double full stops?

[Yoshimasa Tsuji]

Hello,
  I wonder if I need to put a full stop at the end of a
sentence when it ends with a closing parenthesis (or a closing
quote) preceded by a full stop used as an abbreviation mark.

For example:
     Vot ehti glavnejshie mery:
     1) ...
     2)  Nacionalizacija sindikatov, t. e. krupnejshikh, mo-
   nopolisticheskikh sojuzov kapitalistov (sindikaty: sakhar-
   nyj, neftjanoj, ugol'nyj, metallurgicheskij i t. d.).
     3) Otmena kommercheskoj tajny.
             (Cited from Lenin's "Thretening catastrophe and how to
             fight with it". Please note the end of the item 2.)

I have noticed that
      1. If the sentence ends with a full stop as part of an
        abbreviation, exclamation or query mark may be appended,
        but not a full stop.
      2. If the sentence ends with a quotation mark or a parenthesis
        preceded by a full stop signifying an end of an inner sentence,
        that full stop may be left there (in the case of the English
        language) or moved outside the quotation(parenthesis) mark
        (in the case of the Russian language). In both cases a full
        stop will not be added.

My vague impression is that whereas .). is not seen in English,
it is common in Russian. Is that right?

Thanks,
Tsuji

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P.S.
Note for the Americans: "full stop" is an English word for
the American word "period".

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