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[86] For Ronaldo, 2014 continued where the previous one ended when he scored two goals in Celta's first game of the year.


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He dedicated the goals he had scored to the memory of Eusébio, who passed away two days earlier.


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[87] On January 13, 2014, Ronaldo was voted the best player in the world for the second time in his career and was rewarded with FIFA's Golden Ball.


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He beat Lionel Messi, who came second in the voting, who had won the award in four previous years, and Franck Ribéry, who had fallen third.


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[88] He became the third player in Real Madrid club history to win that award after playing for the club for at least a calendar year.


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[89] Ronaldo has fallen second in the voting a total of four times in 2007, 2009, 2011 and 2012.


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[90] In the Copa del Rey semi-final second leg match against Atlético Madrid, played on 11 February 2014, Ronaldo managed twice in scoring.


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He overtook with his goals, five in total, as the top scorer in the history of Luis Aragonés in Copa del Rey encounters between Madridian clubs.


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[91] On the 7th minute of play, a hit from a penalty kick knew Ronaldo was successful in scoring for every minute of the match in his career.


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[92] meant on 26 February 2014 he scored two goals against German side Schalke 04 in the first leg match of the Champions League quarter-semi-finals, which the Spaniards eventually won by numbers 6—1.


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Ronaldo, meanwhile, became the first player in the history of the competition to have managed to score ten goals or more in three consecutive Champions League seasons.


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[93] On 15 March 2014, Ronaldo scored his 25 goals of the season in a match against Málaga and at the same time became the first player in major league history to have managed to score 25 or more goals in five consecutive league seasons.


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[94] In the Champions League second leg match against Schalke 04, played three days later, he scored two goals again, breaking his own personal season record (12) in the process.


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[95] The goal record scored during a Champions League season was in the name of Lionel Messi (14), for which Ronaldo was still two goals away (13).


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On March 29, 2014, against Rayo Vallecano, Ronaldo sidelined the record set by Messi, successfully scoring for the 10th consecutive match.


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[96] Ronaldo played his 100th game of his Champions League career on 2 April 2014 against German club Borussia Dortmund.


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Ronaldo was also successful in the match scoring, which was his 14th of the season in those competitions and with this he flanked the record previously set by Messi.


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[97] Ronaldo became the second top scorer in Real Madrid history on a shared spot together with Alfredo Di Stéfano with a total of 49 goals in European competitions.


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The top spot was held by Raúl with his 66 goals.


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[98] The goal scored by Ronaldo also knew success in eight consecutive Champions League games, making him the first player in the history of the competition to achieve a similar performance.


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[99] He was forced to miss the final of the Copa del Rey, played on 16 April 2014, against Barcelona due to injury.


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[100] The final was played at the Mestalla in Valencia, which Real Madrid won by numbers 2—1.


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[101] Ronaldo's return after a short period of injury occurred on 23 April 2014 in the first leg match of the Champions League semifinals against German club Bayern Munich.


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[102] He scored two goals in his next home match against Osasuna, which were the 100th and 101st goals of his career at the Santiago Bernabéu.


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[103] In the Champions League second leg match against Bayern Munich on the away ground, played on 29 April 2014, Real Madrid claimed a clear 0—4 away win and advanced to the final to be played in Lisbon with aggregate goals 5—0.


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Ronaldo scored two goals in the second leg match, thus logging a new single-season goal record in the Champions League with his total of 16 hits.


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[104] On 4 May 2014, against Valencia, Ronaldo equalized for match numbers 2—2, directing the ball into goal with his heel from a cross given by Ángel Di María.


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With his hit, he broke the 50-goal limit laundry including all contests for the fourth consecutive season.


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[105] In the Champions League final against local opponent Atlético Madrid, Ronaldo became the first player in the history of the competition to have managed a grand final in scoring in the ranks of two different winning teams.


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[106] Ronaldo ended his Champions League season with 17 goals, which was recorded as a new record at the same time.


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The race's finish exchange win was the second consecutive for Ronaldo and third overall in his entire career.


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[107] In league games, Ronaldo scored 31 goals in 30 games during the season, with which he won the Pichichi Award and shared the European Golden Boot together with Liverpool striker Luis Suárez.


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[108] Season 2014—15 Near the end of the previous season, as well as the hopes of a jumper's knee that plagued the summer World Cup competitions, Ronaldo made a successful start to the 2014—15 season by scoring both goals for his team in a UEFA Super Cup match against Sevilla.


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[109] [110] With his two goals, he rose to a shared second place in the list of top scorers in intra-European competitions.


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[111] In the opening match of the league season against Córdoba, he opened his goal account in national competitions as well.


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[112] In the second league round match against Real Sociedad he had to miss due to injury.


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Ronaldo returned to true action again for a local match against Atlético Madrid, played on 13 September 2014, where he managed a goal scoring from a penalty kick.


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[113] On 20 September 2014, Ronaldo scored his first hat-trick of the season in an away match against Deportivo La Coruña, which were at the same time his first goals at the Estadio Riazor.


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[114] The hat-trick was the 20th of Ronaldo's career total.


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in Primera División, which left him just two clear of Telmo Zarra and Alfredo Di Stéfano, who held the record (22).


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[115] He also sided with the number of hat-tricks scored on an away field (7) held by Lionel Messi.


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[114] In the Elche match played three days later, he scored four goals, two of which came from a penalty kick as Real Madrid toppled the Valencian club by numbers 5-1.


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This was the 25th hat-trick of his Real Madrid career including all competitions, totaled 28 by record holder Di Stéfano.


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[116] The seven goals generated within 72 hours drew praise from head coach Carlo Ancelotti, who praised, among other things, the Portuguese player's excellent movement, guaranteeing him the opportunity to always be in the right place at the right time.


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[117] The 186 goals generated in 169 league matches lifted Ronaldo to the top ten goalscorers of all time in the Primera División.


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[118] On 5 October 2014, he again managed to score a hat-trick as the Madridian club toppled Athletic Bilbao on his home ground.


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[119] After hitting twice in the match against Levante, his number of goals in seven games already rose to 15 with only eight league rounds behind.


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That reading was the best start to a season in major league history in terms of number of goals scored.


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[120] In a Champions League group stage match played on 22 October 2014 at the away ground against Liverpool, Ronaldo scored the opening goal of the match.


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He became, with his goal, the first player to have managed to score in ten consecutive Champions League away games.


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[121] Ronaldo continued to break records when he managed to score in a home match against Barcelona.


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This was his 15th goal in the last seven consecutive games and with this he broke the record held in the name of Ferenc Puskás, scoring 13 goals in seven league matches during the 1959—1960 and 1960—1961 seasons.


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[122] Season 2015—16 Again the season began with rumours of Ronaldo moving to the ranks of English club Manchester United or French club Paris Saint-Germain.


