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MOSCOW — Anna Politkovskaya, one of Russia's best-known journalists, was born in New York in 1958 into a family of Soviet diplomats.After graduating from the journalism department at Moscow State University in 1980, Politkovskaya began her career at Izvestia. |
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MOSCOW — Moscow police are asking schools to turn over lists of children with Georgian-sounding last names, raising fears that a state campaign against Georgians is spinning out of control. |
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BERLIN — The German Foreign Ministry is preparing a new policy toward the east that aims to tighten ties between Russia and Europe but does not address human rights, a theme dear to German Chancellor Angela Merkel.Foreign Ministry officials cited President Vladimir Putin as saying he had been informed of the policy and liked it. |
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Georgian Bases AxednMOSCOW (AP) — The State Duma ratified an agreement Friday on the withdrawal of the country's two remaining military bases in Georgia, in a vote that came amid a bitter dispute between the countries. |
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Russian cancer patients have gained extraordinary access to a break-through Western medicine that combats cancer by stopping the growth of blood vessels in the tumor, but critics are concerned that many months will pass before the news reaches potential recipients, especially those living in the country's more distant provinces. |
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MOSCOW — A measure giving the federal government extensive control over educational and cultural institutions cleared a critical hurdle Friday in the State Duma. |
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Pulkovo Airport is to undergo a $1 billion reconstruction as part of City Hall's ambitious plans to become "one of Europe's top five tourist destinations," the airport's administration said Monday by email.Pulkovo hopes a new terminal near Pulkovo I will make the airport a major transport hub, Olga Antipova, press secretary for Pulkovo Airport confirmed Monday. |
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The government has developed guidelines to establish a crude oil and oil product exchange, President Putin said Saturday, suggesting his native city of St. |
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Stockmann PicknST. PETERSBURG (Bloomberg) — Stockmann Oyj, a Finnish department-store company, has picked Kitai Stroi to build a 120 million euro ($150 million) shopping mall in St. Petersburg.
The 100,000 square-meter mall will include one of Stockmann's own department stores as well as outlets operated by the Helsinki-based company that will sell products such as Nike sport shoes, according to a statement Monday from Stockmann. |
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MOSCOW — The RTS ticked up 0.32 percent last week as gains in Gazprom and several non-commodity stocks marginally outweighed the effects of a declining oil price. |
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SUV SalesnPEONGTAEK, South Korea (Bloomberg) — Ssangyong Motor Co., South Korea's fourth-largest automaker, and Severstal-Avto signed a $1.39 billion deal to make sport-utility vehicles in Russia.
Ssangyong will ship 79,000 Kyron SUVs to Russia in kit form between 2007 and 2011, which Severstal-Avto will assemble, the South Korean automaker said in a statement Friday. |
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Severstal plans an initial public offering in London this year ahead of a global offensive to grow into the world's second-largest steelmaker, the company said Friday. |
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MOSCOW — The Audit Chamber said Friday that the ExxonMobil-led Sakhalin-1 energy project had broken many terms of its production sharing agreement.The agency, which supervises the use of government finances, said in a statement that the group had started oil production two years later than expected and still had no clear gas export plans. |
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MOSCOW —A new television service will soon allow Russians in Britain to feel as though they never left home. Targeting a growing "ethnic niche" of Russian emigres, London-based Aggregator will allow viewers to access a huge library of Russian-language content — from news to films to documentaries — through a broadband Internet connection by the end of this month. |
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Brave the rapids of Chile's Futaleufu River, go on safari in the Makgadikgadi Pans of Botswana, dig for dinosaurs in the Gobi desert — for Annette Loftus, it's all in a day's work.As the founder of adventure travel company Aspera Explorations, Loftus, 36, has the world at her fingertips, and for a small fortune she'll serve it up to you on a silver platter. |
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The city's mobile phone operators turned their attention to Leningrad Oblast this summer, in particular to the region's dacha-owners. According to experts, mobile phone traffic increases by 30 percent in the region during the hot season, and, to take more advantage, companies began offering anything from discounts on calls to new service centers and 'pretty' numbers. |
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MOSCOW —U.S. Trade Representative Susan Schwab has singled out the Russian music site www.allofmp3.com as a key stumbling block to Russia's ascension to the World Trade Organization.The site's owners, however, say that they are having the last laugh.
"They are promoting us," Vadim Mamotin, general director of Mediaservices, which operates the site, said Thursday. |
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Energy is seldom out of the headlines these days. Oil prices are at an all-time high, Russia caused a scare earlier this year when it cut gas supplies, and a number of European Union member states have broken ranks by heading off cross-border energy mergers with "national solutions. |
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The potted biography that Google provides for Sergey Brin, the company's co-founder, notes rather charmingly that he is "currently on leave from the Ph.D. program in computer science at Stanford University." Given that Brin is now thought to be worth more than $12 billion, one wonders whether he will ever get around to handing in his dissertation. |
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Anna Politkovskaya, who was gunned down Saturday outside her home in central Moscow in what appears to have been a contract hit, was not just a famous journalist. She was a symbolic figure, the incarnation of all that makes people both love journalists and hate them. |
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President Vladimir Putin on Thursday made an astounding statement for the leader of a multi-ethnic federative state. Putin called on regional authorities to "protect the interests of Russian manufacturers and Russia's native population" in the country's outdoor markets. |
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From behind hundreds of local Muslims waiting to perform Friday prayers in St. Petersburg's only mosque near Gorkovskaya metro station appear two young men carrying an elderly man to a special location in the front row.Unlike other days, the mosque is full to capacity. |
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TATITLEK, Alaska — Steve Totemoff keeps faith alive in this tiny Alaskan village — the Russian Orthodox faith.Totemoff, a native Aleut, keeps the faith when he caulks, paints or replaces the wood of the St. |
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UNITED NATIONS — South Korean Foreign Minister Ban Ki-moon will be formally nominated as UN secretary general on Monday, ironically only hours after North Korea defied the world body by announcing a nuclear test.The UN Security Council will cast its votes, effectively anointing Ban as the successor to Secretary General Kofi Annan whose 10 years in office expire on Dec. |
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HAVANA — The ailing Fidel Castro is not dying but is recovering from an illness, his younger brother and Cuba's acting president said Sunday in response to rumors that the leader was on his deathbed. |
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MOSCOW — In the most lopsided victory ever by a European club over an NBA team, CSKA Moscow rolled to a 94-75 win over the Los Angeles Clippers in an exhibition game Saturday afternoon.Roared on by a sellout crowd of 5,000 fans at the CSKA Universal Sports Complex, CSKA controlled the game throughout, allowing the Clippers only a single-possession in the first half. |
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SUZUKA, Japan — World champion Fernando Alonso hailed his surprise Japanese Grand Prix victory as a gift from God on Sunday after an engine failure left Michael Schumacher's Formula One title hopes in tatters. |
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