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Office depot DTs
I am the quintessential office supply/organizational junkie. I spend the kind of time in STAPLES that ordinary women spend in Bloomingdales, which I am sure shows both in my impeccable filing system, as well as my less-than-pristine personal appearance. What can I do? My idea of the perfect afternoon is to fire up my label gun and reorganize someone’s filing system, rearrange their DVDs by genre and then in alphabetical order, or clean out desk drawers and color code the post-it supply.
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The man who refused a million dollars ( 3 comments )
What everyone has been talking about for so long and couldn’t quite believe has now finally happened. The Russian mathematician Grigory Perelman has officially refused the Millennium Prize of $1 million awarded him by the Clay Mathematics Institute in Cambridge, Mass., for proving the Poincaré conjecture. Perelman’s explanation for this refusal was as surprising as his actual refusal. He disagrees with the decision of the mathematics community: “I do not like their decision, I consider it unfair,” he said. “I consider that the American mathematician [Richard] Hamilton’s contribution to the solution of the problem is no less than mine.” What Hamilton thinks about this is not yet known.
A Russian paradise in Turkey ( 4 comments )
One of the singularities of the Russian soul is its genuine belief in the possibility of heaven on earth. This faith has been passed down from one generation to the next. Even in Russian fairy tales miracles happen not “long long ago” as they do in Western European tales, but in the “thrice-nine kingdom”. The tie to a place is palpable. A place where dreams come true, somewhere nearby, you just have to find it. So let’s look. In tsarist times peasants went in search to the East, to Siberia, thereby expanding Russian territory.
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Russia & CIS Hotel Investment Conference
25-27 October 2010
Renaissance Moscow Monarch Centre Hotel

Global Policy Forum 'The Modern State: Standards of Democracy and Criteria of Efficiency'
9-10 September, Yaroslavl, Russia

IX International Investment Forum SOCHI-2010
16-19 September
Sochi
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First International Conference of translators
September 2-4,
Locations:
- Russian State Library Pashkov House
- All-Russia Exhibition Centre (VVC)

Pushkin House and the Inspired by Russia International Art Project present Lost & Found
16-22 September 2010, Pushkin House, 5A Bloomsbury Square, London WC1A 2TA.

International Photo Contest "Foreign View"
September 1, 2010
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Why living off the land can be a bit of an acquired taste
In 1615, Dutch envoy Anthonis Goeteeris, on finding himself in Moscow, wrote: “The Russians have a very strange cuisine.” Although Russian food is generally thought to be monotonous, it is actually rich in original recipes.
New rituals for the New Year ( 7 comments )
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When spies become intelligence officers
How do you say "spy" in Russian? What about "espionage?" And how do you distinguish "spying" from "gathering intelligence?"
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The trap snapped shut 30 years ago ( 2 comments )
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Naps are for NATO ( 1 comment )
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Press review: Terrorist attacks in the Moscow Metro
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Moving on: Thursday morning on Moscow's metro ( 2 comments )
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BOMB: Russians don't believe situation in North Caucasus getting worse
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The silk route of the Afghan poppy ( 2 comments )
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Russia, China concerned by growing Afghan drug threat
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Russia passes info on nine Afghan drug lords to US (+video)
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Unnumbered agents
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Russia calls U.S. spy charges 'baseless,' regrets timing ( 2 comments )
Claire Bigg, RFE/RL

Spy scandal in the United States: Unconvincing and unnecessary ( 1 comment )
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