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	Moscow
		At the center of the city, in the Central Administrative Okrug, is the Moscow Kremlin, which houses the home of the President of Russia as well as many of the facilities for the national government.
		Administrative districts: Zelenogradskiy Administrative Okrug (City of Zelenograd in the federal classification), Northern Administrative Okrug, North-Eastern Administrative Okrug, North-Western Administrative Okrug, Central Administrative Okrug, Eastern Administrative Okrug, Southern Administrative Okrug, South-Eastern Administrative Okrug, South-Western Administrative Okrug, and Western Administrative Okrug.
		The Kurchatov Institute, Russia's leading research and development institution in the field of nuclear energy, where the first nuclear reactor in Europe was built, Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics, Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Kapitza Institute for Physical Problems and Steklov Institute of Mathematics are all situated in Moscow.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/m/mo/moscow.html (8201 words)

	Florida State University Department of History \| Graduate Course Descriptions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The course of Balkan history emphasizing the penetration of the Hapsburg and Russian empires, the decay of the Ottomans, and the emergence of the Balkan states after the wars of liberation, with stress on the cultural peculiarities of the various ethnic groups.
		History of England from Anglo-Saxon settlements to the establishment of the Tudor dynasty.
		An examination of the history of Russia from 1801 to the beginning of the 20th century, with emphasis on foreign relations and the development of the political and social conflicts that resulted in the revolutions of 1917.
	www.fsu.edu /~history/courses/gradcourses.htm (2495 words)

	Russia History \| iExplore.com
		The political history of the period from 1500 until the mid-17th century was characterized by struggles between the tsar and the rich, powerful, landed nobility, known as the boyars.
		Russia has huge deposits of oil and gas – its major export earners – as well as coal and minerals including gold, diamonds, nickel, manganese, copper, iron ore and phosphates.
		Russia hosts a substantial informal or ‘grey’ economy in which between 25 and 40 per cent of the workforce are engaged to some extent; however, 25 per cent of the population of Russia live below the poverty line.
	www.iexplore.com /dmap/Russia/History (3497 words)

	A Brief History of Medieval Russia
		Following in the footsteps of her Byzantine teachers Russia grew farther and farther apart from the West, remaining a stranger to all the virility of the movement which expressed itself in the manifold phases of chivalry, Gothic art, and municipal independence.
		The princes were forced to acknowledge the suzerainty of the Tatar khans, who kept in their hands the disposal of the title of grand prince, the settlement of cases of disputed succession, and the granting of commissions, for all of which there was exacted the customary oriental servility.
		Shut in from the rest of Europe, Russia had nothing but her Byzantine traditions and her orthodox faith upon which to lean, and the sterile, formalistic character of these is sufficient apology for the intellectual stagnation of the period.
	www.shsu.edu /~his_ncp/MorRus.html (4221 words)

	Belmont Abbey College, Charlotte - Belmont NC - Academics \| Majors/Programs:History - Liberal Arts:Catholic Benedictine ...
		The study of history at Belmont Abbey College seeks to prepare the student to understand the present and to influence the future.
		History is not concerned with the past for its own sake, but seeks to develop analytical skills that can be widely used in the student’s personal and professional life.
		Because of the wide application of the skills developed through the study of history, it is an ideal major for those who are unsure of their career objectives.
	www.belmontabbeycollege.edu /academics/programs/majors/history/history.aspx (434 words)

	Russian division territorial, division politico territorial of Russia, division politica territorial in Russia on ...
		Russian division territorial, division politico territorial of Russia, division politica territorial in Russia on RussiansAbroad.com
		The smallest political division is the rayon (pl., rayony), a unit roughly equivalent to the county in the United States.
		Located in east-central Siberia, the Republic of Sakha, formerly known as Yakutia, is the largest administrative division in the federation, twice the size of Alaska.
	www.russiansabroad.com /russian_history_92.html (219 words)

	Oglethorpe University : Academics : Undergraduate : Division Ii : History
		History bridges the disciplinary perspectives of the humanities and social sciences.
		This course is a survey of German history in the 19th and 20th centuries, focusing on the unification of Germany in the 19th century, the Bismarckian state, the two world wars, the Weimar Republic, the Third Reich, and the division and subsequent reunification of Germany after World War II.
		This course is a chronological examination of the history of Georgia from the Colonial period to the 20th century.
	www.oglethorpe.edu /academics/undergraduate/division_ii/history.asp (2526 words)

	Uyezd (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Uyezds were ruled by the representatives (namestniks) of knyaz and, starting from the 17th century, by voyevodas.
		In 1708, an administrative reform was carried out by Peter the Great, dividing Russia into governorates.
		By the Soviet administrative reform of 1923–1929, uyezds were transformed into raions (districts).
	www.tocatch.info /en/Uyezd.htm (143 words)

	Lecture 14: The Origins of the Cold War
		You will soon notice that it is a history full of examples in which independent thought or direct criticism is most often met with the club or the stick.
		But since the Soviets believed that they had history on their side -- history as understood by Marx's materialist conception of history -- the communists were in no hurry and would not risk major war.
		There were two other administrative policies that also helped to shape the future of US-Soviet relations during the early stages of the cold war.
	www.historyguide.org /europe/lecture14.html (4054 words)

	Department of History::Graduate Program::Requirements
		History faculty hold office hours during registration weeks to give you the opportunity to meet with professors about your plans.
		Complete a pro forma application and return to the History office; your request is reviewed by the Chair of the Graduate Student Affairs Committee and approved by the Dean of Students.
		History requires that any incomplete requirements be resolved before returning from a leave.
	history.uchicago.edu /graduate/requirements.html (4108 words)

	PRUSSIA
		Modern Prussia was successively, with geographical modifications, an independent kingdom (1701–1871); the largest constituent kingdom of the German Empire (1871–1918); a constituent state, or land, of the Weimar Republic (1918–34); and an administrative division, comprising 13 provinces, of the centralized German Third Reich (1934–45).
		Frederick William centralized the administration of the duchy and assumed governing powers that were formerly exercised by the nobility and the town oligarchies.
		Frederick William’s son, Frederick I, became king of Prussia in 1701, receiving royal recognition in exchange for a promise of military aid to Holy Roman Emperor Leopold I. Frederick’s son, Frederick William I, greatly increased the size of the Prussian army and rebuilt the organization of the state around the military establishment.
	www.history.com /encyclopedia.do?vendorId=FWNE.fw..pr144200.a#FWNE.fw..pr144200.a (945 words)

	History of the original Panzer Division "Hermann Göring"
		Renamed "FallschirmPanzer Division Hermann Göring" and consisting of panzer, armour artillery and infantry battalions, the unit was later deployed at Anzio as part of the XIV Panzer Corps.
		During the fighting in Russia, Heinrich Göring, the nephew of the Reichsmarshall, was killed in action.
		The Panzer Division HG was assigned to Großdeutschland Panzerkorps under direct leadership of General der Panzertruppe Jauer, and in March near Konigsbruck near Saxony it achieved it's last victory of the war by annihilating the 1st Polish Division which at the time was under the command of the Soviets.
	www.reenactor.net /units/zaz_hgpzd/1-history.html (1822 words)

	Russia Administrative and Territorial Divisions - Flags, Maps, Economy, History, Climate, Natural Resources, Current ...
		Located in the northern and middle latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere, most of Russia is much closer to the North Pole than to the equator.
		Individual country comparisons are of little value in gauging Russia's enormous size (slightly less than twice that of the United States) and diversity.
		Russia extends about 9,000 kilometers from westernmost Kaliningrad Oblast, the now-isolated region cut off from the rest of Russia by the independence of Belarus, Latvia, and Lithuania, to Ratmanova Island (Big Diomede Island) in the Bering Strait.
	www.photius.com /countries/russia/geography/russia_geography_administrative_and_t~1281.html (620 words)

