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The latest refusal of the St. Petersburg Prosecutor's Office to initiate criminal cases over the publication of articles inciting racial hatred in local nationalist newspapers has resulted in a sharp reaction from Israel politicians on the eve of President Vladimir Putin's visit to the Holy Land. |
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Morris Hughes, 59, the U.S. Consul General to St. Petersburg who will retire from the diplomatic service on Tuesday morning, says his three years in the city were the highlight of his diplomatic career. |
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MOSCOW - It was a scene, for some, right out of the movies: A military band filled the air with patriotic songs while relatives blinked back tears and waved goodbye to the men and boys behind the train windows, crisp in their full dress uniforms. But most passengers on the train leaving Belorussky Station on Thursday morning were either far past their fighting days or not yet there, and the war they were off to was already 60 years past. |
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Leading Russian physicist Boris Zakharchenya of St. Petersburg's Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute died on Sunday and was buried on Thursday. Zakharechnya was born in the town of Orsha near the Russia-Belarus border on May 1, 1928, and graduated from the physics faculty of Leningrad State University in 1952. |
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MOSCOW - The Federation Council on Wednesday confirmed the reappointment of Prosecutor General Vladimir Ustinov for a second five-year term in what human rights activists said reflected Kremlin approval of his record in prosecuting opponents of the ruling elite. |
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The opening of the shipping season on the Saimaa Canal did not occur as planned on April 6 because Russian customs had no checkpoint working, Finnish information agency STT reported Wednesday. |
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The navigation season in St. Petersburg when the drawbridges on the Neva will open to let ships pass will begin at the end of next week. Yury Petrov, the head of state-owned enterprise Mostotrest, which is responsible for maintenance of the city's bridges, said the bridges will open sometime between April 20 and April 23. |
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One of those accused of taking part in the 1998 assassination of State Duma Deputy Galina Starovoitova on Wednesday confessed in court to being guilty of all charges against him, Interfax reported. |
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Ivanov: Punish Hazing ST. PETERSBURG (SPT) - Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov has promised to punish those who are guilty if cases of hazing reported at a navy base in Lomonosov are confirmed, Interfax reported Tuesday, quoting the minister. "Anybody who is found guilty will be punished, including senior officers," Interfax cited Ivanov as saying at a briefing in Yaroslavl. |
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MOSCOW - After months of contradictory signals from the government about whether Siemens would be allowed to take over Power Machines, Russia's biggest producer of power turbines, the Federal Anti-Monopoly Service on Wednesday issued a resounding and definitive no. |
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MOSCOW - The ailing domestic auto industry can ignore pronouncements of its imminent demise because Russian cars will still fill an important niche in the global economy, Severstal-Avto's leading strategist said Wednesday. |
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Rosneft Seeks Team MOSCOW (Bloomberg) - Rosneft, Russia's state-owned oil company, is in talks with Statoil and Norsk Hydro about plans to make joint bids for oil and gas fields in the Arctic and East Siberia, Rosneft Vice President Alexei Kuznetsov said Thurday. The companies signed preliminary agreements to assess possible projects and bids for fields being auctioned by the Russian government, Kuznetsov said at a parliamentary roundtable on Russian-Norwegian relations in Moscow. Rosneft is more likely to bid with Statoil for offshore projects in the Barents Sea because of the company's expertise, Kuznetsov said. Fuel Prices Need Cap MOSCOW (Bloomberg) - Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov ordered the Energy and Industry Ministry to draft proposals to cap fuel prices, Interfax reported. |
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 As the city gas station market preparesfor the expansion of LUKoil in the next two years, some rival oil companies have begun looking for new solutions to retain customers. |
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The city's new concept for improving garbage and solid waste removal, approved by city Governor Valentina Matviyenko this week, has come under fire from environmental groups. Ecological watchdog Greenpeace criticized City Hall's program for processing garbage as ineffective and possibly damaging to the environment in the long term. |
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The Moscow Court of Appeals has upheld Japan Tobacco Inc.'s claim against the Federal Tax Service and Tuesday sent the company's case back to the lower courts for further review. |
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A new department has been set up as part of the presidential administration, the Department for Interregional and Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries and the CIS. Its mission is to increase the effectiveness of Moscow's efforts to maintain and expand its influence in the former Soviet Union. |
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The documentary footage showed Soviet soldiers in 1940 opening the gates of the border fence between Estonia and the Soviet Union, long military convoys with the leading trucks disappearing into a forest on the horizon and freight cars bearing prisoners from the Baltic states to the cold hell of Siberia. |
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 Dutch photographer Anton Corbijn has many fans. Bono, the lead singer of U2, told The Observer earlier this year: "He shoots the music you are making, who you can be - rather than who you are." An exhibition of work by Corbijn, who recently published "U2 and I: The Photographs 1982 -2004," opens Friday at the State Russian Museum's Stroganov Palace. |
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Anton Corbijn, the Dutch-born, London-based photographer arguably best known for his covers of U2 and Depeche Mode albums and who has created an impressive collection of images of rock musicians as well as writers, artists and film directors in his 30-year career, will open his exhibition at the Russian Museum's Stroganov Palace on Friday. |
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Muscovites have never been known for modesty or restraint. Moscow, home to Russia's bold, brash and bratty elite, is all about spending new money and making more. Moscow's most celebrated restaurants promise celebrity-driven, fabulous fun for an exorbitant price. Unfathomably wealthy oligarchs and Kremlin politicians mix seamlessly with fashion models, tennis stars and golden youth in this little L.A. on the Moskva River. Transplant the flash and sparkle of Moscow to the gloomy and despondent banks of the Neva and what do you get? Moskva Restaurant, the newest venture by restaurateur Edvard Muradyan of Decadence and Publika fame. An ambitious, new and very expensive project, Moskva Restaurant gleefully boasts in its slogan that "The Capital of St. |
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 In its 92 years, the Zubov Institute of Art History has endured more than any academic center for the benign scrutiny of past cultures has a right to expect. |
 MOSCOW - With a few grunts, sprints, flips and plenty of laughter and cheers, the annual Golden Mask theater festival came to an energetic end Monday night at the Mossoviet Theater. Disguised as a chaotic track meet featuring the participation of the CSKA basketball team, the scantily clad, high-kicking CSKA cheerleaders, numerous Olympic gold medalists in gymnastics and ice skating, and a host of shot putters, discus throwers, marathon runners, mountain bikers and more, the ceremony honored the top achievements in Russian drama, opera, dance and puppetry for the 2003-04 season. |
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 Television commercials don't usually get promoted by trailers promising the latest work from a "cult director." But an ad campaign for a Russian brand of ketchup has done just that, building up anticipation for a new commercial directed by Serbian filmmaker Emir Kusturica. |
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