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One morning at the end of January, St. Petersburg pensioner Lyudmila Pavlova, 56, went to the nearest branch of state-controlled Sberbank to collect her pension as she does at the end of every month, but she left empty-handed after spending 1 1/2 hours in a line to the cashier's desk. "They told me that my pension had not been transferred yet and said that it might be in my account the next day, Jan. 27," Pavlova wrote in her letter to the Legislative Assembly in February. "But my pension was not there on that day either. I asked them to sell me a discounted public transport pass, but they said they sell those only to people whose pension has arrived. |
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 St. Petersburg's Leningrad Zoo is worried its snow leopard cub Gulya, which the city administration intends to give to the city of Kazan as a 1000th anniversary present, is too weak, both physically and mentally, to make the move. |
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MOSCOW - Turetsky Gambit, (Turkish Gambit) the latest Channel One production, collected $6.5 million in ticket sales during its first week in movie theaters. Turetsky Gambit, the latest production from the domestic film industry, looks set to break all post-Soviet box office records, beating last year's homegrown blockbuster Nochnoi Dozor, or Night Watch. |
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 Relatives of the submariners who died on the Kursk say they will drop their appeal to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg if President Vladimir Putin reopens an inquiry into the disaster. Some relatives are dissatisfied with an investigation by Prosecutor General Vladimir Ustinov. |
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Controversial sculptor Zurab Tsereteli is working on a monument to victims of the Dec. 26 tsunami in Southeast Asia on that killed about 300,000 people. |
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Content provider i-Free has launched an English to Russian and vice-versa translating service for mobile phones. The service that runs via SMS messages has been developed by Prompt, a translation technologies company, to operate on all mobile phone networks as of March 1. |
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Gorelectrotrans, the city tram streetcars monopolist, was slammed with inappropriate money allocation and financial violations in a report by the city's Audit Chamber, the Legislative Assembly budget committee said Tuesday. |
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German Bosch-Siemens Hausgeraete will invest 50 million euros ($65 million) into refrigerator plant construction in St. Petersburg's new industrial zone, the company said Wednesday. The construction will start in the first quarter of 2007 on a 25-hectare land plot in the Neudorf-Strelna land development, 20 kilometers west of the city center near Peterhof. |
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The $1.25 billion China Town project will go ahead despite citizen group protests. St. Petersburg's legislative assembly declined Wednesday to run a citywide referendum on the matter, saying it would contradict the constitutional rights of investors. |
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The city's 74.42 percent stake in the Moskva Hotel was sold at auction Thursday for about $40 million. The buyer was an obscure company called Tsentr Investirovaniya, of Center of Investment. Nineteen companies took part, including some from Cyprus and Norway, but in the final stages [of the auction] only Russian bidders remained," Interfax quoted the city property department as saying. |
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LUKoil announced it will definitely participate in the controversial land plot tender scheduled by City Hall to take place next week. Head of LUKoil Vagit Alekperov confirmed that the company will take part in the auction for gas station sites that has come under strong criticism from the St. |
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Most people don't pay much attention to the distinctly nontraditional figure of Themis that adorns the pediment of the new Supreme Court building on Povarskaya Ulitsa. But in a plenary session on Feb. 24, Russia's highest court of general jurisdiction adopted a resolution that gave new meaning to the sculptor's deviations from the accepted norms for portraying the Greek goddess of justice. |
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St. Petersburg construction companies have an extraordinary appetite, especially when they are licking their lips over the pie at the center of the city. |
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 When Vadim Kozin toured the Russian Far East in 1955, the conditions weren't quite what the famed tenor was used to. Badly tuned pianos, dripping ceilings and outdoor toilets were a far cry from the Kremlin receptions and packed halls of his pre-war years. |
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Although EMI has stated that Gorillaz is not planning to tour anywhere in the near future and Phi-Life Cypher's label Zebra Traffic have confirmed that it is this British hip-hop trio that is coming to Russia this weekend rather than Damon Albarn's band, local promoters have continued their misleading advertizing campaign for the gig. |
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But the Angelus' bells o'er the Liffey swells, Rang out in the foggy dew. The Foggy Dew is a new Irish pub in St. Petersburg named after a line from a ballad that commemorates the Easter Rising of 1916 and which was famously sung by Sinead O'Connor accompanied by The Dubliners. |
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No literary genre in Russia sells as well as detective stories. No Russian detective story writer sells as much as Boris Akunin. If that's not a head start for making what is sure to become one of the country's biggest blockbusters this year, then, well, you could always mix all the other popular genres into the film adaptation and add a beefy dose of special effects. |
 The independent theater company Noskov & Company is not only building a reputation for bringing original works to St. Petersburg's stages, it also features a unique duo of actors - brothers Ilya and Andrei Noskov. Individually, the Noskov brothers have steadily earned acting honors since they came to St. |
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Some of the giants and the dwarves among nations, as well as the various rising, vanishing and forgotten among the world's tribes were represented in St. |
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We're not particularly sad. It's just the kind of music we make," said Stuart Braithwaite, the guitarist and vocalist of Mogwai, the highly original band that has played loud, mostly instrumental, atmospheric indie rock since it formed in Glasgow, Scotland, in 1996. The band's initial goal has been described as creating "serious guitar music. |
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China Blast Kills Kids BEIJING (AP) - A cache of explosives in the home of a coal mine manager blew up in a town in northern China, killing him and at least 20 children at a nearby grade school, news reports said Thursday. The explosion occurred Wednesday in Kecheng, a town in Shanxi province, one of China's biggest coal-mining regions, newspapers reported. |
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Kobe Case Settled DENVER (AP) - With a terse news release, the sordid sexual assault case against Kobe Bryant that gripped the nation abruptly ended with an agreement that ensures the basketball star never goes to trial for what happened in a hotel room two years ago. |
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