	LLRX.com - A Guide to Russian Legal Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Russia (the Russian Federation) is a democratic, federative, law-based state with the republican form of government.
		The Administration of the President (http://www.gov.ru/main/page2.html) is formed in accordance with the Article 83 of the Constitution of the Russian Constitution and is the state organ which supports the Russian Federation President's activities.
		For the acts of the President and the Government this constitutional provision is implemented by the President Decree N 763 "On the procedure for the publication and the effective date of the Acts of President of Russia and the Government of Russia" (http://jedi.kosnet.ru/sorm/lawdocs/763.html) of May 23, 1996.
	www.llrx.com /features/russia.htm (10122 words)

	History of Belarus (Great Litva)
		History of Belarus - excerpts from the book "Belarus - a new country in Eastern Europe", written in 1994 by Uladzimir Novik, a member of the Belarusian Parliament.
		History of St. Petersburg - the city started on the shores of Baltic sea by Russian Tsar Peter The Great after his victory in Great Northern War.
		Napoleon was defeated by the vastness of Russian territory and the skill of Russian Field Marshal Kutuzov in the Battle of Borodino near Moscow, Russia.
	www.belarusguide.com /as/history/history.html (2797 words)

	Uzbekistan History
		The history of Uzbekistan, its culture and statehood, foreign economic and social ties of the territory is more than 2.5 millennia.
		Under the power of Timur military victories were consolidated by creating a complicated system of the administrative governing, and the common norms of law ("Code of Timur").
		This was the beginning of the history of our country - the country open to the world community.
	www.tashkent.org /uzland/history.html (938 words)

	Axis History Factbook: Suicide of a Nation - Germany's Ride to Destruction: Russia 1941
		German mobile divisions, essential for ensuring a quick campaign, constantly broke down on poor roads or ran out of fuel and, as they distanced themselves from the supporting infantry, were spread out and isolated over hundreds of square miles of countryside.
		Instead he was sent to the United States, where he spent fourteen years with the United States Army Historical Division, and honoured in 1961 with the Meritorious Civilian Services Award, the highest recognition that could be given to a civilian.
		Yet the dictator's ruthless character, his exceptional administrative abilities, and his inclination toward secrecy belied this true thoughts and feelings.
	www.axishistory.com /index.php?id=3599 (1829 words)

	Computing at Columbia Timeline
		It does not aspire to be a general history or museum of computing, but in some ways it's not far from one either.
		By the early 60s a certain division of labor had become the rule, in which "system analysts" would make a flow chart, programmers would translate it to code, which was written by hand on "coding forms" that were given to key punch operators to be punched on cards.
		Administrative computing was done independently by individual departments such as the Registrar's Office and the Controller's Office.
	www.columbia.edu /acis/history (14488 words)

	The Dispatch - Serving the Lexington, NC - News
		Guberniya (IPA:) (also gubernia, guberniia, gubernya) was a major administrative subdivision of the Imperial Russia, usually translated as governorate or province.
		By the ukase of Russian Senate by December 31, 1796, the office of Governorate General was demoted to the previous level of Governorate, and Russia was again divided into guberniyas, which were subdivided in uyezds, further subdivided into volosts (Ð²Ð¾Ð»Ð¾ÑÑÑ), nevertheless several Governorates General made from several guberniyas existed until 1917.
		In modern Russia, although the term Guberniya is obsolete, the word gubernator is used when referring to a governor of an oblast or a krai.
	www.the-dispatch.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=guberniya (367 words)

	Architecture - The Empire That Was Russia: The Prokudin-Gorskii PhotographicRecord Recreated (A Library of Congress ...
		The Monastery of St. Nil' on Stolobnyi Island in Lake Seliger in Tver' Province, northwest of Moscow, illustrates the fate of church institutions during the course of Russian history.
		The Solovetskii Monastery, founded in the early fifteenth century on an island in the White Sea in the far north of European Russia, was for centuries one of the most important monastic and cultural institutions in Russia.
		The Church of the Resurrection in Kostroma in the northern part of European Russia was built in the 1650s and demonstrates the exuberant decoration of the exterior characteristic of its period.
	www.loc.gov /exhibits/empire/architecture.html (1383 words)

