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In the News (Fri 27 Nov 09)

  
  Tver, Russia
Tver is located at 56°52′ N 35°55′ E, at the confluence of Volga and Tvertsa rivers.
Mikhail of Tver, who ascended the throne of Vladimir in 1305, was one of the most beloved of medieval Russian rulers.
This was the fatal blow to Tver's pretensions for supremacy in Russia.
www.creekin.net /c6295-n153-tver-russia.html   (727 words)

  
  Tver - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Tver (Russian: Тверь) is a city in Russia, an administrative center of Tver Oblast.
Tver is located at 56°52′ N 35°55′ E, at the confluence of Volga and Tvertsa rivers.
This was the fatal blow to Tver's pretensions for supremacy in Russia.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tver   (789 words)

  
 Tver   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Tver (Russian: Тверь) is a Russian city, center of Tver Oblast.
Tver is located at 56°52′ N 35°55′ E (http://kvaleberg.com/extensions/mapsources/index.php?params=56_52_N_35_55_E_region:RU_type:city(453,000)), at the confluence of Volga and Tvertsa rivers.
With the foundation of St Petersburg, Tver gained importance as a principal station on the highway (and later railway) from Moscow to St Petersburg.
www.apawn.com /search.php?title=Tver   (716 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Tver Oblast   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Tver Oblast (Russian: Тверска́я о́бласть) is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast).
Tver Oblast is the area of lakes, such as Seliger and Brosno.
Murmansk Oblast (Му́рманская о́бласть) is an oblast in north-western Russia.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Tver-Oblast   (2008 words)

  
 Russian Women   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
The territory of the Tver Region is equal to the territories of Moscow, Tula, and Ivanovo Regions combined.
Tver's winters usually begin in November, but it is not uncommon to see the first snow as early as October.
Tver was at one time the capital of an unruly mini-state that was Moscow's chief rival in the 14th and 15th centuries.
tverromance.com /tverhist   (1517 words)

  
 INVESTMENT CLIMATE IN THE REPUBLIC OF BASHKORTOSTAN
Tver Oblast, populated by 1.6 million people, covers 84,100 square kilometers and is the largest region in Central Russia.
The oblast is the natural source of fresh water for Central Russia and the city of Moscow.
Agribusiness in Tver Oblast is mainly concentrated in two sectors: flax breeding and dairy and meat processing.
www.russiancouncil.org /reports/tver.html   (2655 words)

  
 REGIONAL OVERVIEW: TVER OBLAST
The oblast is the natural source of fresh water for Central Russia and the city of Moscow.
Tver Oblast possesses significant reserves of peat (approximately 2 billion metric tons) mainly used as an energy source.
Agribusiness in Tver Oblast is mainly concentrated in two sectors: flax breeding and dairy and meat processing.
www.bisnis.doc.gov /bisnis/country/9909TVER.HTM   (2708 words)

  
 Tver Oblast - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Tver Oblast (Russian: Тверска́я о́бласть) is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast).
Its administrative center is the city of Tver.
Tver Oblast is located in the Moscow Time Zone (MSK/MSD).
www.pineville.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Tver_Oblast   (165 words)

  
 Tver Oblast -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Tver Oblast ((A native or inhabitant of Russia) Russian: Тверска́я о́бласть) is a (Click link for more info and facts about federal subject) federal subject of (A federation in northeastern Europe and northern Asia; formerly Soviet Russia; since 1991 an independent state) Russia (an (Click link for more info and facts about oblast) oblast).
Tver Oblast is located in the (Click link for more info and facts about Moscow Time Zone) Moscow Time Zone (MSK/MSD).
Tver Oblast consists of the following districts ((A native or inhabitant of Russia) Russian: районы):
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/t/tv/tver_oblast.htm   (141 words)

  
 Moscow Oblast - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Moscow oblast (Моско́вская о́бласть) is an administrative subdivision of Russia officially established on January 14, 1929.
Moscow oblast is highly industrialized with its main industrial branches being metallurgy, oil refining, and mechanical engineering, food, energy and chemical industries.
Although the city of Moscow is territorially within the Moscow oblast, it has a special administrative status.
www.secaucus.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Moscow_Oblast   (275 words)

  
 REGIONAL OVERVIEW: TVER OBLAST
Tver Oblast is territorially the largest region in Central Russia.
Tver Region is the natural source of fresh water for Central Russia and the city of Moscow; over 500 large lakes, including Lake Seliger, a well-known tourist attraction, and around 1,000 rivers originate in the Oblast.
  The City of Tver, with population of 500,000 residents, is the administrative center of the Region.
www.bisnis.doc.gov /bisnis/bisdoc/0206tver_overview.htm   (1168 words)

