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More than 10,000 rally to unify Romania and Moldova
Moldovan and Romanian citizens participate at a rally to mark the 100th anniversary of the unification of Moldova with Romania, in the Great National Assembly Square in Chisinau, Moldova, 25 March 2018. [Dimitru Doru/EPA/EFE]
Languages: Slovak
The former president of Romania Traian Basescu joined more than 10,000 people in the Moldovan capital on Sunday (25 March) to rally in support of reunification between Romania and Moldova.
Union between European Union member Romania and its smaller neighbour to the northeast looks unlikely but the issue highlights a divide in Moldova between pro-Western and Moscow-backed political factions ahead of elections in November.
The country that is now Moldova was part of Tsarist Russia during the 19th century and known as Bessarabia. After World War One it joined what was known as Greater Romania but it was annexed by the Soviet Union in 1940. When the Soviet Union dissolved in 1991, it became independent under the name Moldova.
It is now split between a Romanian-speaking majority and the breakaway region Transdniestria, which is propped up by Russia in one of a series of "frozen conflicts" that have kept separatist regions in several former Soviet republics under Moscow's wing.
"We call upon the deputies of the Moldovan and Romanian parliament to vote in the near future for unification," Basescu said at the demonstration, which was timed to coincide with the 100th anniversary of Moldova joining Greater Romania.
#Romania ex-President Traian Băsescu asks the Parliaments from Chisinau and Bucharest to vote for the Union of the two Romanian states.https://t.co/h6o8VIL7lA#Moldova pic.twitter.com/gOiMf4B9Tp
— Moldova.org (@moldovaorg) March 25, 2018
There was no official reaction from the Romanian side.
The demonstration was peaceful though police said they detained 21 people who wanted to disrupt the rally, seizing gas masks, masks and knives.
In Chisinau, #Moldova, #Romania's former president Traian Basescu encouraged the parliaments of both countries to vote for the unification of Romania and Moldova. pic.twitter.com/QuRoC56TkD
— Blidaru Madalin (@blidaru) March 25, 2018
The Moldovan government, which favours closer ties with the European Union and the United States, often locks horns with the pro-Russian President Igor Dodon, who wants closer ties to Moscow and to join a Moscow-led customs union.
If his Socialist party wins elections due in 2018, Dodon has previously suggested passing a law that bans unionist organizations seen to be undermining the integrity of the state because they want to join Romania.
Dodon asked those who oppose reunification not to stage a rival rally on Sunday.
"I urge all patriots and statesmen not to march against the unionists on March 25. We should not give them an additional reason for demonstrations or provocations," Dodon said.

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Classically, the beta 2-adrenergic receptor (beta 2AR) and other members of the seven-transmembrane receptor (7TMR) superfamily activate G protein-dependent signaling pathways in response to ligand stimulus. It has recently been discovered, however, that a number of 7TMRs, including beta 2AR, can signal via beta-arrestin-dependent pathways independent of G protein activation. It is currently unclear if among beta 2AR agonists there exist ligands that disproportionately signal via G proteins or beta-arrestins and are hence "biased." Using a variety of approaches that include highly sensitive fluorescence resonance energy transfer-based methodologies, including a novel assay for receptor internalization, we show that the majority of known beta 2AR agonists exhibit relative efficacies for beta-arrestin-associated activities (beta-arrestin membrane translocation and beta 2AR internalization) identical to the irrelative efficacies for G protein-dependent signaling (cyclic AMP generation). However, for three betaAR ligands there is a marked bias toward beta-arrestin signaling; these ligands stimulate beta-arrestin-dependent receptor activities to a much greater extent than would be expected given their efficacy for G protein-dependent activity. Structural comparison of these biased ligands reveals that all three are catecholamines containing an ethyl substitution on the alpha-carbon, a motif absent on all of the other, unbiased ligands tested. Thus, these studies demonstrate the potential for developing a novel class of 7TMR ligands with a distinct bias for beta-arrestin-mediated signaling.


