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  Independent Ukraine: a beacon of security in Central Europe? (05/19/96)
Both developments leave Ukraine increasingly isolated in Central Europe, and, despite official denials to the contrary, it appears to have taken on the role of a buffer state between two military-security alliances.
Ukraine, ruled by President Leonid Kuchma since the summer of 1994, is trying to preserve a delicate balance in its relations with Russia and the CIS countries, while moving demonstrably closer to the United States as a strategic partner.
Recently, Ukraine, Poland, Slovakia and Hungary agreed to accept the present state borders, forestalling a potential nightmare of disputes as to the validity of ownership of various territories.
www.ukrweekly.com /Archive/1996/209604.shtml   (1323 words)

  
 EDITORIAL: The Russian Duma speaks its mind (03/24/96)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
The resolution in effect renounces the Belaya Vezha accord signed on the outskirts of Brest by Russia, Ukraine and Belarus in December 1991.
"In Ukraine, the adoption of this resolution by the State Duma of the Russian Federation is assessed as an attempt by certain political circles in Russia to revive the former USSR," that statement notes.
Ukraine and other countries of the former Soviet Union are independent and sovereign nations.
www.ukrweekly.com /Archive/1996/129611.shtml   (539 words)

  
 The State Hermitage Museum: Collection Highlights
The necklaces consist of various beads — round and bipyramidal from sard, flat from mother-of-pearl and lazurite, faceted rock crystal, and silver and gilt glass beads.
Such ornaments were widely found in Ancient Rus and necklaces like this have been found in 11th-century Slavonic burials at the settlement of Belaya Vezha.
In 965, the Russian Prince Svyatoslav captured the Khazar fortress of Sarkel and renamed it Belaya Vezha.
www.hermitagemuseum.org /html_En/03/hm3_2_13e.html   (68 words)

  
 History of Russia
Early in the 17th century, Russia fought off the Polish-Lithuanian and Swedish intervention, and in mid-century Ukraine wrested itself free from Polish domination to join Russia in a unified and greatly expanded state.
Traditionally introvert and self-reliant, Russia received a powerful boost in political, economic, social and cultural development, including revolutionary reforms in the army, in the reign of Peter the Great, who ruled from the late 17th century into the third decade of the 18th century.
The agreement signed in the Belaya Vezha forest in Belorussia in mid-1991 by the leaders of several Soviet republics spelled the end of the Soviet Union.
www.harpercollege.edu /~mhealy/g101ilec/russia/ruh/ruhover/history.html   (1053 words)

  
 wikien.info: Main_Page : B/BE/BEL   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Belaya (Белая) is the name of several rivers in Russia: In Siberia: Bolshaya Belaya (Большая Белая (Big Belaya) in Russian), a river in the Irkutsk Oblast and Buryatia in Russia, a tributary of th..
The name may refer to: Belaya Vezha, Ukraine (see Sarkel)Belaya Vezha, Belarus (see Belavezhskaya Pushcha) This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title.
Belaya Vezha (Belarusian: Бе́лая ве́жа) (White Tower) of Belarus is near Belavezhskaya Pushcha national park, in the town of Kamyanets (Kamenets, Belarus).
www.alanaditescili.net /browse.php?title=B/BE/BEL   (10713 words)

  
 Map 4 Kids - Belarus Travel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
The population of the Belorussian SSR was jolted into national awareness in the late 1980s with the occurrence of one disaster and the find of another.
The explosion at the Chornobyl' (Chernobyl') nuclear power plant in Ukraine not only entailed the physically damaging radiation carried by the winds but also came to represent the toll taken on the nation's sense of its ethnic and cultural identity by years of Russification.
Belarus, independent republic in eastern Europe, bordered on the north-west by Lithuania and Latvia, on the east by Russia, on the south by Ukraine, and on the west by Poland.
www.map4kids.com /world/europe/belarus/index.php   (3962 words)

  
 THE SEEDS OF DEMOCRACY PROGRAM IN THE WEST NIS: AN EVALUATION   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
While the focus is on Ukraine, where over two-thirds of the funds were distributed, the report presents statistical data for each of the three countries and discusses some points of comparison.
As a percent of total grants, discretionary grants in Ukraine were substantially higher and Moldova lower than the average for the three countries.
In addition, however, especially in Ukraine, many organizations were established for a specific event--the "Walk for Mother Earth" is a case in point--and were disbanded thereafter.
www.ee-environment.net /docs/isar_final.html   (16828 words)

