|
| |
| | BIGpedia - Russia - Encyclopedia and Dictionary Online |
 | | The recent arrest of Russia's wealthiest businessman Mikhail Khodorkovsky on charges of fraud and corruption in relation to the large-scale privatizations organised under then-President Yeltsin has caused many foreign investors to worry about the stability of the Russian economy. | | | Russia has an extensive coastline of over 37,000 km along the Arctic and Pacific Oceans, as well as more or less inland seas such as the Baltic, Black and Caspian seas. | | | Many of Russia's banks are owned by entrepreneurs or oligarchs, who often use the deposits to lend to their own businesses. |
|
http://www.bigpedia.com/encyclopedia/Russia
(3316 words)
|
|
| |
| | NewsFromRussia.Com Our News Export Moved |
| | Russia's Jewish leaders, rights activists and officials on Friday commemorated the Holocaust, the 61st anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp, and called for stepping up the fight against extremism and anti-Semitism. | | | Russia's main KGB successor agency said Thursday that a spy gadget hidden in a fake rock that allegedly had been used by a purported British spy ring in Moscow was a highly sophisticated device, as complex as space technology More details... | | | Russia's state-controlled gas monopoly Gazprom blamed Ukraine on Monday for falling deliveries to Western nations, charging it was taking more gas than agreed from a key transit pipeline, but Ukraine insisted it was honoring all its transit obligations More details... |
|
http://newsfromrussia.com/main
(2240 words)
|
|
| |
| | RUSSIA |
| | The Varangians/Russes got to Russia through their technology, the sailing ships that could actually take them to Greenland; but they came to rule the area through forms of large scale political organization that may have been rudimentary compared to Francia and Romania, but were beyond anything seen previously east of Moravia. | | | When this furry was turned on the Tsar, and even on the people of Russia themselves, waves of murder and terror would result, on a scale at which the French Revolution could only hint, but which would become all too characteristic of revolutionary politics in the 20th century. | | | The conversion of Russia to Christianity brought with it the |
|
http://www.friesian.com/russia.htm
(8979 words)
|
|
| |
| | Russia (08/05) |
| | Russia and Ukraine are said to have the highest growth rates of HIV infection in the world. | | | Russia has one of the highest prison population rates in the world, at 685 per 100,000. | | | A 2001 interagency review of U.S. assistance to Russia, initiated by the National Security Council (NSC) and conducted by the Department of State and NSC, recommended greater focus on supporting entrepreneurs, strengthening civil society and independent media, and improving Russians' health. |
|
http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/3183.htm
(8169 words)
|
|
| |
| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Russia |
| | Their presence in Russia is due to emigrations of German Jews from Poland, and they still preserve their dialect of Hebrew German, which is the language of their Press. | | | And the future of Russia as a maritime power is moreover obstructed by political difficulties; the way from the Black Sea to the Mediterranean is closed by the Bosphorus and the Dardanelles; the way from the Baltic to the Atlantic is closed by Sweden, Germany, Norway, and Denmark. | | | The Jews are a scattered population, principally in the Governments of Western and Southern Russia. |
|
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13231c.htm
(19233 words)
|
|
| |
| | Russia |
| | Russia maintained that a political solution was impossible until Islamic militants in Chechnya had been vanquished. | | | Although Russia remained economically stagnant, Putin brought his nation a measure of political stability it never had under the mercurial and erratic Yeltsin. | | | During 2003, there were 11 bomb attacks against Russia that were believed to have been orchestrated by Chechen rebels. |
|
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0107909.html
(3124 words)
|
|
| |
| | REENIC: Russia |
| | Russia (although this page on About.com is officially named: "Geography and map of Russia", it in fact contains, besides geographical data, information on population, government, economy, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues) | | | Beyond the Pale : the history of Jews in Russia (an in-depth, illustrated history of Jews in Russia") | | | The Censorship of Foreign Books in Russia and the USSR (an essay by Marianna Tax Choldin) |
|
http://reenic.utexas.edu/reenic/countries/russia.html
(1920 words)
|
|
| |
| | Russia |
