While Putin had his town hall forum, Medvedev was holding meetings in Italy with Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and Pope Benedict XVI.
Flags were lowered to half-mast across Italy and the Italian Senate observed a minute of silence.
Our defence was good today, this is a major win for Italy - every Italian gave 100% today, that's why it's a great win.
Before Europe's judges was the case of Nassim Saadi, a Tunisian living in Italy with his Italian partner and their eight-year-old child.
She was raised in Italy by her Italian father and Ethiopian mother.
Italian prosecutors wanted the crew of the jet tried in Italy, but an Italian court ruled they should face court-martials in the U.S., in accordance with NATO treaties.
ROME, Italy -- Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi says his country will not be intimidated in the wake of a deadly attack on an Italian police compound in Iraq.
Four of its executives were recently given jail sentences in Italy because of Italian schoolkids who violated the privacy of a disabled classmate by bullying him and uploading the video to YouTube.
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Slow Food Italy is the Italian national branch of the group ( we have one here in the US too and I wrote about it here at Forbes.com), and today in New York City they are releasing the second edition of their book, The Slow Wine guide.
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Mr. Orsi and Mr. Spagnolini haven't been charged in Italy, and the Italian investigation continues.
The company intends to add Italy and its planned Italian site to the list.
Lessons learned: know some Italian before visiting Italy, and take out the full insurance policy on your rental car.
The same duty would fall on big international Italian companies in Italy, or Spanish ones in Spain, and so on.
Yet in a sign that investors remain more risk-averse to Italy, the yield on Italian 10-year bonds on Tuesday increased to 5.8% from 5.6% on Monday.
An internal Bank of Italy report, obtained by Italian media, details how a Bank inspection team first learned of the risky nature of the derivatives contracts on a visit to the bank from May to August 2010.
The death of Mr Calipari - who threw himself over Ms Sgrena to protect her from the gunfire - caused public outrage in Italy and intensified pressure on Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi to pull Italian troops out of Iraq.
As per Liam Halligan in the Sunday Telegraph: there is no such thing as a "risk-free rate" set by sovereigns anymore, and you get an unsustainable hike in the bank borrowing rate in Italy which sinks the aforementioned Italian banks and then the contagion spreads to France.
This week, the Bank of Italy released a statement in Italian saying that the "true nature of certain transactions regarding the Monte dei Paschi di Siena reported in the press has emerged only recently, following the discovery of documents kept hidden to the supervisory authority and brought to light by the new management of MPS".
Knox, who is not in Italy for the hearing, is confident in the Italian legal system and hopes one day to return to Italy as a free woman, her lawyer, Luciano Ghirga, said Monday.
In the 1970s a universal National Health Service was established in Italy which was modelled in part on the NHS. Successive Italian governments poured money into health - for decades Italy spent significantly more on its health service than Britain.
The acquittal fueled sharp criticisms of the Italian justice system in Italy and abroad.
The Bank of Italy defended its role in supervising Italian banks, denying knowledge of the trades.
They had helped fund their daughter's year in Italy in order to further her Italian, German and creative writing studies.
In Italy, Roma set up an Italian Cup final with city rivals Lazio after beating Inter Milan 5-3 on aggregate in their semifinal.
Say the ECB steps up to support Italian banks or even Italy itself and it then inncurs losses on the collateral for the loans.
Despite the broader weakness, the iShares MSCI Italy ETF, which tracks big Italian companies like energy company Eni and bank Unicredit, managed a 0.2% advance.
Luigi Grisolia, a 22 year old investment banker in Rome said he would have liked a new pope to have been from Italy because Mr. Grisolia is Italian, but he applauded the pick.
In his book, Good Italy Bad Italy, Bill Emmott describes how Italian politicians are still paid salaries three times those of their French counterparts and they grant themselves an array of perks including subsidised air travel.
Having spent time in Italy and learnt how to write Italian operas, he accepted a post as Kapellmeister to the elector of Hanover when he was 25, but was soon off moonlighting in London, putting on Italian operas for a receptive audience.
Italy wants to begin certifying American restaurants as "authentically Italian, " for using traditional methods and, more important, buying most ingredients from Italy.
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