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MOSCOW — When senior officials declared their incomes and those of their wives and children last month, some claimed that they owned tiny apartments and ancient cars -- while others said they earned as much as $11 million and owned snazzy Porsches and Lexuses. |
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MOSCOW — A new round of tensions with the West ratcheted up over the holiday weekend when a spy dispute unfolded with NATO that is expected to prompt Russia to expel Western diplomats. |
 Mass arrests were made in St. Petersburg early on Friday as people gathered on Ligovsky Prospect in the center to take part in May Day demonstrations. The police said the arrests were made to prevent anarchists from attacking nationalists, but anarchists denied that any attack had been planned. |
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Musicologists can easily put the various branches of American hip-hop’s family tree into a volume of categories: geography (East Coast, West Coast, “Dirty South”); fashion aesthetics (backpackers, bling, gangsta rap); and production values (slick Miami gloss, crunchy glitch-hop, old-school). |
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 MOSCOW — Rehearsals for the Eurovision Song Contest kicked off at the Olimpiisky Sports Complex on Sunday, the first official day in the run-up to the competition, which begins May 12. The stadium, which was built for the 1980 Olympics, has undergone a transformation, including what organizers promise is the most expensive Eurovision stage ever. |
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MOSCOW — Less than half of all Russians believe that the country is headed in the right direction just a year after Dmitry Medvedev was elected president on promises to follow Vladimir Putin’s course, according to a new poll. |
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A Russian-born woman has been jailed in the U.S. state of Maine after purportedly consuming prescription drugs, wine and liquid soap from the lavatory and scuffling with flight attendants on a London-bound jetliner. U.S. prosecutors said Galina Rusanova, a British citizen born in Russia, punched and kicked flight attendants and at one point fell to the floor and began “snapping like a dog” while trying to bite a crew member’s leg. |
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A wealthy Russian-born entrepreneur has pleaded guilty in a U.S. court to sex crimes involving three minor girls from Russia. Andrew Mogilyansky, a 38-year-old resident of Philadelphia, pleaded guilty traveling to Russia in 2003 to procure young teenagers from orphanages and have sex with them at his St. |
 KIROV — It’s only been four months since liberal politician Nikita Belykh became the governor of Kirov, but local businessmen say the difference is like night and day. Dubbed “Russia’s Barack Obama” by one magazine, Belykh is steaming ahead on fulfilling promises to cut red tape for small businesses and attract foreign investment to one of the most economically depressed regions in the country. |
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MOSCOW — During the ongoing economic crisis, the outbreak of a global flu epidemic would seem to be all it would take to put the nail in the world economy’s coffin. Yet if signs from the end of last week are to be believed, the only real victim of the swine flu crisis may be Mexican pork sales, which dropped by as much as 85 percent, according to the country’s pork producer association. |
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MOSCOW — Russia is facing widespread criticism for import bans on pork in response to the A/H1N1 influenza virus, also known as the swine flu, which U. |
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MOSCOW — This year’s federal budget, along with the planned budget for 2010 to 2011, will be amended to strengthen spending on programs for social welfare and economic development, President Dmitry Medvedev told a group of lawmakers on Thursday. “Despite the significant decrease in federal revenues, we have managed to not only preserve, but in some cases, actually increase social spending,” Medvedev said. |
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KazMunaiGaz Deal ALMATY, Kazakhstan — Kazakh state oil firm KazMunaiGaz struck a deal Thursday that will significantly boost its access to the Caspian Pipeline Consortium. |
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MOSCOW — Deputy Prime Minister Igor Sechin warned the European Union’s top energy official on Thursday that gas supplies to Europe through Ukraine could still break down because of limitations in the country’s pipeline system. Ukraine needs to buy 19. |
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The budget for the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum has been cut by a quarter this year, and foreign companies are being allowed to become sponsors for the first time, Economic Development Minister Elvira Nabiullina told reporters Wednesday. |
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The struggle for power in Georgia is now in its fourth week, with parts of Tbilisi under constant blockade. The opposition has established what it calls a “city of cells” — hundreds of imitation prison cells built from steel bars, rope and polythene sheeting — to seal off roads outside the parliament, the presidential residence and the state television channel. |
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Do the Olympic Games benefit the host country? It depends on whom you ask. Politicians and the overwhelming majority of citizens from the host country support the games, but economists often point out that the Olympics are a very expensive indulgence. |
 Many historians make a living out of searching for “lost opportunities.” If only the Western Allies had not been so hard on the Germans after World War I, there is a good chance that Germany would not have suffered economically. And if post-World War I Germany had been more prosperous, Adolf Hitler and the Nazis would never had been able to win popular support and World War II would have been avoided. |
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The mayoral campaign in Sochi was full of surprises. Of course, it was not a “full-fledged political battle,” as President Dmitry Medvedev described it, but it was a significant improvement compared to mayoral races of recent years. |
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 MOSCOW — Will wonders never cease? Anyone who has followed this newspaper’s arts pages even fleetingly will know that its theater critic is afflicted with a ghastly disease: He is utterly incapable of appreciating anything even closely resembling a musical. “There is nothing remotely entertaining,” he has been heard to grouse glumly, “about a bunch of hyperactive people dancing and crooning uncontrollably at the most inopportune times to the sappiest music ever concocted before everyone suddenly, though predictably, arrives at the obligatory happy end. |
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ROME — Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi on Monday demanded an apology from his wife for her public complaints over his roving eye and said their stormy marriage was heading for divorce. “Veronica must apologise publicly,” the 72-year-old Berlusconi told Corriere della Sera newspaper as he went on the offensive in the couple’s public row. |
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 STUTTGART, Germany — Svetlana Kuznetsova beat Russian compatriot and world number one Dinara Safina 6-4, 6-3 in Sunday’s final to win Stuttgart’s WTA tournament to bring an end to her losing streak in finals. The fifth-seed needed just one hour and 19 minutes to beat the highest-ranked player in the world in straight sets to claim the winner’s prize of a new Porsche sports car. |
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Tiger Woods was the last person Sean O’Hair wanted to see. It was Monday at the Masters, just eight days after O’Hair squandered a five-shot lead and watched the world’s No. |
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.jpg) Coming in to land above Dusseldorf, it is surprising how densely populated the city’s outskirts are for miles around. Red-roofed houses stretch out into the distance between well-groomed fields. Forests, though, are few and far between, at least in comparison to Russia. Dusseldorf, the capital of North Rhine Westphalia, Germany’s most populous region, is one of the country’s largest centers for business, shopping and nightlife. |
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