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MOSCOW — Stoking fears of escalating xenophobia, a man died in a brawl involving ethnic Armenians in the Saratov region last week and three people were hospitalized after an attack on an anti-migration rally in St. Petersburg on Sunday (see story, this page). |
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida — A spill of toxic liquids aboard International Space Station on Monday set off a short-lived emergency and fears of a fire aboard the outpost. |
 Groups organizing street protests at the weekend with different agendas — from pro-democracy opposition activists to radical anti-immigrant demonstrators — had their meetings disrupted by arrests and violence resulting in dozens of arrests and at least three people in hospital.At a demonstration on Saturday, local police detained twenty-nine opposition activists who took to the streets to speak out against violations of human rights in the city. |
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Tbilisi Backs Talksn TBILISI, Georgia (AP) — Georgian authorities on Friday proposed a new format for talks on the breakaway South Ossetia region that would cut out Russia, which Georgian officials accuse of backing the separatists.
Georgia's minister for conflict resolution, Merab Antadze, said the Joint Control Commission's format had "become obsolete," and called for bilateral talks between Georgia and South Ossetia. |
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MOSCOW — Russia is comparable to Swaziland, Zambia and Kazakhstan in how it governs, according to a World Bank report released Friday.The report, titled "Governance Matters: A Decade of Measuring the Quality of Governance," ranked Russia 151st among 208 countries in terms of voice and accountability, political stability, effectiveness of the government, the quality of regulatory bodies, the rule of law and control over corruption. |
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MOSCOW — With an Oct. 18 deadline looming, the Federal Registration Service has registered 26 of the roughly 500 foreign nongovernmental organizations operating in Russia, and applications from about 50 others are under consideration, an official said Friday. |
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MOSCOW — The State Duma on Friday ratified a global treaty intended to prevent nuclear terrorism, a year after President Vladimir Putin became the first leader to sign the pact. |
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The liberalization of the cost of compulsory auto third-party liability insurance policies will provoke mass fraud and unfair competition, insurers said last week at a briefing at the Rosbalt news agency.The local experts said that instead of decreasing premiums for compulsory auto third-party liability insurance policies — known by the Russian acronym OSAGO — the proposed liberalization of the market will not help drivers and spoke out against the reform. |
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MOSCOW — European aerospace group EADS said Thursday that it would not bend its rules to give Russia a say in how the company was run.The tough statement from the France-based maker of Airbus jets came days after a Kremlin aide indicated that the government was interested in increasing its stake from a newly acquired 5 percent. |
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MOSCOW — Three of the country's five top steel companies said Thursday that they had little desire for mergers, leaving it to Severstal Group head Alexei Mordashov to push for industry consolidation."We'd even welcome a change in our shareholder base through consolidation," Mordashov said at an investment conference. |
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MOSCOW — The government will sign an agreement formalizing forgiveness of the bulk of Iraq's multibillion-dollar debt within a few months, news agencies quoted Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin as saying Sunday, days after the ministry said it had begun swapping a second tranche of Soviet-era debt into Eurobonds. |
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MOSCOW — Kremlin aide Igor Shuvalov on Sunday said state-controlled oil firm Rosneft would be "fully privatized" within the next three to 10 years.His comments appeared to contradict previous statements by officials, who have said the company would definitely remain under state control. |
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MOSCOW — Telecoms firms are vying with each other for market share in neighboring countries as the domestic mobile market reaches saturation point.No. 2 mobile operator VimpelCom plans to cover the entire Commonwealth of Independent States within two years, while market leader MobileTeleSystems is considering a bid for Bosnia-Herzegovina's telecoms company, Telekom Srpske. |
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You are going on a long business trip for a year, maybe longer. You love your work and want to go, you are eager to see this new place and meet new people. Besides, it is good for your career. When you come home you'll be a big fish! Your family will be proud of you. |
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At first glance, it appears to be a foreign-bank bonanza. Austrian Raiffeisen Bank and Hungarian banking giant OTP snapped up second-tier banks Impexbank and Investsberbank, respectively, earlier this year. |
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Discussions about industrial policy and the need to strengthen state interference in the economy invariably call up a plethora of black-and-white images from the past: the glorious days of industrialization, giant factories, five-year plans and the conquest of virgin lands. |
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The word "project" sounds very similar in both English and Russian. But there is a difference between the way the word is generally employed in the two languages. |
