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MOSCOW - Chechen rebel leader Aslan Maskhadov on Monday followed up his declaration of a cease-fire with a call for the Kremlin to start peace talks and for the international community to play a part in settling the conflict. Nothing seems likely to come from Maskhadov's appeals, but his forces still stand to gain from halting their attacks. |
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A confrontation between the Baltic States and Eastern European countries, and Russia on how the significance of the end of the World War II should be interpreted intensified last week with harsh statements made by Latvian President Vaira Vike-Freiberga. |
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MOSCOW - Alexei Barinov, a United Russia party member and former LUKoil official, won the runoff in the country's last direct gubernatorial election in the Nenets autonomous district, according to a preliminary vote count released Monday. With about 90 percent of the ballots counted in Sunday's election in this sparsely populated, oil-rich district on the Barents Sea, Barinov had 50 percent of the vote, ahead of his rival Igor Koshin, a former United Russia member, who gained 30 percent of the vote, Interfax cited local election officials as saying. |
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The government of the Komi region is to fund the release of 1,000 compact discs containing "The Virtual Museum of Gulags," an electronic collection of materials about the network of prison camps in which millions were jailed in the Soviet era. |
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Doubts have been raised over when and if a statue of World War II Allied leaders Josef Stalin, Winston Churchill, and Theodore Roosevelt will be unveiled near Yalta, a spokeswoman for sculptor Zurab Tsereteli said. "The statue is still in St. Petersburg because it needs more work," said Irina Turayeva, spokeswoman for Tsereteli, who is Russia's best known and most controversial sculptor. |
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The U.S. consulate general in St. Petersburg hopes to find a new site for its mission before August, spokesman Jeffrey Murray said Friday. The consulate is seeking a site, preferably downtown, but away from roads of about 4 hectares. |
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About two dozen protesters on Monday started what was to be a week-long demonstration against city-owned Channel 5 for ignoring other protests over benefits. Late Monday, Alla Manilova, head of City Hall's media committee, agreed to meet the protesters Tuesday in the hope that the action could be curtailed, Interfax reported. |
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A company that organizes a nationwide sports lottery, Chestnaya Igra, say its use of an image of famous Russian writer Fyodor Dostoevsky is legal. The company is being sued by the writer's great grandson, Dmitry Dostoevsky, who says the use of his ancestor's image on lottery tickets is unauthorized and insulting. |
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The Finnish Consulate General this month began issuing visas to Austria. Now businessmen or individual tourists, wanting to visit Austria, will be able to receive Schengen visas to that country from the Finnish Consulate Monday to Friday between 9 a. |
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Six people died when a fire that broke out in an old people's home for former prisoners in the town of Lodeinoye Polye in the Leningrad Oblast on Sunday. |
 Hundreds of British war veterans who served on the perilous Arctic convoys from 1941-1945, which brought essential supplies and equipment to the North Russian ports of Murmansk and Archangelsk, are looking forward to celebrating the 60th anniversary of the end of the war with Russian veterans in those ports and in St. |
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Moscow - Hundreds of people gathered at the Avtozavodskaya metro station Sunday morning to honor the memory of 41 people killed by the bomb that ripped through a metro car there exactly one year ago. |
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The Moscow Arbitration Court upheld Thursday the $79-million back tax claim against the Russian subsidiary of Japan Tobacco Inc. The case comes on the wave of increased attention from the federal tax authorities to companies that employ tax minimization schemes. |
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St. Petersburg-based Grad Telecom has launched a joint hi-tech project with Mostkom that promises to deliver wireless connections that are more suited to domestic conditions and cheaper than those offered by international companies. |
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Investment fund Delta Private Equity Partners sold its stake in entertainment network CTC Media for an estimated $40 million to an unnamed Western financial institution, the fund announced Monday. Although the buyer was said to be "a very significant, U. |
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Gold Reserves Dip MOSCOW (Bloomberg) - Russia's foreign currency and gold reserves fell to $124.9 billion two days after reaching a record $128. |
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MOSCOW - Rosneft is facing the recall of an additional $900 million guaranteed by Yuganskneftegaz this week, Group Menatep said Friday. The money is part of a Menatep loan to Yukos underpinned by a Yugansk guarantee. Already groaning under billions of dollars of debt, Rosneft was last week slapped with a demand to pay off a $540 million loan to Yugansk from a group of Western banks, who feared their money was going up in smoke amid the uncertainty of how the Yugansk purchase was made. |
