A Bill Russell collector doesnât need this card to say they have all his best cards, but it would be nice to have it. A year before Topps was back in the NBA game with their 1969-70 set, they made a very limited amount of cards that featured not only Russell but Chamberlain, West, Havlicek, Robertson and Baylor.
When Mr. Putin became acting president 15 years ago this month, Russia was an oligarchy â indeed the oligarchs, a small group of men who had grown very rich in the preceding decade, were instrumental in picking Putin out of obscurity and installing him at the helm.
Written By: Duma, Russian in full Gosudarstvennaya Duma (âState Assemblyâ), elected legislative body that, along with the State Council, constituted the imperial Russian legislature from 1906 until its dissolution at the time of the March 1917 Revolution. The Duma constituted the lower house of the Russian parliament, and the State Council was the upper house.