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MOSCOW, August 6 (Itar-Tass) —— Press secretary to the Moscow mayor has refuted media allegations that the mayor’s wife owns paving tiles businesses. “She is neither a founder nor a shareholder in any commercial organizations,” Gulnara Penkova told Itar-Tass on Saturday. The comment came after media reports that the wife of Moscow’s current mayor, Sergei [...]

NARYAN MAR, Nenets Autonomous Area, August 6 (Itar-Tass) — The imperfection of the transport infrastructure in the Arctic region hampers the development of the region, secretary of the Security Council Nikolai Patrushev said. “This infrastructure does not meet necessary requirements for protecting Russia’s national interests,” Patrushev said at the Security Council’s visiting session on Saturday. [...]

NARYAN MAR, Nenets Autonomous Area, August 6 (Itar-Tass) — The development of the Arctic region should be accompanied by strengthening military and border security in the region and creating systems to prevent emergency situations, secretary of the Security Council Nikolai Patrushev said. Speaking at the Security Council’s visiting session on Saturday, Patrushev said a decision [...]

NARYAN MAR, Nenets Autonomous Area, August 6 (Itar-Tass) — In order to develop the potential of Russia’s Arctic new measures should be taken in the tax and investment policy, secretary of the Security Council Nikolai Patrushev said. On April 4, a draft law on amending legislation, which regulates the service of the Northern Sea Route [...]

KIEV, August 6 (Itar-Tass) —— Ukraine’s authorities will never sheer away from the course towards European integration, Ukrainian Prime Minister Nikolai Azarov said on Saturday. “Now we are laying solid grounds for Ukraine’s European future. If our country is rich, self-sufficient, European entry will be smooth and easy for us,” he said appearing at the [...]

MOSCOW, August 6 (Itar-Tass) — President Dmitry Medvedev said Russia is ready to make contribution to preserving the unique Arctic nature and implementing international projects in the region. In his greetings message to the participants in an international conference, “By Northern Sea Route to Strategic Stability and Equal Partnership in the Arctic”, on Saturday, Medvedev [...]

ULYANOVSK, August 6 (Itar-Tass) — The 1st International Rural Youth Forum, “Sustainable Development of Rural Areas in the Present-Day Conditions”, ended in Ulyanovsk on Saturday. A member of the organising committee, director of the youth policy department Sergei Teryokhin, told Itar-Tass on Saturday that the participants in the forum intended to organise such forums annually. [...]

KALININGRAD, August 6 (Itar-Tass) — The new frigate Admiral Essen, a second in a series of Project 11356 ships, has been laid down at the Yantar shipyard in Kaliningrad. The frigate will join the Russian Navy by 2014. Vice-Admiral Viktor Chirkov, commander of the Baltic Fleet, which tests Yantar’s new ships, said at the keel [...]

MOSCOW, August 6 (Itar-Tass) — The Russian will consider plans for reorganisation of Russian Post into a joint stock company in September. “As far as I know, the question of Russian Post’s corporatisation will be submitted to the government in September. Further steps will depend on the government’s schedule of work on this matter,” Russian [...]

The arrest of Ukraine’s ex-Prime Minister, Yulia Tymoshenko will spoil Russian-Ukrainian relations and may bring “long-term consequences” to Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, Russian business daily quoted on Saturday a Kremlin source as saying. The arrest of Tymoshenko will trigger an international response and turn into the “long-term consequences” for President Yanukovych, the source told Kommersant [...]

A downgrade of the United States’ top-notch AAA credit rating is justified as the country must stop relying on credits, the head of research at the Russian Higher School of Economics, Yevgeny Yasin said on Saturday. Earlier on Saturday Standard Poor’s, one of the world’s three major credit rating agencies, cut the long-term U.S. credit [...]

China, the US’s biggest creditor, reacted to the downgrade of America’s credit rating by saying it showed that US should “cure its addiction to debts” and called for a new stable global reserve currency instead of the dollar. ­“The US government has to come to terms with the painful fact that the good old days [...]

An exhibition by Italian sculptor Fabio Viale promises to cast a fresh light on this sublime material. Ten artworks on display at Moscow’s Garage will highlight the tension between marble’s classical past and an uncompromising, cutting-edge artistic appro ­Marble, especially the White Carrara, has a long association with Italian Renaissance sculpture created by such great [...]

Dynamo’s new signing, Zvjezdan Misimovic, believes this year could be the one in which the Moscow team can finally make a serious challenge for the Russian Premier League title. ­Zvjezdan Misimovic was born in Munich and developed through the youth team of local side Bayern, before graduating to the team proper and winning his first [...]