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Lipetsk: A City Feeling Mighty

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The veteran foreign policy advisor will be in charge of organizing a government that has repeatedly been accused of poor work recently.

President Vladimir Putin, who was expected during a meeting with more than a hundred entrepreneurs on Thursday to give a nod to the State Duma to draft an amnesty act freeing thousands of imprisoned business people, said the concept needed more work, Russian television reported Thursday.

Despite repeated calls for cooperation and resolute declarations of common goals, long-standing divisions and divergent views on the nature of security were still visible between Russian and Western officials at the Moscow European Security Conference on Thursday.

A Chechen immigrant who was being questioned about his possible links to one of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects was shot and killed by a federal agent in Florida after he suddenly turned violent, the FBI said.

Ukrainian Prime Minister Mykola Azarov ordered a dozen reporters to be barred from covering government meetings after they staged a protest over attacks on journalists at a rally.

Dressed in a beat-up denim jacket and with three days worth of stubble on his cheeks, Yevgeny Roizman, 50, looked like an 80s rocker being interviewed after a concert. But the charismatic Yekaterinburg native, with eyes red from a lack of sleep, is a man who wears many hats.

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By Andrei Muchnik

Some time ago, the only bands touring Russia were those popular at least a decade earlier. And even when you bought a ticket, there was still a good chance the concert would be canceled a couple of weeks in advance, with security cited as the main reason. Those days are gone.

Calendar Listings: May 23 - May 29, 2013

The Universe of Sound: Francisco Liberona in a concert of guitar music. Conservatory Rachmaninov Hall. Saturday, May the 25th, 7 p.m.

Anyuta: Valery Gavrilin's ballet based on the story by Chekhov about a poor teacher's daughter who marries a government official. Choreographed by Vladimir Vasilyev. Bolshoi Theater New Stage. May the 28th, 29th and 30th, at 7 p.m.

A woman examining an exhibition called 'Memory of a Dress' at Moscow Museum of Modern Art on Gogolevsky. It evaluates the place of the piece of clothing across the passage of time, using a selection of white materials.

An aspiring executive competing in Theater of Nations' "The Gronholm Method." Their psychological evaluations happen in bizarre situations.

Opinion

By Daniel Treisman

Even if Levada were to register as a "foreign agent," this wouldn't save it. The Kremlin's goal is to eradicate the top independent polling agency.

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Former U.S. Secretary of State James Baker once recalled that Kyrgyz President Askar Akayev gave him a horse when he visited the newly independent nation in Central Asia in the early 1990s.

President Vladimir Putin has introduced legislation into the Duma that would increase the maximum age at which top officials can continue to work in state service from 65 to 70.

President Vladimir Putin has revised the state's repatriation program, simplifying the process for former compatriots to move back to Russia and bring relatives along with them. But analysts doubt that the changes will significantly alter migration flows.

Eva-Maria Kunapuu began making scented candles in her kitchen seven years ago when she couldn't find any decent ones in the shops in her hometown of Tallinn.

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By John Freedman

Of the lesser-known great figures of Russian letters Pyotr Chaadayev surely is one of the finest and most interesting.

Beyond Moscow

"The damned city of Kishinev" is how Alexander Pushkin described this small town in the territory formerly known as Bessarabia. The poet's outburst is understandable, because he was forced to spend three years in exile in a place, which was, in his opinion, comparable with Sodom.

A traveler to Kolomna shouldn't rush to put a checkmark next to this city's name on his list of places visited, since this ancient town has so much charm he'll want to return.

It's not often that something positive is born out of the destruction of war, but Lipetsk is one such example. In the beginning of the 18th century, after Peter the Great started the Great Northern War with Sweden, his main supplier of iron, he needed to find domestic sources to compensate.

When Anton Chekhov decided to visit this remote island in Russia's Far East in 1890, his close friend, journalist Alexei Suvorin, argued, "There is nothing interesting on Sakhalin!"

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