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Sergei Gulyayev, the leader of Narod movement, part of the pro-democracy The Other Russia coalition, went on hunger strike on Saturday after being sentenced to 10-days detention on Friday in a move his supporters believe is aimed at preventing the politician from organizing and taking part in a Dissenters’ March planned for March 3. Gulyayev was one of the organizers of a Feb. 2 picket near the North-West Interior Troops Headquarters at 33 Millionnaya Ulitsa to protest the verdict of the North Caucasus District Military Court that sentenced lieutenants Yevgeny Khudyakov and Sergei Arakcheyev to 17 and 15 years in prison, respectively, for murdering three Chechen civilians in 2003. |
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 BELGRADE — Serbia intends to rule parts of Kosovo where “loyal citizens” still look to Belgrade for government, Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica said on Monday. |
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Dozens of the late Russian punk legend Yegor Letov’s fans were detained as they gathered to hold a memorial procession at noon on Sunday, while the sold-out memorial concert, where several OMON police trucks positioned themselves in the evening, was stopped because of a fire in the venue. |
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BISHKEK — Kyrgyzstan, home to a Russian military airbase, expressed “deep concern” on Monday over recent killings of Kyrgyz citizens working in Russia and urged Moscow to do more to protect its people. |
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Leningrad Oblast police detained a 19-year-old unemployed man Thursday for the suspected murder and sexual assault of 10-year-old Natasha Rubtsova in the Oblast’s town of Pikalyevo, Fontanka.ru reported. Vsevolod Porotnikov was detained in his apartment in the town of Volkhov and instantly confessed to the crime. |
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 Eurogarden Management Company has completed construction of its first shopping center, Zelenaya Strana (Green Country). The center, located on the Tallinskoye highway, will start operating in April this year, offering a wide range of products for dachas and gardeners. |
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Cash For Oranienbaum ST. PETERSBURG (SPT) — The federal budget will supply two billion rubles ($81.8 million) for the reconstruction of the Oranienbaum museum complex to increase its appeal to tourists, Interfax reported Friday. |
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MOSCOW — Lufthansa is facing a fresh spat with the Russian authorities, after tax inspectors froze several of the German carrier’s accounts in the country in a disagreement over outstanding payments, an industry source familiar with the situation said Thursday. |
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MOSCOW — The once-ubiquitous English-language “sale” signs in Russian store windows may soon disappear if the Kaliningrad region’s interpretation of a federal law spreads to the rest of the country. |
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In my apartment you can always tell when it’s Putin news conference time. My desk is covered with 14 dictionaries. I’ve got seven Internet windows open on various slang and language sites. I’ve also got hundreds of pages of printouts of the official transcripts in Russian and English with sections highlighted and annotated. Too bad the Kremlin’s English translation is so bland. This year’s crop of news conference ÔÛÚËÌÍË (Putinisms) is a particularly rich blend of folksy and foul. On the folksy side, we have this comment about continuing to work after his term as president ends: äÓ̘ÌÓ, ÏÓÊÌÓ, Í‡Í Û Ì‡Ò ‚ ÌÂÍÓÚÓÐÞ¦ ÏÂÒÚ‡¦ „Ó‚ÓÐËÎË, “òËÎÓ ‚ ÒÚÂÌÍÛ — Ë Ì‡ ·ÓÍÓ‚Ûþ Á‡Î˜¸. |
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 I do not approve of what President Vladimir Putin has done over the past eight years. But I am grateful to him because he single-handedly saved my career. |
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By denying Kenneth Roth, the head of Human Rights Watch, a visa, the Kremlin did succeed in preventing him from presenting a critical report in Moscow. The report criticizes the authorities for intentionally shackling nongovernmental organizations with burdensome restrictions. Ministry spokesman Mikhail Kamynin said the business visa applications filed by Roth and two colleagues identified them as “managers” for McKinsey & Company who were invited by the Agriculture Ministry. |
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SEOUL — Ex-construction boss Lee Myung-bak was sworn in as South Korea’s new president on Monday, promising business-like pragmatism after a decade of ideological policies he said had left the world’s 13th largest economy adrift. His inauguration speech stuck closely to the campaign pledges for radical change that helped him to a landslide election win in December, ending 10 years of liberal rule his supporters say kept the South Korean economy from reaching its real potential. |
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 DOHA — Maria Sharapova claimed her second title of the year and the 18th of her career when she defeated unseeded Vera Zvonareva 6-1 2-6 6-0 in an all-Russian final at the Qatar Open on Sunday. The Australian Open champion, who extended her unbeaten run this year to 14 matches, lost to Zvonareva in their last meeting at Indian Wells 11 months ago and after dominating the opening set once again found herself in trouble against her former top ten opponent. |
