Starting May 1, however, Azerbaijan officially banned all Russian-made cars from serving as taxis in Baku.
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Two-thirds of foreign investment into Russia, and four-fifths of all Russian capital, comes to rest in Moscow.
Tension heightened this March after an unsuccessful attempt to murder Anatoly Chubais, head of power company Unified Energy System, architect of Russian privatization and the "father of all Russian oligarchs, " as Pravda put it.
After all, Russian electricity rates are forecast to rise faster than those in Western Europe.
In 1993 Berezovsky launched another project, grandly entitled the All-Russian Automobile Alliance (AVVA).
Sakhalin's main gripe is that almost all the Russian share of the revenues from energy deals goes to Moscow.
Sharapova will play defending champion Nadia Petrova in an all-Russian decider on Sunday.
Elsewhere, qualifier Evgeniya Rodina claimed victory over sixth-seed Elena Vesnina 6-1 3-6 6-2 in an all-Russian contest at the Olympic Stadium.
All-Russian State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company (VGTRK) claimed in a report that Berezovsky was behind the 2006 poisoning death of former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko.
With EUropean Union pressures to reduce its monopoly hold on the Italian gas market, Eni will have to increase its sales elsewhere to get rid of all that Russian gas.
One thing that has greatly puzzled me in the discussion of all that Russian money that is in Cyprus is the way that it has been described as money as a result of tax evasion.
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After all, Russian oligarchs are quite fond of flying in Hollywood A-listers (and sometimes C-listers) for private parties, and the list of musicians, movie stars, and entertainers who have been willing to perform in Russia massively exceeds the list of those who have refused.
Pakistan, China and Russian all have major investments there.
Interestingly, most of the sides of the buildings that face large streets in Moscow and in Murmansk (the city where I spent all of my Russian life) are usually painted, but the sides that face small streets have not been painted in generations.
Earlier this month, more than 10, 000 people marched in Moscow to demand a halt to all foreign adoptions of Russian children.
At that point, all the pearls of Russian literature may not provide western policymakers with enough wisdom to limit the damage.
Compare, he suggests, a shade smugly, Narva, Estonia's virtually all-ethnic-Russian town on the north-eastern border, with Ivangorod, just across the river in Russia.
It was her job to translate all the lyrics into Russian and then read out the first eight lines of each song on air.
But until concrete measures are taken, all that the modern Russian Army will share with those who answered the call to arms in 1918, is its lack of up-to-date equipment.
All points of the Russian compass heading (Far) East?
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Many people in the former Soviet Union still believe that to succeed in America you must be given the green light by the existing power structure -- a system all too prevalent throughout Russian history.
All three are described as Russian citizens trained in Afghanistan and Pakistan, he said.
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And the cheapest and the most efficient way to do all that is to involve Russian experts.
Officials told Russian media that all the members had signed the agreement, though Uzbekistan submitted a special provision.
The church and its convent are firmly in white hands, although Russian pilgrims of all affiliations flock there to worship.
After all, unlike its new Russian partner, the consortium needed to secure loans from multilateral institutions and was sensitive to bad publicity.
The Colombian cartels, Chinese tongs, Hong Kong triads, Japanese yakuza, and eventually after 1989 the Russian mafiya were all approached this way: first as criminal organizations, only later as traders.
The Russian had won all major titles since the 2004 Athens Olympic Games, but she has been out of form so far this season and failed to clear her final height of 4.80 meters.
Then there was a paper by Pierre Noel, which got a huge amount of attention in the new year by pointing out that the conventional wisdom on tackling European dependency on Russian gas was all wrong.
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