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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.

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The Deadly Case of 9 Fleeing Skiers
By Svetlana Osadchuk / Staff Writer Nine experienced cross-country skiers hurriedly left their tent on a Urals slope in the middle of the night, casting aside skis, food and their warm coats.

Poland Agrees to Host U.S. Shield
By Alexander Osipovich / Staff Writer The United States and Poland reached ""an agreement in principle"" on missile defense Friday, prompting an angry reaction from Russia over the weekend.

Ukraine Seeks to Simplify Gas Trade
By Anatoly Medetsky / Staff Writer Ukraine on Saturday took a first step toward removing intermediaries from its natural gas imports, an effort that threatens to annul a hard-won agreement with Russia two years ago.

Tajikistan's Flagship Air Carrier Banned
AP, MT The Federal Air Transportation Agency on Saturday banned Tajikistan's national airline from flying to Russia, citing violations of air transport agreements.

Air Force Sends Planes to Arctic and Atlantic
Reuters The military sent fighters and long-range bombers to the Arctic and North Atlantic on Friday to take part in maneuvers demonstrating the revival of some of the power it lost with the Soviet collapse.

Nashi Says It's Healthy and Planning to Double in Size
The Moscow Times Pro-Kremlin youth group Nashi said Friday that it was seeking to double its membership this year and dismissed reports of its imminent demise.

Bolshoi's Opening Delayed By a Year
By Valery Stepchenkov / Reuters The Bolshoi Theater will reopen after restoration in November 2009, a year behind schedule, after the completion of emergency work to save it from collapse, officials said.

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Generals Run a Kilometer4 Years for Food Theft2 Killed in ChechnyaRadioactive Material HaltedParrot Smuggler FoiledTajiks Seize Drug StashSpa Messes Up Enemas

Kasyanov to Take His Bid to Court
Reuters Former Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov will appeal to the Supreme Court over his disqualification from running in the March 2 presidential election, his spokeswoman said Friday.

Rights Group Calls Putin a 'Brutal' Leader
LAT, MT Human Rights Watch has called President Vladimir Putin a ""repressive"" and ""brutal"" leader on par with the leaders of Zimbabwe and Pakistan.

Russia Rejects OSCE's Ire As 'Games'
The Associated Press The Foreign Ministry accused Europe's main security organization on Friday of playing political games in the dispute over election monitors weeks before a key presidential election.

Milosevic's Wife, Son Get Asylum
By David Nowak / Staff Writer Russia has granted asylum to the widow and son of former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic, both of whom are on Interpol's wanted list, the Federal Migration Service said Friday.

Aleksanyan Denied Release for Illness
By Svetlana Osadchuk / Staff Writer A Moscow court rules that the former Yukos executive has failed to prove he is in urgent need of treatment.

Medvedev Courts Farmers and War Veterans
Reuters, MT The presidential candidate hits the campaign trail with a stop in Volgograd.

Opposition Seeks Peacekeepers as Youth Gangs Clash in Kenya
Reuters Gangs of youths from rival ethnic groups armed with clubs, bows and machetes clashed in Kenya's Rift Valley on Sunday, shouting war cries, firing salvos of arrows and pelting one another with rocks.

Egypt Closes Last Gap in Border With Gaza
The Associated Press Egypt closed the last opening in its breached frontier with Gaza on Sunday, ending a chaotic 12-day influx of Gazans, and in a thinly veiled reprimand of Gaza's Hamas rulers warned that it would not permit any future border violations.

Microsoft Tries to Snap Up Yahoo for $42Bln
The Associated Press Unable to topple Google on its own, Microsoft is trying to force crippled rival Yahoo into a merger, with a wager worth nearly $42 billion that the two companies together will have a better chance of tackling the Internet search leader.

Chad Says It Repulsed Rebels
Reuters Troops loyal to Chad’s president struck back at rebels besieging his palace Sunday, and the government said it repulsed an attack by Sudanese forces in the east that it called “a declaration of war.”

Race Too Close to Call as Serbia Votes
By Ellie Tzortzi / Reuters Serbs voted Sunday in a knife-edge presidential election that could decide whether their country turns its back on the West in response to the imminent loss of the breakaway province of Kosovo.

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