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[123] However, Cristiano remained on the Spanish giant's payroll for the time being and he convinced that he would stay there until he was 40.


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[124] Ronaldo made a strong start to the season despite the atmosphere created by rumours.


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He led the Champions League goal exchange after three games and was in shared second place in La Liga.


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On top of that, Cristiano scored the 500th goal of his career at the start of the season, thus also breaking Raúl's record as Real Madrid's all-time top scorer.


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[125] However, Ronaldo's score level began to deteriorate the further the early season progressed.


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Consequently, Ronaldo's training programme began to be criticised by Guillem Balagué, the sports editor at Sky Sports, as well as the doctor who wrote the column in Spanish AS magazine, José Gonzalez.


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They told me Ronaldo would have overburdened himself with muscle growing.


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In their opinion, Ronaldo began to resemble a bodybuilder, and no longer a footballer.


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This, according to them, impairs the athlete's performance by no longer reaching extreme levels in speed and effort, due to the size of the muscles.


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[126] [127] Ronaldo, however, later reported that his weaker than normal tune was based on personal problems.


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[128] Having overcome his problems, he again found efficiency in his goalscoring and broke one of the Champions League goal records: Ronaldo as the first person to score more than ten goals in an individual season in the early group stage.


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[128] Real Madrid again faced Atlético Madrid in the Champions League final.


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The match ended up with Real Madrid winning 2-1, where Ronaldo scored the decisive winning goal in the penalty shootout.


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Ronaldo ended his Champions League season with 16 goals and won the goal exchange.


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The race's goal exchange win was the fifth overall for Ronaldo in his entire career.


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For the 2016—17 season Ronaldo signed a five-year extension contract with Real Madrid in November 2016.


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[129] Taking into account all club competitions, Ronaldo managed to score 42 times in the 2016—17 season.


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Ronaldo scored a hat-trick in the club teams' final of World Cup competitions, two goals in the Champions League final and the winning goal in the decisive closing round of LaLiga.


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[130] The season was the most successful in Real Madrid club history.


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The team won a total of four trophies from the Champions League, LaLiga, World Cup competitions and the UEFA Super Cup.


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[131] Season 2017—2018 on 16 December 2017 Ronaldo scored the only goal of the club team World Cup finals with a free kick and thus settled the world title for Real Madrid.


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[132] Juventus (2018—) Season 2018—2019 Ronaldo transferred in July 2018 to Juventus for €105 million.


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The contract is four-year and during that he will earn around €120m after tax.


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[133] National club European Championships 2004 Ronaldo played his first match for the Portuguese national team on 20 August 2003 against Kazakhstan.


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He was selected to be included in the national team line-up for the 2004 European Championship home competitions.


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He managed twice in scoring during the tournament, the first coming in a group stage match against Greece and the second in a semi-final match against the Netherlands.


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At the conclusion of the competitions, he was selected for the constellation team.


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[134] Cristiano won silver with his team.


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[135] World Cup 2006 Ronaldo was the second top scorer of European World Cup qualifiers with his seven goals.


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For his first goal in the tournament itself, he scored from a penalty kick against Iran.


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In the quarter-final match against England played on 1 July 2006, Ronaldo's then club teammate Wayne Rooney was driven off the field with a straight red card after trampling Ricardo Carvalho, who had been lying on the ground.


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The English media claimed Ronaldo influenced the decision-making of match referee Horacio Elizondo with his strong protest.


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After Rooney flew off the pitch, a TV camera captured Ronaldo's wink towards his own interchange bench.


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In post-match interviews, he denied any allegations of pressuring the referee.


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[136] After what happened, an angry English media recommended Ronaldo to leave Manchester United and move on to the rest of the series.


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[137] The strongest addresses were Spanish giant Real Madrid.


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[138] However, Manchester United head coach Alex Ferguson wanted to keep Ronaldo in his squad and sent assistant coach Carlos Queiroz to clarify the situation with the Portuguese star.


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He eventually decided to stay in Manchester and in April 2007 signed a new five-year extension contract with the team.


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[139] The team eventually finished fourth in the tournament after losing the bronze match to host nation Germany by numbers 1—3.


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European Championships 2008 and World Cup 2010 Ronaldo served as captain of the national team for the first time in a friendly match against Brazil played on 6 February 2007.


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He scored eight goals in the 2008 European Championship qualifiers, but in the competitions themselves he managed to score only once, where Portugal fell in the quarterfinals against Germany.


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In July 2008, Carlos Queiroz was named the new head coach of the national team, after which he announced Ronaldo would continue to serve as a regular captain.


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[140] Portugal began their World Cup competition career on 15 June 2010 against Ivory Coast, which eventually ended with a draw 0—0.


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He scored his only goal of the tournament in the second match of the group stage against North Korea, which Portugal won 7—0.


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The goal generated in the match was the first for Ronaldo with the national team in six months.


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[141] Portugal's tie was broken in the tournament to the quarter-semi-finals, where they lost 1—0 to Spain.


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European Championships 2012 European Championships hosted by Poland and Ukraine Ronaldo responded to critics who have criticized him for not being capable of similar goals in the national team as the club team.


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In the first two games of the final tournament, Ronaldo failed to score.


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However, in the closing game of the early group against Holland, Ronaldo scored both goals for Portugal in a 2—1 win.


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[142] Portugal advanced to the quarterfinals, where it faced the Czech Republic.


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Ronaldo bagged the only goal of the match at the 79th minute mark.


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[143] In the semi-finals Portugal faced Spain, who had thus knocked Portugal out of the quarter-finals two years ago.


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Spain also beat Portugal now that they managed a goalless 120 minutes in a penalty shootout to win 4—2.


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[144] Ronaldo was listed as Portugal's fifth draftsman and was thus unable to shoot a comma at all.


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Ronaldo's behaviour was called quite selfish for this reason.


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It was reported that even under threat of losing, he would have insisted on being the match decider, and to be awarded the honour of being Portugal's fifth shooter in the penalty shootout.


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[145] [146] World Cup qualification at the 2014 World Cup in Brazil Ronaldo suffered a knee injury.


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[147] He was forced to miss intra-team workouts in the middle due to pain in the knee.


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[148] [149] [150] [151] In November 2015, he revealed in an interview with German magazine Kicker that he was unable to play another day after the Games without feeling pain in his knee.


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[152] Portugal ultimately failed to survive beyond the group stage, with only one goal and one pass leading to a goal in Ronaldo's statistics.


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[153] Generally speaking, the 2014 World Cup has been regarded as a major disappointment for Ronaldo and a Portugal accustomed to success.


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[154] European Championships 2016 Ronaldo scored in his third starting group match against Hungary two goals and fed one, with the match ending tied 3-3.


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In doing so, he became the first player ever to score in four European Championships.


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[8] In total Ronaldo scored three goals in the tournament and provided three assists leading to the goal.


