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The European Union is likely to issue a condemnation of Russia’s recognition of independence for South Ossetia and Abkhazia at an extraordinary summit in Brussels on Monday. But while some European politicians have called for sanctions, the meeting might shy away from imposing painful economic or political measures based on concerns that Europe is just as dependent on Russia as Russia is on Europe. |
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Looking to move to a peaceful, crime-free neighborhood? Try the North Caucasus republics of Chechnya, Dagestan and Ingushetia. These violence-plagued regions were rated among the most crime-free in the country by the Krasnoyarsk-based think tank Region, which has published a report analyzing Interior Ministry data from 2002 to 2007 to determine the safest Russian regions, cities and towns. |
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MOSCOW — Russia successfully tested a long-range Topol missile designed to avoid detection by anti-missile defence systems from its Plesetsk launch site, a Russian military spokesman said on Thursday. “The launch was specially tasked to test the missile’s capability to avoid ground-based detection systems,” said Colonel Alexander Vovk of the Russian Strategic Rocket Forces. |
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The Norwegian state-owned oil company StatoilHydro is entering the St. Petersburg retail gas market, making it the third international player in Russia’s northwest, competing with Britain’s Shell and Finland’s Neste, along with dozens of domestic operators which already have a network of more than 350 gasoline stations between them. StatoilHydro, which owns around 2,000 gas stations in seven countries — but none so far in the Leningrad Oblast or St. Petersburg — is not a newcomer to the Russian market, having eight gas stations in the Murmansk Oblast, the first of which was opened in 1993. At the end of 2007, soon after the merger of Statoil and Norsk Hydro which produced StatoilHydro, the company signed a partnership agreement with the St. |
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 Nevsky Prospekt, the main thoroughfare of the city’s historic center, is to be cleared of marshrutki, or public minibuses, according to a regulation passed at a recent meeting of City Hall’s Committee for the Organization of Road Traffic. |
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The Federal Anti-Monopoly Service said Wednesday that it was investigating the country’s second-biggest oil producer, LUKoil, on suspicion of barring a smaller rival from using its pipeline in the Komi republic. A more liberal access to pipelines is one of the key goals that the competition watchdog is pursuing. |
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MOSCOW — Rosatom head Sergei Kiriyenko has signed a decree for the construction of a nuclear power plant in the Kaliningrad region, the country’s atomic energy company announced Wednesday. |
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MOSCOW — BP is conducting secret talks with its Russian billionaire partners in TNK-BP and an outline deal to settle their dispute may come in weeks, a source familiar with the matter said. Lamar McKay, a top BP troubleshooter brought in to resolve a long-running dispute over strategy and management control at TNK-BP, held a five-hour meeting in London the week before last with Mikhail Fridman, the billionaire oligarch who calls the shots among the Russian shareholders, the source added. |
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 For anyone who cares deeply about U.S.-Russian relations, events in Georgia are as great a tragedy as they are for the inhabitants of the region — the Ossetians, Abkhaz, Georgians and Russians alike. Against the backdrop of this war, the agenda for cooperation with Russia is quickly being thrown into doubt. |
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With the Olympic Games over, we can now take a look at whether Russia achieved the status of athletic superpower. Unfortunately, our athletes did not fulfill the medals quota set by the president of the Russian Olympic Committee, Leonid Tyagachyov. |
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 “Krakatuk,” a modern circus-style performance of the classic story of the Nutcracker, has returned to the city in which it originated four years after it last wowed audiences here — this time with its own 14,000-square meter purpose-built venue. Almost two centuries after E. |
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Âûâîä / îòâîä âîéñê: troop withdrawal / pullback Every year as August approaches, I cross my fingers and hope that this month, so cursed for Russia, will pass peacefully without military, economic, social or political disasters. |
 The West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, the brainchild of world-renowned pianist and conductor Daniel Barenboim and late Palestinian literary scholar Edward Said, opened this year’s rendition of the Baltic Sea Festival in Stockholm. The Aug. 21 performance by the internationally acclaimed orchestra, often regarded as a symbol for the overcoming of political obstacles, was broadcasted live from Stockholm’s Berwaldhallen on the internet. |
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 Estonia is a popular tourist destination, but its southern area has only recently opened up for tourism and still remains an unknown territory for many. |
 Walking through Moscow with former counterintelligence agent Oleg Nechiporenko, old conspiracies seem to lurk around every corner. A bus stop packed with impatient commuters on Novinsky Bulvar is the place where a Soviet double agent sent signals to the U. |
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A newcomer to the local travel guide scene aims to catalog local attractions in more detail than most in order to help foreign tourists make the most of their time in the city. |
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A Russian tradition, established long ago was sending Russian masters of art abroad, especially to Italy, to absorb the treasures of Europe’s civilization. By Victor Sonkin It is a long and venerable tradition of Russian literature that doctors love literature, many of them to the point of becoming writers themselves. The archetypal example was set by Anton Chekhov, but there have been plenty of doctor writers ever since, from Mikhail Bulgakov to Vassily Aksyonov, all first-rate stars on the literary horizon. Another Russian tradition, established as long ago as the times of Peter the Great, was sending Russian masters of art abroad, especially to Italy, to absorb the treasures of Europe’s civilization. |
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 “Wilhelm von Habsburg, the Red Prince, wore the uniform of an Austrian officer, the court regalia of a Habsburg archduke, the simple suit of a Parisian exile, the collar of the Order of the Golden Fleece and, every so often, a dress. |
 Despite the fact Alina Simone’s album “Everyone is Crying Out to Me, Beware” is not written by her, nor is it sung in English, the U.S. singer/songwriter of Russian origin has received positive reviews in top U.S. publications, including the New Yorker. |
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Ruan Tai // 59/92 Gorokhovaya Ulitsa // Tel: 666 6666, 640 1330 // Open daily from midday until 2 a.m. // Menu in Russian and English // Lunch for two without alcohol 2,400 rubles ($100) Among St. |
 I’m still of two minds about whether to stump up for a toaster for pop diva Alla Pugachyova and her toy boy, television host Maxim Galkin. This month, the tabloids have revived the long-standing rumor that they plan to tie the knot, and Zhizn even gave us details of a huge designer bed that Allochka has picked out for Galkin’s castle. |
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HAVANA — Tropical Storm Gustav rumbled Thursday toward Jamaica and Cuba and threatened to take hurricane force winds to Louisiana after leaving 22 people dead in Haiti and the Dominican Republic. The eye of the storm was expected to pass “very close” to Jamaica later Thursday, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said, while 50,000 people were evacuated from zones at risk in eastern Cuba. |
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NEW YORK — Second seed Jelena Jankovic and former champion Svetlana Kuznetsova from St. Petersburg had to work much harder than expected to shake off their opponents in the second round of the U.S. Open on Wednesday. Serb Jankovic squandered a match point in the second set before scraping past Swede Sofia Arvidsson 6-3 6-7 7-5 and Russian Kuznetsova overcame a slow start to beat Romanian teenager Sorana Cirstea 7-6 6-1. |
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