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  Land Resources of Russia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
REPUBLIC OF Adygei Republic is situated in the north-western part of the Caucasus.
The republic is situated on East European Plain in the middle course of the Volga.
The republic is situated on the northern slopes and foothills of the central part of the Great Caucasus with heights up to 5642 m (Elbrus mountain which is the highest top of Russia).
www.iiasa.ac.at /Research/FOR/russia_cd/adm_lis.htm   (15014 words)

  
 Kommersant - Russia's Daily Online
The Republic of Khakassia borders on Kemerovo Region in the northwest and the Altai Republic (or Mountainous Altai) and the Republic of Tuva in the south and southwest.
The Republic of Khakassia is divided into 5 cities, including 3 under republican authority (Abakan, Chernogorsk, Sayanogorsk) and 2 under district authority (Abaza, Sorsk); 8 rural districts; and 79 rural and village territories.
The Republic of Khakassia is a resource-rich Russian region.
www.kommersant.com /t-100/r_5/n_444/Republic_of_Khakassia   (3712 words)

  
 Khakass Republic - HighBeam Encyclopedia
The republic, largely consisting of fl-earth steppe, is bounded by the upper Yenisei River on the east and by the wooded Kuznetsk Alatau and Sayan ranges on the west and south, respectively.
The republic's swift-flowing rivers provide hydroelectric power, and many of the numerous lakes are sources of therapeutic mineral waters.
An autonomous region was formed in 1930; the region was given republic status in 1991.
www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-KhakassR.html   (362 words)

  
 World congress on language policies
Regional laws are different and depend not only on the variety of language situations and economic difficulties but on the quota of national minority in the total population of the Republic and on the degree of the language shift.
The republics of Tyva and Khakassia are situated in the south of Siberia.
In the 1989 census 62% of the Khakass people live in their republic and make up 11,1% of the population of the Republic of Khakassia.
www.linguapax.org /congres/taller/taller1/Borgoyakova.html   (2014 words)

  
 Subdivisions of Russia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Immediately after 1991, the republics inherited (or upgraded themselves to) the status soviet ASSRs enjoyed, nominally autonomous inside RSFSR — as opposed to the other divisions at the same level.
Altay Republic was an autonomous region within Altai Territory (then named Mountainous Altai) and is now (since when?) independent from it and renamed to republic.
Khakassia was an autonomous region within Krasnoyarsk Territory and is now (since when?) independent from it and renamed to republic.
www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/ru-_misc.html   (1401 words)

  
 Red Stars Travel  Agency - Tours and Travel - What You Need To Know About Our Tours
The republic of Khakassia is situated in Altai-Sayan Mountains.
Khakassia is a land of mountain rivers and lakes, more than 50 of its lakes are said to have healing effect.
Khakassia has a sharply continental climate with an average winter temperature of -15 -18 C, and average summer temperature of + 20, +22 C. The recorded history of Khakassia begins about 4-5 thousand years ago, which is even earlier than the world-famous Easter Island civilization.
www.travel2russia.com /destguide/city4.htm   (1704 words)

  
 Khakassia (Russia)
Khakassia was one of the parts of the Krasnoyarsk region two years ago.
As of 25 September 2003 the flag of the Republic of Khakassia has its horizontal stripes [changed and] arranged blue/white/red.
According to the information on Victor’s site, an exception was made in the case of Khakassia because their flag pre-dated the legislation forbidding use of the National Flag on any regional flags, but the Parliament of Khakassia introduced the change anyway.
www.fotw.net /flags/ru-19.html   (964 words)

  
 Russian Politics, Siberia - Johnson's Russia List 2-19-03
Lapshin, recently elected leader of the Republic of Altai, has maintained a "meaningful silence" on the issue, suggesting that here too some kind of deal is in the works.
Until 1991, when it became a separate ethnic republic of the RF, Khakassia was an autonomous province within the Krasnoyarsk territory.
The leadership of the Republic of Khakassia is dead set against re-incorporation, especially in view of the fact that it would take place in the context of the elimination of all autonomous units.
www.cdi.org /russia/johnson/7069-3.cfm   (779 words)

