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While Ukrainian voters—many of whom are still anti-Russian—are unlikely to be swayed by Moscow??€™s political angling, the Kremlin’s clear interest in the outcome of the election suggests a worrying desire to interfere more directly in Ukrainian affairs. Since Russia’s war with Georgia in August of last year, some analysts have raised concerns that Russia would try to intervene militarily in Ukraine as well. Russia has recently shown concern for the large Russian population in the eastern and southern parts of the country, and Russia?...
Apparently, snowplows and street salt just won’t cut it. Moscow??€™s mayor Yury Luzhkov is bringing out the big guns when it comes to fighting snow this year in Russia’s blizzard-prone capital. According an article in Time Magazine, Luzkhov’s new initiative–ringing in at just a few million dollars–will have the Russian Air Force spraying snow-bearing clouds with a fine chemical mist that will force clouds to dump out their wintry precipitation before reaching the city’s borders...
...territorial integrity of Ukraine and other former Soviet republics. The price will be hefty, including perhaps a renegotiation of Bush’s precious missile defense shield, but the rewards are worth it: Bringing Russia into closer relations with the U.S. has the potential to further democratic elements within Moscow??€™s sphere of power, weakening the autocratic elites who dream of Tsarist empires...
...MOSCOW??€”Lowell House's new bells got quite a send-off on Tuesday as the Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church consecrated them at a ceremony attended by the Moscow mayor, a crush of news media, and hundreds of believers...
...Harvard delegation visited a Russian bell foundry last Thursday, as University representatives and Russian officials prepare for the return of the Lowell House bells to Moscow??€™s Danilovsky Monastery. The trip, if succesful, could mark the end of years of negotiations over the return of the Lowell bells—some of which date back to the 17th century—that have remained at Harvard for nearly 80 years. Lowell House will receive newly molded bells from the Vera Bell Foundry in Voronezh, Russia, which was hand-picked from five foundries that University representatives surveyed last August...