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The article reports on paper released by Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs reprising established views on the war caused by Russian invasion of Ukraine calling for end of fight and avoiding words such as invasion.

The article discusses paper producer International Paper Co.'s (IP's) joint venture in Bratsk, Russia to produce paper products for the Chinese market. IP chief executive John Faraci has had to cope with several hurdles including crime, a frigid climate, inefficient business practices of its Russian partner, and apparent collusion on the part of suppliers.

Reports on the international campaign of the Baikal Environmental Wave seeking the shut down of the Baikalsk Pulp and Paper mill in Baikalsk, Russia in 2000. Chemical discharged by the mill on Lake Baikal; Information on Lake Baikal and Baikalsk; Impact of the mill's pollution discharge to Lake Baikal and to residents in the area.

The article reports on the decision of Memphis, Tennessee-based International Paper Co. to acquire 50% of Russian paper- and pulp-mill operator Ilim Holding SA for $650 million. The firm also plans to enter a 50-50 joint venture in Saint Petersburg, Russia. According to its CEO John Faraci, the deal corresponds to the plan to focus on uncoated paper and packaging and exit the forest operations.

Reports on South Korea-based Shin Ho Paper Manufacturing Co.'s plan to set up an joint-venture pulp plant in Paraguay. Failure of Russia's drinking water to meet world standards.

The article focuses on the negative effect the murders of three Russian journalists, including Anna Politkovskaya, has had on the Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta, which is headed by Dmitry Muratov. A discussion of the dangers of being a Russian journalist, and of working for a newspaper such as Novaya Gazeta, which is one of the last outposts of free speech left in Russia, is presented.

The article reports that the "The Exile" newspaper has closed after it fell under the scrutiny of the Russian government for its harsh content. According to newspaper editor Mark Ames, investors withdrew support after officials from the media regulator take away copies of issues to examine whether the paper was violating the media laws of the country. Kostantin Bukaryov, one of the founding investors of the newspaper, cites that profit had gradually slipped since the late 1990s, mainly because the foreign business community had shrunken in importance.

Reports that Russia will begin to pay off defaulted debt with paper on February 1, 1999 as investors fight on for cash in the Russian courts. Russia's negotiation with the London, England, club of commercial creditors; Comments from Philip Poole, director of research for Eastern Europe and Russia at ING Barings; Issuance of the MinFin bonds.

Reports that Russia's premier newspaper `Kommersant' was temporarily shut down by fire officials who said the newspaper lacked proper extinguishers and smoking rooms. Why the newspaper's owner blamed Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov for the closure of the paper; Reason for the conflict between Luzhkov and the paper's Boris Berezovsky; Complaints from Russian media regarding election-related harassment.

Presents world news briefs relating to business and finance as of October 23, 2002. Dispute between Russian vodka exporter Soyuzplodimport and the Russian Agriculture Ministry over rights to vodka brands; Loss for Finnish paper company Stora Enso; Complaint by the European Union concerning South Korea's subsidized shipbuilding; Others.

The article focuses on the ruling of a Russian court against Yevgeny Dzhugashvili, grandson of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, in a libel suit over an article published in the April 2009 issue of the newspaper "Novaya Gazeta." The article said Stalin ordered the deaths of thousands of citizens. A claim that the periodical defamed the dictator was rejected by a district court judge. It states that a ruling against the newspaper would have seen as a move to clear Stalin from alleged fault over 50 years after his death.

President Dmitri A. Medvedev gave an interview this week to Russia's most prominent opposition newspaper, Novaya Gazeta, whose journalists have crusaded against what they believe is an increasingly authoritarian government. Mr. Medvedev, asked whether he would try to ''rehabilitate'' democracy in Russia, demurred, according to an interview transcript released on Wednesday. ''The highly difficult political and economic processes of the 1990s became associated with the arrival of the key democratic institutions in our country for many of our fellow citizens, and for them, this was a very difficult time,'' he said. He added that: ''I do not think that we need to rehabilitate democracy. Democracy was, is, and will be.'' [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article reports on the plan of the owner of Our Region, a small Russian weekly newspaper, to close the publication in the wake of international protests over the cartoons in Moscow, Russia.

The article reports on the decision of the authorities in a central Russian city to close a newspaper that published a cartoon showing Prophet Muhammad, along with Jesus Christ, Moses, and Buddha.

