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Deputies of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg, the cradle of the Russian Revolution, on Thursday voted against moves to shift the Nov. 7 holiday of the revolution's anniversary to Nov. 4. That is what has been proposed in a bill backed by the pro-Kremlin United Russia party and Vladimir Zhirinovsky's nationalistic Liberal Democrat party. |
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MOSCOW - After 15 years of assisting conscripts who suffer from hazing or wish to avoid compulsory military service, the respected Union of Soldiers' Mothers Committees is going into politics with the creation last weekend of the United People's Party of Soldiers' Mothers. |
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The freeing of Russia's serfs should be a cause for celebration, but there is little recognition of the man behind it. While Russians look back to "strong" leaders like Ivan the Terrible, Peter the Great and Catherine the Great, Tsar Liberator Alexander II does not seem to get the credit he deserves. |
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Death in Custody ST. PETERSBURG (SPT) - The City Prosecutor's Office is investigating the shooting of a suspected thief who had been detained by police, Interfax reported Friday quoting local law enforcement. |
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The frigate Shtandart, a 20th century replica of the first ship in Peter the Great's navy, celebrated its 10th anniversary Thursday by taking its friends, former crew members and builders for a sail. Boasting 28 cannons and 10 sails attached to three masts, the 30-meter-by-7-meter replica was lowered by crane onto the Neva River behind Smolny Cathedral - the same spot from which the original was launched in 1703 - in summer 1999. |
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A minor incident at the Balakovskaya nuclear power plant created widespread panic in Saratov and nearby regions, with people clearing iodine off drugstore shelves and several being rushed to the hospital with symptoms of iodine poisoning. |
 MOSCOW - Most Russian newspapers declared Russia better off with a re-elected U.S. President George W. Bush and turned to horseradish, idiots and President Vladimir Putin's friendship with Bush to argue their points. "It's in the Hat" read the headline next to a picture of Bush adjusting a cowboy hat in the popular daily Moskovsky Komsomolets. |
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MOSCOW - A former nuclear physicist voluntarily surrendered several containers containing plutonium in the eastern Siberian town of Zmeinogorsk, but local police are considering charging him with illegal possession of radioactive materials, news agencies reported last Tuesday. |
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MOSCOW - United Russia deputies are under enormous pressure from the presidential administration to approve Kremlin-backed legislation, and a senior administration official told a group of deputies last summer that they had not been popularly elected and must follow orders, United Russia Deputy Anatoly Yermolin said. |
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Naval Ships Leave MOSCOW (AP) - Two naval ships left Thursday for the Mediterranean, where they are to take part in NATO anti-terrorist patrols, the Interfax-Military News Agency reported. |
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MOSCOW - The number of terrorists who stormed the Beslan school in September may be higher than previously estimated, local officials said. Fatima Khabalova, chief of the North Ossetian parliament's information and analysis center, told Interfax on Thursday that there have been remains of adults found at the site of the ravaged Beslan school, indicating that there could have been more hostage-takers than the 32 previously estimated. |
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MOSCOW - The Prosecutor General's Office has drafted a controversial bill offering police officers immunity from prosecution if they break the law while working undercover in criminal gangs or in sting operations. |
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ST. PETERSBURG - Russia may introduce a road payment for foreign transportation companies as early as in 2005, Igor Levitin, Minister for Transport said in Moscow on Wednesday, Interfax reported. Levitin said that, in order for the road taxation system to be introduced, his agency needs to run the scheme past the State Duma. |
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Anti-Putin Rubles MOSCOW (MOSNEWS) - A judge in Kaliningrad has ordered a halt to criminal proceedings instigated after a local student stamped 100 10-ruble bills with the slogan "Russia without Putin" and circulated them. |
 St. Petersburg's Sennaya shopping mall shone as one of the front-runners at a two-day industry gathering organized by the Russian Council of Shopping Centers late last month. Reflecting the retail industry's aggressive search for new markets beyond Russia's two main cities, it was the regions, however, who made the strongest showing overall, with a Volgograd mall taking this year's award as the best retail center. |
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Retail rents on Tverskaya Ulitsa jumped as much as 40 percent over the past year, making Moscow's shopping mile the tenth most expensive street to rent retail space in Europe, a new survey has found. |
 Turkish company Ramenka marked its arrival on St. Petersburg's retail scene by opening the first of its Ramstore hypermarkets planned for the city on Monday. The 5,200 square meter store at Gulliver shopping complex is Ramenka's 29th project in a list of supermarkets, hypermarkets and shopping centers in Russia. Already, the company promised to open its next Ramstore hypermarket in a city residential area by the end of this year. |
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 Now at 23, Alexei Ushakov, better known as DJ Romeo, is a successful self-made businessman, who's turned his passion for dance music into a career. With five records to his name, his own label, and a recently opened café-club on Nevsky Prospekt, Romeo's ambitions fly still further: opening a restaurant in St. |
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MOSCOW - Yukos' core shareholder, Group Menatep, has taken the first step toward suing Russia in international courts for compensation over the massive drop in Yukos' share value since the legal onslaught against it began, Menatep director Tim Osborne said Thursday. |
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MOSCOW - Transportation ministries of Russia, Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan are entertaining plans to revive traffic on the Trans-Caucasus Railway, which was severed by a war outbreak in Abkhazia and Nagorny Karabakh. |
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The ruble rose again against the dollar late last week in very heavy trading, as the market challenged the Central Bank's resolve to cap the currency despite high oil prices and a weaker greenback, dealers said. More than $3.8 billion traded hands Thursday, 10 times more than the previous day and more than three times the daily average. |
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The actions of the of the reformers in Governor Valentina Matviyenko's team are quite chaotic. They are trying to reform every aspect of life in the city at once, which carries with it a well-known danger: trying to do everything at once you may come away empty-handed. |
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So the great American electoral agon has staggered to an end. And despite a final gurgle on the banks of the Ohio, the outcome is clear: George W. |
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Ivory Coast Turmoil ABIDJAN (AFP) - Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo appealed Monday for calm after two days of looting and violence against French nationals as France deployed reinforcements following the deaths of nine French troops in an airstrike. |
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Radcliffe Back to Form NEW YORK (SPT) - World record holder Paula Radcliffe has rebounded from her Athens Olympics traumas with a dramatic victory in the closest finish yet to the women's New York City marathon. |
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