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A newspaper that was to have been handed out during the March for the Preservation of St. Petersburg, which takes place this Saturday, has been rejected by two printing plants and will not appear in printed form, the democratic party Yabloko said in a news release on Wednesday. Meanwhile, law enforcement authorities are looking for evidence of “extremism” in two leftist newspapers, which had their print runs seized late last month. According to Yabloko, the management of the Atlant printing plant, which should have printed 10,000 copies of the special march issue by Wednesday evening, said it had to obtain permission from the police before printing the newspaper. When Yabloko asked the printers to give them this same explanation in writing, Atlant dropped its story about the police and claimed it had “internal problems” that prevented it from printing the publication, Yabloko spokesman Alexander Shurshev said by phone on Thursday. |
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Personnel from the Ministry of Emergency Situations hang in mid-air to form the Russian tricolor at the opening of the city’s new Sea Passenger Terminal on Wednesday. See Story, Page 5. |
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MOSCOW — As Russian stock markets suffered a second straight disastrous day of trading Wednesday, President Dmitry Medvedev played down the drastic falls of recent months and pledged that the government would restore the markets to their levels at the beginning of the year. Hit by the news that second-quarter economic growth fell to 7.5 percent, from 8.
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MOSCOW — The Federal Migration Service has abruptly canceled an informal arrangement that allowed hundreds of foreigners to avoid mandatory tests for leprosy, syphilis and four other diseases when applying for work permits. The migration service has required foreigners to be tested for the six diseases — HIV, chlamydia, chancre, tuberculosis, syphilis and leprosy — since July 2005. |
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COMBINED REPORTS Raising tensions, a Georgian police officer was killed Wednesday by gunfire that came from the direction of a Russian checkpoint near separatist South Ossetia, a government spokesman said. The policeman was at a Georgian checkpoint near Gori about a kilometer from the Russian post, Georgian Interior Ministry official Shota Utiashvili said. |
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MOSCOW — As investors fret amid a global economic downturn, the government needs to be forthcoming about its actions in order to boost confidence in the Russian market, jailed businessman Mikhail Khodorkovsky told The St. |
 MOSCOW — A military museum in Moscow opened an exhibition on Wednesday displaying the Russian army’s trophies from a war last month against Georgia. In a room about the size of a tennis court at the Armed Forces Museum, families walked past captured rifles and uniforms from Georgia and studied photos of dead Georgian soldiers and victorious Russian tanks. |
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WARSAW — Russia’s foreign minister told Poland on Thursday a U.S. missile defence shield Warsaw has agreed to host poses a direct threat to his country’s security but said Moscow remains open to further talks. |
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MOSCOW — Two Russian long-range bombers capable of carrying nuclear weapons will return to base from Venezuela in four days, the Air Force was quoted by Interfax news agency as saying on Thursday. The bombers, known in the West by the NATO codename “Blackjack,” were not carrying nuclear weapons during the flight to South America and will return to Russia on September 15, Air Force commander Vladimir Drik told Interfax. |
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 St. Petersburg’s new sea passenger terminal, Morskoy Fasad (Marine Facade), on Vasilievsky Island saw its official opening on Wednesday when the Italian cruise liner, the Costa Mediterranea, carrying 2,000 tourists from 20 countries, entered Russia’s northern capital to mark the end of the navigation season in the city. |
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A company under the control of the city governor’s son has applied to reconstruct two buildings in the historic center as hotels, it emerged late last month. |
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MOSCOW — About 1,000 transportation sector workers gathered in central Moscow on Wednesday to protest rising fuel costs and demand that the government regulates prices for gasoline, diesel and jet fuel. The event, organized by the Russian Road Transport Trade Union, was held across the Moscow River from the White House and was one of this year’s biggest manifestations of discontent over rising prices. |
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MOSCOW — Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin appeared to pave the way Wednesday for a compromise on taxes, saying he would look at new cuts for the oil sector as long as there are no reductions in other taxes. |
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MOSCOW — A unit of Metalloinvest, Russia’s biggest iron ore producer, has won an auction for the huge Udokan copper deposit for $585 million and will invest more than $5 billion into developing it with Russian Technologies. The Federal Subsoil Resource Use Agency named Mikhailovsky GOK as the winning bidder on its web site Wednesday, a full week before the tender results were expected to be announced. |
