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As Garry Kasparov faces off with Mikhail Kasyanov in a series of primaries being held by The Other Russia Coalition to elect a unified opposition candidate that would oppose pro-Kremlin rivals in the forthcoming presidential elections, the contest is one of political steadfastness verses leadership experience. In a series of regional primaries being conducted in 54 Russian cities, former chess champion Kasparov and former prime minister Kasyanov have so far led the field. Kasparov won the vote in St. Petersburg on Sunday. The list of potential candidates in the primaries also includes Yabloko leader Grigory Yavlinsky, Communist party leader Gennady Zyuganov, emigre dissident Vladimir Bukovsky, liberal State Duma deputy Vladimir Ryzhkov, former leader of the Union of Right Forces Boris Nemtsov and People movement leader Sergei Gulyayev. |
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 Garry Kasparov, the leader of the United Civil Front and the opposition coalition The Other Russia, was selected to represent the bloc in March presidential elections at a primary election in St. |
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MOSCOW — A new Russia-U.S. treaty could allow hunters in Russia to kill polar bears, a species already under threat from global warming, the World Wildlife Fund said on Monday. Russian and U.S. scientists and authorities drew up the treaty to improve cooperation and standardize treatment of polar bears living across the Bering Strait — which stretches from Russia’s Chukotka region to Alaska in the United States. |
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MOSCOW — Prime Minister Viktor Zubkov presented his proposed cabinet team to President Vladimir Putin late Monday, Russian news agencies quoted Kremlin chief spokesman Alexei Gromov as saying. |
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MOSCOW — Calling themselves the last “samurai of Russian democracy,” the Union of Right Forces kicked off its election campaign Friday by confirming its party lists for the Dec. 2 State Duma elections. Conspicuously absent from the congress was party stalwart Anatoly Chubais, who stayed away following a veiled warning about the election campaign from President Vladimir Putin. Leader Nikita Belykh was confirmed to head up the national list for the Union of Right Forces, or SPS. Boris Nemtsov, the former leader of the liberal, pro-business party, got the No. 2 spot, while literary critic Marietta Chudakova was confirmed for the third place on the ticket. |
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 A riot of teenage inmates in the city’s remand center Friday was a so-called “test of strength” for new authorities at the center, known colloquially as Kresty, the city’s Federal Correctional Service Department or FCSD said on Monday. |
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OSKOVSKY, Moscow Region — Communist leader Gennady Zyuganov took aim at President Vladimir Putin’s grip on power at a party congress Saturday and ridiculed the chances of “artificial parties” to bleed votes away from his party. Zyuganov told about 300 delegates gathered at the Scientific Methodological Center in the former state-farm town of Moskovsky, 20 kilometers south of Moscow, that Putin had gathered enormous power in his hands. “[Putin] has more power today than the pharaoh in Egypt, the tsar and the Soviet Union’s general secretary had combined,” Zyuganov said. With the latest polls suggesting that his party was headed for a better showing than in the last State Duma elections, in 2003, Zyuganov told delegates that the Kremlin-backed socialist party, A Just Russia, would not succeed in taking votes from the Communist Party, or KPRF. |
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 CAMBRIDGE, England — An overgrown garden in the university town of Cambridge is an unlikely place to hear a Russian presidential candidate speak, but Vladimir Bukovsky is anything but an ordinary candidate. |
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The British investment group Belgravia is to announce a $2 billion joint venture to develop business parks across Russia, the Financial Times reported Monday citing the group’s head, Duncan Hickman. The joint venture will be operated by Belgravia in cooperation with Immo Industry Group, a Belgium-based industrial property company, and Rostik Group, a Moscow-based operator of restaurant and leisure businesses. “There was rapidly increasing demand for industrial space in Russia given the growth of the economy and the arrival of many multinationals. The current supply of business parks was insufficient even for existing needs,” FT cited Hickman as saying Monday. |
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Visitors examine the model of a ship at the 9th International Shipping, Shipbuilding, Ports and Offshore Energy Exhibition held from 24-27th September at Lenexpo exhibition center. |
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SOCHI, Russia — Russian developers outlined plans on Saturday for a 350-hectare artificial island in the shape of Russia to be built off the Black Sea coast near the future Olympic venue Sochi. Federation Island is expected to house around 25,000 people in apartments and villas and is to be completed in time for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, said its designer, Dutch architect Erick van Egeraat.
