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June 30, 2008 ¹46
Society
Papers Missing
Yana Serova
Business
Winged Budgets
The main economic event of the last week was continuation of the discussion about perspectives of the lowering of the VAT from 18% to 12%. The deputy prime minister and minister of finance Alexei Kudrin turned out to be the chief newsmaker with his statement that such a measure would lead de facto to losses in the budget in the amount of 800 bn rubles, would threaten the macroeconomic stability and demographic situation in Russia, and even may affect the future of the mankind. In the minister’s opinion, it’s exactly the 33% budget share of expenses for defense and security that can guarantee that the nuclear war never happens.
Alexei Polukhin
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subeditor of economic section
Politics
“Troika” With Kolokolchik
A certain Mikhail Rabo has been arrested in Berlin. Mikhail Grunvald, the spokesperson for the capital prosecutor’s office, alleges that he played the key role in a so called “tambovskaya malyshev’s group” much talked about in the EU countries after 13 June. On that day, 400 employees from the Spanish counter-corruption agency made searchings in about 30 villas, hot spots and offices and arrested over 20 expatriate Russians from St Petersburg and other Russian regions
Sergei Zolovkin
Society
Acquitted Of Attempt
26 June the Russian Supreme Court confirmed a sensational verdict of not guilty by the Petersburg Court. The three accused of attempt on the governor of the northern capital Valentina Matvienko – alleged “Islamic terrorists” Timur Saidgareev, Ravil Muratov and Vladislav Baranov - had been acquitted by the jury, after which the prosecution appealed the verdict in the Supreme Court.
Nikolai Donskov
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our correspondent in St Petersburg
Politics
He Knows Too Much
The life of the lawyer Immanuel Seltzer and the fate of Badri Patarkatsishvili’s fortune to depend on Byelorussian KGB
Irina Khalip
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our correspondent in Minsk
Politics
Photo Kit Of The Russian Average Citizen
Part 3. Vertical mobility
Andrei Lipsky
Politics
Scape-representative
Losing one case after another in Strasbourg, the Russian government changes its authorized representative in the European Court For Human Rights
Boris Vishnevsky
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observer of the Novaya
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Ilia Krieger
Investigations
Coming To Be Masters
At the beginning of June the Bavarian newspaper Abendzeitung featured a headline “Russians Are Coming!” With a mixed feeling of horror and rapture the German journalists came to a conclusion: never before have seen their idyllic quiet parts such a big quantity of Russian tourists, investors and even frauds.
Sergei Zolovkin
Society
Dalai-Drama
Chinese industrialists are ready to destroy the unique natural ecosystem of a reserve located at the Russian border
Society
The Creator Of “Windows” To Go Out Through Doors
Yuri Revich
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observer of Novaya Gazeta
Society
Could It Be Shorter?
Official opening ceremony of the new stock exchange has been held in Petersburg, on Vasilyevsky Island. Building a new exchange being a good fact in itself, the problem is that the newly-built bulk, made from glass and concrete, is now hanging over the historical center of the city, spoiling the panorama of Vasileyvsky Island.
Nikolai Donskov
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our correspondent in St Petersburg
Culture
Timur Bekmambetov: Good Can Only Be Produced Out Of Evil
This guy from a Kazakh city of Atyrau, the graduate from Tashkent institute (his specialty is “artist for theater and movie”), the soldier who served in artillery forces near Ashkhabad, the author of a tragic story about Russian prisoners in Afghanistan (Peshawar Waltz) - he is the man the bosses of the oldest Hollywood studio, Universal Pictures, staked on. This alien from Russia the Planet was trusted to make a movie version of popular comics Wanted by Mark Millar and G.Jones.
Larisa Malyukova
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observer of Novaya Gazeta
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