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This novel was prompted by a newspaper story I read, about a young woman who was charged with fraud. She worked at the British Telecom payments processing centre at Durham, and when cheques arrived written to "BT" (rather than the full name) she changed them to "B.Taylor" and her friend Barry and herself paid them into their own account. This struck me as a simple little scam, and rather brilliant.And there was something about it that stuck in my mind. I kept asking myself the novelist's question "What if?" What if a payment doesn't get processed? The customer gets a final demand and in the end their phone is cut off. And if a phone gets cut off, what then? All sorts of life-changing things can happen. So I developed this into a story that starts out as a simple little fraud and that suddenly gets darker when, as a result of a phone line being disconnected, a terrible tragedy happens. This novel is really about guilt and responsibility, how there is no such thing as a victimless crime. I also scripted it as a drama for the BBC, starring Tamsin Outhwaite. She brought a terrific minx-like ammorality to the part of Natalie, our anti-heroine; but she also brought a humanity to her, so we were on her side. For Natalie truly believed she was doing nothing wrong, until she was faced with the devastating result of her greed.
Natalie is a girl who should be going somewhere. Beautiful, bright and ambitious, she's stuck in a dead-end job in the accounts department of Nu-Line Telecommunications, living her life through wild weekends and yearning for something more.
When she sees a chance to change her life, she takes it.After all, it's only a minor crime.Nobody's going to get hurt. But other people do get hurt, because Natalie's actions do have consequences – tragic consequences. Poignant and beautifully written, Final Demand is a cautionary tale about the battle between greed and love, about human hopes and our own frailty in the face of temptation.
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Review: Tom and Jerry: Robin Hood and His Merry Mouse
Tom and Jerry: Robin Hood and His Merry Mouse (2012) – straight-to-video
PRODUCERS/DIRECTORS: Spike Brandt and Tony Cervone
WRITERS: Earl Kress and Michael F. Ryan; from a story by Earl Kress
EDITOR: Kyle Stafford
COMPOSER: Michael Tavera
SONGS: Michael Tavera, Scott Bradley, Spike Brandt, Alan Burnett, and Michael F. Ryan
ANIMATION STUDIO: Yearim Productions Co. Ltd.
ANIMATION/FANTASY/COMEDY/FAMILY/MUSICAL
Starring: (voices) Jamie Bamber, Charles Shaughnessy, John Michael Higgins, Grey DeLisle, Joe Alaskey, John DiMaggio, Clive Revill, Phil LaMarr, Richard McGonagle, Greg Ellis, and Jess Harnell
Tom and Jerry: Robin Hood and His Merry Mouse is a 2012 animated direct-to-video film starring the famous cartoon cat and mouse duo, Tom and Jerry. Produced by Warner Bros. Animation, this film basically takes Tom and Jerry and places them in a cartoon version of the 1938 Warner Bros. film, The Adventures of Robin Hood, which starred Errol Flynn as Robin Hood. The cartoon Robin Hood in Tom and Jerry: Robin Hood and His Merry Mouse is essentially a caricature of Flynn's Robin Hood.
Tom and Jerry: Robin Hood and His Merry Mouse is set in a time similar to the High Middle Ages. Prince John (John Michael Higgins) rules England while his brother, King Richard the Lionheart (Clive Revill), is out of the country fighting in the Crusades. Living in Sherwood Forest, Robin Hood (Jamie Bamber) and his Merry Men rob the rich of their coin and treasure and give that loot to the poor.
The Sheriff of Nottingham (Charles Shaughnessy) is determined to capture Robin Hood and tells his boss, Prince John, that he believes that Robin has a spy in the castle. The Sheriff sends his cat-at-arms, Thomas Cat, to capture the spy. Tom catches Jerry Mouse attempting to contact Maid Marian (Grey DeLisle), who is secretly romancing Robin. Thus, cat and mouse begin their small, private war. When the scope of Prince John's schemes are revealed, however, enemies may have to become friends in order to save both the throne and England.
I didn't expect much of Tom and Jerry: Robin Hood and His Merry Mouse, but it turned out to be rather entertaining. The art direction for the animation is just a little on the high side of the work that appears in direct-to-DVD productions from Warner Bros. Animation. A faux-musical, the movie's songs are good. Actually, the songs are surprisingly good, a little better than I would expect of a straight-to-video cartoon.
By the time, Tom and Jerry: Robin Hood and His Merry Mouse ended, I would have enjoyed a little more, so I'll recommend it to those who have seen other Tom and Jerry DVD movies.
Labels: 2012, animated film, Family, Fantasy, Movie review, Musical, Phil LaMarr, Robin Hood, straight-to-video, Tom and Jerry, Warner Bros Animation, Warner Home Video
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In today's interconnected world, culture's power to transform societies is clear. Its diverse manifestations – from our cherished historic monuments and museums to traditional practices and contemporary art forms – enrich our everyday lives in countless ways. Heritage constitutes a source of identity and cohesion for communities disrupted by bewildering change and economic instability. Creativity contributes to building open, inclusive and pluralistic societies. Both heritage and creativity lay the foundations for vibrant, innovative and prosperous knowledge societies.
As a specialized agency of the United Nations, UNESCO has a unique mandate to build peace and sustainable development through culture. In order to achieve this mission, UNESCO works with various partners that, individually or through specific networks, contribute to developing and disseminating knowledge and capacities for protecting our heritage and fostering creativity.
ENGAGE WITH UNESCO CULTURE SECTOR
