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A children's cancer telephone hotline was launched in St. Petersburg this week to provide up-to-date information about new treatments, drug availability, the best-equipped clinics, patients' rights, psychological counseling, legal advice and charitable organizations both in Russia and abroad that can help raise funds when the treatment cannot be covered by the state or private insurance at home.Information and advice is provided free of charge, and relatives of children suffering from cancer can call the hotline toll free from any part of Russia by dialling 8-800-200-0609.
The initiative, funded jointly by the Moscow-based charity Happy World and several medical institutions in St. |
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RAINY DAYS
Alexander Belenky / The St. Petersburg Times
Pedestrians sheltering from the rain as they walk on Nevsky Prospekt, close to the Moika River, on Monday. Forecasters are predicting that temperatures will fall to between 4 and 1 deg. Celsius by the end of the week. After sunny spells on Wednesday, rain is predicted. |
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Sixty-seven cadets from St. Petersburg's Mozhaisky Military Space Academy have been diagnosed with typhoid fever, after 286 in total were hospitalized with food poisoning, Interfax reported Monday.
All the patients are in a stable condition, and the Defense Ministry is in control of the situation, Alexei Kuznetsov, a spokesman for Russia's Space Forces told Interfax on Monday.
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Osman Boliyev met Anna Politkovskaya just twice, but he credits the late investigative journalist with saving his life.In February of this year, Politkovskaya wrote an article about Boliyev, a Dagestani human rights activist. She described how police had tortured him and how prosecutors had fabricated the case against him. |
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KIEV — Fighters from a Ukrainian World War Two guerrilla movement and their backers gathered on Saturday to demand official recognition as war combatants despite resistance from pro-Russian groups and Red Army veterans. |
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MOSCOW — Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich on Monday denied a newspaper report his wife had been talking to divorce lawyers, calling it "hurtful."Britain's News of the World newspaper reported on Sunday the wife of Chelsea soccer club owner Abramovich had meetings with two sets of divorce lawyers, including London firm Sears Tooth which has a reputation for handling high-profile breakups. |
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St. Petersburg's chief child narcologist Vyacheslav Revzin died on Monday following a brutal attack and having spent three days in a coma at the city's Alexandrovskaya hospital.Revzin, 35, did not recover from a series of severe wounds he sustained on Friday when he was attacked by what the police believe was a gang of young men armed with metal sticks. |
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MOSCOW — The business chief of Russian state news agency Itar-Tass was found knifed to death at his flat in central Moscow on Monday, but prosecutors said the killing could be linked to a personal dispute. |
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MOSCOW — A Moscow court approved the arrest of three people suspected of involvement in the murder of Russian deputy central bank chief Andrei Kozlov, a court spokeswoman said on Monday.Kozlov, deputy chairman of the central bank, was gunned down on September 13 outside a sports stadium in Moscow in the highest-profile assassination in Moscow since President Vladimir Putin came to power in 2000. |
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About 40 Georgians detained in St. Petersburg for alleged immigration law violations were due to be deported Tuesday, the Georgian Consulate in Russia was reported as saying on Monday. |
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MOSCOW — The head of security at Moscow's Spartak sports complex on Oct. 12 confirmed media reports that investigators had conducted a reenactment of the murder of Central Bank First Deputy Chairman Andrei Kozlov outside the facility.National media reported last week that a suspect detained in the Kozlov murder was taken to the crime scene last week. |
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MOSCOW — The country will cut its military personnel by 130,000, or 10 percent, over the next three years, Deputy Defense Minister Nikolai Pankov said late last week. |
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In a finale without precedent in world chess championship history, Vladimir Kramnik clinched the title in a playoff when Veselin Topalov made a terrible blunder on his final move of the fourth and last playoff game.The final score was 81-71.
