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Gazprom Goes Global
By Ed Bentley
With the opening of the first liquefied natural gas, or LNG, plant on Sakhalin Island in Russia's Far East, Gazprom is staking a bigger claim to world energy dominance - and signaling a shift toward conquering key Asian markets.
News
For richer, for poorer
The rich are, perhaps annoyingly, always with us - even when they're not quite as rich as they were before.
Comment
Are labour unions moving into politics?
By Sergei Balashov
Russia's worn-out Dissenters opposition movement may soon give way to an emerging force that is likely to take centre stage amid growing discontent, since the public is getting too few answers from both the government and its opponents.
Comment
The revolution won’t start here
By Shaun Walker
As the economic crisis takes its toll on most of Russia's industries, the lives of many people who live and work in small towns that support these industries are taking a turn for the worse.
Comment
Capping bankers’ pay
By Roland Oliphant
Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin has indicated that Russia may join Western governments in introducing salary caps for top bankers.
News
Medvedev reshuffle a wake-up call to governors
By Anna Arutunyan
President Dmitry Medvedev has ousted four regional governors in one day in what some political analysts said was a move to kill two birds with one stone: ensuring political stability in potentially troublesome regions as the crisis takes its toll on jobs, and showing the public that he can act decisively.
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Unions in the firing line
By Anna Arutunyan and Tim Wall
All that Dmitry Kozhnev, a Tver locomotive plant worker, wanted to do was get his company to follow the law.
News
Kyrgyz parliament votes to close U.S. airbase
BISHKEK (RIA Novosti)
- Kyrgyzstan's parliament voted overwhelmingly on Thursday to approve a presidential proposal to close a U.S. airbase used to support NATO operations in nearby Afghanistan since 2001.
News
Politkovskaya trial delivers acquittal
MOSCOW (RIA Novosti)
- A jury on Thursday acquitted all defendants suspected of involvement in the murder of journalist Anna Politkovskaya.
Business
Down to earth with a bump
By Andy Potts
No matter what your background, no matter how much money you have, when times are hard it's important to economise.
Business
Caught in an import prices trap
By Ed Bentley
As the world slips into recession, many governments are hoping their spending plans will boost growth and prevent deflation.
Business
Rising prices, falling incomes
By Elena Kirillova
Customers in Moscow supermarkets tell how higher prices and the economic crisis are affecting their shopping habits.
Culture
In brief - t.A.T.u. ‘were offered to buy’ Eurovision victory
t.A.T.u. ‘were offered to buy' Eurovision victory, ‘Brest Fortress' going ahead despite crisis, An ‘alternative' textbook on Russian literature, William Turner exhibition ‘taken by storm'
Culture
Not lost in translation
By Vladimir Kozlov
Catching the original English-language version of a recent film isn't so easy in Moscow these days, especially since the America Cinema closed a few years ago.
Restaurants & Bars
Balkan Baba
By Jennifer Chater
Bulgarian is a good ethnic cuisine for people of unadventurous taste. It's a little bit foreign, but still within the average Russian's comfort zone - which would make it suitable for a dinner with your spice-fearing in-laws, for example.
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Informal CIS Summit to be held in Moscow on May 8
15:50 18/03/2010 |
An informal Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) Summit will take place in Moscow on May 8 on the eve of the grandiose 65th Victory Day Parade, a Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman said on Thursday.
UN, CSTO sign cooperation deal
15:00 18/03/2010 |
The UN and the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), a post-Soviet security group, signed on Thursday a declaration of cooperation between their secretariats.
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14:45 18/03/2010 |
Russian mobile operator VimpelCom announced on Thursday a US GAAP profit of $283 million for the fourth quarter of 2009 compared with a net loss of $816 million the previous year.
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14:39 18/03/2010 |
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said he agrees with UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon that Israelis and Palestinians should begin direct talks to resolve the ongoing conflict.
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