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...said after requests from the European side that the January gas crisis - when Russia cut off supplies to Ukraine for over a payment dispute - not be repeated. Although smiles abounded and the talks were held at the Musical Comedy Theatre, just off Khabarovsk's main Karl Marx Prospekt, the tone was one of disagreement. (See pictures of Russians celebrating Victory...
With $80,000 in capital ($30,000 of his own and $50,000 from two former business colleagues), he opened his first kiosk in April 1999, on Moscow's Leningradsky Prospekt. By 2001, he had 15 kiosks in Moscow and 12 in St. Petersburg. "From the beginning, I was going to build a really good company, not just two or three restaurants for me," Goncharov says...
...French company works with individual pharmacies to revamp their look and feel, including providing fittings such as shelving. This January, L'Oréal and a pharmacy chain called 36.6 teamed up to open what they call a "concept store" on one of Moscow's smartest shopping streets, Kutuzovsky Prospekt. It consists of three sections: shampoos, pharmacy and over-the-counter supplies, plus an inviting, brightly lit room filled only with La Roche-Posay and Vichy products and advertising. "This is like a window of the brand," says Alexandre Emilianov, the managing director of L'Oréal active cosmetics...
...Petersburg: The Lodging in St. Petersburg agency, tel: (7-812) 272 2742, leases 40 apartments, including a five-room, $300-a-night property near the Winter Palace. Other flats on the main shopping drag, Nevsky Prospekt, start from $100 a night...
...Russians live coverage of the events. But life in St. Petersburg went on as usual. The center of the city is turning into a smaller version of Moscow, with Gucci shops and bodyguards, hotels with London prices and unofficial landmarks of the new order--like the spot on Nevsky Prospekt, the city's most famous shopping street, where a top government official was gunned down last year in a highly professional contract hit. As the funeral proceeded, city streets were busy, shops and offices were open as usual and few people seemed touched by the event. "I'll catch...