  
 The Tver Oblast
In fact, Tver Oblast was the first to form a "flax" consortium that included enterprises involved in breeding, processing, and machine building, as well as scientific and trading organizations.
Presently, only 30% of viable woodcutting area is utilized, leaving a quarter of the oblast's standing trees "over-ripe." There are 27 large forestry farms in the oblast and 23 saw mills producing lumber, sawing materials, veneer, paper, cardboard, and furniture (the total number of such enterprises including small firms is approximately 400).
The oblast is also famous for its unique historical monuments, ancient monasteries, convents and temples; 14 towns are considered "urban monuments" representing 18-20th century lifestyle.
www.russianamericanchamber.org /regions/tver.html   (2709 words)

  
 BGCI - Plant conservation - Regional ex situ biodiversity conservation programmes at the Botanic Garden of the Tver ...
It is possible to study and conserve most of the endangered plants of the region in cultivation, devise optimal conditions for introducing plants into cultivation, study the plants in cultivation and the wild and various types of biodiversity conservation activities can be coordinated in the region.
In 1990 the Botanic Garden of the Tver State University (TSU) and the Botany Department of TSU began joint field research on the flora of the Tver oblast (Regional administrative unit).
The Andreapolskiy region is one of the most interesting places of the Tver oblast from the point of view of its biology and geography.
www.bgci.org.uk /conservation/regional_exsitu_biodiversity_Tver_Russia.html   (925 words)

  
 Russia Adoption Blog
Tver, whose population includes 408,903 of the region's 1,471,459 million people, according to the 2002 census.
Murmansk Oblast is located on the Kola peninsula, which juts into the Barents Sea in northwestern Russia and includes Russia's borders with Norway and Finland.
Chelyabinsk Oblast is at the crossroads of the European and Asian sides of Russia, at the foot of the Urals mountains.
russia.adoptionblogs.com   (1799 words)

  
 NATO Research Fellowships 1994-1996
The Oblast Centre of Social Rehabilitation of Military Servicemen Retired from the Military Service and Members of their families should be set up in the social protection management structure.
It should be taken into consideration that the Administration of the city of Tver having studied a matter relating to giving kindergarten's N 85 premises to the Centre in 79/2 Gory St. on conditions of gratuitous lease.
Bodies of social protection to be rendered to the Oblast population are to render organisation and methodical and practical assistance to the Centre.
www.nato.int /acad/fellow/94-96/dashkina/appen.htm   (6079 words)

  
 Visit Siberia Ltd. :: Russia inside :: Smolensk oblast'   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Geografical position: Smolensk oblast` is located in the west of the European part of Russia, in verhovjah Dnepr, the West Dvina and the Volga.
The oblast` borders on Tver`, Moscow, Kaluga, Bryansk, Pskov oblast` and Belarussia.
The structure of oblast` includes 25 areas, 15 cities and 16 rural settlements.
visitsiberia.com /russia/region.php?r=67   (211 words)

  
 Novgorod Oblast - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Novgorod Oblast (Russian: Новгоро́дская о́бласть) is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast).
Novgorod Oblast borders Leningrad Oblast (NW,N), Vologda Oblast (E), Tver Oblast (SE,S) and Pskov Oblast (SW).
Novgorod Oblast is located in the Moscow Time Zone (MSK/MSD).
www.kernersville.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Novgorod_Oblast   (223 words)

  
 List of federal subjects of Russia by area   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Thus, Tyumen Oblast includes two autonomous districts, Khantia-Mansia and Yamalia, Krasnoyarsk Krai includes Taymyria and Evenkia, and so forth.
Wherever this is the case, the nesting region's area is given with all the nested components included.
The same goes for Moscow and Leningrad Oblasts: areas given include the federal cities of Moscow and Saint Petersburg, respectively.
www.bidprobe.com /en/wikipedia/l/li/list_of_federal_subjects_of_russia_by_area.html   (117 words)

  
 Vologda Oblast - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Vologda Oblast (Волого́дская о́бласть) is a regional subdivision of Russia.
Vologda Oblast borders Arkhangelsk Oblast (N), Kirov Oblast (E), Kostroma Oblast (SE), Yaroslavl Oblast (S), Tver Oblast (SW), Novgorod Oblast (SW), Leningrad Oblast (W) and the Republic of Karelia (NW).
Vologda Oblast is located in the Moscow Time Zone (MSK/MSD).
www.pineville.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Vologda_Oblast   (192 words)

