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  Memorial Society, Ryazan, Russia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Memorial's main goals are threefold: to expose information about political and civil human rights abuses in the past and analyze the consequences they have in the present; to uncover and report current violations of human rights; to introduce constructive proposals aimed at overcoming the totalitarian legacy and developing the "immunity" to tatalitarism in the society.
Ryazan Memorial studies the repressive policies of the former Soviet Union and works to defend human rights in the present-day Russia.
Ryazan Regional Memorial Society's mission consists in defending human rights, researching the roots of totalitarianism through studying the history of the totalitarian countries, researching national conflicts and their influence on the course of history, strengthening the NGO network in order to create more effective grass-roots activities, and studying democratic reforms worldwide.
www.hro.org /ngo/memorial/engl.htm   (798 words)

  
  RYAZAN - LoveToKnow Article on RYAZAN
Ryazan is-an intermediate link between the central Great Russian governments and the steppe governments of the S.E.the wide and deep- valley of the Oka being the natural boundary between the two.
Steamers ply on the Oka to Kasimov and Nizhniy-Novgorod.
As early as the 10th century the principality of Murom and Ryazan is mentioned in the chronicles.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /R/RY/RYAZAN.htm   (1195 words)

  
 Ryazan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ryazan (Ряза́нь) is a city in Central Russia federal district, the administrative center of the Ryazan Oblast.
This area, situated as it is at the junction of forest and steppe zones, suffered from numerous invasions from the south: khazars, pechenegs, polovtsians.
Late in the 13th century the Princes of Ryazan moved their capital to Pereslavl, which is known as Ryazan from the 16th century (officially renamed in 1778).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ryazan   (339 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Ryazan (CIS And Baltic Political Geography) - Encyclopedia
One of Russia's oldest cities, Ryazan was founded in 1095 and became the capital of the Ryazan principality when the Mongols destroyed Old Ryazan in 1237.
Ryazan retains much medieval architecture and has picturesque churches with many-colored domes and gilded ornaments.
Ryazan has the Archangel Cathedral (late 15th–early 16th cent.) and the Uspenski or Assumption Cathedral (1693–99).
reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/R/Ryazan.html   (254 words)

  
 Ryazan --  Encyclopædia Britannica
North of the Oka is the Meshchera Lowland, with extensive swamps of reed and grass marsh and mixed forest of oak, spruce, pine, and birch.
The seat of the early principality of Ryazan, it was destroyed in 1237 by the...
Ryazan became an independent princedom early in the 12th century under Yaroslav, the son of the grand prince Svyatoslav of Kiev.
www.britannica.com /eb/article-9064539?tocId=9064539   (640 words)

  
 Ryazan * Information * Images & Landscapes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The seat of the early principality of Ryazan, it was destroyed in 1237 by the Mongols; only the ruins of its ramparts remain.
Sacked by Moscow in 1371 and by the Tatars in 1372 and 1378, it became the seat of the Ryazan princedom in the 15th century.
In 1521 it passed to Moscow and was renamed Ryazan in 1778.
victor.ryazan.net /ryazan.html   (150 words)

  
 Kommersant - Russia's Daily Online
In the words of historian D.I. Ilovaisky, "The Ryazan principality was the most warlike and restive branch of the house of Rurik." The Russians who began settling the right bank of the Oka in the 10th century were faced with the onslaught of nomadic cattle-herding tribes that repeatedly invaded the forests from the south.
Ryazan Region is located in the central part of the Russian Plain between the Central Russian and Volga uplands.
All of this is evidence that Ryazan was one of the oldest centers of culture and art in central Russia.
www.kommersant.com /t-65/r_5/n_409/Ryazan_Region   (4323 words)

  
 Ryazan
The economy in Ryazan and Russia, like those of other cities and nations, is tied closely to the geographic features and natural resources of the country.
Ryazan, with a population of around 550,000, and the capital city of the Ryazan Oblast (state), is located approximately 120 miles southeast of Moscow.
The Ryazan region has a network of paved highways connecting cities and patterns of unpaved, unimproved roads through the rural areas of the oblast.
www.geocities.com /jareb30/ryazan.htm   (3273 words)

  
 The St. Petersburg Times - Top Story (Ryazan 'Bomb' Was FSB Exercise)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Ryazan's unsuspecting police evacuated residents of the building on Ulitsa Novosyolova, which has 77 apartments, and kept them out in the cold as sappers moved the suspected bomb out of the basement.
Ryazan police and the local branch of the Emergency Situations Ministry said they massed their personnel around Ulitsa Novosyolova and would not have been able to react quickly if an accident had occurred in an another part of the city.
Later Friday, FSB spokesman Alexander Zdanovich appeared on television to "apologize to the residents of Ryazan for the inconvenience and the emotional shock." He said those who planned the exercise hoped experts would immediately recognize the device was harmless and call off the security alert.
archive.sptimes.ru /archive/times/504/ryazan.htm   (837 words)

