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ST. PETERSBURG — Young men in dark glasses and masks fatally stabbed an Indian medical student outside his St. Petersburg hostel late Sunday.Hundreds of foreign students gathered Monday to angrily condemn the latest slaying. Nationalist youth, meanwhile, rallied in the city center to demand again that dark-skinned foreigners be barred from Russia.
It was the fourth apparently racist murder this year in St. Petersburg, and it occurred in the same place where another foreign student survived an attack five months earlier, on Adolf Hilter's birthday. |
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Alexander Belenky / The St. Petersburg Times
Ex-patriot students gathered on St. Isaac's Square by the Prosecutor's Office on Monday, demonstrating following the murder of Indian student Nitesh Kumar Singh. |
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A jury in St. Petersburg has found Vyacheslav Lelyavin guilty of organizing the shadowing of the late Duma deputy Galina Starovoitova as part of preparations for the politician's murder in November 1998, and has cleared Pavel Stekhnovsky of murder-related charges, finding him guilty only of the illegal purchase of a gun.The sentencing will be given on Wednesday.
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Only a handful of composers in the 20th century reached the kind of artistic heights that measured greatness in previous eras — creating undisputed masterworks in genre after genre, gaining the admiration of music lovers from one generation to the next. |
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MOSCOW — Dozens of leftist activists were arrested near Moscow's Kremlin on Monday after they forced their way into the finance ministry to protest against government policies, witnesses said. |
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MOSCOW — Unidentified attackers vandalized two synagogues on Friday and a mosque early Sunday. No one was injured.In one pre-dawn attack on the synagogue in Khabarovsk, a city on the border with China, attackers shattered windows in the building, the regional department of the Interior Ministry said. |
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MOSCOW — Calling the president a phallic symbol earned Vladimir Rakhmankov 15 minutes of fame earlier this year. Now the Ivanovo journalist could face a fine equal to several months of his wages. |
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MOSCOW — A ship carrying the remains of the mother of Russia's last tsar set sail Saturday from Denmark for Russia, where she will be laid to rest next to her late husband, in accordance with her wishes.The reburial of Empress Maria Fyodorovna, mother of Nicholas II, has been postponed several times because of a Russian-Danish dispute over a Chechen conference held in Denmark in 2002 and Denmark's release from detention of a Chechen rebel envoy. |
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MOSCOW — Some 50 Chechens who fled ethnic violence in the northwestern industrial town of Kondopoga have begun to leave the summer camp near Petrozavodsk, the Karelian capital, where they have been living for three weeks. |
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MOSCOW—The State Duma on Friday gave preliminary approval to a 2007 budget that is expected to be 25 percent bigger than this year's, prompting worries of overspending and higher inflation as next year's elections near.The hike comes on top of a 40 percent increase this year, as the government spends windfall revenues created by the bonanza of high world oil prices. |
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PARIS — France hopes Russia will allow energy company Total to continue with its production sharing agreement in Western Siberia, Foreign Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy said on Sunday. |
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Interview with Leonid Yurgelas, director of MTV in Russia.
