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As the world mourned the death of Pope John Paul II, hundreds of people came to Catholic churches in Russia - a place he could never visit - to pay their respects. Services in memory of the pontiff were conducted in St. Petersburg Catholic churches on Sunday and will continue all week, culminating in simultaneous services as his funeral service is held in Rome on Friday, city priests said. |
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MOSCOW - A rift among national power brokers threatens the country with disintegration that could have even more violent consequences than the collapse of the Soviet Union, Kremlin chief of staff Dmitry Medvedev warned in a wide-ranging interview published Monday. |
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Nonconformist artistic group Mitki, famous for their blue-and-white striped sailor shirts, faces losing its studio this month. The group has about 15 members who use the studios, and has been running since the early 1980s. The striped shirts are not only worn by members, but are also a central feature of their art works. |
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On the orders of Prosecutor General Vladimir Ustinov, the City Prosecutor's Office has launched a campaign to stop the police from reporting misleading crime statistics. Ustinov last month confirmed that law enforcement bodies' official records are extremely far from reality. |
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MOSCOW - Moskovskiye Novosti's supervisory board has urged that Yevgeny Kiselyov hand over his post as editor to fired deputy editor Lyudmila Telen but retain his position as the newspaper's general director to resolve a bitter labor dispute, a board member said Monday. |
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Starovoitova Sentences ST. PETERSBURG (SPT) - Deputy city prosecutor Alexander Korsunov on Monday called for sentences of betwen 4 1/2 years and life for those on trial for their roles in the murder of State Duma Deputy Galina Starovoitova, Interfax reported. |
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MOSCOW - After spending a day in court watching cartoons, a Moscow judge on Friday rejected a lawsuit brought against RenTV for broadcasting two American programs that the plaintiff said had piqued his young son's interest in cocaine and prompted the child to insult his mother. |
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MOSCOW - Chechen rebel leader Aslan Maskhadov was shot by an aide at his request to avoid being captured alive, Deputy Prosecutor General Nikolai Shepel said Friday, in a remarkable departure from the previous official version of Maskhadov's death. "Maskhadov died from multiple bullet wounds that were inflicted at his request by individuals who were with him in the bunker," Shepel told reporters at his offices in Vladikavkaz, Interfax reported. |
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Prince Andrew to Visit ST. PETERSBURG (SPT) - Britain's Prince Andrew will visit Murmansk for 60th anniversary celebrations of the defeat of Nazi Germany in early May, Interfax reported last week citing the regional administration. |
 MOSCOW - A Moscow City Court judge on Wednesday sentenced former Yukos security chief Alexei Pichugin to 20 years in prison on charges of double murder and conspiracy to commit murder, rejecting a prosecution demand for life imprisonment. Pichugin, 42, was the first Yukos employee to receive a jail sentence in the state's vast legal onslaught against Mikhail Khodorkovsky and his business empire. |
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MOSCOW - A group of some of Russia's biggest media organizations plans to donate $200 million worth of cash, airtime and column inches to raise awareness of HIV/AIDS in a three-year campaign to halt the spread of infection in the country, Gazprom Media said last Wednesday. |
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MOSCOW - About 5,000 people, including former world chess champion Boris Spassky, have signed a letter asking prosecutors to ban Jewish organizations because they believe one of the basic Judaic books professes religious hatred, according to a center that monitors religious freedom. |
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Surkov: No Amendments MOSCOW (SPT) - The deputy head of the presidential administration Vladislav Surkov told journalists Tuesday that he is against any changes to the Constitution and Russia becoming a parliamentary republic. |
 Four years ago, when Zhenya Anisimova, then aged five, arrived at the SOS Children's Village for abandoned children near the town of Pushkin, she talked only to herself and a TV set. Today Zhenya, a slim, lively girl with dark hair and brown eyes, is the most communicative person among six children in her new family. |
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MOSCOW - More than half the country's insurers may have to change their names within three months or face the possibility of losing their licenses. In an effort to crack down on fraud, a provision in the recent insurance law will make it illegal for insurance companies to repeat "full or partial" components of competitors' names starting on July 17. |
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Russian business owners have a different view to their foreign counterparts of what a financially transparent company is, experts said Thursday at a seminar. |
