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City Prosecutor Sergei Zaitsev on Thursday said 22 people have been charged with the murder of Vietnamese student Vu An Tuan, who was stabbed to death in October 2004, and the case has been sent to court. Vu An Tuan, a 20-year-old student at the St. Petersburg Polytechnic University, was attacked by about 18 armed youngsters as he walked to the metro after attending a birthday party at a hostel of the Pavlov Medical Institute on Petrograd Side. As he attempted to run away, the attackers chased him and stabbed him to death. Zaitsev said the 22 suspects were charged with having committed a racially motivated murder as part of an organized group. Vu An Tuan’s murder is believed to have played a significant role in large numbers of foreign students leaving the city. |
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Irina Petrova, host of the Channel 5 program Seichas. Having won new frequencies, the channel is now set to go nation-wide. |
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St. Petersburg’s biggest television channel, Channel 5, promised to break Moscow’s monopoly over the airwaves after it won national broadcast rights in a tender Wednesday, beating out five competitors. “People will be able to find out through our channel what is happening in the entire country, not just in Moscow,” Alla Manilova, head of City Hall’s Press Committee said, Interfax reported.
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MOSCOW — Take a deep breath and a swig of water. Russian air, water and sanitation systems are among the best in the world, according to a study that will be released Thursday at the World Economic Forum. Russia, in 32nd place, ranks a few notches behind the United States (28) and above Poland (38) in the 2006 Environmental Performance Index, compiled by researchers from Columbia and Yale universities. |
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MOSCOW — The woman lay prone, arms akimbo and legs spread, with blood-stained snow beneath her head and a checked handbag and a blue plastic bag crumpled nearby. |
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MOSCOW — A 19-year-old conscript has been left fighting for his life after a brutal New Year’s hazing that forced doctors to amputate his legs and genitals. Andrei Sychyov was among eight conscripts who were beaten by six drunken senior servicemen, including two officers, at an armed forces academy in Chelyabinsk on New Year’s Eve, prosecutors said. |
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City Hall signed a multi-million dollar deal with billionaire Viktor Vekselberg’s Link of Time foundation last week, granting the organization a lease on the 19th century Shuvalovsky Palace on the Fontanka embankment. |
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A new special economic zone, which local government officials say will help double high-tech production in the city, has been viewed with skepticism by local experts. On Jan. 18 the federal government signed an agreement with St. Petersburg’s government to introduce a special economic zone in Noidorf area (30 hectares) and in Novo-Orlovsky park area (130 hectares). |
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St-Petersburg-based retailer Technoshock plans to occupy 25 percent of Moscow’s online market when it launches its first internet store in the capital, the electronics and household appliance company said Wednesday in a statement. |
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Port Traffic Down ST. PETERSBURG (SPT) — In 2005 the throughput of the St.Petersburg Commercial Seaport JSC amounted to 13.14 million tons, a 10 percent reduction compared to 2004, the port’s press service was quoted by Seanews.ru as saying Tuesday. The fall in throughput was a result of disruption to the work schedule caused by worker strikes, the site said. |
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MOSCOW — LUKoil said Wednesday that it had struck new oil and gas reserves in a Caspian offshore field, bought a production association with significant reserves in the same region and hoped to acquire Yukos’ stake in Lithuania’s Mazeikiu refinery. |
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MOSCOW — Russia strengthened its commitment to atomic energy on Wednesday, as President Vladimir Putin welcomed Uzbekistan into an emerging nuclear alliance. Known to have extensive uranium-ore reserves, Uzbekistan will give Russia “additional long-term possibilities for the building of a stable nuclear fuel energy base,” Putin said at the Eurasian Economic Community summit in St. |
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MOSCOW — Russia is set to sell $4 billion worth of arms to Algeria, in what would be its largest post-Soviet defense export deal. “The work on the package of contracts for the delivery of a large part of Russian weapons to Algeria is practically complete, and they are likely to be signed in February,” Interfax quoted an unnamed source in the defense industry. |
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ASTANA — Turkey’s Efes Breweries International said Wednesday that it had signed an agreement to buy 92.34 percent of Russian brewery Krasny Vostok in a deal putting Krasny Vostok’s enterprise value at about $390 million. Efes said in a release that the deal was subject to regulatory approval. Krasny Vostok has a 3 percent share of the Russian market by volume, its annual brewing capacity is 10 million hectoliters and it operates two breweries — one in Kazan, in central Russia, and one in Novosibirsk, in Siberia. |
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The Daily Telegraph With a former KGB colonel in the Kremlin, it is hardly surprising that Britain has been implicated in a spying scandal worthy of the Cold War. The star of the show is a fake rock containing a transmitter through which a Russian contact allegedly passed classified information to British diplomats. |
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Alexander Koptsev, a Muscovite with a fondness for racist web sites and violent computer games, is accused of grabbing a knife on Jan. 11 and heading to the Chabad Synagogue, where he purportedly stabbed eight men before being wrestled to the floor. |
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Ukraine’s Okean Elzy, ambassadors of the Orange Revolution, will open its Russian tour in St. Petersburg this week. The band that was active in the events on Kiev’s Maidan Nezalezhnosti had to postpone its Russian tour last year as it felt it should stay in its country during and soon after the events that turned Ukraine towards Europe. |
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The St. Petersburg Metro is celebrated with a fascinating new exhibition. Russia boasts arguably the world’s most opulent and sumptuous underground train systems, with columns carved in marble, quirky Soviet monuments, jaw-dropping mosaics and sophisticated chandeliers. |
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As Georgia searches for its path after a decade and a half of crisis, the descendants of this small country’s first nationalists would do well to look to their own past, says Stephen F. Jones in a new political history. Georgia is a country much in the news lately, what with the success of its Rose Revolution and the overthrow of President Eduard Shevardnadze, the visibility of Shevardnadze’s energetic and charismatic successor, Mikheil Saakashvili, and the visit to Tbilisi last year by U. |
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Salvador 21 Ulitsa Mayakovskogo. Menu in English and Russian. Credit cards accepted. Dinner for two without alcohol 1,256 rubles ($45). If you were to randomly throw a dart at a list of St. |
 A band made famous by its support for Ukraine’s Orange Revolution is to perform in Russia aspolitical tension mounts between the ex-Soviet nations. The musical heroes of Ukraine’s Orange Revolution are to tour Russia amid ongoing political tension between the former Soviet neighbors. Okean Elzy, Ukraine’s top band, which inspired thousands of protesters during the Orange Revolution by performing on Kiev’s Maidan Nezalezhnosti (Independence Square) in late 2004, is visiting St. |
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BEIJING — China opposes sanctions against Iran’s nuclear ambitions and urges countries to consider a Russian compromise, a Chinese spokesman said on Thursday, as Tehran’s nuclear negotiator held talks in Beijing. “We oppose impulsively using sanctions or threats of sanctions to solve problems. This will complicate problems,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Kong Quan told a news conference. |
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LONDON — Dutchman Guus Hiddink would be interested in succeeding Sven-Goran Eriksson as England coach, his agent said on Wednesday. Eriksson is to leave after the World Cup starting in June and Hiddink, who is in charge of Dutch club PSV Eindhoven and the Australia national team, is one of the leading foreign managers being tipped to replace the Swede. |
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MELBOURNE — A heart-breaking injury to newly-crowned world number one Kim Clijsters on Thursday vaulted Amelie Mauresmo into the Australian Open final. |
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