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In the playoffs, he influenced the result directly in each semi-final.


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In the quarter-semi-finals against Croatia, Ronaldo fed the only goal of the match in the 27th minute of the follow-up.


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He shot the ball towards goal, allowing Croatian Danijel Subašić to succeed in the tackle.


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The return ball bounced from the backhand to the goal by Ricardo Quaresma.


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[155] In the quarterfinal stage, Ronaldo acted against Poland as his team's first shooter in the penalty shootout.


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He was successful in scoring, and Portugal won the competition 5-3 as well as the entire match 2-1.


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[156] In the run-up to the final, Portugal defeated the Welsh national team 2-0.


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Ronaldo scored the first of the match and fed Nani his second goal of the match.


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Ronaldo's hit was similarly the match-winning goal.


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With a header goal, he became the highest-scoring player in European Championship competitions along with Michel Platini.


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[7] In the first half of the final, Ronaldo injured his knee and as a result he was unable to participate in the match again.


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[157] [158] Portugal won the title with a follow-up goal from Éder.


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[159] [160] Private life Cristiano Ronaldo derived his second first name from Ronald Reagan's given name, for this was an actor admired by his father and President of the United States at the time of Ronaldo's birth.


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Ronaldo has a brother and two sisters, but is the youngest of his siblings.


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However, Ronaldo's mother Dolores Aveiro has admitted to the media that she considered an abortion on Cristiano because the family had not hoped for another fourth child.


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Ronaldo's father died from injuries caused by alcoholism when Ronaldo was 20 years old.


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[161] Ronaldo was a well-regarded pupil at school among others in his younger years, but not a particularly successful student in the opinion of his teachers.


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In his own words, he threw a chair at one teacher because he had disdained the financial situation of the Ronaldo family.


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The scene that led to the separation was not considered surprising, as Ronaldo was not at all interested in his own schooling in his youth, and had major problems with it.


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Eventually, he and his mother decided that Ronaldo would drop out of school altogether at the age of 14 and concentrate full-time on football as a semi-pro.


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[10] Even at the age of 22, Cristiano Ronaldo liked a slightly unsuitable lifestyle for an athlete and he spent a lot of time, for example, in nightclubs.


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Ronaldo himself has admitted that he did not tend to come home until 3am and thus it was not possible to get the necessary amount of rest typically required of professional athletes.


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[152] In the same year, a scandal that caused a stir was revealed, involving, in addition to Ronaldo, a few team-mates from Manchester United, when they had group sex together with five women with prostitutes.


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[162] Ronaldo announced in July 2010 that he had become the father of a boy child.


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She is currently acting as a single parent to the child and the identity of the mother is not brought into the public domain.


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[163] Ronaldo said that he gave his child the name Cristiano Ronaldo dos Santos Junior.


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[164] Ronaldo dated and was engaged to Russian supermodel Irina Shayk between 2010 and 2015.


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[165] They split when rumours emerged that Ronaldo was cheating on his spouse with Brazilian Andressa Urach.


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However, Ronaldo denied all the rumours regarding his girlfriend cheating on him.


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[166] In the fall of 2016, Ronaldo had a brief affair with Miss Spain Desirée Cordero.


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[167] [168] Ronaldo had twins in June 2017, daughter Eva Maria and son Mateo.


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[169] On November 12, 2017, Ronaldo had a daughter named Alana Martina, whose mother is Georgina Rodriguez.


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She and Ronaldo have been together since 2016.


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[170] Rape allegations During his sporting career, Ronaldo has also been surrounded by rape allegations.


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When Ronaldo was still playing for Manchester United, he was the victim of rape allegations in 2005.


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A British woman claimed Ronaldo raped her in a London hotel suite.


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Ronaldo himself, as well as his representatives, strenuously denied the allegations, detailing the underlying attention-seeking and attempts to sell the rape story to the British press.


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[171] In 2017, Der Spiegel reported that Ronaldo would have paid a rape victim to remain silent.


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The alleged rape would have occurred in 2009 in Las Vegas, USA.


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According to Der Spiegel, after the incident, Ronaldo and the litigator's representatives would have agreed on a compensation sum of 372,000 for the woman to prevent this from bringing the event into the public eye.


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[172] Income Financial magazine Forbes says Cristiano Ronaldo was the most successful athlete in the world financially in 2017.


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The sum of his income was estimated at around €82.7 million.


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Revenues consisted of both advertising revenue, which accounts for about 31.1 million, and wage income, which accounted for about €51.6 million.


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[173] Ronaldo's major sponsors include Nike, Tag Heuer, Sacoor Brothers, Monster Headphones, Herbalife and Abbott Labs.


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[174] [175] Ronaldo's approximately 200 million social media followers have played a big role in advertising revenue, as wide visibility raises the value that advertising brings.


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[174] Tax evasion Ronaldo was the subject of a tax evasion scandal in June 2017.


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[176] It emerged that Ronaldo had possibly recycled his income through tax havens between 2011 and 2014.


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Spanish tax experts estimate it is possible that Ronaldo recycled his income through the Virgin Islands for up to €160m.


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Under Spanish law, this could mean up to six years in prison at worst, as the penalty can be calculated on the principle of two years in prison for every year of tax evasion.


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According to the Tax Administration, it is possible to reduce the penalty if the taxes are paid accordingly.


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[177] [178] In June 2018, Ronaldo reached an agreement with the Spanish tax authorities for a two-year suspended prison sentence and fines of EUR 18.8 million.


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By the early 2010s, Ronaldo had failed to pay taxes worth €14.7 million.


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[179] Statistics Club Team Updated 24 May 2018.


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[2] [180] 1Other competitions have included the FA Community Shield, FIFA Club World Cup, Supercopa de España and UEFA Super Cup.


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National Team National team Statistics Updated 1 July 2018.


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National Team Goals Updated 22 June 2018.


