Ukraine was the center of the first eastern Slavic state, Kyivan Rus, which during the 10th and 11th centuries was the largest and most powerful state in Europe. Weakened by internecine quarrels and Mongol invasions, Kyivan Rus was incorporated into the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and eventually into the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. The cultural and religious legacy of Kyivan Rus laid the foundation for Ukrainian nationalism through subsequent centuries. A new Ukrainian state, the Cossack Hetmanate, was established during the mid-17th century after an uprising against the Poles.

Montevideo, founded by the Spanish in 1726 as a military stronghold, soon took advantage of its natural harbor to become an important commercial center. Claimed by Argentina but annexed by Brazil in 1821, Uruguay declared its independence four years later and secured its freedom in 1828 after a three-year struggle. The administrations of President Jose BATLLE in the early 20th century launched widespread political, social, and economic reforms that established a statist tradition.

Multiple waves of colonizers, each speaking a distinct language, migrated to the New Hebrides in the millennia preceding European exploration in the 18th century. This settlement pattern accounts for the complex linguistic diversity found on the archipelago to this day. The British and French, who settled the New Hebrides in the 19th century, agreed in 1906 to an Anglo-French Condominium, which administered the islands until independence in 1980, when the new name of Vanuatu was adopted.

Vanuatu is a parliamentary republic.

New Zealand occupied the German protectorate of Western Samoa at the outbreak of World War I in 1914. It continued to administer the islands as a mandate and then as a trust territory until 1962, when the islands became the first Polynesian nation to reestablish independence in the 20th century. The country dropped the "Western" from its name in 1997.

Samoa is a parliamentary republic.

Source: CIA World Factbook

Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul

O ISEG tem por missão a criação, transmissão e valorização social e económica do conhecimento e da cultura nos domínios das ciências económicas, financeiras e empresariais, num quadro de pluralidade e de garantia de liberdade intelectual e científica, de respeito pela ética e de responsabilidade social.

O Observatório do Meio Rural (OMR) é uma pessoa colectiva de direito privado sem fins lucrativos, dotada de personalidade jurídica e com autonomia administrativa, financeira e patrimonial.

Registada na Conservatória do Registo das Entidades Legais sob o Número Único de Entidade Legal 100274736, com sede na cidade de Maputo, República de Moçambique.

Our Vision is to be a world-class university committed to scholarly excellence.

Our Mission is to provide quality university education and training and to embody the aspirations of the Kenyan people and the global community through creation, preservation, integration, transmission and utilization of knowledge.

• Vision
  • To be a top rated University of technology

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  • To provide technological education and training and to contribute towards the advancement of society through research and innovation 

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  • Education and training for the real world

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  • To train high and middle level personnel for both public and private sectors.

There has been a long tradition of cooperation between the federal and provincial/territorial governments in forestry matters.

The establishment of the CCFM in 1985 provided an important forum for the respective governments to exchange information, work cooperatively, provide leadership and generate actions on forestry related matters of interests to all Canadians above and beyond the work done by individuals governments.

The primary role of the CCFM is to provide:

LSE is one of the world’s leading social science universities. We have committed to a strategy that will build on our strengths, address challenges and maintain our worldwide reputation for excellence.

We have already achieved many of the goals set out in our 2014 review, including:

• Strengthening our faculty, which has resulted in remarkable success in the Research Excellence Framework and major improvements in most research-based and reputational rankings.
• Investing in our LSE Careers service for LSE alumni.

Visión

Ser reconocido como un órgano de administración confiable, transparente y de excelencia, que asegura medios y elementos de calidad en la impartición de justicia, dando certeza en la atención de los servicios que brinda tanto a los Tribunales y Juzgados Federales como a la sociedad, en un ámbito de eficiencia y eficacia, y que contribuye a lograr una justicia que da respuesta y garantiza la seguridad jurídica de los gobernados.