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 RADOFINNIKOVO, Leningrad Oblast - Villages are still healthy places to live, despite the poverty, alcoholism and unemployment, says Valery Vasilyev, 49, who was last month named the nation's best village doctor for 2004. Vasilyev, who was one of 20 doctors countrywide named as the top in their field by the Health and Social Development Ministry, said women who give birth in the village of Radofinnikovo have healthy babies. |
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MOSCOW - Yukos and Group Menatep took their battle with the Kremlin to Washington on Thursday, blasting Russia's image at a U.S. Senate hearing as a court heard a crucial challenge to Yukos' Houston bankruptcy filing. |
 MOSCOW - Less than three weeks after telling the Federal Security Service not to take sides in business disputes, Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov gave a similar warning to senior police officials Wednesday and criticized them for not doing enough to get rid of corruption in their ranks. |
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Israeli businessman Boris Suris, 33, who was kidnapped in St. Petersburg on Feb. 10, was released Tuesday night, the city prosecutor's office said Wednesday. |
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In contrast to the tradition of top officials who lose their jobs moving quietly to another post, Lyubov Andreyeva, a former federal inspector in the Novgorod region and deputy presidential envoy to the Northwest region, is contesting her firing in court. Andreyeva's dismissal took effect in November after Novgorod region governor Mikhail Prusak pressured the Northwest presidential representative's office to remove her, Andreyeva said. "The governor's office is mired in corruption," Andreyeva said last week in a telephone interview. "All the investigations that concerned members of the Novgorod region government were dropped soon after they started at the personal request of Prusak. |
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 Critics have questioned the motives of the Kremlin-loyal United Russia party, which has donated magnetic security cards to pupils at the city's school No. |
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Hotel Shows Movies ST. PETERSBURG (SPT) - Hollywood movies shown in English with Russian subtitles are set to become a weekly attraction at the Angleterre Hotel. It is the first hotel in the city to open a cinema. The screenings started Thursday and the 200-seat theater will welcome hotel residents and other guests every Thursday at 7 p. |
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The fate of a million people seems little more than a political game to the Russian authorities, and this is, I bet, exactly how the residents of the Kaliningrad exclave feel after listening for more than a decade to the Kremlin's empty promises to make their lives better. |
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The Novgorod region has succeeded in attracting $1 billion worth of investment in the last 10 years and will progress at the same tempo for the next decade, the region's governor Mikhail Prusak said Wednesday at a briefing. Several wood processing projects financed with foreign capital were launched in the region last year. |
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St. Petersburg's Legislative Assembly is to examine holding a referendum on the construction and development of a Chinatown in the Krasnoselsky district, local media reported Thursday. |
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The Leningrad Oblast's Phillip Morris plant will become the largest tobacco factory in Russia by increasing production by 40 percent in 2005, up from the 50 billion cigarettes output last year, the company said this week. The increased capacity will come from an additional 50,000 square meter facility that the company's management hopes will be finished by the end of this year, Guy Guffers, Phillip Morris' production director, said Tuesday at a news conference. |
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Tallinn Probes Bank MOSCOW (Bloomberg) - The Tallinn Stock Exchange will probe whether Swedbank AB broke information disclosure rules over its 1. |
 An unprecedented three-taste drink container developed by St. Petersburg inventor, Olga Shorokhova, may soon open new horizons to the world of drinks packaging. Shorokhova has invented a drink container that is divided into two parts, each holding a different drink. |
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A controlling stake in city-based telecom provider Peterstar was sold Wednesday by majority owner Metromedia Inc. to two European investors in a record-breaking $212 million deal. |
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MOSCOW - President Vladimir Putin's government reforms, introduced nearly one year ago, have failed to make Russia better managed and should be reviewed, a top Kremlin aide said in a newspaper interview Wednesday. "I think that the system we have now is far from being effective," Igor Shuvalov told Vedomosti in rare criticism of reforms by a Kremlin official. |
