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Jobs & Careers (Fall 2008)
Everyone has an opinion about the 'chinovnik' - the Russian civil servant. But what do they say about themselves? For the fall edition of Jobs and Careers we spoke to two civil servants. They're young, hard-working and ambitious. And according to one of Russia's top captains of industry, they'd be far better advised to go into business. "There are young people who go to work in state service right after graduation," said billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov in a recent speech to students at his alma mater, the state Financial Academy. "I recommend that you only go into business. Only there will you find drive and real life." So why is it that so many young people, against his advice, are still trying to make a career in the civil service and what are the prospects? And is it something they'd recommend to other young people looking for a high-flying career?
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Market Matters: RTS Has Toughest Week Since '99
Trading on the dollar-denominated RTS exchange was suspended three times on Friday as anxiety deepened over whether the U.S. House of Representatives would pass a $700 billion financial sector bailout package and share prices on Russian and international markets plummeted.
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| Wednesday, October 08, 2008
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Published: 25 April 2008
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Moscow Electricity Supplier Rebuked
By Nadia Popova / Staff Writer Unified Energy System on Thursday lashed out at Gazprom-owned Mosenergo, Moscow’s main electricity supplier, accusing it of failing to build new capacity to meet burgeoning demand. |
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Prokhorov Sells 25% in Norilsk to RusAl
By Nadia Popova / Staff Writer Months of negotiations and rumors came to an end Thursday as Oleg Deripaska’s United Company RusAl closed a deal to buy a stake of 25 percent plus one share in Norilsk Nickel, the world’s biggest producer of the metal. |
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A Just Russia Looks to Spring Cleaning
By Nabi Abdullaev / Staff Writer A Just Russia is to hold its third annual congress Friday at the Kremlin, where the party is expected to expel thousands of members who were not aware that they were members and to tweak the colors scheme of its logo. |
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City Hall Rains on Gay Pride Parade
By Matt Siegel / Staff Writer Gay rights activist Nikolai Alexeyev lashed out at City Hall on Thursday after Mayor Yury Luzhkov's office assailed his proposal for a gay pride parade during the holidays at the start of May. |
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Irkutsk Man Kept Bears on Balcony
The Moscow Times An Irkutsk man is facing a possible fine after police caught him keeping a bear in his apartment, Gazeta.ru reported Thursday. |
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Euro Court Rules for Uzbeks
The Associated Press The European Court of Human Rights ruled Thursday that Russia breached the rights of 13 businessmen charged by Uzbek authorities with financing a 2005 anti-government uprising. |
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Belarus Activist Gets 2 1/2 Years
By Andrei Makhovsky / Reuters A court in Belarus has jailed a business activist for 2 1/2 years for assaulting a prison guard, the second such sentence in as many days imposed on opposition figures, an opposition leader said Thursday. |
Turkmenistan Decides Year Will Start Off With January
Reuters January is January again in Turkmenistan. |
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Uzbeks to Lose EU Sanctions
Reuters European Union foreign ministers will agree next week to suspend sanctions on Uzbekistan for another six months but warn they can be reapplied if human rights conditions do not improve. |
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Saakashvili Wants Peacekeepers Out
Reuters Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili said Thursday that he would seek Western support for his efforts to replace Russian peacekeepers in the breakaway province of Abkhazia with an international force. |
Armenia to Push 'Genocide' Issue
By Hasmik Mkrtchyan / Reuters New President Serzh Sargsyan says he will seek ""historic justice"" for Armenians killed by Ottoman Turks. |
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Penis Panic Sweeps Congo City
Reuters Police in Congo have arrested 13 suspected sorcerers accused of using black magic to steal or shrink men's penises after a wave of attempted lynchings triggered by the alleged witchcraft. Reports of so-called penis snatching are not uncommon in West Africa, where belief in traditional religions and witchcraft remains widespread, and where ritual killings to obtain blood or body parts still occur. |
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Berliners Debate Fate of Blockade Savior
By Kerstin Gehmlich / Reuters At the age of 7, Mercedes Wild waved excitedly at each U.S. plane that circled over her Berlin home and landed at Tempelhof Airport, packed with supplies to feed Berliners during the Soviets' Cold War blockade. |
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Hamas Offers Truce Terms to Israel
By Jonathan Wright / Reuters Hamas leaders handed over on Thursday proposals for a truce with Israel in the Gaza Strip, with a timetable for extending it to the West Bank, at a meeting of the Palestinian Islamist group with Egyptian mediators. |
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Arms Ship Sent Back to China
Reuters A shipment of Chinese arms bound for Zimbabwe will be recalled after South African workers refused to unload the vessel and other neighboring countries barred it from their ports, China said on Thursday. |
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Belarus Demand 'Unprecedented'
The Associated Press Belarus’ demand that the United States cut its staffing at its Minsk embassy to five diplomats is “unprecedented and unwarranted,” the embassy said Thursday. |
EU Stalled on Mandate for Russia Partnership
By Paul Taylor, Conor Sweeney / Reuters European Union efforts to agree on a long-delayed mandate for partnership negotiations with Russia stalled again Thursday despite a prediction of imminent agreement from Luxembourg’s prime minister. Diplomats said Lithuania maintained its veto on starting the talks to demand assurances on energy supplies, cooperation over a missing businessman and Russian movement on frozen conflicts in former Soviet republics. |
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Crisis -- What Crisis?
By Yulia Latynina
What Will Happen Next to the U.S. Dollar
By Martin Gilman
A Selective Definition of Democracy
By Alexei Pankin
Medvedev's New Doctrine
By Alexander Golts
Brezhnev Comes to Washington
By Alexei Bayer
Making Strategic Assets Accessible to Investors
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Nothing to Snivel At
By Michele A. Berdy
Prepare for a Bumpy Ride
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Why Russians Put Stalin at the Top of the List
By Yevgeny Kiselyov
Medvedev's Cure for the Far East
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Global Economy Rests On American Shoulders
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U.S. Should Recognize South Ossetia
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Russia's Animated Debate
By Mark H. Teeter
Georgia Sees Reminders Of the War Everywhere
By Matthew Collin
Yushchenko Plays the Anti-Russia Card
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A Frightful Wake-Up Call
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Walking Carefully From Transdnestr to Yerevan
By Fyodor Lukyanov