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[181] Achievements and awards Club team Manchester United: English major league championship: 2006—07, 2007—08, 2008—09 England Cup: 2003—04 English League Cup: 2005—06, 2008—09 English Supercup: 2007 Champions League: 2007—08 Club teams World Championship: 2008 Real Madrid: Spanish Main League Championship: 2011—12, 2016—17 Spanish Cup: 2010—11, 2013—2014 Spanish Supercup: 2012, 2017 Champions League: 2013—2014, 2015—2016, 2016—2017, 2017—2018 European Supercup: 2014, 2016, 2017 Club Teams World Championship: 2014, 2016, 2017 National Team Portugal: European Championship: Gold: 2016 Silver: 2004 Bronze: 2012 Personal English: Premier League Player of the Season: 2006—07 Premier League Player of the Month: November 2006, December 2006, January 2008, March 2008 Premier League Season Top Scorer: 2007—08 FWA Player of the Year: 2007, 2008 PFA Players' Player of the Year: 2007, 2008 PFA Young Player of the Year: 2007 PFA Team of the Year: 2005—06, 2006—07, 2007—08 PFA Supporters' Player of the Year: 2007, 2008 PFA Supporters' Player of the Year: 2007, 2008 PFA Supporters' Player of the Month: October 2006, February 2007 Manchester United Supporters' Player of the Year: 2003—04, 2006—07, 2007—08 Spain: Pichichi Award: 2010—11, 2013—14, 2014—15 Di Stéfano Award: 2011—12, 2012—13, 2013—14, 2015—16 LFP Most Valuable Player: 2012—13 LFP Best Player: 2013—14 LFP Best Striker: 2013—14 LFP Season Finest Goal: 2013—2014 Portugal: Portuguese Sportsman of the Year: 2006 Portuguese Footballer of the Year: 2007 International: FIFA Golden Ball: 1st Place: 2013, 2014 2nd. Place: 2011, 2012, 2015 Golden Ball: 1st Place: 2008, 2016, 2017 2nd Place: 2007, 2009 FIFA Player of the Year: 1st Place: 2008, 2016, 2017 2nd Place: 2009 3rd Place: 2007 European Golden Boot: 2007—2008, 2010—2011, 2013—2014, 2014—15 Puskás Trophy: 2009 Champions League season top scorer: 2007—08, 2012—13, 2013—14, 2014—15, 2015—2016 Selection for FIFPro's Team of the Year: 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 FIFPro Special Young Player of the Year: 2004—05, 2005—06 European Football Association Team of the Year: 2004, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 Selection for the European Championship Tournament's Best Team: 2004, 2012, 2016 Trofeo Bravo: 2004 World Soccer Magazine Player of the Year: 2008, 2013 Onze d'Or (Onze Mundial Magazine Player of the Year): 2008, 2013 Literature Citation error, replace with {{cite book| author = Ortego, Enrique| title = Sueños cumplidos| publisher = Editorial Everest| year = 2009| isbn = 9788444102412| accessdate = 12/15/2009}} Citation error, replace with {{cite book| author = Caioli, Luca| title = Ronaldo| publisher = Minerva Cost| year = 2013| isbn = 9789523120655| accessdate=1.7.2017}} Sources On the subject elsewhere (in Spanish) Transclusion error: {{En}} is only for use in File namespace.


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The Democratic Republic of the Congo (,) is a state in Central Africa.


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As a distinction from the Republic of the Congo, the Congo country of Brazzaville, the specification Kinshasan Congo or Congo-Kinshasa is sometimes used according to the country's capital.


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Congo's neighboring countries are the Republic of the Congo, Central African Republic, South Sudan, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Zambia, Tanzania and Angola.


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[1] The country has a small 37-kilometer-long coastal strip in the Gulf of Guinea.


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Prior to 1971, the country might have been called the Belgian Congo [2] or Leopoldville Congo after the then capital.


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From 1971 to 1997, the country was called Zaire [3].


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A citizen of the Democratic Republic of the Congo is referred to as Congolese or Kinshasancongolese according to the Centre for Domestic Languages.


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[4] History Prehistory 2000 BC.


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From the 5th century until the 5th century, Bantu migrated into the territory of the present-day Democratic Republic of the Congo from the northwest, among and in place of pygmies who lived in the region


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Subsequent popular migrations from northern Sudan and East Africa increased the spectrum of peoples in the region.


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The Bantu imported iron making skills and cultivation methods and varieties from West Africa.


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[5] Local kingdoms in the territory of the Democratic Republic of the Congo developed cultures original before Belgian rule.


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Beginning in the 12th century, a series of city-states emerged in the lower reaches of the Congo River, with their joining together formed the Kingdom of the Congo, whose heyday lasted from the late 14th century to almost the end of the 19th century.


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In the eastern part of the country, a society called Upemba began to develop along the Lualaba River in the 4th century, from which the prominent Luba Kingdom originated.


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This central governing kingdom prevailed in the south-east of the country from the 16th century to the end of the 19th century.


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The Kingdoms of Rwanda, Lunda and Chokwe have also been affected in the area of present-day Congo and its neighboring countries.


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The center of Lunda was in present-day Katanga Province, the Chokwet may have left the Kasai region but sided with present-day Angola.


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[6] Time of Belgian rule The first European explorer to sail to the Congo was the Portuguese Diego Cão.


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Under his influence, King Afonso I of the Congo converted to Christianity and opened the country to trade and other European influence.


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However, no attempt was made to colonise the Congo until until the late 19th century, when King Leopold II of Belgium gained control of the country with the help of British explorer Henry Stanley.


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[7] Leopold II formally took control of the Congo Free State at the Berlin Conference of 1885.


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He got it as his personal property.


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To govern the area, the “philanthropic” joint-stock company Association Internationale Africaine was established, whose sole shareholder was Leopold II.


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[8] The motives were financial.


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Ivory was first obtained from Congo and later natural rubber, which was needed by the new rubber industry.


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Commercial ambitions were achieved through extraordinarily brutal terror, so that dehumanised subjects would acquire as much rubber as possible for their hosts.


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When knowledge of the circumstances was revealed in the early 20th century, an international scandal arose from it.


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The death toll has been later estimated at 4—8 million, [9] with others estimating as high as 10 million or half of the then population.


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[10] King Leopold's greedy and brutal policies in the Congo brought about international aggravation.


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This is why in 1908 the area was converted from the King's private property to the Belgian colony under the name Belgian Congo.


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The name of the colonial mistress at the beginning of the name was needed to distinguish it from the neighbouring French Congo, namely the present-day Republic of the Congo.


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Forced labor continued even during the colonial period.


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The Belgians are trying to build infrastructure that supported the export of resources out of the country.


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Otherwise, it neglected the development of the land.


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[10] Independence and the Congo Crisis Congo gained peaceful independence from Belgium in 1960, [7] although Belgium interfered with its domestic and economic policies for a long time.


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Immediately after the country gained independence, the five-year Congo crisis began, which became a combination of the struggle for independence, separatism in the wealthiest regions, the Cold War U.S.-Soviet proxy war, coups and UN peacekeeping missions.


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The country drifted into a politically unstable state that continued for five years.


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Across the country, there were rebellions and regional independence movements, all defeated with support from foreign powers and the UN.


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[7] The country held parliamentary elections in 1960, which was won by the MNC-L (Congolese National Movement).


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Its leader, Patrice Lumumba, became Congo's first prime minister.


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Joseph Kasa-Vubu of ABAKO was elected president.


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[7] South Kasai Province declared independence on 14 June.


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Albert Kalonji rose to be its president.


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[11] In July 1960, the army revolted and Katanga Province declared independence under Moise Chombe.


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Chombe requested the support of the Belgian Armed Forces, to which Belgium formally agreed to in order to protect its citizens.


