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MOSCOW — The Defense Ministry will dispatch two platoons of elite soldiers stationed in Chechnya to protect Russian military engineers rebuilding bridges in Lebanon, ministry spokesman Nikolai Baranov said."It's more than likely that our troops will be there until the end of the year," Baranov said. |
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GROZNY — He watches you from the portraits in state offices, from huge posters along pock-marked highways, from T-shirts emblazoned with his face.And on Friday, the man who is everywhere, the uncrowned ruler of Chechnya, Prime Minister Ramzan Kadyrov, turns 30, making him eligible to be president of the republic. |
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Finnish hotel and restaurant operator SOK is to open a second hotel next year in the city and is engaged in negotiations for a third, the group said at a press conference on Tuesday.The 16,000 square-meter Sokos Olympic Garden, designed by Russian architect bureau A-Len, is under construction on Bataysky Pereulok, next to the Tekhnologichesky Institute metro station, though the building itself is still open to alterations. |
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The RosEuroDevelopment company has announced it is to construct a logistic and industrial park in Leningrad Oblast, Interfax reported Wednesday, citing the company's top executive. |
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MOSCOW —A top Kremlin economic adviser on Wednesday said Shell had broken its agreement with the government to develop Sakhalin-2 when it doubled the cost estimate for the project to $20 billion, and warned that the government would never accept the increase. |
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MOSCOW — Pipe producer TMK will list as much as 30 percent of its shares in London and Moscow in the "very beginning" of November, the company's chief financial officer said Wednesday. |
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MOSCOW —In promoting their interests abroad, Russian businesses are among the quickest to offer bribes, according to Transparency International's Bribe Payers Index, released Wednesday.Russian executives seek out partnerships where bribery and corruption are the norm, said Yelena Panfilova, director of Transparency International in Russia. |
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Joint Oil StudiesnMADRID (Bloomberg) — Repsol YPF SA, Europe's fifth-largest oil company, has agreed with Gazprom to study joint oil and natural-gas projects. |
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It usually takes a scandal to get the world's pre-eminent mind sport into the news these days. The latest example comes from the current world chess championship in Elista. The match between Russia's Vladimir Kramnik and Veselin Topalov of Bulgaria was intended to unify the chess championship that has been divided since my challenger and I broke away from the international chess federation (known by its French acronym FIDE) in 1993 in an attempt to professionalize the sport. |
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What was the likelihood of finding myself standing next to the Belgorod region governor and a Russian Orthodox priest, surrounded by schoolchildren, flowers, microphones and other attributes of celebratory officialdom? None, until the town of Korocha, in the Belgorod Region, invited me to the unveiling of a monument to my great-grandfather. |
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 What was once called Moloko is Tsokol as the music club prepares to reopen its doors.Tsokol, a new club with old traditions, will open with a concert by Tequilajazzz on Saturday.The club is a reincarnation of Moloko, arguably once the city's finest and most respected underground club which had to move to a new location after a three-year struggle with City authorities who cited complaints from the people who lived above its basement premises. |
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Conductor Kristofer Wahlander spearheads a charity concert in aid of St. Petersburg's city hospice.The St. Petersburg State Academic Capella on Saturday is hosting a concert with a conscience. |
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Metamorphosis, the "chamber-punk quartet" of musicians from Austria, the Czech Republic and Turkey, returns to the city to premiere its new album this week.Called "Luff," the album is due on Leo Records, the British label founded by Russian emigre Leo Feigin that releases records by such artists as Sun Ra, Ikue Mori, Ganelin Trio and Eugene Chadbourne. |
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More than 124 original photographs by more than 40 photographers will go on display at the Museum of City Sculpture on Thursday at a new exhibition organized by the Goethe Institute and the Institut fuer Auslandsbeziehhungen in Germany. |
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An extravagant thematic show currently running on the second floor of the State Russian Museum's Marble Palace, "Speaking with Hands: Photographs from the Buhl Collection," could be described as an ode to the human hand.The show is organized by New York's Guggenheim Museum, but all the exhibits are from the private collection of Henry Buhl, a philanthropist and art-collector who was formerly a successful New York businessman. |
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When she gets to heaven, Irina Baronova predicts, she'll be greeted as one of the celebrated "Baby Ballerinas." Scooped up from her Paris dance class in 1931, the Russian-born dancer was just 13 when she became a star of Colonel Wassily de Basil's Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo. |
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TOKYO — World No.1 Roger Federer ended Wesley Moodie's reign as Japan Open champion with a crushing 6-2 6-1 win to reach the quarter-finals on Thursday.Razor-sharp from the opening point, the Swiss top seed needed just 52 minutes to blow away the South African behind a blaze of winners in Tokyo, improving his win-loss record this year to 74-5. |
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NEW YORK — The New York Mets' bullpen combined to edge out the Los Angeles Dodgers 6-5 in their series opener on Wednesday, while their Big Apple rivals the Yankees had the second game of their divisional series postponed due to rain. |
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SUZUKA, Japan — Michael Schumacher is counting on all his years of experience to make the difference in his neck-and-neck Formula One title battle with Renault's Fernando Alonso."I've been in this situation for many, many years so I know pretty much how to handle it," the Ferrari driver said on Thursday. |
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MANCHESTER, England — Peter Crouch can look back on 2006 having scored more goals in a calendar year than any England striker before him, but the Liverpool forward admits that he still has his doubters ahead of Saturday's Euro 2008 qualifier against Macedonia in Manchester. |
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RALEIGH, North Carolina — Carolina's Stanley Cup banner-raising night ended on a flat note on Wednesday as Daniel Briere's shootout goal gave the Buffalo Sabres a 3-2 win over the Hurricanes.Briere faked Carolina goaltender Cam Ward and scored with a backhander for the only goal of the shootout after last season's Eastern Conference finalists had played to a 2-2 tie after regulation and overtime on NHL's opening night. |
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MOSCOW — Moscow's Luzhniki stadium will stage next season's European Champions League final, UEFA's Executive Committee said on Wednesday.The decision was made after the first day of a two-day meeting of the Executive Committee in the Slovenian capital Ljubljana. |
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STUTTGART — Third seed Yelena Dementyeva, who collapsed with cramp while serving for the match, recovered to defeat Slovenia's Katarina Srebotnik 4-6 7-5 7-5 in the second round of the Stuttgart Grand Prix on Wednesday.Having broken to lead 5-4 in the deciding set, the Russian fell to the floor in pain. |
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