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Dick Cheney Mistakenly Staked on Caspian
U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney finished his tour of the South Caucasus, which was intended to strengthen Washington’s positions in its struggle for Caspian energy resources. The visit he paid ...
News in Brief
Photo: Pavel Solovyev,Kommersant Sep 05 17:37 // Stock Indexes Coming Back, Buy Now!
The Russian stock market is starting upward. At 2:30 p.m. local time, the MICEX index had fallen to 1166 points, down 9 percent. Then the ...
Photo: Reuters Sep 05 16:45 // U.S. VP Blames Russia for Ukraine’s Problems
U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney told Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko that Ukraine is going through hard times and those hard times are ...
Photo: Kommersant Sep 05 16:10 // Russia's Navy to Have New Amphibian Aircraft
The RF Navy will have the first amphibian A-42 in 2010, RIA Novosti reported September 5 with reference to the statement of Naval Aviation Deputy ...
Photo: Kommersant Sep 05 15:31 // Russian Army Gets New Drones
The Vega Radio Engineering Corp. has begun delivery of Tipchak unpiloted recognizance complexes to the Russian armed forces, Vega general director ...
Photo: Borislav Kozlovsky,Kommersant Sep 05 14:55 // Russia's Market Is In Flap
The slump on Russia's stock exchanges continues. MICEX lost over 5 percent as of 12:20 a.m. MSK, RTS fell 4 percent. The trend will hardly ...
Photo: Valery Levitin,Kommersant Sep 05 14:19 // The Flight Weather
The collapse of AiRUnion resulted in the biggest consolidation of Russia's aircraft assets. Based on AiRUnion and on the assets ...
Photo: Ivan Grankin,Kommersant Sep 05 11:59 // Market Doesn't Cost More Than a Ruble
Russia's market of foreign exchange rolled back to many years ago yesterday. People were queuing in front of exchange offices and the rate for ...
Photo: Dmitry Dukhanin,Kommersant Sep 05 11:16 // Some $5bn Flew Out in August
Some $5 billion flew out of the country in August, according to preliminary estimate of the CBR CEO Sergei Ignatiev. The amount is two-/three-fold ...
Photo: AP Sep 05 10:05 // Impressive Safina Determined to Reach Same Thing As Brother
Russia's Dinara Safina easily saw off Flavia Penetta of Italy at the U.S. Open tennis tournament at Flushing Meadows in New York to advance ...
Photo: Dmitry Dukhanin,Kommersant Sep 05 09:17 // Enemy for Short While
Most of the Russians don't believe that relations with the West will materially worsen in the wake of the operation on forcing Georgia to ...
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Photo: Reuters“We’re Glad Georgia Has Had to Withdraw Its Forces from Iraq”Thanks to the assistance of Oleg Mitvol, former deputy director the federal agency Rosprirodnadzor, Kommersant was able to ask the eldest  ...

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Once Upon a Time…
Photo: Archive photo,KommersantEvents1918 The decree of the Revolutionary Military Council of the Republic No 1 formed the headquarters of the Russian armed forces and appointed I.I. VATSETIS Commander-in-chief. The RMCR elected ...

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Stock Indexes Coming Back, ... U.S. VP Blames Russia for Ukraine’s ... Russia's Navy to Have New Amphibian ... Russian Army Gets New Drones Russia's Market Is In Flap The Flight Weather Georgia Gets a Collective Assessment Market Doesn't Cost More Than ... Some $5bn Flew Out in August Impressive Safina Determined to ... Enemy for Short While Economic Prognosis Ruble, Raw Materials Tumble U.S. Flagship Enters Black Sea Georgia Rearms with U.S. Aid Hydroaviation Show Opens in Gelendzhik Russian-Georgian Visa Ties Remain Ad Industry Receipts a Little ... Fortune Frowns on Stoli Dementieva Enters U.S. Semifinals Bank Wins $330 Mill. in Suit ... Europarliament Condemns Russia Tymoshenko Sinks the Orange ... Russia May Get Support After ... Credit Requirements Tightened Uzbek Pres. for Gas, Against ...

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Sep. 05, 2008
Georgia
Photo: Alexander Miridonov,KommersantGeorgia Gets a Collective AssessmentRussian diplomacy acieved an important triumph in foreign relations yesterday. At the Moscow meeting of the foreign ministers of the Collective Security Treaty Organization a joint ...

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Politics
Photo: Global CoolingLast week Russian President Dmitry Medvedev stated that he is not afraid of cold war. The West started discussing possible sanctions against Russia. Trying to forecast what Russia and the world ...

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Economics
Photo: Pavel Solov,KommersantEconomic PrognosisSeptember is here, and Vlast weekly, as usual, offers its economic forecast for the current month. Experts will answer the following questions: What will happen with the dollar exchange ...

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Business
Photo: Alexander Miridonov,KommersantRusal Drove MMC Norilsk Nickel to the Verge ...Not only did electing former head of the Federal Tourism Agency and Vladimir Putin’s KGB colleague Vladimir Strzhalkovsky as Norilsk Nickel’s CEO fail to put an end to the mutual claims of the ...

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Life
Photo: Valery Melnikov,KommersantInvestigators Can't Count the BodiesThe Russian Prosecutor General’s investigative committee presented preliminary results in the criminal case connected with events in South Ossetia. The committee has been able to document  ...

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Economic Prognosis (Sep 04, 2008)Global Cooling (Sep 03, 2008)Rusal Drove MMC Norilsk Nickel to the ... (Aug 20, 2008)“We’d Better Burn It down So That They ... (Aug 20, 2008)Foreigners Will Be Kept Out for Debt (Aug 19, 2008)Quod Erat Demonstrandum (Aug 18, 2008)Non-sports Aggression (Aug 06, 2008)Olympics’08 (Aug 06, 2008)

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Khabarovsk Territory
Khabarovsk Territory is located in the Far East of the Russian Federation. On the west and north, the territory borders on subjects of the Russian Federation, i.e., the Jewish Autonomous Region, Amur ...
Political Structure
The Russian Federation or Russia is a democratic federal rule-of-law state with the republican form of government. It consists of 21 republics, 6 territories, 49 regions, 2 federal cities, 1 autonomous ...
Kyrgyzstan to Spend Much Trouble on Cabinet’s Approval
The parliament of Kyrgyzstan focused on the ministers’ approval yesterday, September 27, 2007. Ten ministers got the go-ahead, six more candidates, ...
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Turkey Needs Helicopters Again
Yesterday, the Turkish Military Industry Department announced that it was extending the deadline for applications to take part in a tender to purchase ...
How Much One Vote and One Mandate Cost the Winners. Top 4
How Much One Vote and One Mandate Cost the Winners. Top 4  Rank in the rating  ...
Sep. 06, 2008
Latest markets information from Russia and the world. Find key market indicators, credit and currency rates, government and corporate bonds, leaders and outsiders on the Russian market, and much more useful information from Kommersant.
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