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 A group of young men attacked a Vietnamese student on a central St. Petersburg street Wednesday night, and when he ran away they chased him down and stabbed him to death. More than 100 foreign students rallied all night outside a dormitory at the Pavlov Medical Institute to protest against the savage slaying. Many said they feared for their lives. A number of dark-skinned people have been targeted in the city in recent months. |
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 It is a harmless-looking powder, but it was developed in Soviet military laboratories for secret service agents. During the Cold War, KGB agents carried little packets of the soluble powder in their inside pockets on risky foreign missions and for provocative kitchen chats on home soil. |
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City Not Crime Capital ST. PETERSBURG (SPT) - Ivan Kondrat, Deputy Prosecutor General in the Northwestern region said Thursday it is wrong to brand St. Petersburg the criminal capital of Russia, Interfax reported. "I wouldn't taint the city with a title like that," the agency quoted Kondrat as saying in a statement posted on the General Prosecutor's Office web site. |
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The Leningrad Nuclear Power Station, or LAES, is causing serious ecological danger to the Baltic Sea and surroundings, say environmentalists of Green World, an ecological organization based in Sosnovy Bor. Ecologists say tests of pine trees that grow Sosnovy Bor, a town located five kilometers from LAES, showed that "those pine trees had three times as many changes to cell development as similar trees growing 30 kilometers away from the station. |
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A new women's shelter will open January in the Fruzensky district after a $30,000 grant from the Dutch government and a $26,000 contribution from district funds, officials say. |
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Modny Desant, or "Fashion Landing Force," a festival and contest of creative pret-a-porter fashion, comes to town on Friday, Oct. 22 to create a bridge between fashion and the underground. The Metro is the festival's main theme, and the pavilion in Lenexpo, its main venue, will plunge guests into an appropriate atmosphere with escalators, ticket machines and sounds of departing trains. |
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City Population to Fall ST. PETERSBURG (SPT) - The population of St. Petersburg is decreasing by 30,000 people each year, and is expected to fall to between 3. |
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 The new edition of Code for Forests and Timber is due to be presented to the State Duma for approval at the end of the month, making it the 18th amended version of the legislature presented to the officials in the last six months. The code, which regulates the use of woodland in the country, has been heavily criticized for its lack of clarity, concrete formulation and for almost completely failing to provide any federal industry regulations, thereby leaving the issue for the regional authorities. |
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French hotel chain Concorde is stepping up its promotional campaign in St. Petersburg to attract lucrative deals offered by Russian tour companies, Oksana Krotova, the company's Russian sales representative, has said. |
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Mercedes Considers City ST. PETERSBURG (SPT) - Mercedes heavy goods vehicles could be made at a St. Petersburg factory, announced deputy head of the Committee for Economic Development, Industrial Policy and Trade, Alexander Ivannikov. Daimler-Chrystler, the maker of Mercedes, will make a decision by the end of the year whether to open a car plant in the city, Ivannikov was quoted as saying to RosBusinessConsulting. |
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MOSCOW - Corruption hits businesses harder in Russia than in almost every other country, a new survey shows. Of the 104 nations surveyed by the World Economic Forum for its annual Global Competitiveness Report, only four - Madagascar, Ukraine, Macedonia and Chad - were found to be worse than Russia when it comes to the costs crooked officials impose on companies. |
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MOSCOW - The ownership of three quarters of privately held shares in Russia's 50 largest companies is not publicly known, according to a study published Wednesday. Although transparency has improved since last year, Russian companies remain murky, Standard & Poor's concluded in its annual "Russian Transparency and Disclosure Survey. |
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Vladimir Putin's proposals to centralize power in the Kremlin even further gives an opportunity to revisit the debate between Richard Pipes and Alexander Lukin in the pages of The Moscow Times on July 6 and 21. The debate was about the reasons for Russia's turning away from democracy. |
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The city court made a bad move this week by deciding to shut the public out of the trial of seven suspects, said to be skinheads, who are charged with killing a seven-year-old Tajik Roma girl in September 2003. |
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A look back over the life and work of American artist Sheila Isham, a retrospective of whose work opened in Mikhailovsky Castle on Wednesday, shows she has traversed both the globe (she has lived in Germany, Russia, India, China, Haiti) and painting styles (abstract expressionism, figurative art, expressionism). |
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Russia is definitely not a country associated with vegetarian food. Traditional Russian food is stodgy and rich, with potatoes and meat as typical cornerstones that provide energy for surviving long, harsh winters. |
 Vanora Bennett fell in love with Russia as a child, in an English garden, over a bit of lumpfish caviar served by her mother as a birthday treat. Years later, having traveled as a journalist through Russia at the height of the post-Soviet chaos, she still remembers that first impression. "Caviar meant Russia to me, and Russia meant escape." Bennett's aptly titled book, published last year and recently released in paperback, is about dreams and obsessions. |
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 For those who have observed the astronomical growth of the global sex trade in the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe over the past 15 years, the shock of Victor Malarek's "The Natashas" is unfortunately all too familiar. |
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"And don't fuss," the man in the peaked cap and a major's insignia on his collars says, giving me a murderous look. "Don't fuss," he says brusquely again. "This is not some elected politician who has bought the votes of the public. He is a descendant of the sun. "He is the sun's descendant," the man says, experimenting with the word order and listening to the sound of words that are strange to him come out. |
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Afghan Vote Count KABUL (AFP) - Afghanistan's electoral commission has given the go-ahead Thursday for counting to begin in Saturday's disputed presidential election after charges of fraudulent multiple voting forced a delay. "Counting will begin today," an electoral official said. |
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LISBON - Portugal crushed Russia 7-1in a World Cup qualifier Wednesday as they bounced back from a humiliating draw with Liechtenstein at the weekend. Winger Cristiano Ronaldo and substitute Armando Petit both scored twice as Russia crumbled in the face of a superb Portuguese performance in the Alvalade Stadium in Lisbon. |
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The Baltika Kaliningrad soccer team attempted to fix a game against Chernomorets Novorossiisk to help avoid relegation, a Kaliningrad newspaper reported - offering a rare insight into corruption in the Russian league. Kaliningradskiye Noviye Kolesa has transcribed what it says is a series of taped telephone calls by the head of first division side Baltika Kaliningrad, Dmitry Chepel, in which he discusses a $60,000 payment to Chernomorets Novorossiisk and 12,000 rubles ($410) to a referee to secure his team's victory. |
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