But the image of so-called new Russians wearing heavy gold chains to the supermarket is changing.
But so-called new Russians, who cannot tell Flier from Oborin but can afford the tickets, are taking their place.
The New Russians' disposable incomes have turned Moscow into a city regularly cited as the most expensive in the world.
Mr Muratov is animated by the idea that Anastasia Baburova represents a new generation of Russians.
Put up with it and wait for a new generation of Russians to take over, who will understand what democracy and economic freedom mean.
That means one more challenge for the new government: to weave ethnic Russians into Estonia's sturdy new fabric.
The new medal will honour Russians who have achieved great things in the economy, public life or in their work for the state.
He is busily negotiating with the Russians a new arms control that reflects the mutual desire of the Kremlin and the Obama administration to reestablish restrictions on U.S. missile defenses.
The simplest explanation for the new holiday is that Russians expect a day off in November to spend chatting around the kitchen table and drinking even more heavily than usual.
Although workmanship is often shoddy (this correspondent's new jeep caught fire) Russians, who expect to repair their cars themselves, praise their simplicity.
New START will afford the Russians a say over our anti-missile defenses.
New START will allow the Russians to have a say - and what amounts to a veto - over America's defenses against missile attack.
And again, our dialogue with the Russians in the New Start Treaty allows us to have a verifiable mechanism for reducing our deployed nuclear missiles and launchers.
Using the pretext of the years' end expiration of the U.S.-Soviet START Treaty, the President has dispatched an inveterate denuclearizer, Assistant Secretary of State Rose Gottemoeller, to negotiate in haste a new bilateral agreement with the Russians.
Such a prospect is all the more alarming insofar as the Senate has just approved a New START Treaty that the Russians say they will remain party to only as long as the United States refrains from making "any quantitative or qualitative improvements" in our missile defenses.
Today Britons, Irish and Russians are leading a new invasion of the country, buying holiday homes.
New START will ensure that the Russians have substantially more warheads (including ten times as many tactical nuclear weapons) than the United States can field.
Last year, President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton entrusted Rose Gottemoeller with responsibility for negotiating the so-called "New START" Treaty with the Russians.
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Moving the verdict to December 27th, when the West was in a Christmas lull and Russians were busy with new-year shopping, looked designed to bury it.
But after setting up shop in New York this spring, the Russians behind VTB are clearly looking to expand into the U.S. and into emerging Latin America.
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The hope, says Mr Dvorkovich, is that once the new laws are in place, Russians themselves will be more prepared to take on corrupt or obstructive bureaucrats.
Eight million Russians now work in new small businesses, producing even according to official statistics, which are certain to understate the figure 5% of all industrial goods and 15% of all services in the country.
The first fruit of this campaign was the so-called New START Treaty from which the Russians declared they would withdraw if the United States made "quantitative or qualitative improvements" to its anti-missile capabilities.
Obama has ceded the Russians a sphere of influence in their near abroad in exchange for the New START agreement and other marginal concessions, and the Russians have gotten smarter aiming to undermine emerging democracies like Georgia in subtle ways.
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The Center for Security Policy has learned that, subsequent to receiving the House leadership letter, Administration officials have informed congressional staff that Mr. Clinton remains determined to complete with the Russians and others a new agreement that directly contravenes its wishes.
That is especially true if, as has been reported, the Clinton-Gore Administration is pursuing a new arms control agreement with the Russians that would explicitly preclude sea-based and other anti-missile capabilities needed to provide comprehensive protection of the American people against ballistic missile attack.
The question led some to posit that there was an understanding reached on missile defense that went beyond the American and Russian public statements on the matter one that led the Russians to believe that New START had in fact given them an effective veto over U.S. missile defense.
To reduce our warheads and stockpiles, we will negotiate a new Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty with the Russians this year.
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In 2010, Obama negotiated a new Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty with the Russians and won its passage in the Senate.
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