UNESCO offers a range of different entry points for partnerships. These are all areas where the Organization has leadership, recognized expertise and comparative advantage. They also correspond to UNESCO's Culture Sector top priorities:
Building capacities to protect, promote and transmit heritage
Fostering creativity and the diversity of cultural expressions
Protecting heritage at risk
Promoting shared history and memory for reconciliation and dialogue
At the 37th session of the General Conference, UNESCO adopted the Comprehensive Partnership Strategy which defines the overall framework for partnership and separated strategies for engagement with individual categories of partner. : Comprehensive Partnership Strategy.
The way in which UNESCO works with partners takes different forms and includes notably:
Combining expertise for programme delivery through joint designing and implementation of activities at the national, regional or global level
Direct financial and in-kind contributions, including personnel secondments, volunteers, equipment
Coordination and consultation on the elaboration of programmes and on development of policies, standards and norms
Sharing outreach capacity and specific networks to support UNESCO's advocacy and policy dialogue in its priority areas and countries
Providing and benefiting from technical assistance and advisory services
Working with International Networks in Culture
Working with the Private Sector in Culture
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Welcome to the Filmwhys homepage of sorts, where you can find more information about the podcast and links to current and past episodes. I started this podcast because as I became more involved in the film blogging community, I wanted an excuse to watch and talk about movies that didn't fit the narrow focus of this site without changing the core of what Flights, Tights, and Movie Nights is about. On top of that, I realized that I've missed out on many movies in the past 30 years that are considered by movie fans as films that you have to see if you want to call yourself a film fan, and of course my film knowledge extending earlier than 30 years is extremely sparse. At the same time, I wanted to start another podcast. I had been involved in another podcast before, but it wasn't the right fit for my personality. I wanted to tie this new podcast into the theme of my site, but I also wanted to use it as an excuse to branch out into other categories of film so I came upon the idea of having a single guest come on and recommend a movie for me to see that I have never seen before, and to keep the superhero and comic book theme present I also wanted to return the favor and recommend a superhero or comic book movie to them that they hadn't seen before. I also love acronyms and eventually came up with Film W.H.Y.S. where the W.H.Y.S. stands for "Why Haven't You Seen _____?" or just "Filmwhys" which rolls off the tongue a bit easier and to my amazement wasn't used by any other film podcast or site. Finally, after doing regular episodes for a few months I had the opportunity to interview a filmmaker about their film and I also wanted to have the opportunity to have short discussions about other film topics so besides the regular episodes of Filmwhys I also now have episodes called Filmwhys Extra which will pop up in between regular episodes, are usually shorter, and can be about almost anything as long as it has to do with film or superheroes. I also have a series called Filmwhys Spotlight that reaches out to fans of lesser known and/or generally unliked superhero and comic book films and finds out what they love about the movie along with some background information on the production and clips from the movie.
What movies haven't I seen?
I'm glad you asked that question. Before I started this podcast, I hadn't seen films like Jaws, Pulp Fiction, Psycho, Fargo, and many more. I made an account over at Letterboxd where I've accounted for (to the best of my memory) all the movies that I've ever seen, and I also went through and created a watchlist full of classics, modern classics, and genre films that I've heard are great films that I should see and want to see and would love to talk about with someone who loves them.
I'm always looking for new guests to come on the show! You don't have to be a film blogger, you just have to have a love of film. Of course, it helps a lot if I'm familiar with you in some way, via Twitter, your own website, or if you're a filmmaker yourself. Just send me an e-mail at Bubbawheat@msn.com and let me know that you're interested in being a guest on the show, we can work out the details from there. You can also check out my Filmwhys most wanted list which includes 40 superhero and comic book movies that I haven't covered already for you and I think are worth discussing for one reason or another. Anything is fair game as long as you've never seen it before, and it hasn't yet been covered on the podcast before.
If you're not up for discussing two movies, or if you are a filmmaker yourself I also have a show-between-the-shows Filmwhys Extra where I have done interviews about superhero and non-superhero cinema and also have discussion topics about film with one or more guests in a roundtable discussion.
Where are new episodes posted?
New episodes are posted here on this site, generally weekly alternating between regular episodes where I discuss two films with one guest and Filmwhys Extra where it might be a roundtable discussion on some film-related topic, or a filmmaker interview, or something else entirely. You can also visit the Filmwhys PodOmatic page where you can listen to the most recent episodes, you can also subscribe via RSS or through iTunes or Stitcher.
As I'm on a budget, I have limited storage through PodOmatic, and once the new episodes are rolled off of the feed you can find them on the archive page where you can download or listen to the older episodes through my Box.com storage. Or, you can just scroll through the page to see the posters that I personally create for each and every episode mashing up the two movies discussed on the episode with varying degrees of success.


