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 After a decade of fruitless attempts to recover from France drawings by Russian avant-garde artist Pavel Filonov, the French government finally surrendered the works to the Russian Embassy on Sept. 27. The works were stolen nearly 20 years ago from the State Russian Museum and subsequently sold to Paris' renowned Pompidou Center. |
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Dr. Linnux, a 22-year-old St. Petersburg computer whiz, who prefers not to use his first name, switches on his Netscan Tools program, a piece of hacking software he downloaded from the Internet for free. |
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The former vice governor of the City Legal Committee, Igor Sobolevsky, was elected last week as a member of the prestigious Charter Court. But almost as soon as Sobolevsky found out he would not be elected the court's chairman, he resigned. The decision came last week even before the court began its work. |
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Gov. Vladimir Yakovlev may not have envisaged having to oversee Russia's new anthem, coat of arms and national flag as part of his job when he entered politics, but now he has even been given a deadline to complete the task. |
 Navigators who guide sea traffic in and out of St. Petersburg's ports have threatened to stage a strike, in a move they and their Western counterparts say could lead to a major maritime accident. The sea pilots, represented by the Russian Maritime Pilots Association (RMPA), are protesting a recommendation on the part of the Transport Ministry to create a state navigation service, which they say would undercut the pilots' salaries and employ inexperienced staff, thus placing the fate of sea traffic in danger. |
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WASHINGTON - Exasperated at Russia's treatment of an American businessman accused of spying, the United States warned Americans on Wednesday that it could be risky doing business with the Russian arms industry. |
 Alexander Yevstigneyev has leukemia, and is preparing for a bone marrow transplant next week at the first facility of its kind in St. Petersburg. The new Russian-German Transplant Clinic, which opened in July, operates as an adjunct to the Hematology Center of St. |
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MOSCOW - Despite ominous warnings from Moscow that their tourist space attraction may soon crash to Earth, Western investors who want to launch James Cameron into space station Mir are saying that all systems are still go. |
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BOMBAY, India - Nothing strengthens friendship better than the feeling of a common threat. Moscow and New Delhi, which clinched a strategic partnership on Tuesday during Russian President Vladimir Putin's visit to India, have found one in what they see as burgeoning international terrorism. Putin's presidency has been marked by war in Chechnya and unrest in ex-Soviet Central Asian states seen by Russia as its soft underbelly. He found an understanding ear in India, beset by problems in Kashmir. In a further consolidation, Mos cow and New Delhi pointed at Af gha nistan, now almost fully controlled by the radical Taleban Islamic movement, as a nest of international terrorism and called for international efforts to tackle the problem. |
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 A fire broke out at a local secondary school on Wednesday morning, burning for around six hours and almost completely gutting one side of the building. |
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 Baltika, the brewer famous for its numbered flavors of beers, now faces a new challenge: a brand of cigarettes also called Baltika and sporting the Baltika logo, but which has nothing to do with the company. Baltika cigarettes - which, just like the beer, come in flavors such as Bal tika No. |
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The State Duma's Economic Committee has drafted a number of guidelines to form the basis for a law intended to define and regulate legal aspects of e-commerce in Russia. |
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MOSCOW - Bent on averting future fuel crises, the European Union turned to energy-rich Russia on Tuesday to start hashing out a deal that could double fuel exports to Europe. Representatives from the European Commission sat down with officials from gas and oil companies in Moscow to begin negotiations on setting up a strategic partnership, Itar-Tass reported. |
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MOSCOW - Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov met for the first time Wednesday with the two dozen businessmen on his new Council of Enterprises and promised them they would have a say in how business would be taxed. |
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MOSCOW - The deal between oil majors Tyumen Oil Co., or TNK, and Si danko over the transfer of the Cher no gorneft production unit set for later this month was in jeopardy Wednesday after TNK shareholders announced they want to review the deal. The deal, signed last December, called for TNK to transfer to Sidanko a debt-free Chernogorneft, which TNK bought from Sidanko in a controversial bankruptcy auction. |
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LAST week's stunning rejection by the Serbian people of Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic marks a watershed in the country's politics. Despite an "unfree and unfair" election, the unified Serbian opposition overwhelmingly defeated the conjugal coalition of Milosevic and his wife, Mirjana "Mira" Markovic, in both presidential and municipal races. |
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Leaving behind the first anniversary of the current Chechen War, the nation's president-turned-sales manager, Vla di mir Putin, traveled to India this week to wheel and deal on the armaments market. |