There had never been a playoff for the world championship because previous championship matches featured a champion and a challenger. |
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MOSCOW — The Cabinet announced legislation late last week giving women 250,000 rubles ($9,200) for having a second child.The money would be kept in the State Pension Fund and used exclusively for housing, education or retirement savings, Channel One television reported. |
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MOSCOW — President Vladimir Putin said Friday that poor roads shave as much as six percentage points off economic growth each year."We need to significantly increase the volume of building and reconstruction of roads," Putin told members of a state commission on road-building in Yaroslavl, RIA-Novosti reported. |
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MOSCOW— Six cadets were killed and 19 others were injured when a drunk driver plowed into a column of marching cadets late Saturday in the Ryazan region. |
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LONDON — Moscow's credibility is on the line over its ability to prosecute those responsible for the murder of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya, European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso said on Sunday.Politkovskaya, an ardent critic of Putin and of Kremlin policies in Chechnya, was shot on the staircase of her apartment building on Oct. |
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MOSCOW—Military prosecutors in Chelyabinsk have dropped their investigation of three officers and a sergeant accused of failing to stop the hazing of Private Andrei Sychyov, Gazeta. |
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MOSCOW — LUKoil on Friday became the latest oil major to face pressure from the government over purported environmental violations and development delays.The company may lose 19 licenses in the northern Komi republic and Khanty-Mansiisk autonomous district, the Natural Resources Ministry's environmental regulator said. |
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Raiffeisen International will complete its acquisition of Impexbank next year. The group decided to reorganize Impexbank as part of its subsidiary, Raiffeisenbank Austria, and use the Raiffesen brand for the combined bank, the company said Friday in a statement. |
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Economic Development and Trade Minister German Gref said Friday that piracy worries were no longer holding up U.S. talks on Russia's accession to the World Trade Organization and expressed hope for a deal by the end of October."I think that in the coming two weeks we will reach a final agreement," Gref told his Latvian counterpart, Aygar Shtokenbergs, on Friday. |
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MAKAROV, Sakhalin — Royal Dutch Shell said it had taken less than one month to sort out most of the environmental violations identified at its Sakhalin oil and gas project, but a federal investigation continues. |
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MOSCOW — Gazprom and the Egyptian government have signed a memorandum of understanding on cooperation in Egypt's gas sector, Egypt's trade and industry minister said Friday.Rachid Mohammed Rachid said Gazprom could help Egypt develop its natural gas production and exports. |
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MOSCOW — The Industry and Energy Ministry has submitted to the government amendments to rules on foreign ownership of strategic sectors of industry.The amendments limit foreign participation in seven industry sectors and set out the size of deposits that will be declared "strategic," according to ministry documents. |
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Yelena Streltsova, director of the confectionary factory Lubimy Kray, has always been creative. She played in a band, conducted a choir and then moved into business, where she successfully applies her creative approaches to the top levels of management. |
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The corporate market has always been a priority for mobile phone operators to put it simply, corporate customers usually spend more money on communication than private individuals. |
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They can't live without me; they wouldn't survive without my money and the money of thousands like me — this I often think to myself when I see a new bank opening in the city.Last year their number grew by at least 25 percent according to industry experts. |
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Economists have started to become interested in the economics of clusters. Why do many industries concentrate in one or two locations? Why do some countries, regions and districts grow much faster than others? In the past the answer was obvious: What determined industrial location was climate or proximity to natural resources. |
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Anna Politkovskaya imagined her own death long before it arrived. For years, she was one of Russia's most fearless journalists, reporting for the newspaper Novaya Gazeta from the killing fields of Chechnya and exposing the brutality of the Kremlin's war under President Vladimir Putin. |
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The past week was a trying one for Georgia. Air, rail, sea, land and postal links were severed unilaterally by our largest neighbor, the Russian Federation. |
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Welcome to Kstinovo, population one. Antonina Makarova, 78, spends her days watching news and soap operas in her peeling wooden dacha, the only inhabited structure in two lanes of sagging cottages that once were a village. Her nearest neighbor, 80-year-old Maria Belkova, lives in adjacent Sosnovitsy, population two. |
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COLOMBO — Suspected Tamil Tiger rebels rammed a truck loaded with explosives into a Sri Lankan naval convoy on Monday, killing at least 92 people and deepening pessimism over this month's planned peace talks.The attack near the town of Habarana, about 190 kilometers northeast of the capital Colombo, was one of the worst suicide bombings in the troubled Indian Ocean island. |
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PARIS — The next secretary general of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon, said there was still room for dialogue with North Korea and he was prepared to travel to Pyongyang for talks. |
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QUITO, Ecuador — After a tight weekend election, the battle for Ecuador's presidency was headed for a November run-off between a conservative tycoon who favors close links to the United States and a leftist ally of Hugo Chavez, the president of Venezuela. |
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OSLO — Perhaps only once in the history of the Nobel Peace Prize has a secret been as well kept as Friday's 2006 award to Bangladesh's Muhammad Yunus and his Grameen Bank for lending to the poor. |
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LILONGWE — A small private jet carrying the one-year-old Malawian boy pop star Madonna hopes to adopt took off from the southern African country on Monday, a Reuters witness said.The child, David Banda, was whisked out of his native Malawi with one of Madonna's bodyguards and her personal assistant on a flight which is believed to be headed for Johannesburg. |
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MOSCOW — Top seed Nikolay Davydenko beat Davis Cup team mate Marat Safin 6-4 5-7 6-4 in the all-Russian Kremlin Cup final on Sunday to complete a unique double for the host country.Earlier, in another all-Russian affair unseeded Anna Chakvetadze upset fifth seed Nadia Petrova 6-4 6-4 in the women's final to win her second title in a month. |
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LONDON — After a two-week international break, domestic soccer returned to Europe this weekend with normal service being resumed at the top of the major leagues. |
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JAIPUR, India — Pakistan skipper Younis Khan is confident his team can overcome the loss of strike bowlers Shoaib Akhtar and Mohammad Asif at the Champions Trophy after the pair were withdrawn following positive drug tests.The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) withdrew the players from the squad on Monday after the anabolic steroid nandrolone was found in their samples from tests conducted before the event. |
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LONDON — Chelsea goalkeeper Petr Cech has been told he must take an extended break from football after surgery on a depressed fracture of his skull and warned that a premature return could be fatal. |
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