  
 Kommersant - Russia's Daily Online
As a defense against frequent raids by Crimean Tatars, the city was surrounded by earthworks and became the strongest fortress of the Belgorod Defensive Line (a defensive fortification line on the southern border of the Russian state).
The frequently repeated idea that the name of the fortress came from the white chalk mountain, Belaya Gora, has become firmly fixed in people's minds without any consideration of the fact that their forebears did not use the word currently popular word "Belgorye".
The chronicles record other names: Belaya Vezha (vezha means a tent or other lightweight dwelling), Belograd, and Belogorodye.
www.kommersant.com /tree.asp?rubric=5&node=380&doc_id=-37   (3091 words)

  
 BREST REGION   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
The center of the region is the city of Brest (population: 300 000 people).
It’s right here, in the village of Viskouly, the leaders of Russia, Belarus and the Ukraine signed the famous “Belavezha agreement” which stipulated the final disintegration of the USSR.
Don’t miss the opportunity to visit one of the national symbols of Belarus – the famous Kamenets pillar, more known under the name of Belaya vezha (White tower)/ This tower, built in the XIII century, impresses greatly with the power and elegance of its lines even today.
www.kris.by /english3.shtml   (501 words)

  
 The State Hermitage Museum: Collection Highlights
The Khazar khanate existed during the early medieval period in the area between the Sea of Azov and the Caspian Sea, and excavations of burial grounds and settlements have produced many interesting finds.
Most important are the items from the Khazar fortress of Sarkel (834-965) and the Slavic town of Belaya Vezha (existed up to 1173), such as weapons (a flail and arrow-heads), farming tools, domestic objects and ornaments (silver plaques for clothing and belts, ornamented articles of bone, pottery, bronze lamps and glass beads).
The imported articles are of no less interest, including a bone comb from a Byzantine workshop and a chess piece (a bishop) from India.
www.hermitagemuseum.org /html_En/03/hm3_2_13.html   (252 words)

  
 rb02_ew
In the east Belarus borders on the Russian Federation, in the west on Poland, in the north on Lithuania and Latvia, and in the south on Ukraine.
On 26 April 1986, an incidence happened at the Chernobyl NPP situated in the territory of Ukraine near the border with the Gomel Oblast of Belarus; this was the greatest radiation incident in the history of the planet.
The term “Belaya Rus” (White Russia) is connected by some researchers with the word “belaya” (“white”) meaning independent or free, while others associate it with early Christianisation as opposed to the neighbouring pagan Black Russia or with the dominant colour of clothes and appearance of population.
www.mfa.gov.by /eng/publications/collection/rb02/rb_e.htm   (5955 words)

  
 Excursions and tours to Belarus, exhibitions, hotels reservation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
The republic of Belarus is situated in the center of Europe on the watershed of the Baltic and Black Seas.
The Gomel region is in the South-Eastern part of Belarus, it borders with the Ukraine and Russia.
The center of the region is the city of Brest (population - 300,000 pax).
www.trip-to-moscow.com /main.php?page=belarus/main   (2431 words)

  
 SAKUB HOLIDAY   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Belarus - officially the Republic of Belarus - is situated in the centre of Europe and on the ancient trade-routes cross-road.
Belarus borders on Lithuania, Latvia, Russia, Ukraine and Poland.
Wooden sculptures of the aurochs, the relic inhabitant of the Belaya Vezha Forest Reserve, are in great demand as souvenirs.
old.sakub.com /welcome/belarus/index.php   (867 words)

  
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BELAYA VEZHA, TRADE HOUSE, OOO D39/2, pavilion 4 Russia 40, ul.
OOO Belaya Vezha Trade House focuses on sale of Belarusian poultry and cattle farming, including food grade chicken eggs, quail eggs, broiler chicken meat of 1st grade, chicken meat, egg powder, deep-frozen pork, etc. BELPTITSEPROM, RESPUBLIKANSKOE OB▓EDINENIE D39/2, pavilion 4 Belarus 91, Starovilenskiy tr., Minsk 220053 Теl.
Distributed throughout the territory of Ukraine, in Russia, other CIS countries and those of the EU.
www.primexpo.ru /interfood/exhibitors/2006/list_eng.txt   (12283 words)

