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MOSCOW — Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Monday the Litvinenko affair was damaging ties with Britain, and British detectives headed for Moscow as part of their investigation into the ex-KGB spy’s death by poisoning. “The police have left today for Moscow to carry out enquiries,” British Home Secretary (Interior Minister) John Reid told journalists in Brussels on the margins of a meeting of European Union justice and home affairs ministers. Lavrov, also in the Belgian capital, said the fallout from Alexander Litvinenko’s death was harming relations with Britain. |
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Governor Valentina Matviyenko (l) and Gazprom CEO Alexei Miller watering a tree to be planted within Gazprom-City at the announcement about the building on Friday. |
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A 300-meter-tall twisting glass tower dubbed “the corn on the cob” beat out five international rivals to win the contentious competition to build a new Gazprom headquarters in St. Petersburg. The decision infuriated critics, and a group of St. Petersburg’s cultural luminaries, including Hermitage director Mikhail Piotrovsky, filmmaker Alexander Sokurov, rock musician Yury Shevchuk and writer Daniil Granin threw their weight behind what threatens to become a city-wide campaign against the construction.
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MOSCOW — Conservatives the world over favor small government. Social Democrats subscribe to the welfare state. And now there are the true believers of United Russia, who say they will fight for ordinary people, boost the economy and combat corruption. |
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MOSCOW — Irish police said Friday that they had no evidence that former Prime Minister Yegor Gaidar was poisoned. Police opened an investigation after Gaidar fell ill during a conference at the National University of Ireland on Nov. |
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Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov and his billionaire wife Yelena Baturina have never taken kindly to suggestions that Baturina amassed her fortune in the construction business thanks to her husband’s position.
So when Forbes Russia prepared to release its December issue last week with a picture of Baturina on the cover and the quote, “I am guaranteed protection,” a scandal was almost inevitable. |
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Young Men Clash
MOSCOW (SPT) — About 20 young men armed with steel rods and empty bottles attacked 20 activists from the radical group Red Youth Vanguard on Sunday, Vanguard leader Sergei Udaltsov said, Ekho Moskvy reported. |
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Roger Federer may be the undisputed best single’s tennis player in the world, but with the success of the 2006 Russian Federation Davis Cup team, men’s tennis in Russia has established itself as among the top in the world.
The coming of age in Russian men’s tennis is now officially complete. |
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If the next State Duma elections were held this month, 20 percent of St. Petersburg residents would vote against all parties, according to new research presented by the Agency for Social Information at the Rosbalt agency on Thursday. |
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MOSCOW — The opposition should boycott next year’s State Duma election because it is set to be an “imitation of democracy,” former Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov said. Kasyanov, who is expected to be the liberal opposition’s main candidate in the 2008 presidential election, said the Kremlin under President Vladimir Putin was preparing to manipulate the Duma vote so only parties loyal to it win seats. |
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Local company Aditum has submitted plans for an underground shopping center beneath Ploshchad Vosstaniya, a project considered so risky it was abandoned by its previous developer. On Nov. 14, City Hall issued a decree allowing the recently registered firm to start projection and exploration for the center. |
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The World Bank’s executive board is to consider a new strategy for cooperation with Russia on December 14, World Bank Managing Director for Operations Graeme Wheeler was quoted by Interfax as saying after a meeting with St. |
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Generating Bonds
ST. PETERSBURG (SPT) — Territory Generating Company No 1 will issue bonds amounting to eight billion rubles ($305.3 million) in the first quarter of 2007, Interfax reported Monday.
The bonds will be in circulation for seven years with half a year coupon payment period. |
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MOSCOW — President Vladimir Putin and his Indonesian counterpart, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, agreed on Friday to boost military and energy cooperation in deals worth more than $1 billion. |
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Belarus’ Nuclear Vision
MINSK (Reuters) — Belarus plans to build a nuclear power plant to reduce its dependence on energy imports, Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko said Friday.
