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Police shot and killed a 21-year-old man wanted for several racist attacks after he lunged at arresting officers with a knife, prosecutors said Friday.
A police officer shot Dmitry Borovikov, a founder of the extremist group Mad Crowd, once in the head at around 10 p.m. Thursday, St. Petersburg prosecutor’s office spokeswoman Yelena Ordynskaya said.
“The officer fired a warning shot in the air, but [Borovikov] tried to stab him, and the officer was forced to take action,” Ordynskaya said.
Borovikov died later in hospital. Prosecutors are investigating whether the use of deadly force by the officer was justified, a standard procedure whenever an officer uses a weapon.
Nikolai Kuryanovich, a member of the Liberal-Democratic faction at the State Duma, told Echo Moskvy Radio station he is planning to file a report to the General Prosecutor’s Office asking for a more detailed investigation into the use of firearms in the case. |
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ON A ROLL!
Alexander Belenky / The St. Petersburg Times
Thousands of roller-skaters on Nevsky Prospekt taking part in St. Petersburg’s 14-kilometer roller-skating rally on Sunday. It was the fifth event of its kind to be held in the city, Interfax reported, with participants ranging in age from five to over 60. The event was not hampered by the day’s rainfall. |
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BOSTON, Massachusetts — Russia should be pressed on democratic reforms, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said in an interview published Sunday, adding that Moscow should not intimidate its neighbors.
“We still have a good relationship with Russia. We work together on all kinds of issues,” Rice said. “We’ve come a long, long way from when there was a hammer and sickle above the Kremlin,” Rice said in an interview published Sunday in the newspaper of Boston College, where she is to speak Monday.
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MOSCOW — Hundreds of people who lost their life savings and, in some cases, their homes in a nationwide real estate scam rallied outside the White House on Friday, and some set up tents in the hope of staying all weekend.
After two failed attempts to break up the gathering, helmeted riot police swooped down on the camp early Saturday, tearing down the tents and detaining about 50 people. |
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MOSCOW — The first Malaysian to rocket into space will be a dentist. Or an orthopedic surgeon. Or maybe a pilot or an engineer.
One thing can be said for sure about the next international guest on the Russian spacecraft: He — or she — will have beat out a lot of people for the distinction of being the first person from the mostly Muslim, Southeast Asian nation to leave the Earth’s atmosphere. |
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Workers Attacked
ST. PETERSBURG (SPT) — Seven laborers working on a bridge in the Krasnogvardeisky district suffered a severe beating from a group of well-armed youngsters on Monday, Ekho Moskvy radio station reported.
Twenty local youths, armed with heavy chains, baseball bats and steel armature carried out an attack on the workers. |
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MOSCOW — Russian Orthodox and Muslim leaders have formed a united front blasting the new movie “The Da Vinci Code” as blasphemous and an act of “spiritual terrorism. |
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MOSCOW — Leading democratic parties and reformers are looking to combine forces in advance of the 2007 parliamentary elections, creating a single party to challenge United Russia.
“If the democrats fail to get into the State Duma in 2007, Russia runs the risk of having a nationalist, xenophobic and imperialist president,” said Boris Nadezhdin, a deputy leader of the Union of Right Forces, or SPS. |
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LONDON — A consortium led by Royal Dutch Shell has not fully complied with environmental guidelines when laying pipelines in east Russia, documents showed on Sunday.
The consortium denied, however, that it misled the public and potential lenders who are mulling $6 billion to $7 billion in loans for the project. |
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MOSCOW — Russia sought on Monday to take the heat out of controversy in Europe over recent disruptions to its gas exports, calling on the eve of a European Union-Russia summit for a calmer energy dialogue. |
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Samsung Plant
KALININGRAD (Bloomberg) — Samsung Electronics, Asia’s largest maker of mobile phones, may build a factory in Russia’s Kaliningrad region to build home appliances, Interfax said, citing a Russian Energy and Industry Ministry official it didn’t name. |
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SOCHI — President Vladimir Putin and his Kazakh counterpart, Nursultan Nazarbayev, on Saturday reached a compromise agreement on prices for Kazakh gas during a meeting in Sochi. |
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MOSCOW — The Prosecutor General’s Office has demanded to know who the beneficiaries of pipeline monopoly Transneft’s preferred shares are, brokerages said Friday, two weeks after the shares were frozen by a Moscow court.
Detailed information about the owners of Transneft’s preferred shares must be disclosed because of an ongoing criminal investigation into abuses by former Transneft managers during the company’s privatization, senior investigator Roman Sokolov said in a letter sent to several Moscow brokerages last week. |
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MOSCOW —The State Duma on Friday ratified an agreement to form a Eurasian Bank for Development to finance projects in Russia and Kazakhstan.
