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Michelle Obama's Blend Of Power And Glamor, Rare In Russia's First Ladies, To Light Up Moscow (AP) Michelle Obama brings her superstar glamor to Moscow this weekend as she accompanies her husband on his summit with the Russian president. But the American first lady, who has wowed publics in the U.S. and Europe with her easy elegance and charm, will perhaps face a bigger challenge in winning over a Russian public that has scant respect for women who grab the limelight from their powerful husbands. In a country where a presidential candidate once quipped he'd sooner pack his wife off to a convent than allow her to dabble in politics, Russia still has trouble with the concept of an empowered woman behind the throne. "The institution of first lady in Russia is still quite young," said Alyona Doletskaya, editor of Russian Vogue... [read full story]
In the heat of the climate change debate sparked by hacked e-mail messages, there has been little discussion of how the e-mails were leaked. In a connected world, security and privacy are both more important, and harder to come...
PRLog (Press Release) – Nov 22, 2009 – Kash Mart International(" KMI"), the world’s largest private retail electronic payments network, today extended the global reach of its KMI Money Transfer Service to Ukraine, Latvia, Nepal...
By Reuters Haaretz November 22, 2009 Kislev 5, 5770 A senior Iranian cleric warned on Saturday that the Islamic Republic would fire missiles at Tel Aviv if attacked, shortly after Iran's military announced it would begin...
Russia third trading partner of EU27 - In the first half of 2009 the value of EU27 exports to Russia fell to 31 bn euro, compared with 51 bn in the first half of 2008, and imports decreased to 52 bn from 91 bn. As a result, the...
