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MOSCOW — Estonia has created a stir with its accusations that Kremlin-based hackers targeted government web sites. But it is not alone in grappling with cyber attacks. Hackers in recent months have targeted outspoken pro-Kremlin youth groups, opposition forces, ultranationalist organizations and media outlets, crashing their web sites with what is known as Distributed Denial of Service, or DDoS, attacks — the same type of attack that Estonia says was launched against its sites. |
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 STRASBOURG, France — Opposition leader Garry Kasparov urged the European Union on Wednesday to use its weight to press for a free and democratic presidential election in Russia next year. The European Parliament gave the former chess champion a platform from which to launch a stinging attack on President Vladimir Putin, a week after authorities prevented him and other protesters from traveling to a Russia-EU summit. |
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MOSCOW — Authorities have intensified pressure on civil society and the independent media and are turning a blind eye to the growing number of hate crimes targeting foreigners, immigrants and sexual minorities, Amnesty International said in a report released Wednesday. |
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As St. Petersburg joined the international community on Sunday to commemorate the World AIDS Memorial Day, local health experts said that newly-released statistics suggest that the city could in the future see the highest incidence of mortality from the disease in Russia. Last year’s record hike to 501 AIDS deaths in St. |
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Business City Guyot, a company that operates the four-star boutique hotel Guyot and a business center in St. Petersburg, is to sell real estate abroad. Guyot, in cooperation with Leptos Group and the General Consulate of Cyprus in St. Petersburg, will sell residential real estate in Cyprus. |
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Russia lags behind most the developed world in Internet development but investsment opportunities in St. Petersburg in particular remain vast — these were the main conclusions at the Second St. |
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Toyota’s Shushary plant, due for completion in December, will produce a total of 16,000 cars in 2008, the company’s chief representative in St. Petersburg said Tuesday. The Japanese carmaker also plans to localize the production of components, potentially lowering production costs by 10 to 15 percent, Ichiro Chiba said. According to Chiba, Toyota has completed construction of the factory on the outskirts of St. Petersburg and will now install production equipment and begin Phase 2 of recruitment for the plant, which will employ about 600 workers in total. Chiba declared himself “satisfied” with the personnel recruited so far, many of which are, according to him,”coincidentally” former employees at St. |
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 Norilsk Nickel increased its bid for Canadian miner LionOre to 6.8 billion Canadian dollars ($6.3 billion) Wednesday, raising the stakes in its battle for the firm with Xstrata. |
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Aeroflot Profit MOSCOW (Bloomberg) — Aeroflot, eastern Europe’s largest airline, said profit more than doubled in the first quarter on increased ticket sales and prices. Net income jumped 115 percent to $69.3 million in the period, the company said in a statement handed out before a news conference in Moscow Thursday. |
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 And now for a quick quiz: A European country — a member in good standing of NATO and the European Union — has recently suffered multiple attacks on its institutions. Can you (a) name the country, (b) describe the attacks and (c) explain what NATO is doing in response? If you can’t, don’t worry: NATO itself doesn’t quite know what it is doing about the attacks, despite the alliance’s treaty, which declares that an armed attack on one of its members is “an attack against them all. |
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In the leadup to elections, it’s not enough to try to give money to the needy. If an economy claims to be of the market variety, you have to help the markets as well. |
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There is an interesting souvenir on my desk that serves as a fitting symbol for the global economy. It is a model of an Istanbul mosque I bought for 100 rubles in a little village shop in Dagestan. I understood when I bought it that it was probably not made locally and likely came from somewhere like Turkey. |
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 La Sega del Canto — the eccentric Finnish novelty-comedy duo that plays in St. Petersburg on Friday — was named after its main instrument, the singing saw. Reflecting the band’s sharp sense of the absurd, they also translated the name into Italian. “The idea of the band is to make people smile, to do some experiments. |
