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Cityblock Health, Inc.

Cityblock Health is a Brooklyn, New York healthcare provider founded in 2017 out of Alphabet's Sidewalk Labs, serving Medicaid and Medicare Advantage members with value-based care.

CityJet

CityJet is an Irish regional airline founded by Pat Byrne in 1993, known for its Dublin–London City route until 2018, when it became a wet-lease operator flying CRJ900s for SAS.

CityKart

CityKart (Citykart Retail Ventures Pvt Ltd) is a value fashion retail chain founded in Gurgaon in 2015 by brothers Sudhanshu and Rohit Agarwal, with 200 stores across small-town India by 2026.

Citytv

Citytv is Rogers Sports & Media's Canadian English-language TV network, launched in Toronto September 28, 1972 as Canada's first commercial UHF station (channel 79, later 57), run by CHUM until Rogers acquired five stations in 2007.

CIV (rail travel)

CIV (rail travel) refers to the Uniform Rules for the international carriage of passengers and luggage by rail, Appendix A to the COTIF convention of 9 May 1980, marked on tickets and governing carrier liability and passenger rights.

Civic Coalition (party)

Civic Coalition (Koalicja Obywatelska, KO) is a centrist, pro-European political alliance in Poland, created in 2018, dominated by Civic Platform, and led by Donald Tusk.

Civic Coalition (Poland)

Civic Coalition (Koalicja Obywatelska) is a Polish liberal political coalition led by Donald Tusk. After winning 30.7% of the 2023 vote, it formed a government in December 2023.

Civic Democratic Party (Czech Republic)

Občanská demokratická strana (ODS), the Civic Democratic Party, is the Czech Republic's liberal-conservative right-wing party, founded in 1991 from Civic Forum under Václav Klaus, twice led governments, joined SPOLU, and elected Martin Kupka chairman in 2026.

Civic engagement

Civic engagement, also called citizen participation, is participation in community and political life to improve conditions or shape policy; measured through behaviors like voting and volunteering and attitudes, with OECD-defined policy levels and U.S. CEV tracking.

Civic nationalism

Civic nationalism, also known as democratic nationalism, grounds national belonging in common laws, institutions, and democratic political values rather than ethnicity or inherited lineage, though scholars widely criticize it as an ideal type.

Civic Party OBRAS

Partido Cívico Obras (Civic Party OBRAS) is a Peruvian political party founded by Ricardo Belmont Cassinelli, registered with the JNE, running a works-focused, anti-corruption program in the 2026 elections.

Civic Platform

Civic Platform (Platforma Obywatelska, PO), Polish centre-right liberal party founded January 2001 by Płażyński, Olechowski, and Tusk. Governed 2007–2015 and from 2023, rival of Law and Justice, EPP member, leads the Civic Coalition.

Civic technology

Civic technology (civic tech): digital tools and platforms for citizen participation, transparency, and government accountability, defined by the OECD; distinct from GovTech; includes participatory budgeting, e-petitions, Decidim, Ushahidi, and US civic tech movement (USDS, 18F).

Civic virtue

Civic virtue: the public-spirited dispositions citizens need to sustain self-government, central to republican theory. Read as intrinsic good (civic humanism) or instrumental to liberty as non-domination (Pettit, Skinner), and reconciled with liberalism in Dagger's republican liberalism.

Civic-military dictatorship of Uruguay

The civic-military dictatorship of Uruguay (Spanish: dictadura cívico-militar) was the authoritarian regime that ruled Uruguay from the 1973 coup until democratic government was restored in 1985.

Civics

Civics is the study of citizens' rights and duties, also called civic or citizenship education. Covers definitions, the Council of Europe EDC/HRE framework, IEA and NAEP assessments, US state requirements, and evidence of effectiveness.

Civil Aeronautics Board

Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB), US independent federal agency (1940–1985) regulating airline entry, fares, subsidies, and mergers; abolished after the Airline Deregulation Act of 1978, with functions split among DOT, DOJ, and USPS.

Civil and political rights

Civil and political rights protect life, liberty, fair trials, expression, religion, and political participation; codified in the 1948 UDHR and the 1966 International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, in force 1976.

Civil Aviation Authority (United Kingdom)

The Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) is the UK's independent aviation and airspace regulator, a public corporation established 1 April 1972 under the Civil Aviation Act 1971, funded by industry charges, covering safety, ATOL, economic regulation of Heathrow, Gatwick, Stansted and NATS, and spaceflight since 2021.

Civil Code

The Civil Code (民法) is Japan's private law code, enacted in 1896 and 1898, drafted by Hozumi Nobushige and colleagues under German influence, and still in force today.

Civil Code of Russia

Civil Code of the Russian Federation (ГК РФ): the Russian Federation's private-law code, adopted in four parts 1994–2006 (Federal Laws 51-FZ, 14-FZ, 146-FZ, 230-FZ), covering persons, property, obligations, inheritance, and intellectual property, with continual amendments since 1996.

Civil Code of the People's Republic of China

Civil Code of the People's Republic of China (中华人民共和国民法典), China's unified private-law code: adopted May 28, 2020, effective January 1, 2021, 1,260 articles in seven books, first PRC law titled 'code', after five codification attempts since 1954.

Civil Code of the Philippines

Civil Code of the Philippines (Republic Act No. 386), the 1949 statute governing persons, property, obligations and contracts, and succession; drafted by the Code Commission, largely derived from the Spanish Civil Code of 1889, partially superseded by the Family Code of 1988.

Civil Code of the Republic of China

The Civil Code of the Republic of China (中华民国民法) is the first civil code in Chinese history, promulgated by the Nationalist government in five books between 1929 and 1930.

Civil Code of the RSFSR (1922)

The Civil Code of the RSFSR of 1922 (Гражданский кодекс РСФСР) was the Soviet Russian civil code adopted in 1922 that restored property, contract, and inheritance under the New Economic Policy.

Civil Code of Ukraine (Цивільний кодекс України)

Civil Code of Ukraine (Цивільний кодекс України, Law No. 435-IV, 16 January 2003): Ukraine's core private-law code, applied subsidiarily to family relations alongside the 2002 Family Code, and now undergoing recodification via draft bill No. 15150.

Civil Commission of 1792

The Civil Commission of 1792 (Commission civile de 1792) was a French commission sent to Saint-Domingue in 1792 to enforce political equality for free blacks and free men of color.

Civil conflicts in Vietnam (1945–1949)

Civil conflicts in Vietnam 1945–1949: Vietnamese-on-Vietnamese wars among the Viet Minh/DRV, non-communist nationalists, and sect militias, alongside the Franco–Viet Minh war, ending with the 1949 Bảo Đại solution and Associated State.

Civil Constitution of the Clergy

The Civil Constitution of the Clergy (Constitution civile du clergé), a 12 July 1790 French Revolutionary law, reorganized the Catholic Church in France under state control: department-sized dioceses, elected clergy, state salaries, and an oath that split the Church and drew papal condemnation.

Civil Defence Forces (Sierra Leone)

The Civil Defence Forces (CDF) were a pro-government militia network of hunter groups, mainly the Kamajors, that fought for Sierra Leone's government in the civil war from 1991 to 2002.