| | Russia is a federated state with, in theory, widespread devolution to its regions. | | | Later it began to symbolize a unity of the three Eastern Slavic Nations &; Byelorussia, Ukraine and Russia. | | | Notes: The world’s largest state, Russia was the dominant member of the USSR, which many people saw as the modern inheritor of the expansionist policies of the Tsars. |
|
http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/ru.html
(1385 words)
|
|
| |
| | MOSNEWS.COM |
| | Russia said on Saturday it had promised emergency aid to the Hamas-led Palestinian Authority which warns it faces economic collapse after direct funding was cut off by the United States and the European Union. | | | A local official has been detained in Russia’s northern Murmansk province on suspicion of planning a terrorist attack, security services reported Friday. | | | Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the founder of Russia’s Yukos oil company, was wounded in an attack in the Siberian prison where he is serving an eight year sentence. |
|
http://www.mosnews.com
(856 words)
|
|
| |
| | Russia - Rossiya |
| | For foreigner's and our first people's information, founded '96 in Ulan -Ude (Buryatia, Russia). | | | Since then, Russia has struggled in its efforts to build a democratic political system and market economy to replace the strict social, political, and economic controls of the communist period. | | | Russia is one of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council. |
|
http://www.nationsonline.org/oneworld/russia.htm
(969 words)
|
|
| |
| | Pravda.Ru: Russian news and analysis |
| | Official accused of plotting to blow oil tanker in Russia's north | | | Russia urges immediate release of man accused of spying in Sweden | | | Russia tests new missiles to subdue US air defense |
|
http://english.pravda.ru
(1059 words)
|
|
| |
| | H-Net - H-Russia Discussion Network |
| | H-RUSSIA encourages scholarly discussion of Russian and Soviet history and makes available diverse bibliographical, research and teaching aids. | | | Title: Building Utopia: Erecting Russia's First Modern City, 1930 |
|
http://www.h-net.org/~russia
(128 words)
|
|
| |
| | Russia Travel Information Lonely Planet Destination Guide |
| | Check out what other travellers are saying about Russia. | | | This is a land of snow and deadly winters, but also of rivers that meander across meadows and a midsummer sun that never sets. | | | On-the-ground consular support regarding these destinations can be negligible or non-existent. |
|
http://www.lonelyplanet.com/worldguide/destinations/europe/russia
(269 words)
|
|
| |
| | Impressions of Russia and the Former USSR (C) Copyright 1995, RUSphoto. |
| | This page has been rated among the top 5% of all sites on the Internet by Point Survey. | | | A cybercampaign on the Web is bringing new global support to Russia's unpaid workers: English version, Russian version. | | | More than 20 million people in Russia do not receive their wages on time. |
|
http://www.friends-partners.org/oldfriends/mes/russia.html
(518 words)
|
|
| |
| | USAID Europe and Eurasia: Russia |
| | Media Executives Commit to AIDS Awareness TV Spots in Russia and Ukraine | | | The students were inspired to begin a fundraising campaign after 10th and 11th graders... | | | The first all-Russia conference to discuss ways to prevent the abandonment of children born to HIV- infected mothers was held in Moscow, July 17-20, 2005s... |
|
http://www2.usaid.gov/locations/europe_eurasia/countries/ru
(1976 words)
|
|
| |
| | Russia: Environmental Issue |
| | Currently, there are 10 operating nuclear power plants with 30 reactors in Russia, some of which are first generation RBMK reactors similar to the ones that operated in Chernobyl in Ukraine. | | | Russia's Unified Energy Systems (UES) is building a number of mega-hydropower projects in the Far East as well, including the 3,000-MW Boguchansk in Krasnoyarsk and the 2,000-MW Bureya hydropower plant. | | | Nevertheless, despite safety concerns, Russia is seeking to extend the operating life of several reactors that are nearing the end of their proscribed operating lifespan, as well as increase the country's nuclear capacity by building 40 new reactors by 2030. |
|
http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/cabs/russenv.html
(3006 words)
|
|
| |
| | Travel Guide to Russia |
| | Russia is the largest country on earth, with enormous tracts of land that have been opened to travellers only in the last few years. | | | This is the heartland of Imperial Russia, and these great and ancient cities often become the focus for most tourists. | | | However there is much more to Russia, a country that spans eleven time zones and two continents, ending less than 50 miles from North America. |
|
http://www.geographia.com/russia
(282 words)
|
|
| |
| | The St. Petersburg Times - Overview |
