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8.9.2010 21:20 Dinamo stun defending champs as Russian hockey season starts

Dinamo produced a title-winning display to bag the first silverware of the KHL season in Kazan on Wednesday night.Their 3-1 win over Ak Bars handed them the curtain-raising Otkrytiye Cup as last year’s champions made a slow start.Few gave the Moscow side a chance after a tortuous summer domina...

8.9.2010 18:1 PwC faces courtroom questions in Khodorkovsky trial

 The integrity of accounting giant PwC will come under the microscope this week when its audits of fallen oil giant Yukos are laid open in court.Defendant Platon Lebedev is due to take the stand to probe the auditors’ actions as he and Mikhail Khodorkovsky fight massive embezzlement charg...

8.9.2010 17:59 Belorusskaya metro station could close completely

On-going repair work at Belorusskaya metro station could shut down the entire interchange, Moscow’s transport boss has warned.At present the circle and green Zamoskvoreskaya line stations are working normally even though the footways linking them are closed to passengers.But on Wednesday Vasil...

8.9.2010 17:56 Mud slinging over sex trade in Moscow

Nashi have decorated a house on Moscow’s Leningradskoye shosse with a giant poster showing Northern Area Prefect Oleg Mitvol with a madame in a brothel. The poster shows a woman in a low-cut top labeled as “Snezhanna-mamochka,” as she smiles and casts a sly glance at a picture of M...

8.9.2010 15:35 New hockey season starts, but the Russian league's ambitions are melting away

 The third season of KHL hockey starts on Wednesday – but the Russian tournament’s dreams of rivaling the NHL still seem distant.In 2008 when the first season introduced three teams from outside Russia – and a raft of new imports from Europe’s top clubs – hopes wer...

8.9.2010 15:14 Fare's not fair for Moscow commuters

 Russia’s sleek new Sapsan trains might glide effortlessly to St. Petersburg and Moscow, but this European level of service is not seen on suburban routes.One journey on the “elektrichki” might be an experience, but for thousands of commuters it’s a daily grind they&rsqu...

8.9.2010 14:41 Unorthodox position on sexy radio upsets Russian church

 The battle between God and sex has been going on since the Garden of Eden – and now it’s hit cyberspace.Internet entrepreneur Alexei Kozhevnikov has set up an intimate adult radio station – all legal and above board – but his online enterprise has provoked fire and brim...

8.9.2010 12:28 Under-fire politician says he went to Arkhangelsk

Now you see him, now you don’t. The political vanishing act pulled off by Moscow’s deputy mayor Alexander Ryabinin took a bizarre turn on Tuesday when he was “found” in Arkhangelsk region.Prosecutors had announced that Ryabinin, a suspect in a corruption case, had left Russia...

8.9.2010 11:50 Lukoil chief to pay for crash

Lukoil vice-president Anatoly Barkov has promised to personally support the two-year-old girl left orphaned by a car accident involving his Mercedes.Although Barkov was cleared of any wrong-doing in the controversial case, he was apparently moved to offer financial assistance following the fatal cra...

8.9.2010 11:44 Pilots perform a miracle in the Taiga to save stricken jet

 Pilots Yevgeny Novoselov and Andrei Lamonov have been hailed as heroes after safely landing a stricken jet without navigation, control or radio systems.A passenger flight from the Siberian city of Mirny, 1,200 km from Yakutsk, to Moscow was seconds from tragedy when the sharp-eyed pilots spott...

8.9.2010 9:55 Gay club closed illegally

 Oleg Mitvol’s move to close Moscow’s hottest gay club Dusha i Telo (Body and Soul) was illegal, a Moscow arbitration court ruled on Tuesday. Gay activists are calling it an ideological defeat for the embattled northern prefect, who is still smarting from a rebuke from City Hall ove...

7.9.2010 23:50 Advocaat rounds on critics after Russia slump to Slovakia loss

 LOKOMOTIV STADIUM, Moscow, Sep. 7: Dick Advocaat produced a defensive performance worthy of his Slovak opponents in his post match press conference.Russia's 1-0 defeat to Slovakia brought the new head coach's honeymoon period to an abrupt halt and leaves the side playing catch up in their Euro...

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