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MOSCOW — World powers are ready to guarantee Iran’s right to develop nuclear energy provided Tehran alleviates international concern over its nuclear intentions and cooperates fully with the UN nuclear monitoring agency, Russia said Monday.
“We are prepared to guarantee Iran’s right to peaceful nuclear energy on the condition that it answers the questions that the IAEA has raised,” Russian news agencies quoted Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov as saying in Moscow, referring to the International Atomic Energy Agency.
Speaking at the start of a critical week of international diplomacy, Lavrov said the five permanent UN Security Council members joined by Germany were hammering out a plan for resumption of negotiations with Tehran on supervision of its nuclear activities. |
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
Alexander Belenky / The St. Petersburg Times
St. Petersburg celebrated its birthday on Saturday with a parade which proceeded down Nevsky Prospekt from Ploshchad Vosstaniya to Palace Square. Over 16,000 locals and visitors took part in the event, which was the sixth of its kind. For photo report. |
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Denis Savin, 22, is one of the Bolshoi Theater ballet’s rising stars, with several solo parts and a prestigious Golden Mask Award nomination to his name. By the ripe old age of 24, if the army has its way, his career at Moscow’s premier opera and ballet company could end.
Savin, with fellow dancers, violinists, pianists and other young talents, could be drafted if the State Duma adopts a legislative package this summer cutting service exemptions for talented artists.
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MOSCOW — One of the victims of the violence that broke out at Saturday’s aborted gay rights march had the misfortune of simply being the wrong color.
While walking down Tverskaya Ulitsa with a female companion, the dark-skinned man, who did not give his name, was attacked by ultranationalists looking for prey. |
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MOSCOW — Activists attempting to hold Moscow’s first-ever gay rights march Saturday were overwhelmed by militant Orthodox Christians and ultranationalists throwing smoke bombs. |
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MOSCOW — Federal troops fired grenades into the Beslan school while hostages were still inside, a State Duma report found.
What’s more, the commandos’ actions may have prompted the bloody firefight that killed 331 hostages, more than half of whom were children, the report found. |
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Sales of pharmaceutical products in Russia have more than tripled since 2000 making the country one of the fastest-growing European markets. Sales will keep increasing by around 10 percent a year between 2006 and 2010, PricewaterhouseCoopers said in a report on the pharmaceutical market released last week. |
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MOSCOW — The launch of Ksenia Sobchak’s youth movement on Thursday was ultra-Sobchak — hip, self-possessed and just a bit over the top, including Shakespearean actors, a scrumptuous buffet and denim-print wallpaper.
Sobchak, the wealthy socialite and hostess of the “Dom-2” reality show, said the new movement, called “Vse Svobodny” (or “All Are Free”), would teach young Russians how to be free. |
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GROZNY — A 15-year-old high school student danced and baked her way to the title of Miss Chechnya on Saturday, beating out twin sisters for the grand prize of a sleek Toyota sedan. |
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The Russian Trading System (RTS) stock exchange on Monday started trading the ordinary shares and preference shares of the Petersburg Generating Company and the Kolskaya Generating company, which are to merge with the Territory Generating Company N1 (TGC-1) by the end of the year. |
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MOSCOW — In an unusual and contentious vote, the Federation Council on Friday expelled Senator Alexander Sabadash for being engaged in business activities while in office. |
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Capital Move
ST. PETERSBURG (SPT) — The St. Petersburg-based Baltisky Bank will be reregistered in Moscow by July 15, the bank said in a statement Friday.
In becoming an open joint stock company, Baltisky Bank will offer up to 25 percent of shares to a new strategic investor. |
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MOSCOW (Reuters) — Roman Abramovich, Russia’s richest man and the owner of English soccer champions Chelsea, is in talks to buy a stake in steelmaker Evraz Group, a company official said on Monday. |
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MOSCOW — Pipeline monopoly Transneft questioned whether Russia’s oil producers would supply Lithuania’s Mazeikiu Nafta refinery after it was bought on Friday by PKN Orlen, Poland’s largest oil refiner.