	Naval Armed Guard: Russian Convoys
		The records of the Arming Merchant Ships Section of the Fleet Maintenance Division of the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations indicate that some 347 merchant ships were dispatched to North Russia through April 26, 1945.
		After this early period of heavy losses the tide turned; only 10 ships out of more than 200 were lost on the North Russia run for the remainder of the war, according to the records of the War Shipping Administration.
		From this point the history of the convoy becomes largely a series of separate attacks by German submarines and planes, most of which ended in sinking the merchant ships involved in the attack.
	www.history.navy.mil /faqs/faq104-2.htm (2252 words)

	Chinese History, China History, China Travel Information
		His most important contribution to Chinese history was that he wrote a book known as Records of the Grand Historian (actually, he claimed to just be completing a book that his father, Sima Tan, had started, but most of the book is Sima Qian's).
		He was so infatuated with Yang that the administration of the government soon fell into decay, which was not made any better by the fact that Yang took advantage of her power to stuff high administrative positions with her corrupt cronies.
		One of the most significant developments in recent history was the death of Deng, on February 19, 1997.
	www.chinatour.com /countryinfo/history.htm (5731 words)

	Travel Tips Of Russia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The next two centuries saw the rise of Moscow as a provincial capital and center of the Christian Orthodox Church.
		Russia hosts a substantial informal or ‘grey’ economy in which between 25 and 40 per cent of the workforce are engaged to some extent.
		Apart from the former Soviet republics of Kazakhstan, Belarus and Ukraine, Russia’s main trading partners are Germany, the USA and Japan.
	www.southtravels.com /europe/russia/history.html (3381 words)

	A Historical Overview of American Soccer History
		Most importantly, it committed to establishing a bona-fide first division professional league to be in operation by the time the cup was held.
		This league was recognized by FIFA as the official 2nd division league for the United States, but celebrations were premature, as financial disasters almost led to the demise of the league after their first season.
		The amateur division is known among fans as an unofficial "4th division".
	www.sover.net /~spectrum/overview.html (14720 words)

	China History
		Chinese civilization, as described in mythology, begins with Pangu (), the creator of the universe and a succession of legendary sage-emperors and culture heroes among them are Huang Di, Yao, and Shun) who taught the ancient Chinese to communicate and to find sustenance, clothing, and shelter.
		The new empire retained much of the Qin administrative structure but retreated a bit from centralized rule by establishing vassal principalities in some areas for the sake of political convenience.
		The division was caused by the forced abandonment of north China in 1127 by the Song court, which could not push back the nomadic invaders.
	www.china-window.com /china_briefing/china_history/index.shtml (657 words)

	CHAPTER 1: A HISTORY OF DIVISION AND CONFLICT
		As has so often happened in the history of man, permission was tacitly granted for acts of violence and plunder, even for murder, if they were carried out in the name of higher interests, according to established rules, and against a limited number of men of a particular type and belief.
		Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic was "grateful to Russia for its involvement in the resolution of the crisis," and accepted Russia’s "request" to withdraw heavy weaponry around Sarajevo.
		Russia’s deputy foreign minister, Vitaly I. Churkin said, however, that cabinet members "receive their orders only from the president and obey only him." Nevertheless, Russian popular sentiment was firmly allied with the Bosnian Serbs.
	www.fas.org /man/eprint/beale.htm (20201 words)

	Formation Focus, History and Organization Details for the 11th Panzer Division
		The 11th’s appetite went unabated, cannibalizing the remains of whole divisions while fighting in southern France, and the Battle of the Bulge.
		For Operation Citadel, the division was brought to a strength of 121 tanks, 20 of which were obsolete.
		This Division was created in Wehrkreis VIII* in the summer of 1940 as part of the general expansion of the panzer arm following the fall of France.
	www.lostbattalion.com /t-ff_11PZ.aspx (1483 words)

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