biology

Mestnye

Mestnye is a biology topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Mestnye rather than just read about it. In short: Mestnye (Russian: Местные, romanized: Mestnyye) ("The Locals") is a Russian political movement of young ecologists that was formed on October 19, 2005. Its full description in Russian is Движение молодых политических экологов "Местные" (English: Dvizheniye molodykh politicheskikh ekologov "Mestnyye").

Key takeaways

Mestnye belongs to biology; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect Mestnye to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of Mestnye from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

Mestnye (Russian: Местные, romanized: Mestnyye) ("The Locals") is a Russian political movement of young ecologists that was formed on October 19, 2005. Its full description in Russian is Движение молодых политических экологов "Местные" (English: Dvizheniye molodykh politicheskikh ekologov "Mestnyye"). The Locals are a Kremlin project created to oversee independent ecological movements such as the Baikal Movement and Green Russia.

Overview The movement's leader is Tatiana Romanovna Dmitrieva, although The Locals were created and supervised by the administration of Andrey Vorobyov, Governor of Moscow Oblast. The Mestnye focus on the environment, anti-crisis, and its role as a national program. Its leaders have said the movement is concerned with "ecology with a political bias". At one of the rallies, one of the leaders of the Mestnye, Igor Panin, said: "A lot of all sorts of rubbish appeared in the suburbs. Visitors should understand that there is no need to shit here! It must be clean! Because we are local! Russia will win!"

Activities From June 20 to June 28, 2007, the Mestnye movement held an action called "Let's not let migrants drive", which called on the population not to use the services of private cabs driven by illegal migrants. In connection with the action, a member of the Federation Council of Russia Vladimir Sloutsker said he was preparing an appeal to the General Prosecutor's Office of Russia with a request to verify the fact of extremism. According to Sloutsker, "The leaflet circulated today depicting a Slavic girl refusing the services of a driver with a pronounced Caucasian appearance cannot be interpreted otherwise than as a violation of Article 282 of the Criminal Code incitement to hatred or enmity, as well as humiliation of human dignity and federal law on countering extremist activities". On February 21, 2009, Mestnye held a rally in Moscow in defense of the Russian language. The leader of the organization stated: "We are tired of the fact that through the mass media - television and radio, the Internet, any creature can carry obscenities, criminal vocabulary, and the moronic language of sexual and other minorities into our homes. We want our country to speak our pure Russian language." Since July 2009, it has held its annual summer youth educational camp "OKA" in Moscow Oblast. The camp is located at the eastern outskirts of the Dankovsky settlement of the Serpukhovsky District in the town Pyanyi Bogor, near the village Priluki on the banks of the Oka River. On November 10, 2010, the group held an action against Ģirts Valdis Kristovskis in front of the Embassy of Latvia in Moscow.

References

External links Official website of the movement The official blog of the movement on the Live Journal portal Official Twitter of the movement

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Mestnye

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Mestnye claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In biology, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Mestnye before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Mestnye ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Mestnye

In research: Mestnye appears in biology research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Mestnye in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Mestnye is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics Ecofascism, Ecology organizations, Green conservative parties, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Mestnye outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study Mestnye in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what Mestnye means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
Explain Mestnye out loud to somebody else — or to Teacher Smith in the lgStudy chat.

Frequently asked questions

What is Mestnye in simple terms?

Why does Mestnye matter?

Because it connects several biology ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Mestnye?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on Mestnye.