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MOSCOW The Russian government on Thursday approved a bill to impose tough penalties for racist violence and anti-Semitism, news agencies said, as two more attacks on foreigners were reported in a rising tide of hate crimes in the country. The bill to be submitted to parliament calls for jail terms of up to three years for persons convicted of crimes with racial motives or with the aim of sowing ethnic, religious or ideological hatred, ITAR-TASS and RIA Novosti said. It also called for imposition of fines of up to 1,000 times the minimum wage index rate, or 100,000 rubles ($3,600), for the production, distribution or use of Nazi paraphernalia or symbols, the reports said. |
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 At a round-table on Thursday on the state and development of St. Petersburg, several members of the citys Legislative Assembly said poor cooperation between City Hall and the parliament is hampering positive changes. |
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MOSCOW Guus Hiddinks move to coach Russia has been approved by the Russian Football Union, making the Dutch coach the first foreigner to take charge of the Russian national soccer team. We worked very hard to find a candidate for this position. We met many specialists, including those from Russia, but we decided to go with Guus Hiddink, Itar-Tass quoted Russian football chief Vitaly Mutko as saying. |
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The creation of a multinational monitoring body for energy transportation, a global network of research and development centers and increased international collaboration to prevent money laundering are just a few of the proposals put forward by a group of international students in a report released in the city on Thursday. |
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MOSCOW A state official once responsible for overseeing often-controversial property sales was knifed to death Tuesday in Novosibirsk in what prosecutors say was a contract murder tied to his old job. Sergei Korolko, former head of the Federal Property Management Agencys department responsible for selling off property confiscated in criminal investigations, was found around 10 p. |
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MOSCOW Inefficient bureaucracy has only gotten worse since President Vladimir Putin took office six years ago, with the number of state employees increasing more than 10 percent in 2005 alone, according to a new report by the State Statistics Service. |
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The joint Russian-Canadian Liquefied Natural Gas plant (LNG) planned for Leningrad Oblast will earn $40 million annually, Petro-Canadas vice president Graham Lion announced at a forum in St. Petersburg on Tuesday. Speaking at the International Fuel and Energy Forum, Lion said that the $1. |
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MOSCOW Private equity firm Alfa Group said on Wednesday that Russian food retailers Perekryostok and Pyatyorochka would merge in a deal giving it control of a market leader with sales of $2. |
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Baltika Dividend ST. PETERSBURG (SPT) Baltika breweries will pay $115.8 million in dividends for 2005 a 69.3 percent increase on 2004 figures, RBC reported Tuesday. Shareholders will earn $0.88 per one share. Baltika owns five brewery plants, one malt plant and 31 distribution offices across Russia. |
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St. Petersburg Stock Exchange announced Wednesday the introduction of special software that will let stockbrokers offer their clients trading services over the internet, Interfax reported. |
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MOSCOW Russia appears to be signaling to U.S. officials that if it is not admitted to the WTO, American firms will be barred from taking part in the Shtokman natural gas project. Two sources who spoke to senior Russian officials said the implicit quid pro quo has emerged in the last month. |
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MOSCOW Volga-Dnepr, the global leader in transporting oversized cargo, is hoping to hold an initial public share offering in London or Russia in 2007, the company announced Wednesday. |
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MOSCOW On the back of surging commodity prices, Russia has moved closer to the forefront of the worlds trading nations, notching up in the rankings of global exporters and importers, according to the most recent WTO trade report. Over the past year, Russian exports of fuels and manufactured products grew 34 percent to $245. |
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Voestalpine Purchase LINZ, Austria (Bloomberg) Voestalpine, Austrias biggest steelmaker, bought 80 percent of steelmaker Arkada Profil to expand its business in Russia. |
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When U.S. President George W. Bush famously looked into President Vladimir Putins eyes a few years ago, he should have seen a new Russian tsar. For a president who has put democracy promotion at the top of his agenda, Putins Russia is an awkward problem. |
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With the development of the market in Russia, ever more foreign investors are beginning to look at the country as a viable investment opportunity. More and more foreign firms are attempting to break into the Russian market, while others are attempting to cut their costs by setting up production or local branches here in order to promote themselves and gain an advantage over the competition. |
