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Ads by Google      Scandinavia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The modern Scandinavian cooperation after World War I also came to include the independent Finland and (since 1944) Iceland and Scandinavian as a political term came to be replaced by the term Nordic countries ; and eventually, in 1952, by the Nordic Council institution. The end of the Scandinavian political movement came when Denmark was denied military support from Scandinavian Monetary Union established in 1873, with the Krona/ Krone as the common currency, and which lasted until World War I. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scandinavia      Baltic Sea - encyclopedia article about Baltic Sea. The Baltic Sea is linked to the White Sea White Sea (Бе́лое мо́ре) is an inlet of the Barents Sea on the North Western coast of Russia. At the time of the Roman Empire, the Baltic Sea was known as the Mare Suebicum or Mare Sarmaticum. The flow of the rivers into the Baltic is quite high, however, and as a result the salinity of water in the Baltic Sea is somewhere between freshwater and seawater, known as brackish water. http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Baltic+Sea   (3542 words)      Universal Food Security - Important Dimensions Intensive and indiscriminate use in developing countries of certain hazardous herbicides, pesticides and the like, many of which are banned in their country of origin, frequently endangers those exposed directly or indirectly. Nevertheless, there are many compelling reasons why governments of developing countries wanting to improve the reliability of their food supplies should study seriously mechanisms for building up food reserves that they would mutually control and to which all have due access in times of need. Free access to developing countries by foreign investors who would be treated as if they were nationals makes no political, social or economic sense for the poor. http://www.southcentre.org/publications/food/Foodtrans-02.htm   (3542 words)      Catalan language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Rest of World: Estimate for 1999 by the Federació d'Entitats Catalanes outside the Catalan Countries. According to language politics in Francoist Spain (1939-1975), the use of Castilian over Catalan was promoted, though thousands of books were published in Catalan. All to obtain bigger political and economic power and to claim with more force the political independence of Catalonia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalan_language   (1425 words)      The Baltic Countries In World War II While the native peoples had hoped that they would be allowed some degree of autonomy under Nazi rule, possibly keeping their countries semi-independent and maintaining local government, the Nazis would not allow this. Deportations were also started—and anybody from political activists and wealthy landholders to stamp collectors and Esperantists (they had international ties) could be shipped off to the camps. The Baltic States were incorporated into the German province of Ostland and ruled by the Germans. http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/polish_baltic_history/83238   (561 words)      Catalan 's Countries ' fight, forward to freedom : IMC Maritimes In 1939 the triumph of the coup d'état of the fascist general Francisco Franco leads again to the lost of the freedoms and institutions of the Catalan countries, which had been slightly recovered at the beginning of the thirties in the XX century. The Catalan Countries are divided in sections by the Spanish state in three "regions": Principality of Catalonia (four provinces), Valencian Country (three provinces), and the Balearic Islands (one province). The Principality of Catalonia, the Valencian Country, and the Balearic Islands form the Catalan Countries, where you are now - territories under the Spanish state administration -, and the North of Catalonia- in the French state. http://maritimes.indymedia.org/news/2005/02/9802_comment.php   (2006 words)      The Micronations Page It was founded in 1984 and currently claims some 40 members, who have either created "fictional" countries or are simply interested in the phenomenon of "fictional" countries. Like other countries, some of these nations have proclaimed declarations of independence, adopted constitutions, sought diplomatic recognition, sent out envoys extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary, displayed coats-of-arms, and issued stamps, passports, and currency. Micronations, microstates, imaginary countries, countercountries, unrecognized nations, or ephemeral states, are all terms for countries which have been declared independent by (usually eccentric) individuals or small groups, but unlike other such attempts, fail to achieve widespread diplomatic recognition. http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/5111/archive/patsilor.htm   (2006 words)      Low Countries Reference information on