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 VIENNA The UN nuclear watchdogs governors broadly agree it is better to explore a Russian compromise over Irans nuclear activities than to report Tehran to the Security Council, Western board members said on Thursday. A draft statement incorporating this position was submitted by the European Unions three biggest powers France, Britain and Germany to the chairman of the International Atomic Energy Agencys board as it began a two-day meeting. |
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Descendants of nobles whose homes and estates were nationalized by the Bolsheviks following the 1917 Revolution have proposed that the state resolve the sensitive issue of restitution by introducing a new form of bond entitled a restitution certificate. |
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HARBIN, China A toxic slick of polluted river water reached the outskirts of one of Chinas biggest cities on Thursday, nearly two weeks after an explosion at a petrochemical plant upstream. China said the blast had caused major pollution, spilling benzene compounds into the Songhua River from which Harbin, capital of the northeastern province of Heilongjiang, draws its drinking water. |
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Biometric Passports MOSCOW (SPT) Russians will be issued new biometric passports starting next year, according to a decree signed Wednesday by Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov. |
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MOSCOW The State Duma easily approved in a first reading Wednesday a bill that would place nongovernmental organizations under strict state control and that foreign NGOs warned would shut them down. This bill will put an end to civil society in Russia, Vladimir Ryzhkov, an independent Duma deputy, said during a debate before the vote. |
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MOSCOW A media freedom watchdog is urging authorities to open to the public the trial of two Chechen men charged in the slaying of Forbes Russia editor Paul Klebnikov, a U. |
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MOSCOW Alexander Ivanov, the son of the defense minister, will not be charged over a fatal traffic accident in which the Volkswagen he was driving struck and killed an elderly female pedestrian in May, Gazeta.ru reported Tuesday. City police investigator Yury Laryushkin informed the relatives of Svetlana Beridze that Ivanov would not be charged in connection with the accident, according to the report. |
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Some investors now consider St. Petersburg to be a better place to do business than Moscow, and big-ticket taxpayers are packing their bags and heading for President Vladimir Putins hometown. Expert Ratings Agency underpins that trend with a new study that has found Russias northern capital to be the countrys safest investment destination. |
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Russias Forestry Industry is perceived as one of the most corrupt in the world according to an index released by environmentalists. Only other former soviet states Kyrgistan, Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan, and Tajikistan were deemed even more corrupt. |
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MOSCOW The Ukraina Hotel, a Stalin-era landmark on the Moscows skyline, fetched $274 million from an obscure bidder at auction on Wednesday, beating expectations and underscoring Moscows image as one of the most attractive and opaque hotel markets in the world. |
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MTS Eliminates Excess MOSCOW (Bloomberg) Mobile TeleSystems, eastern Europes largest mobile-phone company, plans to eliminate a significant number of excess jobs next year to lower expenses, Chief Executive Officer Vassily Sidorov said Wednesday. |
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On Nov. 22, 2004, the mass protests began that sparked Ukraines Orange Revolution. One year on, has it all gone horribly wrong? Will historians come to withdraw the noun, and refer to the period simply as Orange? In the short term, the answer lies in the very different personalities of Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko and his former prime minister, Yulia Tymoshenko. |
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President Vladimir Putin replaced his chief of staff, Dmitry Medvedev, last week, and the pundits immediately began talking about the emergence of the presidents successor. |
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 A new generation of Faberges is attempting to revive the family tradition in a radically different era. Their story has all the ingredients that thrillers are made of. A family history spanning several centuries and stretching across Europe, from St. Petersburg to London. |
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A new film made in St. Petersburg has won prizes abroad and could be up for an Oscar, but only one cinema in town is screening it. The locally made film The Italian (Italyanets), which has been submitted by Russia for consideration in the 2006 Oscars, finally arrived in St. |
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Hundreds of people, mostly young, student-types, gathered this week to mourn Timur Kacharava, the local musician and anti-fascist activist who was murdered by extremists in the city center on Nov. 13. By different estimates, 600 to 1,000 people came to attend the memorial gathering Monday. |
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A poignant sculpture commemorating the Nobel Prize-winning poet Joseph Brodsky is unveiled. The late poet Joseph Brodsky, one of the giants of St. Petersburgs cultural heritage, has made a symbolic homecoming to the city where he was born and where he lived for 32 years until he emigrated to the U. |
 Guitarist and singer Arto Lindsay, who first came into the public eye as a key member of New Yorks late-1970s no-wave scene with his band DNA, performs in the city this week. After his DNA days, Lindsay performed with the Lounge Lizards, the Golden Palominos and the Ambitious Lovers, became an award-winning producer, and was commissioned to compose music for a dance/theater piece for Mikhail Baryshnikovs White Oak Dance Company. |
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St. Petersburg gallery owner Edward Emdin combines his experience working on the worlds art market with respect for local artists work. With the opening of Andrian Gorlanovs exhibition at the EDGE gallery last week, gallery owner Edward Emdin continued to celebrate the launch this year of his second venture in his home town, ten years after he opened Sol Art in St. |
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SEOUL South Koreas pioneering stem cell scientist apologized on Thursday that two members of his team had donated their egg cells for research, saying his rush to advance science may have clouded his ethical judgment. Hwang Woo-suk, who became a hero in South Korea after major developments in cloning research, has been caught in a swirl of allegations over his work after a U. |
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LONDON European champions Liverpool, Inter Milan and Chelsea moved into the last 16 of the Champions League on Wednesday, although Liverpool took their place despite being held to a goalless draw at Anfield by Real Betis. That point was enough to see them through from Group G along with English rivals Chelsea, who also advanced after a comfortable 2-0 win over Anderlecht in Brussels, the Belgian sides record-extending 12th successive Champions League defeat. |
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