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...used to say Moscow is an island of prosperity in an ocean of despair," laughs Mark Wrong, a British developer with plans to build Western-style malls in several Russian cities. "But it's not true any more." Last month he broke ground on his first mall, in Yaroslavl, which is about 240 km northeast of Moscow, and over the next two to three years he hopes to have outposts as far as Ufa and Yekaterinburg. Such expansion outside Moscow was unthinkable even a few years ago, but it's a sign of how Russian retailing has evolved over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Comrades in Consumption | 5/7/2006 | See Source »

...Take the case of Elvira Mezhennaya, the 52-year-old chief editor of the City Channel, a TV station in Yaroslavl, some 270 km northeast of Moscow. She is due in court next week - the second time in three months - to face charges of slander for broadcasting a report alleging that regional financial inspector Nina Ryzhkova received a free apartment and financial rewards from Governor Anatoly Lisitsyn, the man whose operations Ryzhkova is supposed to supervise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Purge in the Provinces | 5/7/2001 | See Source »

...March, however, a district court in Yaroslavl acquitted Mezhennaya "on the grounds of the absence of a crime," to use the Russian legal phrase. The prosecution promptly appealed and the ordeal will now start all over again, in the regional court. Mezhennaya says she has no way of knowing whether she will still be free at the end of the month. Kukin, the TV correspondent whose report triggered Mezhennaya's problems, now works for the local state-run TV station. He is testifying for the prosecution that she urged him to do the allegedly slanderous feature...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Purge in the Provinces | 5/7/2001 | See Source »

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