countries of the world intended for use in international real estate research. The name given to the countries (outside of Palestine) through which the Jews were dispersed, and secondarily to the Jews living in those countries. Offers visa support to citizens of foreign countries wishing to come to Russia or the countries of the CIS. http://www.omniknow.com/common/wiki.php?in=en&term=Low_Countries   (1622 words)      Scandinavian Opposition to Apartheid The Scandinavian imports from South Africa did not amount to much in any case: they were only a fraction of the huge South African exports to countries like Britain and the United States, countries where the boycott had little practical effect on the total trade. These countries already receive a considerable amount of Scandinavian aid, but the aid is only to a limited extent given to purposes connected with the war in southern Africa. Besides, collections have never been popular in the Scandinavian countries where there is a long tradition of State support for purposes which, in other countries, are supported by individual contributions. http://www.anc.org.za/ancdocs/history/solidarity/scanopp.html   (1622 words)      BAFL.com - Baltic Caucus - Volume 2 - Number 7 HCR 116, sponsored by John Shimkus (R-IL) and Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), calls for extending an invitation to the Baltic countries to join NATO at the Prague Summit contingent on completion of the Membership Action Plan. Valdis Pavlovskis, President of the Baltic American Freedom League, ststed that the House is not only behind the Baltic countries, but also in front of them. The letter also points out the sincere efforts that the government is making "to confront events that transpired in Latvia during the Holocaust." Recently the Simon Wiesenthal Center welcomed the cancellation of the rehabilitations granted to two Latvian Nazi war criminals by the Latvian authorities. http://www.bafl.com/caucusTemp.asp?idCaucus=3   (1391 words)      Former and Current Communist Countries Perhaps half of them, with less than half the total population of those countries, could be said to carry out a policy that does more or less recognize religious freedom. Five of the 14 eastern European post-communist countries can be said to seriously deny religious freedom. We need to understand that, for communist countries, it is not the threat to freedom but the threat of freedom that is of concern. http://www.religiousfreedom.com/conference/japan/Juviler.htm   (1391 words)      Central Europe Review - Regional Lumping: Why the "Baltic states"? Alongside Soviet atrocities and the murder and deportations of large numbers of their populations - mostly women, children and the elderly - the three countries became linked through this horrific experience and in their determination to regain their lost independence. The fact that the eastern shore of the Baltic Sea is also rich in amber has helped to lump the three countries together (and the name of this column has not done much to dispel such lumping). For geographers, putting several countries located adjacent to each other in a specific group is part of their normal pursuit. http://www.ce-review.org/99/23/amber23.html   (1561 words)      Baltic Countries Exonerating Nazis? - Stormfront White Nationalist Community Forces out to do that have been encouraged by political trends of the preceding years in those countries. Russia is a successor of Soviet Union, and owes billions of €'s to the Baltic countries. MOSCOW, November 23 (RIA Novosti) - Certain circles in the post-Soviet Baltic countries are out to whitewash nazi war criminals. http://www.stormfront.org/forum/showthread.php?t=167400   (737 words)      Tracing Roots of the Scandinavian Model Even though there were journalists, educators, scientists and social reformers who already then described the uniqueness, innovations and progressiveness of the Scandinavian solutions, at that time only occasionally did these countries evoke any international interest. Other Scandinavian countries are seldom presented and Sweden is most often regarded as an indicator of Scandinavian developments, even though for a few years the Swedish figures have hardly been representative of the Scandinavian region. Thus, out of the 125 pages which the Scandinavian countries occupy in the book, 63 pages are devoted to Sweden, 30 to Denmark, 9 to Norway and 11 to Finland. http://www2.rz.hu-berlin.de/gemenskap/inhalt/publikationen/arbeitspapiere/ahe_17.html   (737 words)      Central Europe Review - The Baltic Chain: Ten Years After But only after nearly the entire world had re-recognised the three Baltic countries did the United States, led by the misguided foreign policy of George Bush, do the same. The "Baltic Way" human chain was a joint protest action by the popular fronts in each of the countries. By 1990, all three countries had declared some form of autonomy - a sign of transition towards restored independence. http://www.ce-review.org/99/9/amber9.html   (695 