61. The Russian Embassy In The Republic Of Ireland in Moscow and the seat of russian Orthodox Church. will encounter a land of many historical towns and areas The land is punctuated with elegant cities where the http://ireland.ru/embassy/Geography.html

Ambassador Diplomatic List Russia-Ireland Consular Division ... Cultural Centre COUNTRY PROFILE President Government Federal Assembly State Symbols ... Russian Holidays Russia has an area of 10, 672,000 sq. miles (17,075,200 sq.km) and a population of almost 150 million people. Occupying a large territory in Europe and Asia Russia is spread over all climatic zones except tropical. It takes over 8 hours by plane to reach from Moscow to Vladivostok on the Pacific coast. West of the Ural mountains from the Black Sea in the South to the Arctic Ocean lies a broad plain with low hills where the historical core of the Russian nation is located. East of the Urals from the border with Kazakhstan, China and Mongolia to the Arctic coast lies Siberia - a scarcely populated area covered by coniferous forest, swamps and tundra in the north and mountainous terrain in the south. Russia is a multiethnic society. The largest ethnic groups include Russians (81.5%), Tatars (3.8%), Ukrainians (3%), Chuvash (1.2%), Bashkir (0.9%), Byelorussians (0.8%), Moldavians (0.7%), etc. Over 80% of the population name Russian - the official language of the country - as their native. Other languages are used in ethnic minority regions. Russia has equal religious diversity: with the main religions being Russian Orthodox Christianity and Muslim overall over 150 confessions could be found across the country. Administratively, the Russian Federation is divided into 21 republic, 6 krays (federal territories), 2 federal cities, 49 regions, 1 autonomous region and 10 autonomous areas.

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Style: Small Large community registration site map about team ... Development Here you are: Main Kyrgyzstan Towns and Regions Capital /History of the city Forum History of the city The Man's first appearance on the modern city's territory dates back to hoary antiquity. The finds of stone implements by Alamedin hydroelectric power station suggest that primitive people dwelled in Bishkek neighborhood in 5th-4th millennia BC. The Bronze Age tribes settled on the modern city's territory in late 2nd millennium BC. They were engaged in graziery, agriculture, pottery and metallurgy. With the advent of Iron Age tribal alliances appear on Kyrgyzstan's territory: saki (7th-3rd centuries BC) and usun' (3rd century BC-5th century AD). Their economy based on nomadic graziery. Various trades were well developed. Saki and usun' tribes settled on Alamedin and Ala-Archa riversides as well — this is testified by tumuli conserved until recently within the city and its vicinity. The usun' knew agriculture well that is testified by the remnants of settlements found in different places of Chui valley including those by Bishkek. Nomadic and settled agricultural population dwelled in Alamedin and Ala-Archa river basins in Middle Ages. Tumuli and stone sculptures were the nomadic Turks' monuments. Settled population resided in towns. The so-called Pishpek fort (7th-12th centuries AD) was one of the largest medieval towns; it occupied an area of about 25-30 sq.km (Pishpek railway station and former Klyuchevoye and Kyzyl-Asker villages) and had complex layout and a developed fortification system. Another significant ancient town now called

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Overview The Russian Far East is on the Pacific rim, north of China and to the west and north of Japan. The region covers an area two-thirds the size of Canada and has a coastline extending 6,000 miles from the Arctic Circle to the Sea of Japan. Siberia, often confused with the Russian Far East, borders the region to the west some 1500 miles from the Pacific. The region is lightly populated with 70% of its approximately 8 million population living in cities and small towns largely in the southeast. The region comprises ten relatively independent geopolitical subregions: the Amur Oblast, the Chukotka Autonomous Region, the Jewish Autonomous Oblast, the Kamchatka Oblast, the Khabarovski Krai, the Koryak Republic, the Magadan Oblast, the Primorski Krai, the Sakhalin Oblast and the Republic of Yakutia. The principle cities are the port of Vladivostok in the far south; Khabarovsk north of Vladivostok and approximately 100 miles inland; the town of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk on Sakhalin Island; the port of Magadan on the mainland opposite the Kamchatka Peninsula; the port of Petropavlovsk on the Kamchatka peninsula and the port of Anadyr in the far north. The region contains much of the underdeveloped natural resources of Russia and unsurpassed scenic beauty. The taiga (or forest) in the south-east region contains a great variety of wildlife, including the Siberian Tiger, and over 250 species of trees and bushes. The ocean between Sakhalin Island and the Kamchatka Peninsula offers one of the wealthiest fishing grounds in the world. The Kamchatka Peninsula is the home of some 160 volcanoes and has a unique geyser valley. Snow conditions on Sakhalin are so good that the 1972 Soviet Olympic training facility was located there and it is still being used by Sakhalin skiers.

