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A group of young liberal political activists has contacted city registration offices with requests to change their Russian surnames into Georgian-language variants in protest against what they feel is "anti-Georgian hysteria sweeping over Russia."Yabloko youth wing politician Alexander Shurshev asked to be renamed Shurshadze.
"In today's Russia, people are discriminated against on the basis of their nationality; this is an embarrassing practice," Shurshev said on Monday. "I have decided to change my last name to give it a Georgian ending to express my solidarity with the Georgian people who are being oppressed. |
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Israeli Prime Minister Olmert (l) shakes hands with President Putin during their meeting in Moscow on Wednesday, in this Israeli Government Press Office handout. |
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In the third acquittal of suspected hate criminals in a jury trial this year, the St. Petersburg City Court on Tuesday cleared all 14 defendants of the murder of Vu An-Tuan, 20, a Vietnamese student of the St. Petersburg Politechnical University who was fatally stabbed two years ago.Meanwhile, an official representative of the Vietnamese Foreign Office, Le Zung, has taken Russian government and St.
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St. Petersburg authorities are to spend more than half a million dollars on promoting the city worldwide, City Hall said Thursday.As well as announcing the 500,000 euro ($628,000) publicity campaign, City Hall shortlisted three logo designs to brand the city, Galina Gromova, spokesperson for the city's committee on investment and strategic projects, said. |
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Golden Telecom has announced a shift away from the corporate sector with a $2 million rebranding and advertisement campaign in 25 of Russia's largest cities. Experts said the company has left it late to tap the huge regional market for individual customers. |
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The campaign against Sakhalin-2 appeared to hit a stumbling block Wednesday, with organized crime police seizing documents related to the investigation from the Natural Resources Ministry's environmental agency. |
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More than 600 of St. Petersburg's entrepreneurs will receive free training and advice thanks to a new program financed by the city budget. The series of six seminars, designed for the heads of small-businesses, began Wednesday at the Law Faculty of the State University. |
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Profits FlownMOSCOW (SPT) — Money transfer system UNIStream increased its transactions to $573 million in July-September, up 45 percent compared with April-May when the system made a turnover of $396 million turnover. |
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British architect Sir Norman Foster presented a design Wednesday to fill the space where the Rossiya hotel once stood with a cultural center in the shape of an ellipsis, a 2,000-room hotel and a museum.Moscow's architectural council, led by Mayor Yury Luzhkov, backed the overall proposal but sent Foster back to the drawing board after a three-hour debate. |
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Energy ChangesnMOSCOW (Bloomberg) — Russia won't ratify the energy charter proposed by the European Union without changes, said Sergei Yastrzhembsky, President Vladimir Putin's adviser on the EU, Interfax reported Thursday. |
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Russia is simply becoming more Darwinian. It is not only democracy that is dying, but civilization itself. Democracy is just a sign of advanced civilization. It is based on the assumption that individuals are of significance and their voices should be heard. |
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Accusations that Russia is using its vast energy supplies as a political weapon draw indignant replies from Moscow. But Gazprom's decision last week to abandon plans to work with a Western partner on the Shtokman field, and President Vladimir Putin's meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel the next day, made it hard to take these protests seriously. |
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Recent weeks have seen two events that should alarm U.S. and European leaders about their relationship to Russia. This time, however, alarm and worry aren't enough — what's needed is action.On Oct. 7, renowned journalist Anna Politkovskaya was murdered in her apartment building, silencing one of the last independent and critical voices in the country. |
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 A pyramid has arisen in the Kazakh capital, masterminded by Sir Norman Foster.ASTANA, Kazakhstan — Oh, and we want an opera house in the basement.That was the message given to British architect Lord Norman Foster by the president of Kazakhstan four months into designing a pyramid in the capital city, Astana. |
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A Swedish cultural festival focuses on black-and-white photography from three modern masters.The Swedish cultural festival known as SWEDKULT got underway this week highlighting some names and trends in contemporary Swedish fashion, films, literature, video art, and quite comprehensively, photography. |
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Griboyedov, the legendary local bunker club, marked its 10th anniversary this week with a chaotic yet enjoyable concert and party, with the venue packed with more than 500 fans.Although the club has recently expanded, adding an overground, avant-gardish building that holds a stage and a restaurant, it was still overcrowded. |
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Britain's Fitzwilliam Quartet, which became a favorite of Dmitry Shostakovich in the years before his death in 1975, returns to St. Petersburg this week to celebrate the composer's centenary year with five concerts at venues including the Sheremetev Palace and the White Hall at Peterhof. |
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A solution to the question that has long been bothering the more Russophile part of the St. Petersburg cultural beau monde — how to balance the repertoires of local cinemas toward a greater share of art versus entertainment and give center stage to Russian, rather than U. |
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"North of Mongolia and Manchuria, draining an area as large as Spain, France, and all the countries of Eastern Europe combined, and fed by five hundred tributaries, the Lena is the tenth longest river in the world, and the third longest in Russia. |
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So, let's see: there's a guy with tormented past and a blade coming out of his hand. Whenever he's enraged by some unjust or just annoying cause he's virtually unstoppable, crashing everything and everyone around with his unbreakable blade. Sounds familiar, doesn't it?As far as sources on the web say, a Wolverine spin-off from the "X-Men" series of Hollywood blockbusters, based on the comic books featuring Wolverine and his genetically-mutated pals, is scheduled to hit the screens in 2008. |
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MUMBAI, India — West Indies' fast bowler Jerome Taylor recorded a hat-trick on Wednesday to take defending champions West Indies to a thrilling 10-run win over Australia in their Champions Trophy Group A match.Taylor bowled Michael Hussey for 13 and Brett Lee for a duck off consecutive balls as the world champions, needing 21 off 13 balls to overhaul West Indies' 234 for six, crumbled under pressure. |
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SAO PAULO — The chequered flag comes down on the greatest Formula One career of all on Sunday with Michael Schumacher chasing one last win and, just possibly, an unprecedented eighth title. |
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MADRID — Sixth seed Andy Roddick and world number eight Tommy Robredo suffered straight sets defeats in the third round of the Madrid Masters on Thursday.Czech Tomas Berdych toppled Roddick 7-6 6-3 with the American ending the match complaining of pain in his left ankle, while the unseeded Robby Ginepri beat Spain's Robredo 6-3 7-6. |
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