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...used to say Moscow is an island of prosperity in an ocean of despair," laughs Mark Wrong, a British developer with plans to build Western-style malls in several Russian cities. "But it's not true any more." Last month he broke ground on his first mall, in Yaroslavl, which is about 240 km northeast of Moscow, and over the next two to three years he hopes to have outposts as far as Ufa and Yekaterinburg. Such expansion outside Moscow was unthinkable even a few years ago, but it's a sign of how Russian retailing has evolved over...
...adjusted, Gordon said, students will probably be required to take the History 97 tutorial and five other courses.Several departments, including The Classics, Government, Linguistics, Music, Philosophy, and Sanskrit and Indian Studies, may offer multiple secondary fields in different tracks, according to directors of undergraduate studies. The Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies will develop a secondary field over the summer, said Lisbeth L. Tarlow, the center’s associate director. The Ph.D. program in Health Policy, which currently has 80 undergraduates enrolled in a certificate program, will also submit a secondary field, director of the program Joan...
...American-induced Security Council bill to curtail Teheran’s nuclear ambitions will inexorably fail due to implicit opposition from Beijing and Moscow. For China, it is primarily about oil thirst. But for Russia, it is about weapons industries lingering from the Soviet era. After Gorbachev, the Russian military complex stopped shipping AK-47s to the Middle East under the pretext of fighting capitalist imperialism. However, Russia’s brand-new capitalist mindset has led it to seek contracts with countries like Iran, Syria, and Libya to maintain capital inflow, and hence, some pride. Iranian leadership might lack...
...will perform, accompanied on traditional Carnatic instruments by violinist Vivek A. Rudrapatna ’06, and mridangam (a double sided South Indian drum) player Shakeel Avadhany (MIT ’09). According to Rudrapatna, Carnatic music is very similar to other music forms, such as Russian classical, in so far as having a 12-note octave. However, what truly sets it apart is the improvisatory nature of the compositions, based on variations in rhythms with an underlying eight beat cycle and a bass scale, called a Raga. Rudrapatna says that there is no rehearsal involved in the performance process...
...Minsk. Milinkevich finished a distant second to President Alexander Lukashenko in Belarus' disputed presidential elections in March, which triggered massive protests in the former Soviet republic. Milinkevich was arrested after leading a demonstration of about 6,000 on April 26 that called for the constitutional overthrow of the Russian-backed Lukashenko...