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MOSCOW - ORT yanked Sergei Dorenko, its outspoken anchor and a close Boris Berezovsky ally, off the air over the weekend in a sign that the Kremlin was closing its grip over the channel. Berezovsky had last week declared that he was handing over his 49-percent ORT stake in trust to a group of 14 journalists and intellectuals - Dorenko included - over what he claimed was a Kremlin threat to clamp down on press freedom. The government owns the controlling 51-percent stake in the station. ORT general director Konstantin Ernst told Dorenko, who is also deputy director of the station, just hours before broadcast Saturday that the analytical program was being pulled from the evening lineup. |
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 German and Russian veterans gathered at a small village near St. Petersburg on Saturday to mark to opening of a war cemetery for German soldiers who were killed in World War II. |
 "Are you ready?" asked a Russian cardiologist of his American counterpart. "Yes," came the reply - and the 10th Heart to Heart program was underway, as a dozen doctors and nurses - and one interpreter - prepared to perform an angioplastic operation at St. Petersburg's Municipal Hospital No. 2. American cardiologists and cardiac surgeons have arrived in the city to conduct a week-long series of free heart operations, the first of which took place on Monday. |
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Gay March Banned n MINSK, Belarus (Reuters) - Belarussian authorities banned a gay and lesbian march in the ex-Soviet state's capital Minsk on Friday, saying the organizers had failed to ask permission in time. The ruling by the city government was swiftly criticized by gay groups, who said it was an example of the country's anti-homosexual policies. They said gays and lesbians would stage striptease shows in nightclubs in place of the march. Eduard Tarletsky, head of the Belarussian league of gays and lesbians, said the move reflected widespread prejudice in Belarus, which has been criticized by the West for a poor democratic track record. |
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 After a weekend of investigations, police have disclosed the names of the third of three victims of the assassination that took place in broad daylight on Friday in the center of St. |
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MOSCOW - A failure in its crumbling electric grid forced Russia to shut down several nuclear reactors over the weekend, including those at a gargantuan top-secret fuel-reprocessing plant, officials said on Monday. Officials assured the public there was no danger, but the head of the huge, secret Mayak reprocessing plant, in the remote Ural mountains, said only his staff's "near-military" vigilance, had prevented "serious trouble. |
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MOSCOW - Despite a tumultuous August for Vladimir Putin, most of the Duma deputies back in parliament Friday for the start of the autumn session were not in the mood to challenge the president, postponing a discussion of the Kursk disaster and rejecting a bill that would have increased their own control over the president. |
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MOSCOW - The Defense Ministry on Friday confirmed reports that it would slash almost a third of its forces by 2003, but observers said the move could seriously undermine the country's ability to defend its extensive borders. The military's might will be cut by 350,000 soldiers over the next three years, Defense Minister Igor Sergeyev said at a news conference in the town of Kubinka outside Moscow. |
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NEW YORK - Missed out on August's sizzling rally in stocks? Get ready for what could be Wall Street's grand finale of 2000. "The year-end rally probably began a month ago," says Peter Canelo, U.S. equity strategist for Morgan Stanley Dean Witter. While people were watching sunsets and downing beers at the beach this summer, the New York Stock Exchange's composite index was quietly carving out new highs. |
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LONDON - Something catastrophic occurred on Earth 1,500 years ago that may have led to the Dark Ages and coincided with the end of the Roman Empire and the death of King Arthur, a Northern Ireland scientist said on Friday. |
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WASHINGTON - New National Institutes of Health (NIH) guidelines on using cells from discarded human embryos will help prevent private researchers from going too far and make benefits from the research available to many more Americans, top scientists said on Thursday. |
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GM Issues Recall DETROIT, Michigan (Reuters) - General Motors Corp. is recalling almost 270,000 Buick and Oldsmobile cars because they have driver air bags that may fire unexpectedly, but the world's largest automaker does not yet have the parts needed to fix the problem, a trade publication said Monday. |
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CHICAGO - The surge in oil prices may be near its peak, and U.S. inflationary pressures are set to ease in the months ahead, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas President Robert McTeer said on Monday. "I think inflation will come down," McTeer said, answering a question after addressing a business economists' conference. |
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The summer of 2000 may turn out to be remembered as the time when Russia's energy industry finally began to try to get under control the web of spiraling debts that had for so long characterized the relations between its various players. |
