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 Pensioner Lidiya Tumasova, who is fighting for the right to hang out her washing to dry in the attic of her apartment building, is hopes to get a positive decision from the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg soon. "Recently I met Natalya Andersen, a lawyer on civil cases at the international defense center, in Moscow," Tumasova said in an interview last week. |
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MOSCOW - Moscow police chief Vladimir Pronin denied Friday criticizing an investigation into the beating to death of a man said to be from near St. Petersburg who was suspected of trying to plant a car bomb in Moscow. |
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After beating Red Star Belgrade 2-1 in the second leg of the first round of the UEFA Cup, eliminating the 1990/91 European champions 6-1 on aggregate, FC Zenit is entering the most successful period of its recent history. St. Petersburg's soccer team drew with FC Amkar Perm 0-0 on Monday to become equal top of the 16-member Russian Premier League. |
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St. Petersburg Nobel Prize laureate Zhores Alfyorov has condemned a government proposal to privatize some of the state's cash-strapped scientific and research organizations. The Education and Science Ministry has developed a plan called the National Concept of Participation in Managing State Scientific and Research Organizations. |
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About 100 people took part in a protest against irresponsible government and a looming sense of dictatorship in the central city on Saturday. Organized by the Civil Action group, the protest featured members of the democratic movement of 1980s and 1990s, including representatives of Yabloko and Union of Right Forces parties, the Memorial human rights organization and the group Conscience, which supports businessman Mikhail Khodorkovsky. |
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MOSCOW - U.S. President George W. Bush and his Democratic challenger, Senator John Kerry, expressed concern in their first debate that President Vladimir Putin is rolling back democratic reforms-but the criticism received little coverage in Russia. Kerry offered the more critical assessment of Putin's decision to scrap popular elections for governors and individual races for the State Duma as part of Russia's war on terror. |
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Bridge Design Contest ST. PETERSBURG (SPT) - The British Consulate General in St. Petersburg, City Hall's town planning and architecture committee and the St. |
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MOSCOW - President Vladimir Putin will be able to hire and fire regional leaders and disband regional legislatures that reject his nominees more than once, according to a Kremlin-sponsored bill submitted to the State Duma this week. In interviews published Wednesday, officials in Putin's retinue sought to talk up the bill, which scraps the popular vote for regional leaders and is a key plank in Putin's plan to strengthen the executive chain of command in response to the latest terrorist attacks. |
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In a move to further strengthen the Kremlin's grip, the Federation Council has drafted a bill that would blur the line between the separation of the judicial and executive branches of power by putting the judiciary system under the control of the Kremlin. |
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MOSCOW - The delay in appointing a replacement for Izvestia editor Raf Shakirov, who resigned after criticism of the newspaper's coverage of the Beslan crisis, is likely due to a dearth of candidates who are qualified and loyal to the Kremlin, lawmakers and analysts said. Izvestia publisher Prof-Media, which is owned by billionaire Vladimir Potanin, said after Shakirov's resignation on Sept. |
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 Traditional Russian honey-based alcoholic beverages are being revived in St. Petersburg with the Institute of Honey-Brewing (Institute Medovareniya) which has started a new production of mead and apple cider, and is planning to launch other almost forgotten strong alcoholic drinks, such as shibach and medvyack. |
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Russia is well on the way to emerging as Finland's number one trading partner as the country's economy modernizes and diversifies, according to Pekka Sutela, the director of Bank of Finland's department for periods of economic transitions. |
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MOSCOW - Russia needs to take better care of its image abroad if it wants to compete for foreign investment with other developing countries like China and India, senior executives from leading multinationals said last week. The government should figure out how to bring its often negative image into line with the more positive reality of doing business in Russia, said a number of members of the Foreign Investment Advisory Committee. FIAC is a forum that for the past decade has been bringing together government officials with the leaders of 25 large, long-standing investors, including BP, Nestle, ExxonMobil and Deutsche Bank. "Other regions of the world, China especially, have become favored destinations for investment," said Jim Turley, chairman of Ernst & Young Global, who co-chairs FIAC with Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov. |
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 MOSCOW - Legendary fighter jet maker MiG will merge with rival Sukhoi manufacturer Irkut, a top government official said Friday. "MiG and Irkut will form an ideal structure and that is what we want," Federal Industry Agency chief Boris Alyoshin said as he presented Irkut CEO Alexei Fyodorov as MiG's new chief executive. |
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IBC and Inco Merge ST. PETERSBURG (SPT) - The International Business Club Corp., (IBC) and Inko, two leading distributors of frozen and ready-made food products in St. Petersburg and Moscow, have announced a merger deal. The merger will serve to develop distribution in the regions and create a company that would be a leader in the distribution of frozen food on the Russian market, IBC's press release said. IBC has been the Russian distributor for Talosto, Nestle, Darya and other brands, as well as the dealer for Petrokholod and Khladcombinat No. 1. The company also owns the Maestro di Mare seafood and Fritoshka french fries brands. Heineken Buys Sobol DUBLIN (Bloomberg) - Heineken, the world's No. |
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 Having worked for PricewaterhouseCoopers for 25 years, Tony Antoniou, a partner and business practice leader at the accounting firm, now opts to take life at a slower pace and enjoys spending time in the two cities he calls home - London and St. |
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President Vladimir Putin's proposals to take full control over the appointment of regional leaders and to eliminate independent voices from the State Duma have yet to receive final approval. But the Kremlin has already made its move against the third, ostensibly separate branch of government, the judiciary. |
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With HIV infection rates in Ukraine doubling every year for the past 3 years and prevalence already tipping 1 percent among the adult population, the monthly incidence is now one of the highest in the European region. |
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The SMS, or Short Message Service, message represents a special kind of interpersonal communication - the exchange of short texts via mobile telephones. This form of communication is undergoing a worldwide boom. The number of SMS messages sent has increased 20 times in the last two years and is now running at close to 20 billion messages a month, almost equal to the number of telephone conversations. |
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The Barbarians Here's a direct quote from the campaign trail: "Vote for the president-or we'll burn your house down!" Ah yes, democracy in action, Bush-style - ya gotta love it! As it happens, this particular manifestation of the Bushist Party's peculiar notion of free elections comes not from the White House - whose court-appointed denizens have thus far confined themselves to mild, civilized declarations that anybody who opposes them is a godless, baby-killing traitor in league with Satanic terrorists. |
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Parole for Beatle Killer? NEW YORK (AFP) - Mark Chapman, the man who gunned down John Lennon in New York, could be released from jail this week - a prospect that has drawn protests and even threats against his life from the former Beatle's fans. |
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Maria Sharapova and Yelena Dementyeva both won titles Sunday, further underlining Russia's dominance over the women's game. In Seoul, South Korea, Wimbledon champion Sharapova trounced Marta Domachowska 6-1, 6-1 to win the Korea Open. |
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