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A popular local weekly magazine that has been critical of local government policies, Gorod, was relaunched this week under the title Gorod 812. Now published by the Agency for Journalistic Investigations, one of St. Petersburg’s most influential media holdings, the magazine was shut down in May — officially owing to poor financial performance, but amid rumors that the real reason behind the closure was Gorod’s razor-edge criticism of City Hall. Founded in 2002, the magazine was owned by the Moscow businessman Leonid Davydov, currently chairman of the board of the VTsIOM polling agency and a member of the Russian Public Chamber. Davydov never publicly commented on the closure of the magazine but Marina Polosatkina, who had been the magazine’s general director, told reporters at a news conference in May that the shutdown took place on purely financial grounds. |
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Prime Minister Vladimir Putin holds a tranquiliser gun as he visits the academy of sciences Ussuri Nature Reserve. Interfax reported that Putin saved a group of cameramen by shooting a tiger that escaped from its leash. After it fell asleep, he kissed the animal and said goodbye, Interfax reported. |
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Although divided over the war in Georgia but a group of parties in opposition to the Kremlin represented by the recently established National Assembly not only worked together on Sunday, but extended their reach to Russia’s regions — starting in St. Petersburg — as shown by the inaugural session of the National Assembly’s Regional Council in the city.
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 LOSEVO, Leningrad Oblast — Athletes and thrill seekers converged at the Losevo Rapids on the Vuoksa River on Saturday, about 82 kilometers northwest of St. Petersburg, for the sixth annual Bubble Baba Challenge — a wet and wild ride on inflatable women. |
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NAZRAN, Russia — More than 1,000 people gathered in Russia’s troubled Ingushetia region on Monday to protest the death of Magomed Yevloyev, a leading journalist and local opposition leader shot while in police custody. |
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Fifty-one regions including St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Oblast and other major exhibitors such as Moscow and the Moscow Oblast, and Russia’s agricultural centers of the northwest, south, the Urals and Siberia were represented at the 17th international AgroRus exhibition which took place in St. |
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Lidings, a Moscow-based law firm and Russia’s first to specialize in advising foreign companies doing business in the country, opened an office in St. Petersburg on Monday. |
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Oil Exports Guaranteed MOSCOW (Bloomberg) — Russian Deputy Prime Minister Igor Sechin said a report that the country may cut oil exports should the European Union impose sanctions over South Ossetia was a “gross provocation,” according to RIA Novosti. |
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MOSCOW — Evraz Group, Russia’s biggest steelmaker by market value, announced an 82 percent jump in first-quarter net income to $2 billion because of strong pricing, acquisitions and an improved sales mix, the company said in a statement Friday. |
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MOSCOW — Russia, the biggest market for U.S. poultry exporters, will ban imports from 19 producers in the United States and warned on Friday that another 29 suppliers faced a possible ban on health and safety grounds. The ban is to take effect Monday and includes three plants belonging to meat giant Tyson Foods, the Federal Service for Sanitary Supervision said, a day after Prime Minister Vladimir Putin first spoke of the measures. |
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MOSCOW — Russia could double or triple export duties on mineral fertilizers if producers do not sell to domestic farmers at an “acceptable” price, First Deputy Prime Minister Viktor Zubkov said Friday, Interfax reported. |
 MOSCOW — Russian steel companies have agreed to cut prices for car manufacturers by a minimum five percent and could make further reductions in the near future, Deputy Prime Minister Igor Sechin said. The cuts, which Sechin said could extend to 15 percent, suggest that a state-sponsored drive to push down raw material prices and aid economic and infrastructure development is spreading quickly to other industries. |
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MOSCOW — After tumbling to its lowest point in almost two years on Tuesday, Russia’s MICEX Index began to slowly claw its way back over the rest of the week, suggesting a possible end to the volatility that has plagued the country’s markets since tensions erupted between Russia and Georgia on Aug. |
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AKHALI-SAMGORI, Georgia — During the conflict with Georgia, Russian planes dropped bombs within 15 meters of a pipeline to the Black Sea that BP was in the process of reopening through the country, witnesses said. Residents on Friday showed reporters deep craters alongside the pipeline, which runs between Azerbaijan’s capital, Baku, on the Caspian Sea, and Georgia’s Black Sea port of Supsa. |
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MOSCOW — Russia’s top two oil companies reported their biggest-ever quarterly profits on near-record oil prices, with state-controlled Rosneft’s outpacing those of LUKoil, which posted a hedging loss. |
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 The events of the last few weeks have made it clearer than ever that Russia has no place in Europe. The invasion of Georgia, the disproportionate use of force, the presence of irregular forces, the looting and deliberate destruction of infrastructure and then the recognition of Abkhazia and South Ossetia as “independent” are all evidence of a Russia that is not European and does not want to be European. |
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The Georgia crisis revealed a new strategic force in the Kremlin that opposes both Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and President Dmitry Medvedev. We still cannot name its players, but we are aware of its interests and impact on events in the same way that astronomers discern a new but invisible planet by recording its impact on known and visible objects in space. |
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RAMADI, Iraq — Iraqi forces Monday took over control of Anbar, once the most explosive battlefield in Iraq, from the U.S. military, symbolising the growing security gains in the war-torn country. The ceremony to transfer Anbar to local forces took place at the provincial governate building in Ramadi, the provincial capital. It marks the handover of the 11th of Iraq’s 18 provinces and the first Sunni province to be returned to the control of the Iraqi government. “I would like to announce that the (Anbar) transfer from the U.S. to Iraqi forces is done,” said Muwaffaq al-Rubaie, Iraq’s national security advisor at the handover ceremony. “The province of Anbar which was one of the hottest regions in Iraq is today celebrating the receiving of the security file. |
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 BANGKOK — Thailand’s biggest union on Monday called for a strike to support anti-government protesters who are squatting in the main government complex to demand the resignation of Premier Samak Sundaravej. |
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BHUBANESWAR, India — Hindu mobs have burnt at least four more churches in Orissa, officials said on Monday, as religious violence appeared to spread. Thousands of people, mostly Christians, have taken shelter in makeshift camps, where Hindu mobs went on the rampage last week after a Hindu leader was killed. |
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HARARE, Zimbabwe — Zimbabwe’s main opposition party said on Sunday the latest talks on power-sharing with the ruling ZANU-PF that resumed on Friday in South Africa did not reach agreement. |
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NEW YORK — Novak Djokovic illuminated New York’s midnight hour with an electrifying performance on Sunday, surviving a 234-minute battle to reach the fourth round of the U.S. Open. The Serbian third seed soaked up the full force of Marin Cilic’s armoury to stay in the hunt for the title with an absorbing 6-7 7-5 6-4 7-6 victory in a contest that ended at 12. |
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MONACO — UEFA Cup holder Zenit St. Petersburg became the first Russian team to lift the European Super Cup after beating Champions League winner Manchester United 2-1 on Friday. |
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LONDON — Chelsea and Liverpool, the only teams to start the Premier League season with two wins, lost their 100 percent records on Sunday when they drew with Tottenham Hotspur and Aston Villa respectively. Chelsea had scored five goals and conceded none in their opening wins, while Spurs lost both of theirs but they drew 1-1 at Stamford Bridge after Darren Bent cancelled out Juliano Belletti’s opener for the home side. |
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