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Switching channels

Mark H. Teeter
Too little (or too much) diversity in news gathering can be bad for your telly vision

HRH Prince Michael of Kent and Anne Fyfe Pringle, the Ambassador of Great Britain in Russia © RIA Novosti

Russia tries a British reset

Anna Arutunyan and Ed Bentley
Moscow and London look to business deals as they seek to bury the hatchet

Moby Dick! It’s a whale of a ride

Andy Potts
What crisis? – a Russian firm offers a Bond car (with seats of whale penis leather) Georgian gangsters, say crime experts

Communists protesting against alleged election fraud on Saturday © RIA Novosti

Silvio in Piter, Saako goes Hollywood

Andy Potts
Berlusconi offers Putin birthday wines, while actor Andy Garcia gets to keep the president’s chair warm for Georgia’s tie-munching leader

A record haul of seafood has the fishing industry scambling to find new ways to sell its piscatorial produce © RIA Novosti

Chippies come to Moscow

Vladimir Kozlov and Nathan Toohey
The seafood industry hopes to hook people on fish ’n’ chips to shift a bumper catch

Air conditioners under fire

Ayano Hodouchi
City authorities threaten to target ugly fixtures on building facades

Tim Wall
The recession may be over, but the blues just won't go away.

A drugs officer checks bags stored at Moscow’s Kazansky Station © RIA Novosti

Heroin addiction is still shooting up

Tom Balmforth
While demand for the drug continues to rise, so does the supply from Afghanistan

The traditional big chorus scene, a speciality of Russia’s most famous opera company © Courtesy of Bolshoi Theatre

Love and hate for modern staging’s

Two opera buffs go head to head comparing two vastly different productions of ‘The Love for Three Oranges’ in two theatres

Tim Eggar © RIA Novosti

Brits’ top tips

Ed Bentley
Participants at the RBCC RussiaTalk 2009 forum say which sectors of the Russian economy they would invest in

Alfa’s Mikhail Fridman (right) is pushing Rusal to pay its debts © RIA Novosti

Cars, pipes and dinner deals

Andy Potts
Russia is kept waiting for Opel and South Stream, while Prokhorov clinches his basketball buy with a $19,000 lunch in New York

Getting tough on inflation

Ed Bentley
Russia's inflation could fall to just over 8 per cent, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said Sunday, smashing earlier official forecasts of 12 per cent and boosting recovery prospects.

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Thai hard, Moscow harder

Deidre Dare
I’ve found I can survive most things about living here – even waiting for supermarket deliveries

Outgoing coach Juande Ramos shows his frustration in the CSKA dug-out © RIA Novosti

CSKA give Ramos the boot

Andy Potts
The Spanish coach leaves his post after just six weeks at the club

Yevgeny Plushchenko © RIA Novosti

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Russian police officer, soldier face trial on Islamic gang charges

08:40 12/03/2010 |A military court in Russia's Far East has set a date for the trial of a former police officer and solider accused of involvement in a radical Islamic gang, a court spokesperson told RIA Novosti on Friday.

Obama names charities to receive his Nobel Prize money

07:12 12/03/2010 |U.S. President Barack Obama named ten charity organizations which would benefit from the $1.4 million he received after winning the Nobel Peace Prize, U.S. media said on Friday.

Stolen remains of Greek Cypriot president finally reburied

05:44 12/03/2010 |The body of the former Greek Cypriot president Tassos Papadopoulos has again been laid to rest in the capital Nicosia three months after being stolen from grave, local TV said on Friday.

Armenian genocide resolution "wrong way to go" - Swedish FM

04:59 12/03/2010 |Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt said on Friday adopting a resolution which recognizes the Armenian genocide by the Ottoman Empire was "the wrong way to go."