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 MOSCOW - Little-known Chechen cleric Abdul-Khalim Sadulayev will take over as interim rebel leader after Aslan Maskhadov's death earlier this week, rebel envoy Akhmed Zakayev said Thursday. Analysts said, however, that the announcement was probably an attempt by radical warlord Shamil Basayev to buy time as he figures out his next move. |
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International students studying in St. Petersburg have launched a new web site with the aim of setting up an International Student Association (ISA) to defend their rights. |
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An independent Finnish non-governmental organization ProKarelia, which is promoting the idea that Russia should give back territories ceded to the Soviet Union during World War II, last week released a book detailing how this could be done. The book, called "Returning Karelia," is in Finnish and will be followed by editions in Russian and English before summer, Veikko Saksi, the author of the book, said in e-mailed answers to questions last Friday. |
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The Israeli Supreme Court on Monday authorized the extradition to Russia of Ze'ev (Vladimir) Feinberg, who is wanted for stealing national treasures from St. Petersburg's historical archives, including letters handwritten by Catherine the Great. Feinberg has denied the charges. |
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Gorbachev Anniversary ST. PETERSBURG (SPT) - Mikhail Gorbachev was selected as Soviet leader 20 years ago Friday, ushering in a period of historic changes which led to the collapse of the U. |
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 MOSCOW - Russia plans to introduce special economic zones with simplified tax and customs policies as early as next year in an effort to diversify its economy from raw materials and sustain economic growth. The government today approved a bill to set up zones within which companies that invest in manufacturing and technology projects will be provided with tax breaks. |
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MOSCOW - The Economic Development and Trade Ministry is drawing up plans to divert some of the oil revenue flowing into the so-called stabilization fund and invest it in infrastructure projects, a ministry source said earlier this week. |
 The city's gas station market is set to be overwhelmingly dominated by LUKoil as the company won the auction for 30 new gas station sites in St. Petersburg and also purchased 37 gas stations from Balt Trade Co on Thursday. The vast expansion came as LUKoil bought the largest lot of land plots for gas station development at Thursday's auction, paying just over $10. |
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Top alcohol manufacturers in St. Petersburg said they will lobby the government to limit the advertising ban imposed on all liquor ads in printed and television media. |
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Citizens to Appeal ST. PETERSBURG (SPT) - A citizens' group of 22 city residents that object to the construction of the Baltic Pearl development in the Krasnoselsky district said Thursday it will demand that City Hall hold a second referendum. The work for the Baltic Pearl development is due to be carried out by a Chinese state-owned company, a fact that has led the local media to label the project "China Town. |
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Russians geared up for March 8 by buying candies and champagne, luxuriant bouquets and modest snowdrops. In upscale offices and universities, in factories and market pavilions, in kindergartens and temporary holding cells, men congratulated their female colleagues and gave flowers to grandmas, wives, girlfriends, bosses and random acquaintances. |
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For the last couple of months I have been wondering what is wrong with the Russian political elite, which is behaving like an obstinate donkey, doing everything it can to stop moving toward reconciliation with the Baltic States. |
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As the 60th anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany approaches and the world tries to wrap up everything connected with it while the last of those who took part are alive, vexing questions remain. Germany has become Russia's leading economic partner and the frequent meetings between President Vladimir Putin and German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder are accompanied by warm declarations of friendship. |
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The Griboyedov bunker club was packed when Moscow's hip-hop/punk trio Krovostok played its first full-length concert earlier this week. |
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If you have lived in Southeast Asia for a while, it is difficult not to play the part of the "old Asia hand" and bore your friends on the subject of how badly the local version of the food measures up to the real thing when you dine at an Oriental restaurant in the West. In cold northern countries like Russia, however, where footlong papayas and prawns the size of croissants don't grace the average supermarket shelf, it is unrealistic to expect miracles without paying a small fortune. In Lapsha, where the menu includes dishes from Thailand, Cambodia and Indonesia, which don't cost a small fortune, it is worth leaving preconceptions at the door: remember where you are,and appreciate the effort. |
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 Reading Moshe Lewin's "The Soviet Century" is very similar to struggling through the theological and philosophical writings of the emigre thinker Vladimir Lossky: Every few pages, one is forced to pause and ponder what just passed. |
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German prisoners-of-war are at this very moment building a radio tower in the Leningrad Oblast. They are freezing in the fierce wind and traversing the swamps and gloomy woods in barely adequate clothing. Russians living nearby are giving them a predictably tough welcome. World War II has been over for 60 years but these scenes are being recreated with punishing accuracy by film director Artyom Antonov, a recent graduate of Igor Maslennikov's course at the St. Petersburg University Of Film and Television, for the film Polumgla (Half-light). Antonov's directorial style demands realism from his actors, and Polumgla will take movie-goers on a journey into the the atmosphere of the cold winter of 1944 as the Soviet Union waged its ultimately victorious struggle against Nazi Germany. |
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 The new production of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's Tale Of Tsar Saltan,,which premiered at the Mariinsky Theater on Tuesday, is like a happy child's dream: placid, multi-colored, entertaining - and it has a happy ending. |
 The local bunker club Griboyedov was packed on Monday night with fans of Moscow hip-hop/punk act Krovostok. They came to see the band's first proper local concert. Many seemed to know the band's harsh, foul-language lyrics by heart and sang along, despite the fact that the band has never had any radio play - and nor is it likely to have any - and its first album is only available as MP3 audio files on its web site. |
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Armstrong Picks Paris THIERS, France (AP) - Lance Armstrong is picking his country to finish second in the race for the 2012 Olympics. The Texan endorsed Paris instead of New York when asked Wednesday which city should win the highly competitive bid for the Summer Games. |
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MOSCOW - Snow still blankets the stadiums, the temperature is stuck below zero and the only green visible in Moscow will be on St. Patrick's Day in a week's time. |
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