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MOSCOW — Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Wednesday that Russia opposed “excessive” sanctions against its economic partner Iran, as the UN Security Council prepared to debate sanctions meant to curtail Tehran’s uranium-enrichment program. Lavrov also stressed that Russia had not issued Iran any ultimatums under which Moscow would not deliver nuclear fuel for Iran’s Bushehr nuclear power plant unless Tehran complied with the United Nations’ wishes. “There is no link whatsoever between the UN resolution … and the implementation of the Bushehr project,” Lavrov said in an address at the State Duma. |
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MAKING A SPLASH!
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The Russian women’s team performs in the synchronized swimming team technical final at the World Aquatics Championships in Melbourne, Australia, on Thursday. The team later went on to take the gold medal in the event. |
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MOSCOW — Chinese President Hu Jintao will oversee the signing of $4 billion in deals for oil, ships, buses, steel and real estate during a visit next week that will also kick off Russia’s “Year of China,” officials said Wednesday. One political accord — a broad joint declaration — will also be signed, but no arms deals will be struck, a Foreign Ministry official said.
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As the State Duma prepares for parliamentary hearings of the controversial draft law that would allow forced treatment of child drug addicts, Russian narcologists are sceptical. If passed, the bill would enable Russia’s schools to send pupils to treatment centers without their own or their parents’ consent through a specifically set judicial procedure that involves a trial. |
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Mironov Nominated ST. PETERSBURG (SPT) — The St. Petersburg Legislative Assembly voted Wednesday to nominate Federation Council speaker Sergei Mironov for another term as head of the upper chamber of the federal parliament. |
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ST. PETERSBURG – Six far-right activists were detained in St. Petersburg in connection with a bomb blast at a McDonald’s restaurant, Interfax news agency reported Thursday. The first suspects were detained at the beginning of this week, Interfax quoted a police source as saying. “In the case of some of the detainees, who pleaded guilty, the court yesterday made a decision to take them into custody,” the source said, adding that a decision about the rest of the group was due to be made later Thursday. The police suspect the detained group of carrying out the February 18 attack which injured six people, including two children and a 38-year-old German tourist. |
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SPRING CLEANING
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A street cleaner uses a high-pressure hose to clean away dirt from the wall on the Palace Embankment in front of the the State Hermitage Museum on Thursday. |
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MOSCOW — A scantily clad, 32-year-old man was found dead early Monday in a pool of blood in an owl cage at the Moscow Zoo. A bird keeper at the zoo found the man, Alexander Luparev at about 10 a.m., lying in the cage, which is home to a Siberian long-tailed tawny owl. Luparev, who fixed gas pipes for a living, was wearing only boxer shorts. Vladimir Zdorenko, deputy prosecutor at the Presnenskaya interdistrict prosecutor’s office, said it was not clear what killed the man —_blood loss from a blow to the head, or freezing to death.
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 L’Oreal Cosmetique Active distribution company opened its first Skin Health Center in the Petropharm drugstore on Nevsky Prospekt on Wednesday. Managers are hoping to repeat the success of their Moscow center that opened last year and significantly increased sales of dermocosmetics. |
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MOSCOW — President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday watered down plans to ban officials from using the word “dollar” after Kremlin bosses, and Putin himself, found it hard to kick their habit and use “rubles” instead. |
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Sterh Park ST. PETERSBURG (SPT) — Sterh corporation has invested $23 million into the construction of a new 60 hectares logistic park, Interfax reported Wednesday. The park, located at the junction of Vyborgskoye Shosse and the city’s ring-road, will start operating in May 2007. |
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Combined Reports MOSCOW — Yelena Baturina, the country’s only female billionaire and wife of Mayor Yury Luzhkov, won a libel suit against the editor of Forbes magazine’s local edition after publishing a cover story on how she acquired her fortune. |
 MOSCOW — Budget revenues will fall next year for the first time since President Vladimir Putin took office in 2000, Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin said Wednesday. Budget revenues will total 6.67 trillion rubles ($256 billion) in 2008, Kudrin said during a presentation of the country’s first three-year budget. |
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 Russia’s relations with Iran have come to resemble its relations with Belarus. In both cases, each side started out assuring the world of how much they had in common, how mutually advantageous their relationship was, and how they had established an equitable partnership. |