  
 Ryazan Oblast - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Ryazan Oblast is a regional subdivision of Russia.
Its administrative center is the city of Ryazan, which is the largest regional city with a population of 535,000.
Ryazan Oblast is located in the Moscow Time Zone (MSK/MSD).
www.bexley.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Ryazan_Oblast   (195 words)

  
 Ryazan, Russia, Pictures
Ryazan', city, central European Russia, capital of Ryazan' Oblast, on the Oka River.
Ryazan' was originally founded in the 11th century, downstream from its present site.
It was completely destroyed by the Tatars in 1237, and the seat of the Ryazan' bishopric was then moved to the city of Pereyaslav-Ryazanskiy.
www.greatestcities.com /Europe/Russia/Ryazan_city.html   (221 words)

  
 The Jamestown Foundation
When arrested by the Ryazan police, they admitted that they were working for the FSB--which then and only then, two days after the sacks had been planted, claimed that the whole episode had been only an exercise.
The other Ryazan police officers who responded to the call from the apartment building remained insistent that the substance they found was not sugar.
For example, the Ryazan episode took place in a brick structure located in a working-class neighborhood, where a blast would have caused significant fatalities (and, one might add, would not have endangered the Russian elite).
www.jamestown.org /publications_details.php?volume_id=13&issue_id=575&article_id=4207   (728 words)

  
 LOVECH hotel, Ryazan city, Russia
Ryazan is a city in Central Russia federal district, the administrative center of the Ryazan Oblast.
Ryazan Region was formed on September 26 1937.
Ryazan's location and infrastructure are well suited for companies wanting to distribute goods in the Moscow region and beyond.
lovech.ru /en/ryazan   (1745 words)

  
 RYAZAN - Online Information article about RYAZAN
crag on which Ryazan stands, and actually has the aspect of an immense lake when it is inundated in the See also:
Ryazan is the see of an See also:
The princes of Ryazan followed his example, and by and by completely abandoned the old republican town of Ryazan.
encyclopedia.jrank.org /RON_SAC/RYAZAN.html   (479 words)

  
 KGB's Terror Bombings in Moscow, Volgodonsk, Ryazan 1999
Chekulin stated, and confirmed with documents, that in 1999-2000, a large quantity of hexogen, the explosive that is believed to have been used in the apartment bombings, was purchased by the institute from various military units and then, under the guise of gunpowder or dynamite, shipped all over the country to unknown destinations.
Police raiding the basement of an apartment block in Ryazan discovered and defused several bombs containing the same explosive that was used in Moscow and Volgodonsk.
His problem is that the residents of the Ryazan block of flats, among others, do not believe his word or the word of the FSB on the matter.
www.tjetjenien.dk /baggrund/bombs.html   (12637 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
In 1992, it was renamed after the outstanding achievements of the scientist-physiologist I.P. Pavlov, who was born in Ryazan and had studied at the Institute.
Presently, Ryazan State Medical University is considered to be one of the leading medical universities in Russia and abroad.
According to the annual rating of Russian state universities, Ryazan State Medical University entered the first ten in the year 2002 (there are approximately 550 Russian state universities in the list).
www.greatestcities.com /go.bml?journal=forum&itemid=1575126&dir=prev   (271 words)

  
 REGIONAL CORNER: Ryazan Oblast, Russia
Ryazan oblast, located 150 miles south of Moscow (population 1.5 million), is a central Russian region that is only now being discovered by foreign investors.
Three main enterprises represent the oil refining and energy sector in the region, the largest of which is the Ryazan Oil Refinery, one of the biggest refineries in Russia and a part of the Tyumen Oil Company.
Ryazan oblast is also one of the leading central Russian producers of cereals, potatoes, meat, and milk.
www.bisnis.doc.gov /bisnis/bulletin/00-12bull10.htm   (523 words)

  
 RYAZAN OBLAST
Ryazan oblast is located approximately 150 miles south of Moscow.
Ryazan Oblast is populated by nearly 1.5 million people, the majority of whom live in the city of Ryazan.
Due to various types of soils in the region, and to the fertility of the Oka banks, Ryazan Oblast is also one of the leading producers of cereals, potatoes, meat and milk.
www.bisnis.doc.gov /bisnis/bisdoc/000523central-ryazan-overview.htm   (1329 words)

  
 Question of the Day
The first five bombs caused 300 deaths; the sixth bomb, in the city of Ryazan, was detected in advance and defused by a bomb squad on September 22nd, 1999.
Meanwhile, in Ryazan, preliminary lab tests showed the presence of explosives in the device that were similar to the five other bombs blamed on Chechen terrorists, according to Lieutenant-Colonel Sergei Kabashov of the Ryazan police.
And then in Moscow, just as the Ryazan police were closing in on the trio of suspects, Nikolai Patrushev, the head of the FSB in Moscow, announced that the incident in Ryazan had been nothing more than a "training exercise" staged by the FSB to test local vigilance.
edwardjayepstein.com /question_putin.htm   (589 words)

  
 IREX
From Moscow to the city of Ryazan, the capital of the Ryazan Oblast, is approximately 190 kilometers.
The map on the left shows the 51 villages in the Ryazan Oblast that are projected to become uninhabited during the next five years or by 2005.
They are generally near the capital city of Ryazan suggesting that it plays a role in the demise of populations of small villages.
www.brooksgreen.net /IREX/IREX.htm   (433 words)