words)      THE CONFESSIONAL MOVEMENTS IN THE SCANDINAVIAN COUNTRIES These organizations have been driven by a genuine zeal for the salvation of the lost, and has made Norway the largest country in world wide mission if you count the number of missionaries who are sent out in relation to the total population. Leiv Aalen, who said that "Perhaps it may be possible to be a Lutheran without the Book of Concord, but it is not possible to be a Lutheran against the Book of Concord!" This statement has been important to many within the confessional movements in my own country). This brought most of the Norwegian (and Scandinavian) laymen's movements into a more conscious Lutheran mainstream, and gave it a clear identity in this respect. http://www.fbb.nu/ressurs/fortw.htm   (695 words)      Rawls in the Nordic Countries This impression of political and cultural homogeneity is not accurate for most of the Nordic countries, and has not been for a long time. In the Nordic countries, equality is not to be secured among the discounted life earnings of various socially specified segments, modulo the Difference Principle; rather, claims to economic equality tend to focus on annual pre-tax income. The second feature worth noting is the apparent lack of public concern for normative political theory, which co-exists with strong support for institutions seeking to remove inequality. http://www.sv.uio.no/arena/publications/wp02_15.htm   (695 words)      The Scandinavian Countries Lila and I just returned from a trip to the capitals of the four Scandinavian countries…well at least we thought there were four Scandinavian countries. With all the Scandinavian countries being relatively small and somewhat remote from each other there is an extensive set of ferries transporting people along with cars and trucks. But by 1942 they realized that the German solution was the annihilation of the Jews and the Swedish diplomats started to turn against the Nazis. http://www.letow.com/Scandanavia/scandinavia.htm   (695 words)      Baltic Sea - encyclopedia article about Baltic Sea. The Baltic Sea is linked to the White Sea White Sea (Бе́лое мо́ре) is an inlet of the Barents Sea on the North Western coast of Russia. At the time of the Roman Empire, the Baltic Sea was known as the Mare Suebicum or Mare Sarmaticum. The North Sea is a sea of the Atlantic Ocean, located between Norway and Denmark in the east, the United Kingdom in the west, and Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium and France in the south. http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Baltic+Sea   (3542 words)      Baltic - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Council of the Baltic Sea States- an intergovernmental organization Baltic sea countries - countries with access to the Baltic Sea The term Baltic is also used to identify a type of railroad steam locomotive. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltic   (308 words)      Scandinavia and the Baltic Countries I think this information that you shared with us helps us to realize something that is behind the policy toward freedom of religion in Scandinavian countries. Scandinavia and the Baltic countries have based their freedom of religion principle on the old German practice, which is related to the right to join, or to membership. Now, coming to the Scandinavian and Baltic countries: at the moment as we are eight countries all together, a result of the collapse of the Soviet Union. http://www.religiousfreedom.com/Conference/Germany/pentikainen.htm   (2034 words)      RADIO FREE EUROPE/ RADIO LIBERTY Brazauskas also discussed with his Swedish counterpart, Goran Persson, the prospects of cooperation among the Nordic and Baltic states and important matters in the EU. They also discussed cooperation of the Baltic states in the EU, noting that the parliaments, governments, and the public of the three countries should coordinate their basic positions in the EU talks. He had meetings with British politicians interested in social integration issues and attended the conference "The Baltic States: New Europe or Old?" at the University of Glasgow on 22-23 January, which was devoted to the Baltic countries' accession to the EU and NATO. http://www.rferl.org/balticreport   (7142 words)      soc.culture.catalan However, there are a number of issues that are relevant to the Catalan-speaking countries that are not relevant to soc.culture.spain. RATIONALE: soc.culture.catalan There is already a well established mailing list for Catalan speakers and friends of the Catalan-spoking countries called The proposed newsgroup is intended to generally provide a medium for those interested to express, share, and exchange their views, ideas, and feelings about the Catalan language and culture. http://faqs.org/ftp/usenet/news.announce.newgroups/soc/soc.culture.catalan   (2669 words)      Russians, Baltic countries, SF guidelines, etc. - Stormfront White Nationalist Community There should be no forced repatriation, but ethnic Russians who were born in