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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Kremlin Wins Indian Nuclear Deal
The nuclear deal was possible because the United States, eager to win lucrative contracts with India, successfully lobbied for the Nuclear Suppliers Group to lift a ban on importing nuclear technologies to India last year.
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Gallery Building to Be Torn Down
The fate of the exhibition space housing the Central House of Artists and the New Tretyakov Gallery has hung in the balance since plans were announced last year to construct an ambitious Norman Foster-designed project in its place.
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Putin Orders Fire Safety Checks at Nightclubs
The death toll from a deadly fire at a Perm nightclub rises to 113 people, and 121 remained hospitalized in Perm, Moscow, St. Petersburg and Chelyabinsk as the country observed a day of mourning.
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Don’t Hold Your Breath for a Modern Russia
“Don’t hold your breath” should be the catch-all answer to Russians expecting any kind of economic and political modernization or reform under Putin’s rule.
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Footballers Face Alcohol Inquiry
The “Chelovek i Zakon” program broadcast Thursday said Russia team members had drank, smoked hookah pipes and spent time with prostitutes on the eve of the Nov. 14 playoffs.
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Internet Provider Says It Blocks Sites
Moscow-based users of the Yota provider have been unable to access web sites such as Garry Kasparov’s Kasparov.ru, Solidarity’s Rusolidarnost.ru and the banned National Bolshevik Party’s Nazbol.ru over the past few weeks, bloggers and the sites’ editors said.
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Hairdresser Sues Marshals for Slander
Udmurtia court marshals took photos of Yana Kulikova from her pages on the social networking sites Vkontakte and Odnoklassniki and used them to create accounts on the two sites under a false name in order to trap debtors.
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Gazprom: Shale Gas No Threat
After gas prices surged last year and early this year, many European gas companies have begun studying the U.S. technology for producing shale gas, which may be a cheaper source of fuel.
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RusAl IPO to Be Delayed Until 2010
The delay puts Oleg Deripaska and RusAl’s IPO plans on the back foot once more after a breakthrough last week when it clinched a landmark $17 billion debt restructuring deal with creditors.
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Toward a Stronger European Security
The aim of the Euro-Atlantic Security Initiative is to create a community of nations where all agree on the security threats that they confront.