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The Crisis: Electricity Providers Face Bankruptcy
Electricity suppliers across the country are cracking down as the number of delinquent private and corporate customers surges, as the dilapidated industry is mired in debt linked to unpaid consumer bills and the multibillion-dollar investment programs that investors signed onto during the privatization of Unified Energy System, which wrapped up just weeks before the financial crisis struck.

The Moscow Times and International Herald Tribune Subscription campaign 2009

The newspapers The Moscow Times and the International Herald Tribune have started their subscription drive 2009. It is ongoing under the logo “News from different perspectives”. The Moscow Times presents news about Russia from Russia, while International Herald Tribune highlights important events on the world arena from abroad.

Subscribe now to the two-newspaper package solution and receive a 20% discount. For new subscribers there is an additional present – a handy thermal mug. Along with the corporate subscription drive, a joint advertising campaign with Interposhta is starting.

The Exhibition “Create Yourself”

17 November 2008 at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art an unusual exhibition was opened. This day the artists were children and their guests were adults.

No everyone can boast of being an artist at the age of 6 or 12, not everyone can look at a real album with their very own drawings and invite their family and friends to the opening of their own art exhibition.

The children who participated in the “Create Yourself” program did all this – and more.

«ART-NOVEMBER»

XV INTERNATIONAL ART FESTIVAL
Moscow, November, 1-30, 2008
November, 19, 2008
Moscow International Performing Arts Center
Chamber Hall. 7.00. p.m.
The first appearance in Russia. Only one concert in Moscow!
Alarm Will Sound
Artistic director and conductor Alan Pierson (USA)

Program
Aphex Twin Cock/ver 10
Aphex Twin Gwely Mernans
Stefan Freund Unremixed
John Orfe Chamber Symphony

Conlon Nancarrow Player Piano Study 2A
Wolfgang Rihm Will Sound
John Adams Son of Chamber Symphony

The Moscow Times’ Festival of Corporate Art

18 November a unique even starts – the first festival of corporate art “Advertising”.
In connection with the festival The Moscow Times presents a marketing project, which will start this year:
A social art project – the program “Create Yourself”
Social cinema – the film “Insight”
The festival brings up the influence of corporate media, its culture; character; symbols on the human living space, in the human culture and estectic world, and to look at the question of how o correctly use art in constructing contemporary business communication. The festival consists of three parts – exhibition of the art project created by different Russian and foreign companies; corporate cinema competition “Brandfilm” and seminars on environmental marketing, communication, and interaction of art and business.

«Creation of the world financial center in Russia: opportunities and perspectives»

25-26 of November 2008 at Radisson SAS Slavyanskaya Institute of Stock Market and Management will hold The X All Russian Conference for professional participants of the stock market. The format of the Conference is organized in the way that provides an opportunity to highlight the most significant changes and problematic sides of the Russian stock market. For participation in anniversary Conference invited top professionals of the stock market and major specialists of the financial sector.

Moscow Guide - Autumn 2008

Dining - What does "fresh fish" mean, how do you know when fish is fresh, and who's got the freshest fish in Moscow? Stas Shectman talks to chefs and management from various top restaurants, including La Maree, La Viole, Filimonova and Yankel, Seiji. Restaurant Review - Floridita. Shopping - Moscow's gift shops - great places to buy gifts or find strange and beautiful items to decorate your home. Travel - Luxury vacations in the United Arab Emirates and other places on the Arabian Peninsula. Moscow Life - Why is everything in Russia labeled VIP, luxury or lux? How are VIP funerals any better than regular funerals?

The Moscow Times' charity program "Create Yourself" invites you to the ice show "Peter Pan"

The Moscow Times and the super popular ice show for the whole family, ”Peter Pan”, would like to invite you to attend the performance. The show is performed at the “Lyzhniki” Palace of Sport from 27 November to 11 January. Christmas and New Year – is there any better time for delight?

But the most important thing is that on the envelope that the tickets arrive in, the children will see the words: “I BELIEVE IN FAIRIES” – and surely, it will be so…

GIVE YOURSELF THE CHANCE TO SEE THE GRATITUDE OF A CHILD!

Jobs & Careers (Fall 2008)

Everyone has an opinion about the 'chinovnik' - the Russian civil servant. But what do they say about themselves? For the fall edition of Jobs and Careers we spoke to two civil servants. They're young, hard-working and ambitious. And according to one of Russia's top captains of industry, they'd be far better advised to go into business. "There are young people who go to work in state service right after graduation," said billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov in a recent speech to students at his alma mater, the state Financial Academy. "I recommend that you only go into business. Only there will you find drive and real life." So why is it that so many young people, against his advice, are still trying to make a career in the civil service and what are the prospects? And is it something they'd recommend to other young people looking for a high-flying career?

Real Estate Quarterly III

It sounds a bit too like the sort of terrible cliche usually spouted by an elderly relative to say that we can't believe it's already over a whole year since Sochi won its bid to host the 2014 Olympics, but it really is the case. Doesn't time fly? And ever since then the clock has been ticking on a tight deadline for one almighty construction project. For anyone with a short memory, it's not just about building world-class sporting facilities — it's about getting on its feet an entire region that leaves much to be desired as a domestic, never mind international, tourist destination. So how's it all going down there? Sophie Cooper's overview of the situation in Sochi kicks off this issue's Market Update.