“The development of our own nuclear energy as a way to ensure Belarus’ national security has no alternative,” he said during a government session. |
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It took Will Bogner Jr a year of testing his company’s shop on Nevsky Prospekt but finally he has announed the arrival of one of Germany’s leading lifestyle brands in St. |
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WASHINGTON — Has Ukraine cleaned up its act?
On Nov. 8, the Millennium Challenge Corp. — established by U.S. President George W. Bush to use development aid to reward good governance — announced that Ukraine had qualified for assistance. On Monday, Ukrainian Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych is due to arrive in Washington to meet Vice President Dick Cheney, another date in the U. |
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Last month’s U.S.–Russia bilateral agreement on Russia’s entry into the World Trade Organization is the single biggest achievement in economic relations between our two countries in over a decade. |
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The world economy looks like a healthy man who has been told to cut down on his beloved coffee: The ailment is well-known, but the cure is unpalatable. The robust global expansion of recent years has been accompanied by extreme international imbalances that have exacerbated fluctuations in the U. |
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At first glance, accounting doesn’t strike one as being a terribly interesting or exciting field. To the untrained observer, numbers are arranged into columns, documents are signed, stamped and submitted to less than enthusiastic government authorities, and four times a year accountants claim to be overwhelmed with the amount of numbers, documents and submissions. |
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Kosovar Prime Minister Agim Ceku arrived for a busy tour of Moscow on Wednesday. These are crucial days for the leader as the international community considers reaching a decision on the final status of Kosovo. Russia will obviously play a very important role in this, both as a member of the Contact Group and as a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council. |
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The winning design in a competition to build a 300-meter high office tower for Gazprom Neft in St. Petersburg was to be announced on Friday. The story has received much attention both as a result of Gazprom’s involvement and the scheme for financing the project. |
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The movie “The Godfather” famously opens with a Corleone family wedding. While his guests celebrate outside, Don Vito Corleone receives supplicants in his study — ordinary, hard-working Sicilians from the old neighborhood. Bonaserra, the undertaker, asks the godfather to grant him a favor: to punish two kids who assaulted his daughter but got off lightly. |
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I first came to know Dmitry Sergeevich Likhachev 45 years ago when I wrote the lead article for a scholarly roundtable on Old Russian culture sponsored by the Slavic Review. |
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SANTIAGO, Chile — Former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, accused of torture, killings and kidnappings during his 1973-1990 rule, was stable but still seriously ill on Monday following a heart attack over the weekend, his doctors said.
Pinochet, 91, had a heart attack on Sunday and was rushed to hospital for an angioplasty operation to reopen his arteries. |
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CARACAS, Venezuela — President Hugo Chavez painted Venezuela the “red, really, red” of his anti-U.S. socialist revolution, sweeping to re-election in Sunday’s vote with wins in every state in the OPEC heavyweight. |
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BRUSSELS — Sparks flew at a meeting of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe on Monday as Washington launched a thinly veiled attack on Moscow for using economic clout to pressurize small neighbors.
Russia hit back, criticizing the rights watchdog for overreaching itself and accusing some within it of trying to force through “one-sided” solutions to so-called “frozen conflicts” in former Soviet states left over from the Cold War. |
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LONDON — Brief Premier League match reports from this weekend:
Played Sunday:
EVERTON 2 WEST HAM UNITED 0
Everton moved up to seventh place after an entertaining victory at Goodison Park. Midfielder Leon Osman broke the deadlock early in the second half, chesting a high ball down on the edge of the box and sending a looping shot into the top corner. |
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LONDON — Former Australia coach Eddie Jones has become the first man to throw his hat into the ring publicly as the successor to former England trainer Andy Robinson. |
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Russia won its second Davis Cup title on Sunday when Marat Safin beat Argentina’s Jose Acasuso in the deciding singles match.
Safin, ranked 26th in the world, beat Acasuso 6-3, 3-6, 6-3, 7-6 to hand the victory to Russia, last year’s beaten semifinalist. |
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Valuyev to Fight
BERLIN (AFP) — St. Petersburg ‘s WBA heavyweight champion Nikolai Valuyev will defend his title against American fighter Jameel McCline on Jan. |
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