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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...
...their fortunes in that period, and Western investors were also quick to spot opportunities. Britons were especially keen, and trade between the two countries has continued to flourish. British companies invested more than $5.5 billion in Russia last year, making the U.K. - extraordinarily - Russia's largest foreign investor. Thirty Russian companies with a combined market capitalization of $612 billion are now listed on the 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...
...question, it is. "Real disposable income is growing 10% a year, and has done ever since Putin came to power," says Barysch. That has boosted Putin's popularity, which is largely undented by his moves to assert control over the Russian media and to consolidate political power in the Kremlin. Westerners may lament the loss of freedoms in Russia, says Barysch, but "most Russians never knew they had them. What we are nostalgic about, the Yeltsin years, Russians perceived as a period of chaos, instability and great inequality...
...Litvinenko was one of those Anglophiles. After fleeing Russia in 2000, he had planned for a life in London. Some fellow expatriates - there are now thought to be around 400,000 Russians in Britain - support the British government's moves to keep up the pressure over his case. "Nobody wants there to be visa restrictions or any impact on business," says Natasha Chouvaeva, the editor of Britain's Russian-language newspaper, the Russian London Courier. "Confrontation is not an option." But neither, she adds, "is looking the other way. It is in the interests of the Russian community that [Litvinenko...
...Britain and Russia seem deadlocked. And so the strange case of Litvinenko is added to the list of unfinished business involving Russia - matters such as the future of Kosovo, the deployment of forces in Europe, the role of foreign investment in the Russian energy sector. It is not a return to the cold war; but nobody, this summer, could say that relations between Russia and the West were warm...