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 The traditional May Day demonstrations are regaining their political sting. The full array of political forces took the streets of St. Petersburg to participate in May Day demonstrations on Tuesday. Pension raises and increases in wages were among the central demands of the Communist procession, which moved along Nevsky Prospekt and ended with a meeting on St. |
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Flight Restrictions MOSCOW (SPT) — Airplane passengers will soon be forbidden from imbibing the duty free beverages they have bought while they are flying to their destinations, Kommersant reported Friday. |
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MOSCOW — Sounding a populist note in his last year as president, Vladimir Putin on Thursday called on the government and private investors to spend hundreds of billions of dollars on new power stations, roads and waterways over the next 12 years. Putin ordered the Cabinet to transfer 300 billion rubles ($11.7 billion) from the stabilization fund to three government investment agencies this year to begin funding those projects. He also told the Cabinet to increase budget spending on federal and city roads by 100 billion rubles this year. Combined with other spending proposals to relocate people from poor housing and improve housing maintenance, total federal spending will increase by 650 billion rubles, or 12 percent, this year. |
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 Renowned cellist, conductor and human rights crusader Mstislav Rostropovich died Friday in Moscow, one month after celebrating his 80th birthday. Rostropovich had been undergoing treatment in recent months at the Blokhin Russian Cancer Research Center in Moscow, the country’s leading cancer clinic. |
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MOSCOW — The whereabouts of the remains of six Soviet war heroes are something of a mystery. The World War II pilots’ remains were dug up at a memorial in Khimki, north of Moscow, last week for reburial at a different location on Victory Day. But they seem to have disappeared. The Khimki administration, which authorized the reburial, said it did not know where the remains were, but thought they might be at the morgue in Skhodnya, a nearby town, Noviye Izvestia reported Friday. |
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Atria Russia, the largest meat producer in St. Petersburg, has announced ambitious plans for regional expansion in its attempt to become the market leader. Atria will start regularly supplying the leading Moscow retail chains and other regions as early as this month, the company’s managers said Friday at a press conference. |
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MILAN — Russia will stick to its inflation targets despite a plan to spend hundreds of billions of dollars in the next few years, Russia’s finance minister said on Monday, brushing off market concerns of rising inflation. |
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MOSCOW — The three largest independent firms in the oil and gas sector came out with earnings reports this week, and all three disappointed. The industry’s future has begun to look downright grim. TNK-BP’s net income in the first three months of 2007 fell 60 percent year on year, and 11 percent compared with the previous quarter. |
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The former site of industrial enterprise Zavod Electric is to undergo redevelopment. The LSR Group is to spend $600 million to turn the Petrogradsky district plant into a commercial complex, the group said April 24 in a statement. “We expect over 60 percent of the complex to be occupied by A-class offices, and the rest will be shopping and entertainment areas — stores, restaurants and a fitness center,” said Georgy Bogachev, deputy director of LSR Group. |
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MOSCOW — A new bill aimed at tightening regulation of the pawnbroking industry and improving the image of pawnshops as legitimate lending institutions passed in a first reading in the State Duma on Friday. |
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JERUSALEM — Israeli real estate company Danya Cebus Ltd. said on Sunday it had won a $60 million project in Russia to build a commercial center. Danya Cebus and a unit of the company traded in Russia were chosen by Mirland Development Corp. to build a commercial center in Saratov, on the shores of the Volga river, some 860 kilometers (538 miles) south of Moscow. |
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It is a measure of his legacy that Boris Yeltsin, a Communist Party apparatchik until the age of 60, was buried with full Christian rites last week. During the eight years of his presidency, Russia had neither prisoners of conscience nor political emigres. You’d have to scour Russian history pretty thoroughly to find another such time. It hasn’t happened since. Coming to power on the crest of a popular revolution, Yeltsin gave the country a breath of freedom, but not true democracy. As a lifelong insider, he didn’t understand that democracy, liberalism and even glasnost couldn’t really work in Russia as long as it was ruled by the army of entrenched Soviet-era bureaucrats. |
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 In recent years, speculation has swirled ahead of President Vladimir Putin’s annual state-of-the-nation addresses that the main thrust of the speech would be about foreign affairs. |
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President Vladimir Putin’s announcement on Thursday that Russia would suspend its obligations under the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe and might actually withdraw from the agreement should have come as no surprise. But it seems to have startled the signatories of the treaty who have turned a deaf ear to the Kremlin’s repeated warnings that it will not tolerate a situation in which Russia fulfills its obligations under the treaty and others do not. |
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LOS ANGELES — Chris Young homered twice and the Arizona Diamondbacks pounded out 17 hits in winning their sixth straight game, a 9-1 rout of the Los Angeles Dodgers on Monday. Young hit solo homers in the first and seventh innings and the Diamondbacks had a seven-run lead before the Dodgers scored. |
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NEW YORK — Jonathan Cheechoo’s third-period powerplay goal lifted the San Jose Sharks to a come-from-behind 2-1 home victory over the Detroit Red Wings in their Western Conference semi-final series on Monday. |
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SYDNEY — Wallabies flanker Phil Waugh returns to the Waratahs side for the final Super 14 match of the season against the Hurricanes in Wellington, New South Wales said on their web site on Tuesday. Waugh, out of action with an ankle injury for 10 weeks, will line up against former New Zealand captain Tana Unaga who is playing his final game for the Hurricanes on Saturday. |
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ROME — Carlo Ancelotti has urged AC Milan to produce a repeat of its quarter-final victory against Bayern Munich when it hosts Manchester United in the return leg of their Champions League semi-final on Wednesday. |
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SYDNEY — British yachtsman Tony Bullimore, who survived four days trapped in his capsized yacht in the Southern Ocean in 1996, set sail from Australia on Tuesday hoping to break the record for sailing solo non-stop around the world. After waiting four months for the right weather conditions, Bullimore steered his 102 foot (31 meter) catamaran Doha out to sea from Hobart on Australia’s island state Tasmania and headed east to begin his journey. |
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LONDON — Pakistan cricket coach Bob Woolmer, who was murdered in Jamaica during the World Cup more than a month ago, was poisoned before being strangled, a BBC documentary said on Monday. |
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BANGKOK — Thaksin Shinawatra, the exiled former prime minister of Thailand ousted in a military coup last year, has been elected president of the country’s professional golf association, local media reported on Tuesday. The billionaire telecoms baron, who has not retuned to Thailand since the bloodless putsch on Sept. |
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