In Thursday's quarterfinals, fifth seed Robin Soderling of Sweden takes on No. 13 Mikhail Youzhny of Russia.
France's Fabrice Santoro, a finalist in 2001, beat Mikhail Youzhny of Russia 7-6 (7-4) 6-2.
The BMW Open title in Munich went to Czech Tomas Berdych who edged out Mikhail Youzhny of Russia 6-4 4-6 7-6.
This has greatly contributed to the massive loss of forests and wildlife around the capital, Mikhail Kreyndlin, head of Greenpeace Russia's programme on specially protected natural areas, told BBC News.
But, like the arrest of Mikhail Khodorkovsky in Russia in 2003, her treatment has signalled to prosecutors and the security services that they have a free hand.
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In the past month, the Kremlin has also alienated Mikhail Prokhorov, one of Russia's richest tycoons, who threw in the towel after making an attempt to participate in public politics.
The conflict between real modernisation and the vested interests of this bureaucracy is summed up in the fate of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, once Russia's richest man and now its most famous political prisoner.
Then there's the Nets, who are trying to seduce Dwight Howard and girding for owner Mikhail Prokhorov's bid for the presidency of Russia.
On Thursday, Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov led a minute of silence before saying Russia's top officials are doing dangerous in a period of transition from communism.
Pavel Khodorkovsky, the son of jailed Russian oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky and president of the U.S.-based Institute of Modern Russia, also wrote an open letter to those at the World Economic Forum in which he highlighted the plight of his father.
Always bubbling beneath the surface, these tensions boiled over in late October, when Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the boss of Yukos, one of Russia's biggest oil companies, was arrested at gunpoint, charged with tax evasion and stuffed into jail, where he still languishes awaiting trial.
Russian authorities rejected the candidacy of Mikhail Kasyanov, a former prime minister, for Russia's presidential election on March 2nd, because, they said, 13% of the 2m signatures supporting his campaign were invalid.
Another creditor and shareholder of Rusal is Russia's richest man, Mikhail Prokhorov.
In the past, Ivanishvili was actually a major supporter of Mikhail Saakashvili, perhaps the most outspoken and ostentatiously anti-Russia politician in the entire Former Soviet Union.
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In 2003-2005, when the wealthiest man in Russia and one of the richest people in the world, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, decided to get involved into politics, he got sent down on charges of embezzlement and tax evasion instead, and locked up for nine years.
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Most of the theories about how Mikhail Khodorkovsky, ex-head of Yukos, an oil firm, offended Vladimir Putin, Russia's president, might be applied to Roman Abramovich, too.
Talks also took place between "the three Bs" - Mr Brahimi, Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdonov, and the US Deputy Secretary of State William Burns.
Safin will lead a Russian squad which also includes Nikolay Davydenko, Yevgeny Kafelnikov and Mikhail Youzhny in a rematch of last year's semi-final, which was won by Russia in Moscow.
Mikhail Barclay de Tolly, his war minister, devised and implemented the strategy of drawing Napoleon deep inside Russia, away from his supply base, exhausting his army by defensive war and then attacking.
The BBC's Tom Esslemont, in the Georgian capital, Tbilisi, says Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili is keen to capitalise on every bit of American support he can get, a year after Russia and Georgia went to war.
When the number 12 seed beat Russia's Mikhail Youzhny, the German became the oldest man to reach the quarterfinals of a grand slam since Andre Agassi in 2005 and the oldest to do so in Paris since 1971.
Mikhail Grishankov, who chairs parliament's Anti-Corruption Committee, praises Russia's recent ratification of the United Nations Anti-Corruption Convention, which he says will help stigmatize bribery in Russia.
In this he is reminiscent of Vladimir Putin during his first term as Russia's president, when he chose to have Mikhail Khodorkovsky, an oil tycoon, arrested in 2003.
But the main author of Novgorod's revival has been its regional governor, Mikhail Prusak, 37, the youngest governor in Russia when first appointed by Boris Yeltsin in 1991.
"Tommy and I share many years together on the tour and also our families are close, " world No. 3 Federer said on the ATP Tour website after crushing Russia's Mikhail Youzhny 6-1 6-4 on Saturday to set up a chance of his 75th career title.
At a meeting chaired by Russian President Putin, Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov and high-level railroad officials in early April, the construction of a railroad stretching from the banks of Russia's Lena River to the Bering Strait was discussed at length, adding further evidence that Moscow sees the BST project as not only feasible, but inevitable.
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