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 Members of St. Petersburg’s African community last week wound up the first 45-day phase of a proactive awareness campaign aimed at fighting racism and xenophobia after five hate murders were committed in the city in less than five months. The Africans believe the rising wave of hate crimes, which began in September, is due partly to lack of information about Africa and cultures alien to Russia. |
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A Kazakh woman with Kyrgyz citizenship was stabbed to death by a group of young people on Friday in St. Petersburg in what could have been an ethnically motivated attack, police said Sunday. |
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MOSCOW — President Vladimir Putin makes a sensitive visit to Eastern Europe this week to try to convince countries that suffered most from gas disruptions this year that Russia can be trusted as a supplier. Putin will also use his trip to Hungary and the Czech Republic to build bridges with two new European Union members, both former Soviet satellites, to try to counter the high regional profile of Poland, which Moscow views with suspicion, experts said. |
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MOSCOW — Ex-prime minister Mikhail Kasyanov, now a critic of the Kremlin, said on Monday he would set up a new political movement in an attempt to consolidate the splintered opposition. Kasyanov’s plan to create a movement, for which he offered no name, follows the scuttling last year of his bid to enter the political mainstream by taking control of a small party. |
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MOSCOW — Investigators are focusing on whether a design flaw or poor maintenance caused the roof of the Basmanny food market to collapse in east central Moscow last week, killing at least 66 people, mostly Azeri vendors. |
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Faced with exhausted supplies in St. Petersburg, a local software outsourcer is looking to other CIS countries for its IT professionals, a trend that many experts expect to continue. In accordance with their strategy of expanding Research and Development in Eastern Europe, StarSoft Development Labs will announce the opening of a new R&D office in the CIS by April. |
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The managing company of Morskoi Fasad (Sea Facade) has chosen contractors for the passenger port at Vasilievsky island, the company said last week in a statement. |
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Rent agreements for large-area residential complex development on greenfield sites will be introduced April 1 under a new public tender scheme, City Hall’s Construction Committee announced in a statement last week. The committee plans to auction plots measuring more than 100 hectares that have no engineering infrastructure and that are exempt from property and legal obligations. |
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Stadium Tender ST. PETERSBURG (SPT) — City Hall announced a tender for the construction of a new football stadium on Krestovsky island, Interfax reported Monday. |
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MOSCOW — The government on Sunday cracked down on the country’s shuttle traders, drastically cutting the weight limit on goods that can be brought into the country by individuals without paying customs duties. The tougher rules, which came into effect Sunday, are a major blow to shuttle traders, or chelnoki, who during the 1990s introduced millions of Russians to basic foreign-made goods, including clothes and housewares. |
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MOSCOW — Mining company Amur Minerals plans to raise $10 million in a London flotation next week to finance a nickel and copper project in the Far East’s Amur region. |
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MOSCOW — The RTS Index of the country’s top 50 companies hit a new record on Sunday, bursting through the 1,500-point level for the first time as foreign funds continue to pour money into Russia. The country’s leading equity benchmark has risen by more than 33 percent since the start of this year, after surging by 82 percent in 2005. |
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Railway Investment MOSCOW (Bloomberg) — Russian Railways, the nation’s rail monopoly, plans to invest 8.9 billion rubles ($316 million) by the end of 2006 to upgrade a link to China and increase oil exports. The company is modernizing its Karymskaya-Zabaikalsk line by expanding stations, adding rail tracks and bridges, the company said Monday in an e-mailed statement. |
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Fifty years ago Saturday, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev’s “secret speech” at the 20th Communist Party Congress changed both his country and the world. By denouncing Stalin, whose god-like status had helped to legitimize communism in the Soviet bloc, Khrushchev began a process of unraveling it that culminated in 1991 with the collapse of the Soviet Union. |
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‘Can you imagine — I was at my son’s school for a quarter of an hour and my car disappeared!’ So my friend, a successful businesswoman, related her sad story to me. |