  
 ¥219/03/News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Grabbing 42 percent of the vote in the republic of Khakassia, in southern Siberia, Lebed, currently a State Duma deputy from the region, easily beat out incumbent Yevgeny Smirnov, who finished third and will not participate in next month's run-off election.
Results in Khakassia, where incumbent Smirnov was endorsed by the pro-Kremlin "Our Home is Russia" faction and the local Communist Party chapter - but still failed to gather the 10 percent of the vote required to participate in the runoff election - illustrate how clouded regional party politics have become.
Khakassia also has a rich supply of coal, and local administrators said it comes as little surprise that Lebed's second-round challenger will be Yevgeny Reznikov, the general director of the local coal company KhakasUgol
www.friends-partners.org /oldfriends/spbweb/times/219-220/kremlin.html   (534 words)

  
 www.rian.ru
Alexei Lebed, the president of the Republic of Khakassia, has been accused of misappropriating public funds while vacationing abroad.
The 51-year-old regional leader is the younger brother of the late General Alexander Lebed, who shot to fame as a presidential hopeful in 1996 and later became governor of the massive Krasnoyarsk Region, where he died in a helicopter crash in 2002.
The case against the Khakassia leader and other local government officials is the latest in a series of corruption probes against officials in Russian provinces.
en.rian.ru /russia/20060725/51795484-print.html   (244 words)

  
 Traditional and modern Khakas conceptions of sound and music - 1
This is also true for the Khakas, a Turkic speaking ethnic group of approximately 80,000 people living in South Siberia, in the Autonomous Republic of Khakassia, which is part of the Russian Federation.
The Republic of Khakassia is located on the left bank of the river Yenisei.
Khakassia consists partly of mountainous taiga and partly of broad open steppe valleys.
www.iias.nl /oideion/journal/issue04/nyssen/1.html   (783 words)

  
 Siberia, Buryatia, Lake Baikal, Tuva, Khakassia, Moscow, rainer stalvik
The republic of Tuva, with an area of 170 500 square kilometers, is one of the least known regions in Siberia, and maby one of the most remarkable.
The Republic of Khakassia, dominated by mountains and steppes, is considered as one of the cradles of Siberian civilisations.
Khakassia is a small country, only about 61 900 square kilometers large.
www.stalvik.com /Engelska/tripinfosiberia.htm   (3165 words)

  
 Khakasiya Paper Money
hakassia is a republic in the Russian Federation located in south central Siberia with the capital at Abakan.
Prior to 1991 Khakassia was an autonomous oblast within the Krasnoyarsk Krai.
The text on the front of the note reads "obligatory to acceptance in specialized enterprises and organizations serving pensioners in the territory of the Republic of Khakassia".
numismondo.com /pm/kaz   (353 words)

  
 Pravda.RU:Siberia braces itself for snow melting   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
As a result of melting snow, partial flooding is expected in populated localities in Altai Territory (southern Siberia), in the south of Krasnoyarsk Territory and in the Republic of Khakassia (Eastern Siberia).
In the Republic of Altai the far from simple flood situation is also explained by extensive snow cover.
Ice on the rivers is as thick as 1.5 metres.
newsfromrussia.com /region/2001/04/14/3590_.html   (299 words)

  
 UES and Republic of Khakassia Settle Their Dispute - MONEY - MOSNEWS.COM   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
The government of Khakassia demanded from UES management that discount rates be kept unchanged, but when the power monopoly declined, the regional authorities filed a claim in the local Arbitration Court demanding that 1993 privatization be declared invalid.
Basic Element owns a 75 percent stake in Russian Aluminium, the biggest power consumer in the region, and Deripaska was seen as a mastermind behind Khakassian government’s court claims.
The sides were able to reach a compromise decision as a result of which Khakassia has given up its de-privatization claims.
www.mosnews.com /money/2004/06/09/ueskhakassia.shtml   (467 words)

  
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The grave tumulus of Barsuchij Log, Republic of Khakassia: a large kurgan from the Early Iron Age in the Minusinsk Basin
45 km northwest of Abakan, capital of the Republic of Khakassia.
Burial grounds that were in use for centuries indicate that a large portion of the prehistoric cultures of South and West Siberia consisted of egalitarian societies.
www.dainst.org /index_4301_en.html   (762 words)

