The Petrov Affair – An Australian Spy Story A modern spy thriller was played out in Canberra in 1954. On the 13th of April‚ the three year term of the Menzies government was drawing to a close and federal parliament was sitting for its final session. A few hours before the close‚ Menzies made a startling announcement that a soviet diplomat in Canberra‚ Vladimir Petrov‚ had been granted political asylum and that a royal commission would be established to investigate allegations of a Soviet spy ring
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The “Petrov Affair” started in April 1954 when Vladimir Petrov and his wife Edvokia defected to Australia. The affair finally finished today‚ the 11th of December 1955; a day after the Federal Election in Australia when Robert Menzies was elected. The Events That Saw It Unfold The Petrov Affair occurred around the 3rd of April last year‚ when Vladimir Petrov‚ who was the cause of the Petrov Affair‚ defected to Australia under top-secret conditions. On arrival in Sydney‚ he was taken to a safe
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ways in which the Labor Party was impacted on by the Petrov Affair. The petrov affair was started when Vladimir Petrov defected to Australia from the Soviet Union on the 3rd of April 1954. The whole affair dominated Australia’s headlines and the defection came to be regarded as the most important of the cold war era. The defection occurred after ASIO was alerted to Petrov by a part time ASIO agent who met Petrov at a Russian social club. Petrov‚ not suspecting his ties with ASIO‚ confided in him
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The Twelve Chairs The subject of my work is The Twelve Chairs novel written by Ilf and Petrov and its screening directed by Mark Zakharov. The language: Russian The main characters: Andrei Mironov as Bender Anatoly Papanov as Vorobyaninov Zinovy Gerdt as author Rolan Bykov as Fedor Priest The characters: Alexander Abdulov - Shchukin engineer Tatiana Bozhok - Lisa George Vitsin - master Bezenchuk Dmitry Goshev - Kislarsky Nelly Gosheva - Sashhen Savely Kramarov - locksmith Polesov
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Traditional Case - Michael Petrov In a narrative format‚ discuss the key facts and critical issues presented in the case. Michael Petrov was a 47 year-old safety inspector for the Metropolitan Transit Authority. He was a Ukrainian immigrant who came to America during the reconstruction of the Soviet Union known as Perestroika. Arriving in America during the latter part of 1991 with only $200 in his pocket‚ Michael knew he would have to struggle‚ but came to build a career. Struggle‚ he did
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people from life time of imprisonment and prove a government guilty. It happened on the treason conviction which took place in 1894 of Alfred Dreyfus‚ a artillery officer in the French army with Jewish origin‚ or as the public knows it "The Dreyfus affair". Dreyfus was accused with passing military secrets to the German Embassy in France. In fact‚ he was innocent. The whole conviction was based on false‚ supposedly incriminating documents. Dreyfus was sentenced to a life time of imprisonment. Secrets
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Man’s Love Graham Green wrote the beautiful love story The End of the Affair. The content is about the four characters the novelist‚ Maurice Bendrix; the couple Henry and Sarah Miles; and the priest Richard Smythe. Maurice meets Sarah and they fall in love deeply. The more Maurice loves Sarah‚ the more he realizes that there is an indestructible obstacle‚ which prevents him possessing all Sarah’s love. Maurice’s love affair ends‚ he lives in hatred and torment because Sarah staying away from him
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Current Affairs Week: 16 Jan 2012 to 22 Jan 2012 International Current Affairs 2012. The Government of India and the World Bank on 20 January 2012 signed an IDA credit of 130 million US dollars to finance the project called NERLP (North East Rural Livelihoods Project) Tags: Union government of India‚ World bank‚ Current Affairs January 2012‚ North east region India announced a Substantial Increase in Educational Assistance to Sri Lanka Current Affairs Week: 16 Jan 2012 to 22 Jan 2012 International
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From March of 1797 to 1800‚ a diplomatic scandal occurred where Americans were outraged by demands from the French for a bribe as a condition for negotiating with American diplomats that became known as the XYZ Affair. John Adams took presidency in 1797 and inherited several problems from George Washington’s administration‚ including hostilities between the United States and France that began to escalate in the 1790s. The signing of Jay’s Treaty‚ which violated of the Treaty of Paris yet averted
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The Haymarket Affair For many‚ America is not just the country they happen to live in but also it is a place of freedoms‚ liberties and independencies and even a refuge for some people. In 1886 though‚ a group of people attempted to share their opinion in Haymarket Square‚ Chicago‚ which led to a dangerous riot and a series of trials with convictions and executions. Throughout the affair‚ innocent lives were lost‚ people were wrongly accused‚ and the judicial system was revealed as flawed. Throughout
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