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MOSCOW - After the lavish May 9 celebrations are over and the police barriers in central Moscow have come down, President Vladimir Putin may be left with little more concrete than a sense of pride in having hosted dozens of the world's leaders. While big on ceremony, the Victory Day celebrations will offer little of substance for Russia as the key meeting of the holiday - between Putin and U. |
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Dozens of British and Russian veterans of Arctic convoys that delivered vital aid to the Soviet Union during World War II via the Arctic met in St. Petersburg on Wednesday. |
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MOSCOW - Yevgeny Adamov, the former nuclear power minister arrested in Switzerland at the request of U.S. prosecutors Monday, should be returned to Russia to protect the state secrets he knows relating to nuclear power technologies, Adamov's lawyer and lawmakers said Thursday. |
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Petrodvorets Renaming ST. PETERSBURG (SPT) - St. Petersburg legislators plan to consider the question of changing the name Petrodvorets back to its historical name, Peterhof, Interfax reported Tuesday. |
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At least 65 employees of discount grocery retailer Pyatyorochka in St. Petersburg had been hospitalized by Thursday after apparently being infected with hepatitis A from packed lunches. Hepatitis A was confirmed in more than 20 cases, Oleg Parkov, head of the epidemiological department of federal consumer authority in St. |
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A huge banner simulating Jerusalem's Western Wall has been installed outside the city's Great Choral Synagogue in an effort to encourage the city's Jews to make closer contact with other confessions represented in St. |
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The Estonian Consulate-General in St. Petersburg has boosted staff numbers for the summer to process growing numbers of visa applications from northwest Russia. "We are doing this for the second year because more and more Russian tourists want to travel to Estonia, especially in summer and in December for New Year," Consul-General Andre Pung said Tuesday. |
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MOSCOW - Pyatyorochka Holding, the country's largest supermarket chain, may struggle to sell shares at top prices as it faces declining equity markets abroad and a hepatitis scare at home. To do well, its initial public offering of global depositary receipts will need to price at the low end of its marketed range of $13 to $16 per GDR, fund managers said. |
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MOSCOW - The Finance Ministry has suspended the operating licenses of 10 percent of the country's auditing firms so as to force them to come into line with the law, the ministry said on its web site. |
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Candy May Buy Plant MOSCOW (Bloomberg) - Candy SpA, an Italian household-appliance maker, may buy a washing-machine factory in Russia to boost market share in the country, Vedomosti reported, citing Russia's Federal Anti-Monopoly Service. Candy's Candy Elettrodomestici unit on April 6 applied to the service for approval of the Vesta factory purchase, the newspaper said, citing the regulator's press service. |
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City Hall has decided to make the northern capital happy with a new passenger port for big cruise liners that will cost between $500 million and $1 billion. |
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After the annulment of the results of the first tender for transportation licenses last week, the city announced it will hold a second one in three months' time. However, displaying a rare moment of synergy, city officials agreed with experts that unless key requirements are changed, the new tender is once more bound for failure. |
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H.J. Heinz, one of the world's leading food producers, said this week that its European division had acquired a majority stake in Petrosoyuz, a Russian producer of ketchup, sauces, and condiments, Interfax reported Wednesday. |
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Jelmoli Holding, a Swiss retailer and real-estate company, bought a 49 percent stake in Hypercenter Investment to help it invest in a further 10 retail centers in Russia, two of which will be in St. Petersburg, Jelmoli said Thursday in a statement. The purchase of shares in Hypercenter Investment, the company behind Mosmart hypercenters, will allow the Swiss firm to acquire a presence on the Russian market, the Zurich-based firm said Thursday in a statement distributed on Hugin newswire. |
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London Consulting Management Company, a newly formed real-estate brokerage and consulting firm, said it would invest $100 million into office space and retail projects in St. |
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On May 9, U.S. President George W. Bush and other heads of state will gather in Moscow for lavish celebrations marking the 60th anniversary of the Allies' World War II victory in Europe. Paying tribute to the tremendous efforts of the Soviet people, whose staggering sacrifices were pivotal to winning the war, is patently fitting. |
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As the Yabloko faction predicted last week, United Russia, the party of power, has shown all its negative sides in municipal elections in the Akademicheskoye district on Sunday by indirectly forcing the local electorate to vote for candidates it supports. |
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 On June 21, 1941, she was 16 and acting in a drama group's performance of the Ukrainian play "Platon Krechet" in Bolshaya Murta in Siberia's Krasnoyarsk region. The play was a success. Everybody congratulated her. Life was filled with joy, happiness and laughter. Her friends took her home. The next morning she woke up with happy feelings - the sun, summer ... but suddenly the good times were all gone - Hitler had attacked the Soviet Union and it would be almost four years until peace returned. |
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 American film director Ben Strout, who has made a documentary about the Soviet Union's conflict with Finland during World War II (known as the Winter War), said he was struck by many elements of that historic event. |
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As Victory Day hullabaloo reaches its peak this week -recorded voice announcements in the subway being its latest manifestation - local rockers just cannot stay out of it. Sergei Shnurov of hugely popular ska-punk band Leningrad makes his debut as a narrator in a war-themed documentary on local TV. |
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We felt immediately at home on walking into Genatsvale Georgian restaurant. Two steps led down from the front door, then a pair of saloon doors swung open to reveal a beautifully lit and cosily decorated interior with exposed brick walls, tastefully handled stone cladding, statues artfully placed and a kitsch water-feature in the corner. |
 Dougherty in her Moscow office. "It is difficult to leave, no question," she said of her impending departure. "It's a place I feel I'm beginning to know." When CNN Moscow bureau chief Jill Dougherty was interviewing Condoleezza Rice recently, she asked the U.S. secretary of state a question that made Rice stop herself in mid-sentence. |
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Blasts at U.K. Mission NEW YORK (AP) - Two explosions were heard outside the British Consulate early Thursday, causing slight damage to the building but injuring no one, officials said. The explosions occurred about 3:50 a.m. and apparently originated in or near a cement flower box outside the consulate in midtown Manhattan, said police department spokesman Noel Waters. |
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The referee at the center of bias allegations made by FC Zenit St. Petersburg after a 1:1 draw against Premier League champion Lokomotiv last Saturday has been called weak and inconsistent by a soccer official investigating Zenit's claims. |
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