The Hour May Be At Hand For Russia's 11 Time Zones Nov 13, 2009
Medvedev didn't say how extensive any cut would be, but Vladivostok Economics University rector Gennady Lazarev told the RIA Novosti news agency it would likely mean shrinking to just four time zones: One each for Kaliningrad, Moscow, the Ural Mountains region and the vast reaches of Siberia and the Far East. Less than a quarter of Russia's 142 m 00004000 illion people live east of the Urals - the boundary between Europe and Asia. (CBS News -- World)
Changing times Nov 13, 2009
The president did not mention how many time zones might be cut, but Vladivostock Economics University rector Gennady Lazarev told the RIA Novosti news agency that it could be reduced to just four - one each for Kaliningrad, Moscow, the Ural Mountains region and Siberia and the Far East. Real problems. (BBC News -- Europe)
Women deprived of health care at key times in life: WHO Nov 10, 2009
Elderly Russian women chat in front of a hen house in the village of Oktyabrskoe in the Ural mountains. Women are often deprived of health care in the crucial years of puberty and old age due to social inequalities with men, the World Health Organisation has said. (Yahoo! Asia News)
Shelton Canada Corp.: Special and Annual Meeting to Be Held in Connection With Plan of Arrangement Nov 6, 2009
The company holds three exploration licenses in the Russian republic of Bashkiria, located southwest of the Ural Mountains. The license blocks, which border one another, are 52 square km (Rustamovskoye) and 187 square km (Aysky), 300 square km (Suyanovske), and are surrounded by other producing oil fields. (CCNMatthews Press Releases)
Is Russia's Ugly Duckling the New Cultural Capital? Oct 27, 2009
It is then that Perm, this city near the Ural Mountains, the easternmost large city on the western continent, named after a geological period that began 299 million years ago and ended 251 million years ago, begins to shine. It is then that Perm, a city that is preparing to leave behind the darker chapters of its history, awakens and another day begins in its quest to become an international cultural center. (ABC News)
Kalashnikov maker gunning for pirates Oct 24, 2009
It wasn't until 1997 that the Izhmash factory in the Ural Mountains city of Izhevsk, which makes Kalashnikovs, secured a state patent for the weapon and began pressing foreign manufacturers to respect its copyright. Izhmash director, Vladimir Grodetsky, said the company has faced an uphill battle, losing an estimated $US400 million ($430 million) to $US500 million a year from counterfeit Kalashnikov makers. (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)
Josef Burg, 97; author wrote about Jewish life during WWII Oct 9, 2009
When the German Army invaded in 1941, Mr. Burg escaped again, into the Ural Mountains of the Soviet Union. Mr. Burg s father had died before the Germans arrived. (Boston Globe)
Samurai parody takes jab at Asian Art Museum Sep 23, 2009
But the museum collections' introductory wall text reads " 'Asia' is a term invented by the Greeks and Romans, and developed by Western geographers to indicate the landmass east of the Ural Mountains and Ural River, together with offshore islands such as Japan and Java. Culturally, no 'Asia' exists, and the peoples who inhabit 'Asia' often have little in common with each other ..." McGill points to a current AAM show, "Photographic Memories," some of whose labels deconstruct the propaganda... (San Francisco Chronicle)
Air disasters timeline Jul 16, 2009
3 July: A en route from Yekaterinburg in the Ural mountains to the Russian port of Vladivostok, crashes near the Siberian city of Irkutsk, killing 133 passengers and 10 crew. 2000. (BBC News -- Africa)
Bench by Russian craftsmen sent to NH town Jul 16, 2009
The bench was finished last year after having been worked on after hours by master blacksmith Alexei Kobikov, owner of the Kovgrad Forge in Pervouralsk in the Ural Mountains of Siberia. It traveled by train to New England. (Concord Monitor)
A Yemeni airliner with 150 people on board crashed in the Comoros archipelago in the Indian Ocean on Tuesday, an employee working at the airport's control tower confirmed with Xinhua. No immediate news was available on whether there are any survivors. • Backgrounder: Major air accidents since 2008 Jun 30, 2009
Sept. 14, 2008, an Aeroflot Boeing 737 plane crashed in a ball of fire near the Ural mountains, killing all 82 passengers and six crew members. Feb. 12, 2009, U.S. Continental Airlines Flight 3407 crashed in suburban Buffalo in northern New York state, killing all 49 aboard and one on the ground. (Xinhuanet, China)
Group of Two isthe wrong number Jun 19, 2009
