Power to the people
Nuclear energy is
not our tomorow,
it’s our today
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New names in
Zoschenko: Who’s wearing
the frames
tragic comic the trousers?
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Tuesday, September 29, 2009
World at aat a
Making plans
for life after
crossroadsads
The men for change
the crisis
The international communitymmunity With the Russian economy
seems to have acknoowledwledgedged getting back on track, the
Dmitry Medvedev as a pras a proo-- Economic Development Ministry
gressive president and a rand a re-e- is devising a strategy to push the
former. Not a single one of hisone of his country out of recession. This
initiatives proposed at the UNat the UN was one of the key pieces of
General Assembly and at theand at the macroeconomic news revealed
G20 summit in Pitttstsburburgghh at the Sochi 2009 International
went unnoticed. Investment Forum.
Some experts believieve that
Medvedev’s popularity amongity among
ELENA KUKOL
his Western colleagues matces match-h- ROSSIYSKAYA GAZETA
es that of US Prresident
Barack Obama. They ary are e bothboth Economic Development Minis-
seen as examples of a newof a new ter Elvira Nabiullina explained
generation of world leaders.leaders. that the programme aims to
The “revolutionary”” changes gradually reduce anti-crisis
in the way Medvedev is seen inv is seen in measures and the budget defi -
the West follow a speecech he de-h he de- cit, and boost some of the most
livered from his artticle icle “Go “Go important economic sectors, in-
Russia!” where he outlinedoutlined cluding housing, transport in-
his vision for the coun-oun- frastructure, hi-tech and com-
try’s development. petitive consumer products.
The article echoedd
some of Mikhail Gor- CONTINUED ON PAGE 2
bachev’s ideas. Gor-
bachev’s politicall
ally, tycoon Alexan--
der Lebedev, went asas
Sberbank
far as to call it “thehe
new perestroika”. Rus-s-
wins a stake
sia Now caught upup
with the man whoho in Opel
changed the world 2020
years ago. General Motors has finally
agreed to sell a 55pc stake in its
SEE PAGE 7 European Opel subsidiary to
Canada’s Magna International
PHOTOS: KONSTANTIN ZAVRAZHIN_RG, ANDREY MILASHKEVICH_EPSILON, ROLAND MAGUNIA_AFP
and Russia’s Sberbank – who
now face the task of invigorating
the loss-making business.
Behind the walls For years they were homes to privileged and cosseted workers
IRINA SUKHOVA
The hidden past inside the secret cities
RUSSIA NOW
The saga of the sale of Opel
seems to be at an end. But why
Cold War relics, Russia’s 45 To walk the autumnal streets of rounding the city. Only 33,000 their hometown is not a Soviet bers attached to their names: were Magna and Sberbank so
closed cities continue their Znamensk, trimmed with roses, people live on this otherwise de- relic, but the meaning and pride Arzamas-16 (the home of the interested in acquiring the car
proud military traditions facing asters and chrysanthemums, serted steppe southeast of Mos- of their lives. nuclear engineers who put an manufacturer? Magna’s mo-
an uncertain future. How will tourists need a special permit. cow. The holes in the wall, and Russians fi rst heard officially in end to America’s nuclear mo- tives are relatively clear: the Ca-
they adapt to new economic The only other way into a closed rumours that ongoing reform 1986 that there were dozens of nopoly), Krasnoyarsk-26, nadian company produces auto
realities? city – unofficially, that is – is to might one day open their city, closed cities and towns all over Tomsk-7, and others that sound parts and assembles cars, but it
avoid the checkpoint and walk do not please the citizens of the country with more than one like sci-fi thriller titles. does not have its own brand.
ANNA NEMTSOVA
in through one of the holes in the Znamensk: for many, the lock million people living in them.
RUSSIA NOW nine-kilometre-long wall sur- on the gate and secretiveness of The cities had mysterious num- CONTINUED ON PAGE 6 CONTINUED ON PAGE 2
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