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 A nationally-significant statue of Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin in front of St. Petersburg’s Finland railway station was bombed by vandals early on Wednesday morning. The explosion damaged the monument from behind leaving a large and unsightly hole. |
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MOSCOW — Presidents Barack Obama and Dmitry Medvedev announced at their much-anticipated first meeting Wednesday in London that Washington and Moscow would negotiate a new nuclear arms reduction treaty by the end of the year. |
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MOSCOW — A newspaper employee in a Moscow suburb has died after being beaten near his home in the latest of a string of attacks on journalists in Russia, his editor said Wednesday. Sergei Protazanov was found by a passer-by on Sunday as he lay on a sidewalk in the town of Khimki, said Anatoly Yurov, editor of the newspaper Grazhdanskoye Soglasiye. |
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 The 200th anniversary of writer Nikolai Gogol’s birth became the latest point of contention between Russia and Ukraine on Wednesday. Both Ukrainian and Russian leaders named Gogol their national hero, stretching their simmering disputes to include literature. |
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MOSCOW — Dubai police on Wednesday released a retired Russian naval officer detained on suspicion of involvement in the murder of Chechen strongman Sulim Yamadayev over the weekend in the emirate, the suspect’s brother said. |
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Girl in Beaver Attack KALININGRAD (SPT) — A wild beaver bit a girl in the center of Kaliningrad on Wednesday. At the close of a celebration of April Fool’s Day held in the city’s central square, children noticed the arrival of a wild beaver. The girl was bitten when the children began to play with it. |
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WARSAW (Bloomberg) — Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin is “very open” to Poland’s proposals on a new long-term gas contract, his Polish counterpart Donald Tusk said at a press conference in Warsaw on Thursday. Polskie Gornictwo Naftowe i Gazownictwo, the dominant Polish gas company, is seeking new supplies after deliveries from RosUkrEnergo AG, the gas trader that sells about 22 percent of gas exports to Poland from the former Soviet Union, were halted earlier this year by a dispute between Russia and transit country Ukraine. |
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Regional food retailer Magnit reported better-than-expected 2008 results for net income and revenue on Wednesday, and it pledged to carry its aggressive expansion plan into 2009. |
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 Russian officials commonly justify anti-market economics by citing the Russian public’s “nonliberal” values. Policymakers often refer to the fact that the majority of Russians would prefer to reverse the privatizations of the 1990s and return to regulated prices. |
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Last week, Saak Karapetyan, head of the international cooperation department of the Prosecutor General’s Office, gave an interview to Interfax in which he clarified the most important criminal cases in his agency. |
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 The Tiger Lillies never cease to be creative — unlike the many recycled rock veterans who frequent Russia these days. London’s punk-cabaret trio, which works outside music fashion and trends, simply does not need to recycle material from its hey day, because its glory days are not yet over. |
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Objections to a planned concert on Palace Square by Madonna from the Hermitage Museum, City Hall and the city’s parliament last month sounded vehement, but somehow dubious, considering all the outdoor shows, including concerts by Paul McCartney, the Rolling Stones and Elton John (not to mention a ï“… none other than Mikhail Piotrovsky, director of the Hermitage and a frequent opponent of any entertainment on Palace Square, while City Hall’s culture committee authorized the show, Interfax news agency reported. |
 “Culture that blindly replicates tradition is a dead culture!” declared Igor P in 2005 over what he perceived to be Russian street art’s increasing blandness and reproduction of the same images. This is a sentiment with which Yevgeny Orlov, director of the Museum of Non-Conformist Art in St. |
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“Good Meat...Good Men...Good Life” reads the unusual advertisement in English outside of Steak House, located on Suvorovsky Prospekt. This clearly American-style steak house holds no secrets. |
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 By Yuriy Humber Bloomberg MOSCOW — Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, one of Russia’s staunchest allies, is inviting an East-West bidding war for his country as he seeks to hold onto power and keep its economy afloat amid the global crisis. Lukashenko, who has run what the U.S. in 2005 called “Europe’s last dictatorship” for 15 years, agreed in January to accelerate state asset sales and reduce government-ordered bank lending in exchange for a $2. |
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LONDON — Thousands of people demonstrated on the streets of London ahead of the G20 summit here in angry protests that descended into violent battles with police and saw one man collapse and die. After a day of protests Wednesday to mark the summit of world leaders in the capital, a man died in hospital after falling unconscious inside a police cordon near the Bank of England. |
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EDINBURGH, Scotland — Police said Thursday that 16 people were killed when a helicopter went down off Scotland’s northeast coast, announcing that the search for eight people still missing was now a recovery rather than a rescue operation. |
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 MIAMI — World number two Roger Federer overcame American Andy Roddick in three sets to set up a semi-final clash with Novak Djokovic at the ATP Masters 1000 hardcourt tournament here. The second-seeded Swiss, still in search of his first title of 2009, defeated Roddick 6-3, 4-6, 6-4, avenging a quarter-final loss to the American here last year. |
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LONDON — England captain John Terry revealed a hair cut from Wayne Rooney helped get him in the right frame of mind to keep his country on course for the World Cup finals. |
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LA PAZ — Argentina coach Diego Maradona refused to blame the negative effects of competing at altitude after his side was humiliated 6-1 by Bolivia on Wednesday, thus registering its worst defeat in 60 years. Bolivia’s goals came from a Joaquin Botero hat-trick and Marcelo Martins, Alex Da Rosa and Didi Torrico while Argentina found the net through Luis Gonzalez at La Paz’s high-altitude Hernando Siles’s stadium. |
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