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LONDON - Russia is predicting its economy will slow this year mainly because it expects oil prices to fall, Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin said Saturday. |
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MOSCOW - The privatization auction of the government's controlling stake in national telecom holding Svyazinvest will be open to foreigners and likely include long-distance monopoly Rostelecom, Deputy Economic Development and Trade Minister Andrei Sharonov said Friday. "We don't intend to impose any limitations [on foreign participation in the sale]," Sharonov told reporters in Moscow. |
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When I think of federalism, I recall the Federalist Papers and picture the political campaign waged by the authors of the U.S. Constitution. Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay argued that within the union, states could each benefit from a synergy unattainable by means of individual effort. |
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The imbroglio over the replacement of in-kind benefits with cash has revealed an extremely important problem for the country. As a result of the unsuccessful introduction of the reform, the government failed to achieve one of its main intentions - to significantly reduce expenditure on social policies. |
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Another day, another accomplice in the construction of the Bush Regime's torture chambers revealed. Nothing new there; the perp walk of top Bushists colluding in torture could stretch a mile. But the remarkable thing about the latest case is that it exposes an even greater depth of official criminality than hitherto suspected - no mean feat, given the rap sheet of this crew. |
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As more and more MBA holders flood the limited local labor market, offers from city employers are not meeting job seekers' expectations, experts say. Although MBA holders are in demand, Natalya Dyachenko, executive director of recruitment agency Boyden St. Petersburg, points out that an MBA degree has the status of a desirable - bu not essential - job requirement. "The number of schools offering this education is currently very high, so MBA degrees are not a unique feature anymore," Dyachenko said. "Employers are paying much greater attention to the quality of the degree - where it was obtained, what reputation and image the school has. |
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 The price for MBA courses has rocketed by more than 50 percent in the last two years, and current increases per term touch 20 percent on average. While analysts claim an as yet unstable MBA market, demand for business degrees drives on unrelenting. |
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Being in the right business network is key to work success, favorable career moves and discovery of new opportunities. This is especially true in a country like Russia, where "Who you know" still dominates its bespectacled sibling "What you know". And for those people who did not have the golden youth luxury of rich, well-connected parents, MBA programs open the gates to a business sphere where students can form their own elites. "When potential students are making a choice about which MBA program to go for, they are looking not only at the learning aspect. Most importantly [they look] for new connections," says Irina Moiseyenko, marketing director at the International Banking Institute. |
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 What makes foreign diplomats, BBC and Spiegel journalists and high profile businesspeople from all over Russia come to one St. Petersburg school? Bypassing prominent language centers in Moscow, many international organizations put their faith in a small school on Ligovsky Prospekt to teach Russian to their employees. |
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As well as providing bsiness education, the Stockholm School of Economics says it aims to contribute to the development of business in Russia. And recently, that has meant going into textbook publishing. "We consider book-publishing to be one of the best ways of promoting our values and ideology," said Margarita Adaeva-Datskaya, Stockholm School of Economics Russia vice-president and creator of the publishing project. |
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Why did you need an MBA in general and why did you choose a western course? At the time [1996] I was working in marketing, and business education was mainly represented by various short-term specialized courses (in marketing, finance, human resources, and so on), with which I was not satisfied. |
 You can travel in a stretch-limousine or a small two-seater - both will take you to your destination, but the driving experience is likely to differ: it's luxury versus practical make-do. Business education in Russia, when compared to its equivalent in the West, fares much the same way: apart from the name, the content and appearance are quite different. |
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The climb to the top for an entrepreneur or manager can often be thorny and tough. And completing a Master of Business Administration degree is certainly one of the thornier parts of the journey. |
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