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As Western European countries examine opportunities to send more spent nuclear fuel for reprocessing in Russia, St. Petersburg's strategic location means much more of it would pass through the city.At present, cargo containing radioactive material passes through St. Petersburg at least ten times a month, said Alexander Shishkin, director of Isotope, a state-owned enterprise responsible for such shipments. Arriving by sea, the nuclear loads are then sent to treatment facilities in Siberia.
In 1999, Russian environmentalists failed to ban the import of spent nuclear fuel from abroad.
In December 2000, the State Duma voted overwhelmingly to adopt the practice of importing irradiated fuel from other countries. |
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A restorer working in bright sunshine on a gate leading into the Mikhailovsky Gardens by the Church on the Spilled Blood on Thursday. While temperatures are set to remain at around 9 deg C, weather forecasters are predicting rain through until the end of the week. |
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MOSCOW — Vekhvia Chitadze and his friend Gocha, both engineers, have been in Moscow for six years — working, sending money home to their families, making a life for themselves.On Wednesday, a district court judge told them they had 14 days to get out and pay 1,500 rubles.
Their crime? Working with forged documents, according to the judge at the Gagarinsky court.
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MOSCOW — A slain Russian journalist's last story was published Thursday, revealing an unfinished report on torture in Chechnya that some colleagues believe may have motivated her murder.Anna Politkovskaya's article described the torture of terrorism suspects by the Kremlin-backed Chechen security services. |
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MOSCOW— President Vladimir Putin was rebuffed in his desire for a bigger Russian stake in aerospace firm EADS on Wednesday, as he ended a two-day German visit clouded by the murder of journalist Anna Politkovskaya. |
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Turnout was down but spirits not dampened at the 14th International Travel Trade Fair INWETEX — CIS Travel Market 2006 that was held at the city's Lenexpo complex last week. Of particular note was the unveiling of the Northwest's new brand and a general review of the city's successful tourist season. |
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Finland's largest construction company, YIT, has set out its plans to tap Russia's real estate boom."The target for revenue growth is an annual average of 10 percent. |
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MOSCOW —Beauty requires sacrifice, according to the popular Russian saying. This fall, people shopping for perfumes and other beauty products will learn exactly what this means. Cosmetics industry insiders warn that severe shortages of many common beauty products will send prices through the roof and encourage knockoffs as the holiday shopping season begins. |
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HARARE — Zimbabwe initiated five agreements on Monday with a Russian company for the execution of projects in its power, aviation and mining sectors with a potential value of $300 million, officials said. |
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Anna Politkovskaya's execution-style murder Saturday in her central Moscow apartment building has deeply shaken human rights organizations throughout the world. In the course of years of tireless work she had become a towering figure who reminded not just Russia, but also the West and Europe in particular, what moral responsibility meant. |
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North Korea's fateful decision to test a nuclear bomb makes it the ninth and least welcome of the nations believed to possess such weapons. The test announced in triumph by Pyongyang presents a grave threat to global security that should not — and will not — go unanswered. |
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Conventional wisdom suggests that oil prices increased sevenfold from 1999 to mid-2006 because of a sharp rise in demand — especially from China, which now burns some 7 million barrels per day and accounts for about 8.5 percent of global consumption. Demand from Asia contributed roughly 40 percent to 50 percent of the increase in oil demand. |
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 Inside the mind of the man behind quirky cabaret act The Real Tuesday Weld.The Real Tuesday Weld blends the sound of pre-war shellac records, the laid-back, crooning style of French singer-songwriter Serge Gainsbourg, the cabaret feel of Tom Waits and retro electronica. |
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The Mariinsky Theater presents the Ring Cycle amid the malls of California.COSTA MESA, California — Russians are everywhere: stalking the upscale shops of the South Coast Plaza, gazing up at the elegantly aligned eucalyptus and palm trees as they make their way from one rehearsal to the next, wandering the numerous new hotels that rim this intersection of art and commerce, and partaking long and lustily at seemingly nonstop outdoor buffets. |
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As the local prosecutor's office reports that it has "solved" the infamous murder in 2005 of anti-fascist and punk musician Timur Kacharava and is pressing charges against a 19-year old suspect, Russian nationalism is on the rise more than ever in past decades. |
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The Griboyedov club will mark its tenth anniversary this week with an all-night concert and party with the city's top bands including stadium ska-rockers Leningrad. |
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In partnership with Moscow's Tretyakov Gallery, the State Russian Museum in St. Petersburg is hosting a retrospective of the work of Alexei Savrasov, a modest, but indispensable figure in Russian landscape art in the second half of the 19th century.Around 90 works, predominantly paintings, from both museums' collections are displayed at the Benois Wing, spanning the entire legacy of the artist. |
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Lowercase à has all the elements that make a letter beautiful: a tail, a ball and an oblique stroke. But little ä has so many faults it's hard to decide which is its most damning. |
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STOCKHOLM — Turkey's best-known novelist Orhan Pamuk, who faced trial this year for insulting his country, won the 2006 Nobel prize for Literature on Thursday in a decision some critics said was more political than literary.The Swedish Academy declared Pamuk winner of the prize on a day when, to Turkey's fury, the French lower house of parliament approved a bill making it a crime to deny the Armenian genocide. |
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SEOUL — North Korea threatened Japan on Thursday with "strong countermeasures" if it goes ahead with tougher sanctions over Pyongyang's reported nuclear test. |
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OSLO — The birds and the bees may be gay, according to the world's first museum exhibition about homosexuality among animals.With documentation of gay or lesbian behavior among giraffes, penguins, parrots, beetles, whales and dozens of other creatures, the Oslo Natural History Museum concludes human homosexuality cannot be viewed as "unnatural. |
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St. Petersburg's Zenit football club has signed a cooperation agreement with German Bundesliga club Schalke 04, Zenit president Sergei Fursenko said Wednesday.
Fursenko, who is also the head of Gazprom subsidiary Lentransgaz, said the agreement would primarily benefit Russian football, Interfax reported. |
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ST. PETERSBURG — Two late goals gave Russia a 2-0 victory over Estonia to kick-start its Euro 2008 qualifying campaign Wednesday.After two consecutive draws, Russia badly needed three points to keep it in touch in Group E but the team had to wait until the 78th minute to break through when Pavel Pogrebnyak struck from close range. |
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MIAMI — The Carolina Hurricanes, the reigning Stanley Cup champion, fell 6-3 to the Florida Panthers on Wednesday becoming the first team in NHL history to open the defence of the title with four consecutive losses.The Hurricanes opened the season by raising their championship banner, but it has been downhill ever since after losing their home opener in a shootout followed by three straight defeats while being outscored 17-7. |
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