Despite support from MPs, and the British embassy in Moscow, officials demanded extra payments and paperwork.
In 1943, young Rostropovich entered the Moscow Conservatory, where he studied with Dmitri Shostakovich.
In an apartment on the edge of Moscow, 18-year-old Maxim sits watching the news on TV.
The next morning, we alighted at Tynda, the unofficial BAM capital, nearly 7, 000km east of Moscow.
He says Moscow's actions reflect a historical inability to find a place in the international community.
Ginzburg was the former head of the theory group at the PN Lebedev Physical Institute in Moscow.
In later years Moscow became their secondary base, after Peter the Great founded his new capital St Petersburg.
Russia has strong economic and military ties to Syria, and is Moscow's last Middle East ally.
The Russians are angry and the Cypriot finance minister is heading to Moscow to explain.
ChevronTexaco, though it has an excellent position in neighboring Kazakhstan, has come up dry in Moscow.
Russia's fifth largest bank, Bank of Moscow, has been given the biggest bail-out in Russian history.
Mr Fogle is said to have been a third secretary at the US embassy in Moscow.
On Monday Ivanov said the new anti-terror partnership between Moscow and Washington had strengthened the OSCE.
At no stage will Moscow be setting the price or volumes of global gas supplies.
Eclipsed by the economic powerhouse of Moscow, St Petersburg feels a bit like a large museum.
Elsewhere in the region Russia's RTS index was down 0.9% in Moscow during the afternoon.
Moscow is a top 10 derivatives market and a top 20 equities trading market.
Russian officials say they need more time to consult Moscow, BBC UN correspondent Barbara Plett reports.
Russians are lured by its four-hour proximity to Moscow, strong capital markets and favorable tax laws.
Nor does Moscow have a judicial system like Britain's that protects them from unwelcome inquisitors.
Here, some 65 metres below the sundrenched streets of Moscow, lies a disused communications bunker.
For Moscow, that price comes in the form of complete political loyalty from Turkmenistan.
And the sides will also meet in the Champions League final in Moscow on 21 May.
But the shadow of the Cold War still falls across the relationship between Washington and Moscow.
VimpelCom's pre-paid cards, by contrast, are sold at hundreds of retail outlets in Moscow.
Poland, another transit country for Russian pipelines, is also in dispute with Moscow over gas.
Moscow hit a record summer temperature of 38.2 degrees Celsius (101 degrees Fahrenheit) on Thursday.
In short, such a BIS transaction with Moscow would represent a bridge loan to nowhere.
Collateral should, in the first instance, be posted for the loans made to Moscow last December.
Foreign firms are also looking to the Moscow exchanges as a venue for raising capital.
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