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 BERLIN — Giant boxer Nikolai Valuyev used size to his advantage to dethrone World Boxing Association Champion John Ruiz of the United States on Saturday night and become the first heavyweight champion from Russia. Watching the 32-year-old from St. Petersburg, known as the “beast from the east,” step over the ropes and into the ring — rather than ducking through them — must be a daunting sight for all the 43 boxers he has beaten in an undefeated 12-year career. |
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As the Russian State History Archive packs its bags and prepares to leave its current home to occupy new purpose-built premises on Zanevsky Prospekt, politicians have entered into a heated debate about what to do with the building it is vacating — the historic Senate and Synod building located at the heart of the city center. |
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Seventeen people were arrested and about a dozen ended up in local hospitals after a party for sports fans turned into a violent street fight Sunday, with police using tear gas to disperse the revelers. Local sports fans gathered in Port Club on Pereulok Antonenko on Sunday to celebrate an anniversary associated with the city’s premier soccer club FC Zenit St. |
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MOSCOW — President Vladimir Putin on Friday said that state-owned Rosneft was likely to be headed by a prominent foreigner, but stopped short of confirming reports that the job had been offered to former U. |
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MOSCOW — A bid by former Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov to mount a return to politics stalled Saturday when opponents hijacked his expected takeover of the liberal Democratic Party. A spokeswoman for Kasyanov said unidentified people had taken over a central Moscow building where his supporters were meeting and prevented them from attending a Democratic Party congress that had been expected to elect him as leader. |
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MOSCOW — The U.S. House of Representatives has called for the State Duma bill that would increase government control over nongovernmental organizations to be withdrawn or toned down significantly. U.S. representatives passed a nonbinding resolution 405-15 late Thursday, prompting some of the bill’s sponsors in the Duma to bristle and Russian NGOs to welcome the support. |
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MOSCOW — One month after far-right nationalists marched through Moscow’s city center shouting “Sieg Heil,” at least 1,500 people marched from the same square in an anti-fascist protest on Sunday afternoon. |
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Party Bill Approved MOSCOW (Reuters) — The State Duma on Friday passed a bill in a second reading that would allow parties that win regional legislative polls to propose candidates for governor that would then go to President Vladimir Putin for nomination. |
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Baltika began exporting its beers in 1999, again seizing the initiative among Russian brewers. At present, Baltika is the leading exporter of Russian beer, with the enterprise’s work meeting all the demands of the international ISO 9001:2000 quality control standards. |
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January Returning from the rest and relaxation of the Christmas and New Year break, Petersburgers are confronted by flood warnings, with the Neva River and city canals bursting their banks and six metro stations closed. By mid-January, pensioners have taken to the streets to protest at the introduction of a controversial new program that replaces entitlements to free or discounted services with cash. |
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The SPIBA 10th Anniversary General Meeting took place on Wednesday, November 16, 2005, at the Konstantinovsky Palace which used to be a summer residence of the Russian royal family. |
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• 1997, a crowning achievement for SPIBA was the creation of the St. Petersburg Governor’s Investment Advisory Council, which was created following a proposal from the association. The council is composed of members of the administration and the local business community. |
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ANCOR Turnover of ANCOR’s office in St. Petersburg over a 9 month period amounted to 9 million USD. Growth of business volume, if compared with 2004, amounted to 81% in regard to all the directions: professional search and selection, staff leasing and salary survey. |
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Russia’s economic growth is becoming increasingly imbalanced and is in danger of slowing down in the near future because of the current low level of investment, a senior International Monetary Fund official said in an interview published Friday. Following a fact-finding mission to Russia earlier this month, the IMF also warned that problems like inflation, the real appreciation of the ruble and an influx of imports could become more serious in the future. |
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Russia has signed a preliminary agreement to sell $500 million worth of military aircraft to Thailand in what would be the first such deal with the traditional U. |
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Shares of Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works, or MMK, will start trading on Russia’s two main bourses by the end of this year, a move analysts labeled as a step toward company liquidity and a set-up for an IPO abroad. “MMK shares will be listed on the RTS before the New Year,” Zoya Konovkova, spokeswoman for the Moscow-based RTS bourse, said Friday. |
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Russia will fail to meet a target date to complete World Trade Organization membership talks this year, Economic Development and Trade Minister German Gref said Saturday. |
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Car insurance fraud continues to increase, and part of the reason is the absence of a unifed information database, said insurance companies at a Mandatory Automobile Liability Insurance event on Thursday. According to Andrei Sumbarov, the president of the Union of Insurers of St. |