The article reports on the campaign launched by Russian President Vladimir V. Putin against members of independent press in the country amidst his invasion of Ukraine. Among the broadcast media firms that stopped operations due to the campaign are Echo of Moscow and TV Rain. Also cited is the claim by newspaper Novaya Gazeta's Dmitri Muratov that the paper is on the verge of shutting down.

Reports that Russia has agreed to reduce crude oil exports on December 5, 2001.

Reports on the effort of the Russian newspaper 'Vedomosti' to track down Andrei Koudachev, a Russian businessman who was indicted in the U.S. after the money of investors vanished when his firm in the World Trade Center closed after the September 11, 2001 terror attacks.

Reports that analysts at the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) were pessimistic about the efforts of Russia President Mikhail Gorbachev to reform its communism. Views of the CIA experts in the nineteen eighties and early nineteen nineties on his reformation; Effort made by the CIA after the fall of the Berlin Wall to monitor political changes in Russia.

Reports on Cold War archives in Russia. End of the Soviet Union; Secrets about 74 years of Soviet rule; Connections with the KGB; Espionage activities.

Reports on Russian President Boris Yeltsin's health and the growing concern of citizens on the future of Russia without Yeltsin. Elections to the State Duma, the lower house of parliament and presidential poll in 1996; Comments of Western diplomats on the issue.

Observes the independent media as one of the few achievements of democracy in Russia. Dependence of newspapers on outside subsidies; Pressure on the journalists from different interest groups to control printing press; Views of the chief editor of Nezavisimaya Gazeta, Vitaly Tretyakov.

Reports that the resurgence of the Communist Party in Russia is threatening to end a project that has given scholars access to the archives of the former Soviet Union. Negotiations between project participants the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace at Palo Alto, California with the Committee on Archival Affairs of the Russian Federation.

Reports that on April 2, 1998 President Boris N. Yeltsin of Russia ordered the release of records which may reveal information on purges and repression associated with the era of Joseph Stalin, the Soviet dictator. Details on the order which Yeltsin made to the Commission for the Rehabilitation of the Victims of Political Repressions; Components of the presidential archives; Comments from Sergei Yastrzhembsky.

Offers three news briefs pertaining to United States business & finance for January 8, 1999. American consumers and sales of new cars and trucks; The rise in orders for US manufactured goods in November 1998; US-based International Paper Co. tapping into new markets in Russia.

The article focuses on the condition of journalists and the control of media in Russia. Topics discussed are effect of chemical weapon attack by President Bashar al-Assad of Syria post the Tomahawk strike against Syria's Shayrat air base by the U.S., abuse of Russia media company RBC owned by Mikhail Prokhorov and news paper Novaya Gazeta of Dmitri Muratov, and efforts of independent television station TV Rain to cover news about protests and voices against the Russian premier Vladimir Putin.

Alexander Lebedev, a Russian billionaire who was once a K.G.B. agent stationed in London, struck a long-awaited deal to buy The Independent newspaper on Thursday, little more than a year after he acquired another of Britain's respected major papers, The Evening Standard of London. In a sign of the parlous times for publishers, The Independent's owner had to pay to cut it loose, agreeing to contribute $:9.25 million (about $13.7 million), to its operation over 10 months. In announcing the deal, the owner, Independent News and Media, an Irish company that has papers in several countries, disclosed that The Independent lost $:12.4 million (about $18.4 million) in 2009. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Reports on the plans of central bank to introduce ruble bank notes to address counterfeiting in Russia.

The article discusses a smartphone to be produced by Russian firm Yota Devices. The phone will have a liquid-crystal-display (LCD) screen on one side, an electronic-paper display on the other, and retail for around $500. Yota chief executive Vladislav Martynov says the device will allow users to stream data in real-time without draining the phone's battery.

