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First Video Added to Moscow Times Web Site
The video, a 3 1/2-minute interview with Rose Gottemoeller, director of the Carnegie Moscow Center, examines the informal summit between Presidents Vladimir Putin and George W. Bush in Sochi on April 6. The video can be found on The Moscow Times' homepage, www.themoscowtimes.com.
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Market Matters : Oil and Metals Shine as RTS Breaks 2,100
The RTS, the country's benchmark stock index, breached the 2,100 barrier for the first time this year, as oil and metal stocks pulled away from the field.
Russia Investment Roadshow : Scenes From Last Year's Forum
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Web Site Unites Pirated Databases
By Tai Adelaja / Staff Writer Time was when getting your hands on an individual's income, property and telephone numbers required a trip to a nearby kiosk to buy pirated discs containing illegal databases. |
Investors Reassured Over Key Sectors
By Miriam Elder / Staff Writer A senior government economic official on Wednesday urged foreign investors not to fear new legislation that limits foreign investment in the country’s most strategic, and lucrative, sectors and asked them to give it time to work. |
Odds Stacked Against Breast-Feeding Moms
By Svetlana Osadchuk / Staff Writer Teresa Yaroshevich was breast-feeding her baby in a city cafe when the manager politely asked her to move to another dining room upstairs. It was around noon and the establishment was expecting its daily rush of workers from nearby offices. |
Putin Unveils Monument to Yeltsin
By Anna Malpas / Staff Writer President Vladimir Putin called Boris Yeltsin ""one of the most striking politicians of the 20th century"" as he honored the former president at the unveiling of a new monument at his grave Wednesday, the first anniversary of Yeltsin's death. |
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News in Brief
Tambov Mayor ChargedKazakhs Detain SuspectRice Supports Georgia |
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Okruashvili Granted Asylum
The Associated Press France has granted political asylum to former Georgian Defense Minister Irakli Okruashvili, who was convicted last month of extortion in his home country, his lawyers said Wednesday. |
Long-Entrenched Transdnestr Positions Shift
By Ron Popeski / Reuters When the president of Moldova sat down with the leader of the separatist Transdnestr region, many hoped for a breakthrough in one of the former Soviet Union’s seemingly endless “frozen conflicts”. |
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Iran Blames Russia for Holdup
Reuters, MT An Iranian official said Russia was responsible for timely delivery of equipment stopped by Azerbaijan when in transit to Iran’s first nuclear power plant, a news agency said Wednesday. |
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European Delegation Urges Russia on Rights
By David Nowak / The Associated Press Russia must promote human rights through education, not just seek to punish rights violators, a Council of Europe delegation said Wednesday after a two-day fact-finding trip. |
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Soyuz Story Draws Ire of Federal Agency
AP, MT The Federal Space Agency on Wednesday denied media reports that the lives of a crew returning from the international space station were in danger during their unusually rough ride in a Soyuz capsule on the weekend. |
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Gazprom Says That Kovykta Can't Wait
By Anatoly Medetsky / Staff Writer Gazprom warned Wednesday that its patience was running out in the talks to finalize the purchase of Kovykta from TNK-BP, saying the government could simply seize the license for the huge field from the besieged Russian-British venture. |
Pichugin Denies Murder Accusations
By Matt Siegel / Staff Writer Former Yukos security chief Alexei Pichugin denied in court Wednesday that he had ever received orders to commit murder from billionaire exile and Yukos shareholder Leonid Nevzlin. |
Prokhorov Plans Network for Snobs
By Alexander Osipovich / Staff Writer If you don’t like mingling with the rabble on Facebook or Odnoklassniki, billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov feels your pain. |
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Media Group to Buy Cable Network
The Moscow Times National Media Group agreed Wednesday to buy National Telecommunications, one of the country’s largest cable network operators, from billionaire Suleiman Kerimov’s Nafta Co., Interfax reported. |
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Latvian Police Dismiss Report That Rozhetskin Found Dead
The Moscow Times Latvian police on Wednesday denied media speculation that a body likely belonging to missing businessman Leonid Rozhetskin had been found near Riga. |
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TGK-11 Prices 2nd Share Issue
Reuters Power producer TGK-11 has priced its secondary issue at just over 4 kopeks per share, 30 percent above the opening price Wednesday, the company said, despite a court order to block the sale. |
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Serbia to Delay Ratifying Energy Deal
Bloomberg Serbian lawmakers will delay ratifying an oil and gas agreement with Gazprom until May 11 elections are held, Defense Minister Dragan Sutanovac said. |
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TNK-BP Faces Tax Demand
Reuters The Federal Tax Service is claiming 6 billion rubles ($255.6 million) in back taxes on several units of BP's Russian venture TNK-BP, the firm said Wednesday. |
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Business in Brief
Storchak Detective Too BusyKiev Allows Grain ExportsUralSib Denies Buyout Talks$595Bln Transport Proposal$220M for Alcoa in RussiaFor the Record |
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Zenit Up Against Resurgent Bayern
Reuters, AP Bayern Munich, with one trophy in the bag and a second almost sewn up, turns its attention to a possible treble when it faces Zenit St. Petersburg in Thursday's UEFA Cup semifinal first leg. |
City Wise
A Tibetan Makeover
By Nathan Toohey / Staff Writer Sansara has opened in the former premises of the Mexican restaurant Coyote. Or more precisely, Coyote has been rebranded as Sansara, a Tibetan-Asian restaurant. The changes are fairly modest, to say the least, as much of the original Mexican-themed dÎcor remains, including the wall murals. The new ""Tibetanness"" come in the form of some extra photographs of mountains and various souvenirs scattered about the place. Overall, the interior would best be described as colorfully eclectic, given the mishmash of various ethnic styles and the resulting psychedelic color scheme. |
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A Seaside Crossroads
By Maria Antonova / Staff Writer The town of Vyborg, on Russia's border with Finland, has many of the elements associated with ancient European cities. |
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Equating Holodomor With Genocide
By Georgy Bovt This spring marks an anniversary that Russia will not commemorate. In fact, Moscow will make a point of ignoring it, as if the event had never happened. I am speaking of Holodomor, in which millions died of starvation in Ukraine, the Northern Caucasus and the Volga region in the spring of 1933. The famine began earlier, but reached its peak during those months. This year is the 75th anniversary of Holodomor, and Kiev will honor its victims as it has done in prior years. |
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Those Ukrainian, Iranian NATO Blues
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