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A memorial service was held Monday in the Kazan Cathedral to commemorate a local couple that was killed when a Pulkovo Airlines Tu-154 jet crashed in Ukraine after encountering rough weather, killing all 170 people registered aboard.
Funerals are being held at various cemeteries this week through Wednesday, when the crew of the ill-fated flight will be buried at the Cemetery In Memory of Victims of January 9, 1905, Pulkovo’s press office announced.
Relatives of pilot Ivan Korogodin told Regnum news agency that they will arrange for him to be buried at a cemetery in Pushkin.
Relatives of many of the victims seek to avoid publicity and media attention. They requested times and places of the funerals and memorial services to be withheld from the press and the general public. |
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Flames engulf the roof of the Troitse-Izmailovsky Cathedral on Friday. The main dome and a cupola were destroyed in the fire. |
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St. Petersburg’s fire chief Maxim Biryukov said Monday that the Troitse-Izmailovsky Cathedral, which was largely destroyed by fire on Friday, was in violation of the fire code after an inspection in 2005 but no improvements were made due to shortage of money.
The blue-domed cathedral, St. Petersburg’s fourth-highest building, boasted arguably Europe’s largest wooden cupolas.
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A Chechen woman believed to be the last wife of Shamil Basayev is being held by law enforcement agents, who are pumping her for information on her infamous late husband, human rights activists say.
Elina Ersenoyeva, 26, disappeared in Grozny on Aug. 17. |
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Letter to Church
PITTSBURGH (AP) — The Russian Orthodox Church, which suspended ties with the U.S. Episcopal Church over its consecration of an openly gay bishop, has offered to restore ties with conservative Episcopal dioceses in the United States. |
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Chechen attacks against Russians in neighboring provinces are skyrocketing as law enforcement agencies in Chechnya crack down on rebels, forcing them to look elsewhere for targets.
There were 18 attacks in Ingushetia and 11 in North Ossetia from January through July of this year, 50 percent more than during the same period in 2005, Nikolai Patrushev, director of the Federal Security Service, or FSB, and chairman of the National Anti-Terrorist Committee, or NAC, said at a NAC session Friday in Rostov-on-Don. |
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SAN FRANCISCO — Former Ukrainian Prime Minister Pavlo Lazarenko was sentenced to nine years in prison and fined $10 million in a U.S. court on Friday after being convicted in 2004 of extortion and money laundering. |
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MOSCOW — As the United Nations cobbles together a peacekeeping force for Lebanon, debate is heating up in Moscow about whether to send troops to the Middle East.
A growing consensus of Defense Ministry officials and military analysts oppose sending ground forces. |
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Women Traffic Cops
MOSCOW (Reuters) — Russia is to create its first women-only traffic police unit because commanders believe they are less corrupt than men, Izvestie newspaper reported on Monday. |
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City Hall has chosen a Japanese-designed “space-ship” as the new home of local soccer team Zenit.
The $225-million stadium, which will be funded from the tax payments Gazprom makes to the city budget, is to be built on the site of the 1950s Kirovsky stadium on Krestovsky island. |
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MOSCOW — Russia’s second largest aluminum producer, SUAL, said it has signed a preliminary deal with U.S. energy company AES Corp. on power supplies for a smelter it is planning to build in Kazakhstan. |
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MOSCOW— The Central Bank said Friday it was ready to raise interest rates and tighten banking reserve requirements to curb inflation, but was still confident of meeting its 2006 price and exchange rate targets.
First deputy chairman Alexei Ulyukayev also told reporters the Central Bank had submitted for parliamentary review its monetary policy guidelines for 2007 — which foresee a reduction in inflation — without significant changes. |
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MOSCOW — Pensions and salaries for state employees and the military are set to rise next year, as the government makes social spending a priority ahead of elections. |
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As their wealthier clients head out of town for the summer, St. Petersburg’s restaurants are following suit, thereby dealing with the seasonal decline in demand for their services in the city.
Nevertheless, to attract guests to the country, restaurateurs have had to incorporate an added element of entertainment — perhaps a beach, swimming pool or concert pavilion — on top of worthwhile cuisine. |
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If the government’s general outline for monetary policy in 2007 is any indication, next year could turn out to be pivotal from an economic standpoint. The Central Bank has finally realized that it can’t serve two masters at once — that it can’t try to reduce inflation while dampening growth in the value of the ruble at the same time. |
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Ukraine celebrated 15 years of sovereignty Thursday – an incessant struggle between supporters of rapprochement with Russia and those wanting greater distance from Russia.
The Yushchenko-Yanukovych and East-West dilemmas don’t seem like dilemmas any more. |
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ISTANBUL — Michael Schumacher’s self-belief remained intact on Sunday despite the Ferrari driver falling 12 points behind Fernando Alonso in the Formula One title battle with four races remaining. |
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Efficacy is a factor in any judgment of economic policy. But when trying to understand the nature of a particular phenomenon, the analysis is often refined to the point of losing what the very essence of the question was in the first place.
There is a commercial fetish when it comes to defining what efficacy is, with the definition determined exclusively from an economic standpoint. |
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Even while Russia’s homegrown film industry strives to imitate Hollywood blockbusters (with limited success, it should be noted), intellectuals and die-hard Stalinists alike bemoan the flood of trash that Tinseltown foists upon the world. |
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MOSCOW — After a phenomenal year in 2004 when they won three out of the four grand slam tournaments, it looked as if the Russians would take over women’s tennis.
That year Anastasia Myskina became the first Russian woman to win a grand slam title when she beat compatriot Yelena Dementyeva in the French Open final. |
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NEW DELHI — The International Cricket Council (ICC) has said it never discussed a financial offer with umpire Darrell Hair following the Pakistan ball-tampering row. |
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AKRON, Ohio — Straight after duelling for the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational at Firestone Country Club on Sunday, Tiger Woods and Stewart Cink joined their 10 Ryder Cup team mates on a charter plane bound for Ireland. U.S. captain Tom Lehman has organised a two-day reconnaissance of the K Club, with Woods and Phil Mickelson late additions after rearranging commitments with sponsors. |
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