  
 Ryazan-Yakshi - the pedigree kennel of RKF Center Asian Shepherds - our kennel
Years of work in Asia Shepherd Breeder Club of Ryazan, which was the branch of Asia Shepherd Breeder Club MOLOSS (Moscow) managed by Lubov Nikolaeva, have contributed to making a trustworthy background for our own kennel.
At the same Shepherd Dog Show Ryazan Yakshi Hasman (litter of Hasar and Vit Bir Eldash) got the Best Puppy Prize; his mother Hasar was the second in the Champion Class.
We are located on the outskirts of Ryazan by the Oka River, which allows us to air the dogs at the river meadows.
www.ryazan-yakshi.ru /eng/about_us.php   (477 words)

  
 Dyagilevo AB
Dyagilevo Air Base is located in the central part of the Russia Plain in Ryazan Oblast, some 30 kilometers from the border of the Moscow region.
The Ryazan Oblast Government is developing civil aviation cargo facilities at the Dyagilevo Military Airport, located in the oblast some 180 km.
Ryazan, the oblast's capital, has a population of 500,000 people, and is just a 3-hour drive southwest of Moscow.
www.globalsecurity.org /military/world/russia/dyagilevo.htm   (818 words)

  
 The School of Russian and Asian Studies: Regions & Cities: European Russia (Central): Ryazan
Ryazan is an ancient Russian town, about 180 km southeast of Moscow.
In the time of prince Oleg Ivanoviche (1350-1402) Ryazan was strengthened vastly, developed as a trading and craft center, and played an important part in the transit trade of north-east Russia and the East.
Ryazan has a beautiful ensemble of churches and monastery buildings with typical Russian golden domes.
www.sras.org /cities.phtml?m=179   (324 words)

  
 Alexander's Gas & Oil Connections - FSU refineries: TNK'S Ryazan refinery
A vital part of his plan was the modernization of the company's single refinery at Ryazan and a filling station franchising program.
The first major renovation project at the Ryazan refinery was completed in autumn 1998, when an AT-6 unit was put into operation, allowing for a drastic increase in refining capacity and a 30 % reduction in refining costs.
The Ryazan refinery's relative success lies in the fact that TNK has done everything possible to supply the plant with enough crude, properly managingits marketing subsidiaries and retaining good contacts with relevant local administrations.
www.gasandoil.com /goc/company/cnr01422.htm   (597 words)

  
 McAfee Inc.
Ryazan is a memory resident, file infecting virus.
The Ryazan virus was submitted in December, 1992 and is originally from the USSR.
When the first Ryazan infected program is executed, the Ryazan virus will install itself memory resident in a "hole" in allocated system memory at 0010.
vil.nai.com /vil/content/Print1048.htm   (468 words)

  
 Ryazan
In 1386 Ryazan ruler Oleg won a battle with Moscow forces but instead of making Ryazan the capital of Russia her merely agreed to maintain peace with Moscow.
There may be historic roots to Ryazan's high level of aggression: the city's role during the rise of the centralized state was to protect Moscow from steppe nomads.
You will also pass though Ryazan on your way to several cute states that end with -stan, where currency bears the picture of the current ruler but you don't need to count change, and your lost wallet is likely to be returned with its content intact.
www.staritsa.info /ryazan.htm   (1619 words)

  
 Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky was born on September 17, 1857, in the village of Izhevskoe in the Ryazan Province, south of Moscow.
At the time the family settled in Izhevskoe, the village was booming; with the population of 7,628 it was the fourth largest settlement in the Ryazan Province.
Ryazan school for boys, where in September 1879, Tsiolkovsky passed exams for the teacher's certificate.
www.russianspaceweb.com /tsiolkovsky_bio.html   (1251 words)

  
 Archeologists discover another Stonehenge in the Russian city of Ryazan - PRAVDA.Ru   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The sanctuary near Staraya Ryazan is situated on the highest hill in the junction of the rivers Oka and Pronya.
Indeed, no settlement was discovered close to Ryazan’s Stonehenge, at the time when discoveries of everyday articles such as ceramics and adornments were abundant in the area.
Church constructions in Staraya Ryazan suggest that the ancient observatory is situated far from the settlement, as the Orthodox Church traditionally built its cathedrals away from pagan temples.
english.pravda.ru /printed.html?news_id=15764   (697 words)

  
 REGIONAL CORNER: RYAZAN
Ryazan has been able to attract Western companies from Germany, Turkey, and India to do business in the region.
The Ryazan Oblast Government is currently developing civil aviation cargo facilities at the Dyagilevo Military Airport, located in the oblast some 180 km.
Vladimir Sadofiev, Head of the Foreign Economic Relations Department of the Ryazan Oblast, at 011 7 (0912) 77-01-96 (voice), or 011 7 (0912) 44-25-68 (fax).
www.bisnis.doc.gov /bisnis/bulletin/9607ryaz.htm   (582 words)

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