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Rambler's Top100

The Crisis: Electricity Providers Face Bankruptcy
Electricity suppliers across the country are cracking down as the number of delinquent private and corporate customers surges, as the dilapidated industry is mired in debt linked to unpaid consumer bills and the multibillion-dollar investment programs that investors signed onto during the privatization of Unified Energy System, which wrapped up just weeks before the financial crisis struck.

Market Matters: Uralkali Stock Stares Into A Chasm
Catching both the market and the potash producer by surprise, Deputy Prime Minister Igor Sechin reopened a 2006 investigation into the flooding of a Uralkali mine, sending the company's shares down 75 percent in London in the three trading days after the announcement.


Putin Unveils $14.6Bln Tax Cut
By Anatoly Medetsky / Staff Writer Prime Minister Vladimir Putin unveiled a new $14.6 billion measure Thursday aimed at helping businesses withstand the current economic downturn, spending likely to further drain the Reserve Fund next year.
Liquidity Slips Into Everyday Lexicon
By Maria Levina / Special to The Moscow Times Liquidity, a term rarely heard outside of boardrooms and brokerages just months ago, has been making its way into kitchen-table conversations, as a financial crisis catalyzed by the integration of global financial markets has come to threaten the country’s recent prosperity.
UFG's Boris Fyodorov Dies, 50
By Ira Iosebashvili, Maria Antonova / Staff Writers Boris Fyodorov, a Soviet-era adviser on free-market reforms and co-founder of the United Financial Group investment bank, died Thursday in London. He was 50.
Norilsk Profit May Fall 75% in 2009
By Nadia Popova / Staff Writer Norilsk Nickel’s profit may fall by as much as 75 percent in 2009 as demand has fallen in the midst of the financial crisis, the firm’s chief executive Vladimir Strzhalkovsky said Thursday.

Igor Tabakov / MT
Two women walking through Yekaterininsky Park in northern Moscow on Thursday, the first snowy day of winter. More snow is forecast for Friday and Saturday, with temperatures hitting a low of minus 1 degree Celsius.more
S&P Lowers Rating Of Russian Standard
By Maria Levina / Special to The Moscow Times Standard & Poor’s docked Russian Standard Bank’s long-term rating by one notch Thursday, lowering it to B+ from BB- in the first downgrade of a major domestic lender since the financial crisis began.
Putin's Rating Strong Despite the Turmoil
By Nabi Abdullaev / Staff Writer Ten years ago, the approval ratings of then-President Boris Yeltsin nose-dived from already meager levels following the ruinous financial crash.
Navy Plans Pirate Patrol Near Africa
Combined Reports The Navy said Thursday that it would keep a presence off the coast of East Africa to patrol against Somali pirates.

Currency Exchange


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When Success and Image Don't Mesh

Not All Regions Created Equal

Boosting Population a Vague Science

Armed With Nukes and a Vague Plan

Balancing Growth and Environment

Lots of Work but Too Few Workers

Rich Get Richer as Poor Get Poorer

Finding a Remedy for Health Care

A Crisis Brewing in the Classrooms

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Columnists

Getting Rid of Guests
By Michele A. Berdy

Doomed From the Start
By Boris Kagarlitsky

Making a Jester Out of Medvedev
By Yulia Latynina

The Real Issue Isn't a Shield in Central Europe
By Fyodor Lukyanov

Back-Scratching in America
By Alexei Pankin

U.S. Not a Threat After All
By Alexander Golts

Policing Immigrant Workers
By Alexei Bayer

Medvedev Learned His PR Skills From Chavez
By Vladimir Frolov

Don't Expect Miracles From the G20 Summit
By Martin Gilman

Preparing for Putin's Return to the Kremlin
By Nikolai Petrov

Obama and the KGB
By Richard Lourie

1,000 Presidential Pardons
By Mark H. Teeter

Tbilisi Protesters Could Be Doing Russia's Work
By Matthew Collin

A Guarded Liberalism
By Georgy Bovt

Eagerly Waiting for Change -- Within Russia
By Yevgeny Kiselyov

Putin's Costly Crash Course in Economics
By Konstantin Sonin

Russia's Top Economist Needs to Face Reality
By Anders Aslund






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