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...giving Chinese companies a chance to gain experience navigating the overseas market while the training wheels are still attached. Russia is a "guinea-pig market," says Bonchev. That doesn't mean it's insignificant. Russia's growing middle class provides a big pool of would-be car owners. Viktor Semyonov, deputy industry director at the Ministry of Industry and Energy in Moscow, says the number of cars sold in Russia topped 2 million in 2006 - a 20% increase - and was up 28% in the first half of 2007. If growth rates continue, Russia could rank fifth in the world...
Radzinsky was skeptical. "It was all too entertaining," he says. "As a rule, the truth is very boring." But after learning about a labor camp prisoner called Filipp Semyonov who had shared some characteristics with Alexei, Radzinsky began to consider the possibility. On the evidence offered, though, he is a long way from proving it. Yet as Radzinsky was finishing his book last year, the story took a new turn. The grave site had been dug up and found to contain human remains -- but of only nine bodies...
...Liza Semyonov, 34, the daughter-in-law of Sakharov's wife, Yelena Bonner, said Bonner called about 6 p.m. yesterday to notify the family of Sakharov's death...
...march, sponsored by The Free Afghanistan Alliance, will begin after a brief noon-time ceremony featuring Alexy Semyonov, Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov's step-son, and Camelia Sadat, daughter of slain Egyptian President Anwar Sadat...
...Semyonov said that the walk "expresses support for the Afghan freedom fighters, a worthy cause and a one in need." The Afghani people are "facing the most awesome military machine in the world," Semyonov added...