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 August, 7, 2004 London - Moscow, ICQ: 23:34 Serge: In the morning I was smelling the shirt that you slept in. I smelt it in the evening, too. 23:34 Squirrel: You are a maniac! Aren't you ashamed? So, does it smell like me yet? "You attract me: sly, gentle, obedient, self-willed. |
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KIEV - Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko has tapped liberal politician Boris Nemtsov, an old friend who stood at his side during the Orange Revolution, as an adviser to help boost Russian investment and mend ties with Russia. |
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Two political rallies, one in favor of and the other against the replacement of in-kind benefits with cash, took place in St. Petersburg on Saturday with a total of up to 12,000 people taking part. Those in favor met in front of the Theater of Young Spectators (TYuZ) and those against on Lenin Square. |
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Two criminally insane patients at a mental hospital on Arsenalnya Ulitsa took a nurse hostage early Sunday morning and demanding to be taken to Nikolsky Cathedral where they would pray and for them to be shown on television, local media reported Monday. |
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Complaint Over Paper ST. PETERSBURG (SPT) - Local human rights advocates have filed a complaint to the city prosecutor's office, demand that it examine material published by nationalist newspaper Za Russkoye Delo, or For the Russian Cause, which allegedly incites national hatred, Interfax reported Friday quoting Citizen's Watch, a local human rights organization. |
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MOSCOW - Former Chechen rebel Vice President Vakha Arsanov was detained in Grozny last month, a Chechen rebel web site and Interfax confirmed Friday. The web site said he was being tortured in an unofficial prison run by Deputy Prime Minister Ramzan Kadyrov's security forces. Kommersant, citing a senior FSB official in Chechnya, reported on Jan. 17 that Arsanov had been detained by Chechen OMON commandos. But the Chechen Interior Ministry, to which the OMON reports, denied any knowledge of it at the time, and the ministry's chief of staff described the newspaper report as "conjecture." Rebel web site Kavkaz Center said Friday that Arsanov was detained in mid-January and transferred to the prison in the Kadyrov clan's home village of Tsentoroi. |
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 MOSCOW - In the five years since former KGB spy Vladimir Putin assumed power, the number of Russian spies has swelled to meet or exceed Cold War levels in the United States and Germany, according to Western media reports and a former KGB agent in London. |
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MOSCOW - The government plans to issue a warning to Kommersant for violating an anti-extremism law by publishing an interview with Chechen rebel leader Aslan Maskhadov, a government spokesman said Wednesday. Under the law, the government may ask a court to close a publication after two warnings in a one-year period. |
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MOSCOW - It was a clear September night when Yevhen Chervonenko left presidential hopeful Viktor Yushchenko healthy and in good spirits ahead of a secret meeting at a dacha near Kiev. |
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St. Petersburg-based ketchup and condiments producer Petrosoyuz said Monday the company will open a new manufacturing plant in the Leningrad Oblast next month. The expansion comes on the heels of last week's announcement by Petrosoyuz that the company is preparing to form a joint venture with a large Western manufacturer. |
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LUKoil in Finland Deal MOSCOW (Bloomberg) - Lukoil, Russia's biggest oil producer, plans to acquire full control over Finland's gasoline and diesel fuel retailers Teboil Oy AB and Suomen Petrooli Oy. |
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Fidelity Telecom Stake MOSCOW (Bloomberg) - Fidelity Investments, the world's biggest mutual fund company, has acquired nearly 6 percent of Moscow-based Golden Telecom Inc., a provider of Internet and fixed-line phone service. Fidelity holds 1. |
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The Kremlin appears to have shelved Rosneft's plan to borrow $5.5 billion from a mystery company via its units, Vedomosti reported Monday, citing an unidentified official in the presidential administration. |
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Russian Hotels, a new company launched late last year, has announced ambitious plans for a chain of four-star hotels and office centers all over Russia and the CIS. Investing between $200 million and $250 million in the project, Russian Hotels wants to create a portfolio of 20 to 30 new or renovated buildings over the next three to five years - chiefly in the Russian regions and CIS capitals like Kiev, Tbililsi, Yerevan, Dushanbe and Baku. Some of the project's financing will come from metals conglomerate Basic Element, which is said to be close to the new venture. Basic Element would not comment on its relationship to Russia Hotels, nor the extent of its investment in the portfolio. |
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 Few would believe that one can base a business on promoting classical music as a way of life - and even aim for profit. One of the few, and more successful than most, is Alla Shpanskaya, founder and general director of St. |
 Four new power substations will boost St. Petersburg's electricity infrastructure and solve the problem many potential investors currently face when buying city property, officials said last week. Speaking at the unveiling of new power substation 36A, Governor Valentina Matviyenko proposed that this was the first of a series of four substations that will satisfy realtor interest by relieving the electricity shortage of businesses in the central areas. |
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Corinthia Remodels ST. PETERSBURG (SPT) - Corinthia Nevskij Palace, part of the Corinthia Hotels International group, has finally started reconstruction of its adjacent building on 55 and 59 Nevsky Prospekt, two years after it received permission to carry out the work. |
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The city has large clusters of gleaming glass buildings surrounded by expensive cars. Youthful and well-dressed workers come and go as they please. A whole new type of economy has been created where none existed before. Nearby, a large academic institution feeds the hungry technological ecosystem with the necessary brainpower. |
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The Russian federal law On insolvency (bankruptcy) stipulates four stages of bankruptcy, which at first glance may seem rather mournful: supervision, financial improvement, external management, and bankruptcy proceedings. |
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The recent announcements that Russia intends to exclude companies or groups that are not majority Russian-owned from bidding for natural resource development licenses, together with the plan to prioritize the building of a $15 billion, 4,200-kilometer pipeline to Nakhodka on the Pacific, do not make great economic sense. |
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Despite my promise last week to talk about the incomes of beneficiaries, another hot topic demands immediate attention - the conflicts between City Hall and citizens over the reform of community housing services. |
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The hoary adage that "there are none so blind as those who will not see" should be carved in stone at the National Press Club in Washington. Surely there can be no better motto for the cozy clubhouse of America's media mavens, who seem preternaturally incapable of recognizing the truth - even when it stands before them, monstrous and unavoidable, like a giant Cyclops smeared with blood. |
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In response to Bloody Sunday Recalled, a news analysis by Vladimir Kovalev on Jan. 11. Editor, Why don't these annual the world was so much worse under the tsar reports give a little more historical background? The day before the march, a gun battery fired live shots in the direction of the Imperial Family during a ceremony. |
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