The Communications and Press Ministry has opened a much-anticipated competition for 4G wireless frequencies, with winning telecoms operators to be announced July 12 and licenses to take effect in 2013. The Communications and Press Ministry has opened a much-anticipated competition for 4G wireless frequencies, with winning telecoms...

One of my favorite new language toys is Google's Ngram Viewer, which lets you — in highly technical Googlese — "search lots of books" to find the frequency of a word or phrase. This is a helpful tool for translators who are trying to choose a word in English that matches, more or less, its Russian equivalent in frequency of usage. Провокатор: plant, rabble-rouser...

Scartel (better known to the consumer under the brand name Yota) is the only Russian company that boasts the frequency LTE (4G), and today one of the most desirable pieces on the telecommunications market. The future of this industry depends on how quickly the company is swooped up and taken under the wing of one of the big three operators. Vladimir Lupenko...

... responsible for about half of the registered violations of anti-monopoly laws, deputy head of the Federal Anti-Monopoly Service Andrei Tsarikovsky said in an interview with Rossiiskaya Gazeta. Tsarikovsky offered a pessimistic view as he highlighted the frequency with which public servants abuse public procurements, provide unreasonable preferences for companies owned by acquaintances and create obstacles for unfriendly companies, saying a new generation of economists and officials was needed to challenge...

... responsible for about half the registered violations of anti-monopoly laws, deputy head of the Federal Anti-Monopoly Service Andrei Tsarikovsky said in an interview with Rossiiskaya Gazeta. Tsarikovsky offered a pessimistic view as he highlighted the frequency with which public servants abuse public procurements, provide unreasonable preferences for companies owned by acquaintances, and create obstacles for unfriendly companies, saying a new generation of economists and officials was needed to challenge...

... juncture, we have no idea what was going on up there," he said. "It's too early to try and pinpoint a cause." There also was no sign after the disaster of the plane's emergency locator, which should have transmitted signals on various radio frequencies when it slammed into the cliff. That slowed efforts to locate the wreckage. 179736

... reality. The most constant source of fear that is recounted in our classes is from being physically, sexually, verbally and emotionally abused by alcoholic parents or grandparents. Because the alcoholism rate is so high in Russia, it exacerbates the frequency and intensity of abuse. Alcohol is like gasoline poured upon smoldering coals and thus the intense flames of violence erupt and the ensuing rage envelops innocent victims — often children. While alcohol remains the main instigator of...