64. MSNBC - Russia’s Bitter Farmers Stay Put handed enforcement to keep people from crowding big towns. Given the depressed russian economy, with no growth for the last seven years, cities struggling to http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3072226/

MSN Home My MSN Hotmail Shopping ... Money document.write('') Web Search: LowerMyBills.com - More for you. Less for them. logoImg("http://sc.msn.com"); MSNBC News Alerts Newsletters Help ... MSNBC Shopping Search MSNBC: Advanced Search Advertisement var fSucceed = false;   RESOURCE GUIDE Buy Life Insurance Yellow pages expedia.com Shopping ... Small Business Tips Summer 1998: BITTER HARVEST: The urbanization of the planet Russia’s bitter farmers stay put Legally and economically, urban areas are off limits By Preston Mendenhall, Dmirti Surnin and Alexei Alexandroff MSNBC INKINO, Siberia, August 7, 1998 - As the vast and unmanageable land it is, Russia would seem ripe for massive urban migration. A handful of large cities suck up almost all post-Soviet investment in the country, leaving nothing for rural regions. Life on the farm — and in Russia’s smaller cities and villages — is miserable and desolate, with low or no salaries and poor living conditions. Entire local economies disappear as industries fail to keep pace with the emerging market economy. advertisement Yet in a time of economic desperation, when workers are owed months - and sometimes years - of unpaid wages, Russia’s rural population has largely stayed put. The dumb luck of Russia’s market reformers has made it nearly impossible, legally and economically, for the rural population to migrate to booming urban areas. Millions of rural Russians living in far-flung regions can’t even afford the bus fare to the nearest city, let alone find housing and jobs in an economy that is not growing.

65. Huairou Commission: Women, Homes & Community of Russia on the topic Cityto-City Cooperation chaired by International Business, russian Guild of Realtors, russian Union of Historic towns and regions http://www.huairou.org/reports/unhabitat.htm

CONTACT SITE MAP FEEDBACK Resources ... Reports Reports REPORT of UN-HABITAT Executive Bureau in Moscow on the observance of World Habitat Day in the Russian Federation and CIS countries "CITY-TO-CITY COOPERATION" - 7 October 2002 The motto of the World Habitat Day 2002 was "City-to-City Cooperation". This event had a great political and socio-economic significance in the Russian Federation and a number of CIS countries. The meeting discussed the international and national experience of city-to-city cooperation in the following areas: promotion of advanced methods of housing financing; sustainable investments to urban development; application of urban cadaster and UN-HABITAT housing and urban indicators in town planning practice; formulation of legislation in town planning, housing and communal sector; personnel training and re-training, taking into account the advanced training programmes, prepared by the Institute for International Business. Special attention was also given to the results of the World Summit on Sustainable Development "Rio+10", held in Johannesburg (Republic of South Africa) in September-August 2002.