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$1 Billion Investment ST. PETERSBURG (SPT) — Foreign investment in the city could reach $1 billion by the end of the year the president of the St. Petersburg Chamber for Trade and Industry Vladimir Katenev said Monday at an Interfax press conference. |
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While Russia still offers excellent outsourcing opportunities for software development, few large-scale IT firms are ready to tackle what is still lacking in the city’s technical education and integrate today’s students into the “real world” of industry. |
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Changes in company strategy have forced mobile phone retailers to rely less on operator commission and instead seek new relations with handset producers. |
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The run-up to New Year is always an active time on the mobile phone market, with neither dealers nor operators wanting to miss out on their slice of Christmas cake. The marketing campaigns of the ‘big three’ operators – MobileTeleSystems, Megafon and Vimpelcom — have explosively aimed at attracting the maximum number of subscribers, as well as strengthening the loyalty of existing clients. |
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Our city’s insurance market has never generated a lot of significant news, as far as I can remember. The industry is represented here by several major local companies and a dozen regional offices representing the largest national insurers. |
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It suits some members of the World Trade Organization to pretend that all that is needed to unblock the current round of trade talks — which began in Doha, Qatar, in 2001 and continue now in Hong Kong — is for the European Union to make meaningful concessions on agriculture. The best that can be said about this self-serving argument is that it reflects well-intentioned but oversimplified views on the relationships among agriculture, trade and development. |
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Curbing Inflation MOSCOW (Bloomberg) — The Russian government should limit increases in housing-service charges and utilities prices next year to help curb inflation, President Vladimir Putin said at a meeting with the cabinet in the Kremlin on Monday. Russia’s lower house of the parliament approved a law Monday that allows the government to curtail the increases, which rose by a third this year, said Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Zhukov at the meeting, broadcast by Rossiya television. |
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So now we know: Next time the fire will come in Iran. The blow will be delivered by proxy, but that will not spare the true perpetrator from the firestorm of blowback and unintended consequences that will follow. Even now, the gruesome deaths of many innocent people in many lands are growing in futurity’s womb. |
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Even here in Washington — a city populated by lobbyists who once held political office and government officials who once worked as lobbyists — it’s hard to top the story of Gerhard Schroeder. |
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The buzz in Berlin last week about the ethics of former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder taking a job on Gazprom’s Baltic pipeline was highly critical. In Moscow, on the other hand, Schroeder’s involvement has been welcomed as likely to improve EU-Russia energy relations and bring more transparency to Gazprom, which has been criticized over the use of murky middlemen in its gas sales. |
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What’s on the cards for the coming year? Well, we could start by taking a look at the new General Plan for St. Petersburg, which will finally be passed by the Legislative Assembly in the next few days. |
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LONDON — As the world marks the first anniversary of the Indian Ocean tsunami, millions of people who dug into their pockets in an unprecedented outpouring of generosity will be wondering how their money has been spent. Some may be surprised to discover that 12 months on, the vast majority of the 1. |
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‘Dr. Germ’ Let Go BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) — About 24 top former officials in Saddam Hussein’s regime, including a biological weapons expert known as “Dr. Germ,” have been released from jail, while a militant group released a video Monday of the purported killing of an American hostage. |
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KABUL, Afghanistan — Former warlords, ex-communists, Taliban defectors and women activists were sworn in on Monday as members of the first Afghan parliament in more than 30 years amid hopes of national reconciliation after decades of bloodshed. The inauguration was peaceful despite threats by Taliban guerrillas and was greeted with tears of emotion although there is disappointment that many in the parliament are accused of serious rights abuses and links to the drugs trade. |
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WASHINGTON — U.S. President George W. Bush vowed on Monday to authorize more eavesdropping on Americans suspected of ties to terrorists and said he believed a probe was underway into who committed “the shameful act” of revealing the covert program. |
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JERUSALEM — Israel’s Prime Minister Ariel Sharon rested in hospital on Monday after a minor stroke that raised questions over his political future, but doctors said he should recover fully. The hefty 77-year-old former general, battling for re-election after pulling Jewish settlers from the Gaza Strip and remaking Israel’s political landscape, was rushed to hospital on Sunday. |
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Russia hammered Romania 28-23 in the final of the Women’s Handball World Championship on Sunday in St. Petersburg to regain the crown they lost to France two years ago. It was also Russia’s fifth world title, bettering the record they shared with Germany at four wins each. |
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Russia Takes Rosno Cup MOSCOW (AP) — Russia beat the Czech Republic 3-1 in the Rosno Cup on Sunday, taking the lead in the four-leg European Hockey Tour a day after clinching its second consecutive cup title. |
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