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A jury has cleared a teenager of murder charges in the stabbing of a 9-year-old Tajik girl in 2004, finding him guilty instead of hooliganism and calling for leniency in his sentence. Prosecutors said they would appeal the verdict, delivered late Wednesday in the St. |
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The State Russian Duma voted overwhelmingly on Wednesday to pass amendments to a law on the Constitutional court that will allow the transfer of this federal organization to St. |
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MOSCOW — Rodina leader Dmitry Rogozin will be fired at a party congress Saturday and replaced with Alexander Babakov, a wealthy businessman who heads the party’s presidium and is closely associated with the Kremlin, senior Rodina members said. Rogozin said Thursday that he did not know whether he would even be able to attend the congress. |
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Three Fires In City ST. PETERSBURG (SPT) – Three major fires were extinguished by fire services on Thursday with no loss of life, Interfax reported. A fire in the early morning Thursday at the Technical University on Moskovsky Prospekt. |
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MOSCOW — More than half of all Russian wives have been battered by their often-drunk husbands, while a third of husbands have been hit — but usually during arguments, according to a survey. Women say they complain mainly about chores, while husbands say their biggest gripe is over sex. |
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MOSCOW — Deputy Prime Minister and Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov will head a new high-profile commission that oversees state military procurement and does not answer to the prime minister, according to a decree signed by President Vladimir Putin. |
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MOSCOW — The Russian government has been served with a lawsuit by U.S.-based shareholders of Yukos through diplomatic channels and will have until mid-May to respond or face a possible default judgment ordering the payment of up to $9 million in damages, a lawyer for the shareholders said Wednesday. |
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MOSCOW — Russia and the European Union expect to sign a long-awaited deal on easing visa regulations by the end of May, officials from both sides said Wednesday. |
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BERLIN — Around the world tourism is booming: this was the message to take from the world’s largest travel trade fair, the 40th ITB Berlin, which ended last week. Yet despite the presence of 103 ministers and their deputies and 86 ambassadors from all over the world, not one Russian official was in attendance. |
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Finnish company Fortum is looking to increase its stake in the Petersburg Generating Company by 12.5 percent, Andrei Likhachov, the CEO of Territory Generating Company N1, said Wednesday, Interfax reported. |
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BEIJING — China National Petroleum Corp. will provide Transneft with $400 million to build a long-promised pipeline that was originally supposed to ship Yukos oil to China, Transneft president Semyon Vainshtok said Wednesday. Vainshtok made the announcement in Beijing as President Vladimir Putin wrapped up a two-day visit with assurances that he had not forgotten an agreement he had struck with Chinese President Hu Jintao in May 2003 to construct the pipeline. |
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MOSCOW — Deputy Finance Minister Sergei Shatalov on Wednesday urged the government to continue cutting taxes, including a long-awaited tax break for developers of new oil fields. |
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 ST. MORITZ, Switzerland — A much-praised “champagne climate,” an enviable 322 sunny days a year, some of the most sophisticated ski runs in the Alps, a taxi ride in a bob-sleigh run carved in natural ice, a stroll through a narrow lakeside with designer shops packed like sardines and a former residence of a Russian tsar (now a hotel): St. |
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An award-winning documentary depicts day-to-day life under the Siege of Leningrad during World War II using little-seen footage. Documentary filmmaker Sergei Loznitsa did not shoot a single frame of his latest film, “Blockade. |
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Last week dissolved the negative mood brought about on the music scene by John Cale’s performance at PORT club when the great man banned smoking and his manager scanned the crowd with a flashlight and chasedout fans who took pictures. Performing at Red Club last Friday, the Manchester-based band I Am Kloot took a different line and not only allowed people to take pictures, but frontman John Bramwell saluted fans with a glass of beer and members of the band actually smoked on stage. I Am Kloot’s regular three-man lineup was augmented by Colin McLeod on keyboards and Norman McLeod on slide guitar. The fact that half of the band’s equipment was stuck at London’s Heathrow Airport was overcome. |
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 Chumbawamba, the politically-minded British anarcho-punk group with a substantial cult following in St. Petersburg, failed to make it to the city in June when its local concert was canceled at short notice because a promoter failed to produce funds to cover the band’s expenses. |
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To mark the 400th anniversary of the birth of Rembrandt, the State Hermitage Museum is displaying its entire collection of the master’s etchings and prints. These works reveal that Rembrandt the printmaker was second only to Rembrandt the painter. On July 15 the world celebrates the 400th anniversary of the birth of one of the most exceptional and enigmatic figures in art history — Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, also known simply as Rembrandt. |
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AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE MADRID — The armed Basque separatist group ETA called on all Basques to support the fragile peace process after announcing a historic permanent ceasefire to end nearly four decades of bloody conflict on Wednesday. Against a background of prudence born of past failures, it followed up its ceasefire by urging all parts of Basque society to “move from words to action” by getting involved in the peace process. |
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Criticism of the Mohammed cartoons gathered pace Tuesday as Prince Charles, heir to the British throne, blasted the cartoons. “Highest among those values of our common inheritance, and born of our love of God, must always come respect for each other, and for His creation,” the Prince said before 800 spectators at the Al-Azhar University, Sunni Islam’s oldest institution of learning, in Cairo, Egypt. |
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AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE KOLKATA, India — Zoo officials in Kolkata have said that a famed 255-year-old tortoise brought to the eastern Indian city during the rule of the British East India Company has died. The giant Aldabra tortoise was one of four brought by British seamen from the Seychelles Islands as gifts to Robert Clive of the East India Company in 1875. |
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Eighteen of Europe’s most powerful clubs — known as the G14 group — have launched a bid to sue soccer’s governing body FIFA in Belgian courts for $1 billion. The G14 is responding to the contentious issue of club players being used at international level as well as growing commitment to Champions League games and also demand a share of the revenue from World Cup ticket sales. |
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FC Zenit St. Petersburg beat Torpedo Moscow 2-0 at Petrovsky Stadium on Wednesday in the Russian Cup quarterfinal. The win gives the St. Petersburg side a chance of advancing to the semifinal of the Russian Cup, after the two teams meet in the second leg of the quarterfinals on April 14 in Moscow. |
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MELBOURNE — Australia’s Jana Pittman grabbed the spotlight at the Commonwealth Games with victory in the women’s 400 meters hurdles on Thursday, quite fitting for a self-confessed drama queen who is never far from the headlines. The former world champion sped around the Melbourne Cricket Ground track in 53. |
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Rice Spurns NFL Job NASSAU, Bahamas (Reuters) — U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice officially turned her back on Wednesday on her dream job — commissioner of the National Football League. |
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