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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 : Oil Tax Pledge Buoys Markets
Markets surged after the swearing-in of Dmitry Medvedev as president in a pomp-filled ceremony Wednesday and a tax-cutting speech by Vladimir Putin the day after, when he was approved as prime minister.
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Sechin Looks to Raise Oil Output
By Miriam Elder / Staff Writer Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and his new energy policy director, Deputy Prime Minister Igor Sechin, went on the offensive Wednesday to battle claims that the country's oil production was in decline. |
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BP Staff Locked Out As Visa Trouble Ends
By Anatoly Medetsky / Staff Writer A court order banning BP employees from working for its Russian unit, TNK-BP, came at a time when some of them were ready to come back to their jobs after a suspension, a BP spokesman said Wednesday. |
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Ministry Seeks Lock On Fund Spending
By Darya Korsunskaya and Gleb Bryanski / Reuters A deputy finance minister says $50 billion must be set aside for five to seven years. |
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Enka to Build Generating Unit for OGK-4
The Moscow Times Power generator OGK-4 said Wednesday that it selected Turkey's biggest construction company, Enka, to build a generating unit in the Perm region. |
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UES Plans to Sell TGK-11 Stake to E4 Group
Reuters Former electricity monopoly Unified Energy System will sell the state's 29 percent stake in power producer TGK-11 to engineering firm E4 Group, sources close to the sale said Wednesday. |
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Central Bank to Trade on Forex Markets
Bloomberg The Central Bank said Wednesday that it would buy and sell on the foreign exchange market like any other trader to deter speculators from trying to push up the value of the ruble. |
Medvedev Vows Aid for Small Business
Reuters President Dmitry Medvedev told his new government on Wednesday to step up efforts to help small and medium-sized businesses choked by red tape and corruption. |
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Columnists
Equating Holodomor With Genocide
By Georgy Bovt
Spring Weather Brings Spring Illnesses
By Michele A. Berdy
Taking the Temperature In Georgia's Hot Spring
By Matthew Collin
The Natural-Resources And Democracy Curse
By Konstantin Sonin
Returning Direct Elections
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
The Fed Can Help Russia Lower Its Inflation
By Martin Gilman
Olympic Gold in Abkhazia
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
Medvedev the Bookworm
By Mark H. Teeter
Two-Headed Eagle Infected With Bugs
By Boris Kagarlitsky
