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President Vladimir Putin was urged by thousands of St Petersburg residents to take personal charge of the investigation into the murder of anti-fascist student Timur Kacharava on Thursday. The president will receive a petition signed by almost three thousand students, professors and other staff of local universities who are adamant that all efforts be made to apprehend his attackers. |
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MOSCOW United Russia candidates Stanislav Govorukhin and Sergei Shavrin emerged victorious in Sundays two State Duma by-elections in Moscow, beating liberal satirist Viktor Shenderovich and jailed former army commando Vladimir Kvachkov, respectively. |
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MOSCOW President Vladimir Putin has ordered the Cabinet to draft a bill reducing compulsory army service from two years to one from 2008, a presidential spokeswoman said Friday. |
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Hostages Released MOSCOW (AP) A man armed with an assault rifle surrendered to police early Friday in Yekaterinburg after freeing five hostages he had held for about two hours. Andrei Novogorodov, 29, had entered the building housing Channel Four, the citys largest television company, late Thursday, taken five employees, including two security guards, hostage and fired five shots at a closed door, Interfax reported. |
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MOSCOW The Supreme Court late Friday upheld a lower courts decision to bar Rodina from the City Duma elections, a ruling that the nationalist party denounced as politically motivated and liberal opposition parties called a mistake. |
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The Swedish Evangelical-Lutheran Church in St. Petersburg, located at 3 Malaya Konyushanaya, has reopened for full religious services after more than 70 years. In celebration, the citys Swedish Lutherans conducted a special service to commemorate the return of the main sanctuary. Delivered in Russian, Swedish, English and German languages, the service was a sign that Christian culture in the city is flourishing where in previous decades it was swept aside. |
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Economic growth is high but should be higher, and in the long term, regardless of oil prices, the economy could suffer from other negative factors, a Troika Dialog expert said last week at a conference in St. Petersburg. A budget surplus at about seven percent of GDP in 2005 is a rather good showing. |
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Reports that Russia had signed a $1 billion arms deal with Iran surfaced on Friday, just as a senior U.S. State Department official was in Moscow to discuss counterterrorism measures. |
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St. Petersburg will have a new figure skating academy in May 2006, Interfax quoted St. Petersburg governor Valentina Matviyenko as saying Saturday. The federal government will allocate 178 million rubles ($6.14 million) to finish works in first quarter of 2006, Matviyenko said. |
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Prosecutors on Friday seized documents at the Siberian offices of titanium giant VSMPO-Avisma in what appeared to be a new legal assault on the business empire of imprisoned former Yukos CEO Mikhail Khodorkovsky. |
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Norway expressed concern over a partial ban on its farmed salmon to Russia, its largest market for seafood, saying its fish were tested to meet stringent European Union standards. We are very surprised because Norwegian salmon is constantly monitored for . |
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MOSCOW IT and Communications Minister Leonid Reiman is a central figure in a money-laundering investigation that has spread from Germany to Cyprus, Switzerland and the United States, The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday. |
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Siemens has asked the Russian government to approve the buyout of 25 percent and one share of Silovye Mashiny, Interfax reported the president of Siemens in Russia, Henrik Fristatzki, as saying Thursday. We await a decision from the government. They have to decide on how many shares we can buy and in general whether they mind. |
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Intercontinental and Ramada are the latest international hotel operators to announce their arrival on the St. Petersburg market next year, while Rezidor SAS also signaled further expansion, Maxim Sokolov, chairman of the city committee for investment and strategic projects, was quoted by Interfax as saying. |
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MOSCOW Rosinter Restaurants, which operates dozens of sushi and burger joints around Moscow, is going back to basics. On Thursday the holding opened its first 1-2-3 Cafe, which offers Russian staples like dumplings and pancakes, in a bid to take a bigger bite out of the citys booming restaurant market. |
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PARIS Russia passes a milestone on its road to recognition as a world power in January when it takes over the year-long presidency of the G8 group of large, industrialised nations for the first time. |
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The ruble fell to 29 to the dollar on Monday, its lowest since Oct. 2004, after a re-weighting of the Central Banks target currency basket signaled its readiness to accept greater market volatility. In early trading Monday, rubles for tomorrow delivery traded at 28. |
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November Price Growth MOSCOW (Reuters) Consumer prices rose by 0.7 percent month-on-month in November, compared with 1.1 percent growth in November 2004, Economic Development and Trade Minister German Gref said on Monday. |
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In a series of recent speeches to the American people, U. S. President George W. Bush has sought to equate the current terrorist threat with the 20th-century menace of communist totalitarianism. His case is that the terrorist challenge is global in scope, evil in nature, ruthless toward its foes, and eager to control every aspect of life and thought. |
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Id like to take a look at the results of an analysis carried out by the team at my day job, Expert Severo-Zapad magazine, of the St. Petersburg budget for 2006. |
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The recent revelations about the virulent spread of death squads ravaging Iraq have only confirmed for many people the lethal incompetence of the Bush Regime, whose brutal bungling appears to have unleashed the demon of sectarian strife in the conquered land. The general reaction, even among some war supporters, has been bitter derision: Jeez, these bozos couldnt boil an egg without causing collateral damage. |
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MOSCOW Moscows Orphanage No. 19 is atypical in that it houses very few children. A total of 130 children are under its care, but fewer than 20 live in the smart, welcoming building not far from the Baumanskaya metro station. The rest live with foster parents. The arrangement is unusual in a country that has more than 700,000 children living permanently in orphanages, more than any other country in the world. |
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BAGHDAD The first witness to face Saddam Hussein in court told of horrors committed under his rule on Monday, including a human meat grinder, after Saddams defense team challenged the U.S.-backed trial and briefly walked out. Ahmed Hassan, a 38-year-old from Dujail, the town where gunmen tried to kill the then Iraqi president in 1982, told the court he and his family were seized after the attack and quizzed under torture. |
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VIENNA UN investigators began questioning five Syrian officials under a cloak of secrecy in Vienna on Monday over the assassination of former Lebanese prime minister Rafik al-Hariri, diplomatic sources said. |
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AMSTERDAM A group of suspected Islamists, including the jailed killer of a Dutch filmmaker, watched films of beheadings, a court heard as they went on trial on Monday for plotting attacks and belonging to a terrorist group. Dutch police arrested the 14 men after the murder of Theo van Gogh last November by Mohammed Bouyeri, who shot and stabbed the filmmaker before slashing his throat, an act prosecutors said at his trial in July evoked beheadings in the Middle East, Chechnya, Afghanistan and Iraq. |
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NEW YORK Ricky Davis made two free throws with 8.7 seconds remaining to cap a 27-point haul that guided the Boston Celtics to a first road win of the season, a 102-99 victory over the New York Knicks on Sunday. Paul Pierce had 28 points, nine rebounds and seven assists to lead the Celtics, who improved to 7-9 while winning for the first time on the road at their fifth attempt. |
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MADRID Real Madrid coach Vanderlei Luxemburgo was sacked on Sunday just over 11 months after taking charge of the nine-times European champions. The 53-year-old Brazilian, Reals fifth coach in the space of two and a half years, was dismissed following an emergency board meeting at the clubs Bernabeu stadium. |
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