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U.S., British and other foreign nongovermental organizations are providing cover for professional spies in Russia, while Western organizations are bankrolling plans to stage peaceful revolutions in Belarus and other former Soviet republics bordering Russia, Federal Security Service director Nikolai Patrushev told the State Duma on Thursday. |
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MOSCOW - The European Union and Russia shook hands on a new partnership agreement Tuesday, even as the two sides struck unusually acrimonious tones. Coming a day after President Vladimir Putin hosted world leaders at a Victory Day extravaganza on Red Square, the meeting was intended to highlight agreement in four areas: economy, security, justice and cultural affairs. |
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MOSCOW - President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday set strict deadlines for the government to define the areas where foreigners can invest, to streamline tax procedures and to draft other bills so that promises he made in his recent state of the nation address can be fulfilled. |
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MOSCOW - President Vladimir Putin will not attend a summit of the Council of Europe in Warsaw on Monday and Tuesday, sending instead a delegation led by Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, the Foreign Ministry said Thursday. |
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Thieves burgled Valery Gergiev's dressing room at the Moscow Conservatory's Grand Hall on Tuesday, taking his golden watch, two mobile phones, a credit card and other precious personal items. The renowned conductor and artistic director of the Mariinsky theater was in Moscow to conduct a series of concerts as part of the Fourth Annual Easter Festival, of which he is the founder and artistic director. |
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Pskov police have deported a three-member Latvian television crew, inflaming tensions between Latvia and Russia. Police in the northwestern region detained the crew from Latvian Television as they were filming Victory Day celebrations on Monday. After questioning them, police ordered them to leave the country, even though they had obtained accreditation from the Russian Foreign Ministry and violated no laws, the Latvian Foreign Ministry said. |
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National Bolsheviks held an unsanctioned protest Thursday against what they said was the sale of apartments in the historic Capella building to Moscow investors. |
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MOSCOW - In a wide-ranging interview broadcast on U.S. television last weekend, President Vladimir Putin said he read newspapers every day and found journalism very similar to intelligence work. "You know journalism, as concerns collecting information, differs little if at all from intelligence work," Putin told Mike Wallace, an anchor of CBS television's Sunday program "60 Minutes. |
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MOSCOW - China Eastern, the second airline to launch operations from Domodedovo in 2005, has started service to Shanghai. Foreign airlines are increasingly discovering Moscow as a destination, as air traffic surges for the fifth year in a row. China Eastern launched three weekly flights from Shanghai to Moscow's Domodedovo Airport on Wednesday. |
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An agreement paving the way for the $1.25-billion Baltic Pearl development is to be signed in Shanghai this weekend between a group of Chinese investment companies and Governor Valentina Matviyenko, who left for China on Thursday. |
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City-based brewer Baltika, along with major brewers Vena and Pikr,a will form an integrated company by the end of the year, the management of Baltic Beverages Holding said Wednesday. Although the holding is a major shareholder of all three breweries, it has kept the companies' operations separate. |
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Russia has imposed new rules on Finnish pork sold in Russia that will raise export costs, Helsinki daily Helsingin Sanomat reported Monday. The rule stipulates that the meat must be inspected by Russian veterinarians upon entering the country. |
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Top city hotel the Grand Hotel Europe celebrated its 130th birthday Thursday with an attempt to set a world record by making a 130-meter long sandwich with red caviar. The gigantic sandwich covered with 30 kilograms of red caviar was located along Ulitsa Mikhailovskaya outside the entrance to the hotel, where its guests could sample the delicacy. |
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Pipeline Start This Year ST PETERSBURG (Reuters) - Gas gaint Gazprom plans to start building its north European pipeline at the end of 2005, the deputy head of its transport and storage arm Sergei Serdyukov said Thursday. |
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For 60 years the word "Yalta" has meant betrayal and abandonment. The diplomatic accord reached between Britain, the Soviet Union and the United States in that sleepy Black Sea resort relegated millions of people to a ruthless tyranny. As U. |
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On May 9 shortly after the Victory Day fireworks a friend who was driving his car with Estonian license plates got stuck in a traffic jam on Ploshchad Truda. |
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 NEW YORK/ST. PETERSBURG - Barely a month after its New York City office hosted the most profitable auction of Russian art in history, Sotheby's will hold another sale of Russian treasures on Thursday in London. The May 19 sale, comprising 260 lots, is expected to tally up as much as $15 million in sales. |
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Franz Ferdinand, Britain's top band, comes to St. Petersburg at the time when its international popularity is at its peak, makingits concert this week's most-anticipated event. |
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Back in the bad old days when Boris Yeltsin was president, there was a rather fine little eatery called Pizza Pronto on Zagorodny Prospekt. As a lowly intern doing copyediting at this august paper, I used to go there for lunch on Tuesdays, to browse through that day's edition and castigate myself over the mistakes that I had failed to spot. Pizza Pronto was way ahead of its time, serving good, cheap pizzas on thick dough that put to shame the greasy horrors available at a certain well-known international chain. It was, therefore, disappointing to return to the country and find that Pizza Pronto had become one of the first victims of the Putin regime (only joking). |
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 Verdi's "Rigoletto," a long-standing audience favorite, received languid treatment from Italian director Walter Le Moli, whose interpretation of the opera premiered at the Mariinsky Theater on May 6 and 7. |
 From Jean Sibelius to Hans Christian Andersen to modern Swedish jazz and the music of the Royal Danish Court, the second international Nordic Music Festival, which runs from Monday through May 26, parades impressive artistic diversity. With classical and modern music by composers from Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden featured in the program, the festival pays tribute to three anniversaries: the 100th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Russia and Norway, the 200th anniversary of the birth of Danish storyteller Hans Christian Andersen and 140 years since the birth of Finnish composer Jean Sibelius. |
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 Having sold more than 2.5 million copies of its debut album and won almost every British music award possible, British pop sensation Franz Ferdinand is coming to Russia at the height of its international popularity. |
 With a 21-track compilation album, "In Retrospect: The Best of The Toasters" re-released in Russia, New York's ska pioneers will bring greatest hits from its entire 24-year career to St. Petersburg on Saturday, even if one member was not able to join the band on tour due to a visa problem. Now on an intense, 38-date European tour that band started in Sheffield, northern England, last month, The Toaster is a band looking forward to a new ska boom. |
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