Moon cake prices dip as Beijing eases Mid-Autumn festival
In Beijing families celebrated the Mid-Autumn Festival with moon cakes as authorities cut prices to curb inflation. Officials aimed to halve inflation from over 20 percent toward 10 percent, enforcing controls on grain pork oil and vegetables. Cakes ranged from 2.40 dollars for local boxes to 24 dollars for prized Hong Kong varieties. Moon cakes, filled with yolk and nuts, are gifts and festival staples.
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Old foes reflect on Russia in a new era after crisis
A year after Yeltsin ordered parliament to disband and tanks ran in, Russia’s political map reshaped by exile and amnesty. Former elites like Alexander Rutskoi, Ruslan Khasbulatov, and Vladimir Zhirinovsky adapt as Duma politics and privatization press on under Yeltsin.
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Russia and Germany agree debt rescheduling for Moscow
Germany will reschedule 2.7 billion in German insured debt due this year with a 15 year repayment term, following a similar 53 billion extension last year. Banks also rolled over about 26 billion in commercial Soviet debts. Russia owes roughly 80 billion to governments and banks. Conference in Berlin on regional cooperation included Rexrodt and Meissner discussing cross-border projects and NAFTA cooperation with Mexico.
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