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A St. Petersburg jury has found Andrei Shabalin responsible for the lethal stabbing of 20-year-old antifascist activist and student Timur Kacharava, the attempted murder of fellow antifascist Maxim Zgibai in November, 2005 and inciting ethnic hatred. Following the jury verdict on Tuesday, a state prosecutor has asked for a sentence of 14 years in prison for Shabalin, and suggested shorter terms of between 2.5 and 4.5 years in jail for six other defendants. The verdict will be delivered on Tuesday, August 7, by the St. Petersburg City Court. Kacharava was stabbed to death outside the Bukvoed bookstore on Ligovsky Prospekt opposite the Moskovsky Railway Station at around 7 p.m. on Nov. 13, 2005, when a group of teenagers, aged 17 to 20, armed with knives attacked Timur and his friend Maxim Zgibai, another student. |
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Two veterans with their families celebrate Paratroop Day on Palace Square on Thursday. Around 1,500 veterans marched down Nevsky Prospekt for the event, breaking through police barriers. |
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MOSCOW — The Belarussian president said his country will pay $460 million to settle its gas debt to Russia in the next few days, the Interfax news agency reported Thursday. “Today I ordered money taken from our reserves and the payment of $460 million,” President Alexander Lukashenko said. “Of course, we are draining our resources, but our good friends, in particular [Venezuelan President] Hugo Chavez, said they are ready to extend a loan at advantageous terms,” Lukashenko said, according to Interfax.
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MOSCOW — President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday came out in support of Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas, as the Foreign Ministry announced that it was downgrading its ties with Hamas. A senior Foreign Ministry official official said Russia had downgraded its ties with the militant Hamas group and would increase aid to the Palestinian Authority, including 50 armored personnel carriers. |
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 MOSCOW — Russian explorers dived deep below the North Pole in a submersible on Thursday and planted a national flag on the seabed to stake a symbolic claim to the energy riches of the Arctic. A mechanical arm dropped a specially made rust-proof titanium flag onto the Arctic seabed at a depth of 4,261 meters (13,980 ft), Itar-Tass news agency quoted expedition officials as saying. |
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The St. Petersburg and Lenoblast Federal Migration Department has collected a record 52.37 million rubles (over $2 million) in fines for violations of a new migration law restricting the influx of foreign workers in force since mid-January. |
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MOSCOW — A fight after a bikers’ rally that left a German diplomat with a broken nose and a black eye has sparked a diplomatic dispute in the Urals. The German Consulate in Yekaterinburg has delivered an official note of protest to the Foreign Ministry’s local branch demanding a thorough investigation of a weekend incident involving Deputy Consul General Max Muller, the consulate said Wednesday. |
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MOSCOW — State-run television channel Rossia displayed a fake version of Monday’s issue of The Times of London on its news show “Vesti,” featuring exiled tycoon Boris Berezovsky on Monday. |
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 MOSCOW — The Yedinstvo union claimed that a strike Wednesday by several hundred workers had seriously disrupted production at AvtoVAZ’s giant Tolyatti plant. Conflicting accounts emerged over the scale and impact of the strike, however, with the company’s management downplaying the scale of the walkout. |
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MOSCOW — The Kremlin is giving its blessing to a deal that could resolve a festering dispute between Alfa Group’s telecoms arm, Altimo, and Norway’s Telenor, a source inside Alfa Group familiar with the negotiations said Wednesday. |
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MOSCOW — The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development will lend 750 million euros ($1 billion) to help Germany’s Volkswagen build its first car plant in Russia, the bank said Tuesday. The bank will lend 250 million euros itself and will organize a syndicate for the remaining sum. |
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MOSCOW — Diamond producer Alrosa has opened new diamond deposits worth $3.5 billion in eastern Siberia, the state-controlled company said Wednesday. The deposits are expected to last at least a quarter of a century, and have between 1. |
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MOSCOW — Vladimir Pastukhov has been dismissed as general director of Sevmash shipyard, the country’s largest shipbuilding enterprise, over the company’s failure to fulfill a $1.5 billion contract to modernize an aircraft carrier sold to India in 2004, Interfax reported Wednesday. |