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Unemployment Drops MOSCOW (Bloomberg) — Russia’s unemployment rate fell in August to a record low as economic growth fueled a need for workers, the Federal Statistics Service said. The unemployment rate declined to 5.7 percent from 5.8 percent in July, the Moscow-based Statistics Service said in an e-mailed statement Friday. |
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MOSCOW — London-listed Imperial Energy on Friday accused Oleg Mitvol, the deputy head of the Natural Resources Ministry’s environmental watchdog, of causing damage to the oil firm and its reputation after a misleading statement sent its shares into a tailspin. |
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MOSCOW — President Vladimir Putin told business leaders in Sochi on Friday that private investors, including foreigners, would have a major role in a $1 trillion program planned to modernize industry and infrastructure. Speaking earlier at the city’s investment forum, acting First Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov said the country aimed to invest $1 trillion in infrastructure over the next 10 years. |
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MOSCOW — Aluminum giant RusAl has shelved a $9 billion IPO to float shares in London this year on concerns over a global liquidity crunch, two of the company’s largest shareholders said Friday. |
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MOSCOW — Miner and steelmaker Severstal continued its foray into the gold sector Thursday, paying 2.6 million rubles ($103,300) for a deposit in the republic of Buryatia. The Sagan-Gol project is the second 25-year gold license acquired this month by Severstal, the country’s largest steelmaker including foreign assets, and follows the company’s acquisition of a 22 percent stake in London-listed Celtic Resources. |
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 At the beginning of the decade, when I first argued that Russia was moving toward an alliance with China, this was met with derision. One American scholar — close to the Washington neocon faction then confidently gearing up to export its particular version of “democracy” to the world — assured me that Russia was so afraid of China that it would be compelled to seek a military alliance with Washington, and this under virtually any terms the Americans dictated. |
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Charles de Gaulle offered the following counsel: “A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless. |
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The rumors that Georgian protesters would stage a daring peace march through the South Ossetian conflict zone, as the breakaway region celebrated its independence day last week proved to be untrue. But that didn’t stop the separatist authorities from restricting access to their capital, Tskhinvali, in the run-up to their annual showpiece event, citing fears of sabotage, terrorist attacks, and — to use the catch-all word for dastardly deeds in this region — provocations. |
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Four of the seminal figures of Russian literature in the second half of the 20th century — Vladimir Nabokov, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Joseph Brodsky and Vassily Aksyonov — became citizens or long-term residents of the United States. |
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 YANGON — Tens of thousands of people joined streams of Buddhist monks on marches through Yangon on Monday in the biggest demonstration against Myanmar’s ruling generals since they crushed student-led protests 20 years ago. “The streets are packed,” a witness said of massed opposition to the generals and 45 years of military rule that has turned the resource-rich country into one of Asia’s poorest. |
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WARSAW — The leader of Poland’s main opposition party heads to Britain and Ireland this week to try to win support from Polish emigrants ahead of next month’s election, the center-right Civic Platform said on Monday. |
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TOKYO — Japan’s prime minister-to-be, Yasuo Fukuda, named his party lieutenants on Monday as he braced for a showdown with a combative opposition amid calls for early elections after a disastrous year for the ruling coalition. Fukuda, a 71-year-old moderate who favors warmer ties with Asia, was voted leader of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) on Sunday after the abrupt resignation of his predecessor, Shinzo Abe, whose administration was crippled by scandals and gaffes. |
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LONDON — About 16,000 words have succumbed to pressures of the Internet age and lost their hyphens in a new edition of the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary. |
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Cheney’s Iran War? WASHINGTON (Reuters) — U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney had at one point considered asking Israel to launch limited missile strikes at an Iranian nuclear site to provoke a retaliation, Newsweek magazine reported on Sunday. The news comes amid reports that Israel launched an air strike against Syria this month over a suspected nuclear site. |
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Zenit St. Petersburg went three points clear at the top of the Premier League on Sunday with a 4-1 win at Rubin Kazan as the team’s rival for the championship Spartak Moscow slipped to second following a 4-3 defeat in a Moscow derby against Lokomotiv. Zenit has 46 points with six matches remaining in the March-November season ahead of Spartak at 43 points and third-placed FC Moscow at 42 points after its 4-1 rout of Dynamo Moscow. Pavel Pogrebniyak scored two goals to keep Zenit on course for its first league title in the modern era, with further goals from Igor Denisov and Konsantin Zyryanov. With the league crown in sight, Zenit has sought to dampen speculation that coach Dick Advocaat would leave the St. |
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 MANCHESTER, England — Chelsea’s troubled week ended on a low note on Sunday with manager Avram Grant losing his first game after taking over from Jose Mourinho, 2-0 to fierce rivals Manchester United on Sunday. |
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PARIS — Northern hemisphere rugby powerhouses face a nightmare scenario this week — possible elimination from the World Cup before the quarter-finals. The biggest scalp would be that of world champions England, which faces the in-form Tongans, with defeat meaning the ignominious tag of being the first titleholder to exit at the first hurdle. |
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BEIJING — China has told its distraught national soccer team to wipe away the tears and focus on the Olympic Games next year, after it bowed out of the Women’s World Cup in front of 52,000 home fans in Wuhan on Sunday night. |
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MADRID — Russia’s Denis Menchov won the Tour of Spain for the second time Sunday to don the gold jersey on the final podium in Madrid at last. Menchov won his first Spanish title in 2005 when Spaniard Roberto Heras was stripped of the crown after testing positive for the banned blood booster EPO, or erythropoietin. |
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Expanding MBA programs The International Management Institute of St. Petersburg (IMISP) has added new courses to its MBA program. During the second year of their studies, students will take new obligatory courses on corporate culture and leadership, on managing changes in business, and business control oriented toward the business owner’s perspective. |
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In Russia, over 60 business schools compete for the opportunity to educate managers. According to estimations by Begin Group company, in value terms the Russian business education market is worth 1. |
 What have the medieval towns of Leuven and Gent in Belgium got in common with Russia’s northern capital? Until last year you could have looked for many answers, such as a common European culture and many tourist attractions, but now they all have campuses of Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School. At the end of 2006, the famous Belgian business school opened its third campus in St. |
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