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MOSCOW — Mikhail Khodorkovsky on Monday won a day’s reprieve for his election campaign as the Moscow City Court for a second time adjourned proceedings in his appeal. The three-judge panel pressed Khodorkovsky to have two junior lawyers and Anton Drel, a senior lawyer on his team, represent him in the appeal and ordered all three to sit at the defense table in the court in a bid to start proceedings. The only lawyer authorized by Khodorkovsky to defend him in the appeal, Genrikh Padva, was hospitalized last week due to poor health and has so far been unable to appear. After Khodorkovsky categorically refused to be defended by the lawyers urged on him by the judges, the judges agreed to give him more time to select a lawyer and said the court would reconvene Tuesday. |
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FUN RUNNERS
Alexander Belenky / The St. Petersburg Times
Some of the 15,000 runners taking part in the Cross Nation running day event in St. Petersburg leave Palace Square at the beginning of their jog across to Vasilievsky Island, the Petrograd Side, back on to the mainland, via the Troitsky Bridge, and back to Palace Square. |
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A St. Petersburg family became the first to be evicted from its apartment for failing to pay for communal services under the new housing code. The city authorities moved Lyudmila Sokolovskaya and her son, 23, whose debt for their three-room apartment since 1996 amounted to 48 thousand rubles ($1,689), to a 15 square meter room in a communal apartment on Sept.
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MOSCOW — With bids that threaten to thoroughly discredit the race, a motley group of prisoners at the Matrosskaya Tishina detention facility are drawing up plans to run against fellow prisoner Mikhail Khodorkovsky for a seat in the State Duma. Even if Khodorkovsky were to end up withdrawing, voluntarily or involuntarily, the other prisoners may refuse to follow suit, embarrassing federal and city authorities who appear keen on keeping Khodorkovsky from winning at all costs. |
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UNITED NATIONS — Russia asked the European Union on Monday to delay a move to report Iran’s nuclear program to the U.N. Security Council for possible sanctions and EU ministers were receptive, participants said. |
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Six St. Petersburg navy conscripts have won a second case against hazing after the Baltic Fleet garrison court gave recruit Ulasby Adilkhanov a four-year suspended sentence for physical abuse and bullying. In August, six St. Petersburg navy recruits, who had won a hazing court case in Kronshtadt in June of this year, were again involved in a violent incident in their new garrison in Baltiisk, Kaliningrad region. |
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By the end of 2006 Turkish retailer Ramenka will have 10 supermarkets and hypermarkets operating under the Ramstore brand in St. Petersburg, the company said Friday, opening its third Ramstore in the city. Ozgur Tort, deputy director of Ramenka, said the company will invest $60 million in the expansion during this year, adding two more stores. |
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Finnish producer Reka Rubber Ltd. will construct a technical rubber plant in Vyborg targeting among others local auto-makers as its clients, the firm’s deputy director for Russia, Oleg Ivanov, said Monday. |
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MOSCOW — Western banks agreed a record $12 billion loan to gas giant Gazprom to acquire Roman Abramovich’s Sibneft oil firm, in a deal that would give the Kremlin control over a third of Russian oil, senior bankers said Monday. Bankers said Gazprom secured the loan at meeting in Moscow with a consortium of Western banks. |
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MOSCOW — Construction will begin in 2006 on the country’s first major toll road, which will link Moscow to St. Petersburg, Deputy Transportation Minister Alexander Misharin said last week. |
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More than a half the local firms trading in timber do not meet export documentation requirements, the state body monitoring the industry said last week. Of 41 timber exporters checked in August, more than a half had “documents that could not even be accepted for a review,” Interfax cited the regional head of the state service responsible for inspecting the condition of the timber, Nikolai Shirokov, as saying. |
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MOSCOW — Economic Development and Trade Minister German Gref has pledged to double federal aid to the Far East next year and said he would welcome it if half of the new $2. |
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Toyota to Pick Builder ST. PETERSBURG (SPT) — Toyota Motor Manufacturing Russia, the local subsidiary of Japan’s auto-maker, will pick the constructor for its factory in Shushary by summer next year, Vice Governor Yury Molchanov told journalists on Monday, Interfax reported. |
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Information technology, or IT, is just one method of management that has been used by people for a long time, says Igor Bukhshtab, director of Lynx BCC Company, one of the city’s leading IT firms. |
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Most small and medium-sized businesses in Russia lack literacy in information technology due to insufficient consultation avenues and state support, said representatives of an EU-sponsored project that will present its findings this week Project “E-skills for Russian Small and Medium-sized Enterprises,” which was launched by a consortium of international management consultancies in November last year, plans to showcase findings and analysis from the first stage of its work on September 23, at the city’s Popov museum. |
