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New York Times International Weekly and International Herald Tribune rank top in european readership results
The European Media and Marketing Survey 2008 shows that two publications of The New York Times Media Group - The New York Times International Weekly and the International Herald Tribune (IHT) - are delivering a combined readership of 1.3 million among Europe’s high earners.
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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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| Friday, August 22, 2008
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Published: 22 July 2008
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Deal Hands Islands Back to China
By Nabi Abdullaev / Staff Writer Russia and China on Monday signed a pact demarcating their 4,300-kilometer border, an issue that has been a bone of contention for more than three centuries and that led to armed clashes as recently as the late 1960s. |
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Chavez Likely to Get Weapons, Not Support
By Max Delany / Staff Writer Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez looks set to put pen to paper on a number of major arms deals during an official visit to Moscow on Tuesday but is unlikely to gain Kremlin support for his trademark attacks on the United States. |
Presidium Backs Drunk-Driving Bill
By Anna Smolchenko / Staff Writer In an effort to curb mayhem on the country's roads, the Presidium on Monday approved a bill that would stiffen punishments for drunk drivers who cause accidents. |
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Calf Assault Trial
The Moscow Times A Saratov region man has been sentenced to six months of community service for assaulting a calf, the Saratov Regional Prosecutor’s Office said in a statement Monday. |
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Kiev Offered NATO Help By Merkel
By Maria Danilova / Staff Writer German Chancellor Angela Merkel pledged Monday to help Ukraine implement reforms to bring the former Soviet republic into NATO, a prospect strongly opposed by Russia. |
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Hearings Begin for Teens Charged in Racist Attacks
By Yelena Shuster / Special to The Moscow Times Preliminary hearings began Monday in the case of a dozen teenagers charged in a series of racist attacks last year, including the murder of a Sakha native that was filmed with a cell phone camera. |
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Putin Chooses Moscow for Eurovision
The Associated Press Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Monday chose Moscow as the host city for next year's Eurovision Song Contest. |
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Putin Will Head to Beijing For Games
By Nikolaus von Twickel / Staff Writer The prime minister will make a ""presidential"" visit and plans to use the occasion to pursue bilateral talks. |
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Obama Meets With Iraqi Premier
The Associated Press Barack Obama began his first on-the-ground inspection of Iraq since launching his bid for the White House, with U.S. commanders ready to brief him on progress in a war he has long opposed and Iraqi leaders wanting more details of his proposals for troop withdrawals. |
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Nepali Lawmakers Pick New President, Snubbing Maoists
Reuters Nepal's lawmakers picked the country's first president on Monday, rejecting a candidate backed by former Maoist rebels in a move that could plunge the Himalayan nation's nascent republic into more political turmoil. |
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Sarkozy Talks EU in Dublin
The Associated Press French President Nicolas Sarkozy opened talks in Ireland on Monday, seeking a way to overcome Irish voters' rejection of the European Union reform treaty. |
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EU to Cut Farm Tariffs By 60%
The Associated Press The European Union said Monday that it would slash farm tariffs by 60 percent as part of a new global trade pact, a deeper cut than it has ever offered. |
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Mugabe to Hold Power-Sharing Talks
Reuters Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe and opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai on Monday signed a deal laying down the framework for formal talks on forming a power sharing government to end a deep political crisis. |
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Rice Warns Iran on Deadline
Reuters U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice warned Iran on Monday that it faced more sanctions if it defied a two-week deadline to agree to curb its nuclear program. |
Weakened Defense Sector Offering Little New
By Vladimir Isachenkov / The Associated Press At a once-secret airfield outside Moscow, test pilot Sergei Bogdan proudly introduces reporters to what was billed as the latest in Russian military aircraft technology, the Su-35 fighter jet. |
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News in Brief
7 Die in Kyrgyzstan CrashGreen Cops Padding Stats3 Police Killed in ChechnyaCuban Aircraft Crisis?Veterans to Get New Wheels |
Business
Dudley Told He Can Work for Now
By Anna Yukhananov / Special to The Moscow Times The Federal Migration Service and TNK-BP CEO Robert Dudley on Monday agreed that he could continue working while he sorts through disagreements over the company’s leadership and strategy with its billionaire shareholders. |
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Putin Says Oil Supplies Must Reach Czechs
Reuters Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Monday ordered the guarantee of full oil supplies to the Czech Republic and sought to deny that disruptions in July were linked to Prague’s role in a U.S. missile-defense shield. |
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Severstal in Bidding for Brazil Firm
Reuters Severstal, India's Essar, China's Shagang Group and a Japanese consortium are among the groups that are in the second round of bidding for Brazilian steelmaker CSN's iron ore unit, according to sources close to the matter, in what could be a $10 billion deal. |
Mordashov Boosts TUI Stake to 15%
By Jeremy Ventuso / Special to The Moscow Times Billionaire Alexei Mordashov has increased its stake in German tourism and shipping giant TUI to 15.03 percent, the company announced Monday. |
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Lebedev to Buy Tour Operator
By Marianna Tishchenko / Special to The Moscow Times The National Reserve Corporation, controlled by billionaire Alexander Lebedev, has agreed to purchase 76 percent of Germany’s sixth-largest tour operator, Oeger Group, his spokesman said Monday. |
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Raven Buys Warehouse for $216M
The Moscow Times British property firm Raven Russia said Monday that it concluded the purchase of the 164,000-square-meter AKM Logistics warehouse complex in St. Petersburg for $216 million. |
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Weak June Economic Figures Attributed in Part to Football
Reuters Unexpectedly weak data could herald a Russian economic slowdown, the government said Monday, although a better-than-expected showing in the Euro 2008 football championship may be partly to blame. |
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Business in Brief
VimpelCom Buys SotelcoRosenergoatom Output UpDeripaska May AppealPeter Hambro's H1 OutputGazprom Neft Q1 Profit UpTGK-1 '07 Profit DoubledFor the Record |
Opinion
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Relaunching the Missile Debate
The debate between the United States and Russia over U.S. plans to deploy a ballistic missile-defense system in Europe is heating up again. Persistent differences with Poland over its conditions for accepting defensive interceptor missiles have led U.S. officials to hint that they might even consider Lithuania as an alternative deployment site. |
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Nikolai Petrov: Rakhimov's Double Mutiny
Rady Khabirov, the former chief of staff to Bashkortostan President Murtaza Rakhimov, was fired in early July. The formal reason was based on allegations of corruption, but it was really as a result of a power struggle between the Bashkortostan republic and Moscow. |
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Konstantin Sonin: Biggest Firms Are Favored In the Regions
Our governors are primarily interested in big businesses because it is far easier to collect taxes from them than from small and medium-size firms. The problem is that this has become the deciding factor for governors when they determine which enterprises to support in their region's development. |
Real Estate
Developments Rise Over Moscow's Historic Field
By Anna Malpas / Staff Writer Residential buildings at Khodynskoye Pole are springing up quickly, but a planned museum and park are lagging behind. |
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Columnists
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
Medvedev's Toughest Presidential Test
By Georgy Bovt
The Failure of Realpolitik
By Alexander Golts
Finding Out Who's to Blame for This War
By Alexei Pankin
Georgia Set the Perfect Trap
By Vladimir Frolov
The Great Writer Who Buried Communism
By Yevgeny Kiselyov
The Same Old Presidential Reserve
By Nikolai Petrov
WTO Can Place Russia on the Right Track
By Anders Aslund
Traffic Police Reflect Russia's Value System
By Alexei Bayer
The Missiles of July
By Richard Lourie
Immunity From the Oil Curse
By Martin Gilman