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There was rejoicing last Thursday at government headquarters in Makhachkala. Magomedali Magomedov, who had ruled Dagestan since 1991, was in Moscow to meet with President Vladimir Putin. Immediately after the meeting, Magomedov called to say that he would be staying on as head of the republic. Rumors of Magomedov’s retirement had been circulating in Dagestan for years, fueled by the leader’s advanced age, the chronic corruption of his regime and the epidemic of murders in the republic, where the body count surpasses that in Chechnya. |
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RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — Saudi forces on Monday killed five suspected militants believed to be linked to an Al Qaeda attack on the world’s biggest oil processing plant, the Interior Ministry said. A shootout erupted at dawn after security forces besieged suspects in a villa in east Riyadh where several Western residential compounds are located. |
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Red Ken Suspended LONDON (Reuters) — London’s outspoken Mayor Ken Livingstone was suspended from his job running the British capital for a month on Friday after being found to have brought his office into disrepute for comparing a Jewish reporter to a concentration camp guard last February. |
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TURIN — The Turin Olympics came to a spectacular end on Sunday with a closing ceremony in the form of a carnival celebration marking the finish of 17 days of action at the Winter Games. The two-and-a-half hour ceremony, twinning carnival with a circus theme, drew to a close a Games that Olympic chiefs hailed as a success, pushing memories of a doping controversy deep into the background. |
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As Russia celebrated its menfolk during the “Defenders of the Fatherland” holiday last week, St. Petersburg sportsmen were victorious in football and basketball. |
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MADRID — Barcelona playmaker Ronaldinho said if his teammate Samuel Eto’o had walked off the pitch on Saturday after being racially abused during their Primera Liga match at Real Zaragoza, he would have gone as well. The Cameroon international tried to leave the pitch in the second half, appearing to say that he was fed up with the racial abuse being directed at him by the home fans, but was convinced to stay by players and coach Frank Rijkaard. |
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Russian professor or foreign theorist, classic academic versus experienced practitioner — when it comes down to getting your MBA who will do the best job? To simplify the choice we asked local business schools and ex-students to highlight some differences. |
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How can you choose the right MBA program to support your future career? How can one decide what matters most without getting lost in a maze of information? The St. |
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With the incredibly busy schedule of most top managers who are living life in the fast lane, distance learning MBA programs have gained more and more popularity among students all over the world. Nevertheless, such a process of learning remains relatively unfamiliar in Russia – we seek to find out why. |
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Management is a rather time-consuming activity. The working day of an average Russian manager, if energetic and highly motivated, can last up to 14 hours, sometimes sacrificing weekends for an important project. |
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What benefits can an MBA degree bring to its holder? It seems rather obvious at first. But holding an MBA in Russia may not bring the exact results one might have thought. A recent international recruitment and salary survey from TopMBA, the self-proclaimed “world’s leading network for top careers and education,” showed that a growing number of companies all over the world now see an MBA as an essential management qualification even at entry-level. |
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As demand for MBA graduates continues to rise, the popular World MBA Tour will be returning to Moscow on Monday, March 13, to give potential Russian applicants, schools and employers a chance to meet, discuss and assess the current state of the market. |
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The reputation of an MBA program is among the most decisive factors in choosing an MBA program for more than 47 percent of the potential applicants, according to a recent survey by Begin Group Company. Many students consider whether the program is officially accredited as an important part of its image, the survey said. |
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Having co-founded one of Russia’s leading management magazines, Top Manager, and as general director of the Top Manager Publishing House, Irina Shultz felt that an MBA qualification would greatly improve her management skills and recently completed her courses at the St. |
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Often it’s companies who sponsor MBA students. Of course some MBA hopefuls sponsor themselves, but what if you represent the not-so-rare breed of ambitious young professional who just can’t afford the prestigious business degree without some help? We look at how MBA students in Russia finance their studies. |
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