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A nine-year-old African-Russian girl was hospitalized with stab wounds following an attack by a group of suspected teenagers in downtown St. Petersburg on Saturday, two days after the controversial acquittal of the defendants in the trial for the murder of a nine-year-old Tajik girl two years ago. |
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Tuberculosis deaths in Russia increased in 2005 after a decline in numbers in recent years, the Ministry of Health has announced. “TB-related deaths have grown,” Health Ministry official Yekaterina Kakorina was quoted by RIA Novosti as saying in an announcement made to mark World TB Day on Friday. |
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MOSCOW — Large parts of an economics thesis written by President Vladimir Putin in the mid-1990s were lifted straight out of a U.S. management textbook published 20 years earlier, The Washington Times reported Saturday, citing researchers at the Brookings Institution. |
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MOSCOW — Prosecutor General Vladimir Ustinov on Friday called for the creation of a national program to fight corruption, defended the court that acquitted a teenager charged with slaying a Tajik girl and criticized British courts for not extraditing people wanted in Russia on criminal charges. |
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The Foreign Ministry on Friday said it was not obliged to respond to a summons served through diplomatic channels earlier this month in an ongoing lawsuit that was filed by U.S.-based shareholders of Yukos. The ministry said mutual legal assistance in civil and commercial matters between Russia and the United States had been frozen since 2003. |
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The Russian audit market is set to shrink more than twofold as a result of a new law entrusting control to professional associations. The law, which effectively cancels the licensing process, would reduce the number of active audit companies from 8,000 to 2,500, experts said last week at a round table at the Agency of Business News. |
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Russia’s environmental watchdog has thrown another roadblock in the way of an $11 billion oil pipeline meant to feed energy-hungry Asian markets, rejecting Transneft’s planned terminating point for the pipeline, a spokesman for the watchdog said Friday. |
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Port bonds ST. PETERSBURG (SPT) — The Ust-Luga managing company will issue three year interest-bearing bonds for $21.6 million, the company said Friday in a statement. |
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The country’s worrying levels of energy consumption received a boost recently when the International Finance Corporation (IFC) launched a new financial and consulting program aimed at improving levels of energy efficiency. Interestingly, several years ago a similar project was launched by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) as attention to the problems grows at both a domestic and international level. |
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TBILISI, Georgia — Since his ouster in the bloodless Rose Revolution in November 2003, Georgia’s former president, Eduard Shevardnadze, has lived in old-fashioned elegance in the diplomatic quarter above Tbilisi. |
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Like the oil giant Sibneft, I would be very much in favor of City Hall paying me back part of my taxes. Well, not in cash, perhaps, but some property, let’s say a loft, would be very desirable. I’ve been a good taxpayer for years and I’d like to get some benefit from it. |
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The initial mistrust with which Russians regarded consumer credit is now largely behind us, as we increasingly take out short term loans to buy whatever takes our fancy, despite the relatively high rates of interest, rather than waiting and saving up. |
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Fradkov Critical MOSCOW (Bloomberg) — Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov urged oil companies to hold down prices to curb inflation and help farmers complete the spring sowing campaign. The situation “is critical,” Fradkov told executives from the country’s biggest oil producers Monday, according to the government’s Web site. |
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“You feel like you’re flying — it’s crazy,” said Irina Arkhapova, a local freestyle skiing enthusiast, speaking about a sport that was practically unknown in Russia 20 years ago. Now, St. Petersburg is set to become a magnet for freestyle skiers across the winter sports world. Freestyle skiing is a sport that adds sparks to regular skiing as athletes must be able to perform exhilarating jumps to win the disciplines, displaying an array of aerial skills. |
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Statesman Laid To Rest TALLINN (AP) — Estonia’s first post-Soviet president, a renowned intellectual who led his nation toward the European Union and NATO, was honored Sunday at a state funeral as a man who “made and shaped history.” Baltic heads of state and international dignitaries arrived at the Estonian capital to pay their last respects to Lennart Meri, who died March 14 at age 76 after a long illness. |
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MADRID — Real Madrid moved up to second place in the Primera Liga behind leaders Barcelona on Sunday as they thrashed Deportivo La Coruna 4-0 at the Bernabeu. Real are now 11 points adrift of Barca, whose under-strength team were held to a 0-0 draw at bottom club Malaga on Saturday as they prepare to face Benfica in the Champions League. |