  
 BELINTOURIST :: Regions of Belarus   
The center of the region is the city of Brest (population — 300,000 pax).
It's right here, in the village of Viskouli, the leaders of Russia, Belarus and the Ukraine, signed the famous “Belovezhsky Agreement”, which stipulated the final disintegration of the USSR.
Don't miss the opportunity to visit one of the national symbols of Belarus — the famous Kamenets Tower, more known under the name of Belaya vezha (White tower).
www.belintourist.by /regions_en.phtml?topic=brest   (607 words)

  
 On a Unique Coin of Prince Mstislav from Tmutarakan' by Sergei V. Rjabchikov - English
Grigory I. Makandarov, the director of this museum, believes that it may be a coin of the Prince Oleg-Mikhail of Tmutarakan'; besides, he supposes that it may be a new type of coins; in any event this specimen was found in Taman' (Krasnodar Territory, Russia) (G.I. Makandarov personal communications: October 6 and 8, 2001).
The letter m turned through 90 degrees is also presented in a graffito from the Old Russian town Belaya Vezha (the Tmutarakan' Principality) (Rjabchikov 1998).
I should like to thank Grigory I. Makandarov, the director of the Odessa Museum of Numismatics (Odessa, Ukraine), for kindly sending me the tracings of both sides of the coin; their photos, and for permission to publish these photos.
public.kubsu.ru /~usr02898/sl36.htm   (545 words)

  
 Belovezhskaya pushcha - XXI century | Bialowieza woods - dualism
In December 1991, the representatives of SSR Belarus, SSR Ukraine and the leadership of USSR gathered at Viskuli, the governmental hunting residence.
This is where the meeting that dissolved the USSR and created the Commonwealth of Independent States took place.
This name comes from the White Tower (Belaya Vezha) from the fortified town of Kamenets, built (1276-1288) in the woods, by Prince Vladimir Volynsky for military and strategic purposes.
bp21.org.by /en/art/a040325.html   (2481 words)

  
 Indo-European Chronology: the 6th period
Oleg, a prince of Novgorod, in 882 conquered Novgorod, and the Kaganate moved to the East.
In 882, Oleg, a relative of Rurik's son prince Igor, aiming at establishment of trade ways to Byzantium, captured Kiev, at that time an outpost of the Khazar Kaganate, and became ruler of all Russia.
Soon most of the tribes of the Dniepr valley, cities of northern Russia and modern Ukraine joined the new country which became the largest in Europe and one of the first Slavic kingdoms.
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Brest region is located in the south-western part of Belarus, it borders on Poland in the West and on Ukraine in the South.
One of the main showplaces of the region is Brest Fortress memorial containing Berestye archaeological museum, St Nicolas’ Cathedral, the museum of salvaged art objects.
The special pride of the region is the National Park Belovezhskaya Pushcha (Belovezha forest reserve), a unique woodland with a wide range of plant and animal species and the magnificent Belaya Vezha (White Tower) in the town of Kamenets.
www.travel-to-belarus.com /incoming/eng/territory.php   (1535 words)

  
 AlatanTour
On the way visit to the historical monument Old Tower "Belaya Vezha" (White Tower), built in the 13
Visit to Tyshkevich's farmstead, former forest house of one of the representatives of Polish "shlyakhta" (rich Polish and Belarusian aristocracy); walking along ancient tzar road, have been being constructed during the last Polish king Stanislav Ponyatovsky governing.
Visit to one the Presidential residences in Viskouly, where the leaders of Russia, Belarus and the Ukraine signed the famous "Belavezha agreement", which stipulated the final disintegration of the USSR.
www.alatantour.com /eng/tours_7.shtml   (275 words)

  
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Once the residence of Polish princes and Russian tsars, on December S, 1991 the document which sealed the end of USSR and the creation of the CIS was signed here by Belarus, Russia an the Ukraine.
Guests of the National Park may visit historical and cultural sites: Tyshkevich's farmstead, ancient czar road, Viskuli Complex, as well as a number of others, which are located in close vicinity (for example.
Old Tower "Belaya Vezha", a rare church ensemble and so on).
smp-travel.com /preserves/belovezhskaya.htm   (566 words)

