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St. Petersburg was witness to a series of violent nationalist and politically motivated incidents during the weekend. On Friday, the headquarters of the office of human rights group Soldiers' Mothers was broken into and robbed, while racist posters and slogans were plentiful at Saturday's Russia-Latvia football match. |
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MOSCOW - The Kremlin plans to launch an English-language satellite television channel in September that will provide around-the-clock news to audiences in Europe, the United States and Asia. |
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MOSCOW - When Lefortovo is removed from the Federal Security Service and, placed like all other penitentiary facilities, under the jurisdiction of the Justice Ministry, the legend of the much-feared, high-security prison may finally draw to a close. At Lefortovo, prisoners suffer extreme isolation, and routine prison regulations are followed to a depressing degree. |
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The Repressed Recalled ST.PETERSBURG (SPT) - About 150 people on Saturday took part in a memorial meeting dedicated to victims of political repressions, Interfax reported. Former political prisoners, their relatives and human rights advocates gathered on Naberezhnaya Robespera for the meeting, organized by human rights group Memorial. |
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MOSCOW - President Vladimir Putin on Saturday gave Anatoly Chubais a public dressing down over last month's power outage, accused Unified Energy Systems management of incompetence, and called for an investigation into the electricity monopoly's tax payments and spending. |
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MOSCOW - A newly adopted 3-year-old boy was taken away from his American parents at the Ukraina hotel, where they were staying, after a woman called police to report that he was being abused in a hotel cafe, an official said Friday. The boy was placed in a children's home, and prosecutors are considering whether to charge the couple with child abuse, said Viktor Pronin, an assistant to the prosecutor for Moscow's Dorogomilovo District. |
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CoE Criticizes n STRASBOURG, France (AP) - The Council of Europe stepped up its criticism of Russia's human rights record and commitment to democracy Friday, urging Moscow to honor its obligations as a member of the organization. |
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Maskhadov Kin Freed MOSCOW (AP) - Seven relatives of late Chechen rebel leader Aslan Maskhadov have been freed more than five months after their abduction, the Memorial human rights group said Thursday. The relatives, who include Maskhadov's elderly sister and brothers, were blindfolded by unknown kidnappers and returned Tuesday to their homes in and around Grozny, said Dmitry Grushkin, a Memorial spokesman. |
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KRASNOYARSK - Every day, Oksana Korshunova drives to the 3-meter-deep sewage pipe about one kilometer from her house. She squats on the rim and stares into the charred hole, straining to imagine how her son, Maxim, got down there and what happened to him before he did. |
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MOSCOW - Policymakers have raised their target for underlying appreciation of the ruble, boosted by high oil prices, to 10 percent in 2005, a top central banker said Monday. In a move long awaited by investors, central bank First Deputy Chairman, Alexei Ulyukayev, said it and the Economy Ministry have agreed to up the target for the real effective appreciation of the ruble from an earlier goal of 8 percent. |
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2 DaimlerChrysler Plants? MOSCOW (Bloomberg) - DaimlerChrysler, the world's fifth-biggest carmaker, may open two assembly plants in Russia, Interfax reported, citing Gerhard Hilgert, head of the company's operations in the country. |
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The Big Three mobile operators have all recently announced technological innovations that allow subscribers to receive information more simply by using their mobile phones to tap into interactive resources. The most active company in this respect has been Mobile TeleSystems (MTS), which offered several such programs to consumers at the annual Svyaz-Expokomm-2005 trade fair. |
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Major mobile providers rejected claims that their network transmission equipment causes a risk to human health, nonetheless vowing to invest significant efforts to investigate the high radiation levels in certain areas of St. |
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Companies are going to face a more extreme administrative sanction for legal violations then ever before. A law, signed by the Russian President on May 9, will empower the authorities to initiate an administrative suspension of operations for 90 days before the court. |
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In retrospect, it was a good thing that the Moscow power system broke down on a warm spring day on May 25. Consequences would have been far more catastrophic had the outage taken place in the middle of Russian winter. |
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When the power blackout hit Moscow on May 25, I was attending a presentation of the Russian contribution to the latest Stockholm International Peace Research Institute Yearbook on Armaments, Disarmament and International Security. The SIPRI Yearbook is translated and published with the help of the Moscow Institute of World Economy and International Relations, or IMEMO, one of Russia's best-known state-financed think-tanks dedicated to security, defense and foreign policy. |
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With the French and Dutch "No" votes, the project of uniting Europe seems in danger to a degree not seen since the French voted down the European Defense Community in 1954. Leader of the Rodina faction Dmitry Rogozin has seized on the opportunity to suggest replacing the EU with a "Greater Europe," which would include Russia and other European powers - but not the United States. |
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Stories of businesses making easy money have abounded recently in the office where I work. For example, one journalist who knows his wines told me that he had visited a hypermarket that he had not been in for a long time because he was too busy. |
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Last month, we reported here about Jeb Bush's courtroom efforts to crush the life of an abused, poverty-stricken 6-year-old girl in his gubernatorial satrapy of Florida. Later, against all odds, a jury of ordinary citizens thwarted the dynast's brutal will. But as befits a scion of the ruling family, Bush is now brushing aside this interference from the rabble and pressing ahead with his plans to strip the little girl of all public assistance. |
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Ebola Vaccine n WINNIPEG, Manitoba (Reuters) - Canadian and U.S. scientists have developed vaccines that protect monkeys from the deadly Marburg and Ebola viruses and show promise for humans, a study published in Nature Medicine magazine said Sunday. |
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Russia overcame a resilient Latvia 2-0 in a World Cup qualifier in St. Petersburg on Saturday to keep alive their hopes of reaching next year's finals in Germany. |
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MANCHESTER, England - Kostya Tszyu sensationally lost his IBF light-welterweight title to unfancied Briton Ricky Hatton on Sunday after 11 thrilling rounds. The 26-year-old Hatton wore down the Russian-born Australian with a high tempo display until Tszyu could take no more and stayed on his stool before the final round. |
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