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In response to alarm expressed by the St. Petersburg tourism industry at a crime wave against foreign tourists, city police have announced they are taking steps to counter the pickpocket gangs. Staff from 15 private security agencies have been recruited to join forces with the city police to prevent crimes against foreigners in the high season, the police said in a letter to the city branch of the Russian Tourism Industry Union, or RST. Three police teams will patrol metro trains and the platforms of the city’s three busiest stations — Ploshchad Vosstaniya, Nevsky Prospekt and Technologichesky Institute — where thieves have been extremely active, the letter said. |
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Green Mat A 1.5 hectare lawn in Palace Square on Wednesday, the Day of Remembrance and Sorrow, the 64th anniversary of Hitler's World War II attack. The grass represented the victory of good over evil. |
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MOSCOW — Economic growth is slowing and gross domestic product will not double by 2010, regardless of the target set by President Vladimir Putin, Economic Development and Trade Minister German Gref said at Thursday’s Cabinet meeting. A visibly agitated Gref told Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov that the goal of doubling gross domestic product by 2010 was “unrealistic.
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One would expect a top-flight sportsman to think big. Anton Sikharulidze, 2002 Olympic champion, two times world champion and three times European champion in figure skating, certainly does. “When I do something, I either do it on a grand scale or don’t bother at all,” Sikharulidze said Wednesday of his spacious new restaurant Sphinx. |
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New Park Established n ST. PETERSBURG (SPT) — A Park for the Heroism of the Russian and Belarussian people was established in the Nevsky District on Wednesday, the Day of Remembrance and Sorrow, the anniversary of Hitler’s attack on the Soviet Union on July 22, 1941, Interfax reported. The park will be located near the intersection of Dalnevostochny Prospekt and Ulitsa Telmana, where veterans and representatives of City Hall have put a memory capsule and installed a stone. |
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The remains of Maria Fyodorovna, mother of Russia’s last tsar, Nicholas II, will arrive in St. Petersburg from Denmark on a military Danish ship to be reburied in the Romanov crypt of SS. Peter and Paul Cathedral on Sept. 26, 2006. “The remains will first arrive at the Alexander Nevsky church in St. |
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Open Day at Mission ST. PETERSBURG (SPT) —The German General Consulate in St. Petersburg will for the first time hold an open day on Saturday from 2 p. |
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It’s not easy to spice up insurance policies. Aiming to reach Internet-wise clients with all too little time to spend in tedious lines at the store, two St. Petersburg insurers have uploaded their services to the web. In addition to face-to-face sales at the office, Progress Neva, the city’s fourth-largest insurer, and Klass, twelfth-largest, this week launched several insurance products through Sapsan, the first St. |
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MOSCOW — Shattered oil company Yukos could sell off its core assets if “absolutely necessary” in order to pay the remains of some $28 billion in back tax claims, Yukos vice president Frank Rieger told the company’s annual shareholders meeting Thursday, according to news agencies. |
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MOSCOW — The State Duma approved last week long-awaited amendments to a legislative package that could ease business for Russian shipowners and could potentially infuse billions of dollars into the domestic shipbuilding industry. Over 400 deputies voted in the first reading for the amendments in federal legislation relating to the creation of the Russian International Shipping Register, the Transportation Ministry said in a statement. |
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It’s not easy to spice up insurance policies. Aiming to reach Internet-wise clients with all too little time to spend in tedious lines at the store, two St. |
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MOSCOW — Shattered oil company Yukos could sell off its core assets if “absolutely necessary” in order to pay the remains of some $28 billion in back tax claims, Yukos vice president Frank Rieger told the company’s annual shareholders meeting Thursday, according to news agencies. Yukos saw its crown jewel — the 1 million barrel-per-day Yuganskneftegaz subsidiary — transferred for about $9 billion to state-owned Rosneft after its forced sale against Yukos’ debts in a disputed December auction. Output at the company, which was once Russia’s biggest crude producer, stands at 600,000 barrels per day, Rieger said, but he warned that this figure could drop as the company cuts back spending on modernization and repairs. |
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 MOSCOW — The State Duma approved last week long-awaited amendments to a legislative package that could ease business for Russian shipowners and could potentially infuse billions of dollars into the domestic shipbuilding industry. |
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A roadmap for Russian reform needs first and foremost to establish the institutional infrastructure required by a developed country. As with the problem of basic values, the question of what comes first — a high level of economic development or the institutions that accompany it — has no simple, straightforward answer. |
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Last week I witnessed a trend that gave me a positive view of relations between Russians and the ethnic Russians and Balts in the Baltic states. While traveling with St. |
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The imminent demolition of the House of Culture of the First Five Year Plan will initiate the city’s most ambitious architectural project in recent memory. The gray Soviet-era monolith will make way for the a new Mariinsky Theater building, a daring extravaganza of color and form conceived by renowned French architect Dominique Perrault. |
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A local concert by The White Stripes, the Detroit-based rocking duo, is the event of the week or even the month, definitely. There are two disappointments, however. |
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Cafe Me100 18 Ulitsa Lenina (Between Bolshoi Prospekt and Bolshaya Pushkarskaya Ulitsa on the Petrograd Side) Tel. 230 53 59 Open daily from 11 a.m. to midnight (Friday, Saturday until 1 a.m.) Menu in Russian only. Major credit cards accepted. Dinner for two with alcohol 1,545 rubles ($55) Me100, or MeSto, means “place” and “me 100. |
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Near the big-bang finish of “Batman Begins,” the title avenger, played by the charismatic young British actor Christian Bale, scoops up a damsel in distress, played by Katie Holmes, and spirits her away to his lair. |
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Brazzaville, the dark pop band formed by David Brown, once a saxophonist with Beck, has been tightly connected to Russia since it first came here in late 2003. The band’s fourth and most recent studio album “Hastings Street” has so far been a Russia-only release, while one of Brown’s most recent songs, “Ugly Babylon,” is actually about Moscow. |
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Bustling, picturesque and cosmopolitan, Munich is the place where, according to surveys, Germans would most like to live. Once there, you can see why. Munich’s vibrant ambiance is hard to resist. |
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Jagr Regrets Lockout PRAGUE, Czech Republic (AP) — New York Rangers forward Jaromir Jagr said Tuesday that players’ initial refusal of a salary cap in talks with the NHL was a gamble that did not work out. “We started the fight because we didn’t agree with the introduction of salary caps,” Jagr said. |
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WIMBLEDON, England — Maria Sharapova sharpened her claws at Wimbledon on Thursday, thrashing precocious young upstart Sesil Karatantcheva 6-0 6-1 in the second round. |
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