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MOSCOW - President Vladimir Putin's decision to fight poverty in the North Caucasus as part of his war on terror signals a serious shift in Kremlin policy because it addresses for the first time a root cause of terrorism in the region, analysts said Monday. |
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Human rights advocates and the German media used the international forum of the St. Petersburg Dialog in Hamburg last week to criticize President Vladimir Putin for violating basic democratic principles. |
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MOSCOW - Calling for a stronger state more capable of fighting terror, President Vladimir Putin announced a sweeping political shakeup Monday that would do away with popularly elected regional leaders and single-mandate State Duma deputies. Putin appointed his confidant and Cabinet chief of staff Dmitry Kozak as the head of a new federal commission that will try to get at the roots of terrorism by tackling poverty and poor education in the North Caucasus. |
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Liberal factions in the St. Petersburg Legislative Assembly have demanded that the Prosecutor General's Office explain why city prosecutor Nikolai Vinnichenko has been forced to resign. Vinnichenko was sent on vacation in August and is expected to continue his career at the Federal Anti-Drug Service. |
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Finland's Consulate General in St. Petersburg is moving to a new building located at 4 Ulitsa Preobrazhenskoi at the end of the month. Due to the shift, the consulate will be closed on Sept. |
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City Skating Academy ST. PETERSBURG (SPT) - A Figure Skating Academy will open in St. Petersburg in March next year, Oleg Nilov,president of the St. Petersburg Figure Skating Federation, said Friday. "The main construction works are over and soon we'll get to decoration works," Interfax quoted him saying. |
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MOSCOW - President Vladimir Putin changed tack Friday and authorized a parliamentary investigation into the Beslan attack, the first time he has agreed to such a probe during nearly five years in power. |
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BESLAN, North Ossetia-Sofia Arsoyeva, a 15-year-old student at Beslan school No. 1, was seen by a classmate being driven away from the chaotic gunfight there on Sept. 3. Another classmate said she was in the same car as her, heading toward the nearest hospital. |
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Prosecutors Probe Police MOSCOW (SPT) - The Moscow city prosecutor's office has opened a criminal case over allegations that two policemen assaulted retired air force colonel, Hero of Russia Magomed Tolboyev. |
 What Russia needed to offer Amsterdam was another embassy, thought Mikhail Piotrovsky, director of the State Hermitage Museum. What he decided was that one of Russia's premier art museums should have a branch in the Dutch capital. But he did not come up with the idea alone. |
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The Dutch are one of the most culturally active expatriate groups in Russia, and the local Dutch community says that cultural links are good for business. |
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Vladimir Sheinblap Programmer at Lizatek I've been working at a Dutch company for the last five years and I can say that I really like the Dutch mentality. In a Dutch company, when someone tells you to do something, you can discuss it with them, and if you don't agree with something you can tell your manager what you think. I think in most Russian companies, it's quite different, and when you're told to do something, it's more like an order that's not open for discussion. I think that the Dutch are probably the most open people in Europe, maybe it's because of their trading traditions and the fact that they're used to cooperating with people from all over the world. |
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 MOSCOW - Vladimir had lived on Ulitsa Guryanova for 12 years until the day the world collapsed on him. When the explosion hit No. 19 at midnight on the night of Sept. |
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MOSCOW - As the 52-hour hostage siege came to a bloody finale on Sept. 3, Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov announced the government's privatization plans for 2005 on state television. During the standoff, he addressed the issue once, a full day after it started, and ordered his government to "normalize the situation as soon as possible." The rest of the country's political elite, meanwhile, kept painfully quiet. State Duma deputies did not cut short their vacations to discuss the school crisis, and only a few have commented about it since it ended. Vyacheslav Volodin, deputy head of the pro-Kremlin United Russia party, which controls the Duma, could not be bothered to discuss Beslan when approached by a reporter on Stary Arbat the day after the siege. |
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 MEXICO CITY, Mexico - Lev Trotsky, one of the key players in Russia's October Revolution did not escape the violence that he himself helped sow. Stalin murdered his arch-enemy in his self-imposed exile in Mexico on Aug. |