Russia will provide $1 billion in capital, with Kazakhstan chipping in another $500 million. |
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Tanker Attacked
CONAKRY, Guinea (Bloomberg) — A tanker owned by Primorsk Sea Shipping, Russia’s third-largest shipping company by capacity, was attacked and its crew robbed off the coast of Guinea.
Two high-speed boats approached the Shkotovo, which was 60 miles off the Guinean port of Conakry, and took an undisclosed amount of cash yesterday afternoon local time, Nakhodka, Russia-based Prisco, as the company is known, said in a statement. |
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More and more companies and recruiting agencies have begun using psychometric tests to help assess job applications. While in terms of procedure, technique and accuracy, such testing varies widely, it is still noticeably influential among employers when the latter come to make a decision. |
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In the mid-1990s it was commonplace to see miners striking near the Kremlin and blocking highways with their claims. They demanded their due from state employers who had failed to pay them for months on end.
Although these events had seemed consigned to that turbulent post-Soviet decade, we’ve recently been reminded of trade union power. |
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A St. Petersburg club, “Svoe Delo” (“Your business”), is becoming a more and more popular meeting place for businessmen to get the advice they need to survive in the rough and tumble of the Russian market. |
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Russian democracy has come under sharp scrutiny in the run-up to the Group of Eight summit, hosted this summer in St. Petersburg by President Vladimir Putin. In a speech in Lithuania this month, Vice President Dick Cheney said Russia had “unfairly and improperly restricted the rights of her people” and had set a political course that could undermine Russia’s relations with other countries. |
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Peter the Great, he may not be. But some investors welcome the reign of Vladimir Putin as markets in Russia have been more stable since he assumed his country’s presidency at the turn of the millennium. |
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There have been periods in human history when being rich was not particularly pleasant. Take the Middle Ages, when wealth was believed to be incompatible with Christian salvation. St. Francis of Assisi, a young man from a good family, distributed his property to the poor and took a vow of poverty. There was also Enrico Scrovegni of Padua, who built a luxurious chapel and hired Giotto to paint it with religious subjects in order to expiate the sins of his father, Reginaldo, whom Dante had consigned to hell as a usurer in the Divine Comedy. |
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Covering religion is something the American media do badly, and reporting on controversies involving religious ideas is one of the things they do worst of all.
That deficiency probably has helped turn this weekend’s release of the film based on Dan Brown’s better-than-bestselling novel, “The Da Vinci Code,” into even more of a trial than it needs to be — albeit a very temporary one, given the movie’s reviews. |
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Ñòðèæêà: haircut, or the male expat ordeal
Apparently many of Moscow’s male expats are having a perpetual bad hair day. |
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Beneath the thunder of the mighty cataclysms unleashed by the Bush administration — the war crime in Iraq, the global torture gulag, the epic corruption, the gutting of the U.S. Constitution, the open embrace of presidential tyranny — a quieter degradation of American society has continued apace. And this slow descent into barbarism didn’t begin with President George W. |
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MOSCOW — For the last decade, the atom has been Russia’s least-lauded, most-hush-hush energy export.
But now, just as a global renaissance in atomic power offers the chance of billions of dollars’ worth of contracts, the country’s nuclear industry finds itself stuck with a dilemma. Without private funding, ambitious expansion plans may never be realized, but allowing in the private sector would open up the nation’s most secretive industry to unprecedented scrutiny. |
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BAGHDAD — British officials said they expected all foreign combat troops to withdraw from Iraq within four years, as British Prime Minister Tony Blair flew into Baghdad to show support for its new government on Monday.
It was the firmest statement yet from one of the two main allies in the 2003 invasion to topple Saddam Hussein on a date for pulling out troops from Iraq. |
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GAZA CITY — The head of the security services Sunday became the latest bomb target of increasingly vicious factional violence, prompting a vow by Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas to avoid a descent into civil war. |
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PODGORICA, Serbia-Montenegro — Montenegro’s prime minister proclaimed victory Monday for the pro-independence camp in a referendum held Sunday on splitting from Serbia, a move that would mark the final break-up of the former Yugoslavia.
“Ladies and gentlemen, let me tell you that tonight, by the decision of the people of Montenegro, an independent Montenegro has been renewed,” a jubilant Milo Djukanovic told his supporters early Monday. |
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Al Gore Stars at Cannes
PARIS (AP) — The United States is emerging from a “bubble of unreality” about the problem of global warming, former vice president Al Gore said Saturday at the Cannes Film Festival. |
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MOSCOW — CSKA Moscow kept hold of the Russian Cup on Saturday after its Brazilian strikers Jo and Wagner Love swept the club to a 3-0 victory over rival Spartak.
Jo opened the scoring two minutes before the end of a fast and furious first half, driving a free kick through the wall and out of reach of Spartak keeper Wojciech Kowalewski. |
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With heads bowed, Dynamo St. Petersburg left the court at Yubeleiny Stadium on Saturday after losing the fifth and final game of the Russian Superleague semifinal series to BC Khimki Moscow Region. |
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