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The Crisis: Electricity Providers Face Bankruptcy
Electricity suppliers across the country are cracking down as the number of delinquent private and corporate customers surges, as the dilapidated industry is mired in debt linked to unpaid consumer bills and the multibillion-dollar investment programs that investors signed onto during the privatization of Unified Energy System, which wrapped up just weeks before the financial crisis struck.
Market Matters: Uralkali Stock Stares Into A Chasm
Catching both the market and the potash producer by surprise, Deputy Prime Minister Igor Sechin reopened a 2006 investigation into the flooding of a Uralkali mine, sending the company's shares down 75 percent in London in the three trading days after the announcement.
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| Friday, November 21, 2008
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| The Moscow Times » Crime Watch |
Issue 4033 | 18 Nov 2008
Politkovskaya Trial Will Be Open By Nabi Abdullaev / Staff Writer The Moscow Military District Court on Monday ruled that the trial of three men charged in the murder of investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya would be open to the public. The slain journalist's lawyer, meanwhile, demands that Chechnya's president be questioned in court. |
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Beaten Editor Threatened in Hospital By Svetlana Osadchuk / Staff Writer Mikhail Beketov, a newspaper editor and environmental activist in the Moscow suburb of Khimki who was brutally assaulted last week, has been transferred to a Moscow hospital for treatment and for his own safety after a series of threatening phone calls, colleagues said Monday. |
Issue 4032 | 17 Nov 2008
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Policeman Killed Near Abkhazia Combined Reports A Georgian policeman was killed by a group of unidentified gunmen Saturday near the breakaway Abkhazia region, Georgia's Interior Ministry said. |
Politkovskaya Murder Trial to Open By Nabi Abdullaev / Staff Writer The trial of three suspects in the murder of journalist Anna Politkovskaya begins Monday, and lawyers representing both sides will demand that it be open to the public. |
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Editor Brutally Assaulted In Khimki By Svetlana Osadchuk / Staff Writer A newspaper editor in the Moscow suburb of Khimki was brutally assaulted by unidentified assailants in an attack his colleagues said Friday was linked to his criticism of local authorities' deforestation plans. Mikhail Beketov, editor and owner of Khimkinskaya Pravda, a weekly in the town on Moscow's northern outskirts, was discovered Thursday bloodied and unconscious near his home, his friends said in a statement. |
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Assailants Jab French Activist With Syringe By Natalya Krainova / Staff Writer A French activist said Friday that unidentified assailants had jabbed her with a syringe containing an unknown liquid as she was walking in central Moscow. |
Issue 4031 | 14 Nov 2008
Frenkel Gets 19 Years In Kozolov's Murder By Francesca Mereu / Staff Writer The Moscow City Court on Thursday sentenced banker Alexei Frenkel to 19 years in prison for ordering the 2006 killing of central banker Andrei Kozlov, who had led a campaign against money laundering and corruption. |
Issue 4030 | 13 Nov 2008
Court Ignores Prosecutors, Bulbov Still in Jail By Francesca Mereu, Alexandra Odynova / Special to The Moscow Times The Moscow City Court on Wednesday ordered senior Federal Drug Control Service officer Alexander Bulbov to remain behind bars for another month on corruption charges in a case widely seen to be linked to a power struggle between feuding clans close to the country's security services. |
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Heyday for Thieves as People Switch to Cash Combined Reports Moscow has been hit by a crime wave as an increasing number of Russians are withdrawing their savings and carrying large amounts of cash around, making them easy prey for thieves, state television reported. |
Issue 3872 | 31 Mar 2008
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Zimbabwe Opposition Claims Early Lead The Associated Press Zimbabwe's main opposition party on Sunday claimed an early lead in elections, including in a rural stronghold of President Robert Mugabe, in an apparent effort to thwart any attempt to rig the vote count. |
Issue 3841 | 13 Feb 2008
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Cop Accused of Stealing Boy Statue By Carl Schreck / Staff Writer In the latest in a series of statue thefts, an Interior Ministry official was detained over the weekend on suspicion of stealing a bronze statue of a boy playing a flute from a Belgian restaurant in southwest Moscow. |
Issue 3836 | 6 Feb 2008
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Dispute in Mens' Bathroom Line Leads to Brawl By Carl Schreck / Staff Writer In any club or restaurant where the alcohol is flowing freely, it's usually patrons of the fair sex who are forced to suffer long lines for the bathroom. |
Issue 3831 | 30 Jan 2008
Student Spends Holiday in Hole By Carl Schreck / Staff Writer University students traditionally celebrate Jan. 25, or St. Tatyana's Day, by getting drunk while police turn a blind eye to their excesses on the last day of the winter session. |
Issue 3805 | 12 Dec 2007
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Attack Puts N. Korean Laborers in Hospital By Carl Schreck / Staff Writer A group of young men wielding pipes and sticks attacked a group of North Korean laborers in the Moscow region, leaving four of the migrant workers hospitalized, authorities said Tuesday. |
Issue 3800 | 5 Dec 2007
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2 Arrests for Headless Corpse By Carl Schreck / Staff Writer Police have arrested two men suspected of shooting a Moscow businessman, cutting off his head and making off with $20,000 in cash, a law enforcement source said Tuesday. |
Issue 3790 | 21 Nov 2007
Woman Charged in Rock Fraud By Carl Schreck / Staff Writer An elderly woman has been arrested and charged with fraud after she tried to sell a large corundum stone for $20 million, passing it off as a giant hunk of ruby crystal, police said Tuesday. |
Currency Exchange
USD/RUR - 27.3
EUR/RUR - 34.8
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
Most Popular Stories.
2. Obama and the KGB
3. Obama Gets Telegram, No Spot in Speech
4. Nuclear Submarine Accident Kills 20
5. New Ways to Insult Americans
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Columnists
Getting Rid of Guests
By Michele A. Berdy
Doomed From the Start
By Boris Kagarlitsky
Making a Jester Out of Medvedev
By Yulia Latynina
The Real Issue Isn't a Shield in Central Europe
By Fyodor Lukyanov
Back-Scratching in America
By Alexei Pankin
U.S. Not a Threat After All
By Alexander Golts
Policing Immigrant Workers
By Alexei Bayer
Medvedev Learned His PR Skills From Chavez
By Vladimir Frolov
Don't Expect Miracles From the G20 Summit
By Martin Gilman
Preparing for Putin's Return to the Kremlin
By Nikolai Petrov
Obama and the KGB
By Richard Lourie
1,000 Presidential Pardons
By Mark H. Teeter
Tbilisi Protesters Could Be Doing Russia's Work
By Matthew Collin
A Guarded Liberalism
By Georgy Bovt
Eagerly Waiting for Change -- Within Russia
By Yevgeny Kiselyov
Putin's Costly Crash Course in Economics
By Konstantin Sonin
Russia's Top Economist Needs to Face Reality
By Anders Aslund
