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 The murder of a Congolese student in a St. Petersburg suburb has been solved, the head of the city police crime squad Vladislav Piotrovsky said Thursday during a meeting with African students. Piotrovsky declined to give any further details. Last Saturday night, Ronald Epasak, a 29-year-old third-year Congolese student at the St. |
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In the latest development in a long-running dispute, the Supreme Court has rejected an appeal made by St. Petersburg Charter Court judge Lyudmila Kuleshova. |
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KIEV — A top Ukrainian official denied allegations that exiled Russian magnate Boris Berezovsky financed the presidential election campaign last year of Viktor Yushchenko, brought to power after “Orange Revolution” protests. Oleh Rybachuk, Yushchenko’s chief of staff, was among several of the president’s allies denying any suggestion that Berezovsky, now an avowed foe of the Kremlin, had channeled funds to the president’s campaign. |
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Former Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov said late Wednesday that he would run for president in 2008. The announcement is likely to anger the Kremlin, with President Vladimir Putin having said in the past that he feels it his duty to select a successor. |
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St. Petersburg is facing a rise in the number of hepatitis A and typhoid cases, but less dysentery, city experts say. During the first eight months of 2005 the hepatitis A rate more than doubled over the same period in 2004, Oleg Parkov, head of the city’s Rospotrebnadzor or Russian Customers Watch said. |
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Hunting Season Opens ST. PETERSBURG (SPT) — The hunting season opens in St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Oblast on Sept. 17, Interfax reported Wednesday. Russian Agriculture Watch has begun issuing permits for fall and winter hunting of animals for fur and badgers. Hunting for hares and foxes will be allowed from Sept. |
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St. Petersburg-based Taleon group hopes to take advantage of the growing Russian stock market and raise $20 million through an initial public offering by the end of this year. Organizers and book-runners for the IPO — Finam and Planeta Capital investment companies — will conduct an additional issue of 70 million Taleon shares (equivalent to about a 10 percent stake in the group) to attract investment to its hotel complex development. |
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One of the country’s largest fund managers, CIT Finans, will launch by the end of this month the first mutual fund in Russia that is linked specifically to metallurgy and auto industries, the company said Thursday. |
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MOSCOW — Gazprom on Friday will name five potential partners for the giant Shtokman gas fields in the Barents Sea, a source familiar with the situation said Wednesday. The long-awaited announcement, to be made in Moscow on Friday morning, is due just hours ahead of a meeting in New York between President Vladimir Putin and U. |
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Domodedovo, Moscow’s most modern airport, is gearing up to become a major hub for trans-Atlantic flights. U.S. carrier Continental Airlines will begin daily service to Moscow next spring, and domestic carriers Transaero and Domodedovo Airlines are also looking to start operations to the United States, airport director Sergei Rudakov said. |
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Moody’s Lifts 9 Banks LONDON (Bloomberg) — Nine Russian banks had their long-and short-term foreign-currency deposit ratings put on review for a possible upgrade by Moody’s Investors Service. Moody’s made the announcement after it earlier said it may upgrade the Russian Federation’s Ba1 foreign-currency bank deposit ceiling, according to a statement on the ratings company’s newswire today. |
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Francois Mitterrand, when he was a left-wing opposition deputy, once described the French Constitution as a permanent coup d’etat. At a later point, he himself became president of France and felt absolutely fine acting within that very same constitution. |
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Financial Times The seemingly interminable six-party talks aimed at persuading North Korea to abandon nuclear weapons in exchange for security guarantees and foreign aid are veering dangerously close to absurdity. |
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Something is very wrong when you read the results of an opinion poll and think, they should have kept this quiet. That is the reaction I found myself having when I read that 28 percent of the people in Moscow’s Universitetsky District surveyed by the independent Levada Center were ready to vote for Mikhail Khodorkovsky in the upcoming by-election to fill their district’s State Duma seat. |
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 After summer’s slumber, St. Petersburg’s classical music titans are waking with the 2005/2006 season opening this week. The internationally acclaimed German violinist Julia Fischer performs at the Shostakovich Philharmonic on Sept. 16 alongside the Philharmonic’s symphony orchestra under the baton of Yury Temirkanov in a program of works by Dvorak, Weber and Sibelius. Temirkanov, whose contract with Baltimore symphony orchestra expires at the end of this season, is to be succeeded by Marin Alsop. |
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 Described as the “Last Angry Band in Britain,” Asian Dub Foundation, a nine-member, multicultural collective, attacks the war in Iraq in its latest album, “Tank. |
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Asian Dub Foundation, the London-based band that blends ragga, dub and psychedelic rock, will perform as part of the one-night Afisha Music Festival this week. The band will perform songs from the band’s fifth album “Tank,” its most recent, as well as from its predecessor, 2003’s “Enemy of the Enemy,” according to the band’s guitarist Steve “Chandrasonic” Savale, who described the show as a “mixture. |
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Now in its eighth year, the city’s groundbreaking Early Music Festival returns this week. Every fall, vibrant performances of its refined ensembles evoke, embody and revive the long-lost noble spirit of St. |
 Mongolia gave a name to at least one Soviet rock band. The Moscow-based Mongol Shuudan (Mongolian Post Service) took it from Mongolian stamps, popular collectibles in Soviet times. The Mongolian folk trio Temujin joined local rock legends Akvarium on stage in 1994. But the contemporary music scene of the Northern Asian country remains obscure for the Russian rock musicians and fans. |
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UNITED NATIONS — World leaders united on Wednesday on the need to ban incitement of terrorism but fell short of ambitions for a fundamental reform of the United Nations at a summit on the agency’s 60th anniversary. The 15-member Security Council held a rare top-level session to adopt a resolution on terrorism proposed by Britain following the July 7 London bombings. |
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Agence France Presse NEW ORLEANS — The death toll from Hurricane Katrina passed 700 and the floodwaters began to recede, as New Orleans’s mayor, Ray Nagin said much of the jazz capital’s population could return next week. |
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PARIS — Not only will the French hosts feel right at home during this weekend’s Fed Cup final but also their Russian visitors will be at their ease at Roland Garros. France’s formidable singles line-up of Amelie Mauresmo and Mary Pierce will be firm fans’ favourites at the venue of the French Open, but Roland Garros is a happy hunting ground for the Russians. |
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A Chechen football club facing relegation from the Russian Premier League has asked President Vladimir Putin for help, saying its survival would boost peace efforts in the volatile Caucasus region. |
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MONACO — Yelena Isinbayeva and Kenenisa Bekele were named as the International Association of Athletics Federations’ (IAAF) female and male athlete of the year for the second consecutive season last weekend. Ethiopian Bekele, 23, retained the world 10,000 meters title in Helsinki last month after winning the world cross country championships long and short course titles for the fourth successive year. |
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