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Two more suspects have been charged in connection with the murder of 20-year-old Timur Kacharava, an outspoken anti-fascist, rock musician and philosophy student, who was stabbed to death in November. Kacharava was stabbed to death outside the Bukvoyed bookstore on Ligovsky Prospekt opposite the Moskovsky Railway Station at around 7 p. |
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Ecologists from the local branch of the international environmental organization Greenpeace sent an appeal to the city prosecutor’s office asking for the suspension of the construction of solid waste processing facilities at the Southwest Water-Treatment Plant. |
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Sales of Ford cars in Russia increased from 39,241 in 2004 to 60,564 in 2005, the company said Friday in a statement. Some analysts have termed the growth remarkable, while others suggest that overall demand was not adequately reflected by the company’s hitherto limited production facilities. |
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2005 was proclaimed by security market specialists as a very successful year for corporate bonds, with investors digesting a huge number of issues by both national and regional companies. |
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WASHINGTON — Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin was served with a lawsuit by U.S.-based shareholders of Yukos while on a brief visit to Washington on Thursday, lawyers for the plaintiffs said Friday. Kudrin, who was on a trip related to organizing next month’s meeting of Group of Eight finance ministers in Moscow, denied he was served with the papers, despite the delivery summons being officially filed on Saturday with a U. |
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MOSCOW — Aeroflot, Russia’s biggest airline carrier, has stopped supplying free alcohol to its economy class passengers, a company press release reported Monday. |
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MOSCOW — Record volumes of shares were traded on the Russian Trading System on Friday, as Gazprom stock was available in dollars for the first time in Russia. By Friday’s close, shares worth over $135 million had changed hands on the dollar-denominated RTS, far exceeding last year’s peak daily trading volume of $44 million. |
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A new report characterizes the Russian banking sector as ‘dynamic’ but indicates that development is still not up to international standards. According to “Banks of the CIS” report, released January 10 by the Interfax-TsEA agency, in Russia bank assets and savings increase by 30 percent to 40 percent a year in nominal terms and by 15 percent to 25 percent in real terms. |
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MOSCOW — Even as Gazprom CEO Alexei Miller was meeting Germany’s economy minister on Friday to reassure him of reliable gas supplies to Europe, signs were growing that the company’s controversial deal with Ukraine could unravel. Turkmenistan, the supplier of most of Ukraine’s gas imports under the deal, appeared to be indicating Friday that it wanted better terms. |
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Meeting with Russian native German Aliev, everything suggests a top manager on the international stage — the holder of British and Canadian citizenships and with a background dominated by extensive work and study in the West, Aliev gives the impression of being a real renaissance man. |
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In the bad old days of the 1990s, a handful of Russian and Ukrainian gas oligarchs regularly whipped up national sentiment about the misbehavior of the other nation. The Russians complained about the Ukrainians not paying for the gas, and the Ukrainians lamented the outrageous prices charged by the Russians. |
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It has already become a Russian tradition that new laws are introduced just before New Year’s Eve. Last year was no exception to the rule and we received as a gift a federal law on the Amendments and Additions to certain legislative acts relating to the creation of the Russian International Ship Register published on the 23rd of December 2005 and coming into force from the date of its official publication (for the changes to the Sea Navigation Code) or one month after this date (for the changes to the Tax Code and the law on customs tariffs). |
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel has a two-pronged strategy to put Germany back in the game: rebuild relations with the United States and restore consensus within the European Union. As she sees it, Gerhard SchrÚder removed Germany from the trans-Atlantic context by opposing the United States over Iraq. |
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An analysis of the budgets for the North-West regions in 2006 reveals that the local authorities are investing less in the development of their regions than last year. |
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In retrospect, it is mind-boggling how much manpower, money and energy was spent in the Soviet Union on censoring the media and silencing internal critics. Everyone who tried to provide alternative information was relentlessly hounded. But since the collapse of the Soviet Union, tales of corruption, incompetence and crime in high places have been ubiquitous. |
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JERUSALEM — Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon opened his eyes twice on Monday after family members played a tape of his grandson’s voice, aides said, raising hopes the 77-year-old stroke victim may be emerging from a coma. But a spokeswoman for Hadassah hospital, where Sharon has been treated since suffering a brain hemorrhage on Jan. |
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SANTIAGO, Chile — Socialist Michelle Bachelet, a separated mother and former political exile, won elections on Sunday to become the first female president in socially conservative Chile with a victory that underscores the left’s growing hold on Latin America. |
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Sirleaf Sworn In MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) — Ellen Johnson Sirleaf was sworn in Monday as war-battered Liberia’s new president, carving her name into history as Africa’s first elected female head of state. Wearing an African headdress, Sirleaf took the oath of office in a ceremony attended by thousands of Liberians and scores of foreign dignitaries, including U. |
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MELBOURNE — Venus Williams tumbled out of the Australian Open first round on Monday, a shock victim of little-known Bulgarian Tszvetana Pironkova. The 18-year-old from Provdiv stunned Wimbledon champion Williams 2-6 6-0 9-7, condemning her to her earliest grand slam exit since being bundled out of the 2001 French Open in the opening round. |
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MOSCOW — Guus Hiddink or fellow Dutchman Dick Advocaat will take over Russia’s national team following the World Cup finals, local media reported on the weekend. |
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MADRID — Athletic Bilbao coach Javier Clemente said on Monday that his comments about Samuel Eto’o after the Barcelona striker spat at one of his players were not intended to be racist. “At first I didn’t know that it was Eto’o who did it,” the former Spain coach told the Cadena Ser radio station. “He’s a great bloke but I expect he will regret what he did. |
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