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All real estate deals in St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Oblast are in danger of becoming stalled by bureaucracy from Jan. 1 when the city's and the oblast's property registers are united, real estate operators and lawyers said Monday. The Justice Ministry ordered the unification late this month. Additional staff have not been employed, nor have new documentation been prepared or a new chief been appointed to head the regional bureau. "Real estate deals will get stuck," said Natalya Yemuranova, a member of the St. Petersburg Collegium of Lawyers who chaired a round table on security issues at the American Chamber of Commerce on Monday. |
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 Worried that a mid-air collision with a plane will have fatal consequences, airports throughout the world consider birds enemies. But some birds can be friends. |
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Corruption in Russia, or any of its regions, including St. Petersburg, could be eliminated within just one year if there is enough political will, said lawmaker Andrei Chernykh Monday. "When I say political will, I mean not only politicians, but also police officers, judges, journalists and ordinary citizens," he said. |
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Albert Charkin was last week re-elected as rector of the St. Petersburg Academy of Fine Arts, which has been through major staff reshuffles over the past six months. |
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Defense lawyers at the trial of seven suspects accused of the 1998 slaying of Galina Starovoitova on Monday cast doubt on the evidence of Ruslan Linkov, the deputy's assistant who was injured in her assassination. But lawyers for the prosecution say the accused are grasping at straws to drag out the hearing. |
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MOSCOW - When the anchorwoman for Ukraine's state-owned television station UT-1 reported Thursday morning that Viktor Yanukovych had officially been declared the winner of the presidential election, Natalya Dmitruk staged a silent protest. |
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MOSCOW - A group of prominent Russian scientists have expressed their support for convicted physicist Valentin Danilov, who was sentenced to 14 years in jail on treason charges and demanded a detailed and public reinvestigation of the case. Deputy Prosecutor General Vladimir Kolesnikov backed the sentence, saying that Danilov's conviction will serve as a warning to other scientists. |
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MOSCOW - The country is all but assured of getting a 10-day break during the upcoming New Year holiday after the State Duma last week approved a bill changing holidays. |
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MOSCOW - The last remnant of Vladimir Gusinsky's once-mighty media empire, weekly news magazine Yezhenedelny Zhurnal, printed its last issue last week. "Yezhenedelny Zhurnal is ceasing its existence as a paper publication and is going online," editor Mikhail Berger wrote in the last issue, which hit newsstands last Tuesday. |
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Smoking Restrictions MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Federation Council approved a bill Wednesday to restrict smoking in public places. Senators voted 90-19 in favor of the bill, which now goes to President Vladimir Putin for his approval. |
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As foreign brewers seek larger shares in a Russian beer market that producers and experts claim is still far from saturated, St. Petersburg brewers have begun production of at least two major foreign beer brands this month. The mid-November launch of Scottish & Newcastle's Kronenbourg 1664 brand, brewed by Vena, has been followed by Foster's lager, produced by Baltika Brewers under license from Australian drinks company Foster's Group Ltd. |
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St. Petersburg enterprises need to "step up and volunteer for business," said heads of large international firms operating manufacturing plants in the region on Friday. |
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Retail Turnover Rises ST. PETERSBURG (SPT) - St. Petersburg's retail turnover reached 195 billion rubles in the first 10 months of the year, up on last year's 160 billion ruble ($5.7 billion) turnover, an official said. "According to our committee estimates, turnover of retail goods will be 20 percent higher than last year's figure," said Nikolai Arkhipov, deputy chair of economic policy, industry and trade committee. |
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The government said Friday that it had approved a request by European aero-space giant EADS to buy up to 10 percent of fighter jet manufacturer Irkut. "EADS has appealed to buy between 5 and 10 percent [of Irkut]. |
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MOSCOW - The State Duma continued its crackdown on beer drinking Friday, unanimously approving a tougher version of a ban on public beer sales and consumption that the Federation Council rejected earlier this month for being too soft. The Duma voted 437 to zero in favor of the bill after a 20-member conciliatory committee of lawmakers from both houses agreed to add public transportation and cultural and sports buildings to the list of places where beer sales and consumption will be banned. Medical, educational and youth organizations were already on that list. The authors of the bill say the new restrictions, together with others that were passed recently, will help combat teenage alcoholism. |
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 MOSCOW - The country's residential real estate market might be showing signs of beginning to plateau, but the under-supplied industrial real estate sector remains hot. |
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MOSCOW - Whether it's dialing up pop tunes or swapping nude photos, Russians are paying ever-increasing amounts to enjoy the latest in mobile phone services. The market for messaging, SMS games and other wireless content will triple this year to more than $300 million and shows no signs of slowing, leading mobile market consulting firm J'son & Partners said in a report on the industry released Wednesday. "Wireless content services could reach $1 billion in market revenue over the next two years," providing Russia's record economic expansion continues as expected, J'son & Partners analyst Dmitry Martemyanov said. Companies looking to enter the market to cash in on the boom had better hurry, though, because the window of opportunity is closing fast, Martemyanov said. |
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 Since Ralf Eppeneder signed his contract with Goethe Institute in Munich in 1982, this respected international cultural organization has been ushering him around from Lima to Munich to Melbourne to St. |
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The authors of the 2005 federal budget low-balled the projected revenue figure in order to ensure that the government would receive a windfall in excess of that figure that could then be allocated quickly - and therefore even less transparently than usual. |
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What is the current situation over the new Russian Customs Code (entered in January 2004; with an amendment in October 2004)? And how have this year's changes affected foreign trade participants? While goods customs valuation methods (stated in the Law on Customs Tariffs) have not changed since the introduction of this year's legislation, alterations were made to the monitoring of valuation and the procedure for presenting additional supporting documents. |
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MOSCOW - Oleg Vyugin, the head of the Federal Service for Financial Markets, secured government approval Thursday for ambitious plans to make the country's financial markets bigger, better-run and less corrupt. Vyugin told the Cabinet that Russian companies are increasingly going abroad- primarily to London-to borrow money and sell shares because domestic markets have too few instruments, are poorly regulated and behind the times. |
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A bitter campaign marked by predictions of vote fraud culminates in an election that all Western observers call seriously flawed. On election day, exit polls show the opposition candidate clearly in the lead, but the official central elections commission comes up with the reverse result. |
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One aspect of the social policy of the city is the vital necessity to re-energize budget reforms started in 2001 but not completed. The reforms were aimed at raising the efficiency of its usage. |
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There has been much throwing about of brains on the subject of George W. Bush's further lurch to the right since he limped over the election finish line with his tiny, 1 percent, fraud-marred majority. And to be sure, the wholesale purges he has instituted throughout his regime - replacing a slew of merely cringing sycophants with cringing, drooling, groveling sycophants - will indeed hasten the United States' degeneration into corpo-religious authoritarianism along the lines of Franco's Spain. |
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In response to "Zhirinovsky Moots Tunnel to Kaliningrad," an article by Galina Stolyarova on Nov. 19. Editor, If Russia was smart it would work at returning the land to the original German inhabitants who were forced to leave their land between 1945 and 1948. My ancestors lived in the area for at least 1,000 years until then. |
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New Bishop ST. POELTEN, Austria (AP) - Roman Catholic Church leaders in Austria formally installed a new bishop Sunday in a diocese rocked by the discovery of a vast cache of child pornography on computers at a seminary. Klaus Kueng, a bishop in southwestern Austria who was sent by Pope John Paul II to investigate the scandal for the Vatican, was installed as the bishop of St. |
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