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...bailing out selected business executives who are having trouble paying their debts - including Oleg Deripaska, a metals tycoon who until recently was Russia's richest man. It is also playing an increasingly intrusive role in the private sector. At a meeting in Moscow on Nov. 25, for example, Igor Shuvalov, Putin's First Deputy Prime Minister, told the nation's major retailers that the Kremlin would ensure they gained access to credit on condition that they demonstrated "social responsibility" by not raising prices...
...triplets, and the entire ensemble shifted and swelled together as if impelled by an unrelenting force. The violins’ harmonics returned like a metallic wind, and the cellos and brass played a majestic theme with soaring eloquence. The united orchestra concluded the piece with a resounding, affirming chord. Igor Stravinsky’s “Symphony in Three Movements” was next, continuing the feeling of locomotion that “Flying Machine” had established. Despite shaky intonation at the beginning of the piece, the orchestra played with appropriately dry, exact rhythm, supported...
...policy has worked, though, and there's worse to come: major state-run corporations such as Gazprom and Rosneft, as well as Russia's regional governments, have accumulated debts amounting to some $448 billion that can't be paid without the help of the federal government. Deputy Prime Minister Igor Sechin has just called for another $100 billion to bail out major companies, which can expect to jump ahead of the regions in the line for government assistance. If the federal government declines to bail out the regions, however, the consequence could be the "soft" disintegration of the Russian Federation...
...that may be changing. Bradley Birkenfeld, a former UBS private banker, now sits in his brother's house in Boston, wearing an electronic monitoring device and waiting to be sentenced for his role in helping one client, California real estate billionaire Igor Olenicoff, hide some $200 million in assets, skirting more than $7 million in income taxes. UBS has shuttered its cross-border banking business for U.S. customers and has advised bankers who worked in that division not to travel to America for one important reason: they might be arrested...
...team? Instead, the semifinal was a cat and mouse game, at least for the first half, with neither team holding much of an advantage or showing much initiative in going forward. Then, five minutes into the second half, Xavi speared a goal for Spain, redirecting Iniesta's cross/shot past Igor Akinfeev. You could sense the panic on the Russian side. The roles were now very clear: Russia was the mouse and Spain was toying with it. Russian coach Guus Hiddink knew that his team's lack of depth and a big-game resume was a vulnerability: "Big teams know...