Faculty and students in the Department of Education are travelling across the globe to share their research in the domain of Educational Technology!
Associate Professor Ann-Louise Davidson, Concordia University Research Chair in Maker Culture, is giving a Walrus talk on pedagogical disruption in Calgary on Oct. 22.
and she received the conference organizing committee's prestigious IAFOR award for an exceptional conference abstract from a student or early career academic.
PhD student Ivan Ruby recently returned from one month in Guadalajara, Mexico, where he taught 40 teachers and 1000 kids how to program during an innovation challenge organized with the Ministry of Innovation Science and Technology and the University of Guadalajara. He received a recognition certificate from the University of Guadalajara for his work with the schools.


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\section{Introduction}\label{antolin-sec:introduction}

The ``coronal heating problem'', \ie\ the heating of the solar corona
up to a few hundred times the average temperature of the underlying
photosphere, is one of the most perplexing and unresolved
problems in astrophysics to date.  Alfv\'en waves produced by the constant
turbulent convective motions or by magnetic reconnection in the lower
and upper solar atmosphere may transport enough energy to heat and
maintain a corona \citep{1974SoPh...35..451U}. A possible dissipation
mechanism for Alfv\'en waves is mode conversion. This is known as the
Alfv\'en wave heating model \citep{1982SoPh...75...35H,
1999ApJ...514..493K}.

Another promising coronal heating mechanism is the nanoflare
reconnection heating model, first suggested by
\citet{1988ApJ...330..474P}, who considered coronal loops being
subject to many magnetic reconnection events, releasing energy
impulsively and sporadically in small quantities of the order of
$10^{24}$~erg or less (``nanoflares''), uniformly along loops. It has been
shown that both these candidate mechanisms can
account for the observed impulsive and ubiquitous character of
the heating events in the corona \citep{2001ApJ...557..343K, 2004ApJ...601L.107M}.
How then can we distinguish observationally between both heating
mechanisms when these operate in the corona?

We propose
a way to discern observationally between Alfv\'en wave
heating and nanoflare reconnection heating. The idea relies on the
fact that the distribution of the shocks in loops differs
substantially between the two models, due to the different
characteristics of the wave modes they produce. As a consequence,
X-ray intensity profiles differ substantially between an Alfv\'en-wave
heated corona and a nanoflare-heated corona. The heating events
obtained follow a power-law distribution in frequency, with indices
which differ significantly from one heating model to the other. We
thus analyze the link between the power-law index of the frequency
distribution and the operating heating mechanism in the loop. We also
predict different flow structures and different average plasma
velocities along the loop, depending on the heating mechanism and its
spatial distribution.

