Ukraine, struggling to pay rising bills for Russian gas and with some areas suffering power rationing due to the severe cold, could halve its gas use by using it more efficiently. KIEV — Ukraine, struggling to pay rising bills for Russian gas and with some areas suffering power rationing due to the severe cold, could halve its gas use by using it more efficiently, a European Bank for Reconstruction and Development official said. High gas prices are a burden on Ukraine...

The Moscow Times is covering Saturday's rallies in Moscow. The first event of the day, an opposition march, is scheduled to begin at 1 p.m. local time. Four demonstrations are planned in Moscow on Saturday: an opposition march and rally ending at Bolotnaya Ploshchad; a pro-Putin rally at Poklonnaya Gora; a rally organized by liberal activists at Prospect Sakharova; and an event hosted by the nationalist Liberal Democratic Party at Pushkin Square. You can read more about plans for the events in...

... river Gubdenozen. Daudov had been wounded several times and was wearing a tourniquet on his hand. He likely died of shock from his injuries and cold temperatures that reached as low as minus 15 C, Kommersant reported. The special forces also found archival material in the building that had housed the insurgents, including a video message from the leader calling for the killing of innocent people. "Daudov, addressing the villagers, did not hide his murderous intentions when he said he will not...

... after building managers blocked access to the outside world, has received food and supplies by lowering a plastic bag out of the window on a rope. Kirtbaya is refusing to leave the building without documents that Kosarev claims have historical and archival value. In the late 1990s, Perlovy & Co. took out a 49-year lease from the Moscow city government for 1,800 square meters of the ornate 2,400-square-meter Perlov House — named after a pre-revolutionary merchant — on Myasnitskaya Ulitsa...

... communism, and we are in an energy rush with a country that has been reliant on coal and on supplies from the east." At Chevron's site outside Lesniowice, head of drilling Tim Nowak and his crew are doing all they can to make that happen. The site is a hive of activity with trucks owned by Halliburton parked in the lot, and drill parts and pipe casings strewn across the ground. The low rumble of the drill drones on in the background. Nowak acknowledges the challenges of creating an industry from the...

... accounting: invoicing and cash reporting, monitoring payment flow. Customer service: - Outdoor sales, marketing and PR, - Presentations to corporate customers - Documents translation (English-Russian), compilation of clients archive, - Full cycle of Agreement conclusion. Business trips: - Zurich, Switzerland – trainings on different topics: reservation systems (Carido, Swiss Worx Champion course), Dangerous goods and Live animals training, Advanced Sales Seminar...

... format, although the library is trying to update them. Attempts to modernize the collection are currently underway, and the library has been taking screenshots of relevant online material for the last four years and is taking part in a project to archive specific sites. "From the History of Russian Political Technology" runs until Feb. 21 at the State Public Historical Library. 9 Starosadsky Pereulok, Bldg. 1, Metro Kitai-Gorod. Mon. through Fri. 625-6514. www.shpl.ru . 452807 179741

... beautifully shot Cold War thriller starring Gary Oldman, Colin Firth and Tom Hardy. Dome Cinema Sat. and Sun. at 3 p.m. In English; Russian translation by headphones. Pyat Zvyozd-Novokuznetskaya Thurs. to Wed. at 11:05 a.m. Dubbed. Vysotsky. Spasibo, Chto Zhivoi (Vysotsky. Thanks for My Life, 2011): A look at the legendary Russian bard Vladimir Vysotsky and his near-death experience in 1979. Directed by Pyotr Buslov, written by Nikita Vysotsky. Pyat Zvyozd-Novokuznetskaya Thurs. to Wed. at 3:35 p.m. W...

... Rumors that these lakes were also home to secret German submarine bases during World War II are also being revisited in the wake of renewed excitement, driven by Nazi claims that they had created an "unassailable" Antarctic fortress and by archival evidence describing the construction of ice caves. 179742

Over 100,000 demonstrators took to the bitterly cold streets of Moscow on Saturday to rally at competing events both for and against longtime leader Vladimir Putin. Archived Live Blog: Rallies in Moscow Over 100,000 demonstrators took to the bitterly cold streets of Moscow on Saturday to rally at competing events both for and against longtime leader Vladimir Putin. On a day when temperatures dipped as low as minus...

... Film Atrium Thurs. to Wed. at 12:30, 1, 4:45, 6:45 and 8:20 p.m. Dubbed. Oktyabr Thurs. to Wed. at 11:45 a.m., 1:40, 3:35, 5:30, 7:25, 9:20 and 11:15 p.m. Dubbed. Pyat Zvyozd-Paveletskaya Thurs. to Wed. at 1:50 p.m. Dubbed. Vysotsky. Spasibo, Chto Zhivoi (Vysotsky. Thanks for My Life, 2011): A look at the legendary Russian bard Vladimir Vysotsky and his near-death experience in 1979. Directed by Pyotr Buslov, written by Nikita Vysotsky. Pyat Zvyozd-Novokuznetskaya Thurs. to Wed. at 11:10 a.m. W...

... Nemirovich-Danchenko Musical Theater. 7 p.m. The Old Woman (Starukha): a movement staging by Alexander Pepelyayev. Aktovy Zal. 6 p.m. Sunday, February 5th Anyuta: (See Thurs. listing.) Bolshoi Theater New Stage. 7 p.m. Monday, February 6th Slice to Sharp (Zatachivaya do Ostroty): Jorma Elo’s one-act ballet set to music by Vivaldi and Biber. Also in program are Naco Duato’s “Por Vos Muero” to early Spanish music, and his triptych “Na Floresta.” Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko...

A former senior Russian archive official says he saw a file that could shed light on Holocaust hero Raoul Wallenberg's fate — challenging the FSB's insistence that it has no documents about the man who saved thousands of Hungarian Jews before disappearing...

...,000 polling stations located in prisons, hospitals and military units. The camera network is built to allow 25 million views per day. Shchyogolev said presidential candidates and the media will all have access to the broadcast, which will also be archived after the election. Some experts have expressed skepticism about the project, saying the installation of cameras cannot prevent elections commission members from changing results. But Igor Borisov, a former Central Elections Commission member,...

... KGB intervened in the early 1990s to stop the previous investigation. 
Russian scholar Vadim Birstein, one of the researchers working for the first Wallenberg commission, said they had just found some previously unknown documents when the archive was closed to them in the spring of 1991. 
The former head of the Soviet "Special Archive," Anatoly Prokopenko, said that following a brief period of openness before and after the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union, Russian authorities...

... said German researcher Susanne Berger who consulted a Swedish-Russian working group that conducted a 10-year investigation until 2001. The Sept. 16, 1991 memorandum from the Swedish Embassy in Moscow cites the former head of the Soviet "Special Archive," Anatoly Prokopenko, as telling Swedish diplomats that the KGB instructed him to stop a search for documents by researchers working for the first International Wallenberg Commission. Prokopenko also said the KGB wanted copies of all documents...

... House, the American ambassador's residence in Moscow. The exhibit pieced together Knight-Davies's restored photographs together with diary entries. The photographs are now on regular display, and Grosjean's restoration project has grown from family archiving to academic research at the Russian State University for Humanities, funded by a Fulbright grant. One of Grosjean's goals is to locate the buildings and faces in her mother's photographs and find out where everything is today. Grosjean has traveled...