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MOSCOW — Guus Hiddink has revealed that managing the Russian national team could be his last active coaching job but is keeping his options open. “It is possible I might step out of coaching and have a more advisory role with a club or a national association after 2010,” Hiddink told Reuters in an interview during his team’s training camp on Turkey’s Mediterranean coast earlier this month. |
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BEIJING — Diving prodigy Tom Daley, aged 13, is poised to become Britain’s youngest male Olympian after finishing seventh in the 10-meter platform at the World Cup, a qualifying event for the Beijing Games. “To finish in seventh place is amazing and I am absolutely over the moon,” said the schoolboy from Plymouth late Sunday. |
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Zenit Advance LONDON (Reuters) — The Russian FA has complained to UEFA president Michel Platini about poor officiating in the UEFA Cup first-round tie between Zenit St. |
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 The number of Russians receiving an education abroad has grown significantly over the last few years, with English language programs being the most popular courses according to data released by AcademConsult, a local company that organizes study abroad for Russian students. The greatest numbers of Russians studying languages abroad come from the country’s capital, Moscow, and other major cities — in particular St. |
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 On the one hand, Russians are becoming more and more prosperous, and the number of parents prepared to pay for their offspring to study at foreign schools and universities is increasing. |
 There are so many options available that some students considering studying abroad may feel overwhelmed by the range of countries within their reach. Many factors may influence the final choice, not least the language spoken in the country, the opportunities opened upon completing study in that country and the work options available during and after studying there. AcademConsult, a St. Petersburg firm specializing in sending Russian students abroad to study, offer some guidelines and information that may help prospective university students in various countries. |
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 The Graduate School of Management of St. Petersburg State University aims to combine a traditional university education with the latest innovations and business practices. |
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The ‘BSc-work-MBA-work’ versus the ‘BSc-MSc-work’ career trajectory is one of the first choices to think about, but what about those wanting to take their education even further? The postgraduate courses at the upper echelon of education are the PhD, the relatively new EMBA (Executive MBA) and the even more recent innovation the DBA (Doctor of Business Administration). One of the perennial concerns for business school deans at the top of the education pyramid is that of rigor versus relevance. The education received by students must have practical applications to the business world, known by some academics as ‘business relevance’, allowing the graduate to take up a desirable position in a company of their choice. |
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 When Russia opened its doors to the market economy about one and half decades ago, it took people off-guard and ill-equipped to meet the challenges of a culturally and technologically diversified world. |
 The Russian and British education systems are, on the surface at least, much alike. Both begin with compulsory primary and secondary school. In Russia children begin studying at six years of age and finish at 17, while in Great Britain they start at five and finish at 16. In Great Britain, upon finishing high school young people can choose between further education and higher education. In Russia, similarly, they can choose between institutes, universities, specialized technical colleges and training courses. |
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 BERKSHIRE, England — Eduard Zelkin, a stooped Moscow pensioner, paused momentarily as a group of Eton schoolboys passed by, dressed in their traditional black-and-white uniforms. |
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Two major educational organizations funded with foreign sponsorship and grants have come under fire from the Russian authorities in recent months on what critics see as far-fetched technicalities with an ulterior motive. All lectures at the European University were suspended for several weeks this year after the city’s fire inspectorate found 52 violations of fire safety regulations. The Dzershinsky district court twice ruled against granting the university permission to hold classes while correcting the violations. The university is set to resume classes on Feb. 26 following an intervention from the St. Petersburg Legislative Assembly and an avalanche of indignant protests from internationally acclaimed academics from both Russia and abroad. |
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 The first preschool in St. Petersburg specializing in teaching in three languages opened last year to provide a new option both for ex-pat parents anxious for their children to learn Russian while developing their native language and for Russian parents who wish their children to begin learning foreign languages as early as possible. |
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