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Gazprom in Germany MOSCOW (Bloomberg) — Gazprom, the world’s biggest natural-gas provider, joined Germany’s European Energy Exchange AG in July to trade day-ahead power as it expands in the region’s electricity markets. |
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 President Vladimir Putin has an unexpected ally in his current war of words with the United States — Mikhail Gorbachev, former president of the Soviet Union and architect of perestroika and glasnost, the reform movement that started the democratization process in Russia. |
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The president and owner of Russneft, Mikhail Gutseriyev, wrote an open letter in which he accused authorities of “unprecedented persecution” in an effort to make him “more compliant. |
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 Ingmar Bergman, the “poet with the camera” who is considered one of the greatest directors in motion picture history, died on Monday on the small island of Faro where he lived on the Baltic coast of Sweden, Astrid Soderbergh Widding, president of The Ingmar Bergman Foundation, said. |
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Ñîöèàëüíî îðèåíòèðîâàííàÿ êîìïàíèÿ: a socially responsible company, a company with a conscience Three cheers for corporate social responsibility. |
 ABODE OF DAWN, Russia — Ten kilometers from the nearest road, in the vast Siberian wilderness, a bearded man in flowing white linen robes sat at his kitchen table and talked about his crucifixion at the hands of Pontius Pilate 2,000 years ago. In a voice barely louder than the rain falling on the mountaintop home his followers have built for him, Sergei Torop said it was painful to remember the end of his last life, in which he says he walked the Earth as Jesus Christ. |
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 There is a great deal of interest in “The Reagan Diaries,” but what sets the late president’s personal recollections of his eight years in the White House apart from the recent spate of tell-all, inside-Washington books is what’s absent: You can scour this thick volume from back to front and find not a trace of self-righteousness, self-pity or self-justification — all standard issue accouterments among today’s office-holders and political appointees, whether their veins bleed red or blue. |
 Last month’s most bizarre celebrity rumor has to be a story published by the Daily Mirror’s gossip hounds, the 3am Girls, saying that Spice Girl Geri Halliwell is dating “sexy Russian Evgeny Lebedev.” It wasn’t so much the story — headlined “Tsar’s in Her Eyes — that grabbed the attention as the photo of Ginger’s possible beau wearing a very, very shiny suit. |
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Villa Urbana // 21 Zagorodny Prospekt. Tel: 380 7955, www.villaurbana.ru // Open around the clock // All major credit cards accepted // Lunch for two without alcohol 1,885 rubles ($74) “Making your dream of a worry-free holiday come true, in our restaurant we create the atmosphere of your favorite resort destination, giving coziness, comfort and warmth to every guest,” reads the flyer for this restaurant. |
 I have long been of the opinion that the entire history of American popular culture — maybe even of Western civilization — amounts to little more than a long prelude to “The Simpsons.” I don’t think I’m alone in this belief. But it does not follow that “The Simpsons Movie” represents a creative peak toward which the show’s 18 seasons and 400 episodes have been a long, slow climb. |
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BUDAPEST, Hungary — McLaren and Ferrari renew hostilities when Formula One’s increasingly bitter rivals face off in the heat of the Hungaroring on Sunday. After a week dominated by talk of spying and subterfuge, a saga that shows no signs of abating, the immediate focus switches back to the track and a title fight that remains too close to call. |
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CHICAGO — Michael Phelps grabbed the spotlight at the U.S. swimming nationals on Wednesday, scooping a pair of titles while narrowly missing out on a world record in the 200 meters backstroke in Indianapolis. |
 MANCHESTER, England — Manchester United failed to impress as Italian champions Inter Milan won 3-2 at Old Trafford in a pre-season friendly on Wednesday. United manager Alex Ferguson left summer signings Nani, Anderson and Owen Hargreaves on the sidelines as his team laboured. |
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ST ANDREWS, Scotland — Annika Sorenstam is hoping some advice from good friend Tiger Woods will help the Swede claim her 11th major at the Women’s British Open starting on Thursday over the Old Course at St Andrews. |
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LONDON — Floyd Mayweather Jr. will come out of his short-lived retirement to take on Britain’s Ricky Hatton in a welterweight “super-fight”, the British boxer’s father Ray said on Wednesday. The 28-year-old Hatton is expected to move up a division from light welterweight for the bout which will probably be staged on December 8 in Las Vegas where he beat Jose Luis Castillo in June to retain his IBO title. |
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