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First Video Added to Moscow Times Web Site
The video, a 3 1/2-minute interview with Rose Gottemoeller, director of the Carnegie Moscow Center, examines the informal summit between Presidents Vladimir Putin and George W. Bush in Sochi on April 6. The video can be found on The Moscow Times' homepage, www.themoscowtimes.com.
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Market Matters : Markets Drop by 2% As Holidays Approach
Russian stocks fell by an average of more than 2 percent last week, underlining investors' weariness ahead of the Easter break.
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| The Moscow Times » Crime Watch |
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 / Staff Writer 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 / Staff Writer 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 / Staff Writer 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 / Staff Writer 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 / Staff Writer 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 / Staff Writer 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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Equating Holodomor With Genocide
By Georgy Bovt
Spring Weather Brings Spring Illnesses
By Michele A. Berdy
White Paper Blacked Out
By Richard Lourie
A Room in a City With A Fast-Changing View
By Matthew Collin
The Upside of High Food Prices
By Konstantin Sonin
A Regional Shift in Moscow
By Nikolai Petrov
Georgia Is Medvedev's First Foreign Policy Test
By Vladimir Frolov
An Early Assessment of Putin's Foreign Policy
By Fyodor Lukyanov
There Is Nothing Normal About Corruption
By Anders Aslund
How to Invent Enemies and a Strong Russia
By Yulia Latynina
Remaining a Moral Victor
By Alexei Bayer
A Fight for Peace in Georgia
By Alexander Golts
High-Stakes Soap Opera
By Alexei Pankin
Sham Inauguration Rocks!
By Mark H. Teeter
Communism's New Crisis
By Boris Kagarlitsky
