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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2009
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Moscow stories: 55 news summaries

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Starbucks to Get First Sip of Russian Market

Legal hurdles cleared, coffee giant aims at other US brands

Aug 30, 07 2:34 PM CDT
(Newser) - Starbucks will finally open its first Russian store next month, the Seattle Times reports, but the coffee giant will need a jolt of caffeine to achieve the brand recognition of Western rivals who've been in the market for years. Traditionally tea drinkers, Russians have warmed up to domestic coffee purveyors,... More »

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Russia • Starbucks • McDonald's • coffee • Moscow • Soviet Union • St. Petersburg • consumerism

Top Thrills for Your Holiday Buck

Challenge yourself and whatever unfortunates you bring along in these nail-biting vacation adventures

Aug 25, 07 3:10 PM CDT
(Newser) - Timid vacationers whose idea of a good time is a book and a beach chair need not peruse this list of adventures, compiled by Forbes.
  1. Dive with sharks in the Bahamas (cagediver.com)
  2. Fly a fighter jet in California (incredible-adventures.com)
  3. High-altitude skydiving in Memphis (halojumper.com )
... More »

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Russia • travel • Moscow • list • Bolivia • New Zealand • cosmonaut • vacation • shark diving • adventure • sky diving • cave tubing • Bahamas

Moscow Boots BBC from Airwaves

Denies any connection with ongoing British diplomatic salvo

Aug 18, 07 3:06 PM CDT
(Newser) - Moscow thrust the BBC into the geopolitical limelight yesterday by axing its radio service from Russian airwaves. Media pundits are blaming the decision on rising anger between Moscow and Britain as the head of Russia's BBC called the radio silence “highly irregular and extremely disappointing.” But a Russian... More »

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Russia • Alexander Litvinenko • BBC • Moscow • Ekho Moskvy • Bolshoye Radio • Radio Leningrad • FM radio • Britain

Moscow Court Acquits Music Site Boss

Allofmp3.com founder ruled innocent of copyright infringement

Aug 16, 07 8:12 AM CDT
(Newser) - A Russian court has acquitted the founder of Allofmp3.com of breach of copyright, Reuters reports. The now-defunct Russian website infuriated American and Western European music companies by offering cut-rate downloads that they said infringed on their copyright. EMI, Time Warner, and other major corporations insisted on prosecution, but a... More »

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Russia • music • Moscow • copyright • file sharing • mp3 • court • Allofmp3 • Denis Kvasov

Bomb Derails Russian Train

Authorities claim link to Chechen insurgency

Aug 14, 07 7:54 AM CDT
(Newser) - Russia suspects terrorism in a bomb that derailed a train on the busy Moscow-to-St. Petersburg line yesterday, reports Reuters. Thirty-eight people were hospitalized and more  treated at the scene, about 170 km from St. Petersburg. The bomb was planted on a bridge; the locomotive and most carriages derailed after crossing. More »

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Russia • terrorism • insurgents • Eastern Europe • Moscow • bomb • Chechnya • train • St. Petersburg

Chess-Playing Killer Goes on Trial in Russia

Says he tallied victims on a board, but cops are at a stalemate

Aug 14, 07 7:16 AM CDT
(Newser) - Russia is in the grip of the king of all murder trials, the Guardian reports: A chess player has been accused of luring dozens of opponents away from the board and to their brutal deaths in a Moscow park. Alexander Pichushkin has allegedly boasted of 63 murders, one shy of... More »

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Russia • Moscow • murder • arrest • chess • Alexander Pichushkin

Holyfield to Challenge for Belt in Moscow

44-year-old to meet Ibragimov in bid for 5th heavyweight crown

Aug 3, 07 6:29 AM CDT
(Newser) - Forty-four-year-old Evander Holyfield will challenge for his fifth heavyweight crown on October 13 against WBO champ Sultan Ibragimov. The Moscow bout was slated to feature Ibragimov and WBA champ Ruslan Chagaev, who withdrew for undisclosed reasons. Holyfield, who downed Lou Savarese in June, says he's ready to unify the heavyweight... More »

