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 VORONEZH The increasingly crowded field of political youth movements gained a new member or at least a new name as the United Russia partys Young Guard wrapped up its founding congress with a rally full of razzmatazz that invited comparisons with its kissing cousin, the equally pro-Kremlin youth group Nashi. |
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MOSCOW First he went after Russian government bank accounts, then a giant sailing ship, only to have both slip out of his hands. Two fighter jets later escaped his grasp, but controversial Swiss businessman Nessim Gaon struck again this week when Swiss authorities seized four truckloads of paintings from the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts worth an estimated $1 billion. |
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St. Petersburg City Hall has begun developing a program to counteract the citys growing reputation as the capital of national intolerance. The tolerance program will be based on three key points educating children and teenagers, teaching state workers and the police appropriate communication strategies for dealing with foreigners, and providing support to the mass media for the covering of positive results in the fight against xenophobia, said Sergei Makarov, deputy head of the city administrations Legal Committee, Fontanka. |
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Beer Fines Raised MOSCOW (SPT) Anyone caught drinking beer on the street or in other public places will face a fine of between 100 ($3.50) and 300 ($7) rubles under an amendment to the Administrative Code passed by the State Duma on Wednesday. |
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As the prosecutors office continues investigating the brutal murder of local anti-fascist activist Timur Kacharava, a 20-year-old philosophy student at St. Petersburg State University, his friends and colleagues say he was the victim of an organized and well-armed neo-nazi group. |
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MOSCOW Addressing growing concerns about the safety of foreign students in Russia, Education and Science Minister Andrei Fursenko said Tuesday that his ministry would reconsider the list of universities it recommends for foreign students and boost security on all campuses where they now live and study in an effort to protect them from racially motivated attacks. |
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MOSCOW After a five-hour session held in the Moscow City Duma building, President Vladimir Putins 42 nominees to the Public Chamber late Tuesday selected a second tranche of 42 members. The second tranche was selected from a list of 184 candidates from national nongovernmental organizations. As expected, the new members included billionaires Mikhail Fridman and Vladimir Potanin, as well as a bevy of celebrities. |
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Lenfilm, the legendary St. Petersburg-based studios, are in talks to attract an estimated $50 million worth of investment, the company said Wednesday. Having changed its legal status earlier this year, the studios is set to sign an investment contract in September 2006. |
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St. Petersburg is facing a serious shortfall in skilled labor which could threaten sustained economic growth, a roundtable comprising some of the citys top officials and businessmen agreed Thursday. |
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LONDON (SPT) Ongame, the worlds third-largest online poker network, has launched its real-money poker website in Poland and Russia, a company press-release said Tuesday. Ongame is the first of the major online gambling operators to make poker, in the form of its Europoker. |
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The New York Mercantile Exchange will start futures contract trading in the Russian oil blend Urals in London, the U.S. bourse said in a statement Wednesday. |
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Russia has for the first time given a clear time frame for removing curbs on foreign ownership of shares in gas giant Gazprom, a move that will make it the worlds biggest emerging markets stock. After years of delays, the parliaments energy affairs committee approved the proposed changes, and its chairman, Valery Yazev, said on Wednesday that the measures would have their first reading in the State Duma on Nov. |
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For all the criticism that the Kremlin is reverting back to Soviet-era practices, the one thing the authorities are not doing is promoting peoples friendship. In Soviet times, authorities mocked racism in the West, and state television played up the inequality between blacks and whites in the United States. |
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The latest government shake-up, which President Vladimir Putin carried out in his trademark special operations style, revealed a change in the Kremlins personnel policy. |
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Police made a breakthrough last week in their investigation of the Oct. 13 revolt in Nalchik: They discovered a large cache of weapons at a dacha in a nearby village. A sports bag with the passport and drivers license of Anzor Astemirov was also found at the dacha, conveniently removing any doubt as to the ownership of the weapons. |
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 The songs of Serge Gainsbourg have been reinterpreted with an Arab flavor and will be performed by his muse Jane Birkin in St. Petersburg. Jane Birkin, the France-based English singer and actress, comes to St. Petersburg to perform Arabesque, the set that she has been touring with all over the world for the past three years, for the first and ultimately the last time. |
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This space is supposed to be about musical entertainment, but this week the local music community is in shock over the violent death of a St. Petersburg musician who was killed last Sunday. |
 The collected works of the poet and author Boris Pasternak, published for the first time by his son Yevgeny, gathers together a wealth of known and new material, and offers the most complete picture yet of a 20th century literary giant. The complete works of 20th century Russian author Boris Pasternak, comprising 11 volumes and a CD-ROM, was published in Russia for the first time last Friday. |
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An unmissable exhibition opened its doors at the State Hermitage Museum last Friday under the title Vienna and Budapest on the Edge of the Centuries: 1873-1920. |
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Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, and well into the 1980s, Maya Plisetskaya reigned as undisputed queen of the Bolshoi Theaters ballet troupe. To celebrate her 80th birthday on Sunday, the Bolshoi has concocted a glittering festival of dance that commenced Wednesday with three nights of performances on the theaters New Stage and ending Sunday with a gala evening at the Kremlin Palace. |
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LONDON Almost half the worlds Anglican archbishops have mutinied over the divisive issue of gay clergy, demanding action from Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams over unrepented sexual immorality in the church. Their views, set out in an open letter to Williams in which they attack his leadership, could put the 450-year-old church on the road to schism. |
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LONDON Australia, Trinidad & Tobago, Switzerland, Spain and the Czech Republic completed the 32-team lineup for the World Cup finals after a day of unrelenting drama and tension brought qualifying to a close on Wednesday. The action began in Sydney where Australia reached the World Cup for the first time in 32 years and became the first team to do so through a shootout after beating Uruguay 4-2 from the spot after a 1-0 extra time win saw the playoff end 1-1 on aggregate. |
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SHANGHAI, China Argentinas David Nalbandian advanced to the Tennis Masters Cup semifinals with a 6-2 6-2 victory over Croatias Ivan Ljubicic on Thursday. |
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Russias young team has much to prove at next weeks world gymnastics championships as it tries to rebound from a disappointing showing at last years Olympics. Russia, a dominant force in gymnastics in Soviet days, was a flop in Athens, failing to win a single gold medal for the first time since joining the Olympic competition in 1952. |
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