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Found in translation
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Business Calendar
Exhibition “Advanced Technologies from Russia”
August 6 – 16, 2008, Bangkok, Thailand
International Specialised Show of Aerospace Technologies and Services “AEROSPACE 2008”
August 20-24, 2008, Moscow, Russia
International Agro-Industrial Exhibition and Fair Agrorus 2008
August 22-31, 2008, St Petersburg, Russia
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Culture Calendar
The Presidential Regiment’s ceremonial changing of the guard
Until October 2008, Moscow
16th International Stars of the White Nights Festival of Music
May 10-July 27, Mariinsky Theatre, Mariinsky Theatre Concert Hall, St. Petersburg
Russian porcelain show "Fragile — The Tsar's Table and the Porcelain of the Revolutionaries"
April 12-August 31, Frankfurt Museum of Applied Arts and then the Palace of Bad Homburg, Germany
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Found in translation
The Difficulties of Translation
Victor Veber is one of the prominent Russian translators of modern British and American literature. Among the works he has translated are over 400 novels and stories of American, Australian and English writers. The text is written exclusively for RBTH
Russia day by day
Politics:
President Dmitry Medvedev met with Gordon Brown on the sidelines of the Group of Eight summit in Japan
Feature:
The 100th anniversary of the Tunguska explosion
A New Day for Family, Love and Fidelity
Anna Malpas , The Moscow Times
Potanin to Lead Norilsk Board
Nadia Popova, The Moscow Times
No more tax bonanza for private foreign organizations
Yulia Taratuta, Alexander Voronov, Kommersant
Russia-EU: Unformatted Relations
Fedor Lukyanov, Russia in Global Affairs for Yezhednevnyy Zhurnal
Business & Finance
Economic Analytics & Opinions:
If the government delivers on its pledge to create a friendly environment for small business, Russia may have 12-15 million small companies and individual entrepreneurs within a few years, experts predict, three or four times more than today
Economic Analytics & Opinions:
President of the association of small and medium-sized businesses, ‘Opora’ Sergei Borisov, thinks it’s time to develop human capital promoting enterprise and innovation-driven companies
Where the Space Race Began
Vladimir Babenkov, Rossiiskaya gazeta
Planning for and Financing the Future
A Russian Industrial, Scientific and Cultural Center
Vladimir Mikhailov, Samara
Blending with the global economy
Sergei Balashov, www.russiaprofile.org
Politics
President:
The new Russian President’s political debut in Berlin and the St Petersburg International Economic Forum shed light on two of the most frequently asked questions in Russian politics
Governement:
Government setting up commission to monitor overseas control
Mixed Expectations for Medvedev
prepared by RBTH
A New Government...
Yelena Zagorodnyaya, RIA Novosti
Putin’s Cabinet
Dmitry Babich, Russia Profile.Org , Anna Arutunyan, Moscow News
Changes in the Russian Cabinet
Dmitry Babich, Russia Profile ORG
Russia & World
Foreign policy:
Opinions of Analysts:
Russian expert argues that Arctic riches are a myth
Samara’s Potential
Helmut Viser, Acting Vice-President of Alcoa
A Roadmap to Cooperation
Sergei Lavrov, Russian Foreign Minister
A New Russian Foreign Policy?
Alexei Makarkin, Vice-president, Centre for Political Technologies.
Presidents Bush and Putin met for the last time to discuss the challenges of recent years
Fyodor Lukyanov, Editor, Russia in Global Affairs
Culture
Theatre:
Musical theatre was almost unknown in Russia before the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. Since then, foreign musicals such as Cats, Metro, Notre Dame de Paris and Chicago have filled theatres in Moscow and St Petersburg. Now Russian composers have started experimenting with the genre, and Catherine the Great is the latest effort.
Literature:
A celebration of Russian verse held in London chooses
Unusual, Unseen and Outright Bizarre
Alexei Berezin, Ria Novosti
The Avant Garde Comes to the United States
Natalia Ivanova, New York
Easy, tiger: the new Spartacus
Olga Fedorchenko, Kommersant
Art mosaic
prepared by Nadya Starykh, RBTH
Feature
Life Style:
National cuisine:
Picture Perfect
Not typical but also russian
Irakli Iosebashvili, Special Projects Editor The Moscow Times
It’s time for an Easter rising
Irakli Iosebashvili, Special Projects Editor The Moscow Times
The richest wife
Olga Proskurnina, Vedomosti
History
People:
It has been 100 years since two luminaries, a famous American inventor and a great Russian writer, exchanged what we might now call “intellectual products.” The writer, Count Leo Tolstoy, reportedly recorded a spoken message in English on a phonograph sent to him by Thomas Edison.
Stories:
Far from a recent fad, tennis in Russia has attracted followers from Tsar Nicholas II and Count Leo Tolstoy to the first Russian president, Boris Yeltsin.
Master of world physics
Pyotr Obraztsov, Izvestia
Russians who taught Parisians how to dress
Tatyana Basova, “Gosudarstvennaya Duma”
The day fascism lost the war
Yelena Syanova, Moscow
U.S. and Russia: 200 Years of Diplomatic Relations
Alexey Isakov, Moscow
Opinion
Two different stratum slowly pull together
Igor Bunin, Moscow
Towards A Mature Foreign Policy
Andrei Kortunov, Moscow
Russia Needs Open Borders
Alexander P. Potemkin is Director-General of the Moscow Interbank Currency Exchange
Russia to Initiate Clean Water Program
Sergei Yashechkin, Chairman, and Stanislav Svetlitsky, Director General of Eurasian Water Partnershi
Society
Sport:
Spring brought several spectacular triumphs to Russian athletes
The long road to Luzhniki
Ilya Zubko, Rossiiskaya Gazeta
The new Russians
Dmitry Polikanov, Moscow
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