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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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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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Police Official and Son Gunned Down

02 October 2008A senior regional Interior Ministry official and his son were shot dead Wednesday morning in North Ossetia, RIA-Novosti reported.

Unidentified assailants fired on Vitaly Cheldiyev, head of criminal investigations with the ministry's North Ossetian branch, and his 20-year-old son with automatic weapons in Vladikavkaz.

"We believe Cheldiyev was on his way to work and wanted to drop his son off at his institute along the way," a police source told RIA-Novosti.

No suspects have been detained.

It was the second slaying this year of a senior police official in North Ossetia. In March, armed attackers in Vladikavkaz gunned down Mark Metsayev, head of the anti-organized crime department at the regional Interior Ministry. It was Cheldiyev who replaced Metsayev before being promoted to head criminal investigations two months ago, the report said.