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 Dozens of St. Petersburg residents left their condolences for the victims of Thursday’s terrorist attacks in London at the British Consulate General on Monday. “In the name of all St. Petersburg residents I express our deepest sympathy to the people and government of Great Britain in connection with the death of dozens of people in terrifying terrorist acts in London,” Governor Valentina Matviyenko wrote in the condolence book. |
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The Prosecutor General’s Office said Monday that it was investigating whether Mikhail Kasyanov broke the law when he obtained a government-owned cottage shortly before being fired as prime minister in early 2004. |
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MOSCOW — Sergei Gryzunov, a former senior government press official and vice president of the Russian Association of Independent Publishers, was on Monday appointed general director of liberal weekly Moskovskiye Novosti. Gryzunov, 55, was introduced to the staff by Ukrainian business tycoon Vadim Rabinovich, whose company Media International Group bought MN from Yukos tycoon Leonid Nevzlin on July 3. |
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St. Petersburg criminal police have found a picture by Russian master and one of the 20th century ’s most influential artists Marc Chagall, which was stolen several years ago and was being prepared to be smuggled out of the country. |
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The St. Petersburg Prosecutor’s Office has initiated a criminal case in relation to an attempt to transport weapons allegedly committed by Viktor Pleskachevsky, a St. Petersburg State Duma deputy in the pro-Kremlin United Russia party who heads the Duma property committee, the media reported last week. Customs officials found several gun bullets and part of a rocket shell in the deputy’s luggage before he boarded a flight at Pulkovo airport, the Agency for Journalistic Investigations reported last week. “At 8:30 a.m. on May 27 ammunition was found during a search of luggage belonging to Viktor Pleskachevsky,” the deputy’s press-service said in an official statement at the end of May. |
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River View A tug and a cruise liner on opposite banks of the Neva on Monday with the dome of St. Isaac's Cathedral visible beyond the Lieutenant Shmidt Bridge at left. Cruise ships are in port each day. |
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The Ivangorod fortress on the border between Russia and Estonia should be restored for political reasons, Interfax quoted Culture and Press Minister Alexander Sokolov as saying Saturday. The fortress on the edge of the Leningrad Oblast is an ancient Russian outpost to the west, he added. “We should push hard so that the work resumes,” he said. Sokolov had inspected the fortress Friday in connection with the opening of a memorial to 19th century industrialist and patron of the arts Baron Alexander Stieglitz, who was from Ivangorod.
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Starovoitova Appeals ST. PETERSBURG (SPT) — The lawyers for two of those convicted of murdering State Duma Deputy Galina Starovoitova in 1988 have appealed to the Supreme Court, Interfax reported Monday. Valery Sandalnev, the lawyer of Yury Kolchin, who was sentenced to 20 years in jail for organizing the assassination, listed three breaches committed during the investigation which he believed could lead to the verdict being changed and a retrial ordered, the report said. |
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MOSCOW — The State Duma on Friday approved the creation of a new rival nationalist faction, meaning that when the chamber reconvenes in September it will have five factions rather than four, and two of them will be called Rodina. |
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MOSCOW — Relatives and colleagues of journalists slain in Russia say that law enforcement authorities are stonewalling investigations into the murders, creating what press freedom advocates say is a situation in which journalists can be killed without repercussions. |
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MOSCOW — Law enforcement agencies in Dagestan on Wednesday said they had killed Rasul Makasharipov, leader of a radical Islamic rebel group whose members have been accused of killing dozens of policemen and security officers in the republic. |
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MOSCOW — State Duma deputies are eagerly anticipating their summer vacation, which started Saturday, to plant vegetables at their dachas, go hunting and fishing, drink fresh milk and lard-laced vodka or even fly to Libya to meet with Libyan President Moammar Gadhafi. |
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A former inmate who said he shared a cell with Mikhail Khodorkovsky said the Yukos billionaire threw away his laundry rather than having it washed by prison staff, bought food for the other two inmates in his cell and was very sociable. |
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MOSCOW — An Italian couple flew home with their newly adopted son late Wednesday after prosecutors determined they had not abused the boy on a Barnaul-Moscow flight in early June. Sheremetyevo Airport police had briefly detained the adoptive parents, Giovanni Fiori and Giovanna Pintus of Sassari, Italy, after a flight attendant accused them of physically abusing Kirill Pushkin, 7, who lived at an orphanage in Barnaul, in the Altai region. |
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MOSCOW — Within the next two years, Russia’s annual economic output will finally reach the level of 1990, Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin told the Federation Council on Monday. But experts voiced doubts about the relevance of Kudrin’s forecast, saying that Soviet-era statistics were hardly comparable with current economic figures because the Soviet economy did not function on market principles. |
