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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.



Friday, July 10, 2009 Updated at 10 July 2009 16:03 Moscow Time.

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Luzhkov Schedules Eurovision Week to Open on Victory Day

28 November 2008By Anna Malpas / The Moscow TimesThe opening ceremony of the Eurovision Song Contest will be held May 9, the national Victory Day holiday, while the final will be held May 16, Mayor Yury Luzhkov said in a decree published Thursday on the City Hall web site.

It will be the first time that Russia hosts Europe's most prestigious pop contest, thanks to Russian singer Dima Bilan's victory with his song "Believe" at this year's event in Belgrade, Serbia.

The opening ceremony will be held on the square outside Moscow State University on Vorobyovy Gory, while the contest itself is to be staged in Olimpiisky Stadium according to Luzhkov's decree. The closing ceremony will be held at the Gostiny Dvor exhibition center, a stone's throw from the Kremlin.

The government has earmarked 1 billion rubles ($36.5 million) for the event, Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Zhukov told Itar-Tass earlier this month.

The event is being organized by state-run Channel One television, while Deputy Mayor Valery Vinogradov is in charge of the project.

Legendary composer Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber, who has promised to write the song for Britain's contestant, visited Prime Minister Vladimir Putin at his dacha earlier this month.

The composer talked to Putin for about an hour in a meeting that will be broadcast on BBC television next year, according to a statement on Lloyd Webber's web site. Putin promised that he would vote for the British entry, the composer said.

In a change from this year's event, performers in next year's contest will be evaluated by juries from each country as well as by a telephone voting system tabulating calls from viewers across Europe.

There were complaints about block voting after Bilan's victory. He received the maximum 12 points from six Eastern-bloc countries, as well as from Israel, with its large Russian-speaking population.