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The eastern half of the ring road around St. Petersburg, or KAD, an ambitious project aimed at solving many of the city's traffic and environmental problems was officially opened Thursday."Now all cargo transport will be eliminated from the city center entirely, which will significantly improve the transport and the ecology situation in the city," Governor Valentina Matviyenko said Thursday.
The construction of the road included building the new Bolshoi Obukhovsky suspension bridge, also known as Vantovy Bridge, a new St. Petersburg landmark and one of the 40 biggest suspension bridges of this kind in the world. |
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The Bolshoi Obukhosky Bridge, one of the largest of its type in the world, which opened on Thursday, completing the eastern section of the city's new ring road. |
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MOSCOW — Russia may have failed so far to negotiate entry into the World Trade Organization, but it's still a member of the WTO. That's WTO as in World Toilet Organization.Just beyond the Kremlin walls, at the Manezh exhibition center, the WTO opened its 6th annual World Toilet Summit on Wednesday.
The summit is dedicated to quality public facilities, waging a public-relations campaign against age-old taboos.
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MOSCOW — Rescuers battled thick smoke and blistering temperatures on Thursday as they tried to reach more than 30 miners trapped underground by a fire at a gold mine in Siberia.Sixty-four miners were underground when welding work caused the fire in the central shaft of the Darasun mining complex in Russia's remote Chita region on the Chinese border, emergency officials said. |
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TBILISI, Georgia — Georgia said Wednesday that it had uncovered a plot by opposition politicians sympathetic to Russia to overthrow the country's pro-Western leadership.A Georgian official said Tbilisi would be asking its neighbor Russia whether it funded the alleged plot. |
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MOSCOW — The military will complete security upgrades of its nuclear arsenal by late 2009 to further guard it against terrorists, a senior general said this week. |
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MOSCOW — The parents of five boys whose remains were found in a Krasnoyarsk sewer pipe last year met Wednesday with the investigator overseeing the case, but most of them declared the meeting unsatisfactory and said they would go ahead with a planned hunger strike, Interfax reported."They reminded us again of the confidentiality of the investigation and, in essence, told us nothing," said Yevgeny Taumanov, the father of one of the boys. |
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Azimuth Management Group has announced the official launch of its hotel chain and presented a new concept comprising three-star hotels oriented exclusively towards business travelers. In St. Petersburg the company has acquired the former Sovietskaya hotel, which will become the flagship of Azimuth Hotels in Russia. |
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The largest juice producer in Russia, Lebedyansky, will buy local juice producer Troia-Ultra, the company said Wednesday in a statement.Both companies are preparing documents for approval by the anti-monopoly committee. |
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CAPE TOWN, South Africa — President Vladimir Putin presided over more than $1 billion of new deals in Cape Town on Wednesday and predicted a wave of others in a powerful economic foray into South Africa."In Russia we have great respect for the economic achievements of South Africa," he told South African President Thabo Mbeki at a business forum in Cape Town that marked a new relationship between two of the world's biggest emerging market economies. |
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MOSCOW — Western oil majors seeking to enter into partnerships with Gazprom in the $20 billion-plus Shtokman gas project said on Wednesday that negotiations with the gas monopoly had resumed after a break of several months. |
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MOSCOW — If the Kremlin ever has to open up its coffers and bail out a flailing state-controlled company, investors may have to face a sobering truth: Some state-controlled companies are more equal than others.For years, state ownership has been seen as a benefit to Russian companies' credit ratings and stability. |
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$50Bln Investment
nMOSCOW (Bloomberg) —Japanese companies may invest $50 billion in Russia, RIA-Novosti reported, citing Deputy Economic Development and Trade Minister Kirill Androsov. |
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MOSCOW — Gazprom on Tuesday said it had struck a three-year deal with Turkmenistan to buy its gas for $100 per 1,000 cubic meters — a 55 percent hike on the current price of $65. The cost will most likely be passed on to Ukraine, the final customer for Turkmen gas, when the price increase takes effect in January. |
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As the second anniversary of the Beslan tragedy approached, one thing was clear — unlike the Dubrovka theater disaster, Beslan proved impossible to cover up.I'm not talking about the evidence heard in the trial of the sole surviving terrorist, Nurpashi Kulayev, or even the report drafted by State Duma deputy — and explosives expert — Yury Savelyev, which concluded that the storming of the school began with a fire ignited by flamethrowers and grenade-launchers on the gym roof of School No. |
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Two years ago the new school term began in horror for the town of Beslan in North Ossetia. Terrorists seized School No. 1, and in the tragic events that followed, 332 civilians were killed, including 186 children. |
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St. Petersburg is in the middle of a month-long contemporary art event that fails to live up to its billing.The second week of the First St. Petersburg Biennale for Contemporary Art is in progress. The bombastic and pretentious title of the event eliminates the number of similar "biennales" that have already taken place in the city during the last decade. |
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MTV EXIT, the international, series of dance events set up by MTV to increase global awareness about human trafficking and sex slavery comes to St. Petersburg this week. |
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Like many children of the so-called "third wave" of Russian emigration who washed up on U.S. shores during the 1970s and '80s, Katherine Dovlatov did not want to be Russian."We refused to speak the language among ourselves, and some refused to speak Russian even to their parents," she recalled in an e-mail. |
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With three Herculean construction projects in coming months affecting its normal program, the Mariinsky Theater begins the 2006/07 season a month earlier than usual. |
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Jochen Hellbeck's study of diaries from the Stalin era takes us back to a time of hope, when the transformation of man seemed imminent.The Soviet experiment is now so entirely a part of the past that it seems slightly incredible that it was only 25 years ago that Leonid Brezhnev was in power and it was Russian troops who were dying in Afghanistan. In a sense there were two Soviet Unions, one extending from the Revolution to Josef Stalin's death in 1953 and the other from 1953 until the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991. The two were roughly the same in duration, but it is of course the world of 1953-1991 that is a vivid part of the memory of those alive now. |
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 This year, Bonn's month-long Beethoven Festival takes Russia as its central theme.BONN, Germany — With its continuing voyage through regions and centuries, this year's Beethoven Festival is focusing on Russia as its main theme. |
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LONDON — Prime Minister Tony Blair, the second-longest-serving British leader since the 19th century, said Thursday that he will resign his post within the next 12 months.Blair, whose once-soaring popularity has been badly damaged by the war in Iraq and his close alliance with President Bush, said in a televised comment to reporters that the upcoming Labour Party conference would be his last as leader. |
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Guus Hiddink's first competitive game in charge of the Russian national team — a Euro 2008 qualifier against Croatia — ended in a 0-0 draw in Moscow on Wednesday.Russia, which beat Latvia in a friendly last month, struggled to create many clear-cut chances in a match that was high on endeavor but low on quality. |
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