Definitions
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- noun A
Russian national parliament . - noun A drink mixing
wine andvodka , name taken from the above.
Etymologies
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Examples
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The product, called duma, is primed by a specially prepared starter culture called duma-grains (iyal-duma).
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I'm probably a total duma$$ but VLC just don't work for me ...
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There is opposition to its missile defense provisions in both ratifying bodies—Congress and the Russian duma—for opposite reasons: the Russians say they have the right to withdraw from the treaty if the U.S. takes any missile defense steps not to its liking, and anti-treaty forces on the U.S. side have argued against ratification because they believe it will hamper ballistic missile defense.
How the End Begins Ron Rosenbaum 2011
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There is opposition to its missile defense provisions in both ratifying bodies—Congress and the Russian duma—for opposite reasons: the Russians say they have the right to withdraw from the treaty if the U.S. takes any missile defense steps not to its liking, and anti-treaty forces on the U.S. side have argued against ratification because they believe it will hamper ballistic missile defense.
How the End Begins Ron Rosenbaum 2011
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I can see it now, batman picking all the crooks one by one, and surely he will lock himself up when he's done dealing with majority of duma/fsb/you-name-it? try telling batman his power has limits LMAO
Mikhail Khodorkovsky: Russia's political prisoner | Editorial 2010
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I'm probably a total duma$$ but VLC just don't work for me...
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That “palace” on the 1,000-ruble note is actually the “government duma,” according to the text on the bill gosudarstveni duma.
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He shut down the duma in order to bring communism which would promise this "true democracy".
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Thefirst post-tsarist government, headed by A.F. Kerenski, with its duma, etc., was a promising innovation, resulting from the 1917 February Revolution.
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An entire duma of Arctic terns waiting in the glasslike trees for the tide to sink a little more.
The Bloomsday Dead Adrian McKinty 2007
Prolagus commented on the word duma
"Let's go" in Piemontèis.
July 30, 2008