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Japan Tobacco Inc.'s St. Petersburg plant Petro may have to halt production as early as this week after tax authorities froze some of its bank accounts, business daily Kommersant said Monday, citing company spokesman Vadim Botsan-Kharchenko. Petro's bank accounts were frozen March 23 as part of tax authorities' efforts to collect $15 million in back taxes and fines, preventing the company from paying its suppliers, the newspaper said. Petro was hit with the back tax charge for 2001 in March and is set to appeal the bill in the St. Peterburg Arbitration Court on April 20. Japan Tobacco made the decision not to transfer any money to Petro's accounts until the situation resolves, leaving it with no funds to purchase production materials, the newspaper said. |
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 A trade mission organized by the Russo-British Chamber of Commerce to the Arkhangelsk region late last month was a success, said Dan Kearvell, director of St. |
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Oil Output Rises Moscow (Bloomberg) - Russia pumped 3.5 percent more oil in the first three months of this year than it did in the same period last year, the Industry and Energy Ministry's Central Dispatch Administration reported on its web site Monday. |
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MOSCOW (Bloomberg) - Hyundai Motor Co., South Korea's largest carmaker, will start making trucks in Russia in May, Interfax reported, citing the chairman of the company that will assemble the vehicles. |
 When he was 11 years old Jari Angesleva, a businessman from Finland who today works in St. Petersburg, was at a youth camp where he burned the shoes of a famous Finnish communist who has since been buried in the Kremlin Wall. Now aged 36, Angesleva says he is still paying back for his petty act of destruction and defiance by working in Russia as a project manager for the International Finance Corporation. |
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Expectations have been running high for years that Russia will be flooded by foreign architects looking for work beyond the stagnant European construction market. |
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Business centers have become one of the fastest growing sectors of the local real estate market. More than 200 complexes are functioning in the city with around 100,000 square meters of office space added in 2004. Experts predict that demand will gradually level off this year. |
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Late last month, at the start of a meeting in the Kremlin with business leaders, President Vladimir Putin came out with an important initiative on property rights: to reduce the Civil Code's statute of limitations on privatizations - that is, the period after a privatization deal in which it can be legally challenged - from the existing 10 years to three years. |
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The story of one Helmut Trienekens, a man who made millions from garbage, is astonishingly similar to many other stories of corruption in the sphere of community services all over the world. When politics meets economics, it seems that no country, not even the precise, the correct, the respectable Germany can escape a tangle of corruption. |
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A priest who was at the Vatican II council 40 years ago recalls, "I remember raising my head and thinking, 'Who is that prophet?' "The speaker who had caught his attention was a Polish prelate named Karol Wojtyla, and his subject was a proposed declaration renouncing the ancient accusation of enduring Jewish guilt for the death of Jesus. |
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The City Charter Court recently declared illegal the way that the administration of the city was made the administration of the governor. Behind this game with words, however, is hidden a very important event - a revolution in administration created by the first point of an order issued by the city government on Nov. |
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Today we take up the case of Murat Kurnaz, one of the thousands of innocent captives held illegally in the belly of the new American beast: U.S. President George W. Bush's deadly global gulag, where homicide and torture are quite literally the order of the day. Kurnaz, a German national of Turkish descent, was grabbed from a bus of Muslim missionaries in Pakistan in October 2001, when Bush was getting his first taste of unbridled blood-and-iron power. |
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Syria to Withdraw BEIRUT (Reuters) - The second and final phase of Syria's troop withdrawal from Lebanon will start Thursday and conclude as announced by April 30, a Lebanese military source said Monday. The source said the timing and details of the pullout, which involves 8,000 troops, were agreed at a meeting of Syrian and Lebanese military commanders in Lebanon's eastern Bekaa Valley. |
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The newly-elected president of the Russian Football Union, Vitaly Mutko, received the resignation of long-serving Russian national coach Georgy Yartsev on Monday, the Interfax news agency reported. |
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