PM Tests Hybrid Prototype By Anatoly Medetsky The St. Petersburg Times Published: April 6, 2011 (Issue # 1650) NOVO-OGARYOVO — Prime Minister Vladimir Putin took a ride Friday in a prototype of Russia’s first hybrid car, the Yo-Mobile, which billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov plans to start mass-producing next year. With Putin in the driver’s seat and [...]
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April 7, 2011
April 7, 2011
Russia Leads In Retail Construction
Russia Leads In Retail Construction Vedomosti Published: April 6, 2011 (Issue # 1650) MOSCOW — Last year, 165 malls, with a usable area of 5.2 million square meters, opened in Europe — 30 percent less than the year before. For two consecutive years, the amount of completed construction has declined, and last year finished at the lowest level since 2004, according to Cushman Wakefield analysts. The highest [...]
April 7, 2011
Putin’s No-Participation Pact
Putin’s No-Participation Pact By Masha Lipman Published: April 6, 2011 (Issue # 1650) The Russian government, with its solid hold on power, has invariably gotten away with poor performance, inefficiency, corruption and widespread violation of political rights and civil liberties. Polls consistently demonstrate that Russians are not deluded. They routinely respond in surveys that government [...]
April 7, 2011
How the Internet Turns Journalists Into Punks
How the Internet Turns Journalists Into Punks By Alexei Pankin Published: April 6, 2011 (Issue # 1650) It seems as if Russia’s best journalists have set out to completely undermine President Dmitry Medvedev’s stated ideology that “freedom is better than a lack of freedom.” At least, it seems that way after reading the nasty bickering [...]
April 7, 2011
Chernov’s Choice
Chernov’s Choice By Sergey Chernov The St. Petersburg Times Published: April 6, 2011 (Issue # 1650) Belarusian band Lyapis Trubetskoy, which performed in St. Petersburg last month, has canceled the rest of their planned concerts in their home country after sold-out concerts on the current tour in support of the band’s new album “Vesyoliye Kartinki” [...]
April 7, 2011
On the catwalk
On the catwalk The city prepares for the regular Defile on the Neva fashion week. By Galina Stolyarova The St. Petersburg Times Published: April 6, 2011 (Issue # 1650) SIMON ELIASSON / The St. Petersburg Times This year’s Defile on the Neva fashion week features shows by 20 Russian fashion designers. “Fashion Without Borders” is [...]
April 7, 2011
April 7, 2011
the word’s worth Deep Pockets
the word’s worth Deep Pockets By Michele A. Berdy Published: April 6, 2011 (Issue # 1650) Карман: pocket, sleeve, pullout, money As winter on Ice Planet Moscow marches on, broken only by brief harbingers of the end of the world — blizzard with sunshine accompanied by thunder and lightning — I’ve taken to entertaining myself [...]
April 7, 2011
Putin’s Former Supervisor Mines a Fortune in Shares
Putin’s Former Supervisor Mines a Fortune in Shares By Nikolaus von Twickel The St. Petersburg Times Published: April 6, 2011 (Issue # 1650) Vedomosti Vladimir Litvinenko, rector of the St. Petersburg Mining Institute, is worth an estimated $350 million to $450 million. Vladimir Litvinenko is a well-connected man. The rector of the St. Petersburg Mining Institute oversaw Vladimir [...]
April 7, 2011
Talented Specialists Leave Country in ‘Third Wave’
Talented Specialists Leave Country in ‘Third Wave’ By Roland Oliphant The St. Petersburg Times Published: April 6, 2011 (Issue # 1650) Igor Tabakov / The St. Petersburg Times Big state, small people. Many Russians are leaving their native country. MOSCOW — Scared, fed up and feeling disenfranchised, many successful Russians are investing in citizenship in Western countries, according [...]
August 13, 2010
June 5, 2010
Medvedev Worried About Europe…
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev hopes that Europe will manage to stabilize its currency, otherwise, it may lead to a financial crisis, more severe than the recession in 2008. “It is very important that our European partners could stabilize a situation,” Medvedev said. “That stabilization package adopted in quite difficult consultations, I hope, will work and [...]
May 24, 2010
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May 3, 2010
Kyrgyz interim government offers reward for catching ex-leaders
Kyrgyzstan's temporary government is offering a $100,000 reward for information related to the whereabouts of people associated with the former leadership. via Kyrgyz interim government offers reward for catching ex-leaders – RT Top Stories.