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The Brazilian captain of a visiting soccer team was greeted by monkey noises made by St. Petersburg fans as he raised the Russian flag to mark the first game of the 2006/07 domestic football season at Petrovsky Stadium on Sunday. As Antonio Geder, captain of Saturn Moscow, approached the flagpole with FC Zenit St. Petersburg captain Vladislav Radimov to take part in the ceremony, Zenit fans seated nearby made monkey calls in a menacing and unmistakable reference to the color of Geders skin. The player was subject to further racist taunts throughout the match, which ended in a 1:1 draw. World soccer organisation FIFA has recently issued a statement asking coaches to contribute to the battle against racism. |
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John Malkovich acting in a scene from “In Transit”, directed by Tom Roberts. The film is being shot at the Krasny Treugolnik (“Red Triangle”) factory in the south of the city. |
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John Malkovich is playing a gruesome NKVD colonel in a new British-Russian film currently being shot by Thema Production at a glue factory in the St. Petersburg suburb of Pushkin. Set in 1946, In Transit is based on real events that took place in Pushkin. A group of German prisoners of war is by accident sent to and held in a transit camp guarded by women immediately after the end of the Second World War.
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Russias new customs regulations may significantly affect trade between Russia and Finland, as well as decrease tourist flows by 50 percent, warned Finnish experts. The legislation of January 23, as posted on the tamognia.ru web portal , states that Russian travelers are allowed to bring only 35 kilos of duty free goods into Russia, as opposed to the previous limit of 50 kilos. |
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MOSCOW Authorities on Friday froze the bank accounts of Open Russia, the philanthropic foundation headed by jailed Yukos founder Mikhail Khodorkovsky. Judge Olga Solopova of Moscows Basmanny District Court the same court that convicted Khodorkovsky on fraud and tax evasion charges in May signed an order freezing the accounts, and an official from the Prosecutor Generals Office delivered the order to Trust National Bank, which is controlled by Yukos parent company, Bank Menatep, bank vice president Dmitry Chuksiyev said. |
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Students Attacked ST. PETERSBURG (AP) A group of football fans attacked foreign students at a St. Petersburg metro station after mistaking them for supporters of a visiting French team, police said. |
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MOSCOW Justice Minister Yury Chaika on Friday assailed an increase in human rights violations in prisons and promised measures to limit the activities of missionaries. Chaika reeled off a list of statistics at a Justice Ministry meeting attended by President Vladimir Putin, saying that the number of prison officials charged with abuse of power grew by 87 percent last year, while the crime rate among prisoners increased 24 percent. |
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With World Consumer Rights Day being celebrated last week, RosPotrebNadzor the federal service for the protection of consumer rights and numerous watchdogs expressed doubts about the quality and safety of goods being offered on the local market. |
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FT BEIJING President Vladimir Putin arrives in China on Tuesday for a visit that Beijing hopes will secure it a decisive advantage over Japan in their lengthy battle to secure the route of an oil pipeline from east Siberia. Despite booming bilateral trade which reached $29. |
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Developers have announced the restoration of 19th century warehouses as part of the construction of a new four-star SPA-hotel in the city center. The former vine warehouses were built by the Yeliseyev merchants at the spit of Vasiliyevsky island. |
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Budge Colliery LONDON (Bloomberg) Richard Budge, the former chief executive of RJB Mining known as King Coal, plans to open a 800 million pound ($1.41 billion) clean coal power plant in South Yorkshire with financing from Russias Kuzbassrazrezugol, The Independent reported, citing Budge. |
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MOSCOW State official and AvtoVAZ board member Boris Alyoshin is set to visit an engine plant in Brazil in April, with a view to buying the plant for the countrys largest carmaker, a government spokeswoman said Friday. |
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MOSCOW State-affiliated structures are in talks with VSMPO-Avisma to acquire majority control in the worlds largest titanium manufacturer, VSMPO-Avisma chairman Vyacheslav Bresht said Friday. Sergei Chemezov, head of state arms exporter Rosoboronexport, said later that day that his company was leading the talks with the titanium giant, Interfax reported. |
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MOSCOW William Browder, the outspoken CEO of Hermitage Capital Management, Russias biggest foreign portfolio investor, has been denied entry to Russia under a rule that bars foreigners considered to pose a threat to national security, according to a Foreign Ministry letter obtained by The St. |