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 The St. Petersburg Seaport joint-stock company and the port committee of the dockers' trade union signed a one-year agreement Friday, ending a two-month standoff that has been paralyzing the port's activities. The agreement, signed by the dockers with the seaport's First and Second Stevedoring, or cargo-transporting companies, said that, "the employer will secure the dockers' average monthly salary . |
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MOSCOW - The Natural Resources Ministry threatened Friday to revoke the extraction permits held by Yukos' main production unit because it stopped paying taxes. |
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ALMATY, Kazakhstan - A United Nations agency has quietly stopped issuing export quotas for Caspian caviar until Russia and other countries bordering that sea curb rampant poaching. The Geneva-based Convention on the International Trade in Endangered Species of Fauna and Flora, or CITES, which is responsible for issuing quotas for caviar from sturgeon, an endangered species, says it does not expect to approve any exports from the Caspian Sea at all this year because the five states that border it have failed to bring illegal fishing to heel. In the past, all Russia and the other Caspian states - Kazakhstan, Iran, Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan - had to do to receive a quota was convince CITES that the amount of sturgeon they planned to fish would not push the species closer to extinction. |
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 Holland's economic relationship with Russia is strong and trade is on the increase. However, there are still many sectors of the Russian economy where Dutch companies could play a bigger role, according to St. |
 In nearly thirty years in the foreign service, career-diplomat Eduard Hoeks has witnessed three revolutionary changes in three countries on three continents. The new Dutch Consul General to St. Petersburg, who arrived just a few weeks ago, said in an interview that the time he spent working in Russia in the early 1980s in Moscow was his most memorable diplomatic posting. |
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The ninth Window on the Netherlands festival opened Monday to showcase cultural, scientific and commercial aspects of Dutch life in the city. Organized by the Consulate of the Netherlands in St. |
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LONDON - Russia's banking system is still considered among the riskiest in the world, despite strong economic growth, because the economy is concentrated in too few areas such as oil and gas, ratings agency Standard and Poor's said Tuesday. "You may have very high economic growth in Russia but the economy is very concentrated in the oil and gas sector. |
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TMK Share Offering MOSCOW (Bloomberg) - Trubnaya Metallurgicheskaya Kompaniya, the world's second-biggest producer of steel pipes, plans to sell shares to investors by 2008, Interfax reported. |
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President Vladimir Putin is caught in a trap of his own making. By placing his trust entirely in his old KGB colleagues, and by shutting out all other interest groups and institutions - such as business, political parties and the press - Putin has left himself no room for maneuver. |
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On Monday, President Vladimir Putin called for sweeping changes to the structure of the Russian government in an effort to strengthen the Russian state and to improve its ability to repulse terrorist threats. |
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It has been obvious to everyone for a long time that there are not nearly enough hotels in the city, especially small, mid-range ones, for the development of tourism. And so, because there is no money in the budget for this, the investment committee worked out a program designed to attract private investors Attached to the text of the program is a list of addresses in areas of the city close to the center, where hotels could be placed. |
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Night and Fog You think it's not true, you think it's not coming, you think "it can't happen here." But it can, and it is, right before your eyes. |
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Editor, Journalists are serving the government and all the plumbers have gone to fight terrorism. The horror that Russia has witnessed in the last few days is unprecedented - terror, international terror and the deaths of hundreds of people, including hundreds of children. Just imagine, children who happily set off for their first and last day of school with flowers in their hands have died - that should not happen. |
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Airline Seeks Bankruptcy ARLINGTON, Virginia - US Airways Group Inc., the United States' seventh largest airline, filed for bankruptcy protection Sunday for the second time in two years. The company's president vowed to continue restructuring the airline into a low-cost carrier during the bankruptcy process. |
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NEW YORK - By all rights, St. Petersburg's Svetlana Kuznetsova should have been a cycling star: Her brother and parents all won or coached others to Olympic medals and world titles in that sport. |
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