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The UN Security Council decided to send troops to the country to restore order, but they were not allowed to interfere in the country's internal affairs.


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[7] Lumumba requested Soviet troops at Kasai, which angered the United States, which began supporting Kasa-Vubu and army commander Joseph-Désiré Mobutu.


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[12] On September 5, Kasa-Vubu announced on radio Lumumba's resignation, to which Lumumba responded by announcing the president's arrest.


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[13] After a week, Mobutu, previously appointed as leader by Lumumba, placed him under house arrest and seized power with the support of the CIA.


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Lumumba was later executed.


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[14] [12] The following year the UN began disarming Katanga's largely white mercenaries and annexing the province back into the Congo.


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UN Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld, who had been active in resolving the Congo question, was killed in a plane crash in Congo the same year.


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Congolese troops annexed Kasai to the country after a four-month military operation.


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Katanga was brought into possession of UN forces by January 1963.


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[15] In the Eastern and Kivu provinces, the Simba Rebellion broke out in early 1964, resulting in Moise Chombe being appointed Prime Minister.


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The rebels took 1600 Western hostages.


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Congo also requested the help of the U.S. and Belgium, who freed the European hostages.


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[16] On November 25, 1965, army commander Joseph-Désiré Mobutu, better known by his later name Mobutu Sese Seko, seized power with Western support and established a one-party system.


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Mr Chombe, a former prime minister, faced charges and fled the country.


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The West saw Mobutu as a guarantee against communism.


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His administration has been accused of human rights violations, repression, a cult of personnel and rampant corruption, even so much so that the regime has been given the mock name “kleptocracy.”


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Mobutu acquired a large fortune for himself by embezzling government assets and demanding bribes: billions of dollars were deposited in foreign bank accounts.


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[17] Mobutu's reign Mobutu's regime was apolitical at first and even anti-politics.


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In five years, he said, politicians had ruined the country, and after five years there would be no more political parties in the country.


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Mobutu gained almost full power under emergency rule and sought to cut the power of politicians.


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The number of provinces was reduced and their self-government was cut.


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Parliament lost its importance and at times was abolished.


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In 1966 Mobutu founded the volunteer movement “The Volunteer Troops of the Republic” and sought to rally behind him a popular movement.


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He dubbed himself “the second national hero” after Lumumba, who had been in the process of being ousted.


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In 1967, the People's Movement for the Revolution (Mouvement Populaire de la Révolution; MPR) was created, which until 1990 was the only party allowed.


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Its membership became compulsory for all citizens.


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[18] Also, all unions were merged into one larger union.


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There was initially resistance against Mobutu.


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In 1966, four ministers were arrested and publicly executed on charges of masterminding a coup d'état.


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The Katangan Rebellion was crushed as was the rebellion of white mercenaries in 1967.


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By 1970, almost all resistance had been defeated and the government gained control of the country.


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To emphasize African identity, Mobutu renamed his country Zaire in October 1971.


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[19] He ordered everyone to renounce Christian names and in 1972 he adopted for himself the new African name Mobutu Sese Seko Kuku Ngbendu Wa Za Bang</i>a (“An all-powerful victorious fighter who goes from conquest to conquest sowing fire”), which was shortened in everyday use to Mobutu Sese Seko.


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[20] Western costumes were replaced by a garment called an abacost, the wearing of which was compulsory for civil servants and ministers.


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In addition, the largest cities in the Congo were given new African names — for example, Léopoldville became Kinshasa, Elisabethville became Lubumbashi, and Stanleyville became Kisangani.


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[18] [21] [22] Mobutu nationalised foreign-owned companies and drove Europeans out of Zaire in 1973.


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What ensued was an economic meltdown so deep and severe that investors had to be courted back to 1976.


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Few returned.


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[23] Due to Mobutu's failed economic policies, the economy of Zaire, one of its natural riches, was mired in crisis and hyperinflation.


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[24] Mobutu needed contributions from former colonial mistress Belgium, France and the United States to curb attacks by Katangan rebels operating from Angola in 1977 and 1978.


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[20] Mobutu's reelection was voted on in 1977 and 1984, but neither time did he have any opposing candidates.


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[20] [25] An impressive cult of personalities was created around Mobutu, to sustain which portraits depicting Mobutu were erected in public places and propaganda praising him was circulated in the media.


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In 1983, Mobutu was named Field Marshal.


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During Mobutu's reign, his personal wealth grew and was eventually estimated to be worth around five billion US dollars.


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[21] The amount he deposited in foreign bank accounts was equivalent to Zaire's sovereign debt.


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Mobutu acquired his vast fortune by diverting revenues from Zaire's export products—gold, copper, diamonds and oil—to himself.


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At the same time, the people became so greatly impoverished that no wages could be paid.


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Urban infrastructure collapsed and people suffered famine.


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Zaire's only well-earners were Mobutu's relatives and friends.


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At the time of Mobutu's plunge into power, the country's economy had fallen to pre-independence levels of 1958, [26] [27] although the population was three times that of that time.


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Despite the dictatorship, many Western countries, notably the United States and France, and the International Monetary Fund supported Mobutu's regime, who had adopted anti-communism as its cause.


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Also behind Mobutu's endorsement was Western desire for access to Zaire's vast natural resources, and the damming of the threat of communism in central Africa.


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[23] In particular, U.S. relations with Zaire remained warm; Jimmy Carter's administration provided half of the development aid funds earmarked for sub-Saharan Africa to Kinshasa Congo, and during Ronald Reagan's administration, for example, Mobutu visited the White House three times.


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In 1980, the U.S. House of Representatives voted to end military aid to Zaire, but the Senate reversed the decision.


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After Mobutu's period, the implosion of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War forced Mobutu to change his policies in a democratic direction.


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Beginning in 1990, the country transitioned to multi-party rule, and a National Assembly was formed, which appointed a prime minister from the opposition and began holding parliamentary elections.


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[28] Refugees fleeing the victory of the Rwandan Patriotic Front from Rwanda, mainly Hutus who feared Tutsi reprisals following the Rwandan genocide, brought eastern Congo into turmoil.


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Laurent Kabila, who had rebelled there already in the 1960s without success, whom Che Guevara had gone to support in the 1960s, took advantage of the opportunity and led the “Union of Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Congo” (AFDL) in the First Congo War (1996—97) against Mobutu and managed to plunge him from power in 1997.


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[29] The main part of the AFDL force were Tutsis.


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It was supported by leaders of states in the Great Lakes region, mainly Paul Kagame of Rwanda and Yoweri Museveni of Uganda.


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The AFDL advanced down the Congo River, encountering only minor resistance as Kinhasa army troops switched sides.


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Kabila gained credibility by being a longtime opponent of Mobutu and a supporter of Patrice Lumumba.