Since its establishment, SCO member states have held joint military exercises, most recently in 2007 near Russia's Ural Mountains. Still, the SCO serves more as a forum to discuss multilateral issues of trade and security than a fully-developed counterpart of NATO, which has expanded its sphear of operation way beyond the North Atlantic region. (Asia Times Online)
Russia, China Urge Talks on North Korea Jun 18, 2009
Hu flew to Moscow late Tuesday after two days in the Ural Mountains city of Yekaterinburg, where Medvedev hosted summits of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization _ which links Russia and China with four Central Asian nations _ and the BRIC group of emerging economies: Brazil, Russia, India and China. Hu told Putin both summits were "very successful.". (Newsmax)
Russia, China urge North Korea to return to nuclear talks Jun 18, 2009
Hu is meeting with Russian leaders in Moscow on Wednesday after two international summits hosted by Russia in the Ural Mountains city of Yekaterinburg. RIA Novosti, Dmitry Asdtakhov (pool). (Honolulu Advertiser)
India: Ready to Talk Peace With Pakistan Jun 18, 2009
Singh and Zardari met briefly Tuesday in the Ural Mountains city of Yekaterinburg, Russia. The two nations have observer status in the six-nation Shanghai Cooperation Organization, which wrapped up a two-day summit Tuesday in Yekaterinburg. (Time.com)
Ahmadinejad attends summit in Russia Jun 17, 2009
Ahmadinejad arrived in the Ural Mountains city of Yekaterinburg and sat down for talks at a summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, which comprises Russia, China and four Central Asian nations. Iran has observer status in the grouping, widely seen as a counterbalance to U.S. interest in the region. (WSVN-TV Miami, FL)
Iran's Revolutionary Guard warns online media Jun 17, 2009
AP Photo - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, smiles during a summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization in the Ural Mountains city of Yekaterinburg, Russia, Tuesday, June 16, 2009. The Revolutionary Guard, an elite military force answering to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei , said through the state news service that Iranian Web sites and bloggers must remove any materials that "create tension" or face legal action. (Fresno Bee -- Local)
Russia and Asian nations hold summit Jun 16, 2009
The Iranian leader postponed his arrival in this Ural Mountains city until Tuesday, according to the Iranian Embassy in Moscow, during protests in Iran over his bitterly disputed re-election. Amid efforts by Washington and Moscow to improve strained ties, the summit will be watched for signs of stronger support from Russia and its neighbors for American-led operations in Afghanistan. (MSNBC -- International)
Yen Rises Versus Euro, Dollar as Stock Losses Spur Demand for Safer Assets Jun 16, 2009
The fell on concern leaders from the so-called BRIC nations will query the dollars role as an international reserve currency at their meeting today in the Ural Mountains city of Yekaterinburg, Russia. If we get a change in attitude from Russia, maybe we will get some softening of the U.S. dollar in the short-term, but I dont think its a medium-term trend, said , a Hong-Kong based currency strategist at Calyon, the investment banking unit of Frances Credit Agricole SA.. (Bloomberg -- Japan)
Russia opens WMD disposal plant May 30, 2009
Russia has opened a facility in the Ural Mountains that will decommission vast stocks of its chemical weapons ... The plant is some 1,600km (995 miles) to the east of Moscow, deep in the Ural Mountains. (BBC News -- Europe)
Russia Offers to Revive European Arms-Control Deal May 15, 2009
The 1990 treaty limits the number of conventional weapons that could be deployed west of the Ural Mountains _ the edge of European Russia. A new revised version was signed in 1999, but NATO countries have not ratified it and in 2007 Russia suspended its participation. (Newsmax)
Papers differ over 'smeargate' Apr 15, 2009
The Daily Star says doctors in Russia's Ural mountains were convinced he had cancer when he complained of chest pains and began coughing up blood. But when surgeons cut him open they found the cause of his discomfort was not a tumour, but a fir tree growing on his lung. (BBC News -- UK)
4 killed in stampede for free Russia disco, police say Mar 23, 2009
He said a large crowd formed at the entrance of the disco in the Ural Mountains town of Pervouralsk and four people were fatally injured in the rush to get in. Gorelykh told state-run television the victims were three teenage girls and a young man. (International Herald Tribune)
Russia's One-Company Towns Suffer as Demand Plummets, Workers Grow Restive Mar 11, 2009