MOSCOW -- There were no opposition leaders at the head of the vast column of people that peacefully wound its way through central Moscow on Sunday. There was, instead, a corpulent poet, whose admirers thrust lilac boughs at him. A bespectacled detective novelist was autographing everything at hand -- books, of course, but also scratch paper, identification cards and, once, a middle-aged woman in a white T-shirt. People mobbed a diminutive grandmother who has won many of Russia's literary prizes and who acknowledged to a reporter that ''crowds drive me crazy and make me want to hide somewhere.'' [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Dasha Yurkevich, a blonde 9-year-old girl in a sailor's hat and a green sweater dress, stood in front of the Russian Consulate in San Francisco last December, carrying a sign saying ''It's Not Fair'' in Russian. She was part of a small protest against alleged Russian ballot-box tampering in the Dec. 4 Duma, or congressional, elections. ''I had told her, imagine if you did your voting. And then your teacher came and threw your papers out,'' said Dasha's father, Stas, a 43-year-old San Francisco software engineer who emigrated from Russia in 1993. ''She said, 'It's not fair.' So that's what she painted on her sign.'' [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

MOSCOW -- During previous bouts of financial volatility, Russia could be reliably found on the edge of the violent extremes. In 2008, for example, the Russian stock market was the worst performing of any major stock exchange in the world. The ruble collapsed. And the rich industrialists known as the oligarchs suffered $230 billion in paper losses. This time is different. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Boris Sveshnikov was a 19-year-old art student when he was arrested in 1946, held in Moscow prisons for a year, and finally sentenced to eight years' hard labor in the northern Ural Mountains. His ''crime'' and sentence were suitably Kafkaesque. Apparently a classmate had written in a notebook, which he intended to leave out to impress a girl, that he was involved in terrorist activities and wanted to eliminate Stalin; Mr. Sveshnikov was named as the ''designated executioner.'' Unfortunately, the notebook fell into the hands of the Ministry of State Security. Mr. Sveshnikov (1927-1998) returned to Moscow in the 1950s, where he became a book illustrator and painter. He is represented in the Norton and Nancy Dodge Collection of Nonconformist Art From the Soviet Union, made up of work by artists who did not practice or endorse the state-sanctioned Socialist Realism. A selection of his art is currently on view alongside that of another nonconformist artist, Vladimir Nemukhin, in ''Embodied Dreams: The Later Work of Boris Sveshnikov'' and ''Vladimir Nemukhin: Works on Paper'' at the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum in New Brunswick. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

MOSCOW -- A Moscow court delayed the announcement of a verdict on Wednesday in the second trial of Mikhail B. Khodorkovsky, the former oil tycoon whose case has been taken up by human rights groups. The change in date, made public with a paper notice taped to a courthouse door, came as supporters and foreign observers who traveled to Russia for the hearing were already shuffling through snow toward the court. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

IRKUTSK, Russia -- It was late one afternoon in January when a squad of plainclothes police officers arrived at the headquarters of a prominent environmental group here. They brushed past the staff with barely a word and instead set upon the computers before carting them away. Taken were files that chronicled a generation's worth of efforts to protect the Siberian wilderness. The group, Baikal Environmental Wave, was organizing protests against Prime Minister Vladimir V. Putin's decision to reopen a paper factory that had polluted nearby Lake Baikal, a natural wonder that by some estimates holds 20 percent of the world's fresh water. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A team of Russian and American scientists has discovered a new element that has long stood as a missing link among the heaviest bits of atomic matter ever produced. The element, still nameless, appears to point the way toward a brew of still more massive elements with chemical properties no one can predict. The team produced six atoms of the element by smashing together isotopes of calcium and a radioactive element called berkelium in a particle accelerator about 75 miles north of Moscow on the Volga River, according to a paper that has been accepted for publication at the journal Physical Review Letters. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

When Alexander Lebedev and his son, Evgeny, took over The Evening Standard of London 14 months ago, the media coverage focused on the father's status as a former K.G.B. agent and Russian oligarch, and on both men's taste in beautiful women. Many news reports asked whether they would be an unhealthy influence on one of Britain's major newspapers. By last Thursday, when they struck a deal to buy another respected but failing British paper, The Independent, the question had become whether the Lebedevs had improbably emerged as among the best hopes for preserving serious journalism in Britain. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article reports on the raid by Russian police of the offices of the environmental group Baikal Ecological Wave, which had opposed the plans of the government to reopen a paper mill on the shores of Lake Baikal in Siberia.

The article reports that a decree signed by Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin that removed waste discharges in the production of pulp, paper and cardboard from operations banned by environmental legislation in and all over the world's largest body of fresh water has angered environmentalists.

