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The qualification commission of the St. Petersburg Lawyers’ Chamber has refused to strip lawyer Yury Schmidt of his license. Schmidt was one of the ten lawyers defending the former head of Yukos, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, having previously attracted international attention for his successful defense of ex-submariner and environmental expert Alexander Nikitin, who faced charges of treason for alleged espionage in 1998. |
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Homeless people from St. Petersburg will be traveling to Poland next week to take part in the European Homeless Soccer Cup, to be held in Gdansk on November 18-21. |
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VIENNA — Russia, the United States and the European Union stepped up attempts on Thursday to end months of deadlock over Iran’s nuclear program. The powers sought to draft a proposal aimed at satisfying the world that Iran’s nuclear intentions are peaceful, but diplomats doubted that Tehran would accept it. |
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MOSCOW — The State Duma is taking steps to force all nongovernmental organizations to reregister ahead of upcoming national elections, and NGOs such as Human Rights Watch and Mikhail Khodorkovsky’s Open Russia face a very real threat of being shut down. |
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St. Petersburg scientists taking part in the Antarctic expedition which sets off from St. Petersburg on Friday will be researching the Earth’s ozone layer, and continuing observation of the unique Lake Vostok. |
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The Prime Minister of Estonia Andrus Ansip said Russia’s refusal to give a visa to the head of the Estonian Foreign Affairs Ministry, Urmas Paet, for his trip to St. Petersburg was unprecedented. “This is another story which causes regrets,” Ansip said. “This is an unprecedented case. I haven’t heard of a similar situation with an official of any other country,” Ansip said at a press-conference in Tallinn on Thursday, Interfax reported. |
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Economic Development and Trade Minister German Gref said Tuesday that the government would temporarily drop import duties on a wide range of high-tech equipment to help Russian firms save cash and modernize production. The nine-month scrapping of duties — likely to take effect Feb. |
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Most managers running businesses in Russia are not satisfied with reforms to tax administration. Businesspeople complain about the inconsistent application and interpretation of tax laws, the excessive number of audits, and disputes with authorities, according to a recent survey published by Ernst & Young. |
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The country’s leaders are being lulled into a sense of complacency by an oil price boom that has brought cash flooding into the economy, sapping their drive to attract foreign direct investment into key productive areas. Economists say Moscow’s increasing coolness toward foreign investors, especially in the oil and gas industry — now seen as the preserve of Russians, with outsiders in a subordinate role at best — could cost it dearly in the future. |
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St. Pete Port Share Sold ST. PETERSBURG (Bloomberg) — Chupit Ltd. won an auction for 48.8 percent of Russia’s OAO St. Petersburg Sea Port with a bid that matched the starting price of 802. |
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Russia predicted closer cooperation with neighboring Norway on developing oil and gas resources in the Arctic on Thursday and played down disputes over fisheries and a maritime boundary. Russia and Norway, the world’s number two and three oil exporters respectively behind Saudi Arabia, are both looking north for new finds. |
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Rosneft said on Wednesday that the rekindling of an old dispute relating to the 2003 acquisition of Severnaya Neft, or Northern Oil, would not hinder the oil major’s future plans to hold an initial public offering. |
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The black market has a hot new item for sale — a database listing Moscow taxpayers’ 2004 incomes along with contact information, Vedomosti reported on Tuesday. Available both online and in disc form for as little as 1,400 rubles ($49), the database contains last year’s tax data leaked from the Federal Tax Service, the report said. |
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BP To Bid For Refinery LONDON (Bloomberg) — TNK-BP, BP Plc’s Russian venture, plans to bid for control of Lithuania’s oil refinery as the existing owner of the stake, Yukos Oil Co. |
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What policy should the United States adopt toward China’s rise? How should it greet India’s emergence, Japan’s new assertiveness, Europe’s drift or the possible decline of Russia? How can the United States reduce terrorism, promote trade, stop nuclear proliferation and increase freedom? These are among the toughest questions on the U. |
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During President Vladimir Putin’s tenure in the Kremlin, a number of radical reforms have been introduced. We have a new national anthem. The military has a new flag, and officers have new service caps. |
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 While the Russian film industry has frequently made news recently with such blockbusters as “Company 9” in an attempt to compete with Hollywood, something refreshing has appeared from the radical, no-budget side of film-making in the form of “Dust” (Pyl), made by the Svoi 2000 collective for the trifling sum of just $3,000. |
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Rock musicians, including some popular names, were happy to serve the state for a hefty pay check by appearing at an open-air rock festival called Phoenix in Gudermes, Chechnya early this week. |
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Vadim Voinov does not make the sort of art one normally finds in the halls of the State Hermitage Museum. But the 65-year old St. Petersburg artist, who has mounted an exhibition called “The State Hermitage Under a Full Moon” in its General Staff Building, is also a professional art historian, museum worker, archeologist and gallery-founder. |
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A world-class painting in the collection of the State Hermitage Museum, Caravaggio’s late-16th Century masterpiece “The Lute-Player,” has been given a new lease on life at the center of an extravagant experiment. |
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Works by some of Russia’s most famous 19th century artists demonstrating a less well-known side of their versatile artistic talents form a new exhibition at the Mikhailovsky Castle of the State Russian Museum. Known for their oil paintings, artists such as Karl Bryullov, Orest Kiprensky, Alexei Venetsianov and Pavel Fedotov, were also accomplished draughtsmen and watercolorists. |
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Driving on Russia’s roads has never been much fun but devotees of “off-road” racing have found that the Russian countryside is the perfect terrain for their sport. |
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AMMAN, Jordan — The Al Qaeda group led by America’s deadliest foe in Iraq on Thursday claimed bombings that ripped through luxury hotels in Jordan’s capital and killed 57 people. In Wednesday night’s near-simultaneous attacks, two bombs turned crowded wedding parties into scenes of blood and panic at the Grand Hyatt and the nearby Radisson SAS in central Amman. |
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Russia coach Yury Syomin has quit after his team failed to qualify for the World Cup Finals. Syomin, 58, announced his resignation on Tuesday after meeting Russian Football Union chief Vitaly Mutko. “I’m more of a club coach,” Syomin said. Before the national team job, he had spent 16 years coaching Lokomotiv Moscow, winning two Russian Premier League titles. |
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BEIJING — China, host of the next Summer Olympics, said on Thursday it would be impossible to overtake the medal hauls of the United States and Russia, not just in 2008 but for the foreseeable future. |
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