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67. City Mayors: IULA of the Philippines Russia Union of russian cities In Central Region Flemish Association of towns and Municipalities Union of Belgian cities and Municipalities http://www.citymayors.com/features/iula.html

IULA Laan Copes van Cattenburch 60A 2585 GC The Hague The Netherlands Tel: +31 70 306 6066 Fax: +31 70 350 0496 Email: iula@iula.org Internet: www.iula.org FRONT PAGE SiteSearch About us ... US Conference of Mayors Mayors vie for the title World Mayor 2004. Your vote counts. Vote now Nine cities compete to host the 2012 Summer Olympics. Make your choice. Vote now More City Mayors reports on topical urban issues and publishes ideas, research and proposals by mayors, governments and NGOs as well as contributions by the private sector. More More In a series of detailed articles, City Mayors editors explain the structures and workings of municipal government in Europe, The Americas, Asia and Africa. More City Mayors profiles national and international organisations representing cities and those with an involvement in urban affairs. More City Mayors reports from world cities on political issues and developments as well as the main players.

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Choose your destination: - Moscow - St. Petersburg - Trans-Siberian - Baikal Lake - Siberian Cities - More destinations... Made by Travelers from Russia for Travelers Worldwide WayToRussia.Net Destinations Siberia Barnaul / What is Barnaul - about the city barnaul guide about the city transport practicalities ... our team What is Barnaul - The City of the Future! Most probably you never heard about Barnaul, but it is one of the greatest towns in Siberia. There are many reasons for it: proximity of Altay mountains makes it a great recreating place, central position in Siberia When you enter Barnaul, you'll see this Hollywood-like sign. And ads in the city say: "Barnaul - the City of the Future" makes it one of the major local business centers, finally, it is one of the few cities in Russia, which seem to be made for people (at least the central part). Barnaul is administrative center of Altay krai. The center of Barnaul is very compact, there are not many cars, good restaurants and open-air cafes, one of the most "progressive" dance clubs in Siberia, and surprisingly cheap and good hotels.

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71. JDC | Programs Worldwide | Former Soviet Union | Russia | Current Situation is working to build a community base in several cities. specific towns near Murmansk and Arkhangelsk – towns such as As long as thousands of russian Jews are http://www.jdc.org/p_fsu_rus_current.html

mission history awards speakers ... > Uzbekistan JDC’s Return JDC was allowed to return to Russia, in what was then still the Soviet Union, in 1988. In city after city, there were Jews who longed to reconnect with their Jewish heritage, but lacked even the most basic knowledge of Jewish culture, religion, history or community life. They were the product of seven decades of an enforced atheism that had all but destroyed Jewish communal life, and they lacked the training, skills and funds to open Jewish schools and community centers or establish and operate communal welfare services. The latter were increasingly needed as the steep gyrations and eventual collapse of the Russian economy fell with particular harshness on the older generations and ultimately cast into poverty hundreds of thousands of lonely, elderly Jews. Demographics Though the largest concentrations of Jews in what is now called Russia, or the Russian Federation, can be found in St. Petersburg and Moscow, there are also hundreds of thousands of Jews scattered across Russia’s nine time zones. In the decade following the lifting of emigration restrictions, more than 1 million Jews from the former Soviet Union (FSU) chose to make

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73. Muenchen.de - Networking over 140 managers and leaders from russian cities have visited the interest of all autonomous cities and most of the nonautonomous towns and communities. http://www.muenchen.de/Wirtschaft/munineurope/networking/76327/

Home Ricerca About Us Economic Development Labor Market Policy Munich's Place in Europe ... Networking Intrattenimento: Calendario eventi Programma cinema Sport a Monaco L'Oktoberfest Servizi per i turisti: Informazioni utili Prenotazione hotel Membership of national and international networks Involvement in national and international municipal networks is of paramount importance to the work that the City of Munich does in relation to Europe. It is crucial for European cities to coordinate and bundle their interests if they are to make their voice heard among the institutions in Brussels and have an influence on European policy. Furthermore, active participation allows members to quickly find out about local authority solutions that have proven themselves as ways to implement the Commission's policies. This in turn can lead to synergistic benefits. For these reasons, the Department of Labor and Economic Development plays an active, committed role in the following networks and associations: EUROCITIES TELECITIES PANEL EUROGRAD Institute ... Contact EUROCITIES The EUROCITIES network was founded in 1986. Munich has been a member since 1992. The network is currently made up of over 120 large cities in the EU and Central and Eastern Europe.

