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The Moscow Times was the only newspaper represented at the Russian-American Business Summit where Presidents Dmitry Medvedev and Barack Obama spoke July 7

July 7, 2009 -- The Moscow Times published a special full-color issue of the newspaper timed to coincide with the visit of U.S. President Barack Obama to Moscow on July, 7, 2009.

The newspaper was presented at the Russian-American Business Summit, which was organized by the American Chamber of Commerce (AmCham) and the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RSPP) at the Manezh Exhibition Hall. The forum drew more than 700 key representatives of Russian and international business, the political elite and nongovernmental organizations.



Friday, July 10, 2009 Updated at 10 July 2009 16:03 Moscow Time.

The Moscow Times » Issue 3077 » Business in Brief

Business in Brief

28 December 2004UnknownRTS Goes Real-Time MOSCOW (Bloomberg) -- The RTS, Russia's second-largest bourse by trading volume, will begin calculating its benchmark index in real time in 2005, the RTS said in a statement Friday. The RTS index, which is used as the nation's benchmark by many international funds, currently calculates every half hour, making it less of an indicator of immediate market action than the MICEX, which does calculate in real time. Putin Signs '05 Budget MOSCOW (Bloomberg) -- President Vladimir Putin signed into effect the 2005 budget, which calls for a surplus of 1.5 percent of gross domestic product, the presidential press service said Friday on the Kremlin's web site. The State Duma and Federation Council passed the budget with a surplus of 278.1 billion rubles ($10 billion), earlier this month. Next year's budget allows the use of some money from the so-called stabilization fund to repay foreign debt and pay some pensions, the statement said. $3.

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