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Kremlin Aide Tries to Smooth Over G8 Attendance Flap
World leaders have indicated they are ready for productive work with Prime Minister Medvedev at the G8 summit, a Kremlin economic aide said.
Factory Worker Gets Top Government Post
A tank engineer who once promised to bring workers to Moscow to take on protesters was tapped by President Putin for a top regional post.
Q&A: Republican Entrepreneur Touts Obama's Reset
Listing just a few of his current jobs, including a board seat at steelmaker MMK and a post at a Moscow restaurant, takes Bernard Sucher about a quarter of an hour.
Protests Against Forest Road Score Few Victories
Protesters believe that plans to build a road through Zhukovsky Forest are a pretext to construct a multi-billion-dollar aviation center.
Irkutsk Governor Removed From Post
Dmitry Mezentsev, who ran a failed bid to get on the presidential ballot earlier this year, has resigned from his job as Irkutsk region governor.
Anti-Kremlin Camp Running Out of Options
Following police raids and complaints from local residents, the future of an opposition encampment looked grim Thursday.
WTO to Heat Up Competition on Ice Cream Market
Sokolniki Park is gearing up to welcome up to 400,000 guests to its annual ice cream festival next weekend, and among them several new guests — foreign companies.
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Why Putin Skipped Out of the G8By Michael Bohm
If Putin was seen as getting too close to Obama at Camp David, it would have been a blow to his tough-guy image as someone who stands up to the United States. At a time when the protest movement is gaining momentum in Moscow and other cities, Putin could ill afford to be seen schmoozing with Obama — whose administration, in Putin's own words, serves as the opposition's main sponsor.
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Wine Culture Takes Root
Finding good wine at a reasonable price in Russia is like finding a needle in a haystack, while limited growth in demand, new alcohol consumption rules and even the changing winds of international politics have all complicated the import industry.
Venerable Oil Fields Require Ingenuity
The engineer leaned back knee-deep in snow, straining against the taut elastic and released the unmanned drone into the western Siberian sky.
Wait for WTO Membership Is Over
The World Trade Organization officially welcomed Russia as a member Friday, bringing the curtain down on the country's 18-year accession process.
We Want Reforms, Not Revolution
The main lesson from the rival anti-Putin and pro-Putin demonstrations held on Feb. 4 is that both civil society and the authorities are walking down a dangerous path of escalation.
Once Soviet-Funded, Afghan Film World in RuinsReuters
Clouds of hashish and cigarette smoke float across a screen showing a dancing Pakistani woman, who evokes yowls of excitement from the hundreds of Afghan men passing their time in one of the capital's rundown cinemas.
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Kamchatka Observer: Building Burton ParkSnowboard manufacturer Burton's official distributor in Russia held a countrywide contest rewarding cities with new snow parks, and the comparatively small Petropavlovsk was in the running.
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