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MOSCOW - Looking nervous and exhausted after his private jet caught fire en route to Moscow from London and had to make an emergency landing in Duesseldorf, Boris Berezovsky announced to a delayed news conference Thursday a 14-member list of trustees who will control his 49-percent stake in ORT for the next four years. |
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In a whirlwind opening session, the St. Petersburg Legislative Assembly returned from summer vacation on Wednesday and got down to work like nobody's business, making deals, passing laws, shifting alliances, and plowing through a docket of 60 items. |
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New Yeltsin Memoirs MOSCOW (SPT) - Former president Boris Yeltsin's latest round of memoirs, "Midnight Diaries," are scheduled to be published in October in the United States. The book, published by PublicAffairs publishers, and scheduled for an initial print run of 75,000 copies, is adapted by Yeltsin's former chief of staff, Valentin Yumashev, from a series of interviews conducted soon after Yeltsin's resignation on New Year's Eve. |
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MOSCOW - When they were dispatched to liquidate the fallout of the Chernobyl catastrophe in 1986, they were not warned that they would be sick for the rest of their lives. |
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MOSCOW - In a large-scale operation involving armored vehicles and helicopters, federal forces arrested Ruslan Alik hadzhiyev, the speaker of the Che chen parliament, at his home in Shali in broad daylight more than three months ago. What happened to him after that is a mystery. |
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One of the 12 candidates who have registered to run for a vacant State Duma slot in St. Petersburg now looks to be on the run from the law, as federal prosecutors this week issued a warrant for his arrest. |
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MOSCOW - A man driving by in a car threw a grenade out the window at a group of prostitutes standing along the Garden Ring Road early Thursday, injuring 15 women and one man who was with them, police said. Seven women and one man, whose names police and doctors refused to disclose, were hospitalized at the Sklifosofsky emergency hospital with shrapnel wounds to their legs. |
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MOSCOW - Russia will cut its armed forces by about a third over the next three years and begin a major restructuring of its Soviet-era command structure, the AVN military news agency quoted a source as saying on Thursday. |
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U.K. Rates Hold n LONDON (Reuters) - The Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee left British interest rates on hold at 6 percent on Thursday for the seventh month in a row. The decision, which had been widely expected by financial markets, means that rates have now been left steady for the longest period since the incoming Labor government handed responsibility for the rates to the bank in May 1997. |
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NOYABRSK, Siberia - Flying out to a new Siberian oil field that uses a mix of Russian and Western technology, drilling manager Dave Struthers hollers his plans over the racket of the clunky Mi-8 helicopter. |
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MOSCOW - Mikhail Zhivilo, head of the Metallurgical Investment Co., or MIKOM, has sold a 66-percent stake in the Novokuznetsk aluminum smelter to Grigory Luchansky, an investment entrepreneur and head of the Center for Investment Projects and Programs. |
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MOSCOW - Richard Wright, the new head of the European Commission delegation to Russia, said Thursday that Russia belongs in the World Trade Organization. |
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Winter Fuel Fears n MOSCOW (SPT) - The government is falling behind in preparations to provide Russians with sufficient heating and energy resources for the fast-approaching fall/winter hibernation period, and is looking for alternative solutions, officials said at a cabinet meeting Thursday. |
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MOSCOW - After taking over British investment bank Robert Fleming Holdings' international business, U.S. banking giant Chase Manhattan is rolling into the lucrative but hectic Russian stock market. |
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Unified Energy Systems (UES), the national energy monopoly, will continue with their policy of cutting off the energy supplies to its debtor clients, Anatoly Chubais, the head of UES, said during his trip to St. Petersburg on Wednesday. During his day in the city, Chubais also took time to visit the site of a new power plant to be opened in St. |
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Oil markets retreated from 10-year highs in a reprieve for energy-importing nations on Thursday after Saudi Arabia told U.S. President Bill Clinton it expected OPEC to increase crude production by 3 percent. |