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MOSCOW — President Vladimir Putin called Friday for urgent action to clean up the banking system in the aftermath of the assassination of Central Bank First Deputy Chairman Andrei Kozlov.Kozlov, who died of gunshot wounds early Thursday, oversaw the Central Bank's effort to shut down hundreds of banks that laundered money and serviced corrupt companies. |
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One of the largest shopping guides in Russia, Ya Pokupayu ("I Buy"), will launch a regional edition in St. Petersburg in October. The publishers hope to attract 10 percent of local advertisers, currently shared between glossy publications, the company said in a statement last week. |
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I went to Madonna's concert last Tuesday night. I have never been a huge fan, but I recently read a study that showed that people really only like the music they heard while they were in college. Once they are out of their mid-20s, they start losing the ability to appreciate new music, and then by the age of 40 they are pretty much stuck on a couple of albums. |
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If Khanty-Mansiisk were a country, it would be the second-largest oil producer in the world after Saudi Arabia. The autonomous district in western Siberia, whose name conjures up images of reindeer herders if it conjures up anything at all, produces more oil than the rest of Russia combined. |
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ANADYR, Chukotka Region — The next governor of Chukotka will not need to be wealthy to keep the region afloat. He will just need to be able to read.Chukotka's administration plans to put together a manual on how to run the remote Far East region so that it and its 50,600 inhabitants will be able to survive after billionaire Governor Roman Abramovich leaves for good. |
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CARACAS, Venezuela — President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad shored up opposition to a U.S. drive to curb Iran's nuclear program on a visit to Venezuela on Sunday that cemented an anti-American front with President Hugo Chavez.Ahmadinejad's first trip to Venezuela highlighted Iran's backing for the fellow OPEC country's bid for a UN Security Council seat that Chavez would use to challenge Washington's campaign for international sanctions against Tehran. |
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Sudan was expected to agree to an extended African Union peacekeeping mandate in Darfur as African foreign ministers met in New York on Monday, a presidential adviser said. |
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SCHWERIN, Germany — A far-right anti-foreigner party has embarrassed German Chancellor Angela Merkel in a regional election in her home state and delivered a wake-up call to her 10-month-old government.The government has compared the National Democratic Party (NPD) to Hitler's Nazis, and analysts and columnists said the NPD's performance in Sunday's ballot was a rebuke for the grand coalition's fumbled first year. |
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STOCKHOLM — Center-right leader Fredrik Reinfeldt starts work on forming a coalition government in Sweden on Monday after ending 12 years of Social Democrat rule with vows to cut taxes and trim the welfare state. |
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VATICAN CITY — Al Qaida militants in Iraq vowed war on "worshippers of the cross" and protesters burned a papal effigy on Monday over Pope Benedict's comments on Islam, while Western churchmen and statesmen tried to calm passions.The statement by an umbrella group led by Iraq's branch of al Qaida came after the Pontiff said on Sunday he was deeply sorry Muslims had been offended by his use of a medieval quotation on Islam and holy war. |
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LOS ANGELES — Pinch-hitter Terrmel Sledge singled home the go-ahead run in the ninth inning to propel the San Diego Padres to a 2-1 win over the Los Angeles Dodgers and top spot in the NL West standings on Sunday.The Padres lead the West by a half-game and the Dodgers replace San Diego at the top of the NL wildcard standings, one game clear of the charging Philadelphia Phillies who beat the Houston Astros 6-4. |
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LONDON — A superb strike by Didier Drogba earned 10-man champions Chelsea a 1-0 victory over Liverpool, while Arsenal shattered Manchester United's 100 percent record with a late 1-0 win at Old Trafford on Sunday. |
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DENPASAR, Indonesia — St. Petersburg tennis ace Svetlana Kuznetsova won her second title of the season Sunday when she defeated Marion Bartoli of France 7-5 6-2 to win her third Bali International title.The top-seeded Russian, who won in 2002 and 2004, is undefeated in 13 matches at the event. |
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MOSCOW — Sergei Petrenko has quit as coach of Torpedo Moscow, the Russian premier league side said on Sunday.Petrenko announced his resignation following Saturday's 2-0 home defeat by Rostov, which plunged the struggling Torpedo side further into the relegation zone. |
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MOSCOW — Mikhail Yuzhny hopes to teach Andy Roddick a lesson in clay court tennis when Russia hosts the United States in the Davis Cup semi-final this week in Moscow.Yuzhny said he would love to avenge his defeat to the big-serving American in the U.S. Open semi-finals earlier this month.
"Hopefully, if we meet again the outcome would be totally different," the Russian said in an interview ahead of the three-day tie on clay at the Olympic Sports Complex. |
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