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MOSCOW — Some 2,000 ultranationalist activists took to the streets on Saturday in defiance of a ban to protest against illegal immigration and what they called the persecution of ethnic Russians.The so-called Russian March-2006, timed to coincide with National Unity Day, was banned by Mayor Yury Luzhkov, who said that such demonstrations "could destroy the unity of our society."
A few hours after the ultranationalist event ended, some 1,000 anti-fascist activists gathered on Bolotnaya Ploshchad in a meeting organized by a coalition of political parties and civil rights groups. |
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Alexander Belenky / The St. Petersburg Times
A group of demonstrators taking part in the Russian March timed to coincide with Unity Day on Saturday become embroiled in a scuffle with police officers. |
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Mikhail might not seem to have a lot going for him — he's living rough in St Petersburg and facing another harsh winter in a rich city where most are oblivious to his plight. But today he is happy.His favorite soccer team — Zenit St. Petersburg — won a recent match and he has found out where to get a bowl of soup and slice of bread every night.
"I've been told a bus will be bringing food to the same place and at the same time every evening.
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PSKOV — Sergei Morshchinin's face had turned a sickly yellow. So had the whites of his eyes. His head and arms were bandaged. His bedsheets were splattered with blood.Morshchinin, 46, had been in room No. 6 on the fourth floor of the Pskov city hospital since Sept. |
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MOSCOW — Witnesses whose testimony in court could cost them their lives will get bodyguards and possibly plastic surgery under a witness protection program approved by the Cabinet. |
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MOSCOW — The government on Thursday approved a 161 billion-ruble ($6 billion) hike in 2006 spending, as it seeks to allocate windfall revenue generated by sky-high oil prices.Deputy Finance Minister Tatyana Golikova said ministers had approved budget amendments that foresaw an overshoot in revenues this year by 1. |
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MOSCOW — The Foreign Ministry on Thursday angrily criticized a U.S. diplomat's warning to the European Union that a prospective natural gas pipeline under the Baltic Sea could further increase its energy dependence on Russia, saying Washington wanted global energy routes to bypass Russia. |
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Ruling IgnorednKIEV (AP) — Moscow will ignore a Ukrainian court order to return Crimean lighthouses used by the Russian naval fleet to Ukraine, Russian Ambassador Viktor Chernomyrdin said Thursday.
A court in Sevastopol ruled in September that 22 lighthouses and other navigational devices held by the Russian Black Sea fleet must be returned to the control of Ukraine's Transport Ministry. |
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Real estate fund EPI Russia, a subsidiary of Evli Property Investments, and Finnish construction group YIT are to launch two projects worth a combined 100 million euros ($127 million), the companies said Friday in a statement.The agreement includes construction of a nine-floor office building on Primorsky Prospekt and a logistics center at Gorelovo, south of the city. |
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A growing deficit of qualified labor is hampering the city's economic development and putting strategic projects at risk, experts said at a round table at Rosbalt news agency last week. |
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MOSCOW —Need cash fast? A bank loan may be the first thing that comes to mind, but for many people banks are not an option.People who are working in this country illegally, as well as those who receive all or part of their income under the table, have little access to the banking system. |
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ULAN BATOR, Mongolia — Creeping up over the dry hills, the shantytowns of Ulan Bator mark the ever-spreading line where the city meets the Mongolian steppes. |
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VILNIUS —The Kremlin has never been straightforward about its plans to take control of the oil and gas business.So, Lithuanians were suspicious when Russia said it shut its pipeline — the only one supplying Russian crude oil — in late July because of a leak. |
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MOSCOW —The country's oil output fell for a second month in a row in October partly because the government and ExxonMobil failed to solve differences over the Sakhalin-1 venture holding back the start up of full-scale production. |
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MOSCOW —The government's technical standards watchdog warned on Thursday that almost all the country's oil and gas pipelines were in critical condition, a possible sign of more shutdowns after the closure of a link to Lithuania. "Russia's pipeline transport is in an unsatisfactory state. |
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There is a looming crisis in the country's residential services and maintenance sector, and the government knows it. At least Vladimir Yakovlev, who is responsible for the matter as regional development minister, seems to understand. |
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Part I of the Russian Tax Code was amended by Federal Law #137 of 27 July 2006 and establishes new rules regulating the procedural rules for tax audits and the review of tax violations. Although the majority of these new rules come into effect from 1 January 2007, there are certain important matters that may already require the attention of Russian businesses. |
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Soviet dissident Mikhail Baitalsky once quipped: "Fighting against the increasing consumption of alcohol is like Don Quixote's campaign against the windmills. Sensible people don't engage in such tomfoolery."Yet this week, State Duma Speaker Boris Gryzlov initiated another round of tomfoolery with his suggestion that the proper remedy for the recent spate of alcohol poisonings lies in the state monopolization of the liquor trade. |
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Russians know Viktor Cherkesov's Federal Drug Control Service principally for its war on veterinarians who inject cats with the anesthetic ketamine.But on Oct. |
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Although books have been written about the transition from capitalism to socialism for over a century, titles focusing on the path back to capitalism are a much more recent phenomenon.It is 17 years since the fall of the Berlin wall and 15 years since the collapse of the Soviet Union. Current events in the former "socialist world" show that the scale of difficulties involved in the transition was seriously underestimated. |
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 MOSCOW — Feral dogs have become a common sight in Moscow. They sleep in packs in empty lots and underground passages; they are fed by the kindhearted and abused by the cruel.The latest study commissioned by the city puts the number of stray and feral dogs on the street at a minimum of 23,000.
Despite an effort in recent years to reduce the stray population through sterilization, their numbers have not come down in part because people are increasingly abandoning their pets, city officials and animal rights activists say. |
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LONDON — Prime Minister Tony Blair has said he is against the death penalty for "Saddam or anybody else", but remained otherwise tightlipped on the sentence passed on the former Iraqi dictator.In a sometimes tetchy press conference, he insisted that the year-long trial of Saddam Hussein, which climaxed Sunday with the hanging sentence, had been "a very clear reminder of the total and barbaric brutality of that regime. |
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MILAN — An Italian court on Monday sentenced an Egyptian accused of being one of the masterminds of the 2004 Madrid bombings to 10 years in prison for terrorist association. |
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BISHKEK — Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiyev has sacked the interior minister, a spokesman said, in response to opposition pressure as debate on constitutional reform in the Central Asian country was stalled.Bakiyev signed a decree ordering the sacking of Osmonaly Guronov as interior minister and appointing Omurbek Suvanaliyev in his place, Myktybek Abdyldaiyev, head of the presidential administration, announced to a crowd of protesters Monday. |
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FRANKFURT — New rules forced air travelers to pack perfume, toothpaste and other liquids into small plastic bags in their hand luggage before going through security checkpoints at Europe's airports on Monday. |
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LONDON — New Zealand got their European tour off to a flying start as they beat England 41-20 on Sunday to condemn the world champions to a sixth successive defeat and their worst ever at Twickenham.The All Blacks were on top throughout the match but drove home their advantage with a 15-point barrage in the last five minutes of the first half. |
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LONDON — Tottenham Hotspur and England winger Aaron Lennon condemned champions Chelsea to a second league defeat of the season on Sunday when Spurs won their London derby 2-1 at White Hart Lane. |
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MUMBAI — Ricky Ponting hailed Australia's coolness under pressure after the world champions swept to their maiden Champions Trophy title on Sunday, beating holders West Indies by eight wickets in the final."It is a great feeling to win a tournament as big as this," a delighted Australian skipper told reporters after the rain-hit game. |
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