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boxing • Moscow • Evander Holyfield • Sultan Ibragimov • Ruslan Chagaev • Lou Savarese • WBA • WBO

Russia Stakes Claim to Oil-Rich Arctic Territory

Kremlin claims underwater shelf links huge chunk to Russia

Jun 28, 07 5:18 AM CDT
(Newser) - Russia has claimed a massive, oil-rich chunk of the Arctic, despite international laws that block ownership of the territory. The Kremlin based its move on scientists' insistence that an underwater shelf links Russia to 460,000 square miles of the North Pole, which contains 10 billion tons of oil and... More »

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Russia • United Nations • oil • gas • Moscow • United States • North Pole • Arctic • underwater shelf • Arctic oil

Mo$cow: World's Priciest City

London second, Seoul third in worldwide survey

Jun 18, 07 4:29 AM CDT
(Newser) - Moscow is the world's most expensive city for expats, according to an annual human resource study. A cup of Muscovite coffee can run more than $6, and lodging in the Russian capital can send foreign workers from rubles to rags. London placed in the survey, which compared costs of living... More »

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Russia • London • New York • Moscow • money • Cost of Living • Paraguay • Asuncion

Moscow
Backs Down
on Missile Shield

Putin's tough talk yields to unexpected compromise proposal

Jun 7, 07 1:55 PM CDT
(Newser) - After weeks of exchanging sharp criticism with US officials, Vladimir Putin today suggested a truce over a controversial missile shield in Eastern Europe. In talks with President Bush at the G8 summit, the Russian president reversed course and said Moscow would support US plans for the shield if it is... More »

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missile shield • Moscow • Vladimir Putin • G8 summit • Azerbaijan • George W. Bush

Moscow Gay Rights Activists Arrested After Bloody Melee

Activists were petitioning for the right to hold a gay-pride parade

May 28, 07 7:06 AM CDT
(Newser) - Gay-rights protesters petitioning the mayor of Moscow to lift the ban on gay-pride parades  yesterday were punched and kicked by anti-gay extremists shouting "death to homosexuals."  About 20 protesters were detained by police. More »

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Russia • gay rights • Moscow • Germans • protests • Britain

London-Moscow Relations Frigid Over Spy Flap

Russia won't extradite accused assassin; Downing St. talks tough

May 23, 07 6:38 AM CDT
(Newser) - Relations between Russia and the UK have dipped to a post-Cold War nadir, the Times is reporting. The Kremlin refused yesterday to extradite Andrei Lugovoy, whom Britain has accused of murdering a former Russian spy in London last year. Investigators suspect that Moscow ordered the assassination of Alexander Litvinenko, an... More »

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Russia • Alexander Litvinenko • Moscow • BP • Andrei Lugovoy • Britain

Gates Rebuffed By Moscow on Defense Plan

Russians not buying cooperation on anti-missile bases

Apr 23, 07 11:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - Robert Gates was in Moscow today trying to soften Russian resistance to American anti-missile bases in Poland and the Czech Republic, but so far the Russians aren't buying. The Defense Secretary is pushing proposals that would invite the Russians to share data, cooperate on research, and participate in joint testing... More »

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Russia • Robert Gates • anti missile bases • Moscow • Anatoly Serdyukov • Vladimir Putin • missile

Russia Locks Down Foreign Students

Fear violence by skinheads celebrating Hitler's birthday

Apr 20, 07 7:26 AM CDT
(Newser) - Moscow’s top medical school is urging 2,000 foreign students to stay indoors for the next three days, citing an annual surge in attacks by skinheads around Aprll 20—Hitler’s birthday. The lockdown of non-native students is a preventative effort in response to a rise in xenophobic violence... More »

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Russia • xenophobia • Moscow • violence • student

Russia Threatens New Cold War

Apr 11, 07 8:56 AM CDT
(Newser) - Livid over U.S. plans for a missile defense system in its backyard, Russia is mounting a cold-war-style response. The Kremlin admonished that the military installations planned for Poland and the Czech Republic would threaten "the world's strategic stability," and promised a suitable counter-measure, reports the Guardian. Responses... More »

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Moscow • Kremlin

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