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Market Matters: Struggling Stocks Spur New Record Oil Prices
Oil hit another record of just under $143 as global stocks tumbled last week, with the Dow briefly dipping into bear market territory as investors sought safety in gold, government debt and the Swiss franc.
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| Saturday, July 19, 2008
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Published: 20 May 2008
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Medvedev To Head Council On Graft
By Anatoly Medetsky / Staff Writer In one of his first major steps as president, Dmitry Medvedev on Monday said he would head a council to battle corruption, which he singled out as one of the country’s worst woes. |
Football Fans Staging English Invasion
By Max Delany / Staff Writer The ball flew off the pitch, bounced across Red Square, passed the giant inflatable football, and just missed Lenin’s mausoleum — and the stony-faced guard didn’t even bat an eyelid. |
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Turkmen Tower Gets Place in Sun
The Associated Press Turkmenistan plans to build a soaring $70 million monument in its capital that will outstrip anything built during the ostentatious rule of the late dictator Saparmurat Niyazov, the country’s state newspaper reported Monday. |
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Duma Will Not Pass Media Bill
The Moscow Times The State Duma will not pass a bill that had raised alarm about media freedom by toughening the penalties for libel. |
Hockey Fans Hit the Streets to Cheer World Title
By Anna Malpas / Staff Writer Hockey fans poured onto the city streets late Sunday night to celebrate Russia's first World Hockey Championship since 1993. |
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News in Brief
Khakamada Quits PoliticsMedvedev Appoints AdviserTajik Busted for Heroin |
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Institute Denies Its Director Was Killed by Poison
By Francesca Mereu / Staff Writer A Moscow scientific institute dismissed reports Monday that its deputy director, Svetlana Zheludeva, died of poisoning after opening a letter containing white powder of unknown origin. |
West Will Scrutinize Georgian Elections
Reuters The West will closely watch Georgia’s parliamentary election Wednesday for signs the country is committed to democracy, four months after Mikheil Saakashvili won a presidential vote described as flawed. |
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Tensions Heated for Abkhaz Leader Visit
By Nikolaus von Twickel / Staff Writer Heated tensions over Abkhazia showed no sign of waning Monday as the breakaway region's leader arrived in Moscow for talks over closer ties with Russia. |
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Columnists
A Duck by Any Other Name
By Michele A. Berdy
The Kremlin's Tibet
By Georgy Bovt
It is the 1990s All Over Again For the Press
By Alexei Pankin
Battling Cold War Cliches
By Alexander Golts
U.S. Decline Gives Moscow a Golden Chance
By Alexei Bayer
Medvedev Passed G8 Test
By Vladimir Frolov
Medvedev Is Neither Tsar Nor Saint
By Boris Kagarlitsky
Progressive Tax System Is Fair And Necessary
By Konstantin Sonin
Abramovich's Chukotka Miracle
By Nikolai Petrov
It'll Take More Than PR to Lift Russia's Image
By Richard Lourie
The Talented Mr. Ripsky
By Mark H. Teeter
Selling Lofty Dreams in Separatist South Ossetia
By Matthew Collin
Lessons About Franco, Football and Freedom
By Yevgeny Kiselyov
Inflation's Sun Spots Stain Economic Successes
By Anders Aslund
From Vancouver to Vladivostok
By Fyodor Lukyanov
Immunity From the Oil Curse
By Martin Gilman