  
 :: Wschodnioeuropejskie Centrum Demokratyczne ::
Part of the faction voted against denouncing the Belaya Vezha agreements (concerning the dissolution of the USSR), while the other part voted in favour.
In the run up to the presidential election in 2001, Kalyakin was one of the five hopefuls who agreed to co-ordinate their actions for the sake of eliminating the authoritarian regime.
Their ideology is either pan-Slavic (the former «Belaya Rus», the Belarusian Patriotic Party, and the DSPJ) or extreme left (the Communist Party of Belarus).
www.eedc.org.pl /eng/www/biblioteka/system/chapter_04.htm   (14196 words)

  
 Music at STAMPUS - Soviet music
As one composer put it, "in the Kursk Songs beautiful folk tunes, while remaining unchanged, were elevated with few, and yet very strong and precise, touches from the author's own hearing and perception".
The creation of a refined folk style in the Kursk Songs met with tremendous response among composers of the various Union republics such as the republics of Transcaucasia, the Baltic republics, the Ukraine, and the republics of Central Asia.
Today among musical compositions for the stage there are already a good number of operas from a later period produced by composers in the various Union republics: the Ukraine, Byelorussia", and the Transcaucasian.
members.tripod.com /stampus_54/music/smusic.htm   (11561 words)

  
 Timeless tune of Belovezhskaya Pushcha
Many people connect an origin of the name Belovezhskaya Pushcha with the Belaya Vezha (White Tower) which was constructed in this city.
For example, settlements were called "vesi", whereas settlements of our ancestors had the appellation "vesi of white people" or "white vesi".
We restored partnership relations with the Sank-Petersburg Institute of Botany, the Moscow State University, the Ural Botanical Garden, the Institute of Medicinal Plants of Russia, the Timiryazev's Agricultural Academy and a number of scientific institutions of Ukraine and Baltic countries.
bp21.org.by /en/art/a051214.html   (5369 words)

  
 Syphon Filter: The Omega Strain Walkthrough - IGN FAQs
Updated some of my record times and fixed a small problem in the Italy walkthrough.
With a little luck you should pull this one off with no problems at all.
===================== Ukraine ===================== Par Time: 25:00 My Record: 20:04 As long as you know where you're going this level isn't too tough, especially because of the HUGE error margin.
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 Belarus: Agriculture, Industry and Companies
Policies for Sustainable Forestry in Belarus, Russia and Ukraine, European Forest Institute Research Report (en)
Display Technologies in Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus, WTEC Panel Report (en)
Belaya Rus Luxe Vodka, Imported from Belarus (en)
www.ac.by /country/industry.html   (883 words)

  
 Welcome to Belarus
Don't miss the opportunity to visit one of the national symbols of Belarus - the famous
Kamenets pillar, more known under the name of Belaya vezha (White tower).
This tower, built in the XIII century, impresses greatly with the power and elegance of its lines even today.
welcometobelarus.iatp.by /brest.htm   (688 words)

  
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Sniper Rating: *** Not much better than the Dragunov, but has a function outside of being a sniper, as in the "I laugh at your armor" weapon.
Flame Thrower Fire Rate: V Damage: V Clip Size: 100 Capacity: 150+ Ammo: --- Game Description: --- Obtained: Ukraine Overall Rating: *** A fun weapon that you can have fun with for the 4 or so minutes you get to have it for.
You can keep the flame on for as long as the ammo exists, but the rate of fire if you hold down the attack button is equivalent to that of the SSP 90's (really fast).
www.cheatcc.com /psx2/sg/syphon_filter_the_omega_strain.txt   (22252 words)

  
 TOUR 1: Minsk – Belovezhskaya Pushcha – Minsk, 7 days/ 6 nights | TQ3 U ZHENI Travel Solutions
Visit to the Museum of Nature, open–air cages with wide animals.
Tour of the territory of Belovezhskaya Pushcha, including all historical and cultural sites of BP, visit to Tyshkevich’s estate, the ancient Tsar road, the ancient man site, “Viskuli“ complex, “Belaya Vezha” old tower, the rare church ensemble and so on.
Tour of the territory of Belovezhskaya Pushcha: horse–back riding; on–foot routes, carriding, special activities revealing the reach and versatile world of vegetation and animals in their natural surrounding and habitats for amateurs of photo safari may be organized.
www.uzheni.com /en/tq3-belarus/agroeco/tours/tour1.html   (496 words)

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