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Stranded in Moscow...by choice
Smoke, heat and a cold shower – the flavor of Moscow’s summer 2010
Living the life of a chain smoker, that’s what every Muscovite had to experience this summer. Heavy smoke blanketed the the city, leaving the visibility as bad as on a foggy November day. That didn't stop the hardcore Russian smokers, who deliberately give their lungs an extra kick, lighting their cigarettes.
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Emerging markets overtake world with IPOs
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Office politics, Russian style ( 1 comment )
The blistering heat that plagued central Russia for two straight months affected different people in different ways, but possibly the strangest reaction to the heat was exhibited by the head of an agro-industrial complex that produces dairy products.
The man who refused a million dollars ( 5 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.
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Global Policy Forum 'The Modern State: Standards of Democracy and Criteria of Efficiency'
9-10 September, Yaroslavl, Russia

World Food Moscow 2010

19th international food and drinks exhibition

14–17 September

Moscow, Expocentre

Economist Conferences Emerging Markets Summit - The New Reality
September 15th – 16th 2010, The Grand Connaught Rooms, London
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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?"
War on Afghan drugs

“The amount of heroin produced in Afghanistan has grown by 40 times” ( 2 comments )
Anna Nemtsova, special to RN
Moscow hosts global summit on heroin plague ( 1 comment )
Russia Today TV Channel
The silk route of the Afghan poppy ( 2 comments )
By Igor Yavlyansky, Izvestia
Millions of small doses
Ivan Egorov, Rossiyskaya gazeta
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
Moscow to hold international anti-drugs forum in June
RIA Novosti
The war on drugs (+video) ( 1 comment )
Anna Nemtsova, special to RN
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