But PKN Orlen said it had secured sources, and Lithuania’s government also said the Polish company had received several offers of supplies. |
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MOSCOW — Hochtief, Germany’s biggest construction company, won a $300 million contract to upgrade a terminal at Sheremetyevo Airport, which is trying to revamp its Soviet-era design as passenger numbers increase. |
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MOSCOW (Bloomberg) — AvtoVAZ, Russia's biggest carmaker, expects to more than quadruple profit this year to about 6.3 billion rubles ($233 million), Interfax said, citing Board Chairman Vladimir Artyakov.
Revenue may rise 10 percent from the 130 billion rubles achieved last year, Artyakov said in Togliatti, Russia, where AvtoVAZ is based, the news service reported. |
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MOSCOW — Motorola is gearing up for a legal battle with RussGPS, whose allegations of patent infringement have mired the world’s No. 2 cell phone maker in an unusual criminal investigation. |
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MOUNTAIN VIEW, California — Google evolved from a tiny start-up to the shining star of American enterprise in less than a decade by bringing knowledge to billions of people.
There’s still one thing almost no one knows: How Google works.
“It’s somewhat of a paradox,” said Jordan Rohan, a financial analyst at RBC Capital Markets. |
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Tatiana Modeyeva, head of the St. Petersburg branch of Intercomp, gives the impression of being a real person of action — having started her career as a laboratory, she changed job over seven times in nine years before finally finding success as a top manager. |
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Something strange is happening in the Russian economy. Since 1999, it has delivered stellar growth numbers of almost 7 percent per year, with virtually all of the growth coming from the private sector, which has been led not only by the recovery in the oil and metals sectors, but also by retail and construction. |
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Last week Alexander Sabadash, the legendary entrepreneur and corporate raider, retired from the Federation Council while his St. Petersburg-based enterprises were investigated by law enforcement bodies. |
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The fallout from United States President George W. Bush’s crash-and-burn approval ratings does not stop at the water’s edge. Foreign leaders — in particular, Russia’s Vladimir Putin — oppose U.S. goals and policies abroad more directly and forcefully as Bush’s support and his time left in office fade away together. |
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The authorities often accuse journalists of destabilizing situations. A couple of weeks ago, I did the opposite: I honestly tried to debunk some myths about Dagestan. |
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It’s a familiar image: the U.S. president followed by an aide with the “football,” the ever-present attache case that holds the codes for launching a nuclear attack. But for years, these supposedly supreme commanders-in-chief did not have the slightest idea which targets would actually be hit at their order. |
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KABUL, Afghanistan — Thousands marched angrily through Kabul on Monday after at least seven people were killed and 40 were wounded following a riot sparked by a fatal traffic accident involving a U.S. military truck.
A U.S. convoy came under attack from a crowd hurling stones and smashing vehicle windows in the Afghan capital when one of the convoy’s trucks crashed into a dozen vehicles, killing at least one person, according to a U. |
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BANTUL, Indonesia — Indonesia is struggling to cope with the scale of an earthquake that struck Saturday, declaring a state of emergency as hospitals overflowed with injured and heavy rains lashed thousands of homeless survivors. |
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Swan Swoons For Boat
BERLIN (Reuters) — A swan has fallen in love with a plastic swan-shaped paddle boat on a pond in the German town of Muenster and has spent the past three weeks flirting with the vessel five times its size, a sailing instructor said Friday.
Peter Overschmidt, who operates a sailing school and rents the two-seat paddle boat on the Aasee pond, said the black swan with a bright red beak has not left the white swan boat’s side since it flew in one day in early May. |
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NEW YORK — Dirk Nowitzki had 28 points and 17 rebounds to lead the Dallas Mavericks to a 95-88 win over the Phoenix Suns in Game Three of the Western Conference finals on Sunday.
Josh Howard added 22 points and 12 rebounds for the Mavericks, who regained home court advantage after losing the series opener in Dallas and winning the next two games. |
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MILAN, Italy — A stunning accusation from rival Gilberto Simoni cast a shadow over Ivan Basso’s victory at the Giro d’Italia on Sunday.
The 28-year-old Italian from the CSC team won the three-week Giro by more than nine minutes from Spain’s Jose Gutierrez, with Simoni third at 11:59. |
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Sharapova Lashes Out
PARIS (Reuters) — An angry Maria Sharapova accused French Open organizers of putting ticket sales ahead of players’ interests after she limped into the second round on Sunday.
The Russian fourth seed was forced to play on the opening day of the claycourt Grand Slam despite requesting a late start after aggravating a right ankle injury in training. |
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