The prospects for a contested building site, a skyscraper in St. Petersburg for the state energy giant Gazprom, are again unclear after the minister of culture filed papers to block it, a day after the mayor had signed a decree approving construction. The minister, Aleksandr A. Avdeyev, filed the complaint Wednesday, saying the decree broke preservation laws, the official RIA news agency reported. St. Petersburg was built mostly in the 18th and 19th centuries, and church spires now define the skyline. The 77-story tower is planned as the headquarters of a Gazprom subsidiary, Gazpromneft. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Rattled by falling oil prices and the war in Georgia, Russia's stock market has slumped so severely that it now threatens the country's oil-fueled boom of recent years, economists say. The benchmark RTS index has lost 46 percent of its value since its peak in May, representing a paper loss of about $700 billion for Russian companies. Much of that decline has come since the war in Georgia and the subsequent war of words with the United States and Europe that unsettled foreign investors, who began withdrawing capital. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The effects of Russia's first foreign war as a capitalist country rippled Tuesday through the Moscow stock markets, which dipped to their lowest level since 2006. The loss of billions of dollars in paper value is confronting the Kremlin with a dimension to its geopolitical posturing that never existed during the cold war, even as Russia seemed to be consolidating its gains after the Georgia conflict. The RTS stock market fell 6.1 percent on Tuesday after President Dmitri A. Medvedev recognized two separatist regions in Georgia. The sell-off was deepened by grim warnings from Western leaders of unspecified diplomatic or economic retaliation for the move. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

For decades, Komsomolskaya Pravda served up article after leaden article about Soviet officials meeting with other Soviet officials. Now, reinvented as a tabloid, the newspaper has a rowdier agenda -- and a huge audience. The paper's most-read item one recent day was a verbal catfight between a celebrity radio hostess and Ksenia Sobchak, Russia's answer to Paris Hilton. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article focuses on the life and works of Sergie Moskalyov, a traffic police in Moscow, Russia. Moskalyov is an eight-year veteran of the State Auto Inspection force, familiarly known as GAI. As an inspector he checks the papers of driver's license, vehicle registration and even reach motorists who fail to signal before turning. He commented that not all traffic inspectors take or solicit bribe. He also added that he is dedicated to his job and is just doing his job orderly.

This article focuses on the exhibition titled "A Partner From My Rough Days," related to cheating in examinations, held at the Cherepovets State University museum in Russia. This could be the first such exhibition in the history of the country, where cheating does not carry much of a stigma. The lengths to which students go to gain an edge are, perhaps, befitting Russia's history of scientific and technological innovation. There is the jeans skirt with 70 numbered pockets beneath the front flap, each containing a tightly rolled scroll of white paper, about 10 inches by 2 inches, onto which answers to questions passed out by the professor ahead of time have been printed in a fine font. There is a woman's black-leather belt, whose buckle depicts a jaguar with a spiked collar springing into action, with flaps on the reverse side that open like wedding invitations to reveal stray facts. Tatyana Posokhova, the exhibit's curator, said that students began bringing items after word spread that the organizers were seeking acquisitions.

Reports on the detention of two athletes from the Persian Gulf emirate of Qatar by the Russian government. Stimulation of the diplomatic dispute; Arrest of two Russian agents by the government of Qatar; Allegation of carrying an improperly processed papers.

Examines how a few large business groups have transformed Russia's economy. Account of corporate raiders putting a pulp and paper mill under siege; How the groups buy up entire industries through financial power and political connections; Implications, including a concentration of Russia's wealth; View that they are reshaping a neglected economy; Long-term outlook for these groups; Impact on Russia's legal system; How the new tycoons differ from the state monoliths of Soviet times and the Yeltsin era oligarchs.

Reports on a testimony given by Russian weapons specialist Arsenty Myandin at the spy trial of American businessman Edmond Pope in Russia in October 2000. His statement on the technical papers at issue in the case; Details on the classified blueprints to a torpedo used by the Russian Navy; Health condition of Pope.

Discusses ways in which worthless rubles, the monetary unit of the former Soviet Union, are being used in Russia's businesses. Conversation with Dmitri Nikiforov, manager of a plant that makes roofing materials, about how his plant uses shredded rubles as roofing material; Description of other uses for rubles, including as toilet paper; Reason for the excess supply of defunct rubles.