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  Moscow Region - Kommersant Moscow
Moscow Region has historically been the center of economic, political, and cultural life in Russia; it also has a high level of scientific potential that is clearly seen in all areas of activity.
Moscow Region is situated on the Eastern European Plain, which grades into the Smolenskaya and Moskovskaya uplands in the northern and western parts of the region.
Legislative authority in Moscow Region is exercised by the Regional Duma and the regional Legislative Assembly.
www.kommersant.com /p-53/r_397/Moscow_Region   (2278 words)

  
  Moscow - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Patriarch of Moscow, whose residence is the Danilov Monastery, serves as the head of the Russian Orthodox Church.
Moscow also remains a major economic center and is home to a large number of billionaires and is perennially considered one of the most expensive cities in the world.
In 1991 Moscow was the scene of a coup attempt by the government members opposed to the reforms of Mikhail Gorbachev.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Moscow   (7037 words)

  
 Battle of Moscow - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Adolf Hitler considered Moscow, which was the capital of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) and the largest Soviet city, to be the primary military and political objective for the Axis forces in their invasion of the Soviet Union.
Moscow's factories were hastily transformed into military complexes: the automobile factory was turned into a submachine gun armory, a clock factory was manufacturing mine detonators, the chocolate factory was producing food for the front, and automobile repair stations were repairing damaged tanks and vehicles.
Nevertheless, the Moscow front was not finally secured until October 1943, when Army Group Center was decisively repulsed from the Smolensk landbridge and from the left shore of the upper Dnieper at the end of the Second Battle of Smolensk.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Battle_of_Moscow   (5764 words)

  
 Moscow Russia Adoption Web Site!
This web site provides information and resources for people who have or are interested in adopting from the Moscow City Region or the Moscow Russia Region.
Moscow_Adopt is a message board for people who have or are interested in adopting from Moscow City and the surrounding Region.
It is intended to be a safe and respectful place for people to share their questions, concerns, stories and any other topics they feel are pertinent to an adoption from Moscow.
www.moscowadopt.com   (78 words)

  
 Moscow and the Moscow region   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The Moscow region is situated between the Volga and Oka rivers, in the central part of the Eastern European plain.
Moscow region is one of the oldest industrial regions of Russia: the first factories appeared here in the 18th century and heavy industry and metalwork dominate.
Moscow is situated in the center of the region on banks of the Moscow river.
www.russiatourism.ru /eng/object.asp?id=185   (917 words)

  
 Blackout of 2003
After the flout in Moscow and the Moscow region, the Tula [100 miles south of Moscow], Kaluga [186 miles southwest of Moscow], and Ryazan [122 miles southeast of Moscow] regions, the chemical defense troops monitored the environment and discovered no excessive concentration of radioactive, chemical and biological elements in the atmosphere.
Vladimir Pekhtin, the head of the Moscow parliamentary commission investigating the outage, however, asserted that the Chagino substation was not the source of the outage, saying it had been disconnected from the network at the time the outage began.
Moscow Region To Sue UES For Blackout Damages.
www.pserc.wisc.edu /MoscowBlackout.htm   (4285 words)

  
 Moscow City (Russia)
Moscow City heraldry, including flags and coats of arms of the districts, history of the city arms and much more.
This law states that the flag of the city of Moscow can be used by the Mayor as a car flag for official events and also on his official residence.
The coat of arms of the duchy of Moscow, was red with Saint George, wearing white armor and a blue cape, riding a white horse, holding a blue shield, defeating the dragon.
flagspot.net /flags/ru-mow.html   (873 words)

  
 Moscow Region (Russia)
The coat of arms of Moscow Region is the coat of arms of City of Moscow (St. George) directed in the opposite side.
The flag of Moscow Region is a rectangular bunting with a ratio of breadth to length of 2:3, red in color, with a two-sided representation in the upper hoist corner of the basic element of the coat of arms of Moscow Region, St. George the Victorious, facing the hoist.
The width of the representation of the basic element of the coat of arms on the flag of Moscow Region should be 1/5 part of the length of the flag.
www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/ru-mos.html   (355 words)