  
 The Sleeping Warrior
The Republic of Khakassia is a land of majestic mountain and steppe beauty, full of fresh and salt-water lakes.
In Tuva, Khakassia's neighbour republic, there has been much more contact not only with scholars but with practitioners of shamanic types of healing from the US and Europe, and there the focus seems to be more on individual healing.
At the same time as the outward focus of Khakassia's new shamans is on the whole group, their inward focus involves individual inspiration and creativity rather than setting up or imposing new authoritarian structures, more typical of the Buriats and Mongolians.
www.kiravan.com /Sleepwarrior.htm   (3514 words)

  
 Russia`s giant hydro dam changes legal address after dispute with region - Gateway To Russia - News From Russia
From now on, the power station will be registered not in the Republic of Khakassia, as has been the case to date, but in Krasnoyarsk Territory.
The shareholders are not at all shy about the reasons for the decision: Khakassia's economic and political climate is far from perfect.
[Correspondent] Despite the fact that the plant was Khakassia's biggest taxpayer and that the republic and the Sayansk Aluminium Plant were supplied power at unprecedented low rates, the republic's leadership would not invest a penny to develop the station and launched numerous legal battles to de-privatize it.
www.gateway2russia.com /st/art_237190.php   (492 words)

  
 The Khakas Language   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Khakas is a Turkic language spoken by the Khakas people, who mainly live in the southern Siberian Khakas Republic, or Khakassia.
The Shor dialect of Khakas is spoken by people who originally came from Shoria, an area bordering on the west of Khakassia.
The language spoken in Shoria, Shor, is closely related to Khakas, and can in fact be regarded as a dialect of Khakas.
home.arcor.de /marcmarti/khakas   (355 words)

  
 Khakassia (Russia)
In 1994 the sun was changed, and is now yellow, but lined white, not green [as in ethnical flag].
On June 6th, 1992, the Flag Law was adopted by the Supreme Soviet of the Republic.
There is a shamanastic revival going on now, and the people has never really abandoned those practices: hence the importance of the stelae to them.
www.allstates-flag.com /fotw/flags/ru-kk.html   (680 words)

  
 Horseback 'Jesus' gathers his flock - smh.com.au
Thousands of pilgrims have converged on the hamlet of Petropavlovka, deep in the Siberian tundra, to hear the annual sermon by a 41-year-old former traffic policeman whom they believe to be Jesus.
Sergei Torop, known to his followers as Vissarion, has descended on horseback for the occasion from the mountain log cabin that he shares with his wife and six children, near Petropavlovka in the republic of Khakassia, near the Siberian-Mongolian border.
Dressed in flowing red velvet robes and sporting long dark hair, Vissarion has appeared before his growing band of followers every year on the anniversary of his revelation in 1989 that he was Christ returned.
www.smh.com.au /articles/2002/08/18/1029114050435.html   (301 words)

  
 MMSD FSU Region   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
In a second trip to the region, MMSD staff visited Moscow, the Republic of Khakassia, and Kyrgyzstan, where they held a further series of meetings.
A considerable number of issues were raised, including the diversity of regional priorities in the vast territory covered by the former Soviet Union; privatisation, foreign investment, and the distribution of rents; strengthening infrastructure; mine closure and abandoned mines; small-scale mining; environmental protection and preservation; and legacy issues.
Based on the findings of these meetings, MMSD commissioned three baseline studies - on the Russian Federation, the Republic of Khakassia, and Kyrgyzstan - drawing on existing research and on stakeholder consultation and review.
www.poptel.org.uk /iied/mmsd/reg_centres/rc_fsu.html   (218 words)

  
 MMSD FSU Region
In a second trip to the region, MMSD staff visited Moscow, the Republic of Khakassia, and Kyrgyzstan, where they held a further series of meetings.
A considerable number of issues were raised, including the diversity of regional priorities in the vast territory covered by the former Soviet Union; privatisation, foreign investment, and the distribution of rents; strengthening infrastructure; mine closure and abandoned mines; small-scale mining; environmental protection and preservation; and legacy issues.
Based on the findings of these meetings, MMSD commissioned three baseline studies - on the Russian Federation, the Republic of Khakassia, and Kyrgyzstan - drawing on existing research and on stakeholder consultation and review.
www.iied.org /mmsd/reg_centres/rc_fsu.html   (218 words)

