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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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Sunday, July 20, 2008
Updated at 17 July 2008 23:26 Moscow Time
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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. |
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| 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 |
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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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