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New York Times International Weekly and International Herald Tribune rank top in european readership results

The European Media and Marketing Survey 2008 shows that two publications of The New York Times Media Group - The New York Times International Weekly and the International Herald Tribune (IHT) - are delivering a combined readership of 1.3 million among Europe’s high earners.


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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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Finding a Remedy for Health Care
By Svetlana Osadchuk / Staff Writer When anesthesiologist Dmitry Sedykh was called to treat an 8-month-old suffering from heart failure this May, he found no equipment to resuscitate the baby boy.
Moscow Says Some Troops to Stay Put
By Nikolaus von Twickel, Matt Siegel / Staff Writers Russian soldiers were at work digging positions outside Georgia’s main Black Sea port city of Poti on Thursday at the same time Moscow maintained that its soldiers were on schedule to pull out of the country proper by Friday.
Khodorkovsky Offers to Stay Out of Business
By Nadia Popova / Staff Writer Jailed tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky told his parole hearing Thursday that if freed he would quit the oil business for good, and devote his life instead to humanitarian work and his family.
Syria Expected to Reach Arms Deals
By Oleg Shchedrov / Reuters Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad backed Russia’s military action against Georgia at talks with President Dmitry Medvedev on Thursday that were expected to cover purchases of Russian arms.

Courtesy Of Dmitry Sedykh
Eight-month-old Alexei Artemikhin recovering from heart failure in a hospital in the Kirov region. An inventive anesthesiologist saved his life with an air pillow.more
Kudrin Uneasy Over Oil Price Downturn
By Anatoly Medetsky / Staff Writer Falling oil prices might mean that Russia will begin to spend its financial cushion, the Reserve Fund, in 2015, Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin said Thursday.
Reserves Plummet $16.4Bln in a Week
By Tai Adelaja / Staff Writer Russia’s international reserves fell $16.4 billion in the week from Aug. 8, as the Central Bank moved to prop up the ruble amid concerns over the conflict with Georgia and the euro weakening against the dollar.
Russia Values Oil More Than War
One counterintuitive feature of the five-day war between Russia and Georgia is its minimal impact on the energy flows from the Caspian to world markets.

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Columnists

When Leaving Is Not Quite Leaving
By Michele A. Berdy

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

Medvedev's Toughest Presidential Test
By Georgy Bovt

The Failure of Realpolitik
By Alexander Golts

Finding Out Who's to Blame for This War
By Alexei Pankin

Georgia Set the Perfect Trap
By Vladimir Frolov

The Great Writer Who Buried Communism
By Yevgeny Kiselyov

The Same Old Presidential Reserve
By Nikolai Petrov

WTO Can Place Russia on the Right Track
By Anders Aslund

Traffic Police Reflect Russia's Value System
By Alexei Bayer

The Missiles of July
By Richard Lourie

Immunity From the Oil Curse
By Martin Gilman






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