The Moscow Times guide to the most delectable places in Moscow on www.rb.ru

The Moscow Times is introducing the website www.rb.ru, a place for advice and exchange of impressions about restaurants and bars in Moscow.

New York Times International Weekly and International Herald Tribune rank top in european readership results

The European Media and Marketing Survey 2008 shows that two publications of The New York Times Media Group - The New York Times International Weekly and the International Herald Tribune (IHT) - are delivering a combined readership of 1.3 million among Europe’s high earners.

Real Estate Catalog

Floating buildings? It sounds like a crazy idea, but it became a reality last month in the heart of the Russian countryside. It's been tried and tested elsewhere and it could be the solution to some of the most serious problems that the 21st century throws up. We also look at why the Russians are following the Brits to Bulgaria to buy real estate and what it really means when developers claim that they're offering 'green' homes.

RealEstate #51

New publisher of The Moscow Times

Ekaterina Son will be appointed as new publisher of The Moscow Times as of September 1, 2008. Ekaterina runs Smart Money - the Russian-language business publication of the Independent Media Sanoma Magazines business editions portfolio.

Maxine Maters will be leaving the newspaper after four years of work. Maxine has agreed to stay on as a consultant until the end of 2008.

Life Story from The Moscow Times'charity program "Create yourself"

Within the framework of The Moscow Times’ program “Create Yourself,” we are starting a new series of publications about people that, despite having serious health problems, were able to find the power and desire to live and grow. Some of them have achieved things that even healthy people could only dream of. In the new section “Good Stories” on the site www.sotvorisebya.ru you can read the story of Inga Medvedeva, a Paralympic champion who is missing a leg.

Community Bulletin Board

Community Bulletin Board is published in The Moscow Times Mondays through Thursdays. Please submit notices up to 50 words (deadline is 2 p.m.).
E-mail community@imedia.ru, call +7 495 232 3200 or fax +7 495 232 6529.

Create Yourself

The newspaper The Moscow Times is happy to announce the start of a charity program "Create Yourself" to aid children with limited abilities including a website, www.sotvorisebya.ru, and photo album with children's drawings and photos. Every child will receive as a gift the photo album with their own creations.

Exhibition "Children and the City", The Moscow Times at Art Moskva

In the framework of the international art fair ART Moskva, which is being held from the 14th to the 18th of May 2008 at the Central House of Artists on Krimsky Val, The Moscow Times presents an exhibition of works by the newspaper's photo correspondents, Igor Tabakov and Vladimir Filonov. The exhibition is organized with the support of ZAO Unified Financial Group INVEST, which is a part of the group of companies UFG Asset Management (UFG
AM). Since its foundation, the company has actively supported credible
social projects.

First Video Added to Moscow Times Web Site

The video, a 3 1/2-minute interview with Rose Gottemoeller, director of the Carnegie Moscow Center, examines the informal summit between Presidents Vladimir Putin and George W. Bush in Sochi on April 6. The video can be found on The Moscow Times' homepage, www.themoscowtimes.com.

The Moscow Times launched a new, expanded stock markets page.

The Moscow Times launched a new, expanded stock markets page on Monday, March 24. The information includes comprehensive, up-to-date data from RTS and, for the first time, from Russia's other major exchange, MICEX. RTS and MICEX are supplying the data directly to The Moscow Times newspaper.

The Russian Wolfhound - A Symbol of ""Imperial Hunting""

The cover of the spring issue of Moscow Guide, and variations of the image by the Elena Gallery, will be displayed at the exhibition ""Imperial Hunting"".

The March 2008 issue of ""Jobs and Careers""

In the Spring issue of Jobs and Careers, the two deans of Skolkovo Business School go head to head to explain just how they'll go about fostering a new generation of entrepreneurs.

RELEASED the first issue of this year of the supplement to The Moscow Times, Real Estate Quarterly (REQ)

In the first issue of Real Estate Quarterly of 2008 we look at what a momentous year could mean for the Russian economy and its real estate industry.

The Moscow Times - Partner of the Person of the Year Awards

On the 20th of February, an awards ceremony for the winners of the prize International Person of the Year 2007 was held in Petrovsky Hall of the Kremlin Palace.

The Moscow Times Held a Reception for the Mariinsky Theater Troupe

On the 25th and 26th of February premiers of the Mariinsky Theater took place in Moscow on the new stage of the Bolshoi Theater.

Investigative Series: "Putin's Legacy"

The Moscow Times launched on Friday, Feb. 1, a new series of investigative reports titled ""Putin's Legacy"" that examine how Russia has changed during President Vladimir Putin's eight years in power.

Sweden's TV8 interviewed Moscow Times editor Andrew McChesney.

Sweden's TV8 interviewed Moscow Times editor Andrew McChesney about the Russian economy and the upcoming president election during the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. The interview was broadcast on TV8's news program late last week.

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