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The market for electronic payment systems in St. Petersburg is growing fast. This seems confirmed by the emergence of new players, the strengthening in position of existing firms, and the dynamic growth in the demand for their services. One might predict that such methods of payment will soon offer serious competition to the ordinary networks of dealers. |
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According to the president of the MartinsonTrigon ventures fund, Allan Martinson: There are a lot of ideas on the Russian IT market, but very little capital. |
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Taxes are what we pay for civilization Oliver Wendell Holmes, US Supreme Court Justice As the statutory deadline for submission of individual income tax returns is fast approaching, it seems the ideal time for a general recap of tax legislation. What should be the first question one asks oneself with regards to tax obligations? In reality, there are a few important questions, for example: Am I a taxpayer in Russia? What income should I declare? What rates should be applied to this income and by what date should the tax declaration be filed and tax payment made? The core issue of individual income tax is determining ones tax residency status. |
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In the past few months, Russian and international political circles have been focusing on Russias presidency of the Group of Eight and its agenda for the summit in St. Petersburg in July. One of the biggest ironies is that while presiding over the body of the worlds most economically and politically advanced democracies, Russia is still not a member of the World Trade Organization. |
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Following the visit of a Hamas delegation to Moscow earlier this month, a number of jokes began making the rounds. One of these jokes is extremely apropos. |
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Hardened cynics often accuse President George W. Bush of ruthlessly exploiting the tragedy of 9/11 to advance his preset agenda of killing a whole heap of foreigners. This is, of course, a calumnious slander against the Dear Leaders noble ambitions. For as he demonstrated last week, Bush is also exploiting the tragedy of 9/11 to advance his preset agenda of killing a whole heap of Americans as well. |
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MINSK President Alexander Lukashenko said triumphantly on Monday his re-election showed efforts to stage a pro-West revolt in Belarus had failed, but independent observers criticized the poll as neither free nor fair. The OSCE gave an expected thumbs-down to Lukashenkos victory after 10,000 protesters huge numbers for the tightly controlled ex-Soviet state massed to denounce Sundays election as rigged and support challenger Alexander Milinkevich. |
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PARIS French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin was steeling himself for a showdown over his contested youth jobs plan, ignoring an ultimatum for its withdrawal from the organisers of a growing protest movement. [The] Laws of the Republic, voted democratically by parliament, must be respected, Villepin said in a letter sent to members of his center-right Union for a Popular Movement (UMP). |
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LONDON British Prime Minister Tony Blair faced growing pressure on Monday to step down over a sleaze row which has tarnished his reputation and boosted calls for finance minister Gordon Brown to take the reins. |
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The bird flu virus is continuing to spread around the world with Egypts government reporting that a man was suspected to be suffering from the virus after a woman was said to have died of the potentially fatal H5N1 strain of the disease last week. The womans death raised alarm in the Middle East, where two other human fatalities resulting from bird flu have already been reported in Iraq. |
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The bird flu virus is continuing to spread around the world with Egypts government reporting that a man was suspected to be suffering from the virus after a woman was said to have died of the potentially fatal H5N1 strain of the disease last week. |
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A Soccer Nation at Last? ST. PETERSBURG (SPT) FIFA/Coca-Cola World Rankings for February place Team USA fifth, ahead of soccer giants such as France, Germany and Italy, it has been reported. Bruce Arenas side has won four out of five preparatory games ahead of the FIFA World Cup finals to be held in Germany in the summer. |
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Alonso Wins in Asia SINGAPORE (Reuters) The form book held when Fernando Alonso made a winning start to his world title defense last weekend but the tropical heat of Sundays Malaysian Grand Prix could throw up a few surprises. The Spaniard said after his victory at Manama that four teams Renault, Ferrari, McLaren and Honda looked like potential race winners this season. |
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MELBOURNE World record holder Asafa Powell powered to his first major title with a comfortable victory in the Commonwealth Games mens 100 meters final on Monday. |
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Avangard Omsk swept SKA St. Petersburg 3-0 in the first round of the best-of-five Professional Hockey League playoff series with a 3-1 win in game three at the Yubileiny Sports Palace on Thursday night. Fourth-ranked Siberian powerhouse Avangard dominated the series, quickly eliminating SKA from their first appearance in the playoffs since 2000. |
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