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The Crisis: Electricity Providers Face Bankruptcy
Electricity suppliers across the country are cracking down as the number of delinquent private and corporate customers surges, as the dilapidated industry is mired in debt linked to unpaid consumer bills and the multibillion-dollar investment programs that investors signed onto during the privatization of Unified Energy System, which wrapped up just weeks before the financial crisis struck.
Market Matters: Uralkali Stock Stares Into A Chasm
Catching both the market and the potash producer by surprise, Deputy Prime Minister Igor Sechin reopened a 2006 investigation into the flooding of a Uralkali mine, sending the company's shares down 75 percent in London in the three trading days after the announcement.
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| Thursday, November 20, 2008
Updated at 19 November 2008 23:44 Moscow Time | |
Currency Exchange
USD/RUR - 27.3
EUR/RUR - 34.8
Weather
Hurdles Ahead.
Inflation Threatens an Era of Growth
Kremlin's Trillion-Dollar Headache
Everyone Pays, Few Want To Stop
When Success and Image Don't Mesh
Boosting Population a Vague Science
Armed With Nukes and a Vague Plan
Balancing Growth and Environment
Lots of Work but Too Few Workers
Rich Get Richer as Poor Get Poorer
Finding a Remedy for Health Care
A Crisis Brewing in the Classrooms
Most Popular Stories.
2. Obama Gets Telegram, No Spot in Speech
3. Obama and the KGB
4. Nuclear Submarine Accident Kills 20
5. New Ways to Insult Americans
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Columnists
Doomed From the Start
By Boris Kagarlitsky
Making a Jester Out of Medvedev
By Yulia Latynina
The Real Issue Isn't a Shield in Central Europe
By Fyodor Lukyanov
Back-Scratching in America
By Alexei Pankin
U.S. Not a Threat After All
By Alexander Golts
Policing Immigrant Workers
By Alexei Bayer
Medvedev Learned His PR Skills From Chavez
By Vladimir Frolov
Don't Expect Miracles From the G20 Summit
By Martin Gilman
Preparing for Putin's Return to the Kremlin
By Nikolai Petrov
Obama and the KGB
By Richard Lourie
1,000 Presidential Pardons
By Mark H. Teeter
Tbilisi Protesters Could Be Doing Russia's Work
By Matthew Collin
New Ways to Insult Americans
By Michele A. Berdy
A Guarded Liberalism
By Georgy Bovt
Eagerly Waiting for Change -- Within Russia
By Yevgeny Kiselyov
Putin's Costly Crash Course in Economics
By Konstantin Sonin
Russia's Top Economist Needs to Face Reality
By Anders Aslund
