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 In a significant step toward the goal of forcing a national referendum on nuclear waste, St. Petersburg environmentalists joined colleagues across the country in handing over a petition on the subject Monday. But even as they did so, a Bulgarian power plant was announcing a deal to store nuclear waste in Russia - even the the law would appear to prevent this. |
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MOSCOW - U.S. businessman Edmond Pope on Monday proclaimed his innocence before a Moscow court, denying espionage charges and accusing the judges of bias, his lawyer said. |
 When the 79 scientists aboard the Academic Fyodorov returned to St. Petersburg from the North Pole earlier this month, they brought news that Russia may own 1.2 million square kilometers of land - containing billions of dollars worth of natural resources - that it never knew it had. The only snag is that the land lies under 1,500 meters of polar ice and water. |
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 State Duma deputy Galina Staro voi to va, who was gunned down two years ago by unknown assassins, was honored with a monument unveiled at her grave in Nikolskoye cemetery last Saturday. The unveiling ceremony drew hundreds of supporters of the former Du ma deputy, who was one of Russia's most visible and outspoken female politicians. |
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FRANKFURT, Germany - Boris Yeltsin made a brief appearance at the Frankfurt Book Fair on Friday to promote the latest volume of his memoirs, but the former Russian president, looking stiff and puffy-faced, canceled a news conference. |
 The cold winds of the past are blowing over the Arctic and Antarctic Museum in St. Petersburg, as a court has granted a branch of the Russian Orthodox Church the right to reclaim an old chapel that is part of the museum's building. After three month's grace granted by Gov. |
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MOSCOW - Ten years ago, a young man in Chelyabinsk was sentenced to life in prison for a series of murders and rapes he said he didn't commit. After exhausting his appeals in Russian courts, he took his case to the United Nations Human Rights Committee. |
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MOSCOW - An election for governor of Russia's southwestern Kursk region was declared valid on Monday despite fears that turnout might be hit by the controversial last-minute exclusion of incumbent Alexander Rutskoi. An official from the Kursk election commission contacted by telephone said the turnout at the gubernatorial polls held on Sunday was nearly 58 percent, above the required 50 percent. |
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Kostunica Meeting MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin said he was to meet newly elected Yugoslav President Voji slav Kostunica this week in Mos cow, Russian news agencies reported on Monday. |
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MOSCOW - A senior Russian official said on Monday the country's aging orbital station Mir would most likely be ditched in the Pacific Ocean in February, Interfax news agency reported. Russia is focusing its limited resources on participation in the International Space Station (ISS), for which it has provided two modules. |
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It's official: Gov. Vladimir Yakovlev has a government. And he may even have a successor. With the approval by the St. Petersburg Legislative Assembly last week of Valery Malyshev as one of the city's 13 vice governors, Yakovlev's cabinet is now rubber-stamped. |
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WASHINGTON - Senate Republicans said they will hold hearings next week to probe the legality of a recently disclosed deal struck by U.S. Vice President Al Gore with Moscow that Russia would not face U.S. sanctions if it failed to meet a deadline to end arms shipments to Iran. |
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MOSCOW - A storm in the Barents Sea on Monday forced Russian and Norwegian divers to suspend work on cutting a hole in the hull of the sunken nuclear submarine Kursk to retrieve the remains of its 118 crew. |
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 BEIJING - China and the European Union ended a summit Monday stressing their commitment to overcoming snags in China's entry into the World Trade Organization (WTO). But the discussions on China's WTO accession, which overshadowed political issues at the one-day summit, produced scant evidence of a breakthrough in the impasse. |
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LONDON - The world's biggest advertising group WPP feasted on the Olympics and U.S. elections to post a 21 percent rise in third quarter revenues on Monday, as new business poured in from top clients such as Ford and Nike. |
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LONDON - High oil prices held steady on Monday as Middle East tensions simmered and markets resting on wafer-thin surplus stocks readied for a surge in winter demand. International benchmark Brent crude for December delivery was trading 16 cents lower at $31. |
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The NASDAQ is still in vogue here. It jumped 7.79 percent Thursday and the RTS index ended the week up 7.95 percent at 198.88. The U.S. markets came back to life after Microsoft, Sun Microsystems, Merck and other big guns released their third quarter results, putting some glitter on the battered market. |
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MOSCOW - The Anti-Monopoly Ministry has approved a merger that will significantly strengthen the monopolies of two major players in the natural gas sector and further weaken the position of the country's independent natural gas producers. The ministry's deputy head Andrei Tsiganov announced Sunday that the ministry had granted natural gas monopoly Gazprom permission to enlarge its stake in the Siberian Urals Pet ro chemicals Co. |
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MOSCOW - Consumers are spending at such a rapid clip that the State Statistics Committee retailers' confidence index has finally reached pre-crisis levels, according to committee data. |
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MOSCOW - The conditions under which Russia will agree to supply gas to Ukraine could cause a political crisis in Russia's southern neighbor. Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov said a breakthrough on the troubled supplies had been reached at a meeting between President Vladimir Putin and Uk rai nian president Leonid Kuchma in the Black Sea resort of Sochi on Saturday. |
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MOSCOW - The nation's No. 1 brewer, Baltika, has filed a lawsuit in the Moscow region arbitration court against the makers of Baltika cigarettes for trademark infringement. |
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St. Petersburg Telecom, a local cellular phone service provider which operates in the city under the brand name Fora Communications is planning to expand its network in the city, Alexei Mischenko, the general director of the company, said at a press conference last Thursday. |
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China Short on Ore BEIJING (AP) - China's steel industry will become increasingly reliant on imported iron ore as rapid economic development depletes domestic reserves, state media said Sunday. |
 MOSCOW - The draft 2001 budget sailed through the State Duma on a second reading Friday powered by government concessions giving the regions a larger share of the tax take. Deputies voted 302 to 129 for the 1.19 trillion-ruble ($42.7 billion) budget, with only the Communist and Agrarian parties opposed. |
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Storm Warnings As dark clouds gather over the Middle East, it's good to know that an anxious world can take strength and comfort from the wisdom of America's next president. With rockets flying, mobs rampaging and ancient blood hatreds flaring with each fresh atrocity, Texas Gov. |
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U.S. Vice President Al Gore has become notorious for taking credit for events in which he had little or no involvement. His claims of having "invented the Internet" or of being the inspiration for Ryan O'Neal's character in the movie "Love Story" have become legendary by now during this presidential campaign. |
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 PYONGYANG- Secretary of State Madeleine Albright held historic talks with North Korea's Kim Jong-il Monday and said Washington was taking a measured approach to rapprochement with the secretive communist state. "No, it is very measured," Albright told reporters who noted some quarters believed the United States may be moving too fast. |
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Chretien Calls Election OTTAWA (Reuters) - Liberal Prime Minister Jean Chretien on Sunday called an early federal election for Nov. 27 in a risky bid to capitalize on his lead in the polls and prevent the further rise of his main conservative opponents, the Canadian Alliance. |
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WASHINGTON - Republican George W. Bush's lead over Democrat Al Gore has narrowed to two percentage points in the seesaw U.S. presidential race, