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Market Matters: Struggling Stocks Spur New Record Oil Prices
Oil hit another record of just under $143 as global stocks tumbled last week, with the Dow briefly dipping into bear market territory as investors sought safety in gold, government debt and the Swiss franc.

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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.
U.S. Spurs Hopes of An End to HIV Tests
By Svetlana Osadchuk 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 Miriam Elder, Anatoly Medetsky, Anna Yukhananov The company’s chief executive rejects a lawsuit against him from a group of Russians and vows to continue working.
Rosneft Set to Clear $22Bln Yukos Loan
By Dmitry Zhdannikov, Christopher Mangham The firm will soon pay off a huge bridging loan taken to buy Yukos assets. It still has net debt of over $20 billion.

Denis Sinyakov / Reuters
TNK-BP chief executive Robert Dudley gesturing after a news conference Thursday. He said he hoped to still be able to walk into TNK-BP's offices on Monday.more
Eurochem in $630M Deal to Develop Potassium Deposit
Fertilizer maker Eurochem signed a $634 million deal with an international group of contractors on Thursday to help it develop a potassium deposit near the Volga River.
Business Group Urges Action on Graft
By Marianna Tishchenko Delovaya Rossia says it will coordinate lobbying on the issue of corruption.
The Last Tsar Was Michael, Not Nicholas
By W. George Krasnow The 90th anniversary of the massacre of the Romanovs in Yekaterinburg has been raised to a new dimension thanks to the city of Perm. Since 1991, a growing number of Perm residents have argued that the last legitimate ruler of Russia was not Nicholas II, but his younger brother Michael. Recently, their cause got a mighty boost -- from Britain, of all places.

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Columnists

A Duck by Any Other Name
By Michele A. Berdy

The Kremlin's Tibet
By Georgy Bovt

FSB Blues
By Yulia Latynina

It is the 1990s All Over Again For the Press
By Alexei Pankin

Battling Cold War Cliches
By Alexander Golts

U.S. Decline Gives Moscow a Golden Chance
By Alexei Bayer

Medvedev Passed G8 Test
By Vladimir Frolov

Medvedev Is Neither Tsar Nor Saint
By Boris Kagarlitsky

Progressive Tax System Is Fair And Necessary
By Konstantin Sonin

Abramovich's Chukotka Miracle
By Nikolai Petrov

It'll Take More Than PR to Lift Russia's Image
By Richard Lourie

The Talented Mr. Ripsky
By Mark H. Teeter

Selling Lofty Dreams in Separatist South Ossetia
By Matthew Collin

Lessons About Franco, Football and Freedom
By Yevgeny Kiselyov

Inflation's Sun Spots Stain Economic Successes
By Anders Aslund

From Vancouver to Vladivostok
By Fyodor Lukyanov

Immunity From the Oil Curse
By Martin Gilman






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