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	MSN Encarta - Search View - Russia
		On the north Russia is bounded by extensions of the Arctic Ocean: the Barents, Kara, Laptev, East Siberian, and Chukchi seas.
		Russia’s population decline is primarily due to a negative rate of natural population increase, whereby the number of deaths exceeds the number of births.
		Russia is the only major industrialized country in which demographic indices are worse than in earlier years, largely because illnesses have increased as the quality and availability of health care have declined.
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	Reservoirs and dams in Russia and CIS - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Industrialization reached Russia later than Western Europe and North America, and one of the few large scale dams dating from the Tsarist era is on the Volkhov near St Petersburg (opened 1926).
		One of the first was the Dneprovsk dam in on the Dnieper in Ukraine completed in 1932 using US generators.
		Today, dams in the new Central Asian Republics are of particular significance: the electricity they produce represent badly-needed natural resource, while the control of scarce water may prove a source of conflict.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Reservoirs_and_dams_in_Russia_and_CIS (317 words)

	Russia, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Kiev, Chernobyl, Novosibirsk, Nizhniy Novgorod, Jekaterinburg , Samara, Omsk, ...
		Russia, independent republic in eastern Europe and Asia, which was established on December 25, 1991, and includes 21 ethnically based republics, 6 krays (territories), 10 okrugs (national areas), 49 oblasts (districts), 1 autonomous region, and 2 cities with federal status.
		Russia can be divided into three broad geographic regions: European Russia, consisting of the territory lying west of the Ural Mountains; Siberia, stretching east from the Urals almost to the Pacific Ocean; and far eastern Russia, including the extreme southeast and the Pacific coastal fringe.
		Russia, meanwhile, was advancing to the status of a European power, and in the urban centers influences from western Europe were at last penetrating the isolation caused by the Mongol invasion.
	www.italysoft.com /bandiere/en/russia (20951 words)

	Russia Briefing Paper - Executive Summary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Large-scale dam construction is foreseen to be limited at present due to financial constraints and unresolved environmental concerns.
		Retrospective assessment of the practices in Russia is complicated by the problems of determining the numbers displaced due to all dam construction programmes within the massive scale of population displacement that occurred throughout the different periods of Soviet history.
		The negative impacts of damming rivers on ecosystem functions, and on the environment more generally, as well as the situation-specific social consequences of displacement are mainly recognised in academic circles and relevant state agencies.
	www.dams.org /kbase/studies/ru/ru_exec.htm (3775 words)

	Encyclopedia: Reservoirs and dams in Russia and CIS
		Nurek Dam The Nurek Dam is a large earthfill dam located on the Vakhsh River in the central Asian nation of Tajikistan.
		The Inguri Dam (Ingurskaya) is a hydroelectric dam on the Inguri River in Georgia.
		Naryn is the provincial administrative center of the Naryn Oblasty in central Kyrgyzstan, with a population of 40,049 (1999).
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Reservoirs-and-dams-in-Russia-and-CIS (1131 words)

	Reservoir Dogs - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Reservoir Dogs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Reservoir Dogs is Quentin Tarantino's 1992 debut as a feature film director.
		Brown — to protect their identities and are further instructed to never tell one another anything of their personal backgrounds.
		Reservoir Dogs begins with Joe, Eddie, Pink, Orange, Brown, Blue, Blonde, and White eating breakfast at a small diner.
	www.encyclopedia-glossary.com /en/Reservoir-Dogs.html (2396 words)

	List of reservoirs and dams - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The List of reservoirs and dams is a link page for any reservoir or dam in the world.
		Lokka reservoir (Lokan tekojärvi) area 216-417 km² (regulated volume 1,444 million m³)
		Porttipahta reservoir (Porttipahdan tekojärvi) area 34-214 km² (regulated volume 1,097 million m³)
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_reservoirs_and_dams (107 words)

	Reservoirs and dams in India - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Reservoirs and dams in India (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Reservoirs and dams in India - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Reservoirs and dams in India.
		This page lists the reservoirs and dams in India.
		The orginal Reservoirs and dams in India article can be editet
	www.encyclopedia-glossary.com /en/Reservoirs-and-dams-in-India.html (127 words)

	RUSNET :: Encyclopedia :: A :: Angara
		There is a large dam with one of the world's largest hydroelectric power plants (ca.
		Two other dams span the river, making it one of the world's greatest sources of hydroelectric power.
		As is shown by studies of the Scientific-Research Institute of Biology of Irkutsk State University, among the reservoirs on the Angara - Irkutsk, Bratsk, Ust-Ilimsk - most pure is the Irkutsk Reservoir, starting by Lake Baikal, at the Angara source.
	www.rusnet.nl /encyclo/a/angara.shtml (331 words)

	Российское представительство TRAFFIC EUROPE
		Formally the problem of the preservation of sturgeon fishes in the Caspian Sea and other reservoirs of Russia is under the steadfast attention of the Federal organizations of the executive authority, and also scientific and fish-producing organizations.
		The workers of the fish-guard are allocated with wide powers on suppression of the facts of poaching, including manufacturing of examination, attraction of the infringers to the administrative and material responsibility etc. down to the right to apply special methods and fire-arms to suppress illegal actions of the poachers in case of rendering resistance.
		With the purposes of fair division of quotes on fishing of sturgeon the scientific bases of the regional distribution, in view of the contribution of the states to the artificial reproduction of the sturgeon herd are developed and are used by the Caspian states (except for Iran).
	www.caviar.ru /english/proekt.htm (6858 words)

