|
|
|
|
A prominent St. Petersburg businessman and former bodyguard to President Vladimir Putin, died in suspicious circumstances in the city's Sverdlov Hospital on Friday. Roman Tsepov, 42, director of elite bodyguard agency Baltic-Escort, was admitted to the hospital a fortnight earlier with symptoms of severe food poisoning, which daily became worse. Doctors were unable to prevent the poison from affecting bone marrow and producing symptoms of radiation sickness, which ultimately led to Tsepov's death. The businessman was due to be moved to a clinic in Germany for further treatment Saturday, but it was too late. He was buried Monday in the city's Serafimovskoye cemetery. |
|
 Russia got its first official chance to see Michael Moore's controversial documentary "Fahrenheit 9/11" on Thursday, when the film about an unpopular war, terrorism and a president accused of failing to react instantly to an attack that stunned the nation, opened in St. |
 The note said that a John Adkins "left home at an early age and never returned home again." Home was the United States and he was last seen alive in a Soviet gulag in 1929. That's just about all Edward Perdue knew about his second cousin in 1986. |
|
MOSCOW - Prominent media figures have penned a protest over growing censorship on television, blaming the authorities for curtailing rights to information and freedom of speech by axing several political television shows over the past year. |
|
MOSCOW - President Vladimir Putin urged journalists to stop being simply observers and join the fight against terrorism, apparently by making sure that news coverage does not help terrorists achieve their goals. "Terrorists cynically use the capabilities of mass media, and democracy on the whole, to multiply the psychological and informational impact in the course of hostage-taking or conducting other terrorist acts," Putin told more than 100 representatives of international news agencies at a conference Friday. |
All photos from issue.
|
|
|
|
|
MOSCOW - The Communist and Yabloko parties filed a lawsuit with the Supreme Court on Monday, claiming that last year's State Duma elections were distorted by biased campaign coverage, deception of voters and vote-rigging. The two parties joined forces with Committee-Free Choice 2008, a group including former liberal presidential candidate Irina Khakamada and Moskovskiye Novosti editor Yevgeny Kiselyov, in an attempt to hold the Central Elections Commission responsible for the alleged violations. |
|
MOSCOW- Federal investigators believe that a group of Wahhabi rebels from the North Caucasus republic of Karachayevo-Cherkessia organized the bombings of two Russian airplanes and the Rizhskaya metro station last month. |
|
MOSCOW - A parliamentary commission investigating the Beslan school hostage-taking has returned from its first trip to the scene of the tragedy and will present its findings to the State Duma in closed-doors hearing Thursday, Federation Council Speaker Sergei Mironov said Monday. |
|
Yan Travinsky, a former St. Petersburg journalist, and Marina Murakhovskaya, head of the Irkutsk regional Rodina party headquarters, were killed Monday morning in the Siberian city, the local police reported. |
|
Russia must develop responses on how to store the growing stocks of spent nuclear fuel and radioactive atomic waste at nuclear power stations, and how to defend the world from the increased threat of nuclear terrorism, a St. Petersburg conference was told Monday. |
|
Swastika Vandalism ST. PETERSBURG (SPT) - Unknown vandals desecrated a statue of Catherine the Great on the weekend, Interfax reported Monday, quoting the city police. |
|
|
|
|
Otel Biznes City Ltd. controlled by Moscow-based Metalloinvest-Market, has bought the share packages of two city hotels for a total of $6.6 million at the auction held by the city administration last week. The city auctioned off its 75 percent stake in Turist and 60 percent stake in Yuzhnaya Hotels as part of the 11 city-owned hotel packages targeted for sale. |
|
City banks and managing companies increased their efforts to introduce capital investment mechanisms to St. Petersburg residents this fall, hoping to draw their money and attention. |
|
MOSCOW - Russia and China agreed to terms for Russia's membership of the World Trade Organization (WTO) uring top-level talks in Moscow on Friday, but both sides left unanswered questions about whether Russia was ready to guarantee stable oil supplies and boost oil and gas deliveries in the future to its energy-hungry neighbor. Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao, in Moscow ahead of President Vladimir Putin's visit to Beijing next month, signed a communique with his counterpart, Mikhail Fradkov, pledging full-scale cooperation in the energy sector. Beijing has been lobbying Moscow to build a $2.5 billion pipeline to ship Siberian oil to China. |
|
 Tens of millions of elderly Russians have no hope of a decent state pension for at least the next 23 years, the head of the State Pension Fund said Saturday. |
|
MOSCOW - State-controlled companies have every right to bid for Yukos ' assets if they are sold to pay off the firm's whopping tax debt, although the government is not seeking to nationalize the company, President Vladimir Putin said Friday. "If it comes to a sell-off of ... assets ... [then] any company - including that with state capital in it - can certainly take part. But, I repeat, there was no, there is no and there will be no plan for [Yukos'] nationalization or the state assuming control of it," Putin told journalists in Moscow. Yukos is facing a sell-off of its key production unit Yuganskneftegaz, which produces about two-thirds of the company's total output. |
|
 The Project Financing Company (PFC) has filed a project to build a modern replica of Fish Village in Kaliningrad city center that was wiped off the face of the earth during World War II bombing raids. |
 The secrets of building strong, modern companies are being passed on to Russian citizens attending the Japan Center in St. Petersburg, says its director Hiroshi Yamamoto. The teaching and advice the center offers, alongside information about modern and historical Japan could be just the boost any ambitious, forward-thinking Russian company needs. |
|
MOSCOW - Moody's Interfax Rating Agency has confirmed its long-term credit rating for St Petersburg on the national scale at Aa2 (rus) scale - a very high level of creditworthiness - and the short-term rating at RUS-1 - that signifies an exceptionally high level of creditworthiness. |
|
MOSCOW - The country's stocks rose Friday, lifting the Moscow Interbank Currency Exchange Index to its longest weekly advance in at least three years. The MICEX Index added 0.4 percent to 589.72 with 11 shares rising and seven falling. The dollar-denominated Russian Trading System Index increased 0. |
|
Russia's Reserves Grow MOSCOW (Interfax) - Russia's gold and foreign-exchange reserves are expected to top $100 million this year, Alexei Ulyukayev, the CB's first deputy chairman, told the Brunswick UBS investment conference. |
|
|
|
|
The series of terrorist acts culminating in the gruesome massacre of hundreds of innocent children, parents and teachers in Beslan proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that Russia today is the weakest link in the war on radical Islamic-inspired terrorism. |
|
The St. Petersburg city government is starting the latest in a series of economic reforms. This time the reform is of the system of fees for all possible services. |
|
The Deceivers How many times must the truth be told before it conquers the lies? Again and again, the brutal realities behind the rape of Iraq - that it was planned years ago, that the aggressors knew full well that their justifications for war were false and that their invasion would lead to chaos, ruin and unbridled terror - have been exposed by the very words and documents of the invaders themselves. |
|
|
|
|
Jeanne Wreaks Havoc HUTCHINSON ISLAND, Florida - Jeanne, Florida's fourth hurricane in six weeks, piled on destruction in already ravaged areas Sunday, slicing across the state with howling wind that rocketed debris from earlier storms and torrents of rain that turned streets into rivers. The storm peeled the roofs off buildings, toppled lamp posts, destroyed a deserted community center in Jensen Beach and flooded some bridges from the mainland to the Atlantic coast's barrier islands. |
Temp: -2°C overcast 
Issues Archive