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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.

The Crisis: Signs of a Kremlin Fearful Of Unrest
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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

Policeman Killed Near Abkhazia

17 November 2008A Georgian policeman was killed by a group of unidentified gunmen Saturday near the breakaway Abkhazia region, Georgia's Interior Ministry said.

The incident happened as Georgian policemen were clearing mines near the de facto border between Georgia and Abkhazia, the ministry said.

Ruslan Kishmaria, a representative of separatist leader Sergei Bagapsh, said Abkhaz border guards prevented a Georgian sabotage squad from entering Abkhazia on Saturday and that one Georgian was killed and two others wounded in the skirmish.

EU cease-fire monitors said they were shot at Sunday near Abkhazia as they investigated the shooting. They called the incident "unacceptable."

Meanwhile, South Ossetian forces pulled out of Perevi, a Georgian village on the border of South Ossetia, on Saturday after European Union cease-fire monitors expressed concern, a Georgian police official said.

Russian troops pulled back from a buffer zone around South Ossetia in October after fighting off a Georgian attempt to retake the region in August. They kept one checkpoint in Perevi, but Georgia said an allied South Ossetian militia had moved into the settlement a week ago.

(Reuters, AP)