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In the run-up to the first Putin-Bush summit since George W. Bush's re-election, analysts, columnists, academics and unnamed "senior administration officials" have once again begun to frame the debate about U.S.-Russia relations as one between friends and foes of Russia. This polarization of the discussion about Russia is not only a lingering legacy of the Cold War, but also a contemporary weapon in the public relations campaign to reify division between East and West and subdue serious discussion about growing autocracy inside Russia. |
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This year, the main Oscar story for Russia has been the failure of homegrown blockbuster "Night Watch" (Nochnoi Dozor) to gain a nomination in the Foreign Language Film category. Meanwhile, a modest Moscow-set documentary has made it into the running for an Oscar without a squeak of publicity from the local media. |
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Thin Lizzy will not take part in the Heroes of Rock festival at Ice Palace this week because the band has put all its European dates on hold after a concert in Limerick, Ireland that takes place on Saturday, according to a posting on guitarist John Sykes' official web site, www. |
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With the Czech Republic known more for its beer than its cuisine, a visit to U Mushketyora (At the Musketeer's) on Admiralteisky Prospekt, between Palace Square and St. Isaac's Square, can certainly help diners discover more about Czech (along with Slovak and Hungarian) cuisine, which is filling, but not heavy, and hearty. At the Musketeer's is the third Czech pub opened by the same firm in St. Petersburg, after Gambrinus on Pervaya Sovietskaya Ulitsa and Bogemius on Naberezhnaya Makarova. The restaurant consists of two spacious rooms with a bar and a large TV-screen in one of them, heavy wooden furniture, giant metal chandeliers, and portraits of mostly French aristocrats on the walls next to Medieval weaponry - all creating the atmosphere of an old Central European tavern, welcoming its visitors with twinkling glasses and aromas from the kitchen. |
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 Like most interesting movies about sex, Closer, Mike Nichols' deft film adaptation of a well-known play by Patrick Marber, is mostly talk. There are still a few filmmakers - not all of them French - who are capable of infusing the bodily expressions of erotic desire with dramatic force and psychological meaning, but the vast majority are content with a few moments of sheet-twisting and peek-a-boo montage. |
 "Ladies and gentlemen, dames und herren! My name is Yury. I am is Russian. Tonight I offer at your precious attention new compact discs. As all of you know such quality goods in european shops cost at least zwanzigsch euro! But since I work directly from the CD factory and right from this morning we start a great advertising company, this compact disc will cost for you just tri tausend hungarishe forint! I can be stopped, asked any questions, you can look at compact laser discs and if you like - purchase them. |
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 MOSCOW - Amid the flap caused by the suit filed by religious and political activists against the "Russia 2" exhibit at the first Moscow Biennial, critical opinions are being formed about the quality of the new art on show. |
 The venerable Chekhov Moscow Art Theater (MKhAT) is swapping stages with St. Petersburg's Bolshoi Drama Theater (BDT) for an unprecedented two weeks starting Feb. 26. The respected Moscow company is bringing 17 out of 25 shows in its repertoire. The 27 performances of the troupe's biggest tour to the city in the past 30 years will be divided between the stages of Bolshoi Drama Theater and the Theater For Young Spectators (TYuZ). |
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 The Russian element at the 55th International Film Festival in Berlin, which ends Sunday, is by no means small: the country has put forward ten films, running both in the main program and the festival's satellite events. |
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Sharon Not Charged JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel's attorney general decided not to file charges against Prime Minister Ariel Sharon in a campaign funding scandal but indicted his son Thursday, the Justice Ministry said. Attorney General Menachem Mazuz closed a three-year-old investigation of Sharon, citing insufficient evidence of involvement in setting up shell companies to funnel foreign donations to his 1999 primary campaign. |
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Gretzky Pessimistic TORONTO (Reuters) - On the darkest day in NHL history following the cancellation of the 2004-05 season, hockey great Wayne Gretzky painted an even bleaker picture of the sport's future. |
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Ex-Zenit Coach Dies ST. PETERSBURG (Reuters) Former FC Zenit St. Petersburg coach and Valery Lobanovsky's long-serving assistant with the Soviet national team, Yury Morozov, has died, the Russian premier league club said on Wednesday. Morozov, who had three spells coaching the St. Petersburg side for the better part of four decades, died at his home on Tuesday night after a long battle with cancer. |
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