  
 Tver Oblast - Definition, explanation
Tver Oblast (Russian: Тверска́я о́бласть) is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast).
Its administrative center is the city of Tver.
Tver Oblast is located in the Moscow Time Zone (MSK/MSD).
www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/t/tv/tver_oblast.php   (131 words)

  
 The problem of the Karelian literary language in the 1930's and the 1990's
In the beginning of the 1930's, a project of a Karelian literary language based on the Latin alphabet was approved, publication of a newspaper and textbooks was organized, transition of the elementary school into the native language began.
Finally, a second wave of the purges turned against the creators of the new literary language who were declared to have caused the chaos that had aroused as a result of the arbitrary actions by the authorities.
In the Kalinin oblast this led to liquidation of the Karelian national okrug and termination of the use of literary Karelian, in the Karelian ASSR - to annulment of the rules of the literary language.
www.geocities.com /Athens/4280/eng_doklad.html   (2247 words)

  
 Institute for Healthcare Improvement: To Russia with Health Care Improvement   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Like most of the former Soviet Union, the Tula and Tver Oblasts — administrative districts within the Russian Federation, each with a population of about two million — were left after the fall of the Soviet Union with a great deal of responsibility and little funding with which to accomplish anything.
In the Tula Oblast, that meant an inability to treat 27 percent of the adult population estimated to suffer from arterial hypertension (AH), while in Tver Oblast it meant difficulty with managing large numbers of pregnancy-induced hypertension (PIH) and neonatal respiratory distress syndrome (NRDS).
In Tula Oblast, adults with hypertension are now more than seven times as likely to be managed in a primary care setting, rather than in a hospital, with hypertension-related hospitalizations down 85 percent and hypertensive crises down 60 percent.
www.ihi.org /IHI/Topics/Improvement/ImprovementMethods/Literature/ToRussiawithHealthCareImprovement.htm   (1151 words)

  
 What's New Archives
During Phase I (1998-2000), health department leaders chose Tula and Tver Oblasts (an oblast is an administrative region) for demonstration projects in their top priority areas: to improve quality of treatment of women with pregnancy-induced hypertension (PIH), reduce respiratory distress syndrome (RDS) in newborns, and improve care for patients with arterial hypertension (AH).
In Tver Oblast, to improve care for newborns with RDS, the system of neonatal care was redesigned in 5 hospitals (1999-2000).
In Tver, significant effects of improving treatment for women with PIH in 3 hospitals (1998-2000) included a 77 percent reduction in hospitalizations due to PIH and no cases of maternal deaths or progression to eclampsia.
www.qaproject.org /news/whatarcrussia.htm   (661 words)

  
 Visit Siberia Ltd. :: Russia inside :: Tver' oblast'   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Geografical position: Tver' oblast' is located in the basin of top Volga, on a watershed of the Baltic and Caspian seas.
The structure of the oblast` includes 36 areas, 23 cities and 31 rural settlement.
Extraction of brown coal and peat is conducted.
visitsiberia.com /russia/region.php?r=69   (257 words)

  
 Events
Among those present at the meeting were director of the Tula oblast Health Department Elena I. Chernienko, USAID senior adviser Elena B. Gurvich, expert-economist on the GP remuneration project Igor M. Shayman.
Tver saw a seminar on "Economic efficiency of the new system of health care for women with pregnancy induced hypertension." Hany Abdallah from University Research Corporation (URC) chaired the meeting.
Sharapova visited Tver in order to participate in the work of the Coordination Committee on the development of Pregnancy Induced Hypertension and Eclampsia protocol and Respiratory Distress Syndrome protocol.
www.healthquality.ru /english/news   (853 words)

  
 [ RADIO FREE EUROPE/ RADIO LIBERTY ]
The oblast prosecutor, Anatolii Bondar, has already filed charges against Ayatskov for abuse of office and exceeding the authority of his position.
Tver Governor Platov failed to even make it past the first round in the election held in December.
In Ivanovo, the oblast prosecutor announced an investigation of oblast Governor Vladimir Tikhonov's real-estate transactions in March 2003; however, the allegations about Tikhonov's apartment first surfaced during the December State Duma campaign.
www.rferl.org /newsline/2004/05/5-NOT/not-200504.asp?po=y   (655 words)

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