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  Russia article - Russia Russian Europe Asia largest Canada China United States India - What-Means.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Russia saw its economy contract for five years, as the executive and legislature dithered over the implementation of reforms and Russia's industrial base faced a serious decline.
Russia achieved a slight recovery in 1997, but that year's Asian financial crisis culminated in the August depreciation of the ruble, a debt default by the government, and a sharp deterioration in living standards for most of the population.
Russia is fairly sparsely populated and has extremely low average population density due to its enormous size; population is densest in the European part of Russia, in the Ural Mountains area, and in the south-eastern part of Siberia.
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 Russia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
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.
The most practical way to describe Russia is as a main part (a large contiguous portion with its off-shore islands) and an exclave (at the southeast corner of the Baltic Sea).
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.
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 Russia information - Search.com
Russia won the War of 1877-1878, forcing the Ottoman Empire to recognize the independence of Romania, Serbia and Montenegro and autonomy of Bulgaria.
Russia saw its comparatively developed centrally planned economy contract severely for five years, as the executive and the legislature dithered over the implementation of reforms and Russia's aging industrial base faced a serious decline.
Population is densest in the European part of Russia, in the Ural Mountains area, and in the south-western parts of Siberia; the south-eastern part of Siberia that meets the Pacific Ocean, known as the Russian Far East, is sparsely populated, with its southern part being densest.
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 Russia Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The northern part of Russia together with Novgorod retained some degree of autonomy during the time of the Mongol yoke and was largely spared the atrocities that affected the rest of the country.
Russia saw its economy contract severely for five years, as the executive and legislature dithered over the implementation of reforms and Russia's industrial base faced a serious decline.
Despite its comparatively very high population, Russia has a low average population density due to its enormous size; population is densest in the European part of Russia, in the Ural Mountains area, and in the south-eastern part of Siberia that meets the Pacific Ocean, known as the Russian Far East.
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 List of lakes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lake Mamry (Jezioro Mamry in Mazury lake district)
Lake Sniardwy (Jezioro Úniardwy in Mazury lake district)
Lake Nicaragua (Lake Cocibolca) in Costa Rica and Nicaragua
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Russia's northern regions are bordered by the Arctic Ocean, with the Baltic Sea bordering its western territories.
Russia produces 17 per cent of the world's crude oil, as well as 25-30 per cent of its natural gas, 6 per cent of all bituminous coal, 17 per cent of commercial iron ore and 10-20 per cent of all non-ferrous, rare and noble metals mined across the globe.
Lake Baikal, which attracts scores of foreign environmentalists, is the largest fresh-water lake in the world, having an average depth of 730 m (and a maximum depth of 1,620 m).
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 Lake Baikal, Russia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Lake Baikal, or "Sacred Sea," is located in southeastern Siberia, in the Republic of Buryatia and the Irkutsk region, Russia.
The deepest waters in the lake are oxygenated by thermal springs.
Thermal vents in the depths of the lake are evidence of ongoing tectonic activity in the area.
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 Russia - Biocrawler definition:Russia - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Formerly the dominant republic of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), Russia is an independent country, and an influential member of the Commonwealth of Independent States, since the union's dissolution in December 1991.
The vast lands of Russia were home to disunited tribes who were variously overwhelmed by invading Goths, Huns, and Turkic Avars between the third and sixth centuries CE.
The easternmost point in Russia is Big Diomede Island (Ostrov Ratmanova); the westernmost, the boundary with Poland on a 60-km-long (40-mi-long) spit of land separating the Gulf of Gdańsk from the Vistula Lagoon.
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 Wikinfo | Russia
The Russian Federation (Russian: Росси́йская Федера́ция, transliteration: Rossiyskaya Federatsiya or Rossijskaja Federacija), or Russia (Russian: Росси́я, transliteration: Rossiya or Rossija), is a country that stretches over a vast expanse of eastern Europe and northern Asia.
The recent arrest of Russia's most successful 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.
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 NTU Info Centre: Russia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Also known as the Tatars, they ruled the southern and central expanses of present-day Russia, while its western and northern zones were largely incorporated into the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.
More than a decade after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, Russia is still struggling to establish a modern market economy and achieve strong economic growth.
Russia achieved a slight recovery in 1997, but that year's Asian financial crisis culminated in the August depreciation of the ruble in 1998, a debt default by the government, and a sharp deterioration in living standards for most of the population.
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In the mid and late 1980s General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev introduced glasnost (openness) and perestroika (restructuring) in an attempt to modernize Communism, but his initiatives inadvertently released forces that by December 1991 splintered the USSR into 15 independent republics.
The easternmost point in Russia is Big Diomede Island (Ostrova Ratmanova); the westernmost, the boundary with Poland on a 60-km-long (40-mi-long) spit of land separating the Gulf of Gdańsk from the Vistula Lagoon.
The greatest challenge facing the Russian economy is how to encourage the development of SME (small and medium sized enterprises) in a business climate dominated by Russian oligarchs and a large dysfunctional banking system.
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Russia's bicameral parliament, the Federative Assembly or Federalnoye Sobraniye consists of an upper house known as the Federative Council (Soviet Federatsy), composed of 178 delegates serving a four-year term (two are appointed from each of the 89 subdivisions), and a lower house known as the State
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
Asian financial crisis culminated in the August depreciation of the ruble, a debt default by the government, and a sharp deterioration in living standards for most of the population.
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 Articles - Russia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Russia saw its comparatively developed centrally-planned economy contract severely for five years, as the executive and legislature dithered over the implementation of reforms and Russia's industrial base faced a serious decline.
That year, however,Asian financial crisis culminated in the August depreciation of the ruble in 1998, a debt default by the government, and a sharp deterioration in living standards for most of the population.
Russia remains heavily dependent on exports of commodities, particularly oil, natural gas, metals, and timber, which account for about 80% of exports, leaving the country vulnerable to swings in world prices.
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 Russia Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Since then, its influence has grown, but is still far from that of the former Soviet Union.
If passed, all 450 members of the Duma will be elected from party lists.
Barring any catastrophe, Russia will within twenty five years become the largest European economy overtaking even Germany.
popularityguide.com /encyclopedia/Russia   (4295 words)

