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Descendants of nobles whose homes and estates were nationalized by the Bolsheviks expressed alarm Thursday that the properties could soon be privatized. Culture and Communications Minister Alexander Sokolov said Wednesday that privatization of the country's crumbling architectural monuments could start in the next six months. |
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Russia and China signed eight investment agreements worth a total of $1.5 billion at the Second Russia-China Investment Forum in St. Petersburg on Thursday. |
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MOSCOW - Prosecutors are asking the Moscow City Court to overturn a woman's murder conviction on the grounds that she acted in self-defense against a man who was trying to rape her. In what is being seen as a landmark ruling on a woman's right to self-defense, the City Prosecutor's Office on Tuesday asked the court to overturn a June 2 verdict by the Lyublinsky District Court. |
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Finland's Interior Minister Kari Rajamaki has appealed to the Border Guards' Union to cease the strike by the Finnish Frontier Guard at border posts on the Russian-Finnish border that has been running since May 31. |
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BERLIN - Germany for the first time has granted political asylum to a Russian national who stood as a candidate in regional elections and was allegedly tortured while in custody, a German newspaper reported Thursday. Oleg Liskin, 36, risked being arrested for his political activity if he returned to Russia, according to the German federal office of migration and refugees, which granted him asylum, the daily newspaper Tagesspiegel reported. |
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The colonnade lookout on St. Isaac's Cathedral, which offers a bird's eye view of St. Petersburg, is to open every night from 7 p.m. until 5:30 a.m. from Friday until the end of the White Nights in early July. The administration of the cathedral, which is a federal museum, decided to offer the all-night observation sessions after test runs on City Day on May 27 and June 3. |
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Italians will be able to celebrate Catholic masses in the language of Dante every Sunday this summer in St. Catherine's Church at 32/34 Nevsky Prospekt. |
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21 More Metro Stations ST. PETERSBURG (SPT) - City Hall is planning for 21 new metro stations by 2015, Interfax quoted Governor Valentina Matviyenko as saying Monday on city-controlled television station Channel 5. "Starting in 2005 we have decided to invest at least 3 billion rubles ($105 million) from the city budget because the metro has fallen seriously behind over the years," she said. |
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MOSCOW - Ernst & Young's legal practice in Russia and the CIS is preparing to split from its parent company and join DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary to form one of the region's largest law firms, sources from both companies said. "It is definitely going to be one of the three largest law practices in Russia and the CIS," said Ernst & Young partner Constantine Lusignan-Rizhinashvili, who is set to head the combined CIS practice at DLA Piper. |
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MOSCOW - Aviation accounted for about 70 percent of defense companies' revenues last year, according to a report to be released Thursday. The domination of aviation in arms sales may soon change, however, with shipbuilders likely to grab the lion's share in 2005, said the Center for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies, a Moscow-based independent defense think tank. |
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Billionaire Probed MOSCOW (Bloomberg) - Ukrainian prosecutors are investigating whether Russian billionaire Alexander Lebedev's holding company paid the government of former President Leonid Kuchma too little for assets, Vedomosti reported, citing Lebedev. |
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VF Corporation, a leading international jeans producer, has announced ambitious expansion plans for the city. Dmitry Yeremeyev, the company's regional director for Russia and CIS, said VF is set almost to triple the number of its shopping outlets in St. |
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Fastfood giant McDonalds will spend up to $50 million to expand its chain in Russia by 20 percent this year, with plans to commence franchising operations within three years, Khamzat Khasbulatov, head of McDonald's in Russia, said Tuesday. In addition, the chain plans to install three more of its coffeeshop-style in St. |
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The opening of the new oil pipeline from Azerbaijan, through Georgia, to Ceyhan, Turkey represents a triumph for U.S. imperial policy over Russian ambitions in the southern Caucasus - and the culmination of a 13-year campaign to open up the Caspian region to Western oil multinationals. |
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Official Soviet ideology contained a legend about Vladimir Lenin pitching in to clean up the Kremlin grounds during a communist subbotnik. A photographer even snapped Lenin helping his comrades to carry a log. |
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I never grew up hoping to aspire to be a model... who does?" - Stacy Zielenski, American, 23, former model of the New York model agency Women Model Management. "My friend said: 'why don't you try it?' so I went to modeling school when I was 17 years old. |
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Mogwai canceled its local concert this week. The British band was scheduled to headline the NokiaLab festival at Manezh Kadetskogo Korpusa on Saturday, but pulled out on a short notice because of its member's health problem. |
 A three-day festival that celebrates the cultural exchange that accompanies migration flows starts Friday in the Peter and Paul Fortress. The Russian-German cultural festival REmigration 2005 is founded on the idea to "remigrate," for the duration of the festival, musicians, artists, writers and poets who immigrated from Russia to Germany. |
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Oliva Greek Taverna 31 Bolshaya Morskaya Ulitsa. Tel. 314 6563. Menu available in Russian, Greek, English,
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 Twelve films by renowned Swedish director Ingmar Bergman are being shown in Dom Kino in a special retrospective, organized by the Swedish Consulate General and the city's Film Critics' Association. Before the retrospective closes on Monday, cinemagoers can see Bergman's 1966 "Persona" (Friday), 1969 "The Ritual" (Saturday), 1953 "Summer With Monica" (Sunday) and 1953 "Evening of the Jesters" (Monday). |
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 Message To Man," Russia's only international festival of documentary, animation and short non-documentary films kicks off Wednesday with a selection of films that have won awards at the prestigious international Jameson Short Film Awards, and runs through June 22. |
 Sonya said of Lukovsky: "In my opinion he is very talented and does the best fashion shows in the city... he shouts and swears but the results are absolutely the best. It's normal that he shouts, he knows what's needed and he needs to be strict. If I were him I'd shout as well." The New York-based models say they are treated professionally. |
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Crowe Apologizes NEW YORK (AP) - A chagrined Russell Crowe apologized Wednesday for throwing a telephone at a hotel concierge this week, saying he reacted poorly to being a lonely family man away from his wife and family in Australia. "This is possibly the most shameful situation I've ever gotten myself in in my life, and I've done some pretty dumb things in my life," Crowe told David Letterman. |
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