\begin{figure}
  \centering
  \includegraphics[width=0.6\textwidth]{antolin-fig1.eps}
  \caption[]{\label{antolin-fig:1}
  Doppler velocities from synthesis of Fe\,XV 284.16~\AA\
  emission with respect to distance along the first half of the
  loop. The loop is assumed to be at disk center.  The CHIANTI atomic
  database was used for calculation of the line profiles
  \citep{1997A&AS..125..149D, 2006ApJS..162..261L}. The solid, dashed
  and dotted curves correspond respectively to Alfv\'en wave heating,
  footpoint nanoflare heating, and uniform nanoflare heating. Positive
  velocities correspond to redshifts (downflows).
}\end{figure}

\begin{table}
\centering
\caption[]{\label{antolin-table}
  Observational signatures for coronal heating mechanisms. We consider
  Alfv\'en wave heating, nanoflare-reconnection heating with heating
  events concentrated at the footpoints (``footpoint nanoflare'') or
  uniformly distributed in the corona (``uniform nanoflare''). Second
  column: mean and maximum flow velocities. Third column: Doppler
  velocities derived from synthesized Fe\,XV 284.16~\AA\ emission
  line. The loops is assumed to be observed from above (disk
  center). Fourth column: shape of the intensity flux time
  series. Fifth column: mean over the power law indexes obtained from
  intensity histograms for many positions along the loop from the
  footpoint to the apex.}
\begin{tabular*}{\textwidth}{@{\extracolsep{\fill}}cccccc}
\hline
Heating & Mean \& maximum & Doppler velocities & Intensity flux & Mean power \\
model & velocities [km\,s$^{-1}$] & (Fe\,XV) [km\,s$^{-1}$] & pattern & law index \\
\hline
Alfv\'en & $\langle v\rangle\sim 50$ & red shifts & bursty & $\langle\delta\rangle <$ -2 \\
wave & $v_{\rm max}> 200$ & $\sim$3 & everywhere & \\
\hline
Footpoint & $\langle v\rangle\sim$ 15 & blue shifts & bursty close & $-1.5 > \langle\delta\rangle> -2$ \\
nanoflare & $v_{\rm max}> 200$ & $\sim 7$ & to footpoints & decreases \\
\hline
Uniform & $\langle v\rangle\sim$ 5 & blue shifts & flat & $\langle\delta\rangle\sim -1$ \\
nanoflare & $v_{\rm max}<$ 40 & $\sim$ 1 & everywhere & decreases \\
\hline
\end{tabular*}
\end{table}

\section{Signatures for Alfv\'en wave heating}\label{antolin-sec:alfven}

Alfv\'en waves generated at the photosphere, due to nonlinear effects,
convert into longitudinal modes during propagation, with the major
conversion happening in the chromosphere. An important fraction of the
Alfv\'enic energy is also converted into slow and fast modes in the
corona, where the plasma $\beta$ parameter can get close to unity
sporadically and spontaneously. The resulting longitudinal modes
produce strong shocks which heat the plasma uniformly.  The result is
a uniform loop satisfying the RTV scaling law
\citep{1978ApJ...220..643R, 2004ApJ...601L.107M}, which is however
very dynamic (Table~\ref{antolin-table}). Synthetic Fe\,XV
emission lines show a predominance of red shifts (downflows) close to
the footpoints (Fig.~\ref{antolin-fig:1}). Synthetic XRT intensity
profiles show spiky patterns throughout the corona. Corresponding
intensity histograms show a distribution of heating events which stays
roughly constant along the corona, and which can be approximated by a
power law with index steeper than $-2$, an indication that most of the
heating comes from small dissipative events
\citep{1991SoPh..133..357H}.

\section{Signatures for nanoflare reconnection heating}\label{antolin-sec:nanoflare}

The nanoflare reconnection model consists of artificial injections of
energy, simulating nanoflares which can be distributed towards the
footpoints of the loop (``footpoint nanoflare heating'') or uniformly
along the corona (``uniform nanoflare heating''). Strong slow shocks
created by such heating events are only obtained in the first case,
close to the footpoints. Fast dissipation of the slow shocks by
thermal conduction leads to only weak shocks near the apex of the
loop. We only obtain weak shocks in the case of uniform nanoflare
heating. For both cases, the mean flow speeds are considerably smaller
than in the Alfv\'en wave heating model
(Table~\ref{antolin-table}).
Synthetic Fe\,XV emission lines show,
mainly for footpoint heating, a predominance of blueshifts (upflows)
close to the footpoints (cf.\ Fig.~\ref{antolin-fig:1}) which may
match observations of active regions \citep{2008ApJ...678L..67H}. In
this case, spiky patterns result in XRT intensity profiles close to
the footpoints, and a flattening of the profile at the apex. The
corresponding power-law index of the heating events distribution
decreases closer to the apex. In the case of uniform nanoflare
heating, the intensity profiles are not spiky but rather uniform in
time due to the stronger dissipation by thermal conduction. It results
in a very shallow average power-law index for the distribution of
heating events.

