde established themselves to govern Russia by 1240.

Certainly, Mr. Yeltsin has every reason to want to show that he is still fit enough to govern Russia.

Indeed, the madrassa's message seems as much at odds with the go-go capitalism that now governs Russia as the Communism that once did.

Stalin and the Communist Party governed Russia, having been swept to power by the revolution.