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With New Year just a couple of weeks away, many Russian are looking to the future not with joyful anticipation of holidays or optimism, but with dread of financial instability and rising prices. "I don't feel excited about the New Year holidays because, as usual, on Jan. |
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MOSCOW - More than 1,000 liberal activists, politicians and critics of President Vladimir Putin gathered at a congress in Moscow on Sunday to oppose what they called a rollback of democracy, while elsewhere in the city a nationalist congress called for "constructive opposition" to the Kremlin and about 15,000 supporters of the Moving Together group marched through the streets in support of Putin. |
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MOSCOW - About 700 human rights activists marched through central Moscow on Friday evening to commemorate International Human Rights Day, as the Kremlin's human rights ombudsman Vladimir Lukin said the number of rights violations remains high. Called the March of Free People, protesters from a dozen organizations, including the For Human Rights movement and Memorial, marched from Nikitsky Bulvar to Pushkin Square, where a rally was held. |
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The Federal Security Service is investigating a death threat made to St. Petersburg Governor Valentina Matviyenko that was posted on the Internet by a nationalist party at the end of July, Fontanka.ru reported Saturday. The report cited Vladimir Gusev, first deputy head of the St. |
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Reprieve for Institute ST. PETERSBURG (SPT) - The Regional Press institute that had been notified by the St. Petersburg Union of Journalist that it should leave premises at 70 Nevsky Prospekt that it rents out from the organization, will stay in the building until the second half of next year, institute management said last week. |
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MOSCOW - The military conflict in Chechnya has taken a heavy toll on human rights groups and liberal political parties, which were held in high public esteem when the first war started 10 years ago Saturday but have now been relegated to the far sidelines. |
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TOMILINO, Moscow Region - Eleven-year-old Kristina has been playing violin for three years. Her eyes follow the notes on the score as she performs the Hunter's Chorus from Weber's opera "Der Freischutz. |
 MOSCOW - After President Vladimir Putin invited a Le Monde reporter to come to Moscow and be circumcised, a Kremlin press officer told the Russian press corps to ignore the remark, Andrei Kolesnikov, Kommersant's Kremlin pool reporter, said Wednesday. Fearful that the Kremlin might follow this up by calling newspaper editors, Kolesnikov said he scrambled to contact his editor, Andrei Vasilyev, and asked him to hide in a bathroom to avoid taking the call. |
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 MOSCOW - Russian teenage boys show little regard for their own well-being and are dying in higher numbers than their peers in other former Soviet republics and in Eastern Europe - aggravating a worrisome national demographic crisis, according to a recent United Nations report. |
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MOSCOW - Russian cruise missiles fitted with conventional warheads and high-precision bombs are now capable of striking terrorist bases and other targets around the world, Air Force chief of staff Boris Cheltsov told reporters last Wednesday. "Today, the long-range air forces have high-precision long-range weapons that permit us to reach terrorists in any part of the world and inflict on them the damage they deserve," he said, RIA-Novosti reported. |
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MOSCOW - Russians are the quickest to marry, but also to divorce, out of all the citizens of countries in Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, a UNICEF report has found. |
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More detailed steps need to be taken by the Chinese and Russian sides for the Chinese Quarter project to gain momentum, experts said after the project's discussion at the St. Petersburg Legislative Assembly last week. Chinese state-owned Shanghai Investment and Industrial, acting under an agreement of intentions signed during St. |
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De Beers intends to increase its Russian operations, the Financial Times reported in its Asia edition Monday. The South African diamond firm, though somewhat concerned about recent state interference in business and the infamous tax claims, has decided to up its presence in Russia. |
