Russia to extend presidential term Nov 22, 2008
"The suggested constitutional amendments will not turn Russia into a parliamentary republic. To be frank, I think that Russia must not be a parliamentary republic. That would be fatal," Itar-Tass news agency quoted Medvedev as saying in the Urals city of Izhevsk. The State Duma, the lower house of the Russian parliament, has approved constitutional changes to extend the terms of the president and the parliament from four years to six and five years respectively. (Xinhuanet, China)
Cultural connection Nov 3, 2008
The group left at 6 a.m. on Nov. 1 for the long flight back to Izhevsk, which is roughly 800 miles southeast of Moscow. Cherie Martin, the trip s organizer and an adjunct professor at USU-Tooele, said she felt the experience built lasting relationships and cultural understanding. (Logan Herald Journal, UT)
ER-Telecom Selects AudioCodes Residential VoIP Media Gateways Jul 28, 2008
Today ER-Telecom operates in corporate and private markets of 17 cities in Russia -- Perm, Samara, Volgograd, Volzhsky, Penza, Kirov, Ioshkar-Ola, Kazan, Nizhnekamsk, Naberezhnye Chelny, Tyumen, Izhevsk, Orenburg, Chelyabinsk, Omsk, Novosibirsk, Nizhny Novgorod. According to the Company's estimates, the holding's share in 15 cities (excluding Novosibirsk and Nizhny Novgorod, launched in March, 2008) ranges from 30% to 60% of telecom services market. (Primezone Releases)
Poll: Medvedev enjoys 73% support Feb 22, 2008
Russia's First Deputy Prime Minister and presidential front-runner, Dmitry Medvedev, takes aim with a Kalashnikov rifle during a visit to the Izhmash firearms plant in Izhevsk some 1000 km east of Moscow Feb. 19, 2008. (Xinhua/Reuters Photo). (Xinhuanet, China)
Russia test fires ballistic missile Oct 18, 2007
The missiles are produced at the Votkinsk Missile Building Plant near Izhevsk, 1,000 km east of Moscow, where a small group of US inspectors has monitored factory production since 1988 as part of the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty. Russian President Vladimir Putin said last week that unless a treaty on short and medium range missiles was expanded to include other countries, remaining in such a treaty would be difficult for Russia. (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)
Russia Targets Kalashnikov Counterfeiters in Fight Against Unlicensed Guns Aug 18, 2007
Global production of the world's most abundant firearm ``creates the possibility in a series of countries to avoid responsibility for what is basically the production of counterfeit goods,'' Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin said in an interview in Izhevsk, in the western Ural Mountains ... Russia accounted for just 10 percent of global Kalashnikov production last year, according to Vladimir Grodetsky, general director of Izhevsk-based Izhmash, the Russian factory in the Ural Mountains that makes... (Bloomberg -- Europe)
* Kalashnikov sets sights on 'knockoffs' Aug 11, 2007
AFP, IZHEVSK, Russia Saturday, Aug 11, 2007, Page 16 ... "They just use the brand, the fame. It's not fair," Kalashnikov, 87, said at a press conference in the industrial city of Izhevsk, 1,300km east of Moscow ... "The US thinks it can do anything ... . Of course it's business competition. It's discrimination," Nikolai Bezborodov, a Kalashnikov designer, said at a gun fair in Izhevsk to celebrate the 200th anniversary of Izhmash. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- Business)
Russia Plans to Start Work on Venezuela Kalashnikov Plants in October Aug 7, 2007
762 millimeter bullets, Grodetsky said in an interview today in Izhevsk, the central Russian city where Izhmash is based ... To mark the anniversaries, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Alexy II, yesterday consecrated a new cathedral in Izhevsk, across the road from the Kalashnikov museum ... Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin is due in Izhevsk tomorrow as part of the celebrations. (Bloomberg -- Latin America)
Hazardous Alcohol Drinking Causes Nearly Half Of Deaths In Working-age Russian Men Jun 21, 2007
Professor David Leon, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Health, London, UK and colleagues did their study on Izhevsk a typical Russian industrial city in the Ural mountains. They analysed 1,750 men who died between 2003 and 2005, and 1,750 control cases who were still alive. (Science Daily)
Problem Drinking Kills Almost Half of Russia's Young Adult Men Jun 17, 2007
All the men lived in Izhevsk, a typical Russian industrial city in the Ural mountains. They found that men who were problem drinkers of alcoholic beverages, or who drank non-beverage alcohol, were six times more likely to die than men who did not have a drinking problem or did not drink at all. (Health-Finder)
Study looks at alcohol deaths in Russia Jun 16, 2007
While the scientists limited their research to the Russian city of Izhevsk, experts suspect the community is probably not atypical ... Dr. David Leon of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and colleagues looked at all the deaths of men aged 25-54 in Izhevsk, a city in the Urals, from 2003 to 2005. (Herald Online, SC -- Health)
Russia 'aftershave drink' fears Jun 15, 2007
They looked at 1,750 deaths in men aged 25 to 54 years in 2003 and 2005 in Izhevsk, a typical Russian city in the Ural mountains. Family members were interviewed about the drinking habits of the deceased. (BBC News)
Cologne and antiseptic: Russia's killer drinks Jun 15, 2007
Izhevsk was chosen for being a typical industrial city where life is much the same as elsewhere and where death rates match the Russian average ... David Leon, of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and colleagues examined records and interviewed the families of 1,750 men who had died in Izhevsk from 2003-05 ... Overall, 43% of deaths of men aged 25 to 54 were caused by alcohol, a figure that could be extrapolated to all of Russia because of the typical nature of Izhevsk. (Guardian Unlimited)
