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After attacks on African, Chinese and Bangladeshi students in the city over the weekend, the St. Petersburg Agency for Social Information on Monday released research containing alarming figures about ethnic intolerance in the city. Nearly every fourth respondent, or 23. |
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BISHKEK - Kyrgyzstan plunged deeper into confusion Monday when a parliament, whose disputed election led to a coup ousting President Askar Akayev, assumed authority and the new leaders jostled for power. |
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While some Finns dream of getting back parts of Karelia ceded to the Soviet Union in World War II, some Russians living in northwest regions are calling for their territories and minds to be free of Moscow's influence from even longer ago. A group of people formed by writer and publisher Alexander Vertyachikh have declared themselves "citizens of the free Novgorod Republic which was illegally annexed by Moscow tsars in 1471-1479. |
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Karelian ecologists have called on Russian and Finnish wood processing companies to boycott doing business with wood company OAO Karellesprom to pressure it to stop felling virgin forests in Karelia. The students' ecologist organization SPOK has appealed to Finnish companies Stora Enso and Thomesto, and the heads of Russian Segezh and Kondopozhsky cellulose paper plants to suspend its wood purchases from Karellesprom from April 5. |
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Russia's ratification of the Vienna Convention on Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage this month is a positive step that will lead to progress in nuclear waste handling, international environmentalists said last week. |
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In August 1853 on the order of Russian Tsar Nikolai I, Vice Admiral E. V. Putyatin arrived in Japan, which at that time had a closed-country policy. He conducted complex negotiations with Japanese representatives with the aim of establishing diplomatic relations between the two states. As a result of the extended negotiations in February 1855 the Treaty on trade and the border between
Russia and Japan, also known as the Simodsky Treaty, was signed. |
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The decision regarding Baltic Pearl real estate project development lies in the hands of the city administration and the developer, not the city residents, many of whom are influenced by misleading stereotypes, city officials said Monday. Despite outcries from certain citizen groups, the Chinese state-owned Shanghai Overseas United Investment corporation has received approval this month to begin preliminary project works on a $1.3 billion land development project in the Krasnoselsky district. The final investment agreement on the project, labeled "China Town" in the local press, is expected to be signed when St. Petersburg's Governor Valentina Matviyenko visits Shanghai in mid-May. |
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 Federal tax authorities are demanding over $12.1 million in taxes and fines from St. Petersburg-based Baltika, Russia's largest brewer by output and sales, according to the company's report for last year. |
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MOSCOW - Global insurer ACE unveiled its Russian subsidiary on Monday despite a brewing insurance scandal in the United States. Evan Greenberg, president and CEO of the Bermuda-based company, has arrived in Moscow to open up shop. "We are very pleased that ACE has been approved to conduct commercial property and casualty insurance business . |
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MOSCOW - The government on Friday threw its weight behind the Sukhoi-led Russian Regional Jet project, widely believed to be crucial to jumpstart the country's decaying domestic civil aviation industry, by committing at least $100 million in loans from state banks. |
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MOSCOW - By 2008, the fastest way to fly from Moscow to St. Petersburg will be by train - three hours from city center to city center. With the wheels greased by the countries' top leaders last December, Russian Railways, or RZD, and Germany's Siemens Transportation Systems expect to drum up a deal as early as next month that will make a 250- kilometer-per-hour train a reality. |
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Last Wednesday's announcement that a tender would be held for fixed-route minibus licenses, or marshrutkas, was part of City Hall's reform of public transport. |
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Debt Interest Denied BERLIN (Reuters) - The German Finance Ministry declined to comment on a newspaper report that it is demanding a 500 million euro ($648 million) premium on early redemption of 5 billion euros owed by Russia. Welt am Sonntag quoted an internal Finance Ministry document as saying that Germany should demand between 105 percent and 110 percent of the nominal value of the outstanding debt. A spokesman for the German Finance Ministry declined comment, saying that the negotiations were being conducted through the Paris Club of creditor nations. Germany is Russia's biggest creditor. Ruble Hits 5-Week Low MOSCOW (Reuters) - The ruble sank to a five-week low against the dollar, tracking the euro, which was itself trading around six-weeks lows to the U. |
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 To say that Maxim Nogotkov is a people person might seem only fair when you consider his line of work. He is, after all, the president and owner of a business that exists to sell communication possibilities to a mass audience. |
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MOSCOW - Tear up your calling cards and put your mobile on standby: Making direct international phone calls on your landline may again make financial sense once the shakeup of Russia's long-distance telephone market is complete. Liberalization and rule changes from the IT and Communications Ministry may halve the cost of international calls, push up mobile charges and eventually edge many card operators out of the market altogether. |
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One year ago, President Vladimir Putin started his second term in office. He promised to use the combination of political stability and fiscal strength built up during the previous four years to push the economic and administrative reform agenda devised by the liberal economists in the Cabinet led by Economic Development and Trade Minister German Gref and Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin. |
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With little regulation available on the subject of reclassifying land in the federal Land Code, investors and builders alike waited for State Duma's new law on the subject with anticipation. Some local authorities (including the Leningrad Oblast) had even adopted their own reclassification laws in an attempt to deal with the issue. |
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Official employment statistics in Russia, and St. Petersburg in particular, differ drastically from independent research. While the Unified State Register of Companies and Enterprises lists 300,000 companies in St. |
 When it comes to assessing the spirit of corporate culture, recruitment experts and HR managers stress that companies are built on teamwork. But, try telling that to the employees, especially those working in large sales departments. Many sales staff complain that "socialist"-like grouping stifles individual effort and ignores different performance levels among staff. Speaking on condition of anonymity, a sales manager at a St. |
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 When it comes to blurring the lines between work and play, there's nothing quite like corporate celebrations. However, if you think a 'social hour' with a flute of Champagne and ginger bread cookies for New Year's is enough to mark the holiday in the company of fellow employees, think twice! Russian employees expect their parties lavish, their holiday season long, and their glasses . |
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While employers say they are fully satisfied with the professional skills of their potential employees in Russia, company loyalty is still seen as shaky ground in some industries. "We have no problems with the professional level of the people that come to interview for us. |
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Sandra Mayr (name changed), 27, who came to St. Petersburg more than half a year ago, has learned the bitter truth about job hunting abroad. Despite such a resume, her dreams of quick employment with a respectable company burst like a bubble. |
 The expansion in Russia of Western fast food giant Subway may not have been especially rapid up to now, but the store numbers of the sandwich bar could be about to skyrocket; and all that the American company has to do is be a good teacher. Subway Russia has announced plans to create no less than 50 stores in Russia, 10 of those in St. Petersburg, by the end of 2005, but the catalyst of the expansion will be Russian businesspeople, trained and licensed as franchisees by the U. |
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 If a Russian business partner says that something is "impossible," it is still "negotiable." "This is at least one of the things foreign businessmen should know in order to achieve success in Russia," said Irina Pshenichnikova, associate professor at the International Management Department of the St. |
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Russia scored an underwhelming 2-1 away win over Liechtenstein in their World Cup Group 3 qualifying match in Vaduz's Rheinpark stadium on Saturday. Also, England, the Netherlands and Italy all posted comfortable wins, but 1998 champion France was held to a 0-0 draw by Switzerland. In Liechtenstein, two first-half goals - the first a fierce strike from Russian forward Alexander Kerzhakov, and the second a tame 25-yard shot from Andrei Kariaka that Liechtenstein keeper Peter Jehle allowed to slip under his body - were, in the end, enough for Russia. |
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