  
 Pravda.RU 42 Beds Of Forest Fires Registered In Moscow Region Since July Beginning
At about 3:00 p.m., Moscow time, Friday, a stroke of lightning caused fire in an artillery ammunition depot 120 km south of Ulan Ude, the capital of the Republic of Buryatia, Siberia, Nikolai Deryabin, in charge of the Russian federal Defence Ministry's press service, told RIA Novosti.
A danger that fires will keep breaking up in the Moscow region's forests persists, which is primarily due to sultry weather that has set in in European Russia.
The first round of the gubernatorial elections in the Nizhny Novgorod Region was a tough battle between the aspirants to this post, said incumbent governor of the Nizhny Novgorod Region Ivan Sklyarov who is running for the second term.
newsfromrussia.com /region/2001/07/20/10589.html   (1809 words)

  
 Moscow MD
Shemetov was born in Kursk Region in 1950,.
From 1999 to the transfer to the Moscow Military District, Shemetov was chief-of-staff and first deputy commander of the Far Eastern Military District.
"Headquarters are at the Aprelevka village of the Moscow Rayon (Agentstvo Voyennykh Novostey, 21 Aug 02).
www.fas.org /irp/world/russia/fbis/MoscowMD.htm   (1629 words)

  
 Association of Young Leaders | Regions | Moscow and Moscow region   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Moscow was the firth region where AYL started functioning.
Thus, within project "Moscow School of Leadership" in cooperation with Russian Union of Youth, a new youth organization "Most" (an abbreviation of phrase in Russian "Youth of the Capital") was founded.
Moscow staff consists not only of Muscovites by there are as well a lot of young people from other cities, who are always welcomed.
www.ayl.ru /eng/moscow.phtm   (406 words)

  
 All-Moscow.ru: Site view   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Tarusa embroidery (Kaluga Region) with its profusion of ornamental motifs is done over a mesh, which is solidly coated with coloured thread.
The Mstiora style (Vladimir Region) employs the traditional rose pattern in white or coloured satin-stitch; the large blooms are set off by miniature flowers and leaves.
The display of pottery toys is complemented by those from Filimonovo (Tula Region) with their somewhat elongated shapes, painted in brilliant magenta, green, yellow and blue stripes, and by the glazed toys from Abashevo (Pensa Region), which have rather massive, archaized forms.
all-moscow.ru /culture/museum/decprikl/decprik.en.html   (1194 words)

  
 Capital Link Russia | CenterTelecom: The Moscow Region Will Have High-Quality Affordable Telecommunications   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The decision taken provided for a new numbering area with a trunk code 498 to be introduced, and the basis for formation of a single unified PSTN in the Moscow region for the period up to 2007.
(For reference, average urban penetration across the region was 22.3% as on July 1, 2001).The switch was procured by the Khimki branch of CenterTelecom jointly with Khimki district municipal authorities.
Of particular importance for the region is the construction of transit nodes, which will enable installation of telephone lines on a massive scale in towns and districts of the green-belt area.
www.capitallinkrussia.com /press/companies/50010068/86.html   (795 words)

  
 Russian subscriber describes threat to local watershed   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The Southern, Northern and Eastern systems were intended to supply Moscow and the cities and towns of the Moscow Region with ground water.
The main argument in favor of implementing the SWSS is that Moscow needs a reserve, protected source of drinking water in case of an accident similar to that at the Chernobyl atomic energy station, or in case of intentional pollution of the Volga or Moscow River surface water supplies.
Experience in the operation of this relatively small water pumping station in the region shows that pollution of drinking water is inevitable in the event of an accident.
www.safedrinkingwater.com /community/russianletter.htm   (1761 words)

  
 Films Media Group - The Moscow Region
Moscow and its surrounding region represent the largest population center in Russia.
Three-dimensional graphic simulations of the city allow viewers to "fly" across the landscape and into Moscow to understand its network of roads, railroads, and suburbs.
In addition to looking at Moscow’s role as the seat of the government, the program visits several local businesses, including a factory, a bank, and the biggest McDonald’s in the world.
www.films.com /id/8777/The_Moscow_Region.htm   (152 words)

  
 Moscow, Idaho - City And Lodging Information by real Idahoans!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Moscow is located in Latah County in the North Central Travel Region.
Moscow grew with the arrival of the railroad in 1885.
Moscow attracts a diverse group of residents and visitors alike.
www.inidaho.com /GO_Moscow_Idaho.htm   (426 words)

