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A new opposition movement Oborona, or Defense, held its first protest against the policies of President Vladimir Putin on Monday by hanging a sign on a half-destroyed building at 5 Baskov Pereulok, near the place where Putin spent his childhood. About 20 young people, supported by the St. |
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Two volumes of works by slain St. Petersburg ethnic and racial issue expert Nikolai Girenko, were launched on the first anniversary of his death Monday. |
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MOSCOW - Responding to criticism from former judges and the press, Moscow City Court's chief judge, Olga Yegorova, said that she neither colludes with prosecutors nor gets city judges fired for dissent and leniency. "The judge's job is to issue a verdict. |
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Finland's State Employer's Office on Monday invited border guards and their employers to define the limits of their labor dispute before a round of escalating month-long industrial action began Tuesday, the online edition of the Helsingin Sanomat reported Monday. |
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More than 70 St. Petersburgers have assets worth more than 1 billion rubles ($35 million), a rating of the city's richest residents by Finans magazine and the weekly Predprinimatel Peterburga, Rosbalt reported Friday. The city has only one dollar billionaire - Andrei Rogachev, a member of the supervisory board of Pyatyorochka, whose assets are valued at 32. |
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Russian figure skater and three times world champion Yevgeny Plushenko, 24, got married to St. Petersburg State University student Maria Yermak in St. Petersburg on Saturday. The wedding ceremony took place in the restaurant of the Astoria hotel from where the guests walked to St. |
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The St. Petersburg Judges Council decided Friday to ask the city police to provide officers who will maintain security in courts. It also decided to ask the federal authorities to finance installation of metal detectors in all St. |
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St. Petersburg physicist and Nobel prize winner Zhores Alfyorov and German academic Klaus Riedle, who won this year's Global Energy Prize, received the award at Konstantinovsky Palace on Friday. "I'm overwhelmed by the great honor to receive the prize from a country whose power, energy, science and people I admire," Riedle said at the ceremony. |
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KALININGRAD (SPT) - Poland is to install unique equipment to detect the heartbeats of illegal migrants on the border of the Kaliningrad region. The device can detect the heartbeat of a person hidden in a vehicle and will be installed at the Russian-Polish border crossing at Bezledy-Bagrationovsk in line with EU requirements, Interfax reported Friday. |
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MOSCOW - A Smolensk court in has sentenced a journalist to more than five years in prison after he was convicted of defaming three regional officials by accusing them of masterminding the killing of his boss five years ago. Judge Irina Malinovskaya of the Smolensk magistrates court on June 6 sentenced Nikolai Goshko to five years and one month in prison for accusing regional officials on the air of organizing the killing of Sergei Novikov, head of the independent Smolensk station Radio Vesna. |
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MOSCOW - Responding to calls for child adoption procedures to be made more transparent, the Education and Science Ministry has created a new Internet site to provide information about laws and regulations governing adoption, and is offering a database of all orphans eligible for adoption in Russia. |
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Ogonyok Rights Bought ROSTOV-ON-DON (SPT)- The St. Petersburg-based holding Telekominvest said Friday that it had bought the rights to publish Ogonyok magazine from Ova-Press, Kommersant reported. Ova-Press said that it was planning to create a publishing house around Ogonyok. |
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MOSCOW - The Prosecutor General's Office announced Thursday that it had wrapped up the investigation of the killing of American journalist Paul Klebnikov and that a suspected Chechen rebel financier, the subject of a scathing book by Klebnikov, had ordered the slaying. |
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MOSCOW - The Constitutional Court on Thursday announced it would look into a challenge to the abolition of direct gubernatorial elections. It made the decision last week in response to a complaint by Vladimir Grishkevich, a geologist and former liberal politician in the Tyumen region, and may hand down a ruling as soon as October, a court spokeswoman said. |
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MOSCOW - Members of the State Duma commission investigating the Beslan tragedy said Thursday that a preliminary draft of the report indicated that an accidental explosion, not a planned storming of the school by government troops, set off the ensuing bloody firefight. |
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MOSCOW - Boris Berezovsky last week announced a change of general director and editor at Kommersant newspaper and his intention to sell Nezavisimaya Gazeta. Kommersant general director Andrei Vasilyev will move to Kiev as editor of the newspaper's startup Ukraine edition, Berezovsky said by telephone from London. |
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Norwegian energy groups Statoil and Norsk Hydro agreed on Monday to work with gas giant Gazprom in charting petroleum resources in Russia's far north, the firms said. The deal, which includes development of petroleum technology for the region, could help the Norwegian companies in their bid to join in developing Russia's huge Arctic Shtokman gas field, though no partnership for that field was signed. |
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Mobile retail chain Ultra will invest $25 million into a massive store expansion program by 2006, the company said Monday. Ultra Star, which owns the mobile retail brand, said the number of Ultra mobile salons will sore from 140 to 300 by the end of this year, and 800 by the end of 2006. |
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MOSCOW - The appointment of Vladimir Yakunin, a close associate of President Vladimir Putin, as president of Russian Railways Co. should shake up the railroad industry and help speed up lagging reform, industry players and analysts said Thursday. Yakunin, formerly the first vice president of Russian Railways Co. |
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MOSCOW - The International Finance Corporation, the World Bank's private lending unit, signed its first deal to support microloans in Russia on Friday. |
 They are wealthy, in-vogue and very busy. Yelena Ustinova and Natalia Smirnova say their business provides them with an outlet for creativity and self-expression and they aim to turn their chic beauty salon into an 800-square meter relaxation center. "This is a business that brings satisfaction," Ustinova said, who also manages several other business projects that are "just for the money. |
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Though a market that has only gained notice in the last two years, realtors say demand for foreign real estate has skyrocketed. In 2004, Russians spent over $7. |
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Western audiences should not be shocked by the Russian state's dismantling of Yukos, nor by the personal vendetta driven against the oil major's CEO Mikhail Khodorkovsky, since the case has clear historical precedents in the U.S., an academic said. Comparing the early stages of capitalism in the U. |
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Yukos was not the only business to be destroyed by Russia's legal system and corrupt bureaucrats. In 1996, after three years of research, planning and renovation, my Russian partner and I opened Shakespeare and Co. |
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First, the charmingly unidiomatic declarations of love, the cautious congratulations from friends and family, the delight at every little reminder that you and your new Russian spouse come not only from different countries, but also from different worlds. And if the delight gives way to a desire never to share a breakfast table again - as it does for two-thirds of Russian-foreign couples, according to Rossiiskaya Gazeta - there may be some consolation in learning that the slate can be swept clean for about the price of three long-stemmed red roses. |
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The battle for political power is once again heating up in Russia. The old oligarchs who got their property through shady privatizations are fighting the new oligarchs, the siloviki who came to power under President Vladimir Putin. The old oligarchs replaced politics with intrigues and gerrymandering, spreading corruption to every branch of the government and eventually bringing Putin to power. |
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City Hall's housing committee is taking the risk of running tenders to service residential buildings. The building's residents can at any moment reject the company the committee has nominated, even if the company has invested in the building and not yet recouped its expenses. |
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As we all know, President George W. Bush is the most morally upright individual ever to set foot in the White House: a sober, righteous man of God. Yet this very rectitude obscures the fact that he is also one of the great wits of our time, a subtle and sophisticated ironist who has turned the dull business of governance into a highly refined comedic art. |
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CIA 'Knows' Hideout NEW YORK - The director of the CIA says he has an "excellent idea" where Osama bin Laden is hiding, but that the United States' respect for sovereign nations makes it more difficult to capture the al-Qaida chief. In an interview with Time for the magazine's June 27 issue, Goss said: "I have an excellent idea where he is. |
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Mexico Beats Brazil FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) - Mexico upset Brazil 1-0 Sunday in the Confederations Cup, outplaying the five-time World Cup champions with Jared Borgetti scoring the winner on a 59th-minute header. |
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