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...Nikolay Petrov, a scholar at the Carnegie Moscow Center, believes those seeing a split are missing the fact that the government has to appeal simultaneously to different groups. "The names on this list are just signals. Some of the names will signal to conservatives that Medvedev is conservative, while some names will convey that he is liberal. The presidential reserve is decorative...
...Wimbledon is the world's most boring tournament. There's hardly anything to do apart from tennis. You constantly find yourself yawning.' NIKOLAY DAVYDENKO, Russian tennis star, criticizing the lack of off-court entertainment at Britain's storied tennis competition in an interview with Russia's Sovietsky Sport newspaper
...Safin looms as a possibility courtesy of sheer talent (the Agassi factor) and a strong finish to 2006 in Russia's Davis Cup victory. Then again, it's easy to be biased toward a player who presents as charming, funny, candid, self-deprecating, philosophical and smart. Safin's compatriot, Nikolay Davydenko, who's risen to world No. 3 despite a body that appears more suited to chess, has been a quarter-finalist in Melbourne the previous two years and could sneak into the semis this time before many fans can say his name right. James Blake (U.S.), Tommy Robredo (Spain...
...Russia's new regime has also opened the way to travel entrepreneurs: nowadays about half a dozen local operators offer packages. Our tour company, The Lost World Ltd. (go to travelkamchatka.com), was launched by Nikolay Kruglyakov, former chief of the Kamchatka rescue service, in 1993, when Moscow stopped financing the rescue service mountaineers. "The central government said, 'Make your own money,'" he explains. "That was the start of a business opportunity." In 2002, Lost World guided some 500 foreign tourists on summer hiking and rafting expeditions. In spring and winter, the company and several other firms organize helicopter skiing...
...Russia's new regime has also opened the way to travel entrepreneurs: today about half a dozen local operators offer packages. Our tour company, the Lost World Ltd., was launched by Nikolay Kruglyakov, former chief of the Kamchatka Rescue Service, in 1993, when Moscow stopped financing the Rescue Service mountaineers. "The central government said, 'Make your own money,'" he explains. "That was the start of a business opportunity." This year Lost World guided some 500 foreign tourists on summer hiking and rafting expeditions. In spring and winter, the company and several others organize helicopter skiing and snowboarding down steep volcanoes...