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An article appeared 11 days ago in London’s Sunday Times about a Russian journalist requesting political asylum in the United States. Working under the pseudonym of Maria Ivanova, she is an expert on the Caucasus region and claims to have been poisoned last autumn. |
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 The Los Angeles Times MOSCOW — You walk through the snow with a cane, old and tiny amid the birch and pine. You still call St. Petersburg by that other name. Leningrad. Your husband died a long time ago, and your life has been whittled into a room scattered with hand creams, lipsticks, reading glasses, a hot plate and pictures of an actress frozen in her youth. |
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The Moscow-based journalist, music critic and promoter Artyom Troitsky opened an art exhibition in St. Petersburg on Thursday, but, apart from borrowing a name from an old record, the show has nothing to do with music. |
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Paintings portraying Jesus Christ as Mickey Mouse and Vladimir Lenin are prompting charges of abuse of religious symbols by Russian Orthodox Church leaders. The paintings, part of the “Forbidden Art” exhibit at the Andrei Sakharov Museum and Public Center, went on display March 7. |
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Russia is abundant in utopias, which, along with oil and gas, seem to fuel its well-being. Interrelated, they are whatever you wish: social, economical, political, military, artistic, and so on. |
.jpg) The audience had been waiting for about quarter of an hour when people started turning their heads toward a squabble in the stalls over what seemed to be overly vigorous ticket checking. As the noise grew, it was difficult not to think what Governor Valentina Matviyenko made of the scene as she watched the fracas from her seat in the front row of the Tsar’s Box. Then brightly dressed people started wandering through the rows, popping up in the balconies and even spilling into the Tsar’s Box itself. |
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 Pigeons hobbling around puddles are a pleasant part of the landscape in the afternoon light that baths them and St. Isaac’s Cathedral in a pink haze. A short walk towards Nevsky Prospekt leads to 38 Bolshaya Morskaya, home of the St. |
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When it comes to being robbed, Russian celebrities think big. Last year, pop singer Filipp Kirkorov had a watch worth $195,000 stolen from his dressing room during a concert at the Novosibirsk circus. Of course, he just left it lying there. I didn’t think it would be possible to top that, but pop/opera singer Nikolai Baskov revived my faith in human stupidity last month by managing to part ways with a briefcase worth $24,000 — and that’s not counting the price of the contents. |
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The wealth of low price Chinese restaurants in St. Petersburg is a goldmine for those in search of a vast, filling meal, but there are few that really standout. |
 There’s this wonderful feeling when you look at an old Soviet TV set. It’s so cute and so helpless that you can’t help but smile at its crippled design and functions. Everyone has a memory of one that stood in their grandma’s apartment covered by a white lace doily with a fat crystal vase on top. Still, this inexplicable nostalgia would be a pretty poor economical justification to start selling modern replicas of all those Rekords and Zenits. |
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 NEW YORK — The Dallas Mavericks beat the Cleveland Cavaliers 98-90 on Wednesday to improve their NBA-best record to 56-11 with a fourth straight victory. Dirk Nowitzki scored 23 points and Jason Terry 21 as the Mavericks improved to 3-0 on their six-game road trip, shooting 47 percent from the field and making all 17 free-throw attempts. |
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LONDON — Gill Woolmer, wife of Pakistan cricket coach Bob Woolmer who died in Jamaica on Sunday, said on Thursday she had not ruled out the possibility that her husband had been murdered. |
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TOKYO — France’s Brian Joubert added the world gold medal to his European title after a breath-taking free program at the world figure skating championships on Thursday. Joubert had led after Wednesday’s short program and was a class above his rivals again with a flawless routine that brought the Tokyo crowd to his feet and left the Frenchman in tears. |
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Champions and favorites Ak Bars Kazan took a 2-0 lead in their Russian Hockey League quarterfinal playoff series with Khimik Moscow Oblast with 3-1 and 5-1 wins in games one and two respectively in Kazan. |
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HONG KONG — Police in Hong Kong are investigating an elaborate device found embedded in the turf at a world-famous horse track apparently designed to shoot poison darts at the animals at the start of a race. A track supervisor unearthed the device on Wednesday morning while making routine checks of the starting points for races scheduled that evening at the Happy Valley racetrack, the Hong Kong Jockey Club said in a statement. |
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