As a small Russian exclave some 300 kilometers away from the bulk of the Russian Federation, Kaliningrad Oblast is rarely mentioned in discussions of NATO expansion. (Kaliningrad is the Russian name of the city and oblast , or province. In German, the city now called Kaliningrad was long known as Königsberg; in Polish it was Królewiec; and in Lithuanian Karaliaucius. The Russian name will be us...

Practical application of new methods of а plant genome transformation resulted in the need for strict regulation of the safety assessment process of genetically modified organisms of plant origin, intended for use in food. The devise of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO) of plant origin safety assessment system, which is currently valid in the Russian Federation, was initiated in 19951996. No...

In a Perspective, Chris Beyrer and coauthors discuss the threat of HIV to health in the Russian Federation.

Drowning is the second leading cause of unintentional injury deaths worldwide after road traffic injury deaths, claiming approximately 450,000 lives every year. Overall male drowning rates in the Newly Independent States and Russian Federation are dramatically higher than the rates in Western European countries; the highest male drowning rate in WHO Euro region, drowning rate in Belarus, is 50 ...

after the soviet :union: in newly independent georgia, the location of his gate and called the caucasus since this position tremendous impact on how relations with russia and the west had in this country is a way to attack the topic georgian forces in south ossetia in 2008. md, the severe russian reaction to georgia's pro-west thought it had occurred, the incidence of and despite media eff...

A. O. Korotkevich, ∗ A. C. Newell, † and V. E. Zakharov 1, 5, ‡ Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics RAS, 2, Kosygin Str., Moscow, 119334, Russian Federation Department of Mathematics, The University of Arizona, 617 N. Santa Rita Ave., Tucson, AZ 85721, USA Department of Mathematics, University of Arizona, 617 N. Santa Rita Ave., Tucson, AZ 85721, USA Lebedev Physical Institute RAS, 53, Len...

In formerly socialist societies the state has dominated sites like museums viewed as critical for producing a national past, but in the case of the Russian Federation these same institutions often are being utilized now to critically examine the past. For many in the emerging market economy of the Russian Federation, formerly state-dominated sites like museums have become important economic res...

The Rockefeller University, Laboratory of Mass Spectrometry and Gaseous Ion Chemistry (New York, NY, United States); Massachusetts General Hospital, Department of Pathology (Boston, MA, United States); Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, (Dolgoprudny, Russian Federation); Institute for Systems Genetics, New York University School of Medicine, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pha...

S. BERTAINA, S. GAMBARELLI, A. TKACHUK, I. N. KURKIN, B. MALKIN, A. STEPANOV AND B. BARBARA* Institut Néel, Département Nanosciences, CNRS, 25 Ave. des Martyrs, BP166, 38042 Grenoble Cedex 9, France Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Physique, INP de Grenoble, Minatec 3 parvis Louis Néel, BP 257, 38016 Grenoble Cedex 9, France Laboratoire de Chimie Inorganique et Biologie (UMR-E 3 CEA-UJF), DRFMC, C...