RUSSIA News, Sep 06, 2011

Medvedev to hold talks with Danish Queen Margrethe II RIA Novosti She visited Moscow and St. Petersburg in 1975. The visit comes after Medvedev's invitation to the royal family during his visit to Denmark in April 2010. Apart from the talks with Medvedev, the Queen will meet with Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin ... See all stories on this topic »

PPP and the Rebuilding of Russia's Infrastructure: Panacea or Waste of Resources The Moscow Times And in all of these areas, Russia's needs are monumental. It is also modern communications infrastructure such as free Wi-Fi networks that would do much more to spur innovation in Russia than Skolkovo, the Moscow financial center, and the attempt to ... See all stories on this topic » The Moscow Times

Russian Muslim leaders speak out against demolition of Moscow grand mosque Interfax-Religion Muslim leaders urged the federal authorities, the leadership of Moscow and Tatarstan, the World Congress of Tatars, local Tatar communities, public and religious figures in Russia" to raise their voices in defense of Tatar and consequently Russian ... See all stories on this topic »

Russian police bans going to balconies during Putin visit AFP SAINT PETERSBURG — Police in a northwestern Russian city ordered residents not to approach windows or go to their balconies during a visit by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, a regional news website reported. "A senior official is arriving. ... See all stories on this topic » AFP

Slump of onion prices in Russia Agrimarket Consulting The sharp growth of onion supply was registered also in main consuming regions: Moscow and SaintPetersburg where prices fell to almost minimum levels too. Average prices for onions varied within RUB 5.00-6.50/kg (EUR 0.12-0.16/kg) in producing regions ... See all stories on this topic »

September 4 is 864th Anniversary of Moscow BCM Moscow is located in the center of European Russia, between the Oka and Volga rivers, on both banks of the Moskva River. The first reference to Moscow was found in the Ipatiev Chronicle. It narrates that in 1147, Prince Yuri Dolgoruky met ... See all stories on this topic » BCM

Bonhams offers two masterpieces by celebrated Russian painter Vasili Polenov ... Art Daily The first of the two paintings entitled “He That is Without Sin,” (in reference to St. John, 8:7) is a version of Polenov's earlier large-scale work with the same title that is now in the collection of the State Russian Museum in St. Petersburg. ... See all stories on this topic »

Should I stay or should I go? Barents Observer If you exclude St. Petersburg and Moscow, salaries are higher in Murmansk than in the south ofRussia, so I'm going to stay here, she says. - Here in Murmansk I get a lot of opportunities and will not move away, says Daria Kocherga. ... See all stories on this topic »

Ukraine's 20 years of independence EurActiv This breaking point in fact drew our country closer to Europe because neither the Tsars of Russiawith their five capitals in Saint Petersburg, Moscow, Kiev, Warsaw and Odessa, nor the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, had any mental connections ... See all stories on this topic »

Arctic Memories Russia Profile Last week, two major cities – Archangelsk, an important port on the Barents Sea and the Dvina River in northwestern Russia, and St. Petersburg, hosted commemoration events to mark the 70th anniversary of the Arctic Convoys. The jubilee included a navy... See all stories on this topic » Russia Profile

Russia's TGK-1 H1 net profit at 4.43 bln roubles Reuters Africa MOSCOW, Sept 5 (Reuters) - Russian utility TGK-1 said on Monday that its first-half net profit rose to 4.43 billion roubles($152 mln)from 2.9 billion roubles in the year-earlier period. The company, which supplies power to Russia's second city of St ... See all stories on this topic »

Budapest 'Criminalizes Homelessness,' Murder Suspect Accuses Ukraine's Kuchma Transitions Online Perhaps things will change with Valentina Matviyenko as the new speaker of the Federation Council, the upper chamber of the Russian parliament. As TOL's Galina Stolyarova recently reported, the former St. Petersburg mayor was given the kick upstairs ... See all stories on this topic »

Tula's Ex-Governor Charged With Graft The Moscow Times An analyst said Dudka was a scapegoat in an anti-corruption campaign, and that any of Russia'sother 82 regional leaders could have ended up under arrest. Dudka was summoned Monday to the Investigative Committee's Moscow office, where he was formally ... See all stories on this topic »

Dagestan is recognized as one the most vigorous Russia's regions Republican Information Agency The above listed regions are recognized catastrophically ruining. The deficiency of vital forces in St.-Petersburg and a number of regions of the Volga area and Ural Mountains differ. the factor ofMoscow is hardly more than zero. See all stories on this topic »

HATING RUSSIANS – AN ENGLISH VICE THAT'S GOOD FOR MI6, AND FOR THE THRILLER ... Business Insider A few weeks earlier, Chris Morgan Jones's Agent of Deceit had a paid-up state-owned Russianoligarch in the seat of villainy, with the fear of Imperial Russia Revived the touchstone of a plot that tied British journalists, London due diligence ... See all stories on this topic »

Off-duty Avril Lavigne emerges without her stage make-up Daily Mail A day later, Avril flew to Russia where she performed in Moscow - and she was back to her usual glam-grunge style by the time she hit the stage. The singer wore her long hair poker-straight and donned a T-shirt embossed with her own face for the ... See all stories on this topic » Daily Mail

Queen of Denmark to visit Russia at ... - Russian News From Russia By admin On Wednesday, September 7, Dmitry and Sevtlana Medvedevs, Queen Margrethe II and Prince Consort Henrik will attend the opening ceremony at the Danish-Russian photo exhibition “Arctic” at the Moscow House of Photography. ... changed since 1975 when she visited the country for the first time and has heard many times from her husband, who has been to Russia several times since then, and from numerous friends how beautiful St. Petersburg and Moscow are, and she wants ... Russian News From Russia

New man in St. Petersburg | RUSSIA | The Moscow News That's the view of Nikolai Petrov, an analyst at the Carnegie Moscow Center, ... Vinogradov, head of the St. Petersburg Politics Foundation, told The Moscow News. .... Russian phone users find their messages online · Moscow waters its streets ... www.themoscownews.com/russia/20110825/188961522.html

Chinese merchants rush into Russia CCTV News - CNTV English The Sino-Russian trade relationship is about to become more profitable. MOSCOW/STPETERSBURG - Ding Yanna has been involved in Sino-Russia trade for ... english.cntv.cn/20110905/105228.shtml

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