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Reuters MOSCOW — A man was handed an 18-month suspended sentence on Monday for threatening to kill a referee in a Russian Premier League match last season. |
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FC Zenit St. Petersburg is under investigation by the Russian Football Union (RFU) after local soccer fans made monkey calls at the Brazilian captain of a visiting Russian Premier League team, the head of the RFU inspection committee, Alexei Spirin, said Wednesday. |
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Sevilla FC and FC Zenit St. Petersburg both won victories in domestic league matches before the first leg of their UEFA Cup quarterfinal encounter on Thursday. |
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Police Offer ‘Pub-Talk’ FRANKFURT (Reuters) — German police are planning to calm nerves among fans at this year’s World Cup by using officers specially trained in pub-speak to communicate through megaphones. The authorities in Frankfurt are piloting a scheme where officers explain to fans over a loudspeaker what the police are doing, putting them at ease using colloquial language and humor, albeit mostly in German. |
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Canada’s Stephen Ames, ice-cool in difficult final-round conditions, cruised to his second PGA Tour title with a six-shot victory at the Players Championship on Sunday. |
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In a bid to uncover why well-trained employees suddenly resign from a seemingly solid and attractive firm, we confront the principles of Maslow’s pyramid of needs. According to recruiters, when an employee’s needs, both in terms of money and career, are undervalued, loyalty counts for nothing, and they will quickly seek a new challenge. |
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For the most part, dismissal is a rather unpleasant business, for sacked and sacker alike. Help is at hand, however, because according to the experts, combining a little bit of self-control with strict adhesion to the Labor Code, one can manage with a minimum of fuss. |
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A recent review of St. Petersburg salaries again highlights the city’s uneven industrial development, as well as a continuing shortage of specialists for whom remuneration is also becoming more specialised. Last month the ANCOR recruitment agency released a review of wages at 68 industrial and retail companies. |
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Why do companies need social programs? It is no secret that businesses are created to achieve economic and operating objectives, in other words, to make it a profitable undertaking for all employees of the business. |
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In recent times, there’s been a trend toward handing over work to companies specializing in the provision of outsourced personnel. In order to optimize their work, many companies prefer to bring in subcontracting firms, rather than hire full-time specialists. |
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According to a survey by Grant Thornton International consultancy, 48 percent of Russian entrepreneurs reported an increase in stress over the last year. |
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Russia lacks modern pedagogical techniques that prepare workers for the practical reality of the tourism business — this claim made by industry representatives was recently uncovered by an EU-project, “Tourism Development in Northwest Russia,” which itself is attempting to ensure the sustainability of competence in the sector. |
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Any foreigners that have worked in Russia will tell you that there is, to put it very mildly, an element of confusion surrounding the business of getting your visa registered. |
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How does one combine being a mother and building a successful career? Some of the city’s top businesswomen offer their advice for handling work and family. Natalia Kudryavtseva, executive director of the St. Petersburg International Business Association for North-Western Russia (SPIBA): “I’ve always had two important things in my life — my family and my work. |
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It’s the buzzword in the corporate training world, and every aspiring executive is undergoing a course of it: Executive coaching. In fact, a recent survey by the CIPD showed that in the U. |
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Twenty million Russians now use the internet and more and more of them are using it to look for employment. According to the statistics, this year the amount of applicants who look for jobs online has by increased by 50 percent. The majority of these live in Moscow (about 40 percent), St. |
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Have you ever wondered what people say about you behind your back? How are you perceived by others? I bet you’ve often asked yourselves such questions only to leave it at that. |
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As St. Petersburg continues to attract foreign companies, so foreign-language speakers are increasingly in demand. Recruiters point out that now “fluent English” is often a must not only for administrative positions, such as interpreters, translators, secretaries, personal assistants or office managers but, also for different technical specialists, engineers and accountants. |
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Despite increased competition from their local counterparts, demand for the foreign specialist in Russia is by no means set to disappear. On the contrary, analysts say that the amount of foreigners is on the rise in almost all fields of business — from retail, banking and IT, to consulting, manufacturing, and real estate. |
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