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Several major local hospitals have reported shortages of anesthetics this month after suppliers failed to make deliveries on time. Stocks of adrenaline and atropine in some clinics will run out within less than a month, City Hall’s Health Committee said on Monday. Governor Valentina Matviyenko has sought the support of Russia’s Health and Social Development Ministry, asking the officials to directly intervene and resolve the problem before the situation becomes critical. State-funded local clinics are currently using the previously accumulated stocks of the medicines that are quickly running out. The Health Committee said any new deliveries of the drugs to hospitals have been suspended after Russia’s atropine producers stopped making the drug in January. |
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Den Netherland of the U.S. taking part in the ‘East-West’ Martial Arts competition held in the city at the weekend. With one blow he broke 18 bricks, which were procured from a nearby building site after Netherland’s own were lost with his luggage by British Airways. |
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BRUSSELS — He was once a firebrand nationalist politician who led rallies against illegal immigration, met indicted Serbian war criminals and ran a campaign ad that seemed to compare dark-skinned southerners to garbage. Now, Dmitry Rogozin lives in a brick house located in a quiet, leafy neighborhood of Brussels. Inside, only a Russian flag, a picture of St.
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MOSCOW — Russia said on Monday it had closed a weapons-grade plutonium reactor as part of a deal with the United States to reduce the risk of proliferation from Cold War-era nuclear bomb plants. The reactor, at a secret Siberian plant founded by Soviet leader Josef Stalin, was turned off on Sunday, 45 years after it was started up to create plutonium for the Soviet weapons program. |
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MOSCOW — A Russian court on Monday sentenced a U.S. pastor to three years in prison for illegally bringing hunting ammunition into the country. Phillip Miles was arrested in a Moscow airport on Feb. |
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KAZAKH STEPPE — A Russian space capsule landed about 420 kilometers off course in Kazakhstan on Saturday but South Korea’s first astronaut and the other two crew were safe. The Soyuz capsule landed west of the target area and about 20 minutes past the scheduled time after it adopted a so-called “ballistic landing,” space officials said. Rescue helicopters rushed to the site. “The capsule landed with an overshoot. Such things happen,” said mission control spokesman Valery Lyndin. He said the crew had begun leaving the capsule, which carried Yi So-yeon, a 29-year old nanotechnology engineer from Seoul, U.S. commander Peggy Whitson and Russian flight engineer Yury Malenchenko. |
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 MOSCOW — A Moscow newspaper that reported Vladimir Putin had divorced his wife and planned to marry an Olympic gymnast was closed by its publishers on Friday, just hours after the Russian president angrily denied the report. |
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MOSCOW — Russian president Vladimir Putin has won a Nobel prize. Not the better-known Nobel Peace Prize handed out by the Oslo-based committee to luminaries such as last Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev or ex-South African President Nelson Mandela. Instead, Putin has won the Ludvig Nobel Prize for services to Russia — an award organized by Russian businessmen and artists which, apart from shared historical roots, has no connection to today’s Nobel Peace Prize. “Under the previous president, [Boris] Yeltsin, there was chaos and lawlessness,” Yevgeny Lukoshkov, who heads the Ludvig Nobel Prize’s selection committee, told Reuters. “Somebody had to stand up and take responsibility and stop the robberies and murders. |
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 Two polar bear cubs born in December at St. Petersburg’s Leningrad Zoo made their public debut on Sunday. The zoo also announced the names of the male cubs after holding a competition to name them. |
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 Russian ecologist Marina Rikhvanova was last week awarded the world-renowned Goldman Environmental Prize — the “Green Nobel” — at a ceremony at San Francisco’s Opera House on Monday. Rikhvanova, 46, who is co-head of the Baikal Ecological Wave (BEW) organization, is known for her impressive and effective work in protecting Siberia’s Lake Baikal from suffering an ecological catastrophe. |
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 Underground car parks and shopping centers planned for the center of St. Petersburg could damage adjacent buildings, experts warned Monday at a roundtable at Rosbalt news agency, calling for a cautious approach to the city’s architectural heritage. “Vast amounts of money have come to the city, and developers want to make a profit quickly. |
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Lenta Case Withdrawn ST. PETERSBURG (Bloomberg) — The co-founders of Lenta, Russia’s third-biggest supermarket company, may sell their stakes after settling their ownership dispute, Vedomosti reported, citing unidentified people familiar with the matter. |
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MOSCOW — President Vladimir Putin and Italian Prime Minister-elect Silvio Berlusconi on Friday rekindled ties by talking up a possible new bid by Aeroflot for troubled airline Alitalia and hinted that a gas deal between Gazprom and Italy’s Eni involving Libya could be in the cards. |
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LONDON — A $2 billion lawsuit brought by self-exiled oligarch Boris Berezovsky against his former business partner, Roman Abramovich, reached the High Court in London on Friday. |
 MOSCOW — A billion dollars just ain’t what it used to be — to make the cut on Forbes Russia’s new top 100 a cool $1.1 billion is required. In the rich list, published Friday, the number of Russian billionaires shot up to 110, from 87 since Forbes’ U. |
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MOSCOW — President-elect Dmitry Medvedev has stepped in to try to resolve a dispute between state-controlled power firms Unified Energy System and Rosneft, UES chief Anatoly Chubais said Friday. |
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MOSCOW — Unified Energy System is ready to delay for up to two years the sale of electricity producer OGK-1 if a consortium of billionaires does not offer a premium price. “We will either sell above market or not at all. If we receive these funds a year or two later, nothing bad will happen,” UES chief executive Anatoly Chubais told reporters Friday. |
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A new pig farm, the Pulkovsky agricultural complex, will open on Thursday in the Leningrad Oblast. It will be the largest livestock-rearing complex in the Northwest region, the project’s general contractor, STEP, said Friday in a statement. |
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The city has opened a $1.5 billion tender for a 30-year concession to operate its Pulkovo airport, a city official said on Monday. A winner will be picked by March 12, 2009 and the concession agreement will be signed by the end of July that year, the city’s vice-governor Yury Molchanov told reporters. |
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MOSCOW — By this time last year, four Russian firms — Sitronics, Polymetal, Sberbank and Integra — had already raised a total of almost $10.5 billion in IPOs. |
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MOSCOW — Russia will not emerge unscathed from a likely global slowdown, and will need to tackle high growth rates if it is to bring down inflation, Barclays Capital chairman Hans-Joerg Rudloff said. “Fundamentally, the Russian growth story stays intact, but there will be a much more difficult sea to navigate,” Rudloff, who sits on Rosneft’s supervisory board, said in an interview. |
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The winners of the great globalization push of the 1990s were small states, such as New Zealand, Chile, Dubai, Finland, Ireland, the Baltic countries, Slovenia and Slovakia. The East Asian tigers that pushed themselves onto the world economy’s center stage were small units, and in some cases — Singapore, Taiwan, or Hong Kong — were not even treated as states. Even South Korea, which is a giant in comparison, was only half a country. Such states are vulnerable, and the past is littered with small and successful globalizers that lost out because of power politics: the Italian city states of the Renaissance, the Dutch Republic, or, in the 20th century, Lebanon and Kuwait. |
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 It has become a cliche to point out that the government is busy reviving various ideological and symbolic trappings of the Soviet Union. One of the most amusing ideological constructs in the writings of “patriotic” pro-Kremlin commentators, as well as in the minds of ordinary Russians, is the growing belief that the U. |
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President Vladimir Putin’s participation in the NATO summit in Bucharest and his talks with U.S. President George W. Bush in Sochi marked the final foreign policy episode in his two terms. Putin’s legacy is worthy of serious study and impartial analysis, but this is not possible right now. Time must pass before the strong enthusiasm of his supporters and the equally strong condemnation of his implacable opponents subside. |
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 MOSCOW — Overlooking the fumes and bustle of Moscow’s Leningradskoye Shosse, Dynamo Stadium stands like a sad monument to faded glory and lost hope. From the grimy ticket stalls, flecked with racist graffiti, to the peeling paint and patched-up windows, the home of one of the country’s most-decorated football clubs appears a testament not just to one team’s decline but also to the broader decay of Russian football. |
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MOSCOW — Semyon Vainshtok, the head of the Olimpstroi state corporation responsible for preparing Sochi for the 2014 Olympics, resigned abruptly Thursday, amid accusations of mismanagement and cost overruns. |
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JAKARTA — An Indonesian court sentenced two top leaders of the regional Jemaah Islamiah (JI) militant group to 15 years each in prison on Monday for harbouring militants and for weapons possession. Abu Dujana, the military chief of the group, was arrested in June on charges of keeping explosives and sheltering fugitives wanted for a series of deadly attacks in the country in recent years. Zarkasih, who was arrested only days after Dujana, was the alleged amir, or leader, of the group from 2005 through 2007. Their arrests were regarded as a major blow for the group, blamed for the 2002 Bali bombings in which more than 200 people were killed, as well as many other attacks in Indonesia. |
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STOP SIGNAL
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Taxi drivers rest on their taxis during a strike in the Indian city of Kolkata on Monday. A strike over rising prices shut businesses in eastern India as nationwide protests against inflation continued. |
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MAASTRICHT, Netherlands — Sitting among the mellow smokers in a coffeeshop in Maastricht it is easy to forget that a plan to relocate half of the cannabis-selling outlets to the city limits has aroused fury. The southern Dutch city has been trying for five years to push seven shops to three new “coffee corners” at its northern, western and southern borders.
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LONDON — Environmental demonstrators targeted Unilever across Europe on Monday, entering plants and scaling walls, including those of its London headquarters. About 40 members of Greenpeace entered the multinational’s factory in Wirral, Merseyside, while about a dozen dressed in orang-utan outfits demonstrated outside its London headquarters, with some climbing its front walls. |
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LONDON — Avram Grant may have been almost monosyllabic after Chelsea beat Everton last week but his comments about Liverpool skipper Steven Gerrard are sure to add some spice to their Champions League semifinal on Tuesday. Liverpool meet Chelsea for the third time in four seasons with a place in the Champions League final at stake and the Chelsea coach was full of praise for Gerrard before the first leg against the five-times European champions. |
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BERLIN — Luca Toni has won the hearts of Bayern Munich fans with eight goals in the last four matches, an amazing 10-day tear leading his team to the German Cup, the UEFA Cup semifinals and on the brink of the Bundesliga title. |
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LONDON — World motorsport chief Max Mosley wants to complete his term at the FIA and step down voluntarily next year after 16 years as president. In an interview with The Sunday Telegraph he defended his right to a private life and said it had no effect on his ability to run the International Automobile Federation. Mosley is suing The News of the World for unlimited damages for publishing revelations about his involvement in what was depicted as a Nazi-style sado-masochistic orgy with prostitutes. His future will be the subject of an extraordinary meeting of the FIA general assembly in Paris on June 3, which he asked to be called, during which he faces a vote of confidence. |
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 ROTTERDAM — PSV Eindhoven clinched their fourth Dutch league title in a row on Sunday with a 1-0 win at Vitesse Arnhem to finish above rivals Ajax Amsterdam. |
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