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HAMBURG - President Vladimir Putin has for the first time showed his readiness to involve Germany and the European Union in the restoration of order in the wartorn Chechen republic, the German Press Agency reported Monday. In Hamburg for a two-day summit with German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, Putin said German suggestions for the troubled republic had been very carefully analyzed in Moscow, the report said. |
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Yukos warned on Monday that oil production was starting to decline after its key production unit was sold off to an unknown shell company in a government auction. |
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Exit polls showed that Sunday's municipal elections drew an average turnout of only 25 percent and that City Hall organized mass fraud so deputies loyal to it were declared elected, liberal Legislative Assembly deputies said Monday. The city election commission denied the allegations. |
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Swedish Balloon Breach MOSCOW (SPT) - An unmanned drifting balloon launched from a Swedish airforce base in Kiruna crossed Russian border without the permission of federal authorities, Intefax reported Friday quoting the air force. |
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MOSCOW- In the latest round of regional elections Sunday, United Russia-backed candidates won in Kurgan and Bryansk, but another of the party's candidates lost out to Kamchatka's incumbent Communist governor, Mikhail Mashkovtsev, in a runoff. Mashkovtsev won with 49. |
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An architectural design titled "The Window To Europe" has won a competition for the best passenger terminal for the city's seaport. The up to $500 million, 400,000-square-meter terminal is to be built on reclaimed land covering 49 hectares on the edge of Vasilevsky Island. |
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Rubens Lawsuit Mulled BERLIN (Reuters) - The German government is considering filing a lawsuit over a painting by Rubens taken from Germany by a Soviet officer after World War II that is being restored in the State Hermitage Museum. Der Spiegel magazine on Sunday cited German Culture Minister christina Weiss as saying that the painting "Tarquin and Lucretia," which hung in Potsdam's Sanssouci Palace until 1942 would be the subject of Russian-German government consultations Monday and Tuesday. |
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MOSCOW - The State Duma on Friday passed a controversial counterterrorism bill that would give security services sweeping new powers to declare a state of emergency in case of "terrorist danger" and restrict media coverage of terrorist attacks. |
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Vandals desecrated dozens of Jewish gravestones and the synagogue at St. Petersburg's main Jewish cemetery Thursday night. "Jews Get Out of the Country," "Long Live the Holocaust," "Heil Hitler," the signs written on the synagogue said. |
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As winter arrives in St. Petersburg, the city's travel companies that specialize in student exchange programs are already advising local students to start thinking about the warmth and promising opportunities of next summer. |
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MOSCOW - The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected an appeal by the Communist and Yabloko parties to invalidate the results of last December's State Duma elections, which they claimed had been distorted by biased media coverage during the campaign and vote rigging. |
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MOSCOW - When President Boris Yeltsin convened his Security Council in late 1994 to approve the deployment of troops to Chechnya, NTV television had four crews in the republic and elsewhere ready to cover the war. |
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Abductions Increase MOSCOW (SPT) - The number of Russians and foreigners reported as kidnapped crept up to 1,893 in the first 10 months of this year, police said Thursday. The number is 11 times higher than 10 years ago, Yury Demidov, a senior Interior Ministry official, said, without providing comparative figures from last year, Interfax reported. Nine victims were killed after relatives failed to follow police instructions or failed to report the abductions and tried to make ransom payments, he said. He said those kidnapped included citizens of the United States, Germany, France, Cyprus, Slovakia and Israel. FSB: St. Pete Targeted MOSCOW (AP) - Federal Security Service director Nikolai Patrushev said Thursday that authorities have information about planned terrorist attacks in St. |
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 A little girl is dancing on the stage, with the ease of a butterfly gliding from flower to flower. All of a sudden the sky darkens and a huge lurking spider is slowly approaching its prey. |
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St. Petersburg administration intends to begin strict regulation of the city's taxis in order to create a "legal taxi market". The initiative comprises an accreditation program for all taxi operators and the setting up of conditions to encourage large taxi companies to invest in the sector, said Igor Mailov, deputy head of the St. |
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MOSCOW - Shares in VimpelCom plunged 20 percent Friday on reports that the country's No. 2 mobile provider was about to be charged more than $300 million in unpaid 2002 taxes. |
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Summarizing the activities of the SPIBA Legislation & Lobbying Committee in 2004, we can conclude that the Committee worked on a broad agenda addressing major problems related to business and investment in St. Petersburg and North-Western Russia, which covered tax, customs, real estate, securities, and foreign currency regulation issues highlighted by SPIBA members. |
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Baltika Brewing Company takes care of the veterans of the Great Patriotic War. Baltika Brewing Company has decided to take part in the social program of the St. |
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Ancor St. Petersburg L.L.P. . Eco Services OOO . P & O Nedlloyd . RMC CoLtd. . SEB Russian Leasing ANCOR is one of Russia's largest recruitment companies offering a wide range of HR services including Professional search and selection, Express recruitment, Large-scale projects, Outstaffing, Temporary staffing, Staff leasing, Personnel testing, assessment and audit, Salary surveys, Regional projects. |
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MOSCOW - The word "offshore" has a certain mystique to those who have never been part of it. People often suppose that investing offshore is not only a bit naughty, but must necessarily be expensive. |
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CANNES, France - Just a few years ago, Russia was way off the radar screen of most international retailers, developers and investors. But if last month's MAPIC retail exhibition in the south of France is any indication, it is now among the world's hottest locations. With more than 6,000 participants from all over the world, MAPIC is Europe's largest retail exhibition - and the number of Russian participants more than doubled from last year to some 85 companies, while the number of Russian stands also skyrocketed. "After 1998 [the financial crisis], nobody wanted to talk about Russia, but now it is the exact opposite," said Mark Stiles, managing director at Stiles & Riabokobylko, the Moscow affiliate of Cushman & Wakefield Healey & Baker. |
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 "I'm very lucky, I don't suffer from culture shock," says Tim Eagland, relaxing in front of the big screen in St. Petersburg's Vegas sports bar and casino. |
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Russia's competitive advantages in relation to other countries have not improved in the last three years and in some cases they have even deteriorated. Russia lags substantially behind its Baltic neighbors, especially Finland, which the World Economic Forum (WEF) has ranked as the second most competitive country in the world for the last two years. |
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This Sunday, President Vladimir Putin's government will realize one of its key ambitions. Gazprom will almost certainly win the auction of Yukos' main production asset, Yuganskneftegaz. |
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Industrial Output Falls MOSCOW (Bloomberg) - Industrial production fell 1.4 percent in November from the previous month, led by declining output of oil, nonferrous metals and construction materials, when adjusted for working days. It was the largest monthly decline since April. Output increased 2. |
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Even a cursory look at history shows that the breakup of major empires has not usually been a peaceful, beneficent process. The Soviet Union is perhaps the single great exception to this rule - an empire which declared itself defunct and voluntarily disbanded - neither compelled by the external pressure of crushing military defeat nor devastated by internal revolution. |
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Not long ago the heads of retail chains Lenta, O'Kei and Metro Cash & Carry were summoned by the City Hall's committee for economic development, industrial policy and trade for an educational discussion. |
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It was a largely secret operation, its true intentions masked by pious rhetoric and bogus warnings of imminent danger to the American way of life. Having gained the dazed complicity of a somnolent Congress, U.S. President George W. Bush calmly signed a death warrant for thousands upon thousands of innocent victims: a native population whose land and resources were coveted by a small group of powerful elites seeking to augment their already vast dominance by any means necessary, including mass slaughter. |
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PM Resigned BANJA LUKA, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) - The prime minister of the Bosnian Serb-run half of the country resigned Friday, a day after the U.S. government and Bosnia's top international administrator sanctioned Bosnian Serbs for failing to arrest and hand over war crimes suspects to the U. |
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FIFA Stops Female MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican second division club Celaya has been refused permission by the world governing body FIFA to field woman striker Maribel Dominguez. |
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