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MOSCOW — Russia and the European Union will try to hammer out a deal on easing visa regulations at a summit in London on Tuesday, which will likely be dominated by strained relations on a series of issues. British Prime Minister Tony Blair, whose country holds the rotating six-month EU presidency until the end of the year, will host President Vladimir Putin for the one-day summit, which is aimed at building on a landmark agreement achieved in May to reinforce political and economic ties. EU officials said the London talks would cover economics, trade, the environment, energy and human rights, while Russia was expected to renew calls for Britain to extradite Chechen rebel envoy Akhmed Zakhayev and for the EU to back Russia’s accession to the World Trade Organization. Human rights, economic and political cooperation were also on the agenda in talks Monday between Putin and Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt, during a stopover by Putin in Brussels on his way to the London summit. |
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MONUMENTAL GLORY
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A war memorial originally built near the Ismailovsky Cathedral in 1886 but which was removed in 1929, has been rebuilt on the site and was ceremonially unveiled on Saturday. |
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MOSCOW — The bodies of two young boys who went missing in July have been discovered in the Moscow region, police said. The bodies of Pavel Sokolov, 11, and Alexander Yelshin, 10, were discovered Friday evening near a forest close to the town of Kryukovo, Interfax reported, citing a police source. The cause of death has yet to be established, the source said.
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The death of a 14-year-old boy who threw himself under a speeding commuter train outside St. Petersburg with a suicide note in his pocket that said he could not bear to be humiliated by his teacher anymore, has raised questions about child welfare. “Like everybody I am shocked with this event,” Governor Valentina Matviyenko said at a news conference on Friday. |
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St. Petersburg’s Radisson SAS Royal Hotel changed its owners last week as 100 percent stakeholders in the hotel, Delta Private Equity Partners, sold its shares to the Norwegian holding Wenaas, the equity fund said Monday in a statement. Experts estimated the sale to be worth about $30 million. |
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German building materials maker Knauf will invest 60 million euros ($71.4 million) in the construction of a plasterboard plant in the south of St. Petersburg, the company said Monday. |
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Ford to Make Volvo ST. PETERSBURG TIMES (SPT) — Ford’s Russian plant could start producing Volvo and Land Rover cars, the vice governor of the Leningrad Oblast, Grigory Dvas, said Monday at a meeting with Japanese businessmen. “I do not dismiss the possibility of production facilities expansion due to local assembling of Volvo and Land Rover cars. |
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St. Petersburg Port Sale MOSCOW (Bloomberg) — Russia will sell a 48.79 percent stake in Sea Port St. Petersburg, part of the country’s largest port complex on the Baltic Sea, for at least 802. |
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MOSCOW — Violations of anti-monopoly law are poised to hit record levels this year, with state entities outpacing the private sector in terms of growth, the head of the state competition regulator said Friday. The regulator expects state violations of anti-monopoly law to increase to 1985 this year, a rise of around 500 percent on the number of cases a decade ago, Igor Artemyev, the head of the Federal Anti-Monopoly Service, or FAS, said Friday. |
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MOSCOW — Russian Railways, or RZD, has cast new doubt over a loudly trumpeted $1.8 billion project to develop high-speed trains with Germany’s Siemens. |
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If you believe Marko Hytonen, then being a general manager of a hotel means that you generally are able to manage any hotel, in any country, irrespective of local exoticism. On the other hand, Hytonen, general manager for Radisson SAS Royal Hotel in St. |
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Anybody watching President Vladimir Putin sipping from a teacup during three hours of questions last week could not have failed to be struck by his composure and confidence. |
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Creating an attractive investment environment demands a number of ingredients and unlike in life, where we are more prone to accept uncertainties, businesses looking to expand particularly in the international arena want things to be simple and predictable. Along with political and economic stability, a developing market, and the availability of an educated labor force investors, whether they are foreign or local, look for a fair tax burden, clear corporate legislation and an impartial tax administration system. |
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Quietly, firmly, relentlessly, the good captain laid out the list of atrocities committed at the order of the enemies of freedom: “Death threats, beatings, broken bones, murder, exposure to elements, extreme forced physical exertion, hostage-taking, stripping, sleep deprivation and degrading treatment. |
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Special to The Moscow Times MOSCOW — The businessman in the white linen pants and flashy designer shirt ran his fingers over the 300,000 euro Lamborghini Murcielago, eyeing it as a new stablemate for his Bentley and Ferrari. He then hopped in and let a professional driver take him for a spin at a recent invitation-only test drive at Moscow’s Luzhniki Stadium. |
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Low Scoring Weekend ST. PETERSBURG (SPT) — FC Zenit St. Petersburg failed to score against Saturn at Petrovsky Staudium on Sunday in an exceptionally low-scoring weekend in Russia’s championship. Champions Lokomotiv Moscow stayed top, two points ahead of bitter rivals CSKA after both sides also fought out goalless draws. |
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When you book flight tickets, does the question of who will sit next to you on the plane make you anxious? Do you get distracted at work trying to remember if you switched off the iron? Or do you just want to find a decent friend? Worry no more. Browsing the latest hi-tech innovations, its seems IT firms are scrambling to offer solutions to very personal problems — from loneliness, to nervousness, to envy. |
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Probably the biggest event for the industry of Information Technology in Russia this year was the government’s decision to set up five IT parks in the country. |
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As President Vladimir Putin hosted his now annual Questions & Answers phone-in session last week, thousands of people jammed the telephone lines, eager for direct contact with the country’s top politician. The event may not have left everyone satisfied, but the reasons are not only political. |
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In terms of new technology, wars mean some perfectly good systems die out, while others — more efficient, or perhaps better promoted — monopolize the field. |
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James Gosling created the Java programming language in 1991, a code that today is used by about 5 million programmers, more than 600 million desktop computers, 800 million cell phones, and which has served as a base for nearly all games designed for mobile phones. For his achievements the inventor, who also designed the NeWS windowing system and Gosling Emacs, was elected to the U. |
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