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 By Joseph S. Nye Jr. China and Russia have just provided the world with sharp contrasts in the use of power. As the French analyst Dominique Moisi recently put it, “Whereas China intends to seduce and impress the world by the number of its Olympic medals, Russia wants to impress the world by demonstrating its military superiority. |
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By Yulia Latynina As everyone who watches Channel One and Rossia television knows, the West does not have a lot of warm feelings for Russia and is definitely out to get us. |
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“The Hermitage: An A to Z of Art” is a new book from Arca Publishers that sets out to teach a thing or two about art while introducing readers to some of the treasures to be found in the Hermitage collection. A handsome volume that is profusely illustrated with more than 500 colour images, the book is a good, general introduction to art history terminology as well as a useful, if necessarily laconic, guide to the great museum. |
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Although many Russians are caught up in war fever in the wake of Russian-Georgian hostilities, stoked into it by state-controlled media, local rock band DDT is doing a great job by placing anti-war posters all around the city. |
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MOSCOW — Prosecutors on Monday fired a broadside against 2x2 television, accusing the cartoon network of promoting extremism with an episode of the iconoclastic U.S. cartoon “South Park” and violating children’s rights by airing shows such as “The Simpsons” and “The Family Guy. |
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VENICE — Eleven days of red carpet galas, 21 films in competition and countless interviews, photo calls and parties at the Venice film festival boiled down to just one man in the end — Mickey Rourke. |
 Dutch Punch, an annual celebration of underground music and arts from the Netherlands, kicked off with an installation by Mediaontwerpers, an experimental film screening and Machinefabriek’s concert on Thursday. Now in its fourth year, this year’s festival, supported by the city of Rotterdam and the Netherlands Embassy in Russia, also encompasses Moscow, Pskov, Nizhny Novgorod, Yekaterinburg, Kirov, Izhevsk and Yaroslavl. |
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In 1928, as the United States headed toward the Wall Street crash, Josef Stalin unveiled a “great breakthrough,” the first five-year plan for making the Soviet Union supremely modern at any cost. |
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NEW YORK — Russian soldiers aim rifles at students waving flags. Tanks, cars and buses burn. A mother and her small daughter tread through rubble in front of smoldering buildings pockmarked by bullets and shrapnel. These are some of the images in a new exhibition of photographs of the Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia in August 1968 taken by Czech photographer Josef Koudelka. Although they are 40 years-old, some of the nearly 250 black and white snapshots currently being shown at the Aperture Gallery in New York look surprisingly contemporary, and are made even more interesting in the wake of Russia’s recent invasion of the former Soviet republic of Georgia. |
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 MOSCOW — The Russian art world has been booming the last few years on the back of huge investment. But one group conspicuous by its absence has been young collectors. |
 Ten years ago, St. Petersburg was introduced to something new — which was in fact something quite old — with its first Earlymusic Festival. The event highlights the musical heritage of the Middle Ages, Renaissance, and Baroque periods and has become a high point of St. |
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Russkaya Ryumochnaya No. 1 (Russian Vodka Room No.1) 4 Konnogvardeisky Bulvar Tel: 570 6422. Open noon through midnight. Lunch for two without alcohol 3090 rubles ($130) The company behind the hugely successful Stroganoff Steak House has added a new restaurant to its portfolio in another part of the grand palace on Konnogvardeisky Bulvar where it opened for business a year ago. |
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WASHINGTON — U.S. Interior Department employees who oversaw oil drilling on federal lands had sex and used illegal drugs with workers at energy companies where they were conducting official business, an internal government report said on Wednesday. Employees at the department’s Minerals Management Service “socialized with, and received a wide array of gifts and gratuities from, oil and gas companies,” according to the department’s inspector general, Earl Devaney. |
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 MOSCOW — Substitute Pavel Pogrebnyak struck nine minutes from time to help Russia snatch a 2-1 win over Wales in their World Cup Group Four qualifying match on Wednesday. The Zenit St. Petersburg striker, who came on for captain Sergei Semak just seven minutes earlier, fired home a rebound from close range after Welsh keeper Wayne Hennessey saved Konstantin Zyryanov’s header. |
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