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Ben Aris' blog
Emerging markets overtake world with IPOs
Russia Lite
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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Surprised by Russia
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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Business Calendar
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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Culture Calendar
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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National Cuisine
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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Found in translation
When spies become intelligence officers
How do you say "spy" in Russian? What about "espionage?" And how do you distinguish "spying" from "gathering intelligence?"
Latest Stories
Society:
Experts say that despite early glitches and a few teachers taking the tests for $1,315 , the new SAT-style exams are beginning to reduce corruption.
Feature:
The glamour and glitz of the Moscow International Auto Show has brought the latest Porsche and Bentley models to town.
Society:
By stopping the controversial construction of a highway through a forest near Moscow, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev handed a victory to Russian environmentalists.
Opinion:
The information flow from Russia creates a pretty dark image for the country
Society:
A Hawaiian at Moscow State University
Culture:
Literature: A congress in Moscow will focus on the problems faced by the translators of Russian books
Business and Finance
Retail: Price-cutting chains proving to be the most popular on the high street
Property: Largest sale since early 1990s
Reforms will challenge boom-bust economy
Roland Nash, Renaissance Capital
Looking at banking the Islamic way
Anna Sulimina, The Moscow News
Insider trading finally outlawed
Ben Aris, Business New Europe
First signs of recovery in jobs market
Natalya Fedotova, special to Russia Now
Politics
Ramzan Kadyrov, Chechnya’s top dog, says the term “president” should only apply to the Russian head of state and wants to relinquish the title
NTV's broadcast on July 4 of the Lukashenka documentary, titled "The Godfather," described the unpleasant sides of Lukashenka's personality
‘Grand Duke’ with his eyes on the Kremlin
Andy Potts, The Moscow News
Medvedev's new vector in foreign policy
Yekaterina Tolstaya, special to Russia Now
Speech at meeting with Russian ambassadors and permanent representatives in international organizations ( 1 comment )
Dmitry Medvedev
Kremlin pushes ahead for army reform
Ben Aris, special to Russia Now
Tourism
Despite the area's tortured history, the sites of Solovki exude a mysterious spirituality.
The Znamenskoe-Raek estate should be visited by anyone with an interest in the former glory of Russia’s estate culture.
See beauty everywhere (+slideshow) ( 2 comments )
Phoebe Taplin, Special to Russia Now
Karelia will return in your dreams ( 6 comments )
Vsevolod Pulya, Russia Now
Ferapontovo: medieval treasure in the Russian north ( 7 comments )
Text and photographs by William C. Brumfield
High walls and honey wine ( 1 comment )
Phoebe Taplin, Special to Russia Now
Russia and World
Although the relationship between Russia and Pakistan is improving, any growth must take into account Russia's long-standing ally India.
Russian and US Air Forces will conduct their first-ever joint training exercise, nicknamed “Vigilant Eagle”, from August 8-11
SCO sets a barrier for Ahmadinejad
by Viktoria Panfilova, Izvestia (translated by Russia Today)
Russia's Ukraine gas bombshell draws outcry
RFE/RL
For Yanukovych, a fleet-footed dash to repair Russia divide
Gregory Feifer, RFE/RL
Bonding in common tragedy
Dmitry Babich, special to Russia Now
Culture
Grammy-winning Irish rocker and three-time Nobel Peace Prize nominee, U2’s tireless frontman Bono has met with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev at his official residence in Sochi
Theatre:
The way Russians talk about theater is like talking about religion.
New guides to Suffering ( 2 comments )
Nora FitzGerald
On the track of the true sound of Mosfilm
Veronika Dorman, Russia Now
Mysteries of Moscow’s Kremlin
patriarchia.ru
Saving a film studio
Elena Marchan, RN
Feature
A thorough examination of Russia’s great literary heritage yields no clear explanation as to what the so-called mysterious Russian soul really is and how it differs from the souls of other peoples.
Life Style:
Environment enthusiasts in Moscow green up their lives, showing by example that small steps can change the world for the better.
