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Business: RenCap Cuts RTS '08 Target to 2,350
Renaissance Capital on Monday slashed its year-end forecast for the benchmark RTS Index from 3,000 to 2,350 and increased its equity risk premium for the country from 4 percent to 5.5 percent in a sign of continued investor jitters.
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| Thursday, August 28, 2008
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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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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. |
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Columnists
Nation of Champions Starts in the Courtyard
By Georgy Bovt
Leonid Kuchma Built a Prosperous Ukraine
By Anders Aslund
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
When Leaving Is Not Quite Leaving
By Michele A. Berdy
Russia's Upside in the Georgia Conflict
By Boris Kagarlitsky
Georgian Crisis Is a Trap for U.S. Leadership
By Fyodor Lukyanov
Looking Into Saakashvili's Caucasus Soul
By Yulia Latynina
A Tried and True Diversion Tactic
By Konstantin Sonin
Still Going for Their Gold
By Mark H. Teeter
Fighting Russian Tanks With Patriotic Defiance
By Matthew Collin
The Great Writer Who Buried Communism
By Yevgeny Kiselyov
The Same Old Presidential Reserve
By Nikolai Petrov
The Missiles of July
By Richard Lourie
Immunity From the Oil Curse
By Martin Gilman
