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To strengthen Russia’s position, Nicholas I looked to the Orthodox populations in the Balkans and the Ottoman Empire, with his naval minister, Alexander Menshikov, demanding in 1853 that Russia be named an official protector of the Ottoman Empire’s 12 million Orthodox citizens.

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This was the first time a prime minister of India was given a parking ticket.

For instance, she is now the president of Finland, but Tarja Halonen was the foreign minister of Finland and, at a certain stage, head of the European Union.

And she became Dilma Rousseff, the president-elect of one of the biggest democracies in the world, moving from minister of energy to president.

Everybody looks at this prime minister of that country, and he says, "Yes."

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