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 Vocalist and guitarist Tom Barman, who founded dEUS 16 years ago, is enthusiastic about the band and its current combination of members, which he said is capable of doing things that the early dEUS was not. The band, arguably Belgiums best-known avant-rock group, returned to performing from a lengthy sabbatical last year and is now on tour in support of its fourth album, Pocket Revolution. It will perform in St. |
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 Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is wingd Cupid painted blind Shakespeare Just a few weeks after opening its summer blockbuster Rembrandt Etchings, revealing the Old Masters genius as a printmaker, the State Hermitage Museum has opened another exhibition of prints, Raising Cupid: French Engravings from the Age of Gallantry, running until May 21 in the New Hermitages Hall of Twelve Columns, Behind the neutral title, lies a literate and enthralling show. |
 The Shostakovich Philharmonic Hall is to undergo its first major renovation in nearly half a century. The St. Petersburg Philharmonic, which closes its main performing venue, the Shostakovich Grand Hall for six-months of renovation on July 5, will perform thereafter at the State Academic Capella and Heraldic Hall of the State Hermitage Museum, companys artistic director Yury Temirkanov said on Tuesday. |
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The National Center for Contemporay Arts and the Educational Center of the State Hermitage Museum have launched a groundbreaking new project dedicated to internet and digital art. |
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International acts continue to play at Platforma, with dEUS, possibly Belgiums best-known indie-rock band performing on Saturday. See interview with singer and guitarist Tom Barman, page iv. JFC Jazz Club continues to celebrate its 10th anniversary with a series of concerts called Jazz Spring in St. |
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The serious people at the Department of the New Art Trends at the Russian Museum have put on an exhibition of works by the 69-year old Russian naÕve artist Katya Medvedeva whom some have called an amazing babushka, who paints like 5 year old kid. |
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St. Petersburg artist Sergei Denisov juxtaposes science and love in his exhibition Natural Histories at the Anna Nova Gallery Local artist Sergei Denisov, who is known for finding visual poetry in the classifications and laws of natural science, has a new show on at the Anna Nova Gallery under the title Natural Histories. |
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When it is still snowing in St. Petersburg, the last thing one might want to see is the next years fall/winter fashions. But as the 13th season of the city-based prÐt-a-porter week Defile na Neve demonstrates, the designs on show are not as depressing and gloomy as the seasons the they are made for. |
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ROME Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi on Wednesday denounced what he called widespread fraud at Italys general election and demanded his center-left rival Romano Prodi be stripped of victory. Prodi immediately condemned Berlusconis efforts to overturn the results of the April 9-10 election, the closest in modern Italian history, and his allies warned that the prime minister was stoking dangerous political tensions. |
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WASHINGTON World Bank member nations on Tuesday approved a long-awaited $37 billion debt relief package for 17 impoverished countries that included ways to compensate the development lender for the write-off. |
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ElBaradei in Tehran TEHRAN, Iran (AP) Irans hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad vowed Thursday that Iran wont back away from uranium enrichment and said the world must treat Iran as a nuclear power. The comments were made as Mohamed ElBaradei, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, arrived in Tehran for talks aimed at defusing tensions over Irans nuclear program. |
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LONDON Arsenal was held to a 1-1 draw by relegation-threatened Portsmouth on Wednesday as its hopes of finishing fourth in the English Premier League suffered a blow. The result left the European Cup semifinalist four points behind north London rival Tottenham Hotspur in the race for the final qualifying spot in next seasons Champions League. |
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FC Zenit St. Petersburg is through to the semifinal of the Russian Cup after a 5-2 aggregate win over Torpedo Moscow. The teams met Wednesday in Moscow with a 2-0 advantage to Zenit after the first leg two weeks ago at Petrovsky Stadium in St. |
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Petrova Qualifies CHARLESTON, South Carolina (AFP) Russian second seed Nadia Petrova, coming off her second WTA title of 2006, reached the third round of a $1.3 million clay court event with a three-set victory. Petrova, who won the Amelia Island final last Sunday, defeated Ukrainian qualifier Alona Bondarenko 6-1, 0-6, 6-2. |
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