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Buzdyak (, ) is a rural locality (a "selo") and the administrative center of Buzdyaksky District in Republic of Bashkortostan, Russia. Its population is . |
Buzdyak has a canning factory that produces ketchup, tomatoes of its own production. Many people, not only in Bashkortostan, but also in Russia, prefer to buy Bashkir tomato for its quality, taste and affordable price. Also there is a hot bread bakery, where the most delicious bread is baked in the Buzdyak district. Buzdyak bread is bought not only by local residents, but also visitors from other cities. |
= = = Chekmagush = = = |
Chekmagush (; ) is a rural locality (a "selo") and the administrative center of Chekmagushevsky District in the Republic of Bashkortostan, Russia. As of the 2010 Census, its population was 11,382. |
It was first attested in 1765 and named after a hydronym. |
= = = Stephen Philbin = = = |
Stephen Holladay Philbin (June 7, 1888 November 13, 1973) was an American football player. He played college football at Yale University and was selected as a consensus All-American at the halfback position in 1909. Philbin was also captain of the Yale Bulldogs baseball team and a member of Skull and Bones. |
After graduating from Yale, Philbin attended Harvard Law School, graduating in 1913. After receiving his degree, he practiced for three years with a law firm in Dallas, Texas. In 1916, he joined the New York firm of Fish, Richardson & Neave as a patent lawyer. He spent most of his career with that firm. During World War I, he served with the Army Signal Corps in a unit commanded by Fiorello La Guardia in Foggia, Italy. During World War II, while La Guardia was mayor of New York, Philbin served as the general counsel of the city's Civil Defense Volunteer Office. |
Philbin died in November 1973 at his summer home in Old Lyme, Connecticut. |
= = = Chishmy = = = |
Chishmy (; , "Şişmä") is an urban locality (a work settlement) and the administrative center of Chishminsky District in the Republic of Bashkortostan, Russia, located near the Dyoma River. As of the 2010 Census, its population was 21,196. |
Within the framework of administrative divisions, Chishmy serves as the administrative center of Chishminsky District. As an administrative division, it is incorporated within Chishminsky District as Chishminsky Settlement Council. As a municipal division, Chishminsky Settlement Council is incorporated within Chishminsky Municipal District as Chishminsky Urban Settlement. |
= = = Ömer Çelik = = = |
Ömer Çelik (born June 15, 1968) is a Turkish journalist and politician. Between January 24, 2013 and August 28, 2015, he served as Minister of Culture and Tourism. He currently serves as the Minister of European Union Affairs and as the Chief Negotiator for Turkish Accession to the European Union since 24 May 2016. |
He was born on June 15, 1968 in Adana to Ziya Çelik and his wife Dudu. After graduating from Gazi University's Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, he earned his master's degree in political science at the same university's Graduate School of Social Sciences. |
Ömer Çelik worked as a journalist and political scientist. He joined the Justice and Development Party (AKP) and became political advisor to the party leader. |
He was elected to Parliament as a deputy from Adana for three consecutive terms in 2002, 2007 and 2011. Since 2010, he has served as the Deputy Chairman responsible for Foreign Affairs. He is also the chairman of the Friendship Group of Bilateral Parliamentary Relations between Turkey and the United States. |
On January 24, 2013, Ömer Çelik was appointed Minister of Culture and Tourism in the cabinet of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan replacing Ertuğrul Günay. |
Ömer Çelik is single. |
= = = Deny Marcel = = = |
Deny Marcel (born 24 February 1983 in Balikpapan, East Kalimantan) is an Indonesian footballer who currently plays for PSM Makassar in the Indonesia Soccer Championship A as a Goalkeeper. |
= = = Eulima bizona = = = |
Eulima bizona is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Eulimidae. The species is one of a number within the genus "Eulima". |
= = = Hill Forts of Rajasthan = = = |
The six Hill Forts of Rajasthan, spread across Rajasthan state in northern India, clustered together as a designated UNESCO World Heritage Site. The forts are mainly based in the Aravalli Range, and were built and enhanced between the 5th and 18th centuries CE by several Rajput kings of different kingdoms. They comprise: |
Some of these forts have defensive fortification wall up to 20 km long, still surviving urban centers and still in use water harvesting mechanism. |
= = = Eulima breviuscula = = = |
Eulima breviuscula is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Eulimidae. The species is one of a number within the genus "Eulima". |
= = = Eulima broadbentae = = = |
Eulima broadbentae is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Eulimidae. The species is one of a number within the genus "Eulima". |
= = = Sharan, Russia = = = |
Sharan () is a rural locality (a "selo") and the administrative center of Sharansky District of the Republic of Bashkortostan, Russia. Population: |
= = = Kazakhstan Institute for Strategic Studies = = = |
