In 1959 he was chosen as Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Georgian SSR, and in 1960 appointed as the deputy chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet.
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In 1959 he was chosen as Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Georgian SSR, and in 1960 appointed as the deputy chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet.
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In 1977, he forced the retirement of Podgorny and became once again Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union, making this position equivalent to that of an executive president.
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This was only the second presidential visit in the history of Turkish-Russian relations after that of the Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, Nikolai Podgorny, in 1972.
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From 1967 to 1975 ` umauskas served as the chairman of the presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Lithuanian SSR and the deputy chairman of the presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union.
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From 1967 to 1975 ` umauskas served as the chairman of the presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Lithuanian SSR and the deputy chairman of the presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union.
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After being voted in Gorbachev relieved Gromyko of his duty as foreign minister and replaced him with Eduard Shevardnadze and Gromyko was appointed to the largely honorary position of Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet.
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On 15 March 1953, Voroshilov was approved as Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet ( i . e ., the head of state ) with Nikita Khrushchev as Communist Party and Georgy Malenkov as Premier of the Soviet Union.
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After the Karelo-Finnish SSR was incorporated into the Russian SFSR as the Karelian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic in 1956, Prokkonen was the Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Karelian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic ( 1956 1979 ).
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On 29 May 1990, he was elected chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic ( RSFSR ), in spite of the fact that Gorbachev personally pleaded with the Russian deputies not to select Yeltsin.