  
 Siberia
All but the extreme south-western area of Siberia lies in Russia, and it makes up about 56% of that country's territory.
Geographically, Siberia includes the federal subjects of the Urals Federal District, Siberian Federal District and Sakha (Yakutia) Republic, which is a part of the Far Eastern Federal District (see a list of subjects below).
From the historical point of view, the whole Russian Far East is considered a segment of Siberia.
www.ufaqs.com /wiki/en/si/Siberia.htm   (944 words)

  
 Khakassia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Image:RussiaKhakassia.png Khakassia or Khakasiya (''Хака́сия'' or Хака́ссия) is a republic in the Russian Federation located in south central Siberia.
Abakan is the administrative centre of Khakassia, and with a population of around 160,000, the largest city.
Khakassia Republic consists of the following districts (Russian: районы):
khakassia.kiwiki.homeip.net   (267 words)

  
 Russian jade mines, Khakassia, Kazakhstan and Polar jadeite
The Republic of Khakassia lies in Siberia, just north of Altay and Tuva, near the border with Mongolia.
The jade mines in Khakassia are situated near the banks of the Yenisey River, near Sayano-Shushenskaya, one of Russia's largest hydroelectric dams.
He was born in Khakassia and has a deep love of his homeland and its peoples.
www.ruby-sapphire.com /jade_russia.htm   (4571 words)

  
 Catholic World News : Crackdown, opposition greet new Russian religion law
And yet on Tuesday, September 30, the Rev. Pavel Zayakin, ELMK director, received an official letter from the Khakassian authorities declaring that the registration of the Evangelical Lutheran Mission has been canceled in accordance with the new Law on Freedom of Conscience and Religious Organizations, which was recently passed by the Russian government.
The letter noted that "in accordance with the adoption of the Law on Freedom of Conscience and Religious Organizations by the Duma and the Russian Federation, the registration of your organization is hereby canceled.
The revocation of the ELMK's registration means that the ELMK will no longer be able to own property, to conduct evangelization efforts legally, to draft official documents, or to sign contracts and agreements.
www.cwnews.com /news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=5972   (414 words)

  
 Pravda.RU Siberia braces itself for snow melting
The Buddhists of autonomous republics of Russia - Tuva, Buryatia, Khakasia, Kalmykia, Mountain Altai have proposed to the Russian government and to the President of Russia to elaborate the Declaration of Rights of religious and ethnic minorities of Eurasia -'Eurasian Charter'.
7 schoolchildren aged 11-15 from one of the country towns in the republic of Mordovia in central Russia.
President of the Russia's republic of Bashkiria Murtaza Rakhimov came forward with a new proposal.
newsfromrussia.com /region/2001/04/14/3590.html   (1895 words)

  
 'I am Jesus Christ . . . It was prophesied that I would return to finish what I started'   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Dressed in flowing red velvet robes and sporting long dark hair, Vissarion has appeared before his growing band of followers every year on the anniversary of his revelation in 1989 that he was Christ returned.
The Orthodox Church was banned but never destroyed in Soviet days and with the return of religious freedoms, Russia has experienced a huge increase in the number of cults.
One in five of the 140 religious organisations registered in the republic of Khakassia are sects.
www.rickross.com /reference/rs/rs37.html   (707 words)

  
 Vozgian Republic - IBWiki
The Vozgian Republic is one of the 29 constituent republics of the Russian Federation, located between the Republic of Petrograd-Novgorod, the Komi Republic and Muscovy on a territory roughly the same as Vologodskaya Oblast' *here*.
Like the Nassians and the Skuodians, the Vozgians speak a North-Slavic language, that during the centuries underwent heavy influence from neighbouring Uralic languages, especially Komi, and northern Russian dialects.
The Vozgian Republic is limited by: North: NORTHERN LIMIT.
ib.frath.net /w/Vozgian_Republic   (99 words)

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