Talk:Federation Council (Russia)

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BetacommandBot (talk) 07:49, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

Math Error??
The article states that there are 85 Federal Subjects in Russia--it even itemizes the number of each type of Federal Subject and those numbers add up to 85. The article also states that each Federal Subject send 2 Councillors to the Federal Council. Simple arithmetic tells me that 85 * 2 = 170 however, in 3 different places, the article says that the total membership of the Council is 187. Who sent the extra 17 Councillors? Bayowolf (talk) 15:31, 9 July 2020 (UTC)


 * Totally agree that this is confusing. According to the CIA World Factbook (last updated on February of 2023), Russia's Federation Council has 170 seats. Basically, they say that there are 83 federal administrative units (oblasts, krays, republics, etc.) as well as 2 more federal cities. Since each one of these districts gets two members, the math would be (83 * 2) + (2 * 2) = 170. I changed the places in the article that says that the total membership is 187 and replaced it with 170.
 * Kinda off-topic but I don't think that the factbook includes non-internationally recognized federal administrative units (i.e. Crimea, Ukraine), so I'm not sure whether in reality Russia has incorporated those and are getting two Councillors from them, I'd love to be corrected/educated on this. Monsoon Bowline (talk) 03:53, 11 April 2023 (UTC)

Image
Do pls sth to the card. The comment announces building, but I see people on chairs. Ignatus (talk) 13:06, 7 October 2013 (UTC)

ex-Gosstroy building, or the new Federation Council building, image
The building is #26 Bol'shaya Dmitrovka Street but the only picture I can find, and it is not common licensed, is | here. Wikicommons | has pictures of various buildings along the street but none appear to be #26. 24.241.69.99 (talk) 14:59, 15 May 2014 (UTC)

New Disambiguation Page
Depending on the era, either this or the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union may be simply referred to as "The Soviet" (based on Сове́т, the Russian word for "Senate," "Upper House of Parliament," or "Governing Council"). For that reason, I will now create a Disambiguation Page to this effect. The Mysterious El Willstro (talk) 06:06, 30 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Why is such a DAB page needed? They don't even call themselves that. Do you have any WP:RS to suggest that it meets with WP:COMMONNAME? For obvious reasons, "Совет" has become inextricably associated with the Soviet Union explicitly. Using it in this context is WP:SYNTH which is bound to confuse readers rather than assist them. --Iryna Harpy (talk) 09:26, 30 January 2017 (UTC)
 * "The don't even call themselves that," (s)he says, pointing to a translated version of their Website. What counts is the untranslated name, in Russian. The Mysterious El Willstro (talk) 03:15, 1 February 2017 (UTC)
 * "Sovet" is not the Russian word for "Senate," "Upper House of Parliament," or "Governing Council". The Russian word for "senate" is "senat". The Russian word "sovet" has many meanings, including "council", "board", "advice", "suggestion", "recommendation". For example, the United Nations Security Council (Sovet Bezopasnosti, yes, it's the official name), the Council of Europe, the Wikimedia Foundation's Board of Trustees and Google's board of directors, any Council of Ministers, any local council like Mossovet, the Verkhovna Rada, the Supreme Council of the Republic of Lithuania and the Supreme Council of the Republic of Khakassia are also "sovet" in Russian. Your interpretation is not the reason for this disambiguation page. We have Supreme Soviet, Soviet (disambiguation), Soviet (council) (for the English language political term "Soviet") and Supreme Council (with post-Soviet parliaments) pages on Wikipedia. --TarzanASG (talk) 09:38, 31 January 2017 (UTC)
 * All right, point taken about those other Pages already existing. The 2 most important of those Articles have been edited accordingly. The Mysterious El Willstro (talk) 02:50, 1 February 2017 (UTC)

Due for an update
The first paragraph under the heading "Criticism" cites allegations that "many senators, including Council Chairman Sergey Mironov, are viewed as close allies of Putin". Seems to me that Mironov hasn't been Chair of the Council since 2011. Is the current Chair, Valentina Matviyenko, also seen as an ally of President Putin? And, if so, by whom? --OldCommentator (talk) 18:16, 7 February 2017 (UTC)

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