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		Russia has seen one of the world sharpest peacetime population drops since the 1991 Soviet collapse, losing half a million people or more every year for a total of 144 million as of earlier this year.
		Since Soviet dam builders made their first impressions on the river, he says, sturgeon have been cut off from all but the lowest reaches, their river-long spawning grounds now things of the past.
		The four Russian troops, members of the CIS peacekeeping force in Abkhazia, were kidnapped March 19 during an ambush in the Gali District.
	www.cdi.org /russia/johnson/6148.txt (9480 words)

	Russian and East European Institute (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		This video looks at Russia's war with Chechnya through the eyes of mothers of some of the Russian soldiers who were missing in action after the attack on Grozny.
		Russia's 40 million farmers resist Stalin's attempt to seize their lands and to collectivize Soviet farming.
		The result is a virtual war that lasts for years and results in the deaths of 20 million farmers and their families through execution, deliberate starvation and death in the labor camps.
	www.indiana.edu /~reeiweb/audiovisual/reeiavgu.html (11958 words)

	Publications
		The largest water storage facilities are the Toktogul Reservoir in Kyrgyzstan controlling the flow of the Naryn river, and the Nurek Dam on the Vaksh river in Tajikistan, dubbed “the largest earth-fill dam in the world”.
		Given the current location of reservoirs, about 60% of total storage capacity of the Amu Darya and 9% of total storage capacity of the Syr Darya are controlled by Tajikistan, whereas Kyrgyzstan controls 58% of total storage capacity of the Syr Darya largely because of the Toktogul.
		To determine the number of dams and dam density for the Amu Darya Basin, global dataset provided by Wolf was used, based on the Digital Chart of the World data and International Commission on Large Dams (ICOLD) World Register of Dams (Figure 4.4).
	www.transboundarywaters.orst.edu /publications/related_research/votrin/votrin_thesis.html (15304 words)

	List Of Reservoirs And Dams Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
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	Alec Rasizade: The New "Great Game" in Central Asia after Afghanistan
		As a result, in summer, the reservoirs are not able to deliver an adequate amount of water for irrigation in Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan.
		Local analysts say that with Russia's grip on the region loosening, the United States is aiming to check the expansion of Chinese influence in the region.
		The presidents of Russia, China, and four Central Asian countries -- Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan -- signed in St. Petersburg on 7 June 2002 a charter transforming the SCO security bloc into a fully fledged international organization with a permanent secretariat based in Beijing.
	www.alternativesjournal.net /volume1/number2/rasizade.htm (6165 words)

	F&P RFE/RL Archive (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Interfax on 26 October reported that the Russian Foreign Ministry has issued a statement "categorically denying" claims that Russia is using the Caspian Sea as a route for supplying Iran with components for weapons of mass destruction.
		In addition, Russia, Belarus, and Kazakhstan agreed on a shared position on accession to the World Trade Organization, of which Kyrgyzstan is already a member.
		The participants praised the role of Nazarbaev, who is chairman of the Inter-State Council, in reversing the decline in trade between the union's member states that followed the 1998 Russian financial crisis, according to "Nezavisimaya gazeta" on 27 October.
	www.friends-partners.org /friends/news/omri/1999/10/991027I.html(opt,mozilla,pc,english,) (2271 words)

	RUSNET :: CIS Today :: 2003/11/25 :: Japan and Russia Turn to Nature to Bridge Vast Chasm in the Sea
		Sergei M. Smirenski, the director of Muraviovka Park for Sustainable Land Use, which helps protect nesting cranes in far eastern Russia, is less enthusiastic.
		The islands have become reservoirs for several bird species on the verge of extinction in Hokkaido, including Blakiston's fish owl, Steller's sea eagle, the tufted puffin and the red-crowned crane.
		Now, Russia's bureaucracy, suspicion of outsiders and corruption, limits Kurile tourism to a small trickle.
	www.rusnet.nl /news/2003/11/25/report04.shtml (993 words)

	ISCIP - Perspective
		Its main task was to build reservoirs, dams, apartments and roads.(3)
		His moves towards government control of the press and the creation of a superministry for security illustrated his desire for a strong hand when events slipped from his control.
		The Russian President's reliance on his immediate staff caused setbacks in Russia's reform program as politicians struggled over the placement of former CPSU staff.
	www.bu.edu /iscip/vol2/karasik.html (1651 words)

	Attack on America Archive
		Russia, China Warily Watch for American Intrusions in Central Asia
		Russia Probes to Bolster its Authority in Central Asia
		Russia's Growing Presence in Afghanistan Hints at Regional Rivalry with Western Powers
	www.eurasianet.org /attack (2694 words)

	KYRGYZSTAN: FY 2001 COUNTRY COMMERCIAL GUIDE
		A twenty-percent VAT is levied on all imports except for those produced in Russia, Azerbaijan, and Belarus.
		On April 15,1994, CIS states (Azerbaijan, Armenia, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan) signed an agreement to establish a free trade zone.
		According to the agreement, imports of goods produced within the CIS having respective certificates of origin are not subject to any customs or value added taxes in the Kyrgyz Republic.
	www.bisnis.doc.gov /bisnis/bisdoc/0308CCG-KG.htm (3583 words)

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