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KIEV - Tens of thousands of people packed central Kiev on Monday to protest what they called a rigged presidential election, while the Kiev city council and other municipal administrations refused to recognize the official results giving Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych an insurmountable lead over opposition candidate Victor Yushchenko. The Central Elections Commission announced that Yanukovych led Yushchenko by 49.42 percent of the vote to 46.69 percent, with 99.14 percent of ballots tallied, although an exit poll released immediately after polls closed Sunday night put Yushchenko in the lead by 54 percent to 43 percent. Yushchenko called for countrywide protests over the official results, while his ally Yulia Timoshenko urged supporters to go on strike. |
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 Vladimir Zhirinovsky's bodyguards on Friday ripped open a wooden and plastic structure built by friends of slain Deputy Galina Starovoitova over her grave to keep him away. |
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The Regional Press Institute that for almost a decade has been a center for free speech has been asked to leave the premises it has rented in St. Petersburg House of Journalists for 11 years. The institute has been a venue for independent analysts, politicians, journalists and environmentalists to express their views on current events and critics of the eviction see forces that want to silence them behind the move. |
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A jury in the St. Petersburg city court found guilty all seven suspects charged with killing a five-year-old Tajik girl last year, Interfax reported Monday. |
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KIEV - Turnout at many polling stations was implausibly high. Absentee ballots were cast multiple times. Disappearing ink made ballots invalid. These are a few of the hundreds of violations reported by voters and independent observers at Ukraine's runoff election, which Western and local observers denounced Monday as fraught with fraud and abuse. |
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The city's Artillery Museum on Monday began offering visitors a chance to get their hands on the famous Kalashnikov AK-47 assault rifle. From Wednesdays to Sundays at 15. |
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MOSCOW - The investigation into the Aug. 29 bombing at Moscow's Ryzhskaya metro station has hit a snag as medical examiners said DNA tests showed the alleged suicide bomber was not Chechen resident Roza Nagayeva, whom prosecutors had previously named as the chief suspect. |
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Nuclear Waste Store MURMANSK (SPT) - Friday this week a new storage for waste from nuclear icebreakers will start being built in Murmansk, Interfax reported last week quoting regional sea shipping company. |
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MOSCOW - In an unprecedented decision that could chill bilateral relations, a London court has granted political asylum to a Russian conscript who fled hostilities in Chechnya. The Immigration Appeal Tribunal, Britain's highest judicial authority on asylum applications, decided to grant asylum to Andrei Krotov in May but only made the ruling public last week. |
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MOSCOW - A Chechen man has been detained in connection with the murder of U.S. journalist Paul Klebnikov. Musa Vakhayev, 40, a native of the Chechen town of Urus-Martan, was detained in Moscow on Thursday in connection with Klebnikov's murder, a police source told Interfax. |
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MOSCOW - The State Duma is considering a bill that would heavily restrict scenes of violence on television, but which people in the television industry warned could kill the medium. The bill, which taps into the deep-rooted perception in some circles that Western influences are eroding values, would not only prohibit television from showing Hollywood action flicks from 7 a. |
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 A total of 18 land plots for gas station construction will be auctioned off as a single lot by Smolny before the end of the year, said a city official Friday. The city expects the larger companies to make the purchase, the initial price of which will be about $5. |
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A list of companies that pay out salaries below a set minimum wage has been filed with the Leningrad Oblast authorities. Along with the list came orders to take measures to urge an increase in payments, Fontanka. |
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Toyota Nears Russia ST. PETERSBURG (SPT) - Toyota is close to making the final decision over construction of a car assembly plant in St. Petersburg, Japan's Sankei Shimbun newspaper reported on its web site Monday. The plans for such a plant in Russia foresee an output of 100,000 cars a year and a total investment of between 80 billion and 100 billion yen ($750 million -$950 million), said Sankei, informing that the plant could open in 2006. |
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MOSCOW - Yukos' main production unit, Yuganskneftegaz, will be sold at auction with a starting price of $8.65 billion, confirming investors' worst fears that the country's biggest oil exporter will be carved up. |
