Many chose to return to Lebanon and rebuild their lives in the old fatherland.

Fedor Dostoyevsky noted that Russia needed Europe, and that Europe was the second Russian fatherland.

He instead rhetorically transformed American soldiers from fratricidal killers into liberators of their ancient fatherland.

For my compatriots, it was not just another world war it was the Great Fatherland War.

In 1997, he established a movement called the Social Committee For the Moral Revival of the Fatherland.

In response, Polish Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski accused Geremek of damaging his fatherland and provoking an anti Polish affair.

Talmon responded with The Fatherland is Imperiled, a pivotal article whose conclusions are as relevant today as they were in 1981.

As we can now see, the Social Committee For the Moral Revival of the Fatherland wants to be among the managers.

You had the holiday, but I got the presents, jokes Miss February, the month when Russia celebrates Defender of the Fatherland Day.

On February 23, Russians celebrate the Day of the Defender of the Fatherland, a rough equivalent of Father s Day but with a militaristic flavor.

It was a spiritual community of people united in an effort to contribute to the prosperity of the Fatherland and the enlightenment of the people living in it.

The term Отечественная война (Patriotic War or Fatherland War) was officially recognized by establishment of the Order of the Patriotic War on 20 May 1942, awarded for heroic deeds.

He came to Constantinople, led an ascetic life in one of its monasteries, then came back to his fatherland before spending some time in the region of Antioch, then back in Lycia.

Putin held up Solzhenitsyn as a model for those who stand for the ideal of Great Russia an example of genuine devotion and selfless serving of the people, fatherland, and the ideals of freedom, justice, and humanism.

Mass organizations, particularly the Women's Union, Fatherland Front and Labour Union, have shown strength in informing, educating and communicating with the people on gender equality, on building a cultured life, and building families of prosperity, equality, progressiveness and happiness .

With Russian soldiers stationed in Georgia's breakaway regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, a group of Forum.ge users proposed to mark the Defender of the Fatherland Day on February 23, by posting anti occupation comments on Russian President Dmitry Medvedev's Facebook page .

In 1870, when distinguishing the notion of fatherland from that of nation and applying the latter to Greater Syria, Marrash would point to the role played by language, among other factors, in counterbalancing religious and sectarian differences, and thus, in defining national identity.

It is in this context that Putin has been able to use Western pressure as a tool to regain the support of many Russians, who only a few years ago would have felt detached from, if not alienated by, his government. Presented with a real or imagined threat to the fatherland, the average Russian supports the country s leaders.