\section{Conclusion}\label{antolin-sec:conclusion}

The observable differences between the two coronal heating mechanisms
are summarized in Table~\ref{antolin-table}. The power-law index of
the heating distribution is found to be sensible to the location of
the heating along coronal loops and to the heating mechanism
itself. Different flow patterns are also obtained.  Downflows of hot plasma
are present in the Alfv\'en-wave heating model, whereas hot upflows
are obtained for nanoflare reconnection heating. Footpoint nanoflare
heating seems to match the observations in active region
loops better.  Are Alfv\'en wave heating or uniform nanoflare heating
more adequate for quiet-Sun loops?

\begin{acknowledgement}
  We thank the conference organisers for a very good meeting and the
  editors for excellent instructions.
\end{acknowledgement}

\begin{small}

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is a mountain in Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan. It is also known by a number of other names, including , , , and . It is visible to the east of Kanazawa Castle and has Toyokuni Shrine located on its slopes.

The summit of Mount Utatsu is used as a secondary triangulation point (named "Kanazawa") by the Geographical Survey Institute of Japan.

History
During the Bunsei era, Aoki Mokubei established the Kasuga kiln which revitalized the Kutani ware ceramics production of the area.

Because Mount Utatsu overlooks Kanazawa Castle, commoners were forbidden from climbing it during the Edo period. This led to the Ansei Tearful Insurrection in July 1858, a riot of over 2000 peasants during which the seven ringleaders were executed.

In 1947, a monument honoring author Shusei Tokuda was erected near the summit of Mount Utatsu. It featured writing authored by poet Murō Saisei and was designed by architect Yoshirō Taniguchi.

In 1958, a zoo and an aquarium were opened as part of recreational facilities attached to the Kanazawa Health Center, but they were closed in 1993.

The Prefectural Utatsuyama Sumo Ring was opened on the mountain in 1960 as a joint facility for high schools and Kanazawa University.

References

Utatsu, Mount

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CHARLES BUSCH is the author and star of such plays as The Divine Sister, Vampire Lesbians of Sodom, and The Tale of the Allergist's Wife, which ran for nearly two years on Broadway and received a Tony nomination for Best Play. He wrote and starred in the film versions of his plays, Psycho Beach Party and Die Mommie Die, the latter of which won him the Best Performance Award at the Sundance Film Festival. In 2003, Mr. Busch received a special Drama Desk Award for career achievement as both performer and playwright. He is also the subject of the acclaimed
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Ушка́ньи острова́ () — группа островов в средней части озера Байкал в Баргузинском районе Бурятии.

Описание
Небольшой архипелаг со скалистыми берегами, площадью 9,8 км², расположен в средней части озера Байкал, в 8 км (о. Долгий) к северо-западу от полуострова Святой Нос. Представляет собой вершины подводного Ушканьего порога или Академического хребта.

Острова входят в состав Забайкальского национального парка. Для посещения архипелага требуется разрешение на высадку. На Большом Ушканьем острове находится единственный населённый пункт — посёлок Ушканьи Острова.

Острова сложены, главным образом, древними докембрийскими кристаллическими известняками. Покрыты лиственничным лесом. На берегах — лежбища байкальской нерпы. Наиболее крупное из них находится на западном берегу острова Тонкий — до 2000 особей.

В состав архипелага входят 4 острова:

Галерея

Примечания

Литература

Ссылки
 Достопримечательности рядом с Ушканьими островами
 ФБГУ «Заповедное Подлеморье». Официальный сайт.
 Муравейники Ушканьих островов
 Природа Байкала. Ушканьи острова
 Гид по Байкалу: Ушканьи острова
 Ушканьи острова (in English)

Острова Байкала
Острова Бурятии
Забайкальский национальный парк
Баргузинский район