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 The leader of the Yabloko opposition party in St. Petersburg has been remanded in custody for two months amid claims that the case being brought against him has been fabricated. Maxim Reznik has been charged with insulting and physically assaulting a state representative, a crime that carries a term of up to five years in prison. But the politician, his allies and his lawyer maintain he is innocent and emphasize the murky circumstances surrounding his arrest. |
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 Dmitry Medvedev won the presidential election last weekend on a promise that he would govern hand in hand with Vladimir Putin in the interest of stability. |
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MOSCOW — The government has drafted legislation to limit foreign investment in publishing houses, the Internet and fishing, expanding the list of industries in which foreigners are forbidden from acquiring companies without state permission. The government added the industries after recalling legislation containing the original list from the State Duma last fall. |
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The Moscow City Court on Wednesday refused to release former Yukos vice president Vasily Aleksanyan from custody while he receives treatment for AIDS-related lymphoma. Lawyers for Aleksanyan, 36, had appealed a lower court’s ruling last month ordering their client to remain jailed while he awaits trial on embezzlement and money laundering charges. |
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MOSCOW — Russia’s communist leader, heavily beaten in Sunday’s election, on Thursday saw rocky times ahead for president-elect Dmitry Medvedev and predicted he would have difficulty handling his mentor, Vladimir Putin. |
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 MOSCOW — A three-day standoff that saw gas shipments to Ukraine cut in half ended Wednesday when Russia reached an agreement with the important energy-transit state. While Ukrainian state energy company Naftogaz Ukrainy and Russia’s Gazprom both said the conflict over payments for past shipments had been resolved, analysts said the deal brought no guarantee that supplies would not be interrupted again in the near future. |
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MOSCOW — Italy’s Enel is offering Russian gas export monopoly Gazprom a minority stake in an Italian power plant as reciprocity for gas supplies to OGK-5, Enel’s chief executive said. |
 A delegation of St. Petersburg officials and businessmen will demonstrate the city’s largest development projects at the MIPIM international forum for real estate professionals and investors, which opens March 11 and continues through March 14 in Cannes, France. |
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Swedbank Slows Down STOCKHOLM (Bloomberg) — Swedbank AB, the largest bank in the Baltic region, plans to expand more slowly in Russia than originally planned, Chief Executive Officer Jan Liden said. |
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 Dmitry Medvedev’s accession to the presidency has been variously described in the Western media as predictable, boring, managed and rigged. The transition of the presidential mantle from Vladimir Putin to his chosen successor was, indeed, as managed as could be expected from Russia’s new democracy. |
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There was never any serious discussion about whether Dmitry Medvedev would win or lose in Sunday’s election. The only topic that was discussed was whether Medvedev would be able to take the power away from President Vladimir Putin. |
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 Glossy and enticing, the Soviet photographic albums of the 1930s presented an airbrushed world in which the sausage was plentiful, the Young Pioneers sunned their bare bottoms at the Black Sea and milkmaids proudly showed off their record-breaking cows. |
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Andrei Makarevich, frontman of the legendary band Mashina Vremeni, has come under attack since his band performed at a televised concert on Red Square for the members of the Kremlin-backed youth organization Young Guard to mark the presidential election last Sunday. |
 BERLIN — A new television film about the sinking of a Nazi ship carrying thousands of German refugees at the end of World War II has lifted the lid on one of Germany’s most painful memories. The film, to be broadcast on Sunday and Monday in Germany, tells the story of the former Nazi cruise ship “Wilhelm Gustloff,” torpedoed by a Soviet submarine in the Baltic Sea on January 30, 1945. As many as 9,300 people died — believed to be biggest loss of life on a single ship. |
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 A Dissenters’ march held this week in St. Petersburg in reaction to Dmitry Medvedev’s ascent to the presidency on Sunday took on a cultural dimension — it was as heavy on poems and songs as it was on political speeches. |
 Svetlana Surganova, frontwoman of rock band Surganova i Orkestr, has opened a club orientated toward live music this week. Launched with a concert by the Minsk, Belarus-based cabaret act Serebryanaya Svadba and the Moscow-based pop-rock band Undervud from Ukraine last Friday, the club — called A2 — aims to showcase some of the better-known bands and provide an unusually good sound system, Surganova said. |
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 With almost a year still to go in George W. Bush’s presidency, he has already become the subject of an astonishing amount of literature — on the war in Iraq, on his controversial economic and social policies, on his two contested presidential elections and on the man himself. |
 When Vladimir Putin became president, NTV television was renowned for in-depth political analysis and hard-hitting coverage of breaking news stories such as the then-unfolding war in Chechnya. Now, as Putin prepares to step down, NTV’s standard fare might be best encapsulated in a recent teaser ad for “Profession: Reporter,” the channel’s prime-time investigative program. |
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Tarkhun // 14 Karavannaya Ulitsa // Tel: 571 1115 // Open daily from 12 p.m. until 12 a.m. // Menu in English and Russian // Dinner for two with alcohol 2,300 rubles ($92) Tarkhun is Armenian and Russian for tarragon, a zesty, sharp herb usually used in breads and meat. |
 Juno MacGuff, the title character of Jason Reitman’s new film, is 16 and pregnant, but “Juno” could not be further from the kind of hand-wringing, moralizing melodrama that such a condition might suggest. Juno, played by the poised, frighteningly talented Ellen Page, is too odd and too smart to be either a case study or the object of leering disapproval. |
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WASHINGTON — Barack Obama Wednesday turned to hardball tactics after Hillary Clinton’s comeback wins staved off extinction for her Democratic White House bid, as President George W. Bush embraced Republican candidate John McCain. Obama aides vowed to fight fire with fire, after Clinton’s withering scrutiny of his integrity and national security mettle helped her break his 12-contest win streak in three of Tuesday’s four nominating showdowns. |
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 LONDON — Frank Lampard eased the pressure on Avram Grant as his dynamic display helped Chelsea cruise into the Champions League quarterfinals with a 3-0 win over Olympiakos on Wednesday. Grant would have faced a fight to keep his job if Chelsea had lost in the last 16 second leg at Stamford Bridge, but Lampard set up Michael Ballack’s opener, scored the second himself and laid on Salomon Kalou’s third in a 3-0 aggregate victory. |
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LONDON — David Beckham will get his 100th England cap as long as he is fit and in form, manager Fabio Capello told national team fans on Wednesday. “I know Beckham very well from Real Madrid and I hope David will play the 100th game and get that cap,” Capello told representatives of the official England supporters club. |
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Murray Beaten DUBAI (AP) — Nikolai Davydenko edged Andy Murray of Britain 7-5, 6-4 Thursday to reach the semifinals of the Dubai Tennis Championships. Murray, who upset top-ranked Roger Federer in the first round, was forced out of his defensive game by the fifth-ranked Davydenko’s hard serves and quick moves on the baseline. |
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