Word: alexei
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...poll result may do little to speed things up, in fact. "The elections have not made any impact whatsoever. Everything that was will remain the same, they were just a game," says Alexei Malashenko, a scholar-in-residence at Moscow's Carnegie Institute. He points out that Kokoity has not only the support of his own Unity party, but also that of the only other two parties in South Ossetia's 34-seat legislature, the communists and the People's Party. The only democratic opposition is outside parliament altogether...
...senior recovered from his quarterfinal loss at last year’s regionals by beating Columbia’s Bogdan Borta in the finals, 7-6, 6-7, 6-3. After two tiebreakers, Clayton got the best of Borta with relentless shots and solid serves. Paired up with sophomore Alexei Chijoff-Evans, Clayton also won in the doubles final against Brown’s top pair.“It looked like we were going to have a great year after our performances at Napa Valley [in the Tennis Classic] and our showing at Flushing [in the USTA Invitational...
...difficult situation our country, our economy, is in," Medvedev said as he announced that budget expenditures would exceed revenues for the first time in 10 years. He said the government would move "to a strict regime of saving budget resources" along the lines championed by bearish Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin. (See pictures of Putin...
...Harvard got off to an ideal start through the senior-sophomore combination of co-captain Chris Clayton and Alexei Chijoff-Evans, with the duo opening with...
...analysts in Moscow warn that the insurgency problem in the region is far from finished, and express concern that the decision gives even more control to the heavy-handed Kadyrov. "It's not a victory for Moscow, it's a compromise," says Alexei Malashenko, an analyst at the Carnegie Moscow Center. "For Russia, it's necessary to save the money spent on assistance to Chechnya because of the [economic] crisis. For Kadyrov, he now has the chance to become a dictator." (See pictures of Putin's patriotic youth camp...