Russian government looks to buy golden bed

2009/08/19 04:09:44 @Reuters: International News

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's government has issued a tender for luxury furniture, including a gilded bed, triggering an outcry Wednesday in a country where the economy shrank 10.9 percent in the last quarter. div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=cledGBXSeeY:7cjNblnVGPc:yIl2AUoC8zA" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=cledGBXSeeY:7cjNblnVGPc:F7zBnMyn0Lo" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=cledGBXSeeY:7cjNblnVGPc:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=cledGBXSeeY:7cjNblnVGPc:V_sGLiPBpWU" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=cledGBXSeeY:7cjNblnVGPc:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0" /img /a /div img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/reuters/worldNews/~4/cledGBXSeeY" height="1" width="1"/
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