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About 500 foreign nationals gathered at Ploshchad Lenina on Sunday in the latest and biggest hate crimes protest rally in a week that saw a series of non-sanctioned public protests following the fatal stabbing of an Indian medical student — the fourth murder of a dark-skinned man this year in St. Petersburg.The Aug. 27 killing followed a string of hate crimes committed against communities from the developing world in recent years.
Local sympathizers, mostly elderly women, chanted slogans for justice and security at the rally, whose participants also included local lawmakers. |
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Georgian police lead Alexei Zavgorodny (c), one of four Russian army officers arrested on spying charges, to be handed over to OSCE mediators in Tbilisi on Monday. |
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A team of homeless men from St. Petersburg and Novosibirsk representing Russia defeated Kazakhstan 1-0 in the final of the Homeless World Cup soccer trophy on Saturday after a weeklong tournament held in Cape Town, South Africa. The victorious team was due to return to St. Petersburg on Monday night.Nearly 500 homeless men and women from 48 countries competed in the four-aside tournament.
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MOSCOW — Five people died and three were injured Sunday morning when a flight of stairs collapsed at a French construction site outside Moscow, the Emergency Situations Ministry said.A ministry spokesman said that the accident occurred at 10:46 a.m. when part of a staircase collapsed at a store being built by the privately owned French retailer Auchan in Kotelniki in the Lyuberetsky district of the Moscow region. |
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MOSCOW — Boris Berezovsky only wished he could have taken this class.In an age when having good Kremlin connections appears to make all the difference, students on Tuesday crammed into the main auditorium at Moscow's Higher School of Economics to learn how to get along with the people who run Russia. |
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MOSCOW — It may sound like toilet humor, but for the chess world it was no laughing matter.Play resumed Monday after a dispute involving "dirty tricks" and allegations of cheating at the world chess championship currently taking place.
The championship, pitting Russian grandmaster Vladimir Kramnik against Bulgarian Veselin Topalov, was in danger, with Kramnik accused of taking a suspicious number of bathroom breaks. |
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MOSCOW — Sochi is turning into the country's second capital in the twilight of Vladimir Putin's presidency.As of Thursday, the president, who is now in the Black Sea resort at his Bocharov Ruchei retreat, had spent 49 days there this year. |
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ROME — Italian authorities have returned to Belarus a 10-year-old orphan girl who had been hidden by an Italian couple who feared she would be abused if she were sent back to an orphanage in her home country.The girl disappeared more than three weeks ago, just before she was scheduled to return to the orphanage where the Italian family who hosts her each year for holidays believes she was sexually abused. |
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A leading Russian premium vodka producer, the Russian Standard Company, officially opened a new distillery in the city on Sunday, signaling its general expansion into new markets.Located on Pulkovskoye Shosse, in the industrial zone where Wrigley and Coca-Cola plants are already based, the new distillery will produce 3. |
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The largest Russian cell phone operator, MTS, in cooperation with Independent Media and the i-Free mobile content provider, has launched mobile access to Vedomosti daily on MTS WAP portal, the company said last week in a statement. |
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In most Western universities the tradition of Alumni clubs has been kept alive for years, even centuries. Such organizations are relatively new in Russia but they are in the process of rapid development. The Alumni Association of the Faculty of Management of the St. |
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The Department of World Economy at St. Petersburg State University announced that they have been awarded BRIDGE project funding by the British Council to develop a new dual-award course in Russia, in partnership with the Nottingham Business School (NBS), Nottingham Trent University, UK. |
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MOSCOW — New antitrust regulations that go into effect Oct. 26 will define more tightly what counts as monopolistic practices and allow the federal antitrust watchdog to go after cartels for the first time.Andrei Tsyganov, deputy head of the watchdog, the Federal Anti-Monopoly Service, expressed optimism that the new 170-page legislation would help curb price-fixing and other crimes of collusion. |
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MINSK — Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko threatened on Friday to sever all relations with Russia if Moscow sharply hiked gas prices for Minsk. |
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Hotel, restaurant, tourist company, school of foreign languages and international center of culture and science — all these different branches of business are united in just one company, Swiss Center Inc.That's how it all stands today for Swiss Center's chairman, Yunis Teimurkhanly, but back in 1993, as a graduate from the Oriental department of the St. |
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TENGIZ, Kazakhstan — The Tengiz oil field in Kazakhstan is a blend of Western corporate culture and old Soviet ways — even through it's been years since U. |
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Sometimes I envy the Constitutional Court judges who, according to Vladimir Kozhin, head of the department of Presidential affairs, are due to move to St. Petersburg by 2008. The decision to move this important but compact institution from the Southern Capital to, well, the Northern one, was announced at the end of last year. |
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As the cold season approaches, the national electricity holding, Unified Energy Systems, has announced that several regions could face disconnections, blackouts and shortages in the delivery of heat and electricity over the winter. |
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Two leading financial newspapers, the Financial Times and The Economist, wrote last month that the "environmental attack" on Shell, the main stakeholder in the Sakhalin-2 project, had been brought about by Russia's desire to bring foreigners to the negotiating table. This was a logical conclusion.Both newspapers also wrote that the government's response was misguided, but here they missed the mark. |
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U.S. President George W. Bush famously looked into President Vladimir Putin's eyes. But Putin's eyes were looking back. He has never said what he saw, but judging by his actions, it must not have been very attractive. Whatever the case, it kept him from making mistakes like those of Britain's unfortunate prime minister, Tony Blair, who apparently went too far in heeding Winston Churchill's advice to cling to the British-American alliance at all costs. |
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Tbilisi's decision last week to arrest four Russian military officers on espionage charges appears to be an attempt to escalate a dispute with Moscow to a level where Western powers will have no choice but to intervene. |
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Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov's address to the Los Angeles World Affairs Council on Sept. 25 confirmed just how much Russian foreign policy has changed during Vladimir Putin's presidency. Emphasizing the concept of sovereign democracy, Lavrov clearly indicated that Russia would pursue what it sees as its own national interests, instead of following the United States' lead. |
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The prospect of falling or failing governments in Poland and Hungary gives an impression of increasing instability across Eastern Europe. Yet it is just another sign that deep political divisions in the region are back on public display after a long period when the countries were on their best behavior to get into the European Union. |
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Just over a week ago, a remarkable document titled "On a Likely Scenario of Action of the United States toward Russia in 2006-2008" was circulated in the State Duma. It is undoubtedly the largest-scale and most comprehensive anti-U.S. program that post-Soviet Russia has seen.Yes, of course, a lot has been written over the past 15 years. |
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Irbit is a small city in western Siberia, situated on the bleak plains east of the Ural Mountains. In the main square, it has a statue of Lenin that cheeky capitalists have painted pink.That monument is not the only thing that distinguishes Irbit: its 43,000 or so permanent residents are said to own, in toto, some 60,000 motorcycles. |
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LONDON — Manchester United went back to the top of the Premier League with an Old Trafford demolition job on Newcastle United on Sunday that should have brought them more than two Ole Gunnar Solskjaer goals.The Norwegian converted close-range efforts either side of halftime as United won 2-0 to move to 16 points and above Chelsea on goal difference following the champions' 1-1 home draw with Aston Villa on Saturday. |
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