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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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Published: 18 July 2008
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Armed With Nukes and a Vague Plan
By Simon Saradzhyan / Staff Writer When Vladimir Putin became acting president on New Year’s Eve in 1999, he took over a country whose armed forces were struggling to fill combat-ready units to fight guerillas in Chechnya. |
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U.S. Spurs Hopes of An End to HIV Tests
By Svetlana Osadchuk / Staff Writer In an indication that Russia may end mandatory HIV tests for foreign residents, government officials said Thursday that they were considering replicating pending U.S. legislation that would lift a ban on HIV-positive visitors to that country. |
Dudley Warns Fight Tearing TNK-BP Apart
By Anatoly Medetsky, Miriam Elder, Anna Yukhananov / Special to The Moscow Times The company’s chief executive rejects a lawsuit against him from a group of Russians and vows to continue working. |
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About 50,000 Museum Pieces Lost
The Associated Press A sweeping government audit has revealed that up to 50,000 pieces are missing from Russia’s museums — everything from pre-Revolutionary medals and weapons to precious works of art, a member of the survey team said Thursday. |
Germany Presents Abkhazia Proposal
Reuters Germany on Thursday presented a three-stage plan aimed at ending the deadlock in Georgia’s conflict with its breakaway province of Abkhazia. |
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Parrots Killed for Beer
Combined Reports Police in Nizhny Novgorod have arrested a man who shot dead two pet parrots after his wife refused to buy him beer, news agencies reported. |
Tens of Thousands March 90 Years After Tsar's Death
By Steve Gutterman / The Associated Press Tens of thousands of Russians commemorated the 90th anniversary of the slaying of the country's royal family with a religious procession Thursday, starting out before dawn from the site where the last tsar and his wife and children were gunned down in a basement room. |
Ex-Senator Convicted of Fraud
By Yelena Shuster / Special to The Moscow Times The Moscow City Court on Thursday convicted former Kalmykia Senator Levon Chakhmakhchyan of fraud and sentenced him to nine years in prison, concluding a case that saw his lawyer flee the country and receive political asylum in the United States. |
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One Way to Live Happily Ever After
By Michele A. Berdy
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
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