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Dear Editor, Recently I read in The St. Petersburg Times about the acquittal of Alexander Nikitin on charges of espionage and treason, and I breathed a deep sigh of relief. Don't get me wrong though, I was not relieved about the avoidance of an alleged miscarriage of justice. Neither was I relieved about the alleged victory the ruling signaled in terms of the rights of the individual against the repressive Russian State. |
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 As hundreds turned up for the opening of the Andy Warhol exhibition at the Hermitage, the father of pop art's first major exhibition in Russia, the event itself was a mix of the official and the informal - with the U.S. ambassador and Consul General in St. |
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Earlier this week we got a moving letter from Artie Davis, the promotions director for the BMD Records. "One of our biggest artists, the new Frankie Goes To Hollywood, which is an internationally known band, was in the studio finishing their new album when they heard about the Kursk disaster. |
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The 3rd International Festival of Early Music is already well underway in St. Petersburg, with the first two concerts taking place on Tuesday and Wednesday. The festival gets stronger with every year, and this time virtually all the city's cultural institutions are providing support, among them the British Council, the Goethe Institute, and the Alliance Francaise. The City Cultural Committee, the Philharmonia, the Cappella, the Hermitage, the Petersburg Cultural Center, and the consulates general of Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands are also contributing. With these allies the festival has swiftly grown, acquiring prestige and popularity. |
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 The annual International Festival of Baltic Theater is already in full swing, with many standout productions to offer. Along with the works of Rimas Tuminas and Kama Ginkas, whose presence at any festival is remarkable enough in itself, the new production of Gogol's "Taras Bulba," staged by Ukranian director Andrey Zholdak-Tobilevich IV, is worth particular attention. |
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Adzhika is a fairly deadly spicy sauce made of countless different "herbs and spices" which has much popularity in these parts, but which apparantly has its origins in that culinary cornucopia that is the republic of Georgia. It also gives its name to a funky 24-hour cafe just next to the Sennaya Ploshchad market, where all the gastronomic riches of the Caucasus are on sale. As one might expect, the food at Adzhika is extremely fresh and flavorsome, no doubt thanks to its proximity to the city's best food market. While the seediness of the area around the market and the metro stations may put off some, the premises are clean and cozy, with the only danger that we faced being a large keyboard in the corner, with speakers and microphone promising some heinous muzak. |
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 Few things sound less likely than a musical about going blind, but Lars Von Trier's genre-meshing new film is in every sense an unlikely event. Case in point is his casting of Catherine Deneuve as a factory machinist and first-time actress Bjork in the lead as a Czech immigrant to Washington state in the 1960s. |
 The Borey Art Gallery may be an unusual place for an exhibition, but for "Wunderkinder," which presents works by German photographer Peter Dam mann, the venue - with its plain white rooms - it could not be more appropriate. There are four rooms with four stories: children from the Cadet Aca demy in Kronshtadt, young musicians from the St. |
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Motorcade Kills 18 DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania (Reuters) - Eighteen people died and 39 were injured when a bus hit a crowd as it swerved to avoid the presidential motorcade in Tanzania Thursday, police and witnesses said. The accident happened on the outskirts of the town of Mwanza on the shores of Lake Victoria around 9 a. |
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HANOI, Vietnam - The death toll rose to 280 on Thursday in prolonged floods in Vietnam's Mekong Delta and state media warned of new hazards- cholera and crocodiles swimming downriver from Cambodia. |
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PARIS - Olympic champions Cameroon showed they could hold their own among soccer's elite when they drew 1-1 against world and European champions France in Paris on Wednesday. Patrick Mboma's spectacular overhead kick from a long throw cancelled out Sylvain Wiltord's opener for the French at the Stade de France. |
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WASHINGTON - Democrat Al Gore continued to hold a slight lead over Republican George W. Bush in the Reuters/MSNBC daily tracking poll released on Thursday, the first to reflect some impact of Tuesday's presidential debate. |
 LONDON - When England hosts Germany in its World Cup group nine qualifier on Saturday it will be the last time a first-class soccer match is played at Wembley. Even with Pound475 million ($691.6 million) and three years set aside to replace the most famous soccer venue in the world, the architects have an unenviable task. |
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GABORONE, Botswana - The embalmed body of a 19th-century bushman returned to African soil on Thursday in an emotional and sometimes bitter ceremony that recalled his degrading display in Europe for nearly two centuries. |
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