Sokolniki Park is gearing up to welcome up to 400,000 guests to its annual ice cream festival next weekend, and among them several new guests — foreign companies. Sokolniki Park is gearing up to welcome up to 400,000 guests to its annual ice cream festival next weekend, and among them several new guests — foreign companies. The debut of foreign ice cream producers at the 16-year-old event may be an indication of the changes to come as Russia prepares to enter the World...

... ready to take action in this area, the IMF would be ready to resume discussion on the next stage of the [bailout] program," IMF mission chief Christopher Jarvis said. The Kiev government has balked at the politically risky step of raising gas and heating prices for Ukrainian households by 30 percent to 50 percent, hoping to renegotiate cheaper natural gas from Russia to circumvent the problem and forfeiting $6 billion in tranches of IMF money. (Reuters)

... reply were published online by regional media. Popov said Wednesday that he had no idea why the police needed the information, but that this was not the first time he had received such a request. "In 2008 when the conflict over South Ossetia heated up, I was asked to give information about Georgians," he told the Ura.ru news website. He added that at the time he replied that there were Cumans — a nomadic people that roamed the region in the Middle Ages — at the school. Chelyabinsk...

... Shlegel in commentary he made in 2010 defending the controversial replacement Moscow-St. Petersburg highway that will run through Khimki Forest. “I made acquaintances, fell in love, quarreled and parted, fought and made friends, died from cold and heat, read poems, wrote poems, studied, worked, slept, ate, drank, hitchhiked and … even had a birthday once. In a word, I lived and grew up in that traffic jam,” he wrote in a blog post at the time. 417712 179742

... shipper, which said a tightening of EU sanctions in March had forced the firm to cut ties with Syria's distribution company Mahrukat. The EU's move also forced Greek company Naftomar, previously a mainstay of Syrian imports, to halt deliveries of the heating fuel liquefied petroleum gas used in Syrian homes and businesses. LPG imports are seen as peaceful because they play a vital role in regions with limited infrastructure for piping gas, and a Naftomar director said in April that the stoppage would...

... force for senior leadership to push laws through the parliament. "In private conversations, all of you have said it's impossible to work like this and we don't mean anything for the party," Deputy State Duma Speaker Oleg Morozov said during a heated debate at a round table on the eve of the convention. Morozov, a United Russia heavyweight, made that comment shortly before being named head of the presidential administration’s department for domestic politics. He was echoed by another...

... thousands of Great Patriotic War veterans housing, despite the public promises to do so. Brave men and women to whom Russia owes its very existence after they defended the Soviet Union against the Nazis still live in dilapidated shacks without central heating, running water or indoor toilets. Instead, Russia's leaders take great pride over the country's huge nuclear arsenal that is capable of destroying the United States. At least, that was the message delivered at an international conference on missile...

... the Kremlin and the first time there was so much bloodshed. According to various sources, up to 30 policemen and more than 100 protesters were wounded, while more than 600 people were arrested. The next day the violence died down, but the situation heated up. Several hundred opposition activists headed by anti-corruption blogger Alexei Navalny set up a camp near the Kitai-Gorod metro station. This event once again ended in arrests, including Navalny, who was later sentenced to 15 days of detention...

... the girl's progressive illness incapacitated her. Charlotte is angry and humiliated when she learns that Eva rescued Helena from the hospital and now cares for her at home. What emerges is a slow-burning confrontation that begins in the evening, heats up during the night and bursts into flames in the early hours of the morning. Eva hurls a lifetime of frustration at her mother. She felt abandoned, unappreciated and unloved. She cannot forgive her mother for putting her career ahead...

... trips up to 90%. 06/2007 – 02/2008 – LLC "Fraenkische RUS", Moscow. (Russian trade delegates of Fraenkische Rohrwerke" company, Germany). Company’s direction of activity: production and sales of multilayer metal-plastic pipes for heating and water distribution systems. Post: Sales Manager. Functions: searching of potential customers, dealers and engineering companies; marketing research of metal-plastic piping systems; creation and filling of clients database; budgeting; participation...

... supported the establishment of an efficient supply chain infrastructure. We had to learn many things that only Siberia could teach us. The trucks, for example, have to be equipped with the latest air-conditioning systems to cool the food in summer and "heat" it during the glacial winter months. This is the only way to ensure that professional customers always find high-quality products on the shelves. Q: What has made the strongest impression on you in Krasnoyarsk? A: It's a very beautiful and...