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Friday, Jul. 7, 2006.
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Putin Burnishes Image Online
Francesca Mereu / Staff Writer
With the G8 summit just around the corner, President Vladimir Putin took to the Internet on Thursday for a live chat in which he downplayed the threat of North Korean nuclear missiles and called U.S. President George W. Bush decent and honest.
An IPO Built on Greed and Ambition
Catherine Belton / Staff Writer
The multibillion-dollar sale will help Sergei Bogdanchikov strengthen his control over Rosneft.
Duma Deputies Pine for Paris and the Dacha
Francesca Mereu / Staff Writer
Paris, Sochi and shashlik await State Duma deputies as they wrap up their spring session Saturday and flee the dirty, sweaty, traffic-congested confines of the city for summer getaways.
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Porridge for Brains
Michele A. Berdy
You know those days when you are wooly-headed, befuddled and just can't get your brain in gear?
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Klebnikov Family Complains Over Delay
Nabi Abdullaev / Staff Writer
The family of slain journalist Paul Klebnikov is accusing the Moscow City Court of preventing justice from being served.
Transdnestr Blast Kills 8, Injures 46
The Associated Press
An explosion ripped apart a small civilian bus in the separatist Moldovan region of Transdnestr early Thursday, killing eight people and injuring 46, the republic's official Olvia Pres news agency said.
Voyeuristic Bear Tops List of Online Queries
Oksana Yablokova / Staff Writer
President Vladimir Putin's Internet conference Thursday reflects the growing clout of the online community, even if that community cares more about robots and a fictional sea monster than nuclear missiles or the G8 summit.
Putin Kissed Boy 'Like a Kitten'
Combined Reports
Vladimir Putin's decision to stop a small boy as he walked through the Kremlin and kiss his stomach was prompted by a desire to "touch him like a kitten," Putin said Thursday.
American Cowboys Gallop Into Town
Anton Troianovski / The Associated Press
Even for Moscow, it was a strange sight: a group of American cowboys, sporting wide-brim hats, crocodile-skin boots and oversize belt-buckles.
News in Brief
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State Seals Strategy for Space Industry
Anna Smolchenko / Staff Writer
The government on Thursday signed off on a strategy to consolidate the nation's space industry into three to four major holding companies.
Banks Ready for Mortgage Boom
William Mauldin / Staff Writer
Pioneer mortgage-backed bonds will allow banks to increase mortgage lending.
Minsk Mulls JV With Gazprom
Reuters
Belarus, anxious to avoid paying the big price increases threatened by Gazprom, on Thursday proposed a joint venture to run its pipelines with the gas giant as a compromise to demands it yield control of the network.
Nation Copies Putin's Tastes
Bloomberg
President Vladimir Putin is so popular in Russia that he starts fashion trends by wearing or publicly using certain products, Vedomosti said.
Azeri Crude to Slip Out of Russia's Stranglehold
Simon Webb / Reuters
The mammoth Baku-Ceyhan pipeline from Azerbaijan to the Mediterranean is a step toward freeing Caspian oil from Russias stranglehold but the grip will not be broken until Kazakhstan finds new export routes, analysts say.
3 Oil Firms Warming to Rosneft
Reuters
Oil giant BP, state-controlled China National Petroleum Corp. and Malaysias Petronas are all moving closer to buying shares in the planned flotation of Russias Rosneft, sources close to the situation said Thursday.
Business in Brief
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Mauresmo Downs Sharapova in Semis
Stephen Wilson / The Associated Press
Maria Sharapova is gone from Wimbledon, and Justine Henin-Hardenne is one victory away from a career Grand Slam.
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Arts & Ideas |
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Romance on the Runway
Tom Birchenough
In the new film "Transit," Soviet and American pilots have some close encounters at a remote Chukotka airbase during World War II.
Anarchist Pilgrimage
Alexander Osipovich
Playwright Tom Stoppard and the cast of his play "The Coast of Utopia" explore the birthplace of 19th-century revolutionary Mikhail Bakunin.
Britpop, Russian Style
Kirill Galetski
Segodnya Nochyu, a rock band from St. Petersburg that topped the charts a few years ago, presents new material in a concert at Ikra.
Wanted
Kevin O'Flynn
The one-armed man was not just an England fan - he was also one of the many ticket scalpers who gather around the World Cup.
A Fine-Tuned Legacy
David Schiff
In the second volume of his biography of Igor Stravinsky, Stephen Walsh looks for the man the public did not see.
Salon
Victor Sonkin
There is a certain type of summer reading that was a formative experience for several Soviet generations.
The Inside Scoop
Anna Malpas
A longtime journalist for Komsomolskaya Pravda pens a novel about changing times at a Russian newspaper.
A Dutch Master, Remastered
Brian Droitcour
A husband-and-wife team of Moscow artists pays tribute to Rembrandt in honor of his 400th birthday.
Theatrical Conspiracy
John Freedman
A new play at the Mossoviet Theater interweaves the political intrigues of an election campaign with the backstage drama of a troupe of actors.
Image
Anna Malpas
Earlier this week, Moscow hosted the HairWorld hairdressing championship at Expocenter on Krasnaya Presnya.
Global Eye
Chris Floyd
The Supreme Court ruling has been hailed as the "light at the end of the tunnel"- but we have seen these lights before, and watched them fade.
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