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"Oleg Yesayan (; born 12 November 1946) is an Armenian politician and diplomat and is the current Ambassador of Armenia to Russia, presenting his credentials to Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on 5 February 2010. Yesayan is a former Prime Minister of Nagorno-Karabakh, President of the National Assembly of Nagorno-Karabakh, Chairman of the Securities Commission of Armenia and Ambassador to Belarus. References Category:1946 births Category:Living people Category:People from Martuni Province Category:Ambassadors of Armenia to Russia Category:Armenian diplomats Category:Politicians from the Republic of Artsakh Category:Prime Ministers of the Republic of Artsakh Category:Members of the National Assembly (Artsakh) "
"Alexander Friedrich Wilhelm Franz von Kotzebue (, tr. ; 9 June 1815 – 24 August 1889) was a German Romantic painter of historical scenes and battle scenes. Life Alexander von Kotzebue was the son of the playwright August von Kotzebue. He was born in Königsberg. On August's death in 1819, Alexander was educated in the Cadet Corps in St Petersburg, leaving it in 1834 as a Gardeleutnant. However, four years later, in 1838, he moved to an artistic career and began his artistic training at the St Petersburg Academy under Alexander Sauerweid. He spent six years at the St Petersburg Academy and at the end of them, in 1844, exhibited his first painting, The Storming of Warsaw, in St Petersburg. He then went to continue his studies in Paris in 1846 and to Belgium, the Netherlands, Italy and Germany in 1848, before finally settling in Munich. There he became imperial professor of Russian and an honorary member of the Academy of Fine Arts Munich. He painted several large-scale works for the Russian tsar of Russian battles in the Seven Years' War and the campaigns of Alexander Suvorov. The most important of these are considered to be the Storming of Schlüsselburg, Battle of Poltawa, Storming of Narva, Crossing of the Devil's Bridge and Founding of St Petersburg (Maximilianeum, Munich). Kotzebue died in Munich and is buried there in the Alter Südfriedhof. Selected paintings File:Kotzebue - Einnahme von Berlin (1760).jpgThe Raid on Berlin File:Battle of Kulm by Kotsebu.jpgThe Battle of Kulm File:Fall of Kolberg in 1761.jpgThe Fall of Kolberg Sources *Sylva van der Heyden: "Kotzebue, (August) Alexander Evstafievich" by Alexander Ferdinand Wilhelm Franz In: France Nerlich and Bénédicte Savoy (Eds.), Pariser Lehrjahre. Ein Lexikon zur Ausbildung deutscher Maler in der französischen Hauptstadt. Vol.2: 1844–1870. De Gruyter, Berlin/Boston 2015 *Rostislav von Kotzebue, Geschichte und Genealogie der Familie Kotzebue, Harvas 1984 External links * Gallery of Kotzebue's work * Baltic knightly family trees Category:1815 births Category:1889 deaths Category:Baltic-German people Category:German romantic painters Category:People from Königsberg Category:19th-century painters of historical subjects "
"Lincolnshire Independents is a British political party based in the county of Lincolnshire. They were founded in July 2008. Local Government At the 2009 election, Lincolnshire Independents stood 19 candidates for Lincolnshire County Council of whom four were elected.http://uk.sitestat.com/lincolnshire/lincolnshire/s?Home.local- democracy.about-your-county- councillor.elections.Download.48503&ns;_type=pdf&ns;_url=http://www.lincolnshire.gov.uk//Download/48503 Four years later, they increased their representation to nine seats and polled 10.4% of the votes cast county-wide. In the 2016 England and Wales police and crime commissioner elections the party stood a candidate for the Lincolnshire area, attaining 18,497 votes or approximately 16.52% of the vote. At the 2017 county council election the party lost all but one of their seats on Lincolnshire County Council. Party leader Marianne Overton MBE won the Bassingham & Welbourn division. Marianne Overton has been the Independent Group leader and a vice-chair on the Local Government Association since 2011. Parliamentary elections At the 2010 general election, party leader Marianne Overton stood for Sleaford & North Hykeham. and retained her deposit by gaining more than 5% of the vote: She came fourth with 3,806 votes (6.4%). Campaign director Mark Horn, a Conservative Party member for 23 years who resigned as a county councillor in 2008, stood in Grantham and Stamford, receiving 929 votes (1.8%). In Louth and Horncastle, Daniel Simpson gained 576 votes (1.1%). At the 2015 general election, Overton stood again in Sleaford & North Hykeham, coming fifth with 3,233 votes (5.2%). Jan Hansen stood in Grantham and Stamford, receiving 724 votes (1.3%) and Simpson stood again in Louth and Horncastle, polling 659 votes (1.3%). Additionally, Chris Darcel stood in Gainsborough, where he polled 505 votes (1%), and Helen Powell stood in Lincoln, where she received 286 votes (0.6%). Overton stood in Sleaford and North Hykeham for a third time in the December 2016 by-election. She came fifth, with 2,892 votes (8.8%). See also * Boston Bypass Independents ReferencesExternal links *Lincolnshire Independents homepage *Mark Horn's campaign site *Election leaflets on The Straight Choice Category:Political parties established in 2008 Category:Locally based political parties in England Category:Politics of Lincolnshire Category:2008 establishments in England "