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Additional mobile services are used regularly only by a third of cell phone subscribers, according to a poll by telecom industry analytical agency Sotaweek. |
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This has been a miserable year for the Ukrainian economy. Last year, Ukraine enjoyed economic growth of no less than 12.1 percent, but that declined to 3.7 percent during the first seven months of 2005. Moreover, output has been declining almost every month, as has industrial production, which fell by 2. |
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St. Petersburg has recently earned the distinction of being home to an Interregional Tax Inspectorate. But being closer to the taxman may not be such a bad idea, and could yet result in a real investment stimulus. |
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MOSCOW — Gazprom on Friday narrowed down the list of potential partners for developing the Shtokman gas field to five companies: Statoil and Hydro of Norway; France’s Total; and Chevron and ConocoPhillips of the United States. The gas extracted at the giant Arctic gas field — which has reserves that could meet the world’s demand for more than a year — will be turned into liquefied natural gas, or LNG, and shipped primarily to North America. |
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Norilsk Strikes Gold MOSCOW (Bloomberg) — Norilsk Nickel, Russia’s biggest mining company, will pay as much as $285 million to buy three Siberian gold-field permits from the nation’s state-run diamond miner, beating a bid by Celtic Resources Holdings. |
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Excited by the television pictures of the 750th anniversary celebrations of Kaliningrad, which admittedly until 60 years ago was called Koenigsberg, my son and I visited the Russian city in former East Prussia. We did it without any wariness because the visit by German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder and President Vladimir Putin to the exclave had given the impression of friendly normality between Germans and Russians. |
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Next year will see the coming into force of amendments to the federal law “On state regulation of the production and trade of ethylene spirit, alcohol and spirit-based products. |
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Four years ago, the United States was hit by a terrorist attack. Three days later, the U.S. Congress signed away the people’s freedom, writing a blank check for tyranny to a ludicrous little man installed in office after the most dubious election in American history. Last week, the poisonous after-effects of this abject surrender took yet another sinister turn, as Bush factotums in the courts once again upheld the Leader’s arbitrary power over the life and liberty of his subjects. |
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It was once a great palace surrounded by a beautiful park. Many of the finest architects and interior designers of the era, including Bartolomeo Rastrelli, Luigi Ruska and Yury Felten, worked there in at one time or another. The estate, about 50 kilometers southwest of St. |
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Federation Council Speaker Sergei Mironov and other Kremlin allies accused former Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov on Thursday of plotting a foreign-backed coup with his announcement that he would run for president. |
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VIENNA — Key members of the UN nuclear watchdog meet Monday as the European Union’s three biggest powers prepare for a showdown over Iran’s atomic program that could lead to UN sanctions against Tehran. Two years after France, Britain and Germany began a diplomatic drive to persuade the Islamic republic to abandon nuclear technology that can produce atom bomb fuel, EU officials said their patience ran out after a defiant speech by Iran’s new hardline president to the UN General Assembly Saturday. |
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NEW YORK — Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon headed into a battle for his political survival Monday after collecting diplomatic dividends at the United Nations for a pullout from the Gaza Strip. |
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WELLINGTON — Jockeying for potential coalition partners began Sunday after New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark’s ruling Labor Party pipped the National opposition by one seat in a nail-biting election. Clark is poised to become the first Labor leader ever to win three straight terms after she finished ahead of former central bank governor Don Brash’s National Party. |
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PARIS — France captain Georges Goven did not hesitate when asked the reason for his team’s 3-2 defeat by Russia in the Fed Cup final at Roland Garros. “Yelena Dementyeva,” he told reporters. The combative baseliner was indeed instrumental, winning both singles matches before teaming up with Dinara Safina to beat Amelie Mauresmo and Mary Pierce in the decisive doubles. |
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Peugeot co-driver Michael Park was killed during the Wales Rally GB on Sunday after his car went off the course and hit a tree. The 39-year-old Englishman sustained fatal injuries during the 17-mile, 15th stage, organizers said. |
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Sports Minister Vyacheslav Fetisov said Friday that a Chechen football club had overstepped its boundaries by appealing to President Vladimir Putin to save it from relegation. Last week, Terek Grozny, which is bottom of the Russian Premier League, wrote an open letter to Putin asking for help. Terek accused Russian referees of staging a biased campaign against the team to ensure it is relegated. |
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