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NAKHODKA, Far East — When Ursula Rossmeisel offers tea, her German sounds a little as if it is from another time. In her room, which serves as a bedroom, livingroom, playroom and workroom in one, there is just enough space for a bed, a small table and a wardrobe. On the bed are a pile of cushions and soft toys belonging to her granddaughter Anastasia, seven, with whom the pensioner shares her 14-square-meter room. The room is in a communal apartment in the port of Nakhodka on the Pacific coast. Here, 130 kilometers beyond Vladivostok, the railway stations have ceased to have names, and are known only by their kilometer number. The world seems to end here. It takes nine hours to fly to Moscow. |
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OUT OF THE GRAVE
Alexander Belenky / The St. Petersburg Times
Pavel Belozerov, one of the organizers, helps Alexander emerge from his underground refuge while participating in a psychological rebirthing experience in which about a dozen people were buried alive for several hours Saturday. The location was south of the city. |
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St. Petersburg Legislative Assembly deputy Igor Rimmer has followed an initiative last week by legislators in the Primorye region with his own initiative to allow President Vladimir Putin to serve a third term in office. Rimmer submitted a bill to the assembly on Friday to amend the parts of the Constitution that prohibit a third term, the city parliament’s press service reported.
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The St. Petersburg Chapter of the American Chamber of Commerce and the city police have posted detailed safety advice on the Internet to help foreign visitors avoid becoming victims of crime in the city. The 2-1/2 page document describes the rights of visitors and the police and offers guidelines on how to behave in Russia. |
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St. Petersburg is taking preventive measures to halt an outbreak of typhoid in the city, Oleg Parkov, head of the city’s epidemiological watch at the news conference on said Thursday. Twenty-nine cases of typhoid were registered in St. Petersburg for the first seven months of this year compared to only one case in 2004. |
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The St. Petersburg City Court on Monday started preliminary hearings of the trial of two suspects for their roles in the assassination of liberal State Duma deputy Galina Starovoitova in 1998. |
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Automated Registration ST. PETERSBURG (SPT) – A project for a unified automated system of guest registration in all city hotels is ready to be implemented, Interfax reported Saturday. The existing paper-based system of registration makes it hard to search for where guests are and lacks the advantages of an electronic database, Interfax quoted a report by the press service of northwest regional branch of the Russian Tourist Industry Union as saying . |
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MOSCOW — St. Petersburg industrial conglomerate IST Group said in a statement on Friday that it had sold its 88 percent stake in shipbuilder Baltiisky Zavod to United Industrial Corp., or OPK, which owns crosstown rival Severnaya Verf. The deal ends years of often-fierce competition and gives OPK the opportunity to create a shipbuilding powerhouse. |
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A top federal official promised Friday that in almost all parts of the Northwest region of Russia gross domestic product will double by 2010, outperforming the country’s general development several times. |
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Pochta Rossii, the Russian postal service, has considerably cut fees for international money transfers, hoping the move will help expand its share of that market sector by 800 percent in three years, the company said Monday. Wiring a typical, small amount, such as $70, will cost half as much, while transferring more sizeable sums, $500 and above, will become almost four times as cheap, deputy general director of Pochta Rossii, Denis Chuiko, said Friday at a press briefing. |
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KFC Drives Into Lenta ST. PETERSBURG (SPT) – Fast food chain KFC opened Friday its first drive-thru outlet in Russia by the parking facility of Lenta supermarket, on Pulkovskoye Shosse. |
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St. Petersburg-based Klimov Factory, a once secretive, state-owned helicopter and light-aircraft engine designer and maker, is promoting its products in the hope of getting more contracts in Russia and abroad. The factory is demonstrating its products this week (Aug. |
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MOSCOW — Russia plans to call in the support of the United Nations in its battle to regain leadership of the small arms market, a Foreign Ministry official said this month. |
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A person will always create a better interior for a home or a business if he takes care of the design himself, says Adriano Leto. After all, “you are the person who will use it,” he said. However, this may be a little simpler for Leto, who co-owns and manages the Casa Leto mini-hotel with his wife Tatyana. |
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GDP Forecast Raised MOSCOW (Bloomberg) — The government expects the economy to grow by 6.0 percent this year, Interfax reported, citing the Economic Development and Trade Minister German Gref. Gref also said the government had earlier raised its 2005 economic growth forecast to 5.9 percent from 5.6 percent, Interfax reported. |
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The latest incident with the mini-submarine trapped in the Pacific and rescued with British help should be not just an occasion to consider what lessons have been learned since the sinking of the Kursk and what still needs to be done to secure the safety of the submarine fleet. |
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People say there are only two real cities in Russia: Moscow and St. Petersburg. Some folks hold the even more radical opinion that Russia can be divided into two parts: Moscow-St. |
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The parlous state of historic architecture in St. Petersburg demonstrates once again the ineffectiveness of primitive bureaucratic methods used by the city government. City Hall has no realistic possibilities to preserve the appearance of the city other than using its own efforts. |
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If you keep making the same mistake over and over, you end up running down a winding road from minor inaccuracies to total absurdity. The government’s budget policy in the first half of 2005 suggests that the guys who pull the purse strings are nearing the end of this unfortunate road. |
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Mitvol is an interesting character. You have probably heard of him by now. He is a former businessman who by the age of 40-something had made enough money and accomplished enough in his chosen field of study — he is a media scholar with a doctorate in history — that he was casting about for something to do. |
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