  
 RIA Novosti - Russia - Moscow Region bird flu outbreak contained - watchdog
MOSCOW, February 28 (RIA Novosti) - Russia's food safety watchdog said Wednesday that a bird flu outbreak in Moscow and the Moscow Region has been contained and its reoccurrence in the future is highly unlikely.
Since February 10, dead poultry with traces of a deadly H5N1 virus have been found in Moscow, eight districts of the Moscow Region and a district in the Kaluga Region, but no cases of humans infected with the virus have been registered and emergency measures have been taken to stop the spread of the disease.
The veterinary official said all H5N1 cases have been traced to a single market in southwest Moscow and an ongoing investigation has determined that contaminated fowl originated from either Central Asia or southern Russia.
en.rian.ru /russia/20070228/61374813.html   (488 words)

  
 Moscow
Generally speaking, the power of local governments remains limited and the president of the Federation, who is elected by universal suffrage for four years, has a substantial level of authority.
Moscow is therefore one of the 89 subjects in the Federation, on the same footing as the Moscow region, the area that surrounds but does not include the city.
The Office of the Brussels-Capital Region in Moscow is run by Mr Yvan Korsak, economic and commercial attaché.
www.bruxelles.irisnet.be /en/region/region_de_bruxelles-capitale/bruxelles_internationale/relations_exterieures/direction_generale_des_relations_exterieures/accords_de_cooperation/moscou.shtml   (360 words)

  
 Pravda.RU Moscow Region To Streamline Investment Arrangements
At a meeting with foreign military attaches to Moscow, Chairman of the State Duma Defence Committee, Andrei Nikolayev, said that it had not been ruled out that Russian forces in the Kaliningrad region would be supplied in circumvention of Lithuania if the country were to join the EU and Nato.
On Saturday Moscow mayor Yuri Luzhkov again stated to journalists that he was against the idea of transferring the Russian capital from Moscow to Saint Petersburg.
The regional centre of Altai (South Siberia) for pioneer power industrial technologies and energy saving made a contract with the German-based Galbstadt MBH Development Society to implement energy-saving technologies and knowhow in residential houses in the Ethnic German District.
newsfromrussia.com /region/2001/07/09/9689.html   (1586 words)

  
 MegaFon Expands Coverage in Moscow and Moscow Region — Megafon-Moscow
In the beginning of spring MegaFon Moscow is proud to announce the further expansion of the coverage area in Moscow and the Moscow region.
As a result of the preplanned implementation of new base stations, the quality of indoor reception in Moscow and in areas with low level of signal has been significantly improved.
The coverage area in the Moscow region has been substantially expanded by over 100 towns and settlements.
www.megafonmoscow.ru /english/about/pressreleases/release155.htm   (261 words)

  
 :: News :: MOSCOW-DRIVER your personal guide and driver in Moscow
The Moscow Region is rich in histo­ry, national traditions of the Russian people and unique historical and cultural landmarks.
We were guiding by the excellent book "Discovering the Moscow Countryside" written by Kathleen Berton Murrell, who is a former Canadian Diplomat lived and worked in Moscow for many years.
It is a region rich in histo­ry, national traditions of the Russian people and unique historical and cultural landmarks, many of them included in the UNESCO World Heritage list.
www.moscow-driver.com /news   (654 words)

  
 EPA Region 7 - Istra River Basin Small Watershed Management Project
Evidence provided by prominent Russian organizations and public health and environmental agencies indicated that the water supply for the City of Moscow was threatened by contamination from industrial and agricultural wastes and the environmental load from the large population in the Moscow Oblast.
EPA Region 7 was responsible for oversight and management of the cooperative agreement.
Background research and direct observations indicated that two of the chief threats to water quality and the natural environment of the Istra Region are animal waste generated by large livestock farms and solid household waste.
www.epa.gov /region7/citizens/cbep/istra.htm   (611 words)

  
 Send Flowers - Moscow, Russia.
Send Flowers - Moscow and the region are serviced.
Moscow and the nearest towns are serviced by highly professional local florists with many years of business experience.
In Moscow flowers can be delivered the same day if your order received before 1 p.m.
www.flowers-to-russia.com /russia/moscow_st7.html   (159 words)

  
 Moscow region plans significant investments in tourist industry - Pravda.Ru   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
More than half of all investments to be made in the Moscow region in 2003(about $600m) can be allocated for the construction of hotels, golf clubsand other tourist facilities, regional minister for industry and sciencesVladimir Kozyrev reported in an interview with RBC.
Kozyrev stressedthat up to 30 percent of investments in the regional economy would be sentto the food industry.
In addition, large investments are planned for themachine building sector.The Moscow regional official reported that investments in the food industrycould reach $120-150m this year.
english.pravda.ru /region/2002/09/05/36053_.html   (376 words)

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