The 29-year-old Londoner landed a handful of big left-right combinations in the early rounds that troubled the towering Russian, who could not pin the quick Haye to the ropes.

Alexei Dymovsky, a police major in the Krasnodar region city of Novorossiisk, said Sunday on Ekho Moskvy radio that he fears for his life and his family after his video addresses to the prime minister became an Internet sensation over the weekend.

Giant colorful dominoes painted by German students have been placed along the former path of the Berlin Wall to mark the 20th anniversary of the opening of the barrier that divided the city for nearly three decades.

Vedomosti says RusAl and its lawyers are bombarding its reporters with threatening phone calls and e-mails after an Oct. 26 article.

Globaltrans wants to invest in new wagons to deliver more freight from steel mills, which accounted for 60 percent of all cargo in the first half of 2009.

The departure is the first high-profile exit at Opel since GM’s board reversed course and said the automaker would keep the European unit and raise funds to restructure Opel on its own.

Moscow remains beholden to the Russian economic boom, which in turn directly depends on oil prices, and if they fall again in coming months, the city's real estate bubble may burst spectacularly.

A Gazprom spokesman declined to comment on whether the payment had been received, saying only that the money was expected by Monday.

On that cold night twenty years ago, decades of separation and anxiety melted into the unbelievable reality of a future without border guards, secret police, informers and rigid communist control.

Medvedev needs to decide whether he wants to make his regular smart speech or go for the jugular and ask Russians to sacrifice for their country to bridge the “modernization divide” with leading powers.