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MOSCOW - If the amount of money being spent on mergers and acquisitions is a gauge of political stability and the economy, Russia has something to be proud of. From a miniscule $1.694 billion in 1999, Russian and foreign investors plowed a record $19. |
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Natural gas giant Gazprom, Russia's largest taxpayer, said Friday its second-quarter net profit fell 50 percent despite higher revenues because of a surge in production taxes, wages and other costs. |
 MOSCOW - Independent Media CEO Derk Sauer and his partners bought back the 35 percent of the company that they sold to billionaire Vladimir Potanin's Prof-Media last year, both companies said Thursday. Dutch-registered Independent Media, Russia's leading magazine publisher and the parent company of The St. |
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Vimpel-Communications (operating under the Beeline GSM mobile network brand) experienced a change in the ratio of its American Depositary Receipts (ADRs) traded on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), reported the firm's press office Monday. |
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The largest collaborative project between Norway and Russia in the sphere of culture, an exhibition charting 1,000 years of the two countries' cultural, scientific and political relations, is coming to St. Petersburg in 2005. The exhibition, entitled simply "Norway-Russia" is scheduled to open in April 2005 and run until the end of June in the Russian Ethnographic Museum. |
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Some of St. Petersburg's most famous bridges have a distinctly Norwegian shine to them. Paint used to maintain their gleaming color is supplied by none other than Jotun, a Norwegian company operating in Russia since 1989. |
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Norway is one of the richest countries in the world. Its 4.5 million people enjoy a gross domestic product per capita of $42,103 against Russia's 145.3 million with a $2,384 per capita, according to the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU). Even when making the comparison more realistic by taking into account the different costs in the two countries, the comparison is $37,024 of purchasing power parity in Norway versus $7,500 in Russia, according to the EIU. Despite a huge difference in size and population - Russia has 17 million square kilometers compared to Norway's 387,000 square kilometers - the Norwegian economy is more than half the size of Russia's. |
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 Who would have thought that somebody who started his carrier by washing toilets would one day head an office of a company with a multi million-dollar turnover? But this is what exactly happened to Allan Christiansen, a Norwegian national, head of Eltek Energy in Russia, a power transmission equipment supplier. |
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While waiting at Heathrow Airport for a flight to New York recently, I got to talking with a Russian couple. With nothing but sagging U.S. dollars in my wallet, I had found Britain terribly expensive and thought I would get sympathy from Muscovites. Nothing doing. |
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Last Tuesday, City Hall approved a draft bill that lowered the purchase price of state land in the city by more than threefold in all areas suitable for construction. |
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The inferno ... is what is already here, the inferno where we live every day, that we form by being together. There are two ways to escape suffering it. The first is easy for many: Accept the inferno and become such a part of it that you can no longer see it. The second is risky and demands constant vigilance and apprehension: Seek and learn to recognize who and what, in the midst of the inferno, are not inferno, then make them endure, give them space. |
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Flight to U.S. Diverted WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An Air France flight from Paris to Washington was diverted to Maine when authorities discovered the name of one of the passengers on a U.S. no-fly list, a U.S. customs spokesman said on Sunday. Air France Flight 026 was diverted to Maine on Saturday. One passenger was taken off the flight with an expired passport and his companion voluntarily decided not to continue traveling without him, said Barry Morrissey, spokesman for U.S. Customs and Border Protection. The two men were held overnight in Bangor, Maine, and were being taken to Massachusetts to be put on a flight back to Paris, Morrissey said. |
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 The three billion fans worldwide who watched the 2004 World Cup final between Australia and England were entertained by a close match, fought hard on both sides to the finish. |
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Federer Wins Again HOUSTON, Texas (AP) - Roger Federer started the week recuperating from a torn thigh muscle and ended it with a strong hold on the No. 1 ranking. The top-seeded Federer won a record 13th straight final Sunday, beating Lleyton Hewitt 6-3 6-2 in the title match of the ATP Masters Cup. |
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