At least two people died of hypothermia and 33 more were hospitalized, according to City Hall data.

Rasmussen also said Ukraine and Georgia would eventually become members of the alliance and that Georgia's territorial integrity needed to be fully respected.

Yegor Gaidar understood that rapid price liberalization and the complete abandonment of import tariffs in early 1992 were a necessary evil.

Kremlin aide Arkady Dvorkovich said Russia would consider the summit a success if major emitters from both developed and developing countries agreed on their own emissions cuts.

The new measures will require more sophisticated excise stamps on bottles and ban retail sales in certain locations.

BP and the oligarchs have received tens of billions of dollars by channeling almost all of the venture’s profit on dividends since TNK-BP was created in 2003.

There are no great reformers like Gaidar left in Russia; instead, the elite is dominated by status quo bureaucrats.

Ingush police said they opened fire after the car approached a checkpoint outside Nazran, made a U-turn, and sped away.

Russia's foreign minister said talks on a new arms deal to replace START I are now moving forward and an agreement could be reached “quite soon.”

BPC’s Chinese contract may be set at a price lower than spot prices in Brazil, the company's sales chief Oleg Petrov said.