Variability of Scots pine (<i>Pinus sylvestris</i> L.) plus trees in the Middle and Upper Volga Region with the use of ISSR markers by O. V. Sheikina, E. M. Romanov

“…The research focuses on assessing the level of the genetic diversity and the degree of differentiation of plus trees of various geographic origin with the use of ISSR markers. We used six ISSR primers to study 270 plus trees grown in the Penza region, the Chuvash Republic, the Republic of Tatarstan and the Mari El Republic. …”
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Humanitarian Aid of the Red Cross and Other Public Organizations of the Netherlands To Soviet Russia During the Famine of 1921–1923 by G. G. Tsidenkov

“…In addition to sending humanitarian supplies, the Dutch Red Cross equipped its own expedition to Samara province;2) Associations of trade unions of the Second International, which participated in the financing of an independent expedition of the "International Federation of Trade Unions" to the Chuvash Autonomous Region;3) communist trade unions and associations of the Netherlands, acting through the organization "International Workers' Aid", which took part in the restoration of the Soviet national economy, and also maintained numerous orphanages in Soviet Russia;4) Religious societies of Dutch Mennonite Protestants, which sent humanitarian aid to the places of settlement of their co-religionists, where, at the insistence of the Soviet government, they provided aid to all those in need, regardless of religion.All the activities of various Dutch organizations and individual citizens in Soviet Russia and the Ukraine showed the readiness of the population and political forces of the Netherlands to maintain close contacts and interaction between our peoples, regardless of the official relations of states and political differences.…”
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