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 The Dissenters’ March for the Dismissal of Governor Valentina Matviyenko that took place on Thursday was described by the opposition as one of the biggest and most successful protest events during the past three years, despite arrests and intimidation. |
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Toddler’s Body Found
ST. PETERSBURG (SPT) — The body of a three-year-old girl who went missing in January was found Monday evening, Interfax reported. |
 The Princess Anastasia ferry returned to St. Petersburg more than five hours late on Monday from its first trip to Stockholm.
The ferry was delayed due to thick ice that continues to cover the Gulf of Finland. Ten icebreakers, including the nuclear vessel the Vaigach, are still helping to free cargo vessels and passenger ferries. |
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Boy Thrown Away
ST. PETERSBURG (SPT) — St. Petersburg police have arrested a man accused of throwing a two-year-old boy into a trash chute last week after the child disturbed him while he was watching TV. |
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MOSCOW — When State Duma deputies ask the prime minister about his annual report later this month, Vladimir Putin will know 23 of the 32 questions beforehand, his spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Thursday.
Each of the four Duma factions may ask Putin eight questions — five of them written and three of them spoken — after his April 20 report. |
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MOSCOW — Imagine waking up one morning without your citizenship.
That's what essentially happened to at least nine Russians after their names simply vanished from Foreign Ministry computers. |
 BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan — A U.S. astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts blasted off Tuesday in pre-dawn darkness, riding into orbit on a Soyuz craft emblazoned with the portrait of the first man in space in celebration of the 50th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin’s historic flight. |
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MOSCOW — Got a dictaphone? A cell phone with voice recording function — say, an iPhone? Or maybe a laptop that can record your Internet phone conversations?
It’s up to three years in jail for you, or a fine of 200,000 rubles ($7,000), unless you obtained permission for your gadget from the Federal Security Service. |
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MOSCOW — Some State Duma deputies hope $350 is the price for good manners.
A bill submitted to the Duma on Friday would levy fines of up to 10,000 rubles ($350) on bureaucrats who ignore suggestions from people.
Currently, bureaucrats must provide information about the activities of federal, regional and municipal agencies on request — a right granted by the Constitution — and failure to respond comes with a fine of 5,000 rubes. |
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MOSCOW — Russian Railways will open new high-speed train routes to three European capitals in time for the 2018 FIFA World Cup that the country is hosting, the company’s vice president Mikhail Akulov said Tuesday. |
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MOSCOW — A senior Moscow region police official was fired Monday for assaulting a journalist — but only after his superiors started receiving phone calls from reporters and television crews arrived at the scene of the attack.
Alexei Klimov, acting head of a department at the police precinct in the town of Moskovsky, just outside Moscow, was fired hours after assaulting Natalya Seibil on Sunday evening, regional police said in a statement on their web site. |
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The head of the Federal Agency for Youth Affairs filed on Monday a 100,000 ruble ($3,500) defamation lawsuit against journalist Oleg Kashin for linking him to a brutal attack, the pro-Kremlin youth group Nashi said. |
 THE HAGUE, Netherlands — The United Nations’ highest court threw out Georgia’s complaint accusing Russia and separatist militias of years of ethnic cleansing in two breakaway Georgian provinces.
Regarding Friday’s 10-6 ruling, International Court of Justice President Hisashi Owada said the court had no jurisdiction in the case because Russia and Georgia had never attempted to negotiate a settlement to the dispute before Georgia brought it to the court. |
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MOSCOW — Moscow regional police have seized the bulk of the print run of a book written by a Forbes Russia investigative reporter about the regions authorities’ purported links to corruption. |
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MOSCOW — Novosibirsk anti-narcotics officers have cracked down on Hollywood flicks, ordering a local web site to remove films touching on illegal substances, including “Saving Grace,” “Trainspotting” and “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.”
All films were available for download at the local web site 211. |
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 City Hall plans to hold tenders by the end of this year for the construction of new roads and transport hubs, according to Alexei Chichkanov, a representative of the committee for investment and strategic projects.
