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...Nefedova, general manager of Vincroft, a private company that runs a four-supermarket chain in Moscow. The state is set to destroy small businesses, and force others to enlarge, she believes: "It'll be easier to take them under centralized control that way." She may be right. Last summer, Russian President Vladimir Putin endorsed restoring the state monopoly on production and distribution of ethyl alcohol. And proposals for a State Shareholding Committee ( ssc) to take over the legal alcohol market, worth some $20 billion a year, are still before the Duma. Meanwhile, the new laws have not worked as planned...
...world record for two people juggling 10 clubs between them is 378 catches. It is currently held by two Russian siblings living in the U.S. named Vova and Olga Galchenko. The Galchenkos also hold the world record for 11 clubs (152 catches) and 12 clubs (54 catches). The ability to juggle at this level is highly unusual, especially at their ages--Vova is 18, Olga 15. But then again, the Galchenkos are very unusual people...
While the Lobsters and the Capitals both fielded teams of almost half a dozen players each, most of the audience seemed especially interested in only one athlete—a 25-year old Russian member of the Capitals known as much for her beauty as her backhand...
Barring a change in Harvard policy, the University’s endowment holdings in Tatneft—a Russian oil company with alleged ties to the Sudanese government—will disappear from the public eye when the company delists its shares on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in the coming weeks...
...Volume of the loudest shriek emitted by tennis player Maria Sharapova during a Wimbledon quarterfinal against fellow Russian Elena Dementieva. Sharapova won the match...