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...surveyed the Harvard campus, met with University administrators and students, and attended lectures and conferences. The delegates were selected in such a way as to guarantee representation of various facets of Soviet life. Among the members were Vlasenko, movie and stage actress Zinaida Kirienko, engineer Igor Markov, accordion player Vladimir Fedoseyev, and Elvira Astafyeva.While visiting the Harvard campus, the delegates lived in pairs at the Business School, Divinity School, Adams House, Kirkland House, Bertram Hall, and Comstock Hall.The group lost little time in visiting notable Cambridge and Boston locales.During their six and a half day stay, the delegates...
...appeared thus far to favor the plan presented by the Austrian billionaire Frank Stronach, whose Magna group is a major worldwide supplier of components to GM. Stronach has teamed up with Russian carmaker OAO GAZ Group and the state-controlled Russian financial group OAO Sberbank. Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has been lobbying Merkel to support the Magna bid. Stronach told reporters on the sidelines of Wednesday's meeting in Berlin that Magna "could run Opel as a global brand." (Read "Can Americans Learn to Love Fiat? Chrysler Hopes...
Months of infighting between Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and President Dmitry Medvedev over Russia's budget ended on Monday - with Medvedev on top. At a meeting with senior government officials, the President announced a strikingly pessimistic set of spending priorities until 2012, based on conservative estimates suggesting that Russia will remain hampered by the economic crisis into next year and beyond...
...this year. The International Monetary Fund has predicted that Russia's GDP could drop as much as 6% this year. "In 2009, unfortunately, we expect a sharper fall in the GDP than we had thought," Medvedev said. (Watch an interview with TIME's 2007 Person of the Year, Vladimir Putin...
...Vladimir Osakovskiy, strategy and research head at Unicredit Bank, "The major message was that in the future the government will develop the budget using conservative oil price estimates. What we're seeing right now is an effort to clean up the mess." And what analysts will be eyeing with increased interest in coming months is whether the differences over the budget mark a new stage in Russia's most important political relationship: the one between Medvedev and Putin...