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MOSCOW — President Vladimir Putin arrived with a message of support Tuesday, when he became the first Kremlin leader to visit Iran since Stalin, pledging to stand by the country’s nuclear program and co-signing a declaration with a thinly veiled warning against U. |
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A local charity is campaigning to raise funds to install winterized tents with heaters to shelter the city’s homeless people in time for the onset of winter. |
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The St. Petersburg Legislative Assembly on Wednesday passed the last stage of legislation that gives the go ahead to the construction of Okhta Center — a massive 60 billion-ruble ($2.4 billion) complex with a vast 300-meter skyscraper for energy giant Gazprom at its center, the parliament’s press service said. |
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MOSCOW — A revolt at a prison for minors swelled into a mass uprising that left at least two people dead and buildings gutted before guards and riot police restored control, officials said Wednesday. The unrest started late Tuesday when a group of inmates tried to break through a fence at the prison in the Sverdlovsk region in the Ural Mountains. Guards first fired a warning shot but then fired directly at prisoners after coming under attack, said Eduard Petrukhin, deputy director of the Federal Prison Service. Two people were killed in the riots, Petrukhin said. Gazeta.ru, however, reported that the riot left 30 people dead — most of them due to a stampede when police stormed the facility — and lasted around 17 hours, beginning at 11:00 a. |
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 With both feet strapped to a pair of old skis and without sticks in her hands, Yulia Minutina did not look shaky on the cobblestones of Palace Square in the pouring rain on Thursday. |
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City Buys Airport ST. PETERSBURG (SPT) — Pulkovo Airport has become the property of St. Petersburg, Interfax reported on Thursday. Prime Minister Viktor Zubkov signed off on the deal that gives 100 percent of the airport to the St. Petersburg city authorities. The airport was formerly Russian federal property and the transfer of ownership is in accordance with the city’s reconstruction and redevelopment plan for Pulkovo. |
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Prime Minister Viktor Zubkov said Wednesday that he would soon appoint a candidate to head a federal agency established last week to oversee the development of border-crossing infrastructure. “We have selected the head of this agency and he will be appointed in the next two or three days,” Zubkov told a meeting of the State Border Commission, which coordinates the activities of government agencies on facilitating cross-border traffic and intercepting illegal crossings. |
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The number of criminal cases over counterfeit goods in St. Petersburg increased by several times over the last few years, which is regarded by experts as a positive sign that far fewer criminals remain unpunished. |
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Baltika Shares Buy Out ST. PETERSBURG (SPT) — Baltika brewery shareholders will buy out company shares to decrease its authorized capital stock, Interfax reported Wednesday. On November 22, the board of directors will buy out about 9.9 million ordinary shares and 1.2 million privileged shares. The share price was set at $52 per ordinary share and $35 per privileged share. At present, Baltika’s authorized capital stock is $6.9 million. Bank Increases Its Assets ST. PETERSBURG (SPT) — Bank St. Petersburg increased its assets by 55 percent up to 94 billion rubles ($3.78 billion) by October 1, 2007, Interfax reported Wednesday. |
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 MOSCOW — The government said on its web site Wednesday that it would introduce a seasonal raw cane sugar import tariff of $220 to $270 per ton for six months from Dec. |
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MOSCOW — Russia must overhaul its economy to attract foreign investment and bolster trade to strengthen ties with the European Union and ease its push for World Trade Organization accession, EU trade chief Peter Mandelson said Wednesday. “Russia is not really capitalizing on the fact that it is so close to the huge European market,’’ Mandelson said at a conference in Brussels, according to the text of his speech. |
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WASHINGTON — High oil prices, capital inflows and productivity gains will help the Russian economy dodge fallout from turbulent global financial markets this year, but it may see an impact in 2008, the IMF said Wednesday. |
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Setl City has won an open tender for the reconstruction of Mikhailovskaya Dacha, an ensemble of palaces and parks in Petrodvorets, the company said Tuesday in a statement. After the reconstruction, Mikhailovskaya Dacha, which is an 18th-century architectural monument, will house the Higher School of Management of St. |
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 When former U.S. President Jimmy Carter visited Stockholm in the early 1980s, he expressed his disappointment to Stig Ramel, then-executive director of the Nobel Foundation, “If you had awarded me this prize in 1978, I would still be in the White House. |
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Interfax quoted “a reliable source in the security service” as saying there was a plan to assassinate President Vladimir Putin during his visit to Iran. |
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 The premiere of Alexei Borodin’s production of Tom Stoppard’s marathon trilogy “The Coast of Utopia” last week took flight in a lovely bucolic scene that distilled everything that makes Stoppard one of the world’s most treasured writers. An intimate foursome with a bit too much time on their hands, a tad too much ambition and ever so slightly too much intelligence for their own good engaged in a multivalent conversation that elegantly flitted among the topics of love, philosophy, sex, art, eroticism and politics. |
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The pundits say that Russians just don’t trust the messiness of democracy and that they crave a strong hand. And they prove it with a folk saying or two. |
 5NEW YORK — On most nights, the Russian Samovar, a dimly lighted restaurant at the edge of the theater district in Midtown Manhattan, is a gloomy blend of new Russian money and faded émigré glamor. But recently its upstairs dining room was haunted by ghosts from the 1920s and ‘30s, the golden age of the Soviet avant-garde. The grandson of the Constructivist architect Moisei Ginzburg stood in a corner chatting with the daughter of Alexei Dushkin, who once designed subway stations for Stalin. |
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 A few weeks after the Beslan school siege in 2004, I returned to the traumatized town in southern Russia to write about how it was faring. The town had turned eerily silent, almost as if the guts had been ripped out of it. |
 The other weekend, I went to the stand-up show “Comedy Club,” whose televised version has become a big hit on TNT channel. The live show, staged in the unpromising surroundings of Moscow’s Atrium shopping mall, is supposed to be more risque and uninhibited. |
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Gelateria-Caffe Venezia // 107 Nevsky Prospect. Tel: +7-906-279-03-46 // Menu in Russian, English and Italian // Dinner for two without alcohol: 880 rubles, $35. |
 The low-key comedy “Broken English,” about a romance-scarred professional woman named Nora Wilder (Parker Posey) who invigorates her life with help from a handsome, sensitive, fedora-clad Frenchman (Melvil Poupaud), is a textbook example of an Indiewood film: a Hollywood fantasy wrapped in plain brown paper. |
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 MOSCOW — Russia came back from behind to spectacularly beat England 2-1 at Luzhniki stadium on Wednesday, increasing its chances of reaching the European Championship. The match unfolded peacefully on the artificial pitch, but the victory, Russia’s most impressive since beating world champion France in 1999, was spoiled by violence before the game. |
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NANTES, France — France put itself firmly on course for next year’s European Championship finals with a 2-0 victory over Lithuania on Wednesday, just five weeks after a shock home defeat had almost derailed its campaign. |
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SAO PAULO — Lewis Hamilton, Fernando Alonso and Kimi Raikkonen will fight for the Formula One title in Brazil on Sunday in what promises to be one of the sport’s great showdowns. The final grand prix of an astonishing and controversial season, in a city as crazy about motor racing as Italians are about Ferrari, has all the elements of a three-way thriller. |
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