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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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Published: 4 July 2008
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Chelsea Owner Escapes Politics
By Nabi Abdullaev, Matt Siegel / Staff Writers President Dmitry Medvedev on Thursday accepted the resignation of Roman Abramovich, the Kremlin's most loyal oligarch, as governor of the far eastern Chukotka autonomous district, a job Abramovich has long made clear that he wanted out of. |
Work-Permit Tour Exemplifies Strange Feud
By Miriam Elder / Staff Writer A senior TNK-BP employee and the government's top work-permits official walked triumphantly into the sunshine Thursday, after the Federal Migration Service issued eight permits to the firm's senior staff, including CEO Robert Dudley. |
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Medvedev Will Make Economic Pitch to G8
By Anna Smolchenko / Staff Writer The Group of Eight summit in Japan next week will be a global coming out party of sorts for Dmitry Medvedev, as the new president is expected to offer his take on global economic problems and their possible solutions. |
Not All Regions Created Equal
By Alexander Osipovich / Staff Writer It was once the pride of Soviet telephone technology, producing the bulky phones that graced the desks of countless factory directors and Party officials. |
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News in Brief
Arrests in Prison DeathsNBP Activist AcquittedChaika to Talk to BastrykinWorkers Vanish With Gold |
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Popovkin Appointed Space Forces Chief
The Moscow Times President Dmitry Medvedev has signed a decree promoting Space Forces chief Vladimir Popovkin and replacing him with a career officer, a Defense Ministry spokesman said Thursday. |
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British Dancer Detained in Car Arson
By Alexi Shaw / Special to The Moscow Times Amid a wave of car arsons that hit the city in recent weeks, a British dancer was detained in southwestern Moscow on suspicion of setting fire to a Mercedes, city police said Thursday. |
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Tax Status Unclear For Foreign NGOs
By Nabi Abdullaev, Nikolaus von Twickel / Staff Writers The government will clarify later this year the tax status of grants from dozens of international organizations excluded from tax exemptions in a recent decree signed by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, a government spokesman said Thursday. |
Business
Medvedev, Miller Look for Azeri Gas
Combined Reports Europe’s bill for Russian gas will rise by one-quarter by the end of 2008 and eventually double, Gazprom chief Alexei Miller said Thursday on a Central Asian energy tour with President Dmitry Medvedev. |
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Putin Says Sochi Sites Must Move
The Moscow Times Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Thursday ordered that three sites for planned Olympic venues be moved because of environmental concerns and reprimanded the Sochi games preparations chief for weak assurances that construction would be finished on time. |
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Power Machines Wins Iraq Deal
By Nadia Popova / Staff Writer Power Machines, the country’s biggest energy machinery producer, announced Thursday that it would build a 26.8-megawatt hydrostation in northern Iraq by July 2010, raising hopes for other Russian firms looking to re-enter the country. |
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Business in Brief
Deripaska Suit Moves AheadProkhorov's Polyus PostAcron to Sell 10% StakeUkraine Gas Transit RecordCanada Plans Arctic ClaimFor the Record |
Opinion
Greatest Investor Risk
Investor sentiment was rather mixed as we entered 2008. Bullish hopes lingered in developed markets, based on the naive assumption that 2007 credit woes would magically evaporate on New Year's Day, and emerging markets danced to the dream of decoupling. |
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Michele A. Berdy: How to Depict Sour Faces and Sour Smiles
Thinking about the summer drink of kvas immediately makes me think of another traditional Russian summery dish, kisel, fruit jelly. It's no wonder my synapses made the leap. |
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Leaks Damage Politkovskaya Investigation
For almost a year, the Prosecutor General's Office and its Investigative Committee have been competing over who could reveal more sensitive information on the investigation into the murder of journalist Anna Politkovskaya. |
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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