74. Town-Planning Code Of The Russian Federation 73-FZ cities centers of russian Federation subjects;. cities - resorts;. urban and rural settlements of a special life mode (military towns and other closed http://www.mrsa.ru/law_070598.htm

Date: 7 May 1998. Town-Planning Code of the Russian Federation Code of the Russian Federation No. 73-FZ of 7 May 1998 Adopted by the State Duma 8 April 1998. Approved by the Council of Federation 22 April 1998. This Code adjusts relations in the field of creation of the System for settling down, town planning, building up, improvement of urban and rural settlements, development of their engineering, transport and social infrastructures, rational nature use, preservation of objects being a historical-cultural heritage and protection of natural environment to guarantee people welfare. This Code determines the competence of state authorities of the Russian Federation, state authorities of Russian Federation subjects, rights and duties of citizens and legal entities in the field of town-planning activity, the role of town-planning documentation and town-planning rules in regulation of use of the Russian Federation territory, and responsibility for infringement of the Russian Federation town-planning legislation as well. Chapter I. General Provisions

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@import "/sitetech/global.css"; Scott Polar Research Institute University of Cambridge Home What's new? ... Polar Information Sheets You are in: Home Online resources Russian North and Far East Regions Respublika Sakha (Yakutiya) Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) (compiled by Tatiana Argounova) [Names] [Factsheet] [Emblems] [Map] ... [Bibliography] Names Name of this area in Russian language: Respublika Sakha (Yakutiya) Name of this area in Sakha language: Sakha Respublikata Name of this area in English language: Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) Abbreviated name: Sakha Factsheet (18.2 % of Russian Federation) Population (1994): (0.71 % of Russian Federation) Population change 1989-1994: Number of households: n. a. Average size of family: n. a. Ethnic breakdown Nationality number percent number (est.) percent (est.) TOTAL Sakha (Yakut) Russian Ukrainian Evenk Even Yukagir Chukchi Tatar Belorussian Other Native language breakdown (all figures in %) Nationality Language Language of own nationality Russian Sakha Sakha Russian Ukrainian Belorussian Evenk Even Yukagir n. a.

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LEASING IN THE REGIONS March - April 2000, Issue 2 (8) VOLKHOV INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS INCUBATOR Irina Likhachova T he Leasing Courier regularly acquaints its readers with the activities of leasing companies working specifically with small and medium-sized businesses. In this issue we will be featuring a company that is notable because it specializes in micro transactions with individual entrepreneurs and very small businesses. In this article we will focus on micro leasing. Igor Gruzdev, General Director of the Volkhov International Business Incubator. V olkhov is a small Russian city with a population of 50,000 people situated in the Leningrad Region, about 120 kilometers from St. Petersburg. The city’s biggest enterprise is its aluminum factory, but is also home to a number of other, smaller businesses, such as a furniture factory, a milk factory and a mixed-fodder factory. The number of workers at these factories has fallen dramatically over the last ten years. Many residents have started up their own businesses. The number of people working in small or medium-sized enterprises doubled each year from 1993 to 1995. At the same time, there was not a single organization in the city that specialized in consulting services for new entrepreneurs, training, or finance. There were no organizations working to develop small and medium-sized business in the region, in spite of the clear need for these services.Â

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EUROSET AS OF 1 JANUARY 2004 Sphere of activities Form of business Amount of annual earnings Number of mobile phone stores - 500 (259 of them in the regions) Number of employees Commercial personnel - 1805 people (1041 of them in the regions) Total building floor space - 121143 square meters, of that: commercial buildings 8200 square meters (3955 of them in regions) STRENGTHS largest retail chain on a uniquely prosperous and fast-growing market synergetic effect of a national retail chain convenient geographical distribution of stores lowest prices experienced personnel orientation toward mass market sector high level of client service instantaneous decision making balanced combination of experience and professionalism with youth and prospectives creativity and innovation in-house service center unified style of stores nationwide high corporate spirit unified on-line goods and accounting system unified national information telephone line accessories sold under EUROSET's own brand name EUROSET's Communications Palace – the only such store in the world absence of any fear OPPORTUNITIES fulfil plans to open new stores in every new city reduce costs through the synergetic effect influence the commodity price situation on regional markets possibility of changing consumer brand preferences WEAKNESSES slight sense of danger excessively inflexible position in situations of conflict enthusiastic interest in projects with long-term outlay recovery