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On May 16, 1997, the multinational force advanced on Lubumbashi Airport as negotiations broke down and Mobutu fled the country.


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On the same day, Kabila declared himself president.


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[7] In 1997, the name of the state was changed from Zaire back to the Democratic Republic of the Congo.


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[3] However, Kabila soon began to be accused of autocratic and corruption similar to that of his predecessor.


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[30] He turned against his Rwandan supporters after their refusal to withdraw from the country's rich eastern provinces.


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In July 1998, Kabila demanded that Ugandan and Rwandan troops leave the country.


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[31] Subsequently, rebels backed by Uganda and Rwanda began military action, while Zimbabwe, Angola, Namibia, Chad and Sudan supported the Kabila regime.


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[32] For many years there were Zimbabwean troops, up to 11000 men, which were costly for Zimbabwe to equip and maintain.


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[33] This was seen as one of the reasons for the country's subsequent economic collapse.


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A ceasefire was agreed in 1999, but military action continued even after that.


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On 16 January 2001, Laurent Kabila was assassinated in Zimbabwe, after which parliament unanimously elected his son Joseph Kabila as president.


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A peace agreement was concluded under a new president in 2002 in South Africa and a transitional government was established in the country to draft a new constitution.


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[7] The Congo War is one of the wars that claimed the highest number of casualties [34].


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Three to four million people died in the war, about half of them children.


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[35] In particular, the war in eastern Congo involved nine African states and directly affected the lives of 50 million Congolese.


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[36] Despite the scale of the conflict and the number of its casualties, the Congo war has largely been neglected outside the surrounding areas.


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[37] On 30 July 2006, the country held its first multi-party elections in 46 years.


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$460 million was donated for the internationally supervised elections and overseen by UN MONUC peacekeepers.


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Kabila received the most votes in the first round, defeating Jean-Pierre Bemba in the second round and was sworn in on 6 December 2006.


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In accordance with the peace treaty, private armies of various parties were to be annexed to the country's army, but both Bemba and Azarias Ruberwa refused this.


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Bemba's forces and the country's army fought at Kinshasa from 22—23.


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in March 2007 around 600 killed in unrest before Bemba's defeat.


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[38] [39] A faction of Tutsi rebels fighting Hutus in eastern Congo, North Kivu, led by Laurent Nkunda, caused widespread unrest since October 2008, driving 250,000 locals into refugees.


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Nkunda's forces advanced near Goma and he was reported to be receiving assistance from the Rwandan government.


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However, in January 2009, Nkunda was arrested by Rwandan forces.


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[40] Rape and brutal sexual violence have been a characteristic of the conflict in eastern Congo.


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The various factions may even have been identified according to the atrocities characteristic of them.


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[41] [42] Parliamentary and presidential elections were held in November 2011, fielding 10 candidates.


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Joseph Kabila's main opposing candidate was Etienne Tshisekendi.


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[43] Elections should have been held in 2016, but they were postponed until 2018.


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[44] Geography The Democratic Republic of the Congo is located on the equator and has an area of 2345410 square kilometers, of which 3.3% is water.


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The country lies mainly in the heart of Africa in the Congo River basin and is a rainforest state.


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The capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo is Kinshasa.


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The Democratic Republic of the Congo has a coastline of only 37 kilometres [1], although it is located on the Atlantic Ocean coast.


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The eastern border of the state is formed by the western branch of the East African burial shed with its mountains and lakes (the Great Lakes of Africa).


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Flowing through the state, the Congo River is the second longest river in all of Africa and the largest in terms of water volume in the world after the Amazon.


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The vast westward highlands of the central part of the country belongs to the tropical rainforest zone.


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On its western side are mountain uplands.


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To the south and southwest, the plains combine to form grass savannas.


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In the north, dense grasses extend across the Congo River.


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The highest mountains of the country are located in its eastern corner.


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The climate of the Congo River basin is hot and humid, while the southern grassland plains are hot and dry.


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The average rainfall for the whole country is 1,070mm.


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[45] There are seven national parks in Congo, five of which are UNESCO World Heritage Sites: Garamba National Park, Kahuzi-Biega National Park, Okapi Animal Reserve, Salonga National Park and Virunga National Park.


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The last wild zairenbroad-lip rhinoceros live in Garamba National Park.


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Virunga and Kahuzi-Biega are known for their gorillas, Okapi has forest elephants in addition to okapi.


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Salonga National Park is the largest tropical rainforest protected area in all of Africa.


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[46] Provinces of Congo are divided into 26 provinces.


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[47] The provincial division came into operation in stages from 2011 to 2015.


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Many statistics still use the old division of ten provinces.


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[48] Largest cities [49] placeCity residents (2007) 1Kinshasa84188192Lubumbashi14852883Kolwezi9772924Mbuji- Mayi9191665Kisangani5557536Kananga4770177Likasi4536558Boma3599279Tshikapa28488810Bukavu227908 Population Ethnic groups in Congo live in over 200 different ethnic groups, most of which belong to Bantu.


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The four largest groups, three of which are Bantu (Mongos, Lubas and Congos) and Hamitic zandes together make up 45% of the population.


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[1] Possibly a more accurate distribution published in the 1990s was lubat 18%, congos 16%, mongos 13%, rwandas 10%, zandet 6%, bangit and ngalet 6%, and others 30%.


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[50] Languages There are more than 200 different languages spoken in the Congo.


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[51] Due to the diversity of the population, more intermediate languages are used in the Congo for inter-ethnic communication.


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The official language of the country is French, which is used in administration and radio factual programs.


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The most popular language used between different ethnic groups is Lingala, which is also most commonly used as the language of entertainment and popular music.


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[52] In addition to the official language, French, Congo has four national languages: Congo, Lingala, Luluanluba and Swahili.


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[45] Regionally, the languages are divided so that Congo is spoken in the south-west of the country, Lingala in the north, Luluanluba in the central part, and Swahili in the east and south.


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The language of the capital Kinshasa is Lingala, but other national languages are spoken there as a result of the migration.


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[53] Public Health, AIDS In 2007, it was estimated that HIV carriers comprised about 1.3% of the adult population, a total of about 450,000 people.


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ARVT medication would have needed 100000—150,000 people, but it was received by less than a third, maybe only a fifth of them, less than 30,000 people.


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The medication situation had improved, albeit slowly, in 2005 less than 5% of those who needed medicine.


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[54] Maternal mortality is very high.


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In 2015, an average of 693 mothers perished per 100,000 births in the country.


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[55] The Democratic Republic of the Congo is one of the world's worst areas for sleeping sickness spread by the tsetse fly, in the first decade of the 21st century 70% of the world's sleep disease cases were detected there, in 2008 and 2009 it was one of two countries with more than 1,000 new cases.


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[56] Of the 11 UN Millennium Development Goals, the achievement of three are considered possible: the goals of equality, the environment and AIDS.


