Issue 4353. Last Updated: 03/21/2010

Putin Presses Clinton for Lower Trade Hurdles

By Nikolaus von Twickel
9 minutes ago
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin demanded that the U.S. administration lower hurdles to Russian investment and offered U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton a list of trade complaints during a meeting Friday.

State Awards $68.2M to Film Studios

By Alex Anishyuk
23 minutes ago
Eight major production companies will get 250 million rubles ($8.5 million) each from the state to make movies this year, with bonuses for movies that attract more than a million viewers.

Gryzlov Says Putin-Medvedev Tandem to Rule After 2012

By Nabi Abdullaev
32 minutes ago
President Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin will continue ruling Russia in a tandem after 2012, when Medvedev's first presidential term expires, State Duma Speaker Boris Gryzlov said Friday.

Spanish Arrests Expose a New Kind of Mafia

By Nikolaus von Twickel
When Spanish police announced the arrest of about 80 reputed mobsters across Europe last week, many media reports trumpeted the development as the latest crackdown on the Russian mafia.

Church Suggests Ukraine Gas Deal

The Moscow Times
1 hour ago
The Russian Orthodox Church made a request to the government that it lower gas prices for Ukrainian chemical companies, saying it was a "sensible initiative" to assist the companies, which help the Ukrainian church.



The New Cuban Missile Crisis

By Vladimir Kozin
If history will remember the 20th century for its nuclear weapons, the dropping of two atomic bombs and the nuclear arms race, then the 21st century might become the century of the missile defense arms race.



Former Beatle Set to Play Tribute Festival

By Alexander Teddy
The Pete Best Band, fronted by the former Beatles drummer, will headline a Beatles tribute festival at club B1 on Sunday.



Window on Eurasia

Window on Eurasia: ‘War of the Worlds’ Broadcast Highlights Pathologies of Georgian-Russian Relations

By Paul Goble
A hoax broadcast on Georgian television about a Russian invasion has sparked discussion about the dangers of such a TV show in the current environment and raised questions about who benefits from such actions.

  MICEX Index 1421.09   0.870%  

  RTS Index 1544.71   0.912%  

  MICEX 10 Index 3348.81   0.498%  

  MICEX Oil & Gas 2561.98   0.161%  

  MICEX Power 3040.23   0.774%  

  MICEX Telecommunication 2074.01   0.458%  

  MICEX Metals & Mining 4437.82   0.135%  

  MICEX Manufacturing 1917.73   1.412%  

  MICEX Financials 5843.50   1.295%  

  MICEX Consumer Goods 3939.50   0.660%  

  MICEX Chemicals 4621.69   1.329%  
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Construction to Begin on Prokhorov's NJ Nets Stadium

The Associated Press
Officials broke ground Thursday on a much-delayed 9-hectare development project that will bring the NBA's New Jersey Nets, owned by billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov, to Brooklyn.





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