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MOSCOW — Gazprom has offered Ukraine specific gas fields with reserves of up to 1 trillion cubic meters if Naftogaz Ukrainy agrees to contribute its gas assets to their joint venture, chief executive Alexei Miller said Friday. The two state energy giants are destined to be together, Miller said, suggesting that Moscow was prepared to offer additional perks to make an eventual merger more palatable to deeply skeptical political leaders in Kiev. |
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MOSCOW — A Federal Fisheries Agency official tossed 10 million rubles ($320,000) out his car window on a busy Moscow street in a desperate attempt to avoid bribery charges during a failed car chase, investigators said. |
 The police broke up a gay pride event in the center of St. Petersburg, arresting five activists Saturday. Twenty-two people who came as part of a larger group — some armed with baseball bats — with the apparent intention of attacking the rally were also arrested. |
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The first editor of The St. Petersburg Times has died in Britain. Lloyd Donaldson collapsed at the Glastonbury Festival and died on Saturday. He was 46. |
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River Traffic Accident ST. PETERSBURG (SPT) — A boat on which students from the European University in St. Petersburg were celebrating their graduation crashed into another boat in the early hours of Sunday morning, Fontanka.ru reported. European University Vice Principal Vadim Volkov said that the helmsman of the boat carrying the students was not to blame for the incident. |
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President Dmitry Medvedev’s press office faces some competition. At the G8/20 summit, Medvedev announced efforts to overhaul global financial rules and an agreement for regular talks with new British Prime Minister David Cameron on his new Twitter microblog. |
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Tsarskoye Selo (Tsar’s Village), a former residence of the Russian imperial family located in St. Petersburg’s suburb of Pushkin, celebrated its 300th anniversary this weekend. |
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MOSCOW — A 26-year-old journalist for the pro-Kremlin Expert cable television channel was found in his Moscow apartment with more than 30 knife wounds to his neck, investigators said. Investigators and friends of Dmitry Okkert, a Chelyabinsk native, expressed doubt that the killing was linked to his professional activities. |
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MOSCOW — Vasily Aleksanyan, the gravely ill former Yukos vice president, will leave Russia for treatment abroad after a Moscow court on Thursday dropped charges against him following the expiration of their statute of limitations last month. |
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MOSCOW — Russian human rights ombudsman Vladimir Lukin has come under heavy fire from United Russia for his criticism of a violent police crackdown on a May 31 opposition protest. Lukin, who has held the post since 2004, overstepped his authority by taking sides in a political conflict, Sergei Markov, a prominent State Duma deputy for United Russia, said Thursday. |
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MOSCOW — Coca-Cola has started selling kvas in New York in the hope of winning over the American palate to the mildly fermented Russian drink with a peculiar crisp malt taste. Krushka & Bochka Kvass, which Coca-Cola launched in Russia in the spring of 2008, went on sale in Whole Foods Market stores to commemorate President Dmitry Medvedev’s visit to the United States last week, the soft drink giant said. |
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A reshuffle at City Hall has led to the strengthening of the financial-economic bloc led by Deputy Governor Mikhail Oseyevsky. Oseyevsky will be appointed leader of the governor’s administration after the retirement of Alexander Vakhmistrov, St. |
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Rosneft Accepts Ruling MOSCOW (Bloomberg) — Rosneft, Russia’s largest oil producer, will abide by a Dutch court decision seeking 12.9 billion rubles ($420 million), the Moscow-based company said. “The company believed its position would be carefully studied by the high court in Netherlands, which unfortunately didn’t happen,” Rosneft said Monday in a statement. |
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MOSCOW — President Dmitry Medvedev left California’s Silicon Valley on Thursday with a brand-new iPhone 4 and a bit of advice from Apple CEO Steve Jobs: Change Russians’ mentality. |
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MOSCOW — The Moscow Arbitration Court on Thursday rejected a lawsuit from the Russian Beer Union that sought a retraction from a government official who claimed that brewers spiked their beer with hard alcohol. In December, Yevgeny Bryun, head drug control official at the Health and Social Development Ministry, accused beer makers of spiking beer with alcohol to make it stronger. |
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MOSCOW — Repairs at Raspadskaya’s largest mine will cost 10 billion rubles ($320 million) — a price tag that will be borne largely by stakeholders, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said Thursday. |
 Sukhoi Civil Aircraft, the commercial unit of Russian military plane maker Sukhoi, is chipping away at a Canadian-Brazilian duopoly for regional jets after scoring a milestone certification for its SuperJet model. The engine for the SuperJet, Russia’s first major passenger airplane project since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, was certified on Wednesday by the European Aviation Safety Agency. |
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MOSCOW — The population of rich Russians grew by 21.3 percent to 117,700 in 2009 — the world’s second-best result — and the outlook remains optimistic, according to a report on world wealth released last week. |
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 A recurring theme in the U.S. Senate’s hearings on the New START treaty has been the disappointment expressed by many senators over the treaty’s failure to limit Russia’s tactical nuclear warheads. Supporters of New START respond that the treaty’s exclusive focus on strategic nuclear warheads follows the pattern of all previous U. |
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Last year, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made a memorable gaffe. She gave her Russian counterpart a “reset” button, but the word on top of it was missing two crucial letters, thus turning “reset” into “overload. |
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 Canada’s globe-trotting, internationally renowned Cirque du Soleil rocked the city on Saturday with the European premiere of one of the company’s most recent shows, “Corteo.” Directed by Daniele Finzi Pasca, a Swiss-born Italian, the production has a Fellini-esque aesthetic, blurring boundaries between reality and fantasy, while being rooted in the traditions of itinerant Italian troupes. Titled “Corteo,” which means a procession, the surreal show revolves around the dream of a clown, who observes his own funeral and subsequently finds himself orchestrating the event, turning it into a grand-scale festivity celebrating life. |
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 MOSCOW — A Venezuelan film about two brothers who play football took the top prize at the Moscow Film Festival, which finished with a grand ceremony at the Pushkin cinema. |
 This month, blonde it-girl Ksenia Sobchak released her latest book, “An Encyclopedia of Losers.” The slim volume, with large print and slightly obscene illustrations by artist Andrei Bartenev, follows Sobchak’s former literary ventures: a book of fashion tips, “Stylish Things,” and a step-by-step guide, “How to Marry a Millionaire,” both of which were breezy — somewhat forgettable — reads. Sobchak’s definition of “loser” is a very broad one. |
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 In Europe, summer is the season of music festivals. Now Russia boasts a number of its own events that attract thousands of music fans every year, including several festivals based in St. |
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 Llloyd Donaldson, one of the founders of The St. Petersburg Times, died in Britain on Saturday. Here, in an article he wrote in 2008 for the newspaper’s 15th anniversary celebrations, he recalls working at the newspaper in its early years. Incidents and memorable moments were never far apart for the journalists who staffed The St. |
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