79. IULA - International Union Of Local Authorities Association of Ukrainian cities Union of russian cities Sri Lanka Sri of Municipalities (AAM) Association of Austrian cities and towns Austrian Association http://www.iula-int.org/iula/web/linklist.asp

Africa The African Union of Local Authorities (AULA) Botswana Botswana Association of Local Authorities (BALA) Ghana National Association of Local Authorities of Ghana (NALAG) Kenya Association of Local Government Authorities Kenya (ALGAK) Malawi Local Governments Association Malawi (MALGA) Mauritius Association of District Councils Association of Urban Authorities (AUA) Namibia Association for Local Authorities Namibia (ALAN) Nigeria Association of Local Governments of Nigeria (ALGON) Rwanda Rwandese Association of Local Government Authorities (RALGA) Seychelles Association of the Districts of Victoria South Africa South African Local Government Association (SALGA) Swaziland Swaziland National Association of Local Authorities (SNALA) Tanzania Association of Local Authorities Tanzania (ALAT) Tunisia National Federation of Tunisian Cities (FVNT) Uganda Uganda Local Authorities Association (ULAA) Urban Authorities Association of Uganda (UAAU) Zambia Local Government Association of Zambia (LGAZ) Zimbabwe Association of Rural District Councils (ARDC) Urban Councils Association of Zimbabwe (UCAZ) Asia-Pacific IULA-ASPAC Australia Australian Local Government Association (ALGA) China The Chinese People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries (CPAFFC) Fiji Islands Fiji Local Government Association (FLGA) India All India Institute for Local Self Government (AIILSG) Japan Council of Local Authorities for International Relations (CLAIR) Korea Korean Local Authorities Foundation for International Relations (KLAFIR) Nepal Association of District Development Committees of Nepal (ADDCN) Municipal Association of Nepal (MUAN) New Zealand

80. Alaska.com | Other Cities & Towns | Kodiak, Alaska Alaska s cities Holy Resurrection russian Orthodox Church at Kashaveroff Street and Mission Avenue (907486 Outside of town, there is even more to do and see. http://www.alaska.com/places/cities/other_cities/v-page2/story/4565654p-4696320c

Search Alaska.com Go Featured Advertisers Business Directory Find a business Airline Companies Airline Ticket Agents Airport Trans. Airports Auto Rentals Bus Lines Bus Tour Agencies Campgrounds Corporate Lodging Cruises Fishing Charters Hostels Hotels-Apartments Inns Hotel Reservations Resorts Shuttle Service Sightseeing Tours Taxicab/Car Service Tour Operators Tourist Accommo. Tourist Attractions Tourist Information Trailers-Camping Travel Travel Accessories Travel Clubs Travel Consultants Travel Insurance Travel Marketing Travel Research Travelers' Advisory Select location Anchorage Barrow Bethel Delta Jct. Denali Park Dillingham Dutch Harbor Fairbanks Haines Homer Juneau Kenai (city) Ketchikan King Salmon Kodiak Kotzebue Nome Palmer Seward Sitka Skagway Soldotna Talkeetna Unalaska Valdez Wasilla Whittier Wrangell Go Alaska's cities Kodiak, Alaska Emerald island offers plenty of sights and sounds (Page 2 of From the waterfront, head to Baranov Museum (101 Marine Way, 907-486-5920), which was built around 1808 to store sea otter pelts for Russian trader Alexander Baranov's Russian American Co. It is the oldest Russian building in Alaska and now houses artifacts from the Russian and pre-Russian era. Holy Resurrection Russian Orthodox Church at Kashaveroff Street and Mission Avenue (907-486-3854) is Alaska's oldest parish. Tours are held daily except Sundays in the summer.

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