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The Moscow Times was the only newspaper represented at the Russian-American Business Summit, which participated in by Dmitry Medvedev and Barak Obama

On 7 July 2009 The Moscow Times published a special full colour issue of the newspaper, timed to coincide with the visit of Barak Obama to Moscow.

The newspaper was presented at the Russian-American Business Summit, which was organized by the American Chamber of Commerce (AmCham) and the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RUIE) at Manezh. The forum drew the participation of more than 700 key representatives of Russian and international business, the political elite and non-governmental organizations.




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06 May 2008Unknown
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ENGLISH LANGUAGE EVENINGS will host a lecture entitled "Reflections on Beautiful, Terrible, Mad Moscow" by Australian poet David Wansbrough on May 16 at the Chekhov Cultural Center, 6 Strasnoi Bulvar, M: Chekhovskaya. Entrance fee is 50 rubles. For more information visit www.elemoscow.net.

The KNIGHTS OF ST. ANDREW invite expat Catholic laymen to meet for prayer, formation and charitable work. For more information, contact Benedict Carter, tel. 997-7538.

The AMERICAN WOMEN'S ORGANIZATION meets the first and third Wednesday of the month at the Hard Rock Cafe, 44 Arbat, from 10:30 a.m. to noon and holds newcomers coffees at the same location every second Wednesday. For more information, e-mail awomoscow@yahoo.com.

The BRITISH WOMEN'S CLUB is open to all British passport holders and their spouses and meets at the British Embassy on the second Tuesday of every month from 10 a.m. to noon. New members are always welcome, but must register in advance. For more information, contact info@bwcmoscow.co.uk.

The SWEDISH WOMEN'S EDUCATIONAL ASSOCIATION will host after work drinks at the bar at Cafe Pushkin on Thursday, May 22, from 6:30 to 8:30. Come and meet Scandinavian-speaking women professionals living in Moscow. For more information, contact Maria Sporri-Hedberg, tel. 8-903-112-8831 or visit www.swea.org.

THE ICL HELP LINE is a free, confidential, professional phone counseling service with experience in counseling on relational and personal issues, tough emotional experiences, careers and psychotherapy. Counseling is available in English, Russian, French and Polish. Call 8-926-113-3373, from 8 a.m. to 11 p.m., or e-mail ICL@list.ru.

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS: If you want to stop drinking, we can help. English-language meetings take place on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays at 7:30 p.m. and Saturdays at 5 p.m. St. Andrew's Church, 8 Voznesensky Per. For more information, contact tel. 8-985-768-2551 or 106-7140.

A FRANCOPHONES CLUB for all who want to speak French meets every Saturday. For information about our programs, which are devoted to French culture, music, arts, games and excursions, and for registration, contact tel. 771-0491, e-mail courrier@m-paris.ru, or visit www.francophonie.ru.

The RUSSIAN INDIAN HERITAGE ACADEMY invites all to attend various courses, weekend seminars and practical individual yoga and meditation sessions for combating psychosomatic problems related to stress, hypertension, diabetes and asthma. For more information, e-mail RIHA@indorussia.ru or visit www.indorussia.ru.

The CINEMA CLUB at the Italian Cultural Institute regularly shows the best contemporary Italian movies. This is a wonderful chance to see films unavailable in Russia. The films are introduced by native speakers and followed by discussions. Entrance is free. For more information and the program, contact e-mail cultura.iicmosca@esteri.it or visit www.iicmosca.esteri.it.

RELIGIOUS SERVICES



ST ANDREW'S ANGLICAN CHURCH MOSCOW, 8 Voznesensky Per. (M. Okhotny Ryad, Pushkinskaya). Sung Eucharist on Sun. at 11 a.m. Holy Communion at 7 p.m. Wed., Bible study after at 7:30 p.m. For information about other services, visit www.standrewsmoscow.org or call 629-0990.

MOSCOW PROTESTANT CHAPLAINCY at St. Andrew's Anglican Church, 8 Voznesensky Per., meets every Sunday at 3 p.m. Childcare is provided during the service and we also offer Sunday School. A youth group for 7th-12th graders meets following the service. We also have a number of mid-week programs. For more information, call 143-3562.

MOSCOW INTERNATIONAL SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH, 9/3 Nagatinskaya Ulitsa, (M. Nagatinskaya, Kolomenskaya). For more information, call 499-725-5398. Sabbath School begins on Saturday at 10:30 a.m., church service starts at 12 p.m. Services are held in English and Russian.

OUR LADY OF HOPE meets on Sundays in English and French at 12:15 p.m., at the Immaculate Conception Church, 27 Ul. Malaya Gruzinskaya (M. Barrikadnaya, Belarusskaya) and in English at 6 p.m. on Saturdays and Sundays at 7/4 Kutuzovsky Prospekt, Korpus 5, Entrance 3, Flat 42 (M. Kievskaya). For more information, contact Fr. Michael at tel. 243-9621.

The MOSCOW ENGLISH CONGREGATION OF JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES meets in the Kingdom Hall at 36 Ul. Mikhalkovskaya on Wednesdays and Fridays at 7 p.m. and Sundays at 10 a.m. For more information, contact tel. 456-1280 or e-mail jw_moscow@yahoo.com.

The INTERNATIONAL CHRISTIAN ASSEMBLY is a contemporary English speaking church with a relevant message for today's society. Translation is available into Russian, Portuguese and other languages on request. There is a Sunday School for children from 4 to 12 years old and a nursery for those under 3 years old. Regular Sunday church service now starts at 11am on the third floor of 2A Schelkovskoye Shosse, M: Cherkizovskaya, Partizanskaya or Schelkovskoye. For more information, contact tel. 8-962-933-3581, e-mail icamoscow@yandex.ru or visit http://icamoscow.org.

MOSCOW GOOD NEWS CHURCH meets on Sundays at 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. at Dom Kultury MIIT, 6 Novosushchyovsky Per. (M. Novoslobodskaya). Free buses from the metro.

INTERNATIONAL CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP, an evangelical church in the heart of Moscow, welcomes you to our English worship services on Sundays at 11:15 a.m. at 12a Bolshoi Nikolopeskovsky Per. Sunday school meets from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. For more information, contact tel. 507-0635 or visit www.icfmoscow.org.

ORTHODOX SHABBAT MORNING SERVICES near Marina Roshcha synagogue (M. Savyolovskaya). For more information, contact Rabbi Avraham Berkowitz at tel. 130-6528.

The MOSCOW CONGREGATION FOR PROGRESSIVE JUDAISM meets at the Moscow Jewish Community House, 14/1 Ul. Volochayevskaya (M. Baumanskaya, Ploshchad Ilicha). Friday night services in Russian and Hebrew start at 7 p.m. For details of festival services in English and Hebrew, please contact Rabbi Nelly Shulman at nashulmans@mail.ru.

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