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AT the moment, some of the world's leading experts on missile technology are intensively studying an explosive theory about North Korea's infamous missiles. It is a hypothesis with far-reaching ramifications for American diplomacy, but also one that sounds almost like a Hollywood movie script. |
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IMAGINE that you come home one fine day to find the following letter in the mail: "Dear citizen: Buy a video camera as soon as possible and install it in your bedroom. |
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IF I wanted to make a man's head bloat electronically like a squash, turn his face green, remove his tie and color his shirt orange, I could do so. In fact, I spent a happy hour Sunday night doing just that as I explored the properties of the Adobe photo program on my computer. |
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President Vladimir Putin pleaded for Japanese money this week, while at the same time not proposing to offer one square meter of the disputed Kuril Islands in return. |
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Garkundel, the club that Auktsyon showman Oleg Garkusha had been speaking about for years, turned out to be more than words. It will open on Tuesday - but, strangely enough, ot the premises of SpartaK, a club which itself shares its rooms with a cinema. |
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Hong Kong is a city of fakes - fake Swiss watches, fake French couture and now perhaps a fake Russian orchestra. While the Symphonic Orchestra of the Moscow Philharmonic Society was on tour in Europe last month, a group of freelancers representing the same orchestra performed a series of concerts in the Chinese enclave, earning thousands of dollars and winning good reviews. |
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Roles as disparate as doctor Astrov (in "Uncle Vanya"), monk Pimen (in "Boris Go dunov"), Lenin ("Reading Over Again") and Yurka-Baron (in the movie "Bandit St. Petersburg") come equally natural to Kirill Lavrov, who will be as busy as ever when he celebrate his 70th birthday on Sept. |
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She has published 14 books over the last five years since she began writing in 1996, and now has 3,000,000 copies of her books in print. At 26, Muscovite detective writer Anna Malysheva is now one of Russia's youngest best-selling authors in her field. |
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In the 100-year history of cinema, the world has seen almost no truly international film aesthetics movements. Most films are not challenging, due to the comfortable routine of increasingly complex and garish entertainments from Hollywood. Dogme95, or Dogma Filmmakers, as they have come to be called, are small but growing group of film artists who have willingly created a reactionary film movement. |
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It's not often that one gets the opportunity to eat horse meat, but a new Uzbek restaurant on the corner of Ulitsa Nekrasova and Liteiny Prospect lets you do just that. |
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A sea of music fanatics and thrill-seekers drink and sway blissfully to songs of peace and love in a muddy field. It could be a Grateful Dead concert, or Woodstock just half a world away. Call it Woodstock on the Volga. Every summer thousands of Russians make the journey to the Grushinsky Festival, known as Grusha for short, held on a riverbank between two cities, Samara and Tolyatti, the center of Russia's auto industry. |
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PARIS - Tension mounted in France's fuel-tax showdown on Thursday as protesters tightened their stranglehold on fuel supplies, and Socialist Prime Minster Lionel Jospin faced an angry ultimatum from his Green allies. Farmers who joined the movement for lower fuel prices planned a protest at the Channel Tunnel at Calais and threatened to block the entrance while taxi drivers converged on major cities for a massive "go-slow" protest. |
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Berlin Wall Pardon n BERLIN (Reuters) - Mayor Eberhard Diepgen pardoned two former East German Politburo members Wednesday who were jailed for ordering the shooting of escapers along the Berlin Wall. |
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SYDNEY - Australian customs officers detained an Olympic team official at Sydney airport on Thursday for carrying an illegal performance-enhancing drug into the country ahead of the Games, an Olympic official said. International Olympic Committee (IOC) medical commission member Jacques Rogge told reporters that he had been told the person involved was from the Uzbekistan delegation. |
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UNITED NATIONS - The world laid out its hopes for the third millennium Wednesday at an extraordinary convocation of leaders great and obscure, with U.S. |
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