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MOSCOW — Russia’s top general said Wednesday that the military wants to buy a French helicopter carrier, has deployed advanced air defense systems on the border with North Korea and will press ahead in developing the beleaguered Bulava missile. Colonel General Nikolai Makarov, the chief of the General Staff, also said negotiations have resumed with the United States to set up a Moscow-based joint control center to track missile launches. In what would be a landmark deal, the military plans to buy a Mistral-class helicopter carrier — capable of carrying 16 helicopters, 40 tanks or up to 900 troops — and then jointly produce three or four additional carriers with France in Russian shipyards, Makarov said. “Before the year’s end, we plan to obtain contract agreements with a French company allowing the construction and purchase of this ship,” Makarov told reporters in the Mongolian capital, Ulan Bator, where he was traveling with President Dmitry Medvedev. |
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Builders work on the Okhta Center construction site. Public hearings on the height of the facility, commonly known as the Gazprom Tower, are planned for 9 a.m. Tuesday, thus coinciding with the traditional Day of Knowledge that marks the opening of schools on Sept. 1. |
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St. Petersburg police detained between 128 and 180 migrants from Central Asia on Wednesday who lived on the abandoned territory of the city’s Krasny Treugolnik rubber factory. Police organized the raid of the plant as a part of a murder investigation. Law enforcement officials were investigating the murder of a 47-year-old woman committed the night of August 12.
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Patrols carried out by the local branch of the international environmental pressure group Greenpeace on Wednesday detected three massive industrial waste discharges in the Neva, Izhora and Monastyrka rivers. According to preliminary estimates by Greenpeace experts, at least several tons of industrial waste — most likely fuel oil— have been dumped into the waters of the Neva River through a single pipe located on the Arsenalnaya Embankment near Liteiny Bridge. |
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The management at St. Petersburg’s firm Rakurs, which designed the automated safety system for the Sayano-Shushenskaya hydro-electric plant, has denied accusations targeted at it by Russian Technical Watchdog, or RosTekhNadzor, in connection with the recent accident at the station. |
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MOSCOW — A Channel One documentary accusing Western journalists of misrepresenting the South Ossetia war is itself at the center of a scandal over bad reporting. Novaya Gazeta journalist Arkady Babchenko said Wednesday that the film, “08.08.08: The War on Air,” featured a photograph that he took in Georgia without his permission and wrongly indicated that it was taken by a U. |
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MOSCOW — A police officer who killed three and wounded six in a Moscow supermarket in April is sane but suffers from an inferiority complex, investigators said Wednesday. |
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MOSCOW — A prominent Moscow judge faces dismissal over suspicion that her negligence helped a suspect charged with fraud flee from custody, a Moscow City Court spokeswoman said. Moscow City Court Chairwoman Olga Yegorova has requested the dismissal of Judge Yelena Yarlykova of the Basmanny District Court, who oversaw trials involving Yukos executives and former senior investigator Dmitry Dovgy, court spokeswoman Anna Usachyova told Kommersant. |
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MOSCOW — Media executives looking at business opportunities in Russia this year are dreaming of an unlikely place: the dacha. With advertising budgets and readers’ incomes slashed by the crisis, the country’s magazines and newspapers are suffering together with media worldwide. |
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MOSCOW — Even as university hopefuls sat down this summer for the Single State Exam, designed to fight corruption and cheating in education, a number of them had managed to buy the exam’s questions and answers in advance. A high school graduate from the Siberian city of Omsk bought questions for the Single State Exam for 1,800 rubles ($55), splitting the cost with several friends. |
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 MOSCOW — Last year’s Moscow Car Show was hailed as an up-and-coming international event and a symbol of Russia’s surging market. At this year’s Interavto, many domestic carmakers were barely present, let alone the foreign firms. Three guitarists and an accordion player provided the sound track to the modest opening ceremony. |
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MOSCOW — The number of consumers planning to buy a car in the next few years has begun to increase, as state measures such as subsidized auto loans begin to bolster demand for Russian-made cars, a poll released Tuesday found. |
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MOSCOW — Mongolia on Tuesday chose a Russian government-owned corporation as a partner to develop a major uranium deposit, signing a joint venture agreement just a month after suspending a private Canadian firm’s license for the field. The deal to set up the 50-50 venture was signed between ARMZ Uranium Holding Company, a subsidiary of state corporation Rosatom, and Mongolia’s state-owned MonAtom during a visit by President Dmitry Medvedev to Mongolia. “Russia has became the first country with which Mongolia has signed an agreement on uranium cooperation,” Rosatom chief Sergei Kiriyenko said. “It’s an important political signal.” Russia will invest “hundreds of millions of dollars” in the deposit, called Dornod, Kiriyenko said. |
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 MOSCOW — The state corporation model has made it difficult to oversee expenses for Olympics preparations, government sources say, and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has proposed returning to the previous financing model — a federal targeted program. |
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 In the past several months, global asset prices have rebounded sharply. Stock prices have increased by more than 30 percent in advanced economies, and by much more in most emerging markets. Prices of commodities — oil, energy and minerals — have soared, and corporate credit spreads (the difference between the yield of corporate and government bonds) have narrowed dramatically. |
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A farmer named Khrebtov lived in the republic of Altai. He had always worked on 16 hectares of land, but for the past three years the government refused to renew the rental agreement for his plot of land. |
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 Kindness is key to the coaching philosophy of Mikhail Messerer, one of the world’s most respected ballet teachers and the new Ballet Master in Chief of the Mikhailovsky Theater. Apparently, this quality, along with ballet genes, is in his blood. His mother, Sulamith Messerer, an ?migr? teacher, coached all over the world, from Japan to the USA and Great Britain, enjoying a reputation as a leading teacher who had a talent, as Mikhail puts it, “for looking at a crowd and seeing an assembly of individuals. |
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Against all odds, the autumn season starts with a bang as Glavclub, the 2,000-capacity venue launched last November, will be hosting three concerts by international “name” artists in the space of a week. |
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The combined effects of the crisis and the vagaries of Russian construction have played havoc with new restaurant openings this summer season out in the Kurortny Rayon — the city’s “Resort Region” along the coast of the Gulf of Finland. The new kids on the block should have all opened in May in order to really make the most of those heading out of the city for a bite to eat on the weekends. |
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