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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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Web Site Unites Pirated Databases
By Tai Adelaja / Staff Writer Time was when getting your hands on an individual's income, property and telephone numbers required a trip to a nearby kiosk to buy pirated discs containing illegal databases. |
Investors Reassured Over Key Sectors
By Miriam Elder / Staff Writer A senior government economic official on Wednesday urged foreign investors not to fear new legislation that limits foreign investment in the country’s most strategic, and lucrative, sectors and asked them to give it time to work. |
Odds Stacked Against Breast-Feeding Moms
By Svetlana Osadchuk / Staff Writer Teresa Yaroshevich was breast-feeding her baby in a city cafe when the manager politely asked her to move to another dining room upstairs. It was around noon and the establishment was expecting its daily rush of workers from nearby offices. |
Putin Unveils Monument to Yeltsin
By Anna Malpas / Staff Writer President Vladimir Putin called Boris Yeltsin ""one of the most striking politicians of the 20th century"" as he honored the former president at the unveiling of a new monument at his grave Wednesday, the first anniversary of Yeltsin's death. |
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Tambov Mayor Charged | Kazakhs Detain Suspect | Rice Supports Georgia |
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Okruashvili Granted Asylum
The Associated Press France has granted political asylum to former Georgian Defense Minister Irakli Okruashvili, who was convicted last month of extortion in his home country, his lawyers said Wednesday. |
Long-Entrenched Transdnestr Positions Shift
By Ron Popeski / Reuters When the president of Moldova sat down with the leader of the separatist Transdnestr region, many hoped for a breakthrough in one of the former Soviet Union’s seemingly endless “frozen conflicts”. |
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Iran Blames Russia for Holdup
Reuters, MT An Iranian official said Russia was responsible for timely delivery of equipment stopped by Azerbaijan when in transit to Iran’s first nuclear power plant, a news agency said Wednesday. |
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European Delegation Urges Russia on Rights
By David Nowak / Staff Writer Russia must promote human rights through education, not just seek to punish rights violators, a Council of Europe delegation said Wednesday after a two-day fact-finding trip. |
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Soyuz Story Draws Ire of Federal Agency
AP, MT The Federal Space Agency on Wednesday denied media reports that the lives of a crew returning from the international space station were in danger during their unusually rough ride in a Soyuz capsule on the weekend. |
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Columnists
When Your Tongue Is the Real Enemy
By Michele A. Berdy
Blame Capitalism, Not Medvedev
By Boris Kagarlitsky
10 Reasons Why the Economy Will Falter
By Anders Aslund
Turning Russia Into a Terrorist Enclave
By Yulia Latynina
How Russia Turns Liberals Into Authoritarians
By Yevgeny Kiselyov
Russia's Bronze Medal In International Affairs
By Konstantin Sonin
Andropov's Ghost Lives On
By Nikolai Petrov
Show Russia the Good Side
By Mark H. Teeter
When a Toast for Peace Works Best in Russian
By Matthew Collin
Nation of Champions Starts in the Courtyard
By Georgy Bovt
Don't Trust Politicians With War
By Alexander Golts
Rethinking the War
By Alexei Pankin
The Age of Solzhenitsyn
By Alexei Bayer
How Pique and Spite Can Destroy Relations
By Vladimir Frolov
Georgian Crisis Is a Trap for U.S. Leadership
By Fyodor Lukyanov
The Missiles of July
By Richard Lourie
Immunity From the Oil Curse
By Martin Gilman
