Volga road trip: A dying industry
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Rupert Wingfield-Hayes makes a gloomy prediction for Russia's car industry as he travels along the Volga river to sample everyday life in Russia.
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PEREDELKINO, Russia -- The unpaved, unlit roads are clogged with traffic. Getting to and from work in the center of Moscow is a 90-minute crawl each way. The schools are lousy. There are no stores within walking distance. Local health-care facilities are primitive.
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By Steve Dube  Since foot-and-mouth and BSE farm profits have slumped, writes Country and Farming Editor Steve Dube.
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About 1,900 miles east of Moscow  and sitting on a frozen swamp the size of France, the city of  Tomsk has struggled economically since the Trans-Siberian  Railway passed it by at the end of the 19th Century.
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The former Soviet state is cleaning up a legacy of central economic planning: its vast stores of obsolete pesticides.
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For a future with computers Comment The canals of Great Britain. Falling into disuse. I mean, with an energy crisis looming, and a serious shortage of water in the South East, and a transport infrastructure geared to cheap oil, what possible purpose could an antiquated, Olde Worlde network of canals serve?â¦
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Russia has become a lucrative market for dairy product exporters in recent years, in particular those based in eastern Europe.
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Oscar nominations for a Russian and  Kazakh film have put the ex-Soviet countries' film industry  back on the map, directors and actors said.
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James Rodgers in Moscow examines the ups and downs of Russian-style capitalism.
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Text of report by Russian Ekho Moskvy radio on 6 September  The Russian Television and Radio Broadcasting Network [RTRS] is on the verge of bankruptcy. Culture Minister Aleksandr Sokolov made this worrying statement in the State Duma today.
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Georgia is having a road revolution, utterly changing what it is like to drive in one corner of the former Soviet Union.
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Trailer parks lie abandoned. The poultry plant is scrambling to replace more than half its workforce. Business has dried up at stores where Mexican laborers once lined up to buy food, beer and cigarettes just weeks ago.
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The region's booming growth has counterbalanced trouble elsewhere. But the long dry spell is taking a toll.
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By Mark Landler and John Markoff John Markoff reported from San Francisco. Steven Lee Myers contributed reporting from Moscow.
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Ten years ago the information superhighway cut a large swath through Boston's northwest suburbs, followed closely by booms in biotechnology and telecommunications. In another decade the region could be at the center of an emerging sector powered by hydrogen and other clean-fuel technologies.
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By Dubie, Denise  Getting rid of obsolete computer gear isn't as simple as it used to be. The threat of data loss, coupled with increasingly stringent environmental regulations, has IT pros rethinking their disposal methods.
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Planes, trains and automobiles apparently aren't enough anymore. In straining to wring every imaginable last laugh, the road trip comedy "Are We There Yet?" also trots out a horse, a blinged-out sport utility vehicle and an armada of 18-wheelers driven by misinformed, overzealous truckers.