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The Moscow Times was the only newspaper represented at the Russian-American Business Summit where Presidents Dmitry Medvedev and Barack Obama spoke July 7

July 7, 2009 -- The Moscow Times published a special full-color issue of the newspaper timed to coincide with the visit of U.S. President Barack Obama to Moscow on July, 7, 2009.

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 (RSPP) at the Manezh Exhibition Hall. The forum drew more than 700 key representatives of Russian and international business, the political elite and nongovernmental organizations.




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Community Bulletin Board

06 October 2008Unknown
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Community Bulletin Board is published every Tuesday. Please submit notices of up to 40 words by noon Thursday.
E-mail community@imedia.ru,
call +7 (495) 234-3223 or
fax +7 (495) 232-6529.

"A Glimpse of U.S. Culture through 'Electionspeak'" is the title of a lecture by David Fay, English language officer, at the U.S. Embassy, on Friday, Oct. 17, 19:00, hosted by ENGLISH LANGUAGE EVENINGS at the Chekhov Cultural Center, 6 Strastnoi Bulvar. (Through the tunnel, first door on the left). Metro Chekhovskaya. 50 rubles. www.ELEMoscow.net

U.S. citizens: You can vote in the presidential election from overseas! It's easy to register to vote, look up your state deadlines, and find links to nonpartisan candidate information at the OVERSEAS VOTE FOUNDATION. For more information, visit www.overseasvotefoundation.org.

Moscow School 309 for Handicapped Children seeks donations for their psychological development program. Table-top games and sports equipment (for motor skills, hand-eye coordination and spatial orientation); child-sized sofas; Lego-Duplos; and computer equipment would be greatly appreciated. For more information, contact Larisa Mikhailovna, the school director, at tel. 184-3703 (Russian only) or address e-mail in English to Nina Alexandrovna at glades54@mail.ru.

An ENGLISH CLUB FROM PUSHKINO invites people to go from bicycle rides in the countryside. Pushkino is a 30-minute drive from Moscow and the group has bikes available for rent for 300 rubles. Rides begin at Pushkino railway station and last around 2 hours. For more information, contact Alex, Tel. 8-926-496-7499 or visit www.english-pushkino.ru.

FAMILIES AND FRIENDS OF ALCOHOLICS: English language Al-Anon meetings continue through the summer! Small group meets every Tuesday from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. at St. Andrew's Church, lower level, 8/5 Voznesensky Per. between Tverskaya and Bolshaya Nikitskaya Ul. For information call 234-2384 or email english-alanon-moscow@hotmail.com. General Al-Anon information available at www.al-anon.alateen.org

The mission of YES CLUB is to develop through learning from each other. We hold discussions in English every Wednesday at 7 p.m. at Pervoye Sentyabrya publishing house, 24 Kievskaya (M. Studencheskaya). For more information, contact Lyuba, tel. 8-916-225-2532, e-mail gribanovalyuba@mail.ru or visit www.yes-club.org.

Do you have CHILDREN IN MOSCOW? If so, visit www.childreninmoscow.ru for information on everything you need to know, from schools and shops to going out and staying in! Registration is free. This is a new and developing web site with more features coming soon (including a Russian version).

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 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

RELIGIOUS SERVICES



ST. ANDREW'S ANGLICAN CHURCH MOSCOW, 8 Voznesensky Per. (M. Okhotny Ryad). Sunday: Holy Communion at 8:30 a.m., Sung Eucharist at 11 a.m. with creche for young children. Wednesday: Holy Communion is at 7 p.m., followed by a Bible study and Prayer Group. For more information contact Fr. Simon on 629-0990 or www.standrewsmoscow.org.

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 after the service. We also have a number of midweek programs. For more information call 143-3562.

MOSCOW INTERNATIONAL SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH, 9/3 Nagatinskaya Ul. (M. Nagatinskaya, Kolomenskaya). For more information, call 499-725-5398. Sabbath School begins on Saturday at 11 a.m., church service starts at noon. 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) and in English at 6 p.m. on Saturdays and Sundays at 7/4 Kutuzovsky Prospekt, Bldg. 5, Pod. 3, Flat 42 (M. Kievskaya). For more information call Fr. Michael at 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 offers English-language services at 11 a.m. on the third floor of 2A Shchyolkovskoye Shosse, M. Cherkizovskaya. Translation is available into Russian 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. For more information, call +7-962-933-3581, 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. The church will also have an English service beginning Nov. 2, 2008. All English speakers are welcome. Services are on Sunday afternoons, from 3:00 to 4:30 p.m. At 2A Shchyolkovskoye Shosse, third floor, M. Cherkizovskaya. For more information, contact: +7 (495) 727-1472 or international@mgnc.org

FRIDAY NIGHT SHABBAT DINNER at the Marina Roshcha Synagogue (M. Savyolovskaya). To RSVP, please e-mail jewishmoscow@gmail.com, or for more information on Jewish programs and classes led in English, contact Rabbi Avraham Berkowitz at tel. 799-5751.

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.

ST. LOUIS DES FRANCAIS, Catholic Church. Mass is celebrated in English at 9.30 a.m. and in French at 10.30 a.m. every Sunday. At 12A Malaya Lubyanka (M. Lubyanka.)

The CHURCH of JESUS CHRIST of LATTER-DAY SAINTS is now holding worship services in Spanish at 1:30 p.m. every Sunday. At 14 Ul. Yefremova, Office C, M. Sportivnaya. Or call 8-916-210-9077 and ask for Elder Salinas. Worship services are also held in English at 1:00 p.m. on Sundays at 6 Stromynsky Per., M. Sokolniki.

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 Bolshoi Nikolopeskovsky Pereulok, 12a. Call 507-06-35 for more info, or see http://icfmoscow.org.

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