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The Moscow Times
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The Moscow Times is a daily English-language newspaper featuring objective, reliable news on business, politics and culture in Russia and the former Soviet Union (CIS).
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Police Clear Chistiye Prudy Camp, Arrest 20 Protesters
Early Wednesday police ordered opposition protesters camped out on Chistoprudny Bulvar to leave the area, ending a week-long occupation by the demonstrators.
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Airlines Push for Passenger Blacklist
Ill-tempered air travelers might want to think twice before throwing a fit at 35,000 feet on Aeroflot. If the airline gets its way, they could be blacklisted.
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Safety, Cost Meet Head On in Arctic Oil Race
Half a century ago, this town on the White Sea coast was a supply mecca for residents of the nearby metropolis Arkhangelsk, who regularly made the 35-kilometer trip just to buy sausage, which was usually available in the well-stocked stores of strategically important defense industry centers.
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TV Commentator Criticizes 'Disinfected' Inauguration Motorcade
Television humorist Mikhail Zhvanetsky criticized President Putin's inauguration motorcade on state television, saying it looked "disinfected" and "wiped with alcohol."
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Tractor Plows Into Siberia Bus Stop, Killing 3
A tractor in the Siberian region of Tomsk slammed into a bus stop on a rural road, killing one person instantly and sending two others to the hospital, where they later died, police said in a statement on their website Wednesday.
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Russian Naval 'Spy' Released by Ukraine
A court in Sevastopol, Ukraine has acquitted a Russian defense contractor on espionage charges after he spent two-and-a-half years in prison for buying a piece of outdated Soviet equipment from Ukrainian partners.
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Russians Consuming Faster Than Earth Can Supply
If everyone lived like Russians, humanity would need 2 1/2 planet Earths to sustain consumption, though this profligacy is dwarfed by the American lifestyle - which would require no less than four planets to sustain on a humanity-wide scale, according to the World Wildlife Fund.
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Religious-Themed Art Show Sparks Protest
A religiously themed art exhibition organized in Krasnodar by a prominent patron of the arts has sparked a flurry of protest from activists and even a fake bomb threat, despite being supported by a senior Russian Orthodox Church official.
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Occupy Camp on the Move After Police Move In
After days of speculation, riot police swooped in and dismantled the opposition's Occupy-style encampment in a central Moscow park early Wednesday morning, detaining more than 20 exhausted activists and hustling the others into a nearby metro station.
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Citibank Sees Ongoing Challenges to Economic Stability Ahead
Russia will confront a persistent protest movement and a steady decline in oil revenues over the coming years.
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Ignatyev Tells Duma 2012 Sberbank Sale Still Possible
The Central Bank has not ruled out selling a 7.6 percent stake of financial giant Sberbank this year.
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Cigarettes to Cost 5 Times More by 2018
Smoking in Russia will soon be more expensive, as analysts say current tax plans will cause the price of cigarettes to jump five times higher by 2018.
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Superjet Black Box Found
Investigators on Wednesday were analyzing the cockpit voice recorder from the Superjet, which slammed into the side of an Indonesian volcano. They hope the final words of the two pilots will help explain what caused last week's crash, which killed all 45 people on board.
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Russian Satellite Takes Highest-Ever Resolution Picture of Earth
A stunning 121-megapixel snapshot of the Earth was taken by a Russian weather satellite in what is thought to be the highest resolution picture of the planet ever taken from space.
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Putin Headed to Belarus
President Vladimir Putin's first official visit as president will be to Belarus on May 31.
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Traffic Worries FIFA
A FIFA delegation expressed concern about Moscow's congested traffic during a Wednesday visit to assess the city as a venue for the FIFA World Cup in 2018.
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More Choices, Better Prices on Flights to Italy
Transaero has launched sales for its long-awaited Italian routes with an aggressive undercutting of prices offered by rival Aeroflot.
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Medvedev Plans 'Government With Room for Growth'
President Vladimir Putin is leaving his influence group in power at three agencies, while Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev chose new people for all other places in the government.
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Ukraine Accepts EU Experts for Tymoshenko
Ukraine's Prime Minister Mykola Azarov said Wednesday that the European Union can send experts to assess both the medical state of his jailed predecessor Yulia Tymoshenko and the legal process that led to her conviction and seven-year sentence.
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Uzbekistan Plans Privatization Drive
Uzbekistan's government says it plans to sell off almost 500 state assets over the next two years in an ongoing drive to expand the private sector in this former Soviet nation.
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Short Shelf Life for Simonov's 'Choosing a Hero'
It was in early 2011 that I heard playwright Maksym Kurochkin make a fascinating observation. He was in Austin, Texas, attending a festival of new Russian drama. At the time I was listening in on Skype.
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Wanted: Teleportation
It was one of the more tempting offers that came in to my inbox this Friday to experience teleportation through time and space. Something about the letter seemed familiar, and perhaps I had already been on it, had been sent back to the moment the e-mail arrived and was experiencing some kind of time-travel indigestion.
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Dutch Festival Aims To Lure Expat Crowd
Moscow's Flacon Design Factory hosts a day of Dutch-themed festivities on Saturday aimed at expats and Muscovites. From noon until dawn the next day visitors will be able to take part in various activities such as a ping-pong tournament, a vintage garage sale and children's games as part of the free event which is supported by the Dutch Embassy.
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How to De-Spook Investors
Political uncertainty, now affecting almost all of the world's major economies, has combined with economic unpredictability to create an even more uncertain backdrop for global markets.
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Opposition Needs to Reach Beyond Moscow
The Moscow protests on May 6 marked a milestone in the country's political development.
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Cyprus Will Remain a Valuable Partner for Russia
In response to "Cypriot Tax Haven May Soon Come to an End," a comment by Daniel Klein on April 25.
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Lawyers Greet WTO Warmly
Not everyone is happy that Russia will likely join the World Trade Organization this summer, and a referendum drive is under way to question the country's accession. Many Russia-based lawyers, however, welcome the nation's entry into the WTO.
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USC Buys Vyborg Shipyard
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IP Rights Get a Boost
Emerging economies like Russia have long been the bane of industries dependent on intellectual property rights, such as the software industry. Sixty-five percent of software in Russia is stolen, Bloomberg reported last year. The country's accession to the WTO, however, has already resulted in important steps to more effectively enforce intellectual property rights, said Michael Malloy, head of the intellectual property and technology practice at DLA Piper in Russia.
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Inflation Target Steady
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Legal Round Table: Developments in the Field
From sweeping new regulations in industries such as pharmaceuticals to the Civil Code revisions and migration amnesty law currently under discussion, Russia's legal environment is constantly changing. The Moscow Times posed four questions by e-mail to four Moscow-based lawyers specializing in different fields about new developments in their areas of practice.
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Siluanov Backs Tax Break
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Syzran Plant Gets Loan
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