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On 19 June 2009 a bi-lingual, colour supplement to The Moscow Times will be published. The “Russia-Holland” supplement is an annual business publication, devoted to the partnership between Russian and Dutch companies.
This year the magazine is timed to coincide with the most glorious event in the cultural co-operation between the two countries for the last decade – the opening of Hermitage Amsterdam. The unique exhibition centre will be opened on the 19 June by Her Majesty Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands and the President of the Russian Federation, Dmitry Medvedev.
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| The Moscow Times » Crime Watch |
Issue 4033 | 18 Nov 2008
Politkovskaya Trial Will Be Open By Nabi Abdullaev / The Moscow Times The Moscow Military District Court on Monday ruled that the trial of three men charged in the murder of investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya would be open to the public. The slain journalist's lawyer, meanwhile, demands that Chechnya's president be questioned in court. |
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Beaten Editor Threatened in Hospital By Svetlana Osadchuk / Staff Writer Mikhail Beketov, a newspaper editor and environmental activist in the Moscow suburb of Khimki who was brutally assaulted last week, has been transferred to a Moscow hospital for treatment and for his own safety after a series of threatening phone calls, colleagues said Monday. |
Issue 4032 | 17 Nov 2008
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Policeman Killed Near Abkhazia Combined Reports A Georgian policeman was killed by a group of unidentified gunmen Saturday near the breakaway Abkhazia region, Georgia's Interior Ministry said. |
Politkovskaya Murder Trial to Open By Nabi Abdullaev / The Moscow Times The trial of three suspects in the murder of journalist Anna Politkovskaya begins Monday, and lawyers representing both sides will demand that it be open to the public. |
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Editor Brutally Assaulted In Khimki By Svetlana Osadchuk / Staff Writer A newspaper editor in the Moscow suburb of Khimki was brutally assaulted by unidentified assailants in an attack his colleagues said Friday was linked to his criticism of local authorities' deforestation plans. Mikhail Beketov, editor and owner of Khimkinskaya Pravda, a weekly in the town on Moscow's northern outskirts, was discovered Thursday bloodied and unconscious near his home, his friends said in a statement. |
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Assailants Jab French Activist With Syringe By Natalya Krainova / The Moscow Times A French activist said Friday that unidentified assailants had jabbed her with a syringe containing an unknown liquid as she was walking in central Moscow. |
Issue 4031 | 14 Nov 2008
Frenkel Gets 19 Years In Kozolov's Murder By Francesca Mereu / The Moscow Times The Moscow City Court on Thursday sentenced banker Alexei Frenkel to 19 years in prison for ordering the 2006 killing of central banker Andrei Kozlov, who had led a campaign against money laundering and corruption. |
Issue 4030 | 13 Nov 2008
Court Ignores Prosecutors, Bulbov Still in Jail By Francesca Mereu, Alexandra Odynova / The Moscow Times The Moscow City Court on Wednesday ordered senior Federal Drug Control Service officer Alexander Bulbov to remain behind bars for another month on corruption charges in a case widely seen to be linked to a power struggle between feuding clans close to the country's security services. |
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Heyday for Thieves as People Switch to Cash Combined Reports Moscow has been hit by a crime wave as an increasing number of Russians are withdrawing their savings and carrying large amounts of cash around, making them easy prey for thieves, state television reported. |
Issue 3872 | 31 Mar 2008
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Zimbabwe Opposition Claims Early Lead The Associated Press Zimbabwe's main opposition party on Sunday claimed an early lead in elections, including in a rural stronghold of President Robert Mugabe, in an apparent effort to thwart any attempt to rig the vote count. |
Issue 3841 | 13 Feb 2008
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Cop Accused of Stealing Boy Statue By Carl Schreck / The Moscow Times In the latest in a series of statue thefts, an Interior Ministry official was detained over the weekend on suspicion of stealing a bronze statue of a boy playing a flute from a Belgian restaurant in southwest Moscow. |
Issue 3836 | 6 Feb 2008
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Dispute in Mens' Bathroom Line Leads to Brawl By Carl Schreck / The Moscow Times In any club or restaurant where the alcohol is flowing freely, it's usually patrons of the fair sex who are forced to suffer long lines for the bathroom. |
Issue 3831 | 30 Jan 2008
Student Spends Holiday in Hole By Carl Schreck / The Moscow Times University students traditionally celebrate Jan. 25, or St. Tatyana's Day, by getting drunk while police turn a blind eye to their excesses on the last day of the winter session. |
Issue 3805 | 12 Dec 2007
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Attack Puts N. Korean Laborers in Hospital By Carl Schreck / The Moscow Times A group of young men wielding pipes and sticks attacked a group of North Korean laborers in the Moscow region, leaving four of the migrant workers hospitalized, authorities said Tuesday. |
Issue 3800 | 5 Dec 2007
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2 Arrests for Headless Corpse By Carl Schreck / The Moscow Times Police have arrested two men suspected of shooting a Moscow businessman, cutting off his head and making off with $20,000 in cash, a law enforcement source said Tuesday. |
Issue 3790 | 21 Nov 2007
Woman Charged in Rock Fraud By Carl Schreck / The Moscow Times An elderly woman has been arrested and charged with fraud after she tried to sell a large corundum stone for $20 million, passing it off as a giant hunk of ruby crystal, police said Tuesday. |
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