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Since the middle of autumn one of the most important topics of discussion, could only be … no, not the financial crisis… New Year! The winter issue of The Moscow Times Moscow Guide is entirely devoted to New Years celebrations. Seven great ideas for celebrating the “Night of Nights” will help readers finalise their plans and choose how and where to party, give fresh ideas and lots of practical advice.
And don’t forget – problems will come by themselves, but happiness and luck need an invitation. That why the more cheerful and light-hearted your celebration of the coming holiday is, the happier and more successful 2009 will be for you.
Sociologist Yevgeny Gontmakher has painted a disturbing picture of what might emerge from the financial crisis, forecasting continued unemployment, huge protests and spreading violence.
Market Matters: Huge Grain Harvest No Boon for FarmersThis year Russia is enjoying the biggest grain harvest it has ever seen -- and farmers couldn't be more worried.
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Updated at 31 December 2008 22:36 Moscow Time | |
The Moscow Times will be published Jan. 12 |
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Life Story from The Moscow Times'charity program "Create yourself"23 July 2008 |
Currency Exchange
USD/RUR - 29.2
EUR/RUR - 41.6
Weather
Hurdles Ahead.
Inflation Threatens an Era of Growth
Kremlin's Trillion-Dollar Headache
Everyone Pays, Few Want To Stop
When Success and Image Don't Mesh
Boosting Population a Vague Science
Armed With Nukes and a Vague Plan
Balancing Growth and Environment
Lots of Work but Too Few Workers
Rich Get Richer as Poor Get Poorer
Finding a Remedy for Health Care
A Crisis Brewing in the Classrooms
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Columnists
A Moscow State of Mind
By Mark H. Teeter
A Few Tricks to Ensure a Prosperous 2009
By Michele A. Berdy
Putin's Remote Control Puts Kremlin on Mute
By Vladimir Frolov
Slavophiles vs. Westernizers
By Alexei Bayer
The Party Is Over
By Yulia Latynina
Crisis Puts Putinomics to the Test
By Anders Aslund
Mr. Belykh Goes to Kirov
By Nikolai Petrov
Hard Facts and Soft Diplomacy
By Richard Lourie
Counting on Angels For Peace in Georgia
By Matthew Collin
Don't Talk to Strangers ... or Foreigners
By Yevgeny Kiselyov
An Imported Pandora's Box
By Boris Kagarlitsky
2 Crises Derailed Attempts to Improve EU Ties
By Fyodor Lukyanov
A Military Spoiler Doctrine
By Alexander Golts
Protectionism Is the Worst Protection
By Konstantin Sonin
Financial Armageddon II Can Be Avoided
By Martin Gilman
The Media Crisis
By Alexei Pankin
A Guarded Liberalism
By Georgy Bovt
