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 Thousands protested the authorities’ decision to let Gazprom build a 403-meter skyscraper close to St. Petersburg’s historic center at a rally on Saturday. Protesters opposed the construction of the Okhta Center tower, saying it would ruin St. Petersburg’s UNESCO-protected skyline, and called for the resignation of Governor Valentina Matviyenko, an outspoken adherent of the project, who signed off on City Hall’s decision to allow the construction to go ahead last week. |
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MOSCOW — The Interior Ministry said Friday that it has asked Interpol to put William Browder, once one of Russia’s largest foreign investors, on an international wanted list as part of an investigation into a $16. |
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MOSCOW — President Dmitry Medvedev said Saturday that he hoped U.S. President Barack Obama’s surprise 2009 Nobel Peace Prize would encourage the further improvement of U.S.-Russian relations. The Norwegian Nobel Committee announced Friday that Obama, just nine months into his first term in office, had won the prize “for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples” and for his “vision of and work for a world without nuclear weapons. |
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MOSCOW — Miroslav Klose booked Germany their place at the 2010 World Cup in South Africa as his first-half goal sealed a 1-0 win for the 10-man Germans over Russia here on Saturday. |
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MOSCOW — Vyacheslav Ivankov, better known as Yaponchik and dubbed the godfather of the Russian mafia, died at a Moscow hospital Friday morning after being wounded by a sniper in July. He was 69. Ivankov died from peritonitis, an inflammation of the abdomen that resulted from his wound, medical sources told RIA-Novosti and Interfax. The Investigative Committee confirmed that Ivankov had died. Calls to the Oncological Center on Kashirskoye Shosse, where he was said to have died, went unanswered. Doctors performed several operations on him in the last several months, but they were not enough to save him, Interfax reported. Ivankov was gunned down in late July when he was leaving the Thai Elephant restaurant in northwestern Moscow. |
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 MOSCOW — A Moscow court convicted six Caucasus youths of beating two white teens in a racially motivated attack Thursday and sentenced them to prison terms ranging from four to seven years. |
 MOSCOW — It will be clear that the Russian economy has recovered when construction on Moskva-City, the city’s new business district, is completed, Mirax Group president Sergei Polonsky said. “It’s hard to say when all construction at Moskva-City will be completed — there are a lot of projects under way,” he told The St. |
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Russia will change its policy on the use of nuclear and other weapons as part of a new military doctrine that could take effect by the year’s end, Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev said Thursday. |
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 City Hall plans to spend 9.5 billion rubles ($321 million) next year to build 260,000 square meters of residential real estate — three times less than this year. The targeted investment program has allocated the funds to construct and purchase housing for the city’s needs, Eduard Batanov, chairman of the financial committee, said last week. |
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MOSCOW — Sollers will open a plant in Vladivostok at the end of the year to assemble Korean cars, with investment in the project reaching 5 billion rubles ($169 million), Vadim Shvetsov, the auto holding’s director and main shareholder, said Friday. |
 MOSCOW — WiMax operator Skartel, 25.1 percent of which belongs to Russian Technologies, is building a federal network of 180 cities under its Yota brand, but the source of financing for the project remains a mystery. Skartel, which has been providing a high-speed wireless Internet service since this summer, expects to become a nationwide operator covering 180 cities in Russia within three years, spokeswoman Natalya Tsarevskaya-Dyakina told Vedomosti. |
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MOSCOW — A yearlong campaign against corruption has allowed law enforcement officials to tally up thousands of cases, but major successes have been elusive. |
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TNK-BP Plan MOSCOW (Bloomberg) — TNK-BP said it would spend $1.3 billion on improving the quality of fuels produced in refineries in Russia and Ukraine over the next five years, TNK-BP said Thursday. The company also plans to invest $400 million in new oil field development in the Yamal region. |
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 MOSCOW — Builders knocked down a 19th-century building on a protected piece of land in central Moscow last Thursday to make way for an elite apartment complex, the latest casualty in a construction drive that preservationists say is destroying the city’s cultural heritage. |
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MOSCOW — Many of Moscow’s foreign media are worrying about rising costs after the Foreign Ministry’s property department notified them that rental rates would go up sharply next year. |
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MOSCOW — The Moscow city government will now use exclusively domestic materials on its construction sites, RIA-Novosti reported Monday. The decision was made to “support domestic suppliers, lower construction costs, use the potential of the capital’s industrial facilities and create more jobs for Muscovites,” in addition to other reasons, said a source in the city administration who asked that his name not be used. |
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MOSCOW — Elite apartment rentals have become much less popular among foreigners this year, while demand for luxury apartments by Russian clients has tripled, according to a report released Monday. |
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It is a pity that President Dmitry Medvedev will not share the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize with U.S. President Barack Obama. In my view, he deserves it no less than Obama, whose principal accomplishments are still in the future. Together with Obama and French President Nicolas Sarkozy, Medvedev is responsible for changing the tone and direction of international politics to craft a better world. |
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The Nobel Peace Prize awarded to U.S. President Barack Obama on Friday was greeted with astonishment as much as any other emotion, even among many of his admirers. |
 The international crisis dealt a severe blow to the Russian economy. The lower oil prices and reversal of international capital flows to emerging markets hit the country hard because the shocks struck just as the economy was on a steep upturn and Russia’s dependence on oil made it particularly vulnerable. |
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In December, I predicted that there would be huge shakeup in the Kremlin and White House at some point in 2009. It looks like I will be wrong on this one. |
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