The USSR Supreme Soviet has two chambers: The Soviet of the Union and the Soviet of Nationalities.
Deputies would be allowed to travel abroad only when permitted to do so by the Supreme Soviet.
The Supreme Soviet also acted recently to make it possible, in principle, for Soviet citizens to own land privately.
In 1977, the Soviet Union published its new draft constitution, which was approved by the Supreme Soviet the following October.
In 1993 we allowed artillary fire on the Supreme Soviet for the sake of ending civil conflict and preserving civil piece.
On 1 July 1991, the Supreme Soviet also adopted a new statute authorizing the private ownership of as much as 70% of state-owned properties.
It must be expected, therefore, that tomorrow's emergency session of the Congress' working body, the Supreme Soviet, will produce no less dramatic a response.
Gorbachev's order yesterday banning demonstrations follows, and is of a piece with, recent action by the USSR Supreme Soviet -- an organization whose anti-democratic coloration is becoming more evident daily.
Reactionary Supreme Soviet members denounced what they called "violations of human rights by republic governments under slogans of national sovereignty and democracy" in the six republics that boycotted the referendum.
Also on 21 March, the USSR Supreme Soviet voted to make the results of the March 17 referendum on the future of the Soviet Union binding on all 15 Union republics.
In 1993, Boris Yeltsin abolished the former parliament, the Supreme Soviet, by force, and introduced a new constitution that provided for a new parliament, the State Duma, which had little real power.
On 21 March, the Supreme Soviet voted to block a 28 March rally organized by Democratic Russia to coincide with the opening of a RSFSR Congress of People's Deputies special session on Yeltsin's leadership.
It would permit elections to be held for the presidency of the USSR, the Supreme Soviet and other bodies, thereby creating an opportunity to forge the national consensus required to make the harsh sacrifices attendant to systemic transformation.
Also on 7 March, Gorbachev urged the USSR Supreme Soviet last week to forbid unauthorized foreign trips by members of the liberal parliamentary opposition, on the grounds that certain reform-minded deputies have been urging the West to deny credits to the central government.
On 5 March, the USSR Supreme Soviet approved a draft law which would transfer control of the KGB from the USSR Cabinet of Ministers to the USSR President and Supreme Soviet as well as provide legal immunity for KGB officers from Soviet citizens.
Buffeted by the building boom, the increasingly generic glass boxes-- the sort that dominate certain sweeps of Park Avenue in midtown Manhattan--came to seem ubiquitous, even inescapable, guaranteeing their place in history and serial rejection by factions all the way from the Supreme Soviet to the postmodernists.
Just last week, for example, the Supreme Soviet further delayed action on an emigration bill, this time citing concerns over a potential "brain-drain" and adverse budgetary implications arising from the 10-20 billion ruble cost to print new passports and customs forms which would be needed to implement the new law.
Viktor Alksnis, one of the most prominent spokesmen for the Soviet old guard and leader of the Soyuz faction of the Supreme Soviet Parliament, became the latest in a series of prominent authorities on Kremlin intrigues to speculate openly that Mikhail Gorbachev may have been involved in orchestrating the recent abortive coup.
On February 15th Vyacheslav Lebedev, chairman of Russia's Supreme Court, suggested reviving an old Soviet practice under which a maximum sentence for a person charged with different crimes should not exceed the sentence attached to the most serious charge: in Mr Khodorkovsky's case, nine years.
Both Iran's and North Korea's supreme leaders will be deterred, just as were successive generations of Soviet leaders.
The Soviet of Nationalities is composed of delegations of republics' supreme representative organs of power and of national-territorial formations' organs of power according to agreed norms....The representation of all peoples living in the USSR on the Soviet of Nationalities is guaranteed.
Mr Nazarbaev, who has ruled the country since Soviet times, seems to have sensed the possible damage, and had asked the Supreme Court a few days earlier to allow his rival to run.
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