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MOSCOW — A man in a black mask pumped five bullets into Rasul Khalilov, an 18-year-old Azeri student, as he left his apartment building in northern Moscow earlier this month, killing him on the spot. But this was no ordinary racist attack. Khalilov, an economics student at the Moscow Institute of Economics and Culture, was exiting his apartment building near the Otradnoye metro station on the morning of Sept. 3 to go to court. He was on trial on charges of carrying out racially motivated attacks on white Russian youth as part of a group that the media and rights activists have dubbed the Black Hawks. The trial, which is expected to end this week in the Dorogomilovsky District Court, marks an unusual twist in a city where racist violence occurs all too often against people from the Caucasus, as well as from Central Asia, Asia and Africa. |
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President Dmitry Medvedev watches the West 2009 military exercises as he visits Khmelevka, the Baltic fleet training ground, outside Kaliningrad on Monday. Weather forecasters are predicting rain for the rest of the week and into the weekend. |
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MOSCOW — President Dmitry Medvedev expressed serious concern about Iran’s construction of a new uranium enrichment plant and urged the country to prove it didn’t seek to build a nuclear bomb, in a statement that brings Moscow closer to the West in assessing the threat. Medvedev spoke after Iran confirmed Friday that it had for years been building an underground plant to enrich uranium near the city of Qom, even as the United Nations Security Council demands that Iran stop enriching uranium at the country’s first plant.
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A whole host of celebrities is traveling across Russia this week with books of fairytales that they themselves have written, helping to raise funds for a charity project targeting children with heart conditions. The popular television presenter Darya Subbotina will be representing the “alliance of stars” at the city’s Children’s Hospital No. |
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A statue of Dmitry Shostakovich, thought to be the first to be erected in his hometown, was unveiled by the composer’s son Maxim on Friday near the Grand Canyon shopping mall in the north of St. |
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St. Petersburg’s Primorsky court on Friday sentenced midwife and home birth proponent Yelena Yermakova to five and a half years in an open prison. Yermakova’s husband, Alexei Yermakov, who was also a co-owner of Kolybelka, or Cradle, a parental culture center, was sentenced to probation for the same period, the RBK news agency reported. |
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MOSCOW — The wives of four sailors who have lived on the Arctic Sea for the past two months have appealed for their return to Russia after Spanish authorities refused to let the cargo ship dock for a handover to its owners. |
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Most St. Petersburg residents object to the controversial Okhta Center skyscraper, also known as the Gazprom Tower, a poll presented on Monday showed. The poll, which was commissioned by the tower’s opponents, produced vastly different results from the Gazprom-commissioned poll presented last week. |
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MOSCOW — President Dmitry Medvedev appointed an illustrious list of figures to the Public Chamber late last week, including Kaspersky Lab founder Yevgeny Kaspersky and television host Tina Kandelaki, in a move that analysts said could be aimed at increasing the political weight of the body. |
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MOSCOW — A senior Dagestan official who survived three assassination attempts at home has been shot dead by gunmen in southwestern Moscow, investigators said Monday. One suspect, a 32-year-old Dagestani resident, was detained while driving a getaway car. Two gunmen fired at least 20 rounds at Alim-Sultan Alkhmatov, head of Dagestan’s Khasavyurt district, from automatic rifles as he and two bodyguards got out a car at about 8:15 p. |
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The first Hennes & Mauritz (H&M) store in St. Petersburg will open in November in Mega Dybenko. The Swedish retailer has rented about 2,300 square meters in the shopping mall and plans to open on Nov. 5, H&M’s press service announced. A representative of IKEA, which owns Mega, confirmed the opening. |
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Twenty new swimming pools will be built in St. Petersburg during the next three years, City Governor Valentina Matviyenko said on Saturday, Gazeta. Ru reported. |
 Finnish customers of the popular Nokian Tyres brand are worried about the origin of the Finnish company’s tires being sold in Finland, and are unwilling to buy tires produced in Russia, Fontanka.ru reported on Monday. A number of Finnish customers expressed dissatisfaction after they discovered that Nokian tires produced in Russia were being sold in Finland, which has its own production line for the product, the news portal reported. |
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Cell Phone Sales Down MOSCOW (Bloomberg) — Russians bought 32 percent fewer mobile telephones in the third quarter than in the same period last year, according to Yevroset, the country’s biggest handset retailer. |
 MOSCOW — Sberbank has acquired a “golden share” in search engine Yandex, a move assuring the government that control over the strategic asset won’t be gained by someone who shouldn’t have it. Yandex and Sberbank said Wednesday that the search engine’s parent company, Dutch-registered Yandex N. |
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MOSCOW — The number of mutual funds and asset management companies is on the rise, even in the aftermath of the financial crisis. Since last September, the Federal Financial Markets Service has annulled a record number of management company licenses — 45 in all, or almost one per week, according to statistics from the National League of Management Companies. |
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 Preoccupation with Afghanistan’s disputed presidential election is understandable. Ending the country’s violence will require a government with both the legitimacy and capacity to tackle the underlying sources of the Taliban insurgency. But achieving success in Afghanistan — defined as achieving a sustainable democratic regime able to contain political violence, prevent the reconstruction of a terrorist base with global reach and dampen a narcotics-funded insurgency that threatens neighboring countries — requires greater policy harmonization among the world powers that have a stake in the outcome. |
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The footage from the sprawling Cherkizovsky Market that inundated Russian television after the authorities shut it down makes hair-raising viewing. But it is also part of a distressing story of how Russia is being savagely exploited. |
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 MOSCOW — President Boris Yeltsin spent his retirement in a “golden cage,” his phone tapped and the Kremlin controlling his visitors, former Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov said in excerpts from a forthcoming book. Vladimir Putin, who replaced Yeltsin as president in 2000, forced Yeltsin to celebrate his 75th birthday in the Kremlin and controlled the guest list, Kasyanov wrote in his memoir, excerpts of which were published in the opposition weekly The New Times this week. |
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 Management is a flexible industry. The development of business in the regions and changes in the global economy have had an impact on all companies, from the smallest to the largest international firms. Consequently, management as a science is changing to adapt to the new conditions, and business education programs cannot therefore fail to do the same. |
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St. Petersburg State University’s Graduate School of Management, Sistema and Sberbank will bring to Russia a pan-European Master’s International Business CEMS program. |
 Crisis or no crisis, studying foreign languages does not seem to wax and wane in popularity in Russia. St. Petersburg’s thriving language schools are ample evidence of this. “In Soviet times there was the myth of ‘abroad,’ wonderful countries that everyone dreamed of going to,” said Stanislav Chernyshov, director of Extra Class Language Center. “Ever since then, intelligent, educated Russians have strived to achieve that aim. |
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 Former IMD president Peter Lorange sparked a revolution in the world of MBAs, turning a commercial business school into one of the best by contrasting it with universities’ programs. |
 Nightlife in St. Petersburg and Moscow has changed during the last year. You can still find alcohol-drenched debauchery, if that is what you want. But now you can also increasingly opt to go and hear a lecture on constructivism or art history. “The financial crisis has made people reconsider their values and use of time, and people have begun searching for alternative ways of spending their free time,” said Danil Perushev, of the web site Theoryandpractice. |
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MOSCOW — Virtually no Russians have become new Internet users in the past year, state pollster VTsIOM said Thursday. Sixty-nine percent of respondents said they never use the Internet, the same number VTsIOM found when it conducted a similar survey a year ago. |
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