2009 U.S.-Russia Summit: Obama in Moscow
Complete coverage of the U.S.-Russia summit, being held July 6-8 in Moscow.
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Central Bank Said to Buy More Gold
Russia plans to increase gold holdings and diversify the structure of its reserves, seeking alternatives to a weakening dollar.
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Fireworks Restricted After Fire Kills 112
A Perm court on Sunday night also sanctioned the arrest of four people on charges of causing multiple deaths by negligence and breaking fire safety rules in Friday night’s blaze at the Khromaya Loshad (Lame Horse) nightclub in central Perm.
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India’s Singh to Visit, Sign Economic Deals
Russia and India, partners in the so-called BRIC nations, which also include China and Brazil, are looking to boost trade to $10 billion by 2010 and to restore a relationship that has cooled since the collapse of the Soviet Union.
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MK Loses Web Site In Mystery Attack
A virus coming from a server based in South Korea “erased” the contents of the Moskovsky Komsomolets web site in 10 minutes, MK web editor Albert Shchegrov, said by telephone Friday.
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START Pact Expires as Negotiators Press On
The Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, or START, expired Saturday without an agreement on a replacement, despite past promises by President Dmitry Medvedev and his U.S. counterpart Barack Obama that the deadline would be met.
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Double Date Begins Whitney’s Comeback
Whitney Houston’s concerts in Moscow and St. Petersburg will serve as a rehearsal for the pop diva’s World Tour, which starts in Japan in February 2010.
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Belarus Plays Down Customs Union Fears
The most difficult stage of customs union negotiations concerned automotive tariffs, with Belarus agreeing to increase tariffs for dealers to match Russian levels — meaning a large hike in the price of foreign-made cars for Belarussians.
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Proposal Would Cut Governors’ Salaries
Governors earn up to 352,000 rubles ($11,900) per month, a figure that surpasses the salaries of President Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and is more than double the salary of other ministers.
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Russia Should Insource High-Tech Imagination
No amount of image building will ever hide the fact that Russia has not yet mastered the art of designing a decent internal-combustion engine, a 19th-century technology.
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In Search of a Russian Atatürk
As Russia's most powerful man, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin still has a chance to become a modernizer like Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder of the Turkish republic.