supreme soviet in English

noun
1
the governing council of the former Soviet Union or one of its constituent republics. That of the Soviet Union was its highest legislative authority and was composed of two equal chambers: the Soviet of Union and the Soviet of Nationalities.
Following the failed August 1991 putsch by the marginalized cabinet, President Gorbachev dismissed his government and abolished the Supreme Soviet .

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1. Adoption of the Constitution was a legislative act of the Supreme Soviet.

2. 15 Republican constitutions had supremacy over laws adopted by the Supreme Soviet.

3. The Supreme Soviet voted to Cede responsibility for the budget to the government.

4. The Supreme Soviet voted to cede responsibility for the budget to the government.

5. It also recalled the Russian deputies from the Supreme Soviet of the USSR.

6. Hitherto defacto president in his capacity as Supreme Soviet Chair, he defeated one other candidate.

7. After vigorous debate, the 542-member Supreme Soviet passed the measure 254-85 (with 36 abstentions).

8. Accordingly, we had to procrastinate, as we had done over the Supreme Soviet Deputies' visit to Britain.

9. A resolution called on the President, the government and the Supreme Soviet to formulate detailed legislation to implement the programme.

10. A legislative body—the Supreme Soviet—was to convene for regular spring and fall sessions, each lasting three to four months.

11. In a remarkable reversal of fortunes, he gained election as chairman of the Russian republic's new Supreme Soviet in May 1990.

12. The measure is not only the first full-scale law passed by the Supreme Soviet in its new incarnation as a professional legislature.

13. The National Flag of Armenia (The Armenian Tricolour) was officially adopted by the Supreme Soviet of the Republic of Armenia on August 24, 1990

14. Andrei Zhdanov, Chairman of the RSFSR Supreme Soviet, accused Shostakovich and other composers (such as Sergei Prokofiev and Aram Khachaturian) of writing inappropriate and formalist music.

15. Not until July 26, 1988 did the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR reinstate Kuznetsov to his former rank of Admiral of the Fleet of the Soviet Union.

16. On 20 September 1944, by the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, the Gressky, Kopyl, Krasnoslobodski, Luban, Slutsky, Starobin, Starodorozhski districts and the city of Sluck were removed from the Minsk region and transferred to the newly formed Bobruisk Region.

17. The Union-Republican People's Commissariats, as a rule, direct the branches of state administration entrusted to them through the corresponding People's Commissariats of the Union Republics; they administer directly only a definite and limited number of enterprises according to a list confirmed by the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the U.S.S.R.

18. On 8 May 1965, by the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet, International Women's Day was declared a non-working day in the Soviet Union "in commemoration of the outstanding merits of Soviet women in communistic construction, in the defense of their Fatherland during the Great Patriotic War, in their heroism and selflessness at the front and in the rear, and also marking the great contribution of women to strengthening friendship between peoples, and the struggle for peace.