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A man died after being detained by police in St. Petersburg, Interfax reported Thursday. The case is the latest in a recent wave of violent incidents involving police officers. According to a statement from the police, a police officer used his foot to “push away” the man, who was allegedly drunk, in the process of detaining him on Nov. |
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After a provincial policeman’s YouTube appeal to Prime Minister Vladimir Putin about corruption and unbearable working conditions became an Internet sensation earlier this month, officials all over the country have begun posting their grievances online. |
 Frightening pictures of damage inflicted on the statues from the Summer Gardens by nature and vandalism were shown Tuesday at a press conference organized by the State Russian Museum focusing on the restoration of the sculptures. The Summer Gardens were closed for restoration this summer, and when they reopen in 2011, all the original 18th-century marble sculptures depicting figures from antiquity will be replaced with copies, while the originals will go on display in the Mikhailovsky Castle. |
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The Federation Council on Wednesday voted overwhelmingly to approve United Russia politician Viktor Yevtukhov, a lawmaker with the St. Petersburg Legislative Assembly, as the senator representing the St. |
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MOSCOW — Thousands of women in Russia are subject to violence, including sexual abuse, domestic violence, human trafficking and crimes related to national traditions, according to a report released Wednesday. Every hour, a Russian woman is killed by her husband or partner, while a woman is sexually abused every 30 minutes, the report said. |
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MOSCOW — The Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered the reopening of an investigation into a previously convicted opposition activist, following a European Court of Human Rights ruling last year that he was imprisoned unlawfully. |
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 Hundreds of St. Petersburg residents, many of them navy officers and shipbuilders, lined up in the fog on Wednesday to visit the French warship The Mistral, which arrived in the city on Monday and which the Russian military hopes to buy. During a two-day visit by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin to France that started on Thursday the two countries may finally agree the purchase of a French Mistral-class amphibious assault ship, RIA Novosti reported. |
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While Governor Valentina Matviyenko continues to receive congratulations on her election to the Supreme Council of the United Russia party, which held its annual congress in St. |
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ULYANOVSK — President Dmitry Medvedev sacked several senior generals Tuesday over a series of explosions at an arms depot in central Russia this month, in which 10 people were killed, Reuters reported. Two people died when a chain of ammunition explosions ripped through the Navy arsenal in Ulyanovsk, 800 kilometers east of Moscow on Nov. |
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MOSCOW — The sons of multimillionaire Telman Ismailov were two of the drivers said to have been involved in a luxury-car race in Switzerland that ended in a crash leaving an elderly German badly injured, media reported Tuesday. |
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MOSCOW — A drunken policeman, assisted by two colleagues, beat to death an Abkhaz man on a street in southeastern Moscow on Monday night, investigators said, the latest incident in a recent spate of police violence. The three were arrested Monday night and were cooperating with investigators, the Investigative Committee said Tuesday in a statement. |
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MOSCOW — Triumphant after their recent victory over United Russia, a top lobby group for car owners has decided to register as a political movement and has already drawn pledges of support from populist politicians, a leader said Monday. |
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MOSCOW — The Federal Anti-Monopoly Service reached an agreement with the four-biggest Russian oil firms on determining oil prices, hopefully ensuring that there is no repeat of a protracted spat between the two sides that has run on since 2008. The service reached the agreement with the heads of Rosneft, LUKoil, TNK-BP and Gazprom Neft, Anatoly Golomolzin, deputy head of the service, told Prime-Tass on Wednesday. |
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MOSCOW — The Federal Customs Service’s plan for announced inspections of business next year was the first to fall afoul of the Prosecutor General’s Office, which said 90 percent of its proposed checks were illegal. |
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MOSCOW — Gazprom modestly increased its investment spending for next year to $27.9 billion Tuesday, even as it risks losing half as much this year and next year in a dispute over extra customs duties. The spending is 5.4 percent more than the world’s largest gas producer is investing this year, further evidence of its hopes for a market recovery. |
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MOSCOW — The Central Bank will keep cutting interest rates as policy makers try to prevent speculative capital from flowing in and destabilizing the currency, First Deputy Chairman Alexei Ulyukayev said Wednesday. |
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MOSCOW — Maintaining a comfortable lifestyle while working in Russia is difficult for many foreigners, but the ease of making new friends among the locals could sweeten the pill for many. According to HSBC’s expat experience report, Russia ranks two points from the bottom in terms of quality of life among the 26 countries surveyed, but it places fourth in terms of making new friends, especially among locals. |
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Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Monday promised to provide housing by 2012 for all military officers who have retired in the last 20 years. The government has shown increasing urgency in its goal to provide adequate housing for servicemen and women, with next year looming as a deadline for providing World War II veterans with their long-promised free apartments. |
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 After President Dmitry Medvedev’s state-of-the-nation address, we were planning to write about whether it is possible to carry out modernization in Russia without political liberalization. But last week’s tragic death of lawyer Sergei Magnitsky in a pretrial detention facility pushed all other issues aside. |
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Last week, 37-year-old Sergei Magnitsky, a lawyer for Hermitage Capital, died in a Moscow pretrial detention center. William Browder, head of Hermitage Capital and a talented financier, did a lot to improve the investment climate in Russia in the 1990s. |
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 Getting hold of Eurovision Song Contest 2009 winner Alexander Rybak is near impossible. Almost every day the young singer and violinist has a concert in a new city or even new country. Rybak recently released his debut album “Fairytales” and has started a live tour of Europe, which includes a local concert on Sunday. |
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Gogol Bordello, the multi-ethnic folk-punk band from New York that mixes punk rock, Gypsy folk music and cabaret, returns to the city for a one-off show this week. |
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There is much speculation in the West about the possible results of China’s rise in economic power and global influence. Russia seems to have mixed views toward it: On the one hand last month’s announcement of $3.5 billion worth of trade agreements across the border seems to suggest a positive mutual understanding, but the spectacle ads scattered around St. Petersburg that read “cheaper than Chinese glasses” and have an illustration of a squinting Asian man seem to suggest that perhaps this understanding is not quite so deep. Chinese food is, however, undeniably popular in Russia, and new Chinese restaurants continue to pop up all over the city. |
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 An annual festival of Finnish cinema returns to the city for the 20th time this weekend, presenting the best Finnish movies of the season. The history of the week of Finnish cinema in St. |
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