these countries, now their *home*, should enjoy the same level of citizenship and protection than the "natives". Supporting the repatriation of Russians from the Baltic countries does not in my opinion constitute an attack against all white Russians. Or maybe such propositions is a rule violation but it's ok to attack Russians living in the Baltic States as SF Moderators support deportation of Russians from the Baltic States? http://www.stormfront.org/forum/showthread.php?t=155304   (1936 words)      Catalan Nationalist Flags (Spain) This flag is used by Catalan independentist leftist nationalists who propose the creation of an independent Republic of the Catalan Countries containing all Catalan-speaking territories [so-called Països Catalans, Catalan Countries], that is to say Catalonia, Valencia, Balearic Islands, Rousillion [France] and Alghero in Sardinia [Italy]. This is not the flag of the Catalan Countries, which should be the same of Catalonia, just an independentist leftist proposal. This flag was adopted for the PSAN (National Liberation Socialist Party) in 1976, when a fraction of the party left to create the MUM, which retained the old PSAN flag (white triangle). http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/es}ct.html   (677 words)      Catalan nationalism Catalan nationalism is a political movement that advocates for the political of Catalonia or the Catalan Countries and in some cases independence from Spain and France. A significant part of the population Catalonia would support a larger degree of and some of them would prefer and state. Several political or cultural catalan movements operated the clandestinity during the dictatorship of Francisco Franco which lasted until 1975. http://www.freeglossary.com/Catalan_nationalism   (512 words)      Chapter I - A Tale of Two Countries As a result of this and other disputes, both countries were heavily engaged in espionage against each other and had been for years. Possession was nine-tenths of the law and the two countries had found themselves at loggerheads on this issue numerous times in the past hundred years. Thus both nations, the Dominion of Canada and the United States of America--newly born in the mid-1860s--turned their gaze West and dreamt of ascendancy from sea to shining sea. http://www.dickshovel.com/two.html   (512 words)      Is Mass Vaccination with B.C.G. always warranted in the Scandinavian Countries? Professor Wallgren, introducing the discussion on Mass Vaccination with B.C.G. in the Scandinavian Countries (Nordisk Medicin 5.1.56) said that when the Calmette vaccination was introduced into Sweden about a quarter of a century ago, the tuberculosis situation in that country was quite different from what it is at present. Professor Wallgren thinks that in countries like Indonesia, where primary infection occurs at an early stage in childhood and meningitis and miliary tuberculosis are common, and where no other measures can be taken to check the spread of tuberculosis, there is definite indication for general B.C.G. vaccination as early as possible. Britain there was, for many years, considerable reluctance to introduce tuberculin testing and B.C.G. inoculation, but pressure from groups of doctors who based their support of B.C.G. on claims made by Prof. http://www.whale.to/a/bcg.html   (512 words)      Tolerance toward Muslims in the Scandinavian countries! :: Middle East Information Center :: Arab Israeli Conflict News, History, and Discussions Concheeta, Saudi Arabia and the other countries of the Gulf don't give their nationality/citizienship to anyone. Are these countries capable of religious tolerance, or is it acceptable to be murdered for even practicing non Islamic religions in countries such as Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Oman, etc.? Due to economic and political discrimination and, ultimately, expulsion in the wake of the long regional conflict, Egypt’s Jews are in a global diaspora with family members spread over five continents. http://www.middleeastinfo.org/forum3812   (512 words)      Regional Response of the Baltic Sea... Countries of the Eastern Baltic Region are looking forward to start with national initiatives as response to the Agenda 21 for the Baltic Sea Region. Baltic 21 will catalyse the process of regional co-operation and make it easier for the countries to move in the right direction The process of developing a Baltic 21 is planned to be democratic, transparent and open to participation of all actors, including governmental, non-governmental organisations and indigenous peoples. The first meeting at Ronneby, Sweden adopted the Baltic Sea Declaration calling for the establishment of a long term, twenty-year action plan for the “ecological restoration and preservation of the Baltic Sea”, which was two years later endorsed as the Baltic Sea Joint Comprehensive Environmental Action Programme. http://www.ecouncil.ac.cr/rio/focus/report/english/sei.htm   (4632 words)

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