CNN's Arkady Irshenko in Moscow and Ben Brumfield in Atlanta contributed to this report.
He is being represented by Arkady Bukh, an attorney based in New York.
Yandex is headed by CEO Arkady Volozh, who was previously CEO of CompTek International before joining Yandex in 2000.
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Watching it all with wry amusement from his imposing villa in the seaside town of Caesarea is Arkady Gaydamak.
"Cloud-based browsing is a next-generation answer to the challenges of the modern internet, " said Arkady Volozh, CEO of Yandex.
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These individuals -- such as Civic Union's chairman, Arkady Volsky -- have long been closely associated with the military-industrial complex.
"This is the first translator in the world that understands voice and it was primarily designed for travellers, " said Arkady Davydov of Ectaco which developed the product.
CNN's Arkady Irshenko and Igor Krotov contributed to this report.
Beitar, owned by Russian-Israeli Arkady Gaydamak, was founded in 1948.
R. is a videogame loosely based on a 1979 science fiction film, Stalker, (directed by Andrei Tarkovsky), which in turn is loosely based on a novel, Roadside Picnic (written by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky).
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In all probability though, the invisible man behind the currency crisis may well be someone whose name has not yet surfaced Arkady Volsky , the de facto head of the nationalist-communist consortium known as Civic Union.
If the grain yield falls to 72 million tons, the lower end of the union's forecast, then Russian grain exports may tumble to 11 million tons in the current marketing year, which starts July 1, union head Arkady Zlochevsky said.
And in this vacuum, one of the most popular public figures is not a politician but Arkady Gaydamak, a populist billionaire who spreads his money around like water and unashamedly proclaims his desire to be a kingmaker behind the scenes.
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The naming of more liberal figures such as Arkady Dvorkovich, his economic adviser, to senior positions in the new government would be a sign that the Kremlin is willing to consider opening up the economy through privatisations and other measures.
According to a report in the Russian edition of Forbes, the Goodreads purchaser has just set up shop in the former Soviet heartland and brought on Arkady Vitrouk (former CEO of ABC-Atticus) as director of Kindle Content for the region.
Arkady Dvorkovich, an American-educated 29-year-old deputy minister and one of Russia's most impressive reformers, concedes that an efficient state is a must if other changes are to work properly, and that it would have been better to start off with administrative reforms.
Back in December 1999, Nossik explained, four days before Vladimir Putin went from being Russian prime minister to president, he met with about 20 of the country's leading internet entrepreneurs, including Nossik himself, and Arkady Volozh, the founder of the dominant Russian search engine Yandex.
This means that the United States must "take sides" leaving no room for striking future deals with those like Rutskoi and the speaker of the parliament, Ruslan Khasbulatov, or more "pragmatic" hardliners (usually described by their apologists as "centrists") like Industrial Party chairman Arkady Volsky.
The bad news is that -- with the ascendancy in Moscow of Arkady Volsky, USTEC's former Soviet co-chairman and current leader of the political arm of the USSR's military-industrial complex known as "Civic Union" -- the successor group evidently intends to pick up where USTEC left off.
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