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Valery Gergiev, the indefatigable artistic director of the Mariinsky Theater, was triumphant on Wednesday at the inauguration of the theater's brand-new, state-of-the-art concert hall, located in the company's former warehouse on Ulitsa Pisareva, a few hundred meters from the historical building. |
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LONDON — Britain is monitoring a Russian plane and three British aircraft in an ever widening probe into the death from radiation poisoning of a former Russian FSB officer that has heightened tensions with Moscow. |
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OLGINO, Leningrad Oblast — The Italian director of Russia's most modern power plant sticks out like a sore thumb. Next to his buttoned-down Russian colleagues, his broad smiles and vigorous gestures seem as out of place as the management style he brought to the plant near St. |
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There's a chance for people to lend a helping hand to HIV-positive children on International AIDS Day on Friday by bringing New Year presents for them to the entrance of the Alexander Nevsky Monastery, Interfax reported. |
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NATO leaders on Wednesday invited Serbia, Montenegro and Bosnia-Herzegovina to join a cooperation program that is a first step toward possible membership of the military alliance, but urged Serbia and Bosnia to cooperate fully with the United Nations war crimes tribunal. |
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Former Prime Minister Yegor Gaidar, the architect of Russia's turbulent transition to a market economy, became violently ill last week while in Ireland, prompting speculation he had been targeted for assassination. |
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Leading judges would be elected and a special court would hear cases against judges if a raft of legislative measures submitted by the Economic Development and Trade Ministry were adopted.The measures, which consist of amendments to federal laws, are in line with Kremlin efforts to clean up the corruption-plagued judiciary. |
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Italy's energy group Enel wants to become a strategic investor in Russia's power sector, its top executive, Fulvio Conti, said Wednesday, but declined to disclose details."We are waiting for the decision regulating the privatization. We will act as strategic investors," he told reporters during a visit to St. |
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St. Petersburg this week played host to Nanobio '06, the first international conference on nanotechnology to be held in Russia. The event ran from Monday through Wednesday at the city's State Polytechnic University. |
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Finland and Russia agreed Wednesday on steps to reduce long traffic lines at their 1,300-kilometer border."We will make additional efforts to facilitate controls, increase the number of workers at border crossings and invest additional funds to expand the checkpoints," Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov said after talks with visiting Finnish Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen. |
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President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday laid the foundation stone for a state-run management school in the city."This is a school of a new type, oriented toward top world standards," Putin said. |
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MOSCOW — The Central Bank on Wednesday raised its forecast for capital inflows this year and said it might tighten banking reserve requirements to slow a flood of cash exerting upward pressure on the ruble.First Deputy Chairman Alexei Ulyukayev said he expected capital inflows to reach $23 billion to $25 billion in 2006 — up from his previous forecast of $20 billion and a vast increase from last year's $0. |
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MOSCOW — Gazprom is close to reaching a final deal with Belarus that would give it partial control over the country's pipeline network in exchange for a lower gas price, officials in Moscow and Minsk said Wednesday. |
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Two years ago, an authoritarian regime's attempt to hijack the presidential election in Ukraine failed. As official results were announced, disbelief provoked millions of citizens to pour into the streets in protest. They took a stand against those discredited officials who hid behind law enforcement bodies in an attempt to prolong their corrupt hold on power. |
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Pope Benedict XVI met in Turkey on Wednesday with a representative of a religious tradition whose sometimes violent differences with the Roman Catholic Church can be traced back to the Crusades. |
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Catching up on the news over the weekend on the Internet, I came across a report about the "alternative" leader of South Ossetia, Dmitry Sanakoyev, who had condemned the policies of the region's "official" president, Eduard Kokoity.No country in the world — Russia included — has recognized South Ossetia's self-proclaimed independence, and now it turns out that the region has two presidents to boot. |
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 Yo-Yo Ma seeks connections between music, culture and humanity.Perhaps the world's most admired cellist, musical anthropologist, and winner of 15 Grammy awards, Yo-Yo Ma performs in concert on Sunday at the St. Petersburg State Conservatory.British pianist Kathryn Stott, a frequent stage partner for Ma will be joining the virtuoso cellist in a program of Shostakovich, Schubert, Piazzolla, Gismonti and Franck. |
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For months, I've been looking forward to NTV's new drama series set in a brothel. Originally it was going to be called "Bez Chesti," or "Without Honor," a name that had a slightly disapproving ring to it. |
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This week's Russian sales in London have seen millions of dollars changing hands.Russians led the bidders who parted with around $100 million in London this week to buy back art from their homeland, but the failure of a rare Faberge clock to sell showed even their appetite has its limits. |
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The winning design for Gazprom's new skyscraper in St. Petersburg is announced on Friday, but not everyone is happy about it.On Friday, the authorities are to announce the winner of a design competition that will usher in a new era of progress and prosperity — or ruin one of the world's most beautiful cities. |
 Babyshambles canceled its gig at Moscow's B2 last week amid frontman Pete Doherty's ongoing legal troubles, but Razorlight — another highlight of the current British music scene — did come to Moscow to headline Nokia Trends, a publicity event for the Finnish phone company.The band was reported to have had a photo session on Red Square, but failed to perform as the event was canceled by the authorities hours before it was scheduled to start, "as a result of negotiations with administrative authorities during the day," as the event's official web site put it. |
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MOSCOW — Nikolay Davydenko has postponed his honeymoon for at least a week to lead Russia in this weekend's Davis Cup final against Argentina.World number three Davydenko, who married his long-time sweetheart Irina Vasina on Saturday, said winning the cup would be the best present he could get from his team mates. |
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SUN CITY, South Africa — In-form European number one Padraig Harrington roared into an early lead in the first round of the Sun City Challenge on Thursday. |
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NEW YORK — Martin Erat scored with 5:09 left in regulation time to give the Nashville Predators a 3-2 win over the Philadelphia Flyers in NHL play in Philadelphia on Wednesday.The Predators won their third straight game and increased their lead in the Central Division to four points over the idle Detroit Red Wings with the win, but they were pressed hard for most of the night by the last-placed Flyers. |
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BEIJING — Athletes who compete at the 2008 Beijing Olympics face the danger of a positive drugs test if they dine out and eat some of China's chemical-laden foods, a top Chinese doping expert has warned. |
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LONDON — Rob Andrew, England's elite rugby director, insisted there would be no hurry in finding a "sticking plaster" successor to Andy Robinson whose wretched two years as coach of the world champions finally came to an end.Under Robinson, England lost 13 out of 22 Tests with only nine wins and a solitary away victory during a period where the loss of key players such as Jonny Wilkinson through injury was compounded by the coach's sometimes bizarre decision-making. |
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LONDON — Subaru's Petter Solberg has promised an all-out attack this weekend in the hope of ending a grim year for his world rally team with a fifth successive victory in Britain. |
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