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...popularity at home, depends on Moscow's ability to project power, using natural gas and oil as its weapons. If that arsenal fails him because of worldwide price drops, it won't matter what his title is after the election. Putin could still join Boris Yeltsin and Mikhail Gorbachev as Russian leaders remembered most for the opportunities they wasted...
It’s stunning that, despite its scads of esoterica, Gnosticism, and descriptions of the minutiae of daily life and bureaucracy in Soviet Russia, Mikhail Bulgakov’s “The Master and Margarita” still manages to be captivating and hilarious, chapter after chapter. The plot begins simply enough. Satan decides to visit Moscow, arrives, and shortly thereafter decapitates one of the first people he meets—a man who, like all dutifully atheistic Soviets, refuses to believe in the Dark Lord’s existence. With a supernatural and motley crew that includes...
...MIKHAIL FRADKOV, former Prime Minister of Russia, to President Vladimir Putin, after stepping aside in advance of next year's presidential election. His move is Russia's biggest political shake-up in more than three years...
...country is on the eve of important political events ... I want you to have full freedom of choice, including appointments.' MIKHAIL FRADKOV, former Russian Prime Minister, to President Vladimir Putin after announcing his resignation. Fradkov's move, the biggest political shake-up in more than three years, will force the formation of a new government...
...London Stock Exchange, and more are standing in line waiting for London launches. So business leaders in both London and Moscow have been watching recent developments with dismay. "Russian big business can only wish that the whole thing is over and done with as soon as possible," says Mikhail Kozhokin, the vice president of VTB-24, a major Russian state- controlled bank. "Nobody wants any disruptions. Not just in business - Britain is the favorite country where many top Russian businessmen send their children to school, buy real estate, settle their families and look forward to enjoying retirement...