Word: anastasias
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...three deaths are just a sample of what has been one of Moscow's most violent periods, reminiscent of the notorious 1990s. Just three weeks before Shepiyev's death, human-rights lawyer Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova were murdered in central Moscow. In December, a worker from Tajikistan was beheaded in the capital region. Moscow's chief prosecutor, Yuri Syomin, announced on Feb. 16 that murders had gone up 16% and fatal attacks 44% in recent months...
...with Gorbachev, he also bought a large shareholding in independent newspaper Novaya Gazeta, which is often critical of the Russian government. Association with the daily is not for the fainthearted. Anna Politkovskaya wrote for the Gazeta until her murder in 2006; earlier this month, a young freelance contributor called Anastasia Baburova was shot dead...
...Kremlin. Markelov, 34, had just given a press conference in which he had announced he would continue to fight the early parole of Yury Budanov, a decorated tank commander who had admitted to and was convicted of the strangling death of an 18-year-old Chechen woman in 2000. Anastasia Baburova, 25, a freelance journalist for Novaya Gazeta, a newspaper covering the Budanov case, was also shot as she walked with Markelov; she later died of her wounds in the hospital, said Dmitry Muratov, editor in chief of the paper...
...good fortune of launching his trendy food outposts just as the Russian economy took off again, creating a generation of free-spenders eager to indulge in the new culture of eating out. "The company understands its consumer base very well," says Anastasia Alieva, an analyst at Euromonitor International. "Pancakes with butter, jam or traditional fillings like cheese, ham or mushrooms are offered at affordable prices. But also there are more expensive variants, like pancakes with caviar or smoked fish...
...noticed that you're a great believer in vacations. What place has inspired you most? -Anastasia Nikolaeva, Cologne, GermanyOn our honeymoon, my wife and I went to Thailand. We got to see the dormitory that my parents were able to create. There's nothing like seeing that kind of help for other people to really inspire...