The Kazakhstan Institute for Strategic Studies under the President of Kazakhstan (KazISS) (, "Qazaqstan Respýblıkasy Prezıdentiniń janyndaǵy Qazaqstan strategııalyq zertteýler ınstıtýty"; ) is a Kazakhstan state institution aimed at providing research and analytical support to the President of Kazakhstan and his government. The KazISS provides research related to international and domestic affairs as well as the social and economic development of Kazakhstan. The KazISS aims to provide predictive research and analysis for the country's leadership. |
KazISS' predecessor was the Center for Strategic Studies, established in 1992. The Center was reorganized to become a full-fledged research institute by its first Director Umirserik Kassenov, a career diplomat. The idea to found an institution of strategic studies was supported by Vice-President of Kazakhstan Yerik Asanbayev. |
The Kazakhstan Institute for Strategic Studies was ofiicially founded on 16 June 1993, under the Decree of President Nursultan Nazarbayev. Its mission was to provide predictive research and analysis of strategic issues of external and internal nature for further development of Kazakhstan. |
In the first years of its functioning, the Institute experienced a number of difficulties mostly due to the lack of material resources and qualified experts in international and domestic political affairs]. The KazISS started to employ the graduates of the Kazakh State University and the Kazakh State University of World Languages, orientalists and scholars from the Kazakhstan Academy of Sciences. |
Initially, in terms of foreign policy analysis, the KazISS focused on the issues of national interest and security threats to Kazakhstan. Domestic issues, being increasingly pressing, gradually gained more attention of the KazISS experts. In the yearly 1990s, the KazISS offered its analysis on the background of comprehensive reforms of political, social and economic nature. The major task before the institute was to find the best ways that would enable the new nation to pursue its external and internal course. |
At first, the KazISS mainly dealt with the issues of nuclear arsenal deployed in the territory of Kazakhstan and its participation in the START I. The experts soon expanded their research scope embracing geopolitics and international security. Soon Director Kassenov and other KazISS experts established contacts and cooperation with a number of prominent think tanks abroad. Umirserik Kassenov and his colleagues made considerable efforts to apply their potential and influence so that the nuclear issue would be solved positively for Kazakhstan. As the result, in 1994–1995 Kazakhstan received security guarantees from the world nuclear powers in exchange for the agreement to abandon the Soviet nuclear arsenal. |
As the Institute gained experience and reputation in Kazakhstan, a number of prominent figures of world politics paid their visits, namely Zbigniew Brzezinski in 1993 and former United States Secretary of State James Baker in 1996. |
Umirserik Kassenov succeeded in gathering a team of professionals with expertise in nuclear physics, economics, Sinology, Islamic studies and other fields. Ye. Arynov, M. Spanov, R. Zholamanov, K. Khafizova, D. Yeleukenov, K. Syroyezhkin, A. Sultangaliyeva and many others contributed greatly into the work of the Institute under his leadership. Later K. Abuseitov and some other experts were employed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In turn, a number of young career diplomats joined the KazISS experts’ pool bringing their practical experience that immediately affected quite positively the overall performance of the Institute. Since then the two structures continue to coperate. |
Umirserik Kassenov largely contributed to the success the Institute achieved in the first years of its functioning. However, due to the frictions with the Administration of President of Kazakhstan, the first Director of the Kazakhstan Institute for Strategic Studies eventually resigned from his post in 1997. |
In the late 1990s the KazISS had rather difficult period; throughout the year there were three directors. Lev Tarakov managed to prevent complete dissolution of the KazISS and persuaded some experts to return. Director Tarakov laid the foundations of the current structure of the KazISS. More importantly, he introduced new research methods, strengthened the ties with the analytical staff within the Presidential Administration and launched the "Kazakhstan-Spectrum" journal. |
Alma Sultangaliyeva succeeded Lev Tarakov as the Director of the KazISS. Being an academician orientalist, a new director made the KazISS analysis receive more academic character, more attention was paid to the issues of Islam. The shift of the analytical focus proved well-timed as the Islamic factor in the world politics and particularly in Central Asia grew in importance. In 1998, Yermukhamet Yertysbayev headed the Institute. Director Yertysbayev had both a political and academic background. He was able to establish an active dialogue with the opposition. |
