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Handing over a replica of the famous Praying Boy statute to the Peterhof museum on Thursday, German officials expressed hopes that Russia would change its policy regarding cultural items taken from Germany at the end of World War II and resolve the issue of returning the treasures on a mutual basis. |
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Municipal elections in St. Petersburg are being used as a training ground on how to perpetrate mass forgeries that will give victories to Kremlin-backed politicians in regional and federal elections, members of liberal faction Yabloko say. |
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MOSCOW - St. Petersburg physicist and Nobel prize winner Zhores Alfyorov and German academic Klaus Riedle have won this year's Global Energy Prize, local media reported. Alfyorov's was awarded for "fundamental research and significant practical contribution to the creation of semi-conductor converters of the energy applied in the solar and electric power industry. |
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MOSCOW - The Federal Migration Service said Wednesday that it had resumed issuing work permits to expatriates working for the representative and branch offices of foreign companies, ending a four-month logjam that threatened to leave scores of companies without qualified foreign staff. |
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The case of a Chechen woman who shot and killed three Russian servicemen and a Chechen policeman during the 1994-96 war appears to be developing into a thorn in the side of Russian-German relations, German magazine Der Spiegel reported Monday. |
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Seoul to Open Mission MOSCOW (SPT) - Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov on Monday signed an order approving the opening of a South Korean consulate in St. Petersburg, RIA Novosti reported Monday. The consulate will cover the Komi, Karelia, Arkhangelsk, Vologda, Kaliningrad, Murmansk, Novgorod, Pskov and Nenets regions and St. |
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MOSCOW - Only one in 10 Russian companies shed light on their remuneration practices for executives and merely one-quarter disclose company ownership structures, the Russian Institute of Directors, or RID, found in its second annual Investments and Corporate Governance report on Russian companies, presented Thursday. |
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MOSCOW - The Meshchansky district court postponed its much-anticipated verdict in the trial of Yukos founders Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev by three weeks on Wednesday, sparing President Vladimir Putin from having to face any uncomfortable questions when he hosts world leaders for Victory Day festivities. |
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Coca-Cola Invests $35 M ST. PETERSBURG (Bloomberg) - Coca-Cola HBC will spend $35 million in the next 18 months adding a new production line and building warehouses at its plant in St. Petersburg, Interfax said. Dimitrios Makavos, general director of the company's Russian unit, made the announcement at a conference on British investment in St. |
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The last foreign-managed clinic in St. Petersburg, British American Family Practice, has been swallowed by larger rival American Medical Clinic for an undisclosed amount, heads of both clinics announced Thursday. |
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Toyota cars assembled in St. Petersburg will roll off the production line by the second half of 2007, as the Japanese automaker hopes to capitalize on the booming auto market in Russia, the company's senior managing director said Tuesday. In the largest direct foreign investment project in the St. |
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Scania-Piter, the 100-percent Russian subsidiary of Swedish auto maker Scania, will almost double the production of large 50-seater buses in 2005, the company said Wednesday. |
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A possible deployment of American troops to Azerbaijan has been a topic of contention for years, not only between Baku and Moscow, but also between Russia and the United States. Journalists took up the subject again after an unexpected visit by U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld to Baku on April 12. |
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Employees of the St. Petersburg Prosecutor's Office must be familiar with split-personality syndrome. What else can people think if they see two letters dealing with the same matter, written within two months of each other and signed by deputy city prosecutor Alexander Korsunov, but with diametrically opposed conclusions. |
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The ill-famed, much-discussed meeting between Russian rockers and the deputy head of the presidential administration Vladislav Surkov, seen as the Kremlin's gray cardinal, originated from a conversation he had with Boris Grebenshchikov, the musician revealed to The St. |
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DJ Tafa who is playing in the city this week and is advertised as a member of the "Panjabi MC Project" has nothing to do with the popular British artist responsible for the massive bhangra hit "Mundian to Bach Ke," said Panjabi MC's British agent. |
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As sunshine and warm temperatures have been rare these days, my friend and I decided to escape the cold and unfriendly weather by getting some culinary sunshine at the recently opened Italian restaurant Solntse, or Sun, on Ulitsa Lomonosova. After we were seated at one of the tables in one corner of the dining hall, the rain and snow outside were soon forgotten. |
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In case the hype passed you by, the recently released "Turkish Gambit," adapted from the Boris Akunin novel of the same name and featuring the enigmatic, stuttering detective Erast Fandorin, went on to become one of the highest grossing films in Russian cinema history. |
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There are more than 300 museums in St. Petersburg, but few are as fascinating, bizarre and downright grisly as the Museum of Forensic Medicine. Located on the outskirts of the city, here you will encounter mummified corpses, anatomical displays and models describing fatal accidents and murders. |
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Six British aristocrats are in Russia to take an unprecedented motorbike ride across the country from the Far East to its western borders. Participants in the White Nights Ride, which is to leave from Vladivostok on Monday and finish in St. |
 COPENHAGEN, Denmark - My Danish friends had told me that the famed statue of the Little Mermaid, a symbol of Copenhagen, would probably not impress me as much as I might have expected. "Most people think it's a big sculpture, but it's unexpectedly small," they said carefully. However, when I visited it I discovered that in this case at least, size doesn't matter. |
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Crash Driver Found TOKYO (AFP) - Rescuers crawling through the last pieces of a massive train wreck in Japan found the body of the young driver accused of negligence over the crash that claimed more than 100 lives.
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