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[57] Politics Congo is a semi-presidential republic.


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[1] The second round of the 2006 presidential election was survived by then-sitting President Joseph Kabila (44.8% of the vote) and sitting Vice President Jean-Pierre Bemba (20.0%).


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The second-round election was won by Joseph Kabila with 58.1% of the vote.


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[58] The most votes Kabila received from the Swahili speaking eastern part of the country, where he is from.


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Jean-Pierre Bemba was more popular in the west of the country.


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[59] After the results were declared, Bemba raised suspicions of electoral fraud, and his supporters rioted in major cities in the north.


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Election observers, however, said the election had been conducted largely peacefully and fairly.


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[60] Legislative power is exercised by a bicameral parliament; the 108 members of its Senate are elected from provinces and 61 of the 500 members of the lower house are elected by majority voting from single-member constituencies and 439 from multi-MP constituencies by proportional representation.


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[1] Economy Congo is a sparsely populated country with rich ore resources.


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Yet its gross domestic product per capita is among the smallest in the world.


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Years of mismanagement, corruption and wars have been attributed to the causes of poverty.


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[45] Congo's main natural resources include many extractives such as oil and coal, diamonds, as well as cobalt, copper, niobium, tantalum, silver, zinc, manganese, tin and uranium.


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The country also has hydroelectric power and timber.


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[1] The importance of agriculture to the economic life of the country is great.


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Most of its products go to domestic consumption.


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Among the food crops, cassava, maize, legumes and peanuts are the most notable.


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Coffee, rubber, palm oil, cotton, cocoa, sugar and tea are grown on sale.


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[45] UN Development Programme as measured by the Human Development Index (HDI) calculated by UNDP.


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Congo was ranked 176 out of a total of 185 countries assessed in 2007.


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[61] Transport in Congo consists of 26 airports with a permanent paving on the runway, and 168 other aerodromes.


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There are about four thousand kilometers of railways.


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Of the extensive road network, less than three thousand kilometers are paved.


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[1] Culture During Mobutu Sese Seko's time, the official ideology was to value Africanism and avoid Western influences.


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Skin lightening, hair straightening, Western music and names based on Christian tradition were banned.


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People were instructed to wear an abacost, a collarless outfit that closely resembled a Mao suit instead of a suit and tie.


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[62] It is part of the culture of the Congolese to dress neatly.


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Rumba music imported from Cuba is popular.


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[63] The earliest Congolese literature was small accounts of rural life published by missionaries, often published in local languages.


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In 1945, the French-language monthly publication La Voix du Congolais began to appear.


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In 1962, the Centre for Congolese Literature was established at the Catholic University of Kinshasa, and a new generation of writers emerged, as trained by it.


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In the troubled years of the 21st century, however, many have fled abroad.


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[64] Sports The most popular sport in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is football, which is played by about two and a half million inhabitants of the country [65].


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The country's men's representative team has been ranked top 46 in the FIFA rankings and has won the African Championship in 1968 and 1974.


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[66] The team has played in World Cup competitions once, in 1974.


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[66] The DRC has participated in the Olympics a total of eight times since the 1968 Games, but no representative of the country has won an Olympic medal.


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[67] Perhaps the most famous athlete in the DRC is sprinter Gary Kikaya, who served as his country's flag bearer at the 2004 Olympics [67] and has also been very successful at international level.


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Other well-known Kinshasancongolese athletes include basketball player Dikembe Mutombo and footballer Lomana LuaLua.


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Literature Van Reybrouk, David: Congo, History.


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Siltala kustannus, Helsinki 2013, ISBN 978-952-234-128-0 Sources on the topic elsewhere Category:43 Africa * Category:Key articles of screening


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Dance is an art form in which a person moves his body, usually rhythmically according to music, to produce aesthetic experiences, to amuse, as a social activity, or to express something through his dance.


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Dance can also be seen on religious and other spiritual occasions.


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On the other hand, some religious groups take a rejection of dance, seeing it as a sin.


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Dance can be both adherence to predetermined step patterns, or a completely improvised movement, often to the beat of music.


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Step patterns are often associated with traditional dances such as waltz, foxtrot, and polonesis.


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A dance can also be an artistic performance, in which case it often has a predetermined choreography.


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A dance performance may also be based either partly or entirely on improvisation.


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Elements of dance are also used interdisciplinarily in the context of theatre, circus art, as well as various performance.


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Dance can be performed in pairs, alone, or in a group.


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The definition of dance is influenced by social, cultural, aesthetic, and moral definitions and boundaries.


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Pattern floats as well as kata sequences for martial arts enthusiasts can be considered as dance.


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American anthropologist Judith Lynne Hanna defines dance as “human behavior that, from the dancer's point of view, consists of meaningful, thoughtfully rhythmized and culture-shaped episodes of nonverbal body movements that differ from the usual business activities in it that there is an internal and aesthetic need for movement”.


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[1] In animals, dancing can be part of a mating ritual, bees are known for their dance to tell other hive bees where to find nectar.


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The chord dance of the cucumbers is particularly handsome to look at.


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Dance can also be called, for example, the movement caused by the wind in the leaves of trees and other plants.


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In this case, the expression of motion is used figuratively.


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Certain styles of music are specifically referred to as dance music.


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Dance art Art dance includes various forms of performing dance (stage dance).


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They include ballet, jazz dance, modern dance, contemporary dance, and dance theatre, among others.


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In folk dance, flamenco and tap, works now read as dance art are also performed.


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In the Western world, ballet can be considered the first form of dance art, in the circle of which artistic goals came to dance for the first time, the transfer of dance to the stage and performers specializing in dance.


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Also, many traditional theatrical forms of Asian culture, for example, may well be considered dance art, since they are largely based on business expression.


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Dance as an art form is peculiar to the fact that the creator of dance is at the same time a work of art and his own body and all its movements as the medium of art.


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Through the kinesthetic sense, they affect the viewer's muscles.


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When the dance is over it is also forever lost and it is no longer possible to return to it.


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(This momentarity has contributed to the fact that dance, despite its long history, was relatively little studied.)


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Dance art constantly strives to regenerate and find fresh ways of expression.


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Its different species take influences from each other and also the inter-arts creates new manifestations for it that do not fit into the old definitions.


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As typical of contemporary art, it tends to break the limits imposed on it, so definitions become obsolete quickly.


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On the other hand, some of its forms have centuries of tradition, within which renewal is moderate and even strictly based on old aesthetic ideals.


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Early History of Western Performing Dance Accurate information about when people began dancing is not, but there is good reason to assume it began as early as the obscurity of prehistory.


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In the circle of almost all surviving tribal cultures, dances with orderly patterns, rhythmic periodicities, a special place of performance and are designed to make a certain impression on the spectators.


