Russia's presence in the Russian-speaking city is also a symbol of wider influence across the post-Soviet space.
The Red Poppy is an internationally-recognised symbol of remembrance and has been so since the end of the First World War.
Mexican cuisine is elaborate and symbol-laden, with everyday tortillas and tamales, both made of corn, forming an integral part of Day of the Dead offerings.
In parts of Liberia, cross-dressing is a symbol of the passage from boyhood to manhood, which is why some adolescent soldiers wear dresses when going about the manly business of war.
Strauss-Kahn is a symbol of such oligarchy.
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The idea of committing an unsophisticated attack against a high-profile symbol is out there.
Yet perhaps Kool-Aid is an apter symbol for Hastings than its boosters would like.
The Jalameh terminal, too, is a symbol of Palestinian-Israeli mistrust that sours the mood of economic peace.
And light is a symbol of purity - the bright, white, pure, stunning light of the ancient Greeks was something that fed into the Aryan myth.
At Direxion Funds, advised by Rafferty Asset Management LLC, that list often originates with David Fajardo, the senior vice president of marketing, who is known for his ticker-symbol prowess.
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For the person on the street, Farooq is a symbol of hope -- a bridge between Delhi and Kashmir as they come to grips with the grim fallout of eight years of strife.
Manufacturing may never be as important to the American economy as it once was, but it is a badge and symbol - a sobering one for countries like the UK that have largely ditched their ability to make stuff.
The 5m (16ft) wrought-iron slogan which translates as "Work sets you free" is a potent symbol of many of the Nazi-era atrocities.
The Seattle-based coffee-shop chain is the latest symbol of American consumer culture to make its mark on China's rapidly changing urban landscape.
The Japanese may not fully appreciate that the FS-X is fast becoming a symbol for a broader fear of declining U.S. competitiveness.
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In the music industry, a stadium concert is the ultimate rock-star status symbol: Few acts can sell enough tickets to fill one, let alone a multitude of such venues year after year.
To others, Wattendorf's presidency is a symbol of something more high-minded about the school: Its black students were willing to look beyond race.
Hilary Armstrong, the local-government minister, is herself a symbol of change.
Across the Champ de Mars from the presidential palace in Port-au-Prince is -or was - a tall statue to the maroons, the runaway slaves who are the symbol of Haiti's fight for independence at the end of the 18th century.
It is a political totem, a symbol that euro-using countries will not cheat each other.
Others, however, like David Fleming, director of Tyne and Wear Museums, worry that such an overtly Christian symbol is inappropriate in the modern multi-faith north-east.
More than a newly paved motorway, the symbol of Sino-Brazilian relations is a cache of 66, 000 Brazilian army uniforms, which tax authorities recently discovered being smuggled into the country.
Tiny and little-known Implant Sciences, which trades over-the-counter with the ticker symbol IMSC, is one of them.
It is a symbol, like none other, of twentieth-century aspiration and tragic folly.
The researchers used their technique to create an image of the sun inspired by the drawings of Robert Fludd, a 17th-century alchemist (the sun is the alchemists' symbol for gold).
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The face of this 13-year-old from a village in southern Syria is now the symbol of an uprising.
This work is in itself a symbol of the continuing pattern of musical-political intrigue that has so often dogged music in France.
Perhaps the most appropriate symbol of that is Bill Iffrig, the 78-year-old runner who was knocked down by the force of Monday's blasts and then got up, determined, and walked to the finish line.
Their experience is different -- it's more about that three-striped symbol, with the Atari name underneath.
The tiger is the party symbol of Mr Sharif's Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N).
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