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Business: RenCap Cuts RTS '08 Target to 2,350
Renaissance Capital on Monday slashed its year-end forecast for the benchmark RTS Index from 3,000 to 2,350 and increased its equity risk premium for the country from 4 percent to 5.5 percent in a sign of continued investor jitters.

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Medvedev Disappointed in Dushanbe
By Nabi Abdullaev / Staff Writer Moscow fell short of the diplomatic support it was looking for Thursday, as Central Asian states and China failed to back its recognition of independence for South Ossetia and Abkhazia, offering instead only qualified praise for Russia's actions in the Georgian conflict.
Putin Accuses U.S. Over Georgia
By Nabi Abdullaev / Staff Writer Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Thursday accused the United States of orchestrating the military conflict in Georgia in order to boost the chances of a U.S. presidential candidate.
Siemens Takes Look at Sovereign Wealth Fund
By Anatoly Medetsky, Nadia Popova / Staff Writers Europe's biggest engineering company, Siemens, said Thursday it was seeking investment from a Russian sovereign fund as it looks for greater access to the country, where huge infrastructure projects are planned.
Investors Bet Millions on the Sun
By Maria Antonova / Staff Writer Global demand and Russian expertise are seen as the recipe for solar power.

RIA-Novosti / AP
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad greeting President Dmitry Medvedev at a Shanghai Cooperation Organization meeting in Dushanbe on Thursday.more
Football Is Becoming Big Business in Russia
By Tariq Panja / Bloomberg As coach Dick Advocaat celebrated with his Zenit St. Petersburg team after they won the club's first European trophy, his mobile phone buzzed. It was Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.
VimpelCom's Q2 Profit Up 31%
Combined Reports The cell phone company also confirms it will start selling iPhones this year.
Getting Russia to Pay for Its Defaulted Bonds

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Columnists

One Way to Live Happily Ever After
By Michele A. Berdy

Nation of Champions Starts in the Courtyard
By Georgy Bovt

Leonid Kuchma Built a Prosperous Ukraine
By Anders Aslund

Don't Trust Politicians With War
By Alexander Golts

Rethinking the War
By Alexei Pankin

The Age of Solzhenitsyn
By Alexei Bayer

How Pique and Spite Can Destroy Relations
By Vladimir Frolov

Russia's Upside in the Georgia Conflict
By Boris Kagarlitsky

Georgian Crisis Is a Trap for U.S. Leadership
By Fyodor Lukyanov

Looking Into Saakashvili's Caucasus Soul
By Yulia Latynina

A Tried and True Diversion Tactic
By Konstantin Sonin

Still Going for Their Gold
By Mark H. Teeter

Fighting Russian Tanks With Patriotic Defiance
By Matthew Collin

The Great Writer Who Buried Communism
By Yevgeny Kiselyov

The Same Old Presidential Reserve
By Nikolai Petrov

The Missiles of July
By Richard Lourie

Immunity From the Oil Curse
By Martin Gilman






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