In 2000, the new management was appointed at the KazISS led by a young academic Maulen Ashimbayev who previously had supervised analytical work for the Presidential Administration. The Institute was then accountable to Marat Tazhin and the Center of Political Analysis under the President. In the context of aggravated international situation, growing security threats in Central Asia posing mainly by Afghanistan, 9/11 and subsequent US-led anti-terrorist operations as well as significant geopolitical changes, the KazISS enhanced its interaction with the Security Council and other security and analytical structures. The analysis conducted at the KazISS reflected these developments. Under Ashimbayev the Institute intensified its work in all directions: external and internal security, strategy for Kazakhstan in the new international environment, sustained economic development and Caspian issues. Maulen Ashimbayev established steady communication with the Presidential Administration; the analytical materials prepared by the Institute were directly conveyed to the recipients therein. The number of publications increased dramatically; the Institute started to issue four journals; two in Russian, one in Kazakh and one in English. Director Ashimbayev made Kazakh a full-fledged working language at the KazISS. The number of analytical materials and publications in the Kazakh language redoubled. |
In 2005 Bulat Sultanov was appointed the Director of the KazISS, who converted his extensive diplomatic experience into a broader cooperation of the Institute with foreign research and analytical institutions. The KazISS established partnership relations with the number of European, primarily German structures, namely the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP), the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP), the Friedrich Ebert Foundation (FES), George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies. The cooperation of the KazISS expanded and included Asian partners in China (Shanghai Institute for International Studies), India (Jawaharlal Nehru University) as well as Russia (the Russian Institute for Strategic Studies, the Institute of World Economy and International Relations, the Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation). |
In April 11, 2014 KazISS was relocated in Astana by the decree of the president of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev. |
In October 16, 2014 Erlan Karin has been appointed director of KazISS by the order of the president of Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbayev. On the same day president signed a decree according to which institute will plan their activities on the current and future objectives from the president, the head of the Presidential Administration of the Republic of Kazakhstan and its relevant deputy, and will work under the general direction of the Presidential Administration of the Republic of Kazakhstan and operational management of the relevant Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration of the Republic of Kazakhstan. |
The Kazakhstan Institute for Strategic Studies carries out its research and analysis of foreign policy, security and information security, social and political as well as economic issues within the following departments: |
Strategic aspects of foreign policy: |
Political and social processes in contemporary Kazakhstan: |
Economic security: |
The Kazakhstan Institute for Strategic Studies publishes a large number of books both by individual experts and composite authors on international and domestic affairs, security issues and economics as well as three analytical journals. The "Kazakhstan-Spectrum" quarterly review in Russian (prior 1997 as "Kazakhstan and International Community"). The journal is recommended by the Committee for Control of Education and Science of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan for official publications required for PhD Candidates prior defending the theses in political science, international relations, history and economics. Since 2003, the KazISS publishes the "Qogham zhane Dauir" in Kazakh and "Central Asia's Affairs" in English. From 2000 to 2012 the KazISS published the "Analytic" journal in Russian that was issued six times a year. |
= = = Eulima campyla = = = |
Eulima campyla is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Eulimidae. The species is one of a number within the genus "Eulima". |
= = = Eulima capillastericola = = = |
Eulima capillastericola is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Eulimidae. The species is one of a number within the genus "Eulima". |
= = = Gate, Washington = = = |
Gate is an unincorporated community in Thurston County, Washington, United States. Gate is located on the Black River west-northwest of Rochester. |
The community was established in 1881 and platted in 1890. The Northern Pacific Railway built a junction in Gate, and the town developed a lumber industry. The community was named Gate due to the railroad junction, which made it the "gateway to the coast". Much of the town was devastated by fires in the early 1900s, and the decline of the area's lumber mills further hurt Gate's economy. One of the railroad lines through Gate is now a county-maintained rail trail. |
The Gate School, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, is located in Gate. |
= = = Eulima carolii = = = |
Eulima carolii is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Eulimidae. The species is one of a number within the genus "Eulima". |
= = = Bangnim-myeon = = = |
Bangnim-myeon () is a myeon (township) in Pyeongchang county of Gangwon-do South Korea. The myeon is located in northern central part of the county. The total area of Bangnim-myeon is 120.85 square kilometers, and, as of 2008, the population was 2,453 people. |
= = = History of the Jews in Kolkata = = = |