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Market Matters: As Conflict Ends, Markets on Road to Recovery
After tumbling to its lowest point in almost two years on Tuesday, Russia's MICEX Index began to slowly claw its way back over the rest of the week, suggesting a possible end to the volatility that has plagued the country's markets since tensions erupted between Russia and Georgia on Aug. 8.
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| Thursday, September 04, 2008
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| The Moscow Times » Crime Watch |
Issue 3872 | 31 Mar 2008
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Zimbabwe Opposition Claims Early Lead The Associated Press Zimbabwe's main opposition party on Sunday claimed an early lead in elections, including in a rural stronghold of President Robert Mugabe, in an apparent effort to thwart any attempt to rig the vote count. |
Issue 3841 | 13 Feb 2008
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Cop Accused of Stealing Boy Statue By Carl Schreck / Staff Writer In the latest in a series of statue thefts, an Interior Ministry official was detained over the weekend on suspicion of stealing a bronze statue of a boy playing a flute from a Belgian restaurant in southwest Moscow. |
Issue 3836 | 6 Feb 2008
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Dispute in Mens' Bathroom Line Leads to Brawl By Carl Schreck / Staff Writer In any club or restaurant where the alcohol is flowing freely, it's usually patrons of the fair sex who are forced to suffer long lines for the bathroom. |
Issue 3831 | 30 Jan 2008
Student Spends Holiday in Hole By Carl Schreck / Staff Writer University students traditionally celebrate Jan. 25, or St. Tatyana's Day, by getting drunk while police turn a blind eye to their excesses on the last day of the winter session. |
Issue 3805 | 12 Dec 2007
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Attack Puts N. Korean Laborers in Hospital By Carl Schreck / Staff Writer A group of young men wielding pipes and sticks attacked a group of North Korean laborers in the Moscow region, leaving four of the migrant workers hospitalized, authorities said Tuesday. |
Issue 3800 | 5 Dec 2007
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2 Arrests for Headless Corpse By Carl Schreck / Staff Writer Police have arrested two men suspected of shooting a Moscow businessman, cutting off his head and making off with $20,000 in cash, a law enforcement source said Tuesday. |
Issue 3790 | 21 Nov 2007
Woman Charged in Rock Fraud By Carl Schreck / Staff Writer An elderly woman has been arrested and charged with fraud after she tried to sell a large corundum stone for $20 million, passing it off as a giant hunk of ruby crystal, police said Tuesday. |
Currency Exchange
USD/RUR - 23.5
EUR/RUR - 37.1
Weather
Hurdles Ahead.
Boosting Population a Vague Science
Armed With Nukes and a Vague Plan
Balancing Growth and Environment
Lots of Work but Too Few Workers
Rich Get Richer as Poor Get Poorer
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Columnists
Blame Capitalism, Not Medvedev
By Boris Kagarlitsky
10 Reasons Why the Economy Will Falter
By Anders Aslund
Turning Russia Into a Terrorist Enclave
By Yulia Latynina
How Russia Turns Liberals Into Authoritarians
By Yevgeny Kiselyov
Russia's Bronze Medal In International Affairs
By Konstantin Sonin
Andropov's Ghost Lives On
By Nikolai Petrov
Show Russia the Good Side
By Mark H. Teeter
When a Toast for Peace Works Best in Russian
By Matthew Collin
One Way to Live Happily Ever After
By Michele A. Berdy
Nation of Champions Starts in the Courtyard
By Georgy Bovt
Don't Trust Politicians With War
By Alexander Golts
Rethinking the War
By Alexei Pankin
The Age of Solzhenitsyn
By Alexei Bayer
How Pique and Spite Can Destroy Relations
By Vladimir Frolov
Georgian Crisis Is a Trap for U.S. Leadership
By Fyodor Lukyanov
The Missiles of July
By Richard Lourie
Immunity From the Oil Curse
By Martin Gilman
