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MOSCOW — Moscow and St. Petersburg have banned street marches planned for this holiday weekend, sending ultranationalists underground — to the metro."I decided to ban the so-called Russian March," Mayor Yury Luzhkov said in a televised interview Tuesday night.
"I understand that these outcasts might make an appearance somewhere in the city, but we should not allow these kinds of actions to destroy the unity of our society," he said.
St. Petersburg Governor Valentina Matviyenko announced a ban in her city Wednesday.
Moscow came under fierce criticism after it allowed thousands of young people to march downtown during the Nov. |
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Chechen soldiers are being welcomed in Lebanon, where many locals say they don't trust troops from NATOcountries serving in the country as UN peacekeepers. |
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SIDON, Lebanon — Not so long ago, the Russian camp was a war zone.Today, the biggest bang most of the 250 military engineers here encounter is the 5 a.m. wake-up call at the sandy settlement of 50 or so tents nestled against the Mediterranean.
The relative calm is largely due to the end of hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah. But it's also because two platoons of elite soldiers plucked from the Army's 42nd Division's East and West battalions, based in Chechnya, are standing guard.
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MOSCOW — Unified Energy Systems said Tuesday that it collected $459 million in the landmark sale of a stake in a power generation company and that no single buyer obtained more than 1.1 percent.The sale of 14.4 percent of OGK-5 is a key first step toward raising billions of dollars in desperately needed investment to upgrade the national power grid. |
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Fair on the SquarenST. PETERSBURG (SPT) City Hall is to launch a Christmas Fair, Interfax reported on Wednesday. The first annual event will be held between Dec. |
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MOSCOW — United Russia's faction in the State Duma unveiled a bill Tuesday that would allow the abolition of elected mayors in big cities — the only powerful officials still outside the Kremlin's direct control.The bill's author, Vladimir Mokry, said the Duma would vote on the bill in the first of three readings within the next two weeks. |
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MOSCOW — In a shock to everyone involved in the case, three policemen were sentenced to three years in prison by a Moscow judge on Tuesday for abusing their power when they beat an innocent 12-year-old boy. |
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MOSCOW — It was a scam that would have made Ostap Bender proud.City police are investigating a company that obtained the medical records of people suffering from eye maladies and used the information to market therapeutic eye drops that contained nothing but distilled water.
Officers from the economic crimes department last week raided an office on Nizhnyaya Syromyatnicheskaya Ulitsa, near the Kurskaya metro station, and seized more than 300 packages of eye drops, police spokeswoman Yelena Perfilova said. |
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Although alcohol quality in St. Petersburg seems to compare favorably with those regions where dozens of people have died from alcohol poisoning, still local authorities confess to knowing little about the scale of counterfeit production in the city.Speaking at a press conference Wednesday, Nikolai Archipov, deputy chairman of the Committee for Economic Development, Industrial policy and Trade (CEDIPT), said that a new law had made the spate of mass alcohol poisonings "predictable. |
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MOSCOW — A forest bill transferring oversight from federal to regional officials and barring private ownership of forests sailed through a second reading Wednesday in the State Duma, outraging environmentalists and opposition leaders and leaving many confused about government policy. |
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Rosneft CommitmentsnMOSCOW (Bloomberg) — Rosneft, Russia's state-run oil producer, received commitments for $24.5 billion of loans to finance a bid to buy all of bankrupt Yukos, three bankers involved in the transaction said Thursday.