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MOSCOW - OPEC's decision over the weekend to raise crude oil output will not affect volumes of crude exports by Russian oil companies, nor will it have a strong impact on Russia's economy, analysts said Monday. Ministers of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries agreed Sunday to lift output by 800,000 barrels per day from October in an attempt to beat down prices, which hit a 10-year record of over $35 a barrel Thursday. |
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MOSCOW - State pipeline monopoly Transneft chief Sergei Vainshtok met secretly on Thursday with the bosses of every major oil company in the country except Sibneft and Surgutneftegaz to announce an increase in transport tariffs. |
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Russia's film industry seems to be coming out of its crisis-induced slump. And, with more films being produced domestically and over 90 theaters nationwide now equipped with contemporary systems, the industry sorely needs a support and maintenance network, grounded in a fairly stable and growing film-exhibition business. |
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NEW YORK - Computer maker Hewlett-Packard Co. said Monday it is in talks to buy the consulting arm of accounting giant PricewaterhouseCoopers for about $18 billion in cash and stock. |
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BERLIN - The pain felt by European motorists over soaring fuel prices might vindicate Green calls for the world to free itself from the bondage of fossil fuels. But while consumers are still fuming at higher petrol prices, calls by European ecologist parties for taxes on fuel to discourage demand and boost energy efficiency are unlikely to bolster the Greens' already waning political fortunes. |
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BRUSSELS - Belgian truckers demanding cheaper fuel brought Brussels streets to a standstill on Monday and growing protests in Britain led Prime Minister Tony Blair to vow he would not give in to demands for fuel-tax cuts. |
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MOSCOW - Lithuanian oil concern Mazheikiu Nafta and Russia's No. 2 oil firm Yukos said Friday they had signed a five-year deal to send an annual 4 million metric tons of crude exports through the Butinge Baltic Sea terminal. The deal represents a substantial portion of Yukos' production; last year it reported production of 44. |
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NASSAU, Bahamas - A Bahamian court has ordered Czech financier Viktor Kozeny to pay $6.8 million to a Russian bank that accused him of reneging on a credit agreement. |
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MOSCOW - The government has told natural-gas monopoly Gaz prom to order large-diameter pipes for major gas pipelines from the planned $800-million to $1-billion Mill-5,000 project. In order to persuade the company to make the largest possible order, the Nizhny Tagil Metal Combine, on the grounds of which the mill is to be built, is promising to sell the pipes for 20 percent less than their international price. |
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Investment is up 17 percent for the first half of the year and is up 30 percent in capital and industrial projects, Interfax quoted President Vla di mir Putin's chief economic adviser as saying Friday. |
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THE agenda for this week's meeting of the UN Millennium Summit is daunting. Development, conflict, drugs, AIDS - all require sustained policy innovation. But we believe a consensus is emerging on the right framework to build a global order based on equal worth and social fairness. Our challenge is to implement what we already know to be right, as well as to develop new solutions. |
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JERUSALEM - A Palestinian decision to delay declaring an independent state for at least two months has kept alive prospects of further peace talks with Israel. But nationalist pressures on Palestinian President Yasser Arafat, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak's domestic political woes and an approaching U. |
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Italian Floods Kill 11 SOVERATO, Italy (AP) - Hundreds of workers and police units were searching for missing people among the debris Monday, a day after the rain-swollen waters of a stream swept away a campground in southern Italy, killing at least 11 people. |
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FREETOWN, Sierra Leone - Britain is reviewing security for its forces in Sierra Leone in case of revenge attacks by rebels after a weekend raid freed six British soldiers held captive by rebels in the jungle of the West African state. A lightning raid on Sunday by 150 British soldiers, including paratroopers, freed the six members of the Royal Irish Regiment and a Sierra Leonean officer held hostage by the self-styled West Side Boys since Aug. 25. One of the British servicemen taking part in the raid was killed in fighting, in which military sources said 25 rebels were killed and 18 captured, including a key commander. Military sources said 12 British soldiers were also wounded, one seriously. |
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 Working Vocabulary As America paused this week to celebrate its working class (oops, sorry; as we all know, there are no classes in the land of the free and the home of the Ivy League-legacy presidential candidates), a list of some of the more esoteric "Official Occupational Titles" surfaced in Harper's Magazine. |
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