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The killer of 20-year-old antifascist student Timur Kacharava was sentenced to 12 years in prison on Tuesday, with the St. Petersburg City Court also handing down sentences to six accomplices in the murder. Alexander Shabalin was earlier convicted of stabbing to death Kacharava in downtown St. Petersburg in November 2005 and inciting social hatred. The six other defendants received between three years in a penal colony to suspended sentences of two years for inciting social hatred. Another suspect, who Timur’s friends suspect plotted and masterminded the murder, is still at large according a lawyer close to the case. Kacharava’s mother Irina watched in silence as the defendants, all of them around her son’s age, grimaced at reporters, cheered and waved at their parents and friends from behind the bars of the dock in the St. |
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 The city prosecutor’s office has launched an investigation in connection with twelve illegal drains channeling industrial discharge into the River Neva. |
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Horseman’s Birthday ST. PETERSBURG (SPT) — St. Petersburg’s most famous monument, the Bronze Horseman, celebrated its 225th Anniversary on Tuesday, Kultura television reported this week. The statue of Peter the Great, which has stood in Decembrist’s Square since 1782, has been carefully protected over the centuries from both natural and man-made threats. |
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 MOSCOW — Interior Ministry agents Wednesday searched the apartments of executives of Yevroset, the country’s largest mobile phone retailer, suspected of possessing contraband, a Prosecutor General’s Office spokeswoman said late Wednesday. Citing an ongoing investigation, the spokeswoman declined to elaborate on the results of the searches or exactly what kind of contraband the agents were looking for. |
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MOSCOW — The Interior Ministry announced Wednesday that a Moscow court had granted its request to freeze the assets of Russneft, the oil company owned by billionaire Mikhail Gutseriyev, who is facing a tax probe and what he called “unprecedented hounding” from the state. |
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MOSCOW — State-controlled oil firm Rosneft won another auction of the remains of bankrupt oil firm Yukos on Wednesday, buying its important transport assets including those Yukos used for exports to China. |
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Highland Mines MOSCOW (Bloomberg) — Highland Gold Mining Ltd., a U.K. company that produces the precious metal in Russia, sold three money-losing mines for $25 million in cash and debt. An accident at one of the sites, Darasun, killed 25 people last September. Darasunsky Rudnik, the owner of the Darasun, Teremky and Talatui mines, was sold to Uzhuralzoloto Group, St. |
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 The Russian political elite has long dreamed of finding a national idea capable of rallying the people. Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev tried to consolidate the country with his idea of socialism “with a human face.” Former President Boris Yeltsin roused the people around anti-communism. |
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If you believe what is written in the news and conversations among journalists, then it would seem that Raf Shakirov — the well-known former editor of both Kommersant and Izvestia and the current editor of the New Times weekly magazine — is about to suffer again at the hands of the Kremlin. |
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 It’s a biology lesson, but the blonde in the hotpants can’t keep her mind on the topic of biosynthesis chalked up on the blackboard. Instead, she listens intently as Yegor, the class dreamboat and son of an oligarch, talks to the new girl, Vika, a provincial mouse whose father has a lowly army job. |
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The Rolling Stones’ recent concert on Palace Square has generated a plenty of reviews, but one definitely makes you feel as if you are “Back in the U.S. |
 Nikolas Koro’s stories in the new gay fiction collection “Liberty Life” touch on everything from Buddha to cigarettes to an angel with the sniffles. But there’s one topic he doesn’t openly discuss: homosexuality. A character who writes fairy tales mentions he’s gay. A doctor protests that he isn’t. If there’s anything else, it’s on the level of metaphor. The stories are about gays “inasmuch as their author is openly gay,” Koro said in an interview Monday at the Moscow office of NEIMS Branding & Consulting Group where he’s a member of the European board of directors. |
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 BOLSHOI SOLOVETSKY ISLAND — Russian author Alexander Solzhenitsyn called it the “mother of the Gulag” — the spot near the Arctic Circle where the Soviet Union built one of its first camps for political prisoners. |
 St. Petersburg archeologists have discovered last month what they say is Russia’s oldest shipwreck in the Gulf of Finland. But the state of the wreck of the 40-meter tall ship, similar to the Vasa, the famous giant mid-16th century battleship that sank in Stockholm harbor, has puzzled the researchers, preventing them from giving an accurate account of the discovery three weeks following the endeavor. |
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 This week, Channel One launched a new show telling people what not to wear called "Fashion Sentence." That's "sentence" as in prison sentence, since the channel has organized a kind of show trial for those miserable worms who dare to wear clothes that are mumsy or not their color. |
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Kavkaz Bar // 18 Karavannaya. Tel.: 312 1665 // Open daily, 11 a.m. – 1 a.m., CafI open 11 a.m. – 6 p.m. // Menu in Russian and English. // Major credit cards accepted. // Lunch for two, no alcohol: 1,890 rubles ($74). Kavkaz Bar, a fixture of St. Petersburg’s dining scene last reviewed on these pages back in 1999 when decent restaurants were scarce, provides just what diners expect from a good Georgian restaurant — an exotic alternative to traditional Russian or European fare. If you are just stopping in for a quick lunch, relax in one of the restaurant’s two front rooms (five tables and one booth for about 30 guests), which form the cafI portion of the Kavkaz Bar. |
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 Sergei Shchurakov, the ex-Akvarium accordionist who led his own band Vermicelli Orchestra, died of post-surgery complications this week. He was 47. Shchurakov, who formed Vermicelli Orchestra in 1995, broke through as a member of the BG Band that Akvarium’s founder Boris Grebenshchikov formed in 1991, soon after disbanding his extremely influential group. |
 Jaw clenched, brow knotted, body tight as a secret, Matt Damon hurtles through “The Bourne Ultimatum” like a missile. He’s a man on a mission, our Matt, and so too is his character, Jason Bourne, the near-mystically enhanced superspy who, after losing his memory and all sense of self, has come to realize that he has also lost part of his soul. |
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CHICAGO — Juan Uribe blasted a two-run homer in the bottom of the 13th inning to guide the Chicago White Sox to a 6-4 victory over the Central Division-leading Cleveland Indians on Wednesday. Uribe’s homer to center field followed a single by Scott Podsednik with one out to give Chicago its sixth victory in 10 games. The winning hit enabled Uribe to overcome a 12th inning error that led to a brief 4-3 lead for the Indians before Chicago tied the game in the bottom of the inning. “The two errors were in the back of my mind,” Uribe, who also had a throwing error in the 10th inning, told reporters. “I’m glad I was able to come through because I felt the game might have been different if I made those two plays. |
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 MONTREAL — Defending champion Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal eased into the third round of the Montreal Masters with straight-sets wins on Wednesday. World number one Federer tamed the giant serve of Croat Ivo Karlovic to win 7-6 7-6 and Nadal beat Russian Marat Safin 7-6 6-0 in a high-quality match under the lights. |
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LOS ANGELES — Top seed Maria Sharapova advanced to the third round of the Los Angeles Classic on Wednesday after Greece’s Eleni Daniilidou retired with breathing difficulties. Down 7-6 3-1, Dandiilidou called it quits after a medical time out and left the court in tears. “I had a virus for four days and I wanted to try because Maria and I have such great fights,” Daniilidou told reporters. |
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