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With less then three months to go before a new round of municipal elections in December, Mikhail Amosov, head of the Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly, has accused the city election commission and the city prosecutor's office of acting in favor of the Kremlin-loyalist party United Russia. |
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MOSCOW - The Cabinet approved ratification of the Kyoto Protocol on Thurday, making international implementation of one of the most far-reaching and controversial environmental initiatives a near certainty. |
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Tired of the feckless performance of its national soccer team, Russia can be proud to be world champion in another form of the game - simulation soccer. The St. Petersburg team won the world RoboCup championship in the simulation soccer league in Portugal this summer and says their victory indicated Russia's good results in developments of artificial intelligence or AI. |
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Several ships sounded their foghorns in the port of St. Petersburg at noon on Thursday in support of an international protest against a U.S. requirement for civilian sailors to obtain visas if they want to go ashore in the United States. |
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Residents found 50 kilograms of high-explosive TNT, a rusty hand grenade and a shell in the yard of a residential building at 2/17 Sredneokhtinsky Prospekt, the Agency for Journalistic Investigations reported Thursday. The explosives were discovered in the yard of a district license issuing office after local residents noticed suspicious items in the garbage, the report said. |
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Reburial Rescheduled ST. PETERSBURG (SPT) - The date for reburying the remains of Tsarina Maria Fyodorovna, wife of Tsar Alexander III, had been moved from Sept. 26, 2006 to another day at the request of Russian Orthodox church because of a religious celebration of the Day to Install Cross of the Lord, Interfax reported Wednesday, quoting the federal heraldic commission. "The event will start in Denmark on Sept. 26, but the ceremony itself will be continued after the church celebration is finished," Interfax cited Ivan Artsishevsky, head of the heraldic commission, as saying. The reburial will be in the Peter and Paul Cathedral. Child Sex Cases Rising ST. |
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 The Finnish Consulate General has moved into newly built premises at 4 Preobrazhenskaya Ploshchad. The consulate's visa department closed Thursday and will resume its work on Monday in the 18-million-euro building. |
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Yury Shutov, a former Legislative Assembly lawmaker who has been in pre-trial detention since 1999 on suspicion of organizing the contract killings of prominent people, is too ill to stand trial, his lawyers say. Shutov, a onetime ally of former governor Vladimir Yakovlev, has epileptic seizures several times a day, and has had them during court hearings, the lawyers said. |
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 Société Générale, a leading French bank, will open three branches in the city by the end of 2005, said the general director of Societe General Vostok (East), Michel Briku, at the Wednesday opening of the bank's first St. Petersburg branch. Though present in Russia since 1973, making it the oldest foreign bank in the country, Société Générale has been slow in expanding its activities. |
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 St. Petersburg administration offered a new mechanism to prevent unethical advertising in the city. Head of St. Petersburg's Mass Media Committee, Alla Manilova, suggested that the City Advertisement Placing Center or CAPC should not continue or sign a contract with a company that abused Anti-Monopoly Policy legislation by allowing unethical ads to run for the second time. |
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Supermarket chain Paterson plans to double its presence in St. Petersburg in the next year, said Paterson St. Petersburg director, Vladimir Prokhorenko at a news conference Tuesday. The chain, which operates eight stores in the city, will open two more by the end of this year, one on Vasilevsky island, the other by Narskaya underground station. |
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In the country's biggest-ever privatization auction Wednesday, ConocoPhillips paid nearly $2 billion for a 7.59 percent stake in LUKoil, sealing a strategic alliance between the oil majors and revitalizing energy ties between Russia and the United States. |
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The State Duma gave preliminary approval Wednesday to the government's draft budget for 2005, which envisages a surplus fueled by high oil prices for a fifth straight year. In a 339-96 vote, with four abstentions, lawmakers in the 450-seat Duma passed the draft budget in the first of four readings. |
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Meat Ban Continues SAO PAULO, Brazil (Reuters) - Efforts to end Russia's ban on Brazilian meat imports after an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in the Amazon this month have stalled, Agriculture Minister Roberto Rodrigues said Tuesday. |
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The rapidly approaching U.S. presidential election has given rise to discussions about who would be better for Russia-George W. Bush or John Kerry. These conversations are not the result of an unlucky twist of fate that has made Russia critically dependent upon the United States. |
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Another journalist from St. Petersburg was killed this week, the second this year. The first was Maxim Maximov, who officially went missing in the end of June. |
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 The Mariinsky theater, which opens its 2004-2005 season on Thursday, Oct. 7th with Glinka's "A Life For The Tsar," has tailored the forthcoming musical year for its female operatic stars. One of the brightest, celebrated mezzo-soprano Olga Borodina, will sing Lyubasha in a new production of Rimsky-Korsakov's "The Tsar's Bride," which premieres in December. |
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Night of Music, the annual one-day festival promoted by Radio Baltika, will take place on Friday. The concept of the festival is to hold a number of free concerts at a number of venues on the same day and, some of them, at the same time. |
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Black Cat White Cat, the new Serbian restaurant just east of the Summer Garden, is a bit of a contradiction: simple, unpretentious yet stylish presentation; hearty, healthy yet hardly oppressive taste. Picture barbecue in a trendy New York bar; candles and brussel sprouts; neon lights and a pig roasting on a spit. |
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 The Earlymusic Festival wraps up Sunday with a concert of distinguished French ensemble L'Arpeggiata, one of the most highly acclaimed baroque ensembles in Europe (pictured). L'Arpeggiata's performances are frequently aimed at bridging baroque music with the traditional repertoire and unveiling lesser-known masterpieces of French, Italian and Neapolitan baroque music. L'Arpeggiata gives its only local concert Sunday, Oct. |
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 There are a lot of museums in St. Petersburg, but few receive many visitors, let alone visitors from overseas. But for several years one of the most engaging and promising attempts to solving the problem of low visitor numbers has been the "Contemporary Art in the Traditional Museum" festival. |
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The Ludwig Museum and State Russian Museum in St Petersburg are collaborating with the Kunsthalle of Bonn to show modern German art in all its current directions in an exhibition showing at the Marble Palace, Actionbutton, until Nov. 16. From the Federal Republic of Germany's collection of over 1,100 works of post-war art (mostly from after 1949), around 100 works by 34 living German artists are on display with the majority of these works having been added to the collection between 2000 and 2002. The works of young artists are presented together with the works of their teachers - the famous German masters of the 20th century - and it is curious to see where the older generation ends and the young artists begin. |
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 "Where's Helsinki?" "Helsinki is in Finland." This brief dialogue of two geography buffs opens the rapping "Helsinki Rock City," possibly the best-known song by Giant Robot, a leading Finnish indie band performing in St. |
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Spitalul de Urgenta, a band from Romania that effectively combines Balkan folk wedding and drinking songs with western rock and punk, was doomed to be a hit in Russia, where Emir Kusturica and Goran Bregovic are still all the rage. After packing Moscow art and rock clubs on its first Russian tour in February, the band, whose best-known song is called "Long Live Beer," will make its debut in St. |
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BRIGHTON, England - British Prime Minister Tony Blair said Wednesday he was ready to open up contact with captors of a British hostage in Iraq, shown on video begging Blair to save his life. Kenneth Bigley, 62, appeared on the tape chained and squatting in a cage, pleading to the prime minister for help while accusing him of lying over the hostage crisis. |
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Koreans Enter Embassy BEIJING (Reuters) - A group of 44 North Korean asylum seekers used makeshift ladders to scale the fence and leap into the Canadian embassy in Beijing on Wednesday, officials said. |
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