Views from Russia on the Gaza Strip
press review
The Greek Tragedy
RN
In Russia, long distances breed long-distance runners
Ekaterina Godunova
Novoye Russkoye Slovo changes with the times ( 2 comments )
Karina Ioffee
Society
Sport:
For Russia’s 2018 bid, it is hoped lessons have been learnt from the preparation for the Sochi games
Sport:
One of the key points in any bid for the World Cup is what the tournament will do to develop soccer in that region.pect some powerful economic growth
A stringer’s life ( 1 comment )
Oleg Klimov (liberty.su), Nora FitzGerald
A far-flung gamble
Kevin O’Flynn, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
In search of Serenity
Anna Nemtsova, special to RN
The struggle from stair to door (+ video) ( 2 comments )
Candice Hughes, special to Russia Now
Opinion
"For attracting foreign investment and capital, the investment climate and rule of law are much more important."
"The United States has an interest in the success of Medvedev's modernization and integration."
Define modernization
Dmitry
 Trenin, The Moscow Times
A zone of responsibility
Fyodor Lukyanov, The Moscow Times
New Silicon Valley ( 7 comments )
Ralph Winnie, special
 to Russia Now
Foreign policy with a smile on its face (+video)
Fyodor Lukyanov, The Moscow Times
History
During the 1945 Yalta Conference a young lieutenant from Soviet intelligence, Yuri Sokolov, spoke on a number of occasions to Britain’s Prime Minister. His memories of Winston Churchill were of the pleasantest sort.
In the vast territory of the Russian north, no place carries more historical weight than the Solovetsky Transfiguration Monastery, located on Great Solovetsky Island, part of an archipelago in the southwestern part of the White Sea.
Elbe Day commemorated
Nora FitzGerald
Questioning a bloody war ( 2 comments )
Alexander Mekhanik, Expert magazine
The trap snapped shut 30 years ago ( 2 comments )
Vladimir Snegiryov, special For Russia Now
Archives reveal strategy switch on Afghanistan
Russia Now
Blogs
Ben Aris' blog:
Jim O'Neill, chief economist at Goldman Sachs, famously predicted that the GDP of the fast-growth Bric countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China) will overtake the developed world in the next 15 years, but following the $22bn IPO of China’s AgBank in June, the biggest ever, emerging markets’ IPOs have already overtaken the West in terms of issuances.
Russia Lite:
"To me, one of the great, unsolved mysteries is why the office supply craze hasn’t taken off in Russia, a country that, year after year, successfully defends its intergalactic bureaucratic paperwork championship title"
Day of the Construction Workers
Jennifer Eremeeva
Cool men cooling off: Day of the Paratroopers
Jennifer Eremeeva
Naps are for NATO ( 1 comment )
Jennifer Eremeeva
Living the foreign life in Russia
Jonathan Fianu
Blasts in Russia
Terrorism: Metro suicide bombers recall Moscow’s days of violence
Tough anti-terror measures could hit the anti-corruption campaign, law enforcement experts warn.
Finding the sources of terror
Sergei Markedonov, Special to Russia Now
Press review: Terrorist attacks in the Moscow Metro
combined reports
Moving on: Thursday morning on Moscow's metro ( 2 comments )
Phoebe Taplin
BOMB: Russians don't believe situation in North Caucasus getting worse
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War on Afghan drugs
The problem of Afghan heroin trafficking as seen by Dmitry Rogozin, Russia’s NATO envoy
Russia’s drugs czar Viktor Ivanov is a man with a mission: to push the topic of combating Afghanistan’s narcotics exports to the top of the international agenda
“The amount of heroin produced in Afghanistan has grown by 40 times” ( 2 comments )
Anna Nemtsova, special to RN
The silk route of the Afghan poppy ( 2 comments )
By Igor Yavlyansky, Izvestia
Russia, China concerned by growing Afghan drug threat
RIA Novosti
Russia passes info on nine Afghan drug lords to US (+video)
Natalia Makarova, Russia Today TV Channel
Spy Scandal
Here is an old Russian joke about a man who went on trial for making illegal (or "unlawful", as it's fashionable to say these days) alcohol.
The swap story is unique in terms of the openness and remarkable ability to negotiate demonstrated by both sides
Unnumbered agents
Vedomosti
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 )
Kirill Belyaninov, Vladimir Solovyov, Kommersant
Tinker, tailor, housewife, spy
Tom Balmforth, Russia Profile
Fires in Russia
Environment: Sobering lessons from fires that smothered Moscow with smoke
The problems that resulted in this summer's massive fires have been building since the Soviet era.
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