RUSSIA News, Sep 29, 2011

Russia's Putin: I had no role in oil trading empire Reuters By Gleb Bryanski MOSCOW, Sept 28 (Reuters) - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin publicly addressed one of the most serious corruption allegations against him for the first time on Wednesday, saying he did not help businessman Gennady Timchenko ... See all stories on this topic »

A(nother) Day in the Life of Homophobic Russia Care2.com (blog) Russian activists have pledged to sue the refusal to register their groups before the European Court of Human Rights. Russian gay leader and organizer of Moscow Pride, Nikolai Alekseev, pointed out that gay groups have been registered in St. Petersburg ... See all stories on this topic »

Russian-Turkmen trade reaches 2 bln dollars in first half of 2011 Trend News Agency A business delegation from Russia, including entrepreneurs from Moscow, St.Petersburg, Omsk, Saratov, Chelyabinsk and other parts of Russia has brought cooperation proposals to Ashgabad. "Relations between Turkmenistan and Russiamake the weather in ... See all stories on this topic » Trend News Agency

American Ballet Theater to Begin Training Course in Russia New York Times (blog) The company said on Wednesday that it would present a weeklong course on its training techniques in St. Petersburg, Russia, home of the Mariinsky Theater — the former Kirov — and a venerable part of ballet history. Ballet Theater will hold the five ... See all stories on this topic »

Moscow festival scene continues through the fall Russia Beyond The Headlines The 27-year-old computer programmer from St. Petersburg, his wife and toddler son came toMoscow to spend three nights at the Rusichi camp, located on the grounds of the Kolomenskoye estate, which had been turned into a medieval village. From Sept. ... See all stories on this topic »

AECOM oversees Russian road KHL Group US-based technical and management services group AECOM has won a contract for the public-private partnership (PPP) concession for the Moscow to St Petersburg M11 Highway project in Russia. The contract has been awarded by the North-West Concession ... See all stories on this topic » KHL Group

At Home -- and Work -- with Russian UVM News (Chase, a high school chess champion, originally learned Russian with the dream of competing in Moscow speaking the native language. He spent a year abroad studying at St. Petersburg University while playing chess tournaments on the side. ... See all stories on this topic » UVM News

Political Zombies Are Mounting Comeback Bids The Moscow Times Rogozin, 47, Russia's envoy to NATO, topped the Rodina electoral list in 2003. It was a leftist party at the time, but he rebranded it into a nationalist one for the Moscow City Duma vote in 2005, possibly with the Kremlin's blessing. ... See all stories on this topic » The Moscow Times

Stavisky, Local Pols Visit Russia Western Queens Gazette ... was joined by Assemblymembers Alan Maisel, Sylvia Gottlieb, Jeffrey Dinowitz, Amy Paulin andRussian born Alec Brook-Krasny. They visited the cities of Kazan, which is the capital of the Federated Republic of Tatarstan, St. Petersburg and Moscow. ... See all stories on this topic »

KBA to Present Half-Format Rapida 75E in Live Production What They Think This was followed in January by a further press of the same series at Apolinaria in Armavir - again in South Russia. And then in May, the PVG group in St. Petersburg received a five-colour Rapida 162a (sheet format 120 x 162 cm) in a double-coating ... See all stories on this topic »

Online book retailer buckles under FSB pressure RIA Novosti ... head of the Miners' & Metallurgical Workers' Union of Russia, Valentina Kabanova, chair of theMoscow Region Association of Trade Unions, and Sergei Vostretsov, head of the Association of Trade Unions of Russia Sotsprof, nominated in St. Petersburg. See all stories on this topic »

War Means War Russia Profile Yet the story of how works attributed to the art group Voina will be displayed at the 2011 Moscow Biennale is the latest case of the group receiving greater official recognition, despite its members' renegade status in Russia today. ... See all stories on this topic » Russia Profile

United by our past, we will tackle the future together Russia Beyond The Headlines The famous Cameron's Gallery entered Russian poetry (for instance, it is mentioned in Akhmatova's Poem without a Hero), becoming a symbol of the influence that great styles of European cultures had upon Russia. The whole of Saint Petersburg is an ... See all stories on this topic » Russia Beyond The Headlines

Creative Recreation Fall 2011 'Fishing Cesario' Collection stupidDOPE.com The team traveled to Moscow & St. Petersburg, Russia, where they were inspired by the scenery and culture. You'll see in the color and material choices the impact the people there had on the fall product. The Fishing Cesario retails for $95 and is now ... See all stories on this topic » stupidDOPE.com

Expert-Analytics League “Resource Strategy” – a new intellectual platform ... vestnik kavkaza The Moscow State University named after MV Lomonosov opened a constituent session of the Expert-Analytics League “Resource Strategy”. Yevgeny Tipaylov presented a report on Russian-German energy cooperation and called the league a new intellectual, ... See all stories on this topic »

Russia mobile base grows 0.3% in August Telecompaper (subscription) In Moscow, the subscriber base dropped 0.5 percent to 35.489 million, and in St Petersburg, the number grew by 0.7 percent to 13.415 million. The market penetration in the two cities totaled 208.9 percent and 211.6 percent, respectively. See all stories on this topic »

In Russia held a videoconference Minsportturizma dedicated to the ... Russia Week News ... The largest number of participants is planned in St. Petersburg, the Republics of .... At a meeting in Moscow VI Congress of the Party JUST RUSSIA approved list of candidates for the State Duma of the sixth convocation. ... www.russia-week.com/.../in-russia-held-a-videoconference-mi...

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