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 Young schoolboys and elderly women were among the soccer fans who stayed up well past their bedtimes on Wednesday as seemingly the whole of St. Petersburg sat glued to their television screens to watch FC Zenit’s historic 2-0 victory in the UEFA Cup final played in Manchester against Glasgow Rangers. |
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Visiting an open-air military camp manned by French Napoleonic hussars, watching documentaries on the wall of the Fountain House, taking a sneak look at monkeys putting their babies to bed and reading your own poetry to whoever will listen at the Alexander Blok Apartment Museum are things people can do at a one-night-only, not-to-be-missed event at twenty St. |
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BRUSSELS — Rangers and Zenit St. Petersburg are unlikely to face any punishment over the events that led to the stabbing of a Russian fan at Wednesday’s UEFA Cup final in Manchester, a top UEFA official said. But the Russian club may face sanctions over their fans running on to the pitch during and after their 2-0 victory over the Scottish side at the City of Manchester Stadium, UEFA’s director of communications William Gaillard said on Thursday. |
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MOSCOW — Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and his new energy policy director, Deputy Prime Minister Igor Sechin, went on the offensive Wednesday to battle claims that the country’s oil production was in decline. |
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MOSCOW — President Dmitry Medvedev pledged on Thursday to ensure that Russia’s nuclear deterrent remained properly funded to ward off threats to national security. Medvedev made his first domestic trip since taking power last week as Kremlin leader to a top-secret missile base, a visit that underscored the strategic role of nuclear arms in Russia’s assertive foreign policy. |
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 MOSCOW — Prime Minister Vladimir Putin unveiled his Cabinet lineup on Monday, reappointing most key ministers and taking several powerful Kremlin allies with him to the White House. President Dmitry Medvedev, who took over from Putin last week, quickly approved the candidates during a carefully choreographed meeting in the Kremlin. |
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Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) underinvest into development because entrepreneurs are not confident about their future, the results of a recent survey show. According to research carried out by ROMIR-Monitoring and sponsored by TRUST National Bank, most entrepreneurs are content with the present condition of their businesses but do not expect secure growth in the future. |
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MOSCOW — President Dmitry Medvedev told his new government on Wednesday to step up efforts to help small and medium-sized businesses choked by red tape and corruption. |
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Computer Plant Started ST. PETERSBURG (SPT) — Foxconn and Hewlett-Packard will start the construction of a computer assembly plant in St. Petersburg on Friday, the governor’s press service said Tuesday in a statement. The plant will start operating in 2009, producing 20,000 units a year. Total investment into the project is planned at $50 million. |
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 There is no more depressing sight in politics than a leader who, desperate to cling to power, ruins his country in the process. By his recent actions, Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko now looks like he has joined the long list of rulers who have sacrificed their country’s future simply to prolong their misrule. |
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The day before Victory Day, Zvezda television, run by the Defense Ministry, reported that Georgia was planning an invasion of the breakaway republic of Abkhazia on May 9. |
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 In 1956, Nikita Khrushchev famously told the West, “We will bury you.” Over 50 years later, in her new book “Imagining Nabokov,” titled “V Gostyakh U Nabokova” in Russian, his great-granddaughter, Nina Khrushcheva, suggests that Russians need to bury the centuries-old myth of their own uniqueness. |
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A local performance by DJ Lethal — of House of Pain and Limp Bizkit fame — due to take place at The Place last Friday, was canceled, with the club mysteriously blaming an “unscrupulous promoter” and promising to return money to those who bought tickets in advance. |
 This summer, the Vasily Vasilyevich Andreyev Folk Orchestra is celebrating 120 years since it was founded, firstly with a concert at the Grand Hall of the Shostokovich Philharmonic on Wednesday and then other concerts in June. Wednesday’s concert will feature Songs performed by opera stars including Asya Davydova and Stanislav Leontiyev. This most Russian of Russian orchestras was founded in 1888 in St. |
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 Pomp, glitz and bravado ruled the Mariinsky stage on Friday at the opening of the Stars of the White Nights festival. The prestigious international event opened with a reconstruction of the company’s 1952 staging of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s “The Maid of Pskov” — a triumph of the grand Soviet style that blended imperial grandeur, patriotic ardor and visual sumptuousness. |
 Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Monday opened an important exhibition of Russian art collected by the late cellist Mstislav Rostropovich and his widow, the opera singer Galina Vishnevskaya. “Mstislav Rostropovich and Galina Vishnevskaya kept for the world, for all of us, for Russia, genuine masterpieces of art, sketches, and decorative and applied art,” Putin said at the opening of the exhibition in the Konstantinovsky Palace near St. |
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 YEKATERINBURG, Russia — Sex, power and fabulous wealth are images of modern Russia and also the theme for an ambitious new musical evoking one of Russia’s most famous rulers. |
 MOSCOW — A memorial to Boris Yeltsin was dedicated late last month in a central spot in Russia’s most illustrious cemetery, a landscape of earnest tributes to generals and composers, mathematicians and diplomats. The veil was lifted, and there it was: a slab that brought to mind a giant, wobbly, tricolor birthday cake. Many passers-by do not know what to make of it, which seems fitting, given that it honors a man whose legacy these days remains just as confounding. |
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 They stand by the roadside in ill-fitting gray nylon, ignoring all traffic offenses that look unlikely to bring in any funds — cars parked on pedestrian crossings, municipal trucks belching out carcinogens, state officials’ cars breaking the sound barrier — so that they can concentrate on stopping drivers for near-invisible violations and pocketing a few hundred rubles folded into their licenses. |
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Tequila-Boom // 57 Voznesensky Pereulok // Tel: 310 1534 // Open daily from midday until last customer // Menu in Russian and Spanish // All major credit cards accepted // Dinner for three without alcohol 2,336 rubles ($98) Part of a chain that can trace its history back to a Mexican cantina opened in 1873, and with outlets in Mexico, Acapulco and Los Angeles, the presence of Tequila-Boom in St. |
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 MANCHESTER — Russian champions Zenit St. Petersburg won their first European silverware when second-half goals from Igor Denisov and Konstantin Zyrianov secured a 2-0 victory over Rangers in the UEFA Cup final on Wednesday. Denisov slotted home after 72 minutes and fellow midfielder Zyrianov sealed victory with a close range effort in stoppage time at the City of Manchester stadium to secure the trophy for Zenit in their first European final. |
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BRUSSELS — World number one Justine Henin announced she was retiring from professional tennis with immediate effect on Wednesday. “It’s the end of a wonderful adventure but it’s something I have been thinking about for a long time,” the Belgian told a news conference. |
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HALIFAX, Canada — Russia and Canada have cruised into the semi-finals while Sweden and Finland needed overtime to advance as the World Ice Hockey Championships now converge on Quebec City for Friday’s semi-finals. Defending champion Canada and Sweden both kept streaks alive Wednesday, with Sweden advancing to their eighth and Canada reaching their sixth consecutive semi-finals at the Worlds. |
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LONDON — Former Celtic midfielder and manager Tommy Burns has died aged 51, the Scottish club confirmed Thursday. He had been suffering from skin cancer. |
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