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Moscow metropolitan area

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Moscow metropolitan area (Russian: Московская агломерация) or Moscow capital region (Russian: Московский столичный регион) is the largest metropolitan area in Russia and Europe, with a population of around 20 million. It consists of the city of Moscow and parts of the surrounding Moscow Oblast. The related terms Moscow region (Russian: Московский регион - Moskovsky region) or Moscow and the Oblast (Russian: Москва и область) describe of the combined territories of the city of Moscow and the whole of Moscow Oblast. These are used in meteorology, geography, aviation, transport, broadcasting, telecommunications, business, etc. In politics, government, organizations and small business, according to the Constitution of Russia, there are two separated federal subjects of Russia with their governments, parliaments and own law. De jure there is no united Moscow region.

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Moscow metropolitan area
улица Доктора Гааза, Moscow Troparyovo-Nikulino

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Moscow State Institute of International Relations

Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO) (Russian: Московский государственный институт международных отношений (МГИМО), also known as MGIMO University) is an institute of higher education under the umbrella of the Russian Federation Ministry of Foreign Affairs, considered the most elite university in Russia. It is also one of the top social sciences universities "in Russia, Eastern Europe, Central Asia, and BRICS countries", as well as a think tank. MGIMO is reputable for the role of teamwork, analytical thinking, critical reasoning, and strategic planning as aspects of its training methodologies.Henry Kissinger likened it to Harvard and Georgetown because it supplied the diplomatic elite. Currently, it has the lowest acceptance rate and the highest test scores of any university in the country. It is the alma mater of the largest number of Forbes list members and representatives of the political elite according to Forbes Russia.MGIMO offers educational programs in 18 key fields of study, including international relations and regional studies, politics, governance, diplomacy, world economy, law, journalism, foreign trade and management, energy affairs, linguistics, and environmental studies. It offers MBA and Executive MBA programs, and pre-university tutorials. According to the Guinness Book of Records, MGIMO teaches 54 full time languages during every academic term, the most in any academic institution. The university pays special attention to distance learning and digital technologies. Since 2016, MGIMO has been recording and publishing its distance courses at Coursera. As of today, Coursera contains 20 courses by MGIMO professors. MGIMO has integrated an LMS (Electronic Learning Management System) in the educational process. Moodle and Stepik (Russia) platforms are used as well. MGIMO has three campuses – in Moscow, in the Moscow Region and in Tashkent (Uzbekistan) as well as an educational centre for law studies in Geneva, Switzerland. MGIMO is a centre for the Russian-French Trianon Dialogue, the Russian-Czech Discussion Forum, the Russian-Austrian forum Sochi Dialogue, ASEAN Centre.

Russian State Geological Prospecting University
Russian State Geological Prospecting University

Sergo Ordzhonikidze Russian State University for Geological Prospecting (Russian: Российский государственный геологоразведочный университет, МГРИ), or the Russian State University for Geological Prospecting is named after Sergo Ordzhonikidze and previously known as the Moscow Geological Prospecting Institute, is a public university based in Moscow, Russia, specialising in geology, geophysics, gemmology, ecology and other earth-science disciplines. There was a task in the USSR to prepare 435.000 engineers and technicians in five years (1930-1935) during the USSR industrialization period, while their number in 1929 was 66.000.In 1930 the Moscow Mining Academy was divided into six independent institutes by the order of Supreme Soviet of the National Economy. Among the new colleges which grew out of the Academy's departments was Moscow Geological Prospecting Institute (Russian: Московский геологоразведочный институт). Over the entire history of MGRI, the university raised more than 30.000 specialists, 1.500 candidates and 400 doctors of sciences. More than 1.300 foreigners from over 78 countries of the world are among the graduates of Russian State University of Geological Prospecting. University graduates are the discoverers of more than two hundred large mineral deposits both in the Russian Federation and abroad. There is one mineral named after university as Mgriite (Cu3AsSe3). Lots of other minerals as well as geographic and geological objects and about 280 species of fossils of flora and fauna are named after graduates(professors and geologists) of MGRI. About 15 graduates of MGRI were elected academicians of the USSR Academy of Sciences(now the Russian Academy of Sciences) and 12 people were elected as corresponding members. Professors have been working on the set of "Construction Norms and Regulations" for engineering and geological spheres in Commonwealth of Independent States(CIS) and in Latin America. For more than 100 years of history, the university has developed scientific and pedagogical schools in almost all areas of the Earth Sciences. Graduates of MGRI have made a significant contribution to the development of the geological prospecting and mining industries internationally.