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The audience may only be the gods from whom the dancer asks for rain, and the grass square as the stage, but these rituals have originated the performing dance.


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In the theatres of Ancient Greece, dityrambs, song and dance performances were performed, in the spring Dionysus celebrations.


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In them, earlier improvisation began to be replaced by purpose-designed songs and dances, thus creating a more precise structure for the ritual.


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In 585 BC.


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the organized dityramb competition inspired groups to develop their performances.


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The practitioner was choregus (the choreographer's stock word) and they were performed with an open-air theatre circle-shaped orchestra for dance.


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At the same time, a form of spoken drama developed at the Dionysus party, with singer-dancers forming a chorus responding to events and commenting on them.


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Their stylized symbolic gestures were called cheironomia.


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The performers at the Dionysus parties were amateurs, but Greece also had professional dancers, slaves who entertained the dinner crowd by playing tricks.


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In addition to juggling and acrobatics, they also performed short mime performances based on goddesses.


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The performances of these dancers therefore combined the advanced skills of dityrambs with the dramatism of the choirs.


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Professional dance continued to evolve in ancient Rome, whose pantomime entertainment was initiated by 22 parts.


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two artists: Pylades and Batyllus.


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They distinguished themselves by performing entire tragedies and myths as solo works, in which they played the roles included in the story, using appropriate music and varying costumes and masks.


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Role interpretations executed with wordless mime were enlivened by elaborate spins, inflections and leaps.


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However, the presentation of physical skills did not emerge as the main issue; the expressive relevance of all gestures and movements was considered important in performing skills.


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Thus, even at that time all the elements of stage dance were visible: in his movements, a skilled performer, a role to be performed, stage, music, costume and staging, as well as the audience.


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The debate over the mutual priorities of these areas has characterised the history of dance in the following centuries.


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A special feature of the development of dance has been the effort to develop the skill of the dancer.


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The physical potential of the actors has remained virtually unchanged, but dancers have sought to expand their capacity by pursuing ever faster, higher-rising and more complex movements.


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This endeavor has called for a more efficient and long-running, ultimately also more scientific, practice, thanks to which the available business vocabulary has steadily expanded.


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Popular in the Roman Empire, pantomime theatre fell into the disfavor of the Churchfathers of the Christian period.


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They taught their parishioners that because the devil arranged stage amusements in hell, they came on earth to be banned.


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Although this doctrine reduced professional performing, the common folk continued to dance.


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Under the influence of the church, the magical significance of the old rituals diminished and they became a social pastime.


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At the same time, Christian-based spectacles began to develop in which biblical events were recounted in the form of wordless plays.


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The renewed interest in ancient mythology with the Renaissance inspired a combination of secular amusements and religious processions in trionphs.


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Lorenzo di Medici organized such festive processions dealing with mythical subjects.


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In them, performers dressed in masks recited poems, sang and danced and finally all performers join at the conclusion of the procession in a great co-dance.


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Italian duchies competed with the awesomeness of their court celebrations, putting on similar types of performances for the dinner crowd.


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Each new dish was presented by a small presentation of a suitable god character: Neptune with mermaids with seafood, Atalanta with wild boar and fruit Pomona.


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From these performances is inherited the French word entrée, an inlet which is still in use in today's menus.


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In the 16th century, dance was first referred to by the word ballet, when it simply meant patterned dance in which periodically changing formations were designed for performers.


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The first ballets were thus semi-stage-managed companionship dances of their own time, loosely attached to a common mythological subject.


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These are the kind of courtiers dance fun that originated ballet as we know it today.


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Its later development has been described in the ballet context of the article.


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There are also their own articles on the history of contemporary dance and its various forms, as well as dance theatre.


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[2] Society dance According to dance researcher Raili Laine, club dancing refers to a public couple dance situation in modern (industrialised) society where people who are unknown to them can dance with each other.


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As examples of club dances, you can hold stage and restaurant dances, salsa nights, Argentine tango proms, and other occasions which are pair dancing events open to the public.


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Society dance is a direct translation of the Gesellschaftstanz word in the German language.


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The word social dance has been used for the first time in 1921 in the course announcement of the Elo Kuosmasen School of Dance.


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Early stages of country dance in Finland among Rahva, dance culture was the first to get started in Southern Ostrobothnia.


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The paragons were apparently obtained from Sweden, as there were dance pins in the coastal towns of the province as early as the mid-17th century or shortly before.


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There was probably a dance in Närpiö in the 1660s, and from 1670 a priest's complaint about dancing rooms and other obscenity in the keeper has been preserved.


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However, the gear of the 17th and 18th centuries was still transitional when it came to dance, because when there was a shortage of violins, one had to resort to singing voice or flute music.


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From various data, it can be concluded that in Sweden, even peasants dominated the dance tradition that came from three directions in the late 17th century: Polish-derived dances, a French-originating minuet, and English contra-dance.


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According to the Swedish example, these have also been danced in Southern Ostrobothnia.


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Still, the strongest tradition was represented by Polish polskas, poloneses and proportions.


Question: Which animals are particularly known for their dancing?

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As dancing became more common after big-hatred, the dance patterns became such that the minuet remained the dance of the coastal folk, and the polska became the dance of the Finnish-speaking population.


Question: Which animals are particularly known for their dancing?

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Polska established itself for almost two centuries.


Question: Which animals are particularly known for their dancing?

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As dance became more widespread, the authorities in Southern Ostrobothnia, especially the clergy, tried to block or curb young people's desires for dancing because they were alleged to be associated with various disturbances and vandalism.


Question: Which animals are particularly known for their dancing?

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In particular, there was opposition to dances on Sunday and feast days, as there was a violation of Sabbath regulations at the time.


Question: Which animals are particularly known for their dancing?

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In religious circles, dancing was considered a sin and opposed because of it.


Question: Which animals are particularly known for their dancing?

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In any case, the dance, together with night running and youth thickening, represented a certain kind of youth awakening as their own group and at the same time the beginning of a culture of amusement.


Question: Which animals are particularly known for their dancing?

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[3] In the second half of the 18th century, dance problems from Southern Ostrobothnia moved with little delay to Central and Northern Ostrobothnia, Satakunta, western part of Häme and Southwest Finland, where church discipline tried to limit youth dances.


Question: Which animals are particularly known for their dancing?

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In the southern provinces, along with dancing, youth also gathered to play on village swings.


Question: Which animals are particularly known for their dancing?

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Dance pursuits spread to Eastern Finland only in the 19th century.


Question: Which animals are particularly known for their dancing?

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[4] In the front keepers of southern Ostrobothnia from the end of the 18th century onwards, acts of restriction of dance were incorporated into keeper conventions and village orders, and at the same time part of the keeper discipline, resulting in violations of dance rules.


Question: Which animals are particularly known for their dancing?

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Unauthorized dancing like this was criminalized.