The loan would be the biggest-ever to a Russian company and the fourth largest for Europe, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. |
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MOSCOW —An asset swap between Deutsche Telekom and services conglomerate Sistema would make business sense but looks politically risky and may be unworkable, analysts said Wednesday. |
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MOSCOW — The State Duma on Wednesday approved in a second reading a bill that would change the way mandatory auto insurance works.Currently, the country's drivers are forced to pay for mandatory car insurance for each car they buy. The more accidents that the car is involved in, the higher the insurance premiums. |
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Russia today has a two-party system. People have a choice between United Russia and the new party headed by Federation Council Speaker Sergei Mironov, which opted for the name A Just Russia over the weekend. Until then people had mostly been calling it the Party of Life — one of the parties that united to form it. |
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On November 7, U.S. voters will go to the polls to elect all 435 members of their House of Representatives and one-third of their senators. If Americans believe that these midterm elections represent a model of democracy for the rest of the world, they should think again. |
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Alcohol poisoning is back in the spotlight after dozens of people died and more than 1,000 were hospitalized after drinking non-potable spirits in recent days. The problem is not a new one; about 42,000 Russians die every year from alcohol poisoning, according to figures from the Federation Council. Unfortunately, chances are high that once the current furor dies down, nothing will change and alcohol poisoning will return to its place in the litany of Russia's social ills. |
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 Teodor Currentzis is making waves in the classical music world as music direcor of the Novosibirsk Opera and Ballet Theater, demonstrating a taste for more difficult works.There can't be many times when a performance of "Das Lied von der Erde" has waited more than two hours after the start of a concert before it got underway. |
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The Plastic People of the Universe, the Czech Republic's psychedelic legends, will come to St. Petersburg on very short notice this week. On its first visit to Russia, the band was to perform at Platforma when the place abruptly closed (see article, page iii), so their concert was moved to Mod, where the band will perform on Saturday. |
 Platforma, the popular club that had grown into one of the city's leading venues since opening in September 2004, abruptly closed last Sunday. Art director Denis Rubin, who is now busy arranging new venues for a host of visiting artists, said he was informed about the actual closing only shortly before it happened."Actually, it could have happened at any moment, because the general management changed over a year ago, and Platforma started to be managed by people who hadn't the slightest idea about the club's format or the business of running a club," said Rubin this week about the club owned by Metronom, a local company specializing in advertising and publishing. |
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 Meet Lyudmila Lipeiko, a woman of vision and a colorful character who is not afraid to take risks. As the founding director of the Bereg Art Center, Lupeiko has brought us Vertical and Open Cinema, two formidable international festivals that happen here in St. |
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ADDIS ABABA — The jailing of an Ethiopian in the United States for circumcising his daughter with scissors has fueled a passionate debate across Africa, with many approving the punishment but some urging understanding.In what is believed to be the first such case in the United States, Khalid Adem on Wednesday was sentenced to 10 years in prison for removing his 2-year-old daughter's clitoris in 2001. |
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PARIS — Defending champion Tomas Berdych and Nikolai Davydenko, the highest ranked player in the tournament, wasted little time in reaching the Paris Masters quarter-finals.Berdych, the eighth-seeded Czech, cruised past America's Robby Ginepri 6-3, 6-3 in just 65 minutes while Davydenko, the Russian fourth seed, took just six minutes longer to reach the last eight with a 6-2, 6-2 win over compatriot Dimitri Tursunov on Thursday. |
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SYDNEY — New Zealand have been stripped of the points they earned for beating Britain in a recent Tri-Nations match after the Rugby League International Federation (RLIF) ruled they had used an ineligible player. |
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LOS ANGELES — Pittsburgh's Russian rookie Yevgeni Malkin became the first player in 89 years to score in his first six games, then went on to tally the game winner as the Penguins beat the Los Angeles Kings 4-3 in overtime on Wednesday.Malkin fired a shot past Kings goalie Dan Cloutier at 8:29 of the first period to match the mark held by Joe Malone, Newsy Lalonde and Cy Denneny. |
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LONDON — London 2012 organizers have defended their "strong start" towards delivering the Games after criticism from Jack Lemley who quit as chairman of the Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) last month. |
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NEW YORK — Kenyan Paul Tergat and Hendrick Ramaala of South Africa are inked into New York City Marathon history after their sprint finish in 2005, yet neither runner wants to repeat that dramatic climax in Sunday's race.Tergat, the world marathon record holder, won last year's shoulder-to-shoulder dash for the tape in the 26. |
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NEW YORK — Free agent reliever Guillermo Mota, who ended the season with the New York Mets, was suspended for 50 games on Wednesday for violating Major League Baseball's (MLB) drug policy. |
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MUMBAI, India — The International Cricket Council on Thursday praised the Pakistan Cricket Board for their handling of the doping trial involving fast bowlers Shoaib Akhtar and Mohammad Asif.A PCB drugs tribunal banned Akhtar for two years and Asif for one on Wednesday after finding them guilty of doping offences. |
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