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An opposition rock concert called This Is Our Town, scheduled to be held during City Day festivities on Sunday, has been stopped by the authorities, the organizers said. |
 “Shaul Mofaz! Shaul Mofaz!” chants Habiluim, Israel’s theatrical rock ‘n’ polka group. The song is called after the former Israeli minister of defense and presents him as a macabre version of Santa Claus who rides his sleigh from house to house giving out amputated body parts of dead soldiers to their worried mothers. “We organized the concert at [the Moscow art club] Bilingua, with some 400 people present, and when it finished, there were some 30 fans jumping on the stage screaming ‘Sergei Ivanov! Sergei Ivanov! [Russia’s then defense minister seen as Vladimir Putin’s possible successor],’” said Moscow-based author Linor Goralik, whose Eshkol: Contemporary Jewish and Israeli Culture in Moscow project, appears to address the pressing issues of the day and is not an isolated celebration of Israeli culture. |
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 The renowned American baritone Thomas Hampson makes his Russian debut on Tuesday at the Mariinsky Theater’s new state-of-the-art concert hall with a program of Liszt, Mahler and American songs. |
 What do Little Red Riding Hood fleeing the wolf through a forest of skyscrapers, naked men having a steam in the banya, Chagall-like lovers flying into the air, one ton of sand and 20 tons of water all have in common? The simple answer is that they are all things that can be seen during the upcoming Rainbow Festival, which opens at TYuZ on May 31. Founded in 1921, TYuZ (Teatr Yunovo Zritelya) is the world’s oldest children’s repertory theater and has a long tradition of showcasing important international music, dance and visiting theater companies. |
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 The story that Lynne Viola has set out to tell in “The Unknown Gulag: The Lost World of Stalin’s Special Settlements” may seem familiar enough. Her subject is the fate of the so-called “kulaks,” the peasants designated as class enemies on account of their supposed wealth or bourgeois political attitudes. |
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If someone builds a beach resort in the shape of a palm tree, it can only be a matter of time before the first Russian pop star moves in. And lucky Tvoi Den readers were given an exclusive photo shoot the other week of singer Valeria and her producer husband Iosif Prigozhin splashing in the sea in Dubai, where they have bought a holiday home. |
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Enoteca Divina // The Arch of the General Staff, 2 Bolshaya Morskaya Ulitsa. // Tel: 5700111 // Open daily 12 a.m. through 11 p.m. // Major credit cards accepted // Menu in Italian and in Russian // Dinner for two with alcohol: 3,030 rubles ($ 116) If you are looking to propose to your girlfriend and want to hear the sacramental “Yes” as a reply, then look no further. |
 “The immaterial has become material,” announces the East India Company’s scheming Lord Beckett (Tom Hollander) early in “Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End.” He could be referring to the recent resurrection of the pirate Barbossa (Geoffrey Rush), flush with life and his expanded role in the trilogy. |
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 BEIRUT — Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Saniora vowed in an address to the nation on Thursday his government would uproot Islamic militants battling the army in a Palestinian refugee camp. “We will work to root out and strike at terrorism, but we will embrace and protect our brothers in the camps,” Saniora said in a televised speech, insisting Lebanon has no quarrel with the 400,000 Palestinian refugees who live in the country. |
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 Paris and the French Open have always had a special place in the hearts of Russian tennis fans. It was there that Yevgeny Kafelnikov made his historic breakthrough in 1996 when he became the first Russian to win a Grand Slam title. Eight years later, on the same red clay of Roland Garros, Anastasia Myskina became the first Russian woman to be crowned a Grand Slam champion, lifting the Suzanne Lenglen trophy after beating Yelena Dementyeva in an all-Russian final. |
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MALIBU, California — Lawyers representing Floyd Landis renewed their attack on the French laboratory that analysed the Tour de France champion’s urine samples before the nine-day public doping case ended on Wednesday. |
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MONACO — Formula One leader Lewis Hamilton had a taste of Monaco’s millionaire lifestyle on Wednesday when he was handed a diamond-studded helmet to wear in Sunday’s showcase grand prix. “I’m blinged out. I got bling on my helmet, how cool is that,” enthused the 22-year-old rookie at a presentation organised by diamond company and McLaren team sponsor Steinmetz on one of the larger floating palaces moored in the Mediterranean principality’s exclusive harbour. |
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