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Opposition politicians, who took to the streets on March 3 to participate in a march of dissenters, are gearing up to continue their battle in court. They are planning to file suits against Governor Valentina Matviyenko for libel and the local police for excessive use of violence against the peaceful demonstration and at least one St. |
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Citywide and regional elections — widely seen as a curtain-raiser to the federal parliamentary elections in December and the presidential race in 2008 — will be held Sunday, along with 13 other regional elections. |
 More men than women in St. Petersburg think of International Women’s Day, celebrated on Thursday, as a “holiday,” according to recent data from the Agency for Social Information. “Definitely yes,” said three quarters of men asked in St. Petersburg last week whether the day is a holiday compared with 66 percent of women, who took part in the poll. |
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MOSCOW — Tests reveal that thallium has been found in two American women who were hospitalized last month following symptoms of poisoning, Russian consumer protection service officials announced Tuesday. |
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 MOSCOW — Before his mysterious death, Kommersant journalist Ivan Safronov was on the verge of reporting a story about sensitive arms deals with Syria and Iran despite warnings that he would be prosecuted for disclosing classified information, it was reported Tuesday. |
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MOSCOW — Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Tuesday that the United States had not adequately answered Russia’s questions on its plans to deploy missile defense sites in Europe and accused Washington of acting unilaterally. |
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Severstaltrans group of companies has completed the acquisition of the St. Petersburg-based Petrolesport open joint-stock company, Prime-Tass news agency reported Tuesday referring to a statement from the Severstaltrans press service. Though neither company would reveal the cost of the deal, experts believe the deal could cost Severstaltrans over $100 million. |
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GENEVA — Ford Motor Co will consider adding production capacity in Russia to meet rising demand in Europe’s fastest-growing major market, the head of the automaker’s European operations said on Wednesday. |
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CHICAGO — The Russian market is not an easy one for H.J. Heinz Co. Margins there are, and will continue to be, below the company average. The market is fragmented and Heinz has got to spend a lot of money in a battle for market share. But according to Heinz Chairman and Chief Executive Officer William Johnson, the size of the market makes it one the company will not leave. |
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Flying High ST. PETERSBURG (SPT) — GTK Rossia airline served over 324,000 passengers in January-February 2007, the company said Tuesday in a statement. |
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 “Do the Russian authorities really think that the anti-missile batteries [in Poland] are targeted against them?” a U.S. diplomat asked me recently. “After all, we explained the technical specifications of the system to be installed in Poland and the Czech Republic long ago. |
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Vladivostok Mayor Vladimir Nikolayev, already under suspension by court order, was arrested in Moscow on Tuesday. Nicknamed “Winnie the Pooh,” Nikolayev is a major figure in the Far East Primorye region, which contains Vladivostok. |
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 MOSCOW — Romanian artist Dan Perjovschi has made a career out of scrawling witty, half-improvised cartoons on the walls of European museums. Armed with a black marker, he has made his site-specific drawings in unconventional places like the Members’ Room of London’s Tate Modern. |
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The week’s most rock-and-roll event had everything, but music. It was the March of Dissenters (Marsh nesoglasnykh), an anti-Putin rally that brought thousands on Nevsky Prospect. |
 Adults performing for children is rather a common phenomenon but a “children’s theater for adults,” as artistic director Marina Landa calls her musical theater company Raduga (“Rainbow” in English), is something more unusual. Based at the Pushkin Apartment Museum at Moika 12, the theater company has 25 child actors with just two adults involved, Landa and director Sergei Vasiliyev. The company orginated in 1991 when Landa was invited by Radio Rossia to stage the first Russian radio version of the Lionel Bart musical “Oliver!” (1960). |
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 Alain Maratrat aims to awaken opera fans joi de vivre in his production of Sergei Prokofiev’s “The Love For Three Oranges” which premieres on Wednesday at the Mariinsky Theater. |
 American artist Matthew Barney is best known for creating the ambitious 6 1/2 hour, five film Cremaster Cycle that was seen in Moscow a few years ago. Now it’s the turn of St. Petersburg audiences to experience this artist’s over-heated and sometimes baffling work. “Drawing Restraint 9,” a 135-minute exercise in narrative free-fall, is being screened at Rodina cinema this week. Set aboard a whaling ship in Nagasaki Bay, it is a less fully accomplished work than the Cremaster films that came before but nonetheless serves as a good introduction to the artist’s particularly American veneration of the big and expensive. |
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 Nearly a quarter of a century after George Balanchine’s death, at the age of 79, his ballets are still being danced — beautifully — around the world, and he remains a subject of intense interest for biographers, critics, scholars, fans and the individuals who knew him, as well as for audiences. |
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The other week, Nikolai Rastorguyev, lead singer of the military-themed rock band Lyube, celebrated his 50th birthday in true rock ‘n’ roll style: a telegram from President Vladimir Putin and a chat with Lyudmila. No word on presents, but I hope no one tried to give him a sapphire — he’s already got one of those. |
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Fidelio 13 Gorokhovaya Ulitsa. Tel: 314 8444, 571 5956. Open daily noon through midnight. Menu in Italian and Russian. Credit cards accepted. Dinner for two with wine 2,390 rubles ($91) Doubts come aplenty stepping through the door of this new Italian restaurant near the Moika River. |
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 LONDON — Bayern Munich, AC Milan, Manchester United and PSV Eindhoven booked their places in the Champions League quarter-finals on Wednesday, dashing English hopes of making European football history. Bayern stormed back from a 3-2 defeat in Spain to beat Real 2-1 on the night and qualify on the away goals rule after a 4-4 aggregate, while United beat Lille 1-0 at Old Trafford for a 2-0 aggregate win, ending an acrimonious knockout round tie. |
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MARCOUSSIS, France — French players and coaches are puzzled by the wholesale changes in an England team deprived of Phil Vickery and Jonny Wilkinson but will be on their guard on Sunday. |
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TAMPA, Florida — After a season that ended in shock, frustration and tragedy, the New York Yankees are back in Florida getting ready for what could be another tumultuous year. “It’s a great time of the year for me because you don’t have the pressure to win,” manager Joe Torre said. That laid-back attitude will end on April 2 when the Yankees open their season against the Tampa Bay Devils Rays and Torre once again finds himself in the spotlight at the helm of one of the world’s most recognisable teams. The Bronx Bombers won a major league high 97 games in 2006 but then were blown out of the post-season playoffs by Detroit, three games to one in a best-of-five series. |
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 DETROIT — LeBron James scored a season-high 41 points to lift the Cleveland Cavaliers to within two games of the Central Division lead with a 101-97 win over the Detroit Pistons on Wednesday. |
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CHICAGO — U.S. Olympic officials gave high marks to Chicago’s bid for the 2016 Summer Games on Wednesday, saying the city’s plan differed substantially from Los Angeles’ rival proposal. “We have two great cities to choose from … and we have two cities that could compete on the international stage,” Bob Ctvrtlik, chair of the U. |
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LONDON — Team by team prospects for the Formula One season starting with the Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne on March 18 (teams listed in 2006 championship order): RENAULT World champions for the past two seasons but probably only third or fourth fastest at the moment on the evidence of pre-season testing. |
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