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VLADIKAVKAZ - "You should be killed and your body thrown to the pigs!" was the daily curse hurled by mothers of children killed in last September's Beslan school attack and former hostages at the sole surviving hostage-taker, Nur-Pashi Kulayev, when he went on trial in a Vladikavkaz court last month. |
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A senior police official has laid most of the blame for crimes against foreigners in St. Petersburg at the feet of illegal migrants and careless tourists. |
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Ten years ago Vladimir had reached a dead end. He fed his alcohol addiction with a liter of vodka every day. A butcher by profession, he kept getting fired and losing the income he needed to support his wife and three children. Born in a village where many people drank heavily, Vladimir was caught by the same habit. |
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A hand-grenade that exploded just after former policeman Andrei Lapin, 42, was sentenced in St. Petersburg's Primorsky district court on Wednesday killed one person and injured 12 others. The dead man, Alexander Skel, had protected judge Vladimir Kazakov from a grenade Lapin detonated. |
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Hazing Trial Begins ST. PETERSBURG (SPT) - The Kronshtadt garrison military court has begun hearing the case of 12 marines who deserted from their military district after being hazed by senior officers, Interfax reported. |
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Swedish retailer IKEA started construction work on a $500 million investment project that includes setting up two family shopping centers and a further furniture store in the city. By the side of the existing IKEA store in Dybenko, the company will build a MEGA retail and entertainment center and add another MEGA complex and IKEA in the Parnas area of the city, the company said Thursday. |
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President Vladimir Putin affirmed what the economists have noted happening for some time - Russia has effectively abandoned its policy of stimulating economic growth through the fostering of small and medium-sized business and will instead support several champion industries to achieve global recognition. |
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Swedish-owned Tele2, Russia's fourth-largest mobile operator, started its expansion into the regions, intending to double its network coverage by the end of the year, the company said Wednesday. Although the company will remain mainly a urban-based operator, Tele2 plans to establish itself in "key towns" around the Leningrad Oblast, with 10 settlements to receive network coverage by the end of this month, said Sergei Sukharev, the head of Tele2 in St. |
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The Japanese auto giant Toyota on Tuesday laid the foundation stone of its new assembly plant just outside of St. Petersburg, vowing to reach an annual capacity of 200,000 vehicles "soon" after production starts in 2007. |
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Federal Security Bureau agents raided the offices of St. Petersburg's stock exchange and some of the city's banks on Wednesday and Thursday as a part of money laundering investigation. Valery Kuznetsov, a spokesman for the regional branch of the Federal Security Service, FSB, said investigators were targeting a fraud ring or people that had been involved in illegally claiming value added tax rebates and then transferring the money abroad. |
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Leading Scandinavian meat producer and processor, Atria Group, has entered the Russian market by purchasing one of St. Petersburg's largest meat processors Pit Product, the firm said Thursday. |
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EY Law CIS made a number of significant staff changes at its practices in St. Petersburg as it prepares to split from parent company Ernst & Young, the firm said Wednesday. From July 1, EY Law CIS will be subsumed by international legal firm DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary, creating what will be one of the largest legal practices in the region. |
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The popularity of BMW in Russia will ensure a sales growth in 2005 of close to 40 percent, despite increased competition in the premium car segment, St. |
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While President Vladimir Putin steadily builds his vertical of power, his constituents seem to be experiencing a major shift in attitude away from a sense of stability and order toward feelings of anarchy and turmoil. According to an opinion poll conducted last month by the Levada Center, 43 percent of Russians think the country is headed toward anarchy. |
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There is a well-known joke that says Russians can only make one good thing - children. The business press in Austria showed in an analysis of the Russian retail trade that this joke is up to date. |
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 As a scholar who has devoted her career to studying fashion, Olga Vainshtein always had a natural curiousity about dandies. But her interest took off after she unwittingly married one. During a recent interview in a Moscow cafe, Vainshtein described her style-conscious husband, Shakespeare scholar Aidyn Dzhebrailov. |
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This June saw a new yet disappointing local music tendency. Decent Western artists come to town but their fans have no chance to hear their music, as they perform at reclusive, elitist and very expensive events. |
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Sitting at a table on the 6th floor terrace of the Renaissance St. Petersburg Baltic Hotel, you see the old town up close and personal. Charming crumbling rooftops. The shiny golden cupola of St. Isaac's Cathedral just across the street make for an unbeatable view, even if the city weather is at its moody best as it was when we visited. When we arrived at our table, our waiter Alexei was prompt to offer us a menu. The list featured a tempting selection of starters. My dining companion opted for beetroot jelly with fillet of Iceland herring and laredo apple, placed on toasted black Russian bread with round potatoes served with dill-mustard sauce (225 rubles, $7. |
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 Pierre Moerlen, the French drummer extraordinaire best known for his work with the legendary prog-rock band Gong, established strong links to St. Petersburg in the past few years. |
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The Molodyozhny Theater began celebrating its 25th anniversary on Thursday and performances of its best productions will run until next Thursday. "It's an old Russian tradition to celebrate holidays over several days," said Semyon Spivak, the chief director of the theater for 15 years who celebrated his 55th birthday Tuesday. "It's wonderful that the theater management agreed and found money to do so. It's a very interesting experiment." The Molodozhny was established by Vladimir Malishitsky in 1980 and immediately won audiences' hearts. The theater became the youth stage for experimental theater forms. The theater company consisted of professional as well as amateur actors. |
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 White Nights and dark theaters may seem an odd combination, but to St. Petersburg film lovers it is a golden opportunity. The 13th annual Festival of Festivals international film festival, hosted by Lenfilm Studios, will run Thursday to June 29 at Dom Kino, Rodina, Molodyozhny, Druzhba, and Svet theaters. |
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