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Igor Shpilenok
Igor Shpilenok (born 28 February 1960) is a Russian wildlife photographer, founder and first director of the Bryansky Les Nature Reserve, author of several books, and environmental inspector. He is a two times winner of the BBC Wildlife Photographer of the Year award. In 2006 and 2007 he received the first prize at the Golden Turtle international photo festival. Biography Early years Shpilenok was born in Bryansk Oblast, and his father was a passionate hunter who tried to make his son interested in hunting. Instead, Shpilenok grew fond of nature and preferred to enjoy its beauty without hurting it. He decided to become an environmentalist in his teens. In school he became interested in photography. At the age of 12, he discovered a meadow covered with blooming snowdrops in the forest not far from his home. Impressed with its beauty, he felt he needed to share it and decided to buy a photocamera. During the winter he collected the money and in the next spring he returned to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laura Lynne Williams
Laura Lynne Williams (May 21, 1969 – October 28, 2018) was a Russian-American ecologist, founder of the Russian World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) branch and WWF office on Kamchatka. She was also director of the Wild Salmon Center, as well as a journalist, writer, and equine-assisted therapist. Early life and education Williams was born in New York, May 21, 1969. Her parents were a lawyer and a doctor. For the first two years of her life, she lived in South Dakota where her father served in Rosebud Indian Reservation. When she turned two, her parents divorced and her mother took the children to Denver, Colorado. In 1978–1984, she attended Graland Country Day School. In 1984–87, she studied at the Fountain Valley School in Colorado Springs, Colorado. She entered Cornell University in 1988. That year, answering one of her professors as to why she wanted to study Russian, Williams answered that "Russia is a big country and it has to have a lot of wildlife." In 1990, she fir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
LiveJournal
LiveJournal (), stylised as LiVEJOURNAL, is a Russian-owned social networking service where users can keep a blog, journal, or diary. American programmer Brad Fitzpatrick started LiveJournal on April 15, 1999, as a way of keeping his high school friends updated on his activities. In January 2005, American blogging software company Six Apart purchased Danga Interactive, the company that operated LiveJournal, from Fitzpatrick. Six Apart sold LiveJournal to Russian media company SUP Media in 2007; the service continued to operate out of the U.S. via a California-based subsidiary, LiveJournal, Inc., but began moving some operations to Russian offices in 2009. In December 2016, the service relocated its servers to Russia, and in April 2017, LiveJournal changed its terms of service to conform to Russian law. As with other social networks, a wide variety of public figures use the service, as do political pundits, who use it for political commentary, particularly in Russia, where it partn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
People From Trubchevsky District
The term "the people" refers to the public or common mass of people of a polity. As such it is a concept of human rights law, international law as well as constitutional law, particularly used for claims of popular sovereignty. In contrast, a people is any plurality of persons considered as a whole. Used in politics and law, the term "a people" refers to the collective or community of an ethnic group or nation. Concepts Legal Chapter One, Article One of the Charter of the United Nations states that "peoples" have the right to self-determination. Though the mere status as peoples and the right to self-determination, as for example in the case of Indigenous peoples (''peoples'', as in all groups of indigenous people, not merely all indigenous persons as in ''indigenous people''), does not automatically provide for independent sovereignty and therefore secession. Indeed, judge Ivor Jennings identified the inherent problems in the right of "peoples" to self-determination, as i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russian Nature Photographers
Russian(s) may refer to: *Russians (), an ethnic group of the East Slavic peoples, primarily living in Russia and neighboring countries *A citizen of Russia *Russian language, the most widely spoken of the Slavic languages *''The Russians'', a book by Hedrick Smith *Russian (comics), fictional Marvel Comics supervillain from ''The Punisher'' series *Russian (solitaire) Yukon is a type of Patience_(game), patience or Solitaire (game), solitaire card game using a single deck of playing cards like Klondike (solitaire), Klondike, but there is no deck or stock, and manipulation of the tableau works differently. ..., a card game *Russians (song), "Russians" (song), from the album ''The Dream of the Blue Turtles'' by Sting *"Russian", from the album ''Tubular Bells 2003'' by Mike Oldfield *"Russian", from the album ''Robot Face, '' by Caravan Palace *Nik Russian, the perpetrator of a con committed in 2002 See also * *Russia (other) *Rus (other) *Rossiysky ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
