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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.
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| Friday, July 10, 2009
Updated at 10 July 2009 12:37 Moscow Time. | |
| The Moscow Times » Issue 2911 » Comment |
The Challenge: Halving Global Poverty Again28 April 2004By Francois BourguignonThe proportion of people living on less than $1 per day worldwide dropped by almost half between 1981 and 2001, from 40 percent to 21 percent of global population. |
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