| | Briton Karl Bushby and American Dimitry Kieffer were detained April 1 and were being held in Lavrenty, 800 kilometers northeast of the provincial capital, Anadyr. | | | “The foreigners could be fined 2,000 rubles ($72) each and expelled from Russia,” the Interfax news agency... | | | Vocalist and guitarist Tom Barman, who founded dEUS 16 years ago, is enthusiastic about the band and its current combination of members, which he said... |
|
http://www.sptimes.ru
(1374 words)
|
|
| |
| | Russia |
| | Russia remains heavily dependent on exports of commodities, particularly oil, natural gas, metals, and timber, which account for over 80% of exports, leaving the country vulnerable to swings in world prices. | | | Russia's industrial base is increasingly dilapidated and must be replaced or modernized if the country is to maintain strong economic growth. | | | Economic Overview: A decade after the implosion of the centrally planned Soviet Union in December 1991, Russia is still struggling to establish a modern market economy, modernize its industrial base, and maintain strong economic growth. |
|
http://www.peoplegoingglobal.com/Europe/Russia.htm
(262 words)
|
|
| |
| | The Moscow Times - Daily News on Business, Politics and Culture in Russia and the CIS |
| | Poet, journalist and TV personality Dmitry Bykov has never been shy about offering contrarian opinions on politics and literature. | | | It is unpopular now in most of Europe, including Russia, to cite with approval anything the American president says. | | | In a rare news conference, the designer of Russia's intercontinental ballistic missiles dismissed on Thursday a warning that Russia was falling behind the United States in the number of active nuclear warheads. |
|
http://www.moscowtimes.ru
(500 words)
|
|
| |
| | Russian State Library |
| | Exhibition "Books, photos and works of applied art from the Korean People's Democratic Republic". | | | Exhibition "Russia - Spain: 25 years of the re-establishment of diplomatic relations". | | | Research seminar "Book culture phenomenon in Slavophils' ideology". |
|
http://www.rsl.ru/defengl.asp
(584 words)
|
|
| |
| | Find Russia search engines with Search Engine Colossus |
| | Russia Population - 1922: 87,755,000 - 1950: 101,937,000 - 2000: 146,732,000 - 2006: 142,894,000 | | | Search the City of Sochi on the Black Sea! | | | World web directory with the purpose of providing a relevant and spam-free resource appropriate for families and users of all ages! |
|
http://www.searchenginecolossus.com/Russia.html
(231 words)
|
|
| |
| | Ethnologue report for Russia |
| | This web edition of the Ethnologue contains all the content of the print edition and may be cited as: | | | [See also SIL publications on the languages of Russia.] | | | See Russia, Europe and Russia, Asia for languages in the European and Asian regions, respectively. |
|
http://www.ethnologue.com/show_country.asp?name=Russia
(94 words)
|
|
| |
| | Russian Federation Embassy and Consulate Locator. |
| | Permanent Mission of Russia to the International Organizations in Vienna | | | The Permanent Mission of Russia to International Organizations in Nairobi | | | Consulate General of Russia in Santiago de Cuba |
|
http://www.russianembassy.net
(211 words)
|
|
| |
| | RNG - Travel to Russia. Russian visas, tours, cruises and excursions. |
| | Experience 1,000 years of history, from ancient forests of pine and birch, picturesque Russian villages and onion-domed churches, to modern cities built along the shores. | | | Just wanted to let you know that we returned from our trip to Russia which you had planned for us and that we enjoyed it thoroughly. | | | Both the Astoria and National hotels were outstanding, the itinerary just right for the time frame, and both our guides were knowledgeable and delightful women. |
|
http://www.russia-travel.com
(373 words)
|
|
| |
| | BISNIS - Country Reports - Russain Federation |
| | HIV/AIDS Epidemic in Russia & Ukraine: Strategies for Business & Government Response, September 28 (9/05) | | | Such use does not constitute an official endorsement or approval by the U.S. Commerce Department of any private sector website, product, or service. | | | 4th Annual Financial Markets Conference: Portfolio and Direct Investment in Russia and Ukraine, May 4, Boston - in PDF format (4/06) |
|
http://www.bisnis.doc.gov/bisnis/country/rusfed.cfm
(501 words)
|
|
| |
| | Bank of Russia |
| | International Investment Position of Russia for 2000-2004: external assets and liabilities vis-a-vis CIS countries and Non-CIS countries at end of period | | | International Investment Position of Russia for 2000-2004: external assets and liabilities at end of period | | | Credit Institutions' Balances on Correspondent Accounts with the Bank of Russia, RUB bn. |
|
http://www.cbr.ru/eng
(83 words)
|
|
| |
| | Russia on the Net |
| | Original idea and title "Russia on the Net": Copyright © 1995 Dmitry Altukhov |
|
http://www.ru
(94 words)
|
|
|
