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What is the Federation Tower built on? 175
Sergei Polonsky declared a hunger strike stemming from the raid on the Kutuzovsky Mile development project, and it has become a bottomless pit of Internet folklore. He brought a wealth of attention to himself by swearing profusely, lying under the wheels of a truck and demanding that Arkady come...
Why our spaceships fall and satellites disappear. A look from inside secret production facilities 817
So we have started losing them. A lot of them - all over the world. Three GLONASS satellites were lost on 5 December. A Geo-IK-2 geodetic military satellite was lost on 1 February. The Express-AM4 space satellite was lost on 18 August. On 24 August, the M-12M Progress met with an accident while being launched by the Soyuz-U booster rocket and was destroyed...
Lisin Attacked by Parasites 209
Eastern Babylon 372
The next summit of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) will take place in Honolulu in the US, and the following one in 2012 will be held in Vladivostok, the capital of the Primorye (Maritime) Province. Only three years ago, the...
Windfall of cash bursts dam 17
The Federal Service for Environmental, Technological, and Nuclear Oversight (Rostekhnadzor) has confirmed that construction of the Boguchanskaya Hydro Power Plant violates existing laws. The key complaint against Russia’s largest...
Short Course In Ruble 4
Vladislav Inozemtsev, the director of the Center for research of the post-industrial society: The current crisis has been caused more with our internal reasons than with the global influence. Even if the crisis in the West had not been so...
Comment by Yulia Latynina 24
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has given his reading of the ways of overcoming the financial crisis. The President has called Europe to making a new global order where the role by the US would be reduced. Right at the moment when the...
Staff Crisis 5
The crisis has affected some players in the media market. That way, expenses of “Nezavisimaya Gazeta” had to be reduced for 30% and about 50 staff members were laid off, as reported by the periodical owner and editor Konstantin Remchukov....
Comment By Alexander Lebedev 4
Actions by government and the task of minimization of consequences of the financial crisis have very little in common. First, we need to define what the financial crisis is like in Russia. If we talk of fall of the stock exchange indices,...
“Veselukha”. Comment by Alexei Polukhin. 3
Our elite are no afraid of the crisis, as it enables them to complete the process of sharing out the assets to their advantage. Stability is a good time with one exception: it’s impossible to share out really big money without being...
Narrow Circle Of Those Drowning 3
This week the financial crisis has become global and really terrible. The governments of Great Britain, Germany, and Benelux countries had to save the largest banks through buying up their stock (which is better to be called...
Boom First, Then Crash 3
Nationalization of “Fanny” and “Freddie”, the US largest mortgage agencies, was unprecedented news. While in Russia and in a number of European countries the process of privatization and nationalization is painful, bit still usual, in the...
Crisis As Usual Thing 3
The crisis has passed with us. The resources, accumulated during the years of oil and gas boom, have helped fixing holes in the banking system and in the stock market. Economists will be discussing for long the price the country has had to...
Money Has No Smell Of Powder 16
The western establishment, including business circles, counted to see a liberal kind of president in Medvedev, and initially he did not disappoint them. However, after he signed the decree about recognition of Abkhazia and the South...
It Will Just Give Her No Money 4
Economic losses out of military-political conflicts can be measured precisely in rubles: the outflow of capital, reduction of the stock market’s capitalization, amounts from the budget spent on the war and on liquidation of its...
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