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ETH - ZIL Swiss Centre for International Agriculture (413 words) |
 | The Swiss Centre for International Agriculture (ZIL) is an association based at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich established in 1993. |
| ZIL's mission is to initiate, support, and coordinate collaborative research by its members and partners that will enable resource-poor farmers in low-income countries to achieve sustainable improvements of their livelihoods. |
| ZIL is jointly funded by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) and the ETH Zurich. |
| Blagovest Bells— ZIL Bells Profile (0 words) |
| Perhaps this is a bit of an exaggeration, but in a bid to diversify, ZIL began producing church bells, capitalizing on a revival of religion in post-Soviet Russia and a shortage of bells after most were destroyed decades ago when the Bolsheviks seized power. |
| ZIL clients include the massive Christ the Savior Church in downtown Moscow, which was blown up by dictator Josef Stalin in 1931 and rebuilt in 1997 to coincide with the city's 850th anniversary. |
| Bells made at the ZIL factory hang in some of Russia's best-known churches, and when a particularly important bell is being made, officials from the Russian Orthodox Church visit the factory to bless the site and oversee the process. |
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