“Under the terms of such contracts — a type of public-private partnership — the winner of the contract builds the project at their own cost, and then is gradually recompensated from the budget,” said Chichkanov. |
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Ahead of its launch on the London Stock Exchange (LSE), the Etalon group of companies has revealed to investors plans to open three new sites across the city at 9 Smolenskaya Ulitsa, 110 Prospekt Obukhovskoi Oborony in the Nevsky district, and 2 Uralskaya Ulitsa on Vasilyevsky Island. |
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MOSCOW — Salaries across most sectors are projected to grow this year as the market recovers to pre-crisis levels and demand for job applicants is increasing, human resources specialists say, with IT specialists being especially sought after over the coming years. |
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MOSCOW — Prime Minister Vladimir Putin forecast an increase in the salaries of Russian teachers and encouraged opening deputies’ and officials’ tax returns to public scrutiny at the Cabinet session Monday. |
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MOSCOW — VTB bank might be close to an agreement with U.S. company AEG on the construction of a $1.5 billion stadium complex in Moscow’s Petrovsky Park district.
The complex would include a 45,000-seat stadium, a 15,000-seat arena and a new five-star hotel, Sports Business Daily reported last week. |
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NOVO-OGARYOVO — Prime Minister Vladimir Putin took a ride Friday in a prototype of Russia’s first hybrid car, the Yo-Mobile, which billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov plans to start mass-producing next year. |
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MOSCOW — Last year, 165 malls, with a usable area of 5.2 million square meters, opened in Europe — 30 percent less than the year before.
For two consecutive years, the amount of completed construction has declined, and last year finished at the lowest level since 2004, according to Cushman & Wakefield analysts. |
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 The Russian government, with its solid hold on power, has invariably gotten away with poor performance, inefficiency, corruption and widespread violation of political rights and civil liberties. Polls consistently demonstrate that Russians are not deluded. |
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It seems as if Russia’s best journalists have set out to completely undermine President Dmitry Medvedev’s stated ideology that “freedom is better than a lack of freedom. |
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.jpg) Ten years after they first visited St. Petersburg, The Tiger Lillies, an accordion-driven Brechtian trio from London, have formed a solid local following. Accordion player, guitarist and falsetto vocalist Martyn Jacques — who fronts the band that also features drummer Adrian Huge and double bassist Adrian Stout — spoke to The St. |
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Belarusian band Lyapis Trubetskoy, which performed in St. Petersburg last month, has canceled the rest of their planned concerts in their home country after sold-out concerts on the current tour in support of the band’s new album “Vesyoliye Kartinki” (Funny Pictures) continue to be canceled at short notice for alleged fire safety reasons, or with no reason given at all. |
 “Fashion Without Borders” is the slogan of the 23rd Defile on the Neva, the city’s homegrown fashion week that kicks off in Lenexpo on April 6 with shows by the renowned St. Petersburg designer Lilya Kissilenko as well as by Tatyana Sulimina, Polina Raudson and Natalya Soldatova.
Running through April 9, the fashion week features shows by 20 Russian designers of the caliber of Tanya Kotegova, Stas Lopatkin and Yanis Chamalidi, as well as a daily MEGA Fashion Show prepared by the omnipresent MEGA shopping center. |
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 The annual LeJazz festival of French music will take place in the city on Thursday, April 7.
St. Petersburg is famous for many things, but its jazz credentials have never been particularly strong. |
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Êàðìàí: pocket, sleeve, pullout, money
As winter on Ice Planet Moscow marches on, broken only by brief harbingers of the end of the world — blizzard with sunshine accompanied by thunder and lightning — I’ve taken to entertaining myself with a game I call “Name That Thing!“ Discovering what something is called, in either Russian or English, is sublimely satisfying, and reminds me to count my blessings. |
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Before arranging to meet your date at Brooklyn Local cafe, beware: There are two doors to the cafe off the Griboyedov Canal, which lead to entirely separate sections. |
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 Vladimir Litvinenko is a well-connected man.
The rector of the St. Petersburg Mining Institute oversaw Vladimir Putin’s dissertation, which in 1996 earned the current prime minister a doctorate in economics.
Last year, Litvinenko became chairman of the board of PhosAgro, the country’s largest producer of phosphate-based fertilizers.
Now he is a multimillionaire, worth an estimated $350 million to $450 million after an investor prospectus filed by PhosAgro last week showed he holds 5 percent of the company’s shares. |
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 MOSCOW — Scared, fed up and feeling disenfranchised, many successful Russians are investing in citizenship in Western countries, according to consultants who have made a business of facilitating such emigration. |
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