Why did you choose St. Petersburg as this year's venue for the MTV Russia Awards (RMA)?The RMA ceremony is not only held for Muscovites but for young people from other Russian cities. For example, the MTV Europe Music Awards usually take place in different European cities — in Russia we decided to keep up this tradition and after St. |
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The Uyut development company has completed construction of its Pulkovo III shopping and entertainment center, one of a number of large shopping malls due to open in the city this year. |
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The Setl Group investment holding has launched a new brand onto the commercial real estate market. Two Praktis companies — Praktis Consulting & Brokerage and Praktis Property & Facility Management — will complement the services of the Peterburgskaya Nedvizhimost real estate agency owned by Setl Group. |
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SKOLKOVO, Moscow Region — President Vladimir Putin laid the foundation stone Thursday for a Moscow-area business school designed to churn out a new generation of pinstriped moguls to build on the nation's ongoing economic boom. |
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As Vladimir Putin nears the end of what he insists will be his last term as president, analysts can not help but notice how different the country is today from the one he inherited from his predecessor, Boris Yeltsin, in 2000. Most critics have focused on the way the Kremlin has increased its control of the media and eliminated regional gubernatorial elections. |
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In the aftermath of the gruesome murder of Central Bank First Deputy Chairman Andrei Kozlov and his driver, this may not be the most appropriate moment to debate the Central Bank's conduct of monetary policy. |
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The introduction of classes on Orthodox culture into many public schools raises a fundamental question about the relationship between church and state.On paper, this would appear to be a nonissue. The Constitution establishes the secular nature of the state and guarantees equal rights to people of all faiths. |
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My grandfather Randolph, born in 1896, knew something about the world. So when he spied a black and white couple walking hand in hand in Charlottesville, Virginia, in the mid-1980s and remarked, "They will always live on an island and you can't live life on an island," I took note. |
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In 1970, the Soviet government raised the retail price of vodka by around 30 percent. Since inflation was not supposed to exist in a planned economy, the two traditional brands, Moskovskaya and Stolichnaya, one day were simply replaced by two new, costlier varieties. |
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Let's hope that those who celebrated the 100th anniversary of Dmitry Shostakovich's birth Monday stuck to playing and talking about his music.Unfortunately, it has been hard to distill Shostakovich's voice from the noise that has surrounded him. |
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MANCHESTER, England — U.K. finance minister Gordon Brown staked his claim on Monday to be the next prime minister with a speech that eased some doubts about his ability to unite his beleaguered party and succeed Tony Blair.Setting out a broad vision in an eagerly-awaited speech to the Labour Party's annual conference, Brown pledged further rises in education spending, more devolution of government powers and support for the fight against global warming. |
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BANGKOK —A graft-busting panel appointed by Thailand's coup leaders will take over probes into alleged corruption by ousted Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra and his cabinet, which could lead to asset seizures and political bans. |
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NEW YORK — In a combative interview on "Fox News Sunday," former President Clinton defended his handling of the threat posed by Osama bin Laden, saying he tried to have bin Laden killed and was attacked for his efforts by the same people who now criticize him for not doing enough. |
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KISMAYO, Somalia — Islamist fighters opened fire in the Somali port city of Kismayo on Monday toward residents burning tires, throwing stones and chanting to protest against the Islamist takeover of their city hours before. |
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CASTELGANDOLFO, Italy — Pope Benedict said on Monday that Christians and Muslims must reject violence, in an unprecedented meeting with Islamic envoys to defuse anger at his use of quotes saying their faith was spread by the sword.The Pope expressed his "esteem and profound respect" for members of the Islamic faith in a speech to diplomatic envoys from some 20 Muslim countries plus the leaders of Italy's own Muslim community at his summer residence south of Rome. |
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LONDON — Police investigating how a 5-month-old baby came to mauled to death by two Rottweiler dogs have launched a murder inquiry after a 47-year-old woman was killed in a knife attack and a man seriously injured. |
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BAGHDAD — British troops in Iraq said on Monday they had killed a senior al Qaida figure who escaped from a U.S. prison in Afghanistan in 2005.Omar Faruq was shot dead while resisting arrest during a pre-dawn raid by about 200 British troops in Iraq's second biggest city, Basra, British military spokesman Major Charlie Burbridge said. |
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WASHINGTON — A newspaper report that a U.S. intelligence analysis found that the Iraq war gave rise to a new generation of Islamic radicals and made the overall terrorism problem worse was "not representative of the complete document," the White House said on Sunday. |
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MOSCOW — Substitute Dmitry Tursunov beat Andy Roddick in an epic five-set battle, 6-3 6-4 5-7 3-6 17-15, to seal a Russian victory over the United States on Sunday and send the home team into the Davis Cup final.The California-based Russian, who replaced Mikhail Yuzhny for the first reverse singles, could barely put a foot wrong, building up a two-set lead before the American fought back in the third and fourth to force the deciding set. |
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LONDON — Most of the big guns who are back in Champions League action this week prepared for their matches with domestic league wins over the weekend.Chelsea, Arsenal and Liverpool all won in the Premier League while Bayern Munich and Real Madrid also enjoyed victories. |
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