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MOSCOW - Nearly $10 billion was wiped off Russian stocks at the end of last week as investors continued to bail out over fears that a surprise $158 million tax claim against No. 2 mobile phone operator VimpelCom signaled a new arbitrary onslaught against private business. The RTS plummeted 5 percent for the second day in a row last Thursday, sending the benchmark index down 10 percentage points in just two days to close at 546.1. The steep decline sent it below its Jan. 1, 2004, level, reversing the rapid growth trends of recent years that have seen Russia outperform most other emerging markets. "International investors are radically changing their view of Russia," said Alexander Kim, equity strategist at Renaissance Capital. |
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 MOSCOW - Ruben Vardanyan, president of Troika Dialog Group, recently returned from Singapore where he learned that the Chinese word for "business" consists of two characters: life and meaning. |
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An urgent need to develop St. Petersburg industrial zones can be explained by the current growth in competition and a deepening of specialization in local industry. An advanced manufacturer is forced to constantly develop, hold and redouble his competitive advantages under pressure from competition. |
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Fast Food Expansion ST. PETERSBURG (SPT) - Pizza-Nord plans to open seven new KFC restaurants and several more Pizza Huts in St. Petersburg next year, the company statement said Thursday. |
 VimpelCom is the first of the 'Big Three' mobile operators to have recently opened a separate St. Petersburg and Leningrad Oblast office, and 30-year-old, Igor Zarudnyev is at its helm. Ahead of its main competitors, MegaFon and MTS, Zarudnyev, a St. Petersburg native and graduate of St. Petersburg Engineering and Economics Academy, has taken on the role of making VimpelCom's brand name, BeeLine GSM, a distinctly local, as well as a national product. |
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 Joergen Peter Weis, Danish Consul General in St. Petersburg, said that 60 percent of the consulate's work is in business. None the less, the Consulate also values visa issues and supports Danish nationals and culture. |
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More than 40 children in St. Petersburg are studying at an animation studio in Primorsky district thanks to the city's Danish partners. The studio, based at an Extra School Studies Center in the district, opened in September 2003 when the Copenhagen city government offered a unique present in the form of cartoon-making technology. |
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An exhibition featuring a special collection of design jewelry by Danish firm Georg Jensen to celebrate its 100th anniversary opened in the city's Design Gallery Bulthaup on Wednesday. |
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With next year marking 200 years since the birth of Danish author Hans Christian Andersen, Denmark's cultural institute has announced plans to increase the number of Andersen- and Denmark-related cultural events in St. Petersburg and nationally. Rikke Helms, the institute's director in St. |
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Today in Russian-Danish relations, there is one issue that clearly and immediately attacks and divides both the Russian and the Danish minds: Chechnya. |
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Relations between Russia and the EU countries are gradually slipping into the danger zone of possible conflict. Several processes are unfolding simultaneously that increase the potential for conflict on one hand and the uncertainty of the decision-making process on the other. |
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Despite the powerful administrative resources of local and federal bureaucrats in the Pskov region, their recent gubernatorial elections did not pass as merely an empty formality. |
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When the devil comes knocking on your front door, looking for a way to spread his evil inside, he won't be sporting horns and a tail. He's going to come dressed as your sweetest dream, clean as a whistle, pious, sincere. He's going to speak your lingo, ape your ways - and when he opens up his little box of poison, it's going to look like the heaven your mama sang about when she rocked you to sleep in your cradle. |
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In response to Visa-Free Cruises May End, an article by Irina Titova and City's 'Water Buses' Look for Plain Sailing, an article by Svetlana Skibinsky on Dec. 7. Editor, To read the article about visas is bad enough for the image of Russia, but even worse for the tourism business. I've managed to convince people to go to Russia and mainly St. |
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Ex-SS Officer Acquitted ROME (AP) - An Italian military court cleared a former Nazi SS officer of ordering the execution of dozens of people hiding in a monastery that sheltered Jews during World War II, a lawyer for the accused man said. The court in La Spezia on Friday acquitted 85-year-old Hermann Langer of having commanded the massacre of about 60 people at the monastery in Farneta, Tuscany, in September 1944, Langer's lawyer, Edoardo Truppa, said. |
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