Far away from prime-time (even in Moscow), an extra-legal, unofficial series of debates is underway, leading up to an equally unofficial and unprecedented election: voting for the first-ever Coordinating Council of the Russian Opposition begins on October 21.
Moreover, the oil industry is in private hands, so even if the government in Moscow wanted to put a lid on production, it has less influence over its oil companies than OPEC governments have over theirs.
All of this makes the authorities in Moscow even more irrelevant than they were before.
In short, tampering with a skeptical, scared jury in Moscow may not even be necessary.
Joyal did not live in Moscow, or even some other foreign capital.
In January of this year, the Department of Defense received indications consistent with an underground nuclear test in Russia even though Moscow claims that it has been observing a self-imposed moratorium on nuclear testing.
Even as people gasp for air in Moscow, Russia's authorities have begun to cut down the forests that surround the city, ostensibly to make space for a badly needed road from Moscow to St Petersburg.
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It was, moreover, clear that Moscow would fall even further in arrears in the future.
Even if Germany believed it would be in Moscow by late fall, controlling the countryside in W. Russia would have required soldiers to remain in the field and conduct operations.
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As the United States has no idea how many SS-18 missiles the Russians actually have in their inventory, even the monitored destruction of all "declared" heavy ICBMs may leave Moscow in a position to utilize these silos in the future to launch SS-18s.
In 2011, a Scottish study suggested air quality inside a smoker's car was comparable to industrial smog in cities such as Beijing or Moscow - even when the driver had windows open.
Yet even there, in one of the most prosperous regions outside Moscow and St Petersburg, the company that owns Delo and a handful of sister publications is one of only three publishing houses not owned by another business.
Even if he is charged, the Prosecutor General's Office in Moscow says that Mr. Lugovoi will not be extradited to London.
Even so, business is booming, thanks mostly to affluent clients in Moscow.
Mr. Gorbachev coyly disclosed President Bush's explicit abandonment of standing U.S. policy against direct Soviet involvement in Middle East peace conference and peacekeeping efforts, emphasizing that henceforth the United States would be encouraging Moscow to play an important diplomatic and even military role in the Middle East.
In short, utilization of institutions like Moscow Narodny and even more so IMB as trustees or agents for the Eximbank loans would appreciably reduce the confidence the United States government could have that funds ostensibly earmarked for repayment of U.S. loans would actually be retained by such institutions let alone accessible if the loans have to be called.
From tsarist times, living in Moscow has been a privilege rather than a right, even for Russians.
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Evidence of its dilemma can be found in initial White House reluctance even to acknowledge publicly the full magnitude of Moscow's latest bid to tap U.S. taxpayer largesse via credits supported by the Department of Agriculture's Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC).
It is a description of the circumstances that led up to the 1986 summit in Reykjavik, Iceland, between Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev -- a summit that most at the time described as a failure because of Reagan's refusal to abandon his Strategic Defense Initiative, even in the face of the Soviet leader's promises to eliminate all Moscow's nuclear weapons.
Police and security services in Moscow are gearing to up for "all possible emergencies" even though the athletics championships will be held in a confined space indoors at the Luzhniki Stadium.
Simply put, officials in Moscow see the possibility of a change of regime--or even of governmental behavior--as a serious threat to their interests.
Even though it was clear by 1950 that we were engaged in a Cold War with Moscow, we foolishly let U.S. military strength deteriorate from impressive WWII peaks.
Even more disturbing than the words are the turbulence and the growing dysfunction of the government in Moscow.
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Instead, all 10 were sent off to Moscow in a pre-emptive "spy swap" before they could even get debriefed.
Worse yet, the balance shifts even more decidedly in the Soviets' favor if, as a result of this settlement, Moscow can begin issuing bonds and other debt instruments in the United States and on a dollar-denominated basis off-shore.
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He even got to exult in the democratic uprising in Ukraine, which rejected a government closely tied to Moscow.
Even though the Polish-based interceptors and the radar in the Czech Republic represent no threat to Moscow's ability to destroy Europe should it chose to do so, Vladimir Putin is determined to try to stop their deployment.
It's manifested in the progress we've made on nuclear security and nonproliferation through the New START Treaty and our efforts to lock down nuclear materials together, and it's manifested, frankly, in the fact that, even as we speak now, the Russians are hosting the P5-plus-1 talks in Moscow aimed at getting Iran to live up to their international obligations.
Russian President Vladimir Putin now says Moscow would back a UN resolution to place an international troop presence in Iraq, even under American military command.
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