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Market Matters: As Conflict Ends, Markets on Road to Recovery
After tumbling to its lowest point in almost two years on Tuesday, Russia's MICEX Index began to slowly claw its way back over the rest of the week, suggesting a possible end to the volatility that has plagued the country's markets since tensions erupted between Russia and Georgia on Aug. 8.

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Muslims Get Hand Traveling to Mecca
By Michael Schwirtz / NEW YORK TIMES SERVICE Gulsine Fatakhudinova, a 56-year-old Tatar Muslim, came lugging suitcases to pray at the lime-green mosque in central Moscow -- one of dozens of people who arrived one recent day bundled in the weighty coats, fur hats and other winter garb they would soon cast off, at least temporarily.

Beslan's Hospital Shocked Doctors and Putin
By Francesca Mereu / Staff Writer A dog plays with a kitten, scattering their meal of meat and macaroni over the entrance. An armed security guard looks on and laughs. The walls are covered with dark mold, and the plaster is peeling off. Patients walk carefully, trying to avoid gaping cracks in the well-worn, wooden floor.

Putin Is Time's Person of The Year
By Natalya Krainova, Alexander Osipovich / Staff Writers President Vladimir Putin was named Time magazine's person of the year on Wednesday, becoming the first Russian to win the title since Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev did it twice in the late 1980s.

A Mad Rush to Get Into Kindergarten
By Svetlana Osadchuk / Staff Writer Andrei Grechishnikov spends about two to three hours every day driving his two preschool-aged children from their home in the Moscow region town of Nakhabino to their kindergarten in the city's Tushino district. He considers himself lucky.

U.S. Congress Threatens to Cut Aid
The Associated Press Taking a symbolic swipe at Russia, U.S. lawmakers are threatening to withhold aid unless Moscow improves conditions for journalists, political activists and religious groups.

6 Duma Committees for Opposition
The Moscow Times Six of the 32 committee chairmanships in the newly elected State Duma will go to parties other than United Russia, which chaired every single committee in the previous Duma, a senior United Russia official said Wednesday.

Believers See Red Over Cola-Cola Ads
Reuters A group of Russian Orthodox believers have accused Coca-Cola of blasphemy over a marketing campaign showing the cross and onion-shaped church domes on outdoor refrigerators, Nizhny Novgorod prosecutors said Wednesday.

9 Independents File to Run for President
By Nikolaus von Twickel / Staff Writer Nine independent candidates, including former Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov and Soviet-era dissident Vladimir Bukovsky, have been registered as potential contestants in the March 2 presidential election, the Central Elections Commission said Wednesday.

Yashin Will Try to Unseat Yavlinsky
By David Nowak / Staff Writer Ilya Yashin, the 24-year-old leader of Yabloko's youth group, announced Wednesday that he would seek to unseat Grigory Yavlinsky as the party's leader and unite liberal politicians in a new political movement.

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