  
 Russia's Geography - Terrain
From Kaliningrad on the Baltic Sea and the borders with Estonia, Latvia, Belarus, Ukraine, and Turkey in the west, the Russian Federation spreads eastward to the Ural Mountains, running south to north from Russia's border with Kazakhstan to the coastal lowlands and tundra on the shores of the Kara Sea.
European Russia, which occupies about one-fourth of the entire country, is a series of broad plains broken only by gently rolling low hills west of Ural Mountains.
The Northern European Plain extends deep into northern Russia, bounded on the west by the coastal lowlands of the Baltic Plains and on the northeast by the Timan Ridge and the Upper Kama Uplands.
www.koreanhistoryproject.org /Jta/Ru/RuGEO1.htm   (909 words)

  
 List of lakes - Simple English Wikipedia
in Russia (see also "in Russia" under #Europe, List of lakes in Russia)
Lake Sniardwy (Jezioro Sniardwy in Mazury lake district)
Former Lakes (see also List of prehistoric lakes)
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 List of lakes in Russia -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
List of large (A body of (usually fresh) water surrounded by land) lakes in (A federation in northeastern Europe and northern Asia; formerly Soviet Russia; since 1991 an independent state) Russia, sorted by size (biggest first):
(A large saltwater lake between Iran and Russia fed by the Volga River; the largest inland body of water in the world) Caspian Sea (Каспийское Море;)
(Lake in northwestern Russia near the border with Finland; second largest lake in Europe) Onega (Онежское;)
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/l/li/list_of_lakes_in_russia.htm   (251 words)

  
 Iraq, Russia - CDI RW 30 April 2004
According to his recently published memoir, "Time of Change: Notes of an Ambassador to the United States," a planet discovered at a Crimea observatory -- number 6359 on the International Astronomy Union's register -- was named after him.
More symbolic of the part Dubinin played in opening Russia to the world, however, was the sugar-maple sapling that U.S. Sovietologist and diplomat George Kennan, famed for his 1946 "long telegram," gave him at a conference in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, shortly before his return to Russia.
Dubinin and his wife lugged the sapling home in the Aeroflot passenger cabin and planted it at their dacha.
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 > Russia abcworld.net   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Russia's Congress of People's Deputies attempted to impeach Yeltsin on March 26, 1993.
The economic development of the country, however, has been extremely uneven: the country's capital region of Moscow contributes 30% of the country's GDP.
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Some still aspire to gain independence, while others would be unable to survive as an independent country based on global positioning and economic conditions.
Numbers shown are the population within the recognized city limits, and do not include people living in the immediate surrounding area outside of the established border of the city.
Numbers shown are the population within the immediate surrounding area of the established border of the city, and also include the city limit population figures.
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 List of lakes in Russia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
View of Lake Seliger near Ostashkov in 1910.
List of lakes in Russia in alphabetical order:
This page was last modified 06:35, 22 September 2005.
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 Encyclopedia: List of lakes in Russia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
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 WWF - List of Ecoregions
(115) Fenno-Scandia Alpine Tundra and Taiga - Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
(116) Taimyr and Siberian Coastal Tundra - Russia
(182) Rift Valley Lakes - Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia
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 NANFA Mailing List Archive: Re: NANFA-- Great Lakes In-Depth   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
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 1000 Lakes DX - DXing Russia
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