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The Moscow Times Moscow Guide – Winter 2008

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.

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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 Farmers
This year Russia is enjoying the biggest grain harvest it has ever seen -- and farmers couldn't be more worried.



Tuesday, January 06, 2009 Updated at 31 December 2008 22:36 Moscow Time.

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Reuters

Men working Wednesday in the debris of a school that collapsed, killing five children and injuring four others, in Belyayavka, near Orenburg.

5 Children Die in School Collapse

02 October 2008BELYAYEVKA, Orenburg -- Part of a school building in an Orenburg region village collapsed Wednesday, killing five children and injuring four.

An entire section of the two-story building in Belyayevka, 120 kilometers from Orenburg in the southeastern Urals, came crashing down, spreading debris over a wide area.

Local residents rushed to help firemen and police rescue children from the rubble, and emergency workers sent from Orenburg brought in a crane to help remove the piles of debris. "Eleven children have been taken out of the rubble, five of them are dead, four are injured and 800 people were evacuated," said a spokeswoman for the Emergency Situations Ministry. The school's children ranged in age from 7 to 17.

Prosecutors opened a criminal investigation into the accident for possible violations of building safety regulations, while experts tried to identify the main point of weakness in the structure of the building, built in 1962.