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Los Angeles Times - Tue Dec 8, 3:20 am ET
Moscow officials have already chased away clouds on public holidays. Now they're considering cloud seeding to keep snow-removal costs down in the winter. Neighboring towns may get dumped on. In the snow-hushed woods on Moscow's northern edge, scientists are decades deep into research on bending the weather to their will. They've been at it since Soviet dictator Josef Stalin paused long enough in ...
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INO News - 2 hours 15 minutes ago
(AP:MOSCOW) Russian banks' bad loans are a substantial threat for the country's underdeveloped financial sector, despite hopes of improvements by mid-2010, rating agency Standard & Poor's warned on Wednesday.
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The Daily Reflector - Mon Dec 7, 8:07 am ET
PERM, Russia — Grieving friends and relatives of victims of a Russian nightclub fire buried the dead on a frigid Monday as the death toll climbed to 113 and looked likely to rise.
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Space War - Mon Dec 7, 11:35 pm ET
Moscow (AFP) Dec 7, 2009 - Top Russian and US officials held talks in Moscow Monday dealing with the expired START nuclear weapons treaty, and a new deal could be reached by December 18, according to a Russian newspaper.
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Nasdaq - Tue Dec 8, 3:02 am ET
MOSCOW -(Dow Jones)- Russian Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin Tuesday called for a worldwide organization to regulate financial markets.
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INO News - Tue Dec 8, 12:56 pm ET
(AP:MOSCOW) The fire chief of a Russian city where a nightclub blaze killed 118 revelers was suspended along with five subordinates Tuesday and authorities said inspection records for the club appear to have been falsified.
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Bloomberg - Wed Dec 9, 8:53 am ET
Dec. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Russian companies may raise the most money selling shares next year since 2007 as they repair balance sheets and resume expansion after the deepest recession on record ends, Renaissance Capital President Ruben Aganbegyan said.
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Reuters via Yahoo! Sports - Tue Dec 8, 4:12 pm ET
Besiktas 1 CSKA Moscow 2 - Champions League Group B latest.
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Boston Globe - Tue Dec 8, 9:18 am ET
The EBRD said Tuesday it will lend euro500 million ($742 million) to Russia's small- and medium-sized businesses, a sector that still has limited access to long-term financing.
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FOX 11 Tucson - Mon Dec 7, 7:18 am ET
PERM, Russia (AP) — Grieving friends and relatives of victims of a Russian nightclub fire are burying the dead on a frigid day as the death toll climbs to 113.
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Reuters via Yahoo! Sports - Tue Dec 8, 3:12 pm ET
Besiktas 0 CSKA Moscow 1 - Champions League Group B halftime.
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Nasdaq - Wed Dec 9, 5:32 am ET
MOSCOW -(Dow Jones)- The Gas Exporting Countries Forum, or GECF, has appointed Russia's Leonid Bokhanovsky as General Secretary, Russia's energy ministry said Wednesday.
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Bloomberg - Wed Dec 9, 2:05 am ET
Dec. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Investors should buy the ruble after the worst three-day slump in 10 months as rising commodity prices will spur Russia’s economy and strengthen the currency, according to analysts at Commerzbank AG and ING Groep NV.
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New York Times - Sun Dec 6, 12:53 pm ET
President Dmitri A. Medvedev demanded that Russia tighten its lax fire codes after the deadliest blaze since the Soviet era killed at least 107 people in a nightclub.
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AFP via Yahoo! News - Tue Dec 8, 9:10 am ET
The United States urged a UN court Tuesday to back Kosovo's independence as an act that brought stability to the Balkans, as Russia demanded the resumption of talks with Serbia on the territory's status.
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OfficialWire - Tue Dec 8, 4:42 am ET
India and Russia should pursue bilateral cooperation in developing the hydrocarbon and nuclear sector, the Indian prime minister said in Moscow. Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh arrived in Moscow during the weekend to meet with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev.
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Christian News Wire - Tue Dec 8, 10:11 am ET
WASHINGTON, Dec. 8 / Standard Newswire / -- Under the framework of the U.S.-Russia Bilateral Presidential Commission, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), U.S. Forest Service, and the Russian Federal Forest Agency signed a Protocol of Intent to strengthen collaboration in the sustainable management of forests through 2013.
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FOX 11 Tucson - Tue Dec 8, 9:47 am ET
MOSCOW (AP) — A top Kremlin official is telling Russian news agencies that Moscow and Washington expect to strike a new nuclear arms treaty this month.
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Bloomberg - Wed Dec 9, 6:54 am ET
Dec. 9 (Bloomberg) -- ConocoPhillips and Marathon Oil Corp. are betting that Poland, which gets half of its natural gas from Russia, can yield a development boom in shale formations like those that drove a jump in U.S. output of the heating fuel.
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Reuters via Yahoo! Sports - Tue Dec 8, 2:12 pm ET
Teams for Tuesday's Champions League Group B match between Besiktas and CSKA Moscow at Inonu Stadium.