March 11 (Bloomberg) -- Alexander Skachkov, waiting to sign up for unemployment benefits in Zlatoust in Russias Ural Mountains, laughed as he recalled a November newspaper interview with a local official. He said the crisis wont affect us, everything is fine with the government and is falling, said Skachkov, 34, a plumber. (Bloomberg -- Europe)
Earliest domesticated horses in Kazakhstan Mar 8, 2009
Gathered data supports the hypothesis that the horse-rich area in the vast, semi-arid, grassy plains, or steppe zones, east of the Ural Mountains in Northern Kazakhstan, contributed largely to the development of two neighbouring cultures, the Botai in north-central Kazakhstan and the Tersek in the west. Researchers used a novel method of analysing residue from fat-soluble lipids found on ancient Botai pottery to find traces of fats from horse milk, leading to the conclusion that people consumed... (India Times, India -- Health/Science)
Evidence of earliest known domestic horses found in Kazakhstan Mar 7, 2009
Data gathered by archaeologists supports the hypothesis that the horse-rich area in the vast, semi-arid, grassy plains, or steppe zones, east of the Ural Mountains in Northern Kazakhstan, contributed largely to the development of two neighboring cultures, the Botai in north-central Kazakhstan and the Tersek in the west. "Having a domesticated animal that could be eaten, milked, ridden, used as a pack animal and potentially for haulage would have had a tremendous impact on any society that... (EurekAlert!)
Archaeologists find earliest known domestic horses Mar 6, 2009
The steppe zones, east of the Ural Mountains in Northern Kazakhstan, are known to have been a prime habitat for wild horses thousands of years ago. Horses were a commonly-hunted animal. (Xinhuanet, China)
Humans tamed horses 5,500 years ago: Study Mar 6, 2009
Outraim's team made the discovery by studying the bones and teeth of horses found in sites east of the Ural Mountains in northern Kazakhstan. Text. (India Times, India -- Health/Science)
No survivors in Russian Czar family murders Mar 3, 2009
Most of the Romanovs and several servants ended up in an unmarked grave near Yekaterinburg in the Ural Mountains, 900 miles east of Moscow ... DNA tests performed by a U.S. laboratory have proved that bone fragments exhumed in the Ural Mountains belong to two children of Russia's last czar Alexei and Maria. (MSNBC -- Environment)
DNA Identification Of Czar's Children Available Feb 28, 2009
Genomic analysis performed at the University of Massachusetts Medical School in cooperation with Institutions of Russian Academy of Science (VIGG) and Academy of Medical Sciences (MHRC) have confirmed that human remains found in the Ural Mountains in July 2007 are indeed those of the two "missing" children of Nicholas II, the last czar of Russia, whose family was murdered in 1918 during the Bolshevik Revolution. See also. (Science Daily)
Going to waste Feb 27, 2009
The waste left over when the spent pellets of enriched uranium are extracted from their stainless steel and concrete casing at the Mayak Reprocessing Plant at Chelyabinsk in the Ural mountains. Workers are building a dry storage facility for the spent nuclear fuel. (BBC News -- Europe)
UMMS researchers publish DNA identification of czar's children Feb 26, 2009
Genomic analysis performed at the University of Massachusetts Medical School in cooperation with Institutions of Russian Academy of Science (VIGG) and Academy of Medical Sciences (MHRC) have confirmed that human remains found in the Ural Mountains in July 2007 are indeed those of the two "missing" children of Nicholas II, the last czar of Russia, whose family was murdered in 1918 during the Bolshevik Revolution. The final evidence was presented in a paper published this week in the online Early... (EurekAlert!)
Dry hope for Uralkali Feb 19, 2009
Trutnev has been close to controlling shareholder Rybolovlev in the past, when Trutnev was mayor of Perm City and then governor of Perm region, on the western slope of the Ural mountains, before his appointment as the federal mines minister in March 2004. In his latest remarks, Trutnev said there are no international precedents for making a potash miner liable for loss of potash reserves due to the type of geological anomaly and incident that caused the subsidence and flooding at Mine-1. (Asia Times Online)
Little done to stop racism in European soccer Feb 11, 2009
Whether the supporters are watching a minor league in Serbia or a major European competition such as the Champions League, matches are stubbornly plagued by prejudice from the Mediterranean Sea to the Ural Mountains. Anti-racism campaigns aimed at fans have met with limited success at best, leaving the problem to FIFA, the sports governing body, and the Union of European Football Associations to clean up. (MSNBC -- Sports)
