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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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Friday, July 18, 2008 Updated at 17 July 2008 23:26 Moscow Time

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.

News

Ex-Senator Convicted of Fraud	Tens of Thousands March 90 Years After Tsar's Death
Parrots Killed for Beer	News in Brief
Germany Presents Abkhazia Proposal	About 50,000 Museum Pieces Lost
Boss' East Berlin Show Strikes Chord 20 Years On	Chicago Blues Scene in Decline as Legends Die Out
Napolitano Backs New Security Pact	Court Rejects Bid To Annul Elections

Business

Business in Brief	President Plugs IT, Democracy
E.On Starts Building Mega Plant	Evraz Buys Stake in Australian Miner
Defense Contracts In Doubt	Bill to Let Ferry Tourists Spend 3 Days in St. Pete
Business in Brief	VTB Says Deposits Rose 83%
Hapoalim to Buy 76% of SDM-Bank	Moody's Upgrades Russian Bonds

Opinion

Op-Ed Contributor: Linking Communism With Nazism	Michele A. Berdy: A Duck by Any Other Name
Georgy Bovt: The Kremlin's Tibet	Letters: Big Business, Visa Agony and Genghis Khan
Yulia Latynina: FSB Blues	Editorial: Russia's Veto On Zimbabwe Is No Surprise
Op-Ed Contributor: Blows Below the Belt	Alexei Pankin: It is the 1990s All Over Again For the Press
Alexander Golts: Battling Cold War Cliches	Alexei Bayer: U.S. Decline Gives Moscow a Golden Chance

Arts & Ideas

The Year on Stage	Unfriendly Fire
Party in the Park	Politics From Preachers
Wanted	Salon
In the Spotlight	Image
Revolutionary Ballet	Close Shots

Sports

Russia Trebles Medal Bonuses	Sprinter Targets Unlikely Return
NHL, Russian Rival Reach Deal	Arshavin in Limbo After Zenit Rejects Barca's Bid
Arshavin in Limbo After Zenit Rejects Barca's Bid	Resilient Germany Beats Turkey at Its Own Game
Spain Has Learned to Win Ugly	Forget Defeat, Momentum Is Now With Russia
Words to Wife Possibly Sparked Betting Scandal	Striker's Return to Form Takes Euro '08 by Storm

Currency Exchange

USD/RUR - 23.5
EUR/RUR - 37.1

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Partly Cloudy 26^o C

Winds: N at 4.5 m/s Pressure: 744 mb Humidity: 65% more

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