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I agree that there is no convention and the usage normally depends on the context. I would use one of the following translations: rezoliutsiia - resolution, decision; rasporiazhenie - order, instruction; prikaz - order; ukaz - edict; postanovlenie - decree, decision, resolution; ukazanie - directive, command. I hope you would not consider it as my self-promoting, if I suggested that you might find useful my book _Working with Russian Archival Documents: A Guide to Modern Handwriting, Document Forms, Language Patterns, and Other Related Topics (University of Toronto, 1998) where I offer different examples of documents and discuss at some length the possible translations. Also, there is a glossary of archival terms (some legal ones among them) at my web site at http://www.interlog.com/~moslon/olga.htm. I hope this helps. Dr. Olga E. Glagoleva CREES University of Toronto 416-363-7870 olga.glagoleva@utoronto.ca www.interlog.com/~moslon/olga.htm
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