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Vladimir Zhirinovsky's Liberal-Democrat Party faced a setback in gubernatorial elections in the Pskov region, which neighbors the Leningrad Oblast to the south, on Sunday. But in St. Petersburg the nationalist party is gaining in strength as lawmakers joining its faction hope that this will help them get re-elected to the city parliament in 2006. |
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The first billboard greeting visitors at the arrivals at the St. Petersburg's Pulkovo airport welcomes them to Marlboro country. This is just one example illustrating the lack of vision in how Russia's northern capital is mismarketed. |
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MOSCOW - President Vladimir Putin on Monday said Russia is willing to hand over two of the four disputed Kuril Islands to Japan under a declaration that the Soviet Union signed in 1956. Putin has made the offer before, and there is no sign that Japan might accept it. But Putin's latest remarks, which came a day after Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov made similar comments, suggest the Kremlin is undertaking a new push to reach a compromise over the islands, which the Soviet Union seized from Japan at the end of World War II. |
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Governor Valentina Matviyenko is ready to wipe out a $25 million debt owed to the city budget by the joint-stock company Ice Palace, the hockey arena built in St. Petersburg for the World Hockey Championship in 2000 and owned by City Hall, Legislative Assembly representatives said Friday. |
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The cross from one of Russia's most significant churches - Novgorod's Sophia Cathedral - taken to Spain during the Second World War, will return to Russia on Tuesday. |
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Baku Mission to Open ST. PETERSBURG (SPT) - A Consulate General of Azerbaijan will be opened in St. Petersburg, RIA-Novosti quoted Governor Valentina Matviyenko saying Friday after her return from visits to Azerbaijan and Iran. "Azerbaijan's consulate general will be opened in St. Petersburg because about 200,000 Azeris live in the city," she said. Opening an Iranian consulate in St. Petersburg is being considered, she added. A consultative council for national issues and a working group for the tolerance program have been formed under St. Petersburg's government, she added. Foreigner Attacked ST. PETERSBURG (SPT) - A Chinese man was hospitalized after unidentified attackers beat him, breaking his nose in the St. |
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 MOSCOW - With a mix of armchair quarterbacking and unusual cause and effect arguments, officials at a Cabinet meeting last week supported handing control of sports federations over to government officials as a way to recapture the glory of the vaunted Soviet sports machine. |
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Negotiations on St. Petersburg metro builders building metro lines in Iran will be held next month, RIA-Novosti quoted Governor Valentina Matviyenko as saying Friday after she visited Iran last week. "In Iran, we talked about the designing of two new metro lines in Teheran," she said. |
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Smoking Ban Passed MOSCOW (AP) - The State Duma approved legislation Friday to prohibit smoking in workplaces, on public transport and in certain public areas. |
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MOSCOW - Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat found a strong ally in a Soviet leadership intent on undermining the West and pleased with his profuse gratitude for its support, but the Soviet collapse and Russia's shifting priorities led to an unbridgeable gulf. |
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Protesters left the Karachayevo-Cher-kessia government building early Thursday after overnight negotiations with Kremlin envoy Dmitry Kozak, but tensions continued to simmer over seven slayings linked to the son-in-law of the republic's president, Mustafa Batdyev. |
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MOSCOW - The State Duma on Wednesday approved a Kremlin-backed bill requiring political parties to have 50,000 registered members, an increase from 10,000. By a vote of 360 to 62, with two abstentions, deputies gave a first reading to the bill, which was sponsored by the pro-Kremlin United Russia majority, the nationalist Rodina and the ultranationalist Liberal Democratic Party factions. |
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MOSCOW - IT and Communications Minister Leonid Reiman has denied reports that he received financial gain from a trust fund that until 2003 held the shares of Telekominvest, a major shareholder of No. 3 mobile provider MegaFon. Reiman also accused Alfa Group of using oligarchic tactics to achieve its goals by mentioning his name. |
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MOSCOW - He may be banned from Western Europe and the United States because of his human rights record, but that does not mean Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko can't travel in style. |
 About 80 cars are towed off St. Petersburg streets daily due to parking violations. The increasing activity of tow-away companies has been due to the fact that a tender on car-towing services for the city is expected to take place by the end of the year. |
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A temporary ban on German plant and flower imports to St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Oblast went into effect Monday after a pest was discovered in a German shipment of flowers, the Agriculture Ministry said. |
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As the computer novelties market expands, several nifty innovations are planned to bring technological joy to all, including toddlers, in the near future. LIVING IN A DIGITAL HOME Intel corporation is getting ready to present a new platform for the so-called "digital home". |
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Standard and Poor's rating agency named Russian telecommunications sector as having the most potential for a ratings raise, as investors are readying for the privatization of the country's major fixed-line communications operator. |
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Leading mobile phone operators are vowing to concentrate more on image advertising than tariffs in order to maintain customer loyalty. Also, with St. Petersburg and Moscow markets being near-saturated (70-90 percent), operators will switch to increased advertising in the regions to follow up on their regional expansion. |
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The past few months St. Petersburg's software outsourcing industry has seen tremendous growth, with large multi-national and Russian companies opening branches in the city. |
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In my career as a strategist with various local financial institutions, since shortly after the 1998 financial crisis, I have repeatedly - some would say tediously - argued that Russia was finally turning the corner. Its economic edifice was being rationalized, its political structure consolidated and, given the more rational use of Russia's huge mineral, human and technological resources, intrepid investors would inevitably be richly rewarded. |
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President Vladimir Putin has enthusiastically welcomed the re-election of U.S. President George W. Bush, as has much of Moscow's political elite. Putin has made clear that he believes that the decision of the U. |
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It looks as if we will soon see noticeable progress in the reform of communal housing services. Governor Valentina Matviyenko's team of reformers are now preparing the ground for this. The moment of truth will come in the first week of 2005. And the probability of success is very high. |
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We said it here over and over, going back to 2003: If the U.S. presidential election was close enough to be gamed, it damn sure would be gamed. And the chunks of evidence now rolling in - like so many cracked shells of fact in a high tide of pompous drivel - increasingly indicate that millions of votes were indeed monkeyed with on the way to amassing George W. |
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MOSCOW - In an apparent attempt to boost Kremlin control over civil society, President Vladimir Putin has dissolved the Human Rights Commission and replaced it with the Council for Developing Civil Society Institutions and Human Rights. Commission head Ella Pamfilova has been appointed to lead the new council, while Kremlin-connected political analysts and prominent human rights figures are among its members. |
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Ivory Coast Embargo ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) - African leaders backed an arms embargo and other immediate UN sanctions against Ivory Coast on Sunday, isolating President Laurent Gbagbo's hard-line government even further in its deadly confrontation with its former colonial ruler, France. |
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Loko Take Title MOSCOW (Reuters) - Lokomotiv Moscow clinched the Russian national soccer title on the final day of the Premier League season with a 2-0 win at Shinnik Yaroslavl last week. |
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