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MOSCOW - President Vladimir Putin on Thursday accused the West of using double standards to pressure Russia's allies in other former Soviet republics and foment velvet revolutions there, saying he wondered whether Western countries are trying to isolate Russia. |
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Estonian ferry operator Tallink has suspended its services to and from St. Petersburg that had been intended to continue year round. Citing unexpected and significant rises in port fees, it announced Wednesday that it will cease the service it began in April between St. |
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A warehouse at the New Holland complex on an island in the west of city burned last night in what NTV described as a suspicious event just days before the military were due to vacate it and hand it over to the city for redevelopment. Interfax reported that 3,000 square meters of the three-story brick warehouse, whose ownership could not be established, were on fire and that at 10:30 p. |
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St. Petersburg Governor Valentina Matviyenko may be the first regional leader to resign and invite President Vladimir Putin to nominate her for the post, newspaper Moskovsky Komsomolets said Wednesday. The move becomes possible with the new law on regional leaders coming into force on Jan. |
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Chechen prosecutors are demanding that a former St. Petersburg OMON special police officer be sent to Grozny to face questions of whether he killed civilians during a federal attack, Komsomolskaya Pravda reported Wednesday. |
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Extradition Imminent ST. PETERSBURG (SPT) - A key suspect in the trial of those accused of murdering State Duma Deputy Galina Stolyarova in 1998 will be extradited from Belgium on Friday, Interfax reported Thursday. Pavel Stekhnovsky will be extradited under a federal search warrant. He was questioned about the slaying and signed a pledge to stay in the the country, but went abroad, the report said. |
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SCHLESWIG, Germany - German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder and President Vladimir Putin announced a 1.5 billion euro ($2 billion) deal Tuesday to bring German high-speed trains to Russia. The news comes less than a week since Russia was considering proposals from the Spanish government to finance a feasibility study on the construction of a Moscow-St. |
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MOSCOW - Lashing out at the government for following unclear and inconsistent policies, two liberal ministers warned on Wednesday that economic growth is slowing down and that the Cabinet is unlikely to meet President Vladimir Putin's goal of doubling the economy by 2010. |
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MOSCOW - The management of No. 2 steel producer Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works, or MMK, appeared to take almost total control of the company Wednesday after a key rival abruptly backed out of an auction for the state's remaining 23.8 percent stake. What was expected to be a bruising battle between steel rivals had a surprisingly soft ending, as steelmaker Mechel retreated from the auction at the last minute and a company called UFGIS Structured Holding Ltd. snapped up the stake at the starting price of $790.15 million. MMK management said UFGIS represented the interests of investors linked to Magnitogorsk. Management previously controlled 58 percent of the firm. |
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 Poor sales of Jaguars in Russia have prompted the car brand's owner Ford Motors Co. to drop prices by more than 15 percent after designating a single Jaguar-Land Rover office to import the high-end cars directly from Britain, it was announced earlier this month. |
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Expecting a 50 percent increase in orders next year, Motorola announced plans to up its staff levels in St. Petersburg accordingly, putting pressure on smaller software development companies trying to retain staff. "I cannot state the volume of orders for 2005, but in terms of staff numbers, we estimate that we will need about 150 new employees next year," director of Motorola's software development center in St. |
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LUKoil Buys Baltrade ST. PETERSBURG (SPT) - LUKoil has purchased 37 Baltrade fuel stations in the city and the Leningrad Oblast, Interfax reported Wednesday. |
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Events in Ukraine have inspired most people living in the free world. Ukrainian democrats stood together in the freezing cold to demand from their government what we citizens of democracies take for granted: the right to elect their leaders in free and fair elections. |
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In the Boris Yeltsin era we lived in a more or less friendly world. Now we seem to be under threat from all sides: Islamist terrorists, international Zionism and U. |
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It's nothing new to say that the court system acts in favor of the authorities, whether it is dealing with so-called tax violations allegedly committed by Yukos management or the latest openly unconstitutional presidential initiative to take away the right of the population to elect the heads of regions. |
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Western visitors to Russia during the Holiday Season are often surprised when Dec. 25 comes - and goes - without anything actually happening. For visitors from predominantly Christian countries, this date marks Christmas Day. But Russia's unique historical circumstances have resulted in a festive calendar which is confusing to the uninitiated. |
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Leningrad will are to play its first local stadium show since May. The band's concerts are usually based on its 2003 album, "Dlya Millionov" (For Millions), and include older hits, but as a band member revealed, a few new songs will be performed this time - something that Leningrad has not done for months. |
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Triton, 67 Nab. Reki Fontanki, Tel: 310 9449. Menu in Russian and English. All major credit cards accepted except for American Express. Open daily from 12 p.m. through 2.a.m. Dinner for two with two glasses of wine: 3,520 rubles ($126) In Vienna there's a building which from the outside is just an unsightly concrete block, but within there's a breathtaking fairy tale world. |
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KIEV, Ukraine - As the citizens of Ukraine prepare to head to the polls again Sunday to most likely elect opposition candidate Viktor Yushchenko president, the most overt manifestations of what has become known as the Orange Revolution have largely disappeared from the country's capital city. The winding down of the revolution is a direct result of the fact that, in the weeks since the second round elections were first held held on Nov. |
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SKA St. Petersburg scored three goals in the third period and picked up three much needed points with a 4-1 victory over Sibir Novosibirsk in front of 3,500 people Wednesday night at the Ice Palace. Sibir, next to last in the standings, collapsed in the third period. |
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South Korea Bid SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - Pyeongchang was selected Thursday as South Korea's bidder for the 2014 Winter Olympics, winning a second chance to try for the games. |
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