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Hoping to realize the potential of its much talked-about domestic Information Technology industry, Russia has turned to a country, that practically re-invented itself through a hi-tech revolution. |
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DC to Join Toyota ST. PETERSBURG (SPT) — DaimlerChrysler will open its Russian plant in the Shushary area, on the outskirts of St. Petersburg, NTV news reported Monday without stating a source. As formerly reported, the plant will assembly Mercedes and Chrysler cars and will open by 2007. |
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Members of St. Petersburg International Business Association for North-Western Russia (SPIBA) were on a “SPIBA White Nights” business trip to Estonia from June 16 to 19, 2005. |
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After years of stagnation due to an absence of ¸nancing, the project to build a new cargo port in Ust-Luga, 150 km west of St. Petersburg, has come back to life, and is now in full swing. The ¸rst coal terminal with a 4-million ton annual capacity is scheduled to start operations later this year. |
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Google, the most-used Internet search engine, won an arbitration ruling against a St. Petersburg man who registered web domain names, including www.googkle. |
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Over 100 Russian cargo transportation companies have stopped their international operations in Finland this month after the Finnish center for cargo vehicles stopped issuing permits to non EU-registered companies, Kommersant reported Saturday. The permits are needed for freight transport to use the roads of the European Union. |
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Poles Anti Baltic Pipe GDANSK, Poland (Reuters) — Poland believes the project to build an undersea gas pipeline to carry Russian gas to Germany is unprofitable and wants the European Commission to consider alternative routes, ministers said on Saturday. |
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Russia Repays Debt MOSCOW (Bloomberg) — Russia spent 430 billion rubles ($15 billion) of its so-called stabilization fund, created to store windfall oil revenue, to pay debt to the Paris Club of creditor nations early, Interfax said, citing the Finance Ministry. |
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Up to 22 new hotels will open in St. Petersburg this year, according to official statistics. The news is unlikely to gladden the casual tourist or the budget traveler, however, as analysts say that, lured by the larger profits in the higher segments, developers have once more ignored 2- and 3-star accommodation projects. |
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Each month, Russians seem to spend less and less on mobile phones. With profit from each mobile phone subscription steadily declining, operators are pulling out all the stops to keep their subscribers engaged, entertained, and glued to their handsets. |
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Once upon a time, thieves and robbers of all types specialized in stealing purses. However, not all purses are the same — some contain almost no money, and in others they find plastic bank cards that are of absolutely no use to the “amateur” pickpocket. |
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Investors finally have regional legislature from the Leningrad Oblast authorities to back their businesses: Since the start of June, all enterprises that have a contract with the region are able to enjoy a lower profits tax of 13 percent. The worry many still have, however, centers on the permanence of the backing. |
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At the close of the Gleneagles Summit this week, Russia will take over leadership of the Group of Eight, the “super club” of countries that in theory are driving the world economy and political system. |
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In his response to the London bombings, President Vladimir Putin strongly urged G8 leaders “not to allow terrorists to creep through the crevices between us and breach our common struggle.” A common struggle against terrorism, however, implies more than unity between leaders; it means that governments must work together with the ordinary citizens that most often bear the brunt of such attacks. |
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The cataclysmic attacks on New York and Washington on Sept. 11, 2001, created a small but influential industry, arguing through and on behalf of the administration of U. |
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The State Duma on Wednesday passed in its third an final reading the law on concessions. In terms of its significance for the economy of our country this is a revolutionary event because the introduction into practice of a concessions mechanism will provide the impulse for a great number of important reforms and projects in widely different spheres of the economy — in the communal housing services sector, in transport and in energy — everywhere that needs to attract large sums of private investment in state property that cannot be privatized: airport runways, river and sea ports, highways and railroads, strategically important energy transportation systems, including communal heating, sewerage and electrical power networks, and so on. |
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On July 1, the former physician of ex-President George H. W. Bush wrote a guest column for The Washington Post. Two days later, the attorney general appointed by current President George W. |
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