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

News Russia tries a British reset Anna Arutunyan and Ed Bentley Moscow and London look to business deals as they seek to bury the hatchet

News 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

News 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

News 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

News Air conditioners under fire Ayano Hodouchi City authorities threaten to target ugly fixtures on building facades

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

Comment Heroin addiction is still shooting up Tom Balmforth While demand for the drug continues to rise, so does the supply from Afghanistan

Feature 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

Business Brits’ top tips Ed Bentley Participants at the RBCC RussiaTalk 2009 forum say which sectors of the Russian economy they would invest in

Business 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

Business 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.

Columnists Thai hard, Moscow harder Deidre Dare I’ve found I can survive most things about living here – even waiting for supermarket deliveries

Sports CSKA give Ramos the boot Andy Potts The Spanish coach leaves his post after just six weeks at the club

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