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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.

The Moscow Times » Issue 4032 » News

Assailants Jab French Activist With Syringe

17 November 2008By Natalya Krainova / Staff WriterA French activist said Friday that unidentified assailants had jabbed her with a syringe containing an unknown liquid as she was walking in central Moscow.

Carine Clement, a Moscow-based sociologist who heads the Institute of Collective Action, a left-leaning nonprofit group, said the Thursday attack was the third time she had been assaulted or threatened in the past three weeks.

She said the attacks might be connected to her anti-fascism initiatives or her participation in protests against infill construction, the development of vacant or underused land plots in areas of the city that are already largely developed.

Clement, wife of State Duma Deputy Oleg Shein, said she was near the Lubyanka metro station when two men approached her, jabbed her in the leg with a syringe, injected the liquid and fled.

She said she handed the syringe over to police as evidence and submitted blood for an HIV test.

A spokesman with the city police's criminal investigations department said he had no information about the attack.

Clement said a man punched her in the face on Oct. 24, robbing her and fleeing in a car. The Ramensky District police precinct has opened a criminal case in connection with the mugging, Clement said.

Last Wednesday, Clement said, a young man approached her in western Moscow and told her in a threatening voice that she should "leave here."