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Dvorkovich Upbeat on His, and Russia's Future
In an attempt to squash media reports and assure investors, Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich said Tuesday that he had no plans to leave government and intended to help guide the country's economic course at least until the next presidential election in 2018.
Booted U.S. Lawyer Backed Magnitsky
The lack of an official explanation for the abrupt expulsion from Russia of U.S. lawyer and former Justice Department official Thomas Firestone earlier this month has led to a flurry of speculation about what may have prompted it.
Czechs Turn Secret Soviet Bunker Into Museum (Photos)
The mighty underground cement bunker, ordered by the Soviet leadership under Nikita Khrushchev, is one of three such places in the former Czechoslovakia, and a dozen across Soviet Warsaw Pact allies, but the only one believed still to be intact.
Moscow Seeks $6.45Bln in Metro Cars
City Hall will hold a first-of-its-kind tender for 2,500 to 3,500 metro cars in August, and the winner will get a 30-year contract.
New Publisher Named to The Moscow Times
Ekaterina Movsumova has been selected as the new publisher of The Moscow Times, replacing Ekaterina Son, the paper's parent company Sanoma Independent Media announced on its website Tuesday.
Kremlin Grapples With Series of PR Disasters
The Kremlin orders a boost to soft power initiatives to help give the country's image a more positive spin abroad.
- 20:53Nikiforov Says State's Weight Is Behind IT
- 20:35Pakistan Roots Seen in Moscow Plot
- 19:21Gazprom Drives Hard Bargain as Sole Major Bidder for DEPA
- 18:25Wealth Fund Trio Each Investing $500 Million in VTB
- 17:57VTB 24, Housing Mortgage Agency Cutting Loan Rates
- 17:18Top Cop Says Moscow Safer Than New York
- 16:53Official Declares $3.6M Income Plus Snowmobile
- 16:51Oil Production Tax Increase Shelved
Czechs Turn Secret Soviet Bunker Into Museum (Photos)Reuters
The mighty underground cement bunker, ordered by the Soviet leadership under Nikita Khrushchev, is one of three such places in the former Czechoslovakia, and a dozen across Soviet Warsaw Pact allies, but the only one believed still to be intact.
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Putin's State Capitalism Means Falling Growth
While officially condoning certain liberal economic policies, Putin has pursued the opposite course, a mixture of state and crony capitalism.
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Will the Counter-Revolution Come on Horseback?
A pair of modern-day Cossacks begins their patrol at 8 p.m. on a cool September evening. They're on the lookout for lawbreakers: drunks, drug addicts, youths out after curfew - anybody disturbing the peace in Lyublino, a quiet residential district in southeast Moscow.
The Hunt for Foreign Agents Has Begun
Since early March, 94 Russian NGOs in 28 regions have been inspected in a state campaign of harassment and intimidation.
Analysis: Economic Quandary Puts Life at $199 Per Month at Risk
Over Vladimir Putin's first two terms as president, the number of Russians living below the official poverty line dropped dramatically from 42.3 million in 2000 to just 18.7 million by 2007.
Islamic Fundamentalists in the Kremlin
Anti-Americanism in Russia and the Muslim world shares the same roots: envy of the West and a frustration with their own decline. Both the Kremlin and Islamic fundamentalists use anti-U.S. propaganda to manipulate public opinion.
Theater Plus: Russia's First Political Madman Comes to Life AgainOf the lesser-known great figures of Russian letters Pyotr Chaadayev surely is one of the finest and most interesting.
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