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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.
Russia Investment Roadshow : Scenes From Last Year's Forum
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President Medvedev Stresses the Law
By Alexander Osipovich / Staff Writer In his first speech as head of state, newly inaugurated President Dmitry Medvedev vowed Wednesday to strengthen the rule of law and to bring as many Russians as possible into the middle class. |
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Barren Streets, Baffled Tourists
By Matt Siegel / Staff Writer At precisely 20 minutes past noon, a 30-gun salute echoed down narrow Nikitskaya Ulitsa in central Moscow. Few seemed to notice. A teenager with bright blond hair used the booms as a sly pretext to wrap his girlfriend in a bear hug. |
New London Mayor Told to Lose Russia Barbs
By Max Delany / Staff Writer Moscow officials invite Boris Johnson to come and see the city for himself. |
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Miller Takes Up Medvedev's Post
Reuters Newly inaugurated President Dmitry Medvedev, who was sworn in Wednesday, is stepping down as chairman of Gazprom with the current chief executive Alexei Miller stepping in as acting chairman. |
West Told Not to Antagonize Russia
By Gareth Jones and Gabriela Baczynska / Reuters The West should avoid antagonizing Moscow by rushing to let former Soviet republics such as Ukraine join NATO or by installing an anti-missile shield in Central Europe, Poland's last communist leader said Wednesday. |
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U.S. Shrugs Off Military Parade
Reuters The U.S. Defense Department said it was unconcerned by Russia's plans to parade military hardware on Red Square in a show of strength reminiscent of Soviet times. |
U.S., EU Fret Over Abkhazia
The Associated Press The United States and European Union have sharply criticized Russia for its actions in recent weeks in the dispute between Georgia and its breakaway region of Abkhazia. |
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Kommersant Loses Defamation Suit
By Nabi Abdullaev / Staff Writer The Moscow City Arbitration Court on Monday ordered the country's biggest business daily to print a retraction of comments made about state monopoly arms exporter Rosoboronexport in an interview with businessman Oleg Shvartsman. |
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Embassy Targeted by Bolsheviks
By Francesca Mereu / Staff Writer In a protest timed with Dmitry Medvedev's inauguration as president, National Bolshevik activists staged a sit-in inside the Russian Embassy in Kiev on Tuesday to demand that the Kremlin open a dialog with the opposition. |
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Equating Holodomor With Genocide
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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
There Is Nothing Normal About Corruption
By Anders Aslund
How to Invent Enemies and a Strong Russia
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
Communism's New Crisis
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