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Russia's government New jobs, old faces
Economist, UK - 26 minutes ago
If you did not know that Russia has just had a change of president, you would certainly not have guessed it. In the first week of Mr Medvedev's presidency, ...

Georgia and Russia Gather round the gorge
Economist, UK - 25 minutes ago
Russia, which protects the Abkhaz regime, insists that Georgia is planning to use Kodori to attack Abkhazia. That is unlikely. Georgia's modern but small ...

Disasters in China and Myanmar No time to sit back
Economist, UK - 26 minutes ago
China and Russia would veto any resolution in the Security Council. Politically, too, any action that defied the generals would be controversial. ...

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Travel and tourism A new itinerary
Economist, UK - 26 minutes ago
Now fast-growing emerging economies—not just Dubai but also the BRICs (Brazil, Russia, India and China) and others, such as South Korea and Vietnam—are ...

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The UN and humanitarian intervention To protect sovereignty, or to ...
Economist, UK - 26 minutes ago
Even as he spoke, diplomats from China, Vietnam, South Africa and Russia were mocking his idea that the “responsibility to protect” (a new concept in global ...

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Balkan exceptionalism
Economist, UK - 27 minutes ago
They pose big questions, such as how to relate to the Muslim world or how to live with Russia. The Serbian election could have been a lot worse. ...

Wall Street Journal
A parade of power in Russia
Economist, UK - 53 minutes ago
Such parades are held every year, but this was the first time since the cold war that Russia brandished its military hardware. The parade was supposed to ...

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A strange Kremlin wedding
Economist, UK - 22 hours ago
But for all the pomp and theatre, it did not answer one simple question: who is now in charge of Russia? What is clear is that the transition of power has ...

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Russia's oil industry Trouble in the pipeline
Economist, UK - 22 hours ago
But to understand how supplies became so scarce in the first place, one must look at the state of the oil industry in Russia, the world's second-biggest ...

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Russia's new president Enter, pursued by a new bear
Economist, UK - May 8, 2008
Mr Putin became acting president, on the last day of 1999, at an auspicious time for Russia. The economy was booming after the 1998 devaluation, ...

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Serbia's election Balkan ballot
Economist, UK - 22 hours ago
... and whether depending on Russia (or a modern version of Yugoslavia's non-alignment) is an alternative to Europe for this small, flailing Balkan country. ...

Economics focus A tale of two worlds
Economist, UK - 22 hours ago
China's inflation rate has jumped to 8.3% from 2.2% in early 2007; Russia's is running at 13.3% (see left-hand chart). HSBC forecasts that the average ...

Europe.view Molotov cocktail
Economist, UK - May 8, 2008
The reason for their gloom is the feeling that Germany now prizes its relations with Russia far above the interests of the countries in between. ...

Economist
Sarkozy's difficult year
Economist, UK - May 1, 2008
And he has dropped Mr Chirac's kid-glove treatment of Russia and China. His foreign minister, Bernard Kouchner, a socialist who co-founded the charity ...

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Rivers and conflict Streams of blood, or streams of peace
Economist, UK - May 1, 2008
The Chinese have diverted part of the Irtysh river, which feeds Russia's Ob river and ends up in the Arctic, to a canal supplying the booming oil town of ...

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The European Union and Russia
Economist, UK - May 1, 2008
The European Union cannot agree over how to deal with Russia. That suits the Kremlin just fine SEEN from outside, one might imagine that the European Union ...

Europe.view Russian propaganda, good and bad
Economist, UK - May 1, 2008
“Orange Webs” has not yet been formally published, though extracts have been quoted on the website of Russia Today, a pro-Kremlin television channel. ...

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Russia and Georgia rattle sabres
Economist, UK - Apr 30, 2008
AP GEORGIA and Russia agree upon one thing: the situation in the breakaway province of Abkhazia is bad and getting worse. Georgia, an ex-Soviet republic ...

News from the schools, April 2008
Economist, UK - Apr 30, 2008
The rapid growth of the executive MBA (EMBA) market in Russia has resulted in a flurry of partnerships between Russian and European business schools. ...

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Nuclear proliferation A curious case of nuclear intrigue
Economist, UK - 46 minutes ago
... have been driven both by the American government and by six-party talks that involve China, Japan, Russia, South Korea, North Korea and America. ...

The press in eastern Europe
Economist, UK - 16 hours ago
Thus Latvia's score slips from 19 to 22, after the government appeared to lean on public television to cover Russia more politely. Slovakia's falls from 20 ...

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Politics this week
Economist, UK - 16 hours ago
Georgia called an emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council, claiming that Russia had shot down one of its spy drones over Abkhazia. ...

Market.view Another BRIC in the wall
Economist, UK - Apr 21, 2008
At its simplest, Russia and Brazil are plays on commodity prices, particularly energy in the case of the former; India and China are plays on the ability of ...

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An economic superpower, and now oil too
Economist, UK - Apr 17, 2008
More recently, when Goldman Sachs bracketed Brazil with Russia, India and China as the “BRIC” countries that collectively represent the world's economic ...

Russia's leadership A double-headed eagle
Economist, UK - Apr 17, 2008
An optimistic view is that Russia could develop a better balance between the legislative and executive branches. “This is another step in the development of ...

Business this week
Economist, UK - Apr 17, 2008
Markets were spooked in part by news that oil production in Russia, the world's second-biggest exporter, had fallen for the first time in a decade. ...

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Politics this week
Economist, UK - Apr 17, 2008
See article Georgia accused Russia of trying to annex Abkhazia and South Ossetia after the Russian foreign ministry said it would build closer ties with the ...

Europe.view From frozen to boiling
Economist, UK - Apr 17, 2008
Russia is stepping up its political representation in Abkhazia and South Ossetia, two breakaway enclaves in Georgia that it has supported for the past 15 ...

Art.view Gone with the wind
Economist, UK - Apr 12, 2008
And she loved it still when she left Russia with the advent of the revolution in 1917 and moved to Switzerland, where she painted “Sailboat”, ...

The second world war in Italy
Economist, UK - Apr 10, 2008
... and the diehard Fascists of the Republic of Salo, led by an increasingly irrelevant Mussolini. It was not the war in Russia but it was a cruel affair.