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As Yabloko prepares for a leadership election, the democratic party is facing a split between radical and reformist members and its current leader Grigory Yavlinsky, whom they hope to unseat. The opposition party is due to elect its new leader at a conference in Moscow on June 21-22. Ahead of the vote, some of Yavlinsky’s most outspoken critics claim there is a plot to strip them of party membership nearing the decisive conference. Yabloko’s arbitration committee will this week review a complaint filed by Maxim Reznik, the head of the party’s St. Petersburg branch, and a group of other members of the party who feel their membership has become threatened as a result of their cooperation with the radical anti-Kremlin National Assembly. |
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A woman dressed as a doll participating in the opening ceremony of the International Doll Time Exhibition at the Artists’ Union Exhbition Hall at 38 Bolshaya Morskaya Ulitsa on Tuesday. The exhibition will close on Saturday. |
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MOSCOW — TNK-BP chief executive Robert Dudley spent five hours answering questions at an Interior Ministry office Tuesday in what appeared to be the latest episode in a wrangle for control of the company between a group of Russian billionaires and Britain’s BP. Dudley was called to the ministry’s Central Federal District office as part of an investigation into “tax matters” related to his company’s predecessor, TNK, for which he never worked.
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St. Petersburg Legislative Assembly sent a formal request to Governor Valentina Matviyenko on Wednesday asking her prevent the Eurovision Song Contest from being held in the city next year. Last month Russia’s Dima Bilan won the Europe-wide showbiz competition, earning the country the right to host the next contest in 2009. |
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MOSCOW — Russia will celebrate its national holiday Thursday with outdoor concerts, sports competitions and a Kremlin awards ceremony attended by former French President Jacques Chirac. |
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MOSCOW — Prosecutor General Yury Chaika has issued an order forbidding the Investigative Committee from investigating a criminal case involving one of his top deputies, the latest development in a standoff between the two law enforcement entities, Kommersant reported Monday. Chaika issued the order after Investigative Committee head Alexander Bastrykin attempted to reopen a criminal case in which First Deputy Prosecutor General Alexander Buksman was accused of illegally helping his wife get a job as a Moscow notary public, the report said. |
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MOSCOW — Gazprom CEO Alexei Miller said Tuesday that he expected oil prices to top $250 per barrel next year, a figure considerably higher than most industry forecasts. Speaking to reporters in Deauville, France, Miller laid out the gas giant’s strategy for the next few years, promising to invest $30 billion by December and significantly more afterward. |
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MOSCOW — Moscow’s quality of life for expatriates is one of Europe’s most miserable, while personal safety is the worst on the continent, according to a study released Tuesday. |
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LANGLEY AIR FORCE BASE, Virginia — Russia appears focused on strengthening its nuclear capabilities rather than its regular armed forces, which makes maintaining the U.S. nuclear arsenal increasingly important, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said. |
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YENAKIYEVO, Ukraine — Rescuers have little chance of finding alive 12 miners missing after a gas explosion at a Ukrainian colliery, officials said Tuesday. |
 The latest trends in the development of the Internet in Russia were presented at the Third St. Petersburg Internet Conference, held June 6 at Olgino Motel. The conference, which was organized by the Regional Public Center of Internet Technologies (ROCIT) from Moscow and the company Trinet, examined the various problems of the emerging market and discussed solutions, new ideas and ways of implementing them to meet the growing demand for Internet-based business solutions. |
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Bank Sees Profits Soar ST. PETERSBURG (Bloomberg) — Bank St. Petersburg, the biggest private lender in northwestern Russia, said first-quarter profit more than doubled as it expanded its retail-banking network. |
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 Zakhar Prilepin, a veteran of the two Chechen wars, National Bolshevik Party activist and author of “Grekh” (“Sin”), has won this year’s National Bestseller prize, a respected nationwide literary award that has its ceremony in St. Petersburg. Comprised of a series of novellas united by a common theme, “Sin” touches on, as the author himself puts it, the art of “being happy,” and how to “indulge in happiness while not sacrificing one’s soul and drowning in sin. |
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The “anti-capitalist/anti-politician” musician Roger Waters inadvertantly found himself performing this week at the heart of a gathering of capitalists and politicians, named the St. |
 MOSCOW — On a talk show last fall, a prominent political analyst named Mikhail Delyagin had some tart words about Vladimir Putin. When the program was later televised, Delyagin was not. Not only were his remarks cut — he was also digitally erased from the show, like a disgraced comrade airbrushed from an old Soviet photo. (The technicians may have worked a bit hastily, leaving his disembodied legs in one shot. |
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 “What Happens in Vegas,” one of those junky time-wasters that routinely pop up in movie theaters, won’t make you laugh much or at all. (Once was enough for me. |
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INNSBRUCK, Austria — Russia must learn some tough lessons fast if they are to progress at Euro 2008 after an error-strewn performance against Spain in their opening match, coach Guus Hiddink said. While sometimes looking exciting going forward, the Russians left themselves exposed at the back and the Spaniards exploited the mistakes to run out 4-1 winners on Tuesday. |
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BASEL — A superb hat-trick from Spain’s David Villa and goals of beauty from Portugal, Germany, Netherlands and Sweden have put an extra sheen on a bright opening round of matches at Euro 2008. |
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SAN DIEGO — Although Tiger Woods has important business on his hands in this week’s U.S. Open at Torrey Pines, the core of his life’s work continues to unfold 130 kilometers to the north-west. The state-of-the-art Tiger Woods Learning Center in Anaheim, California, has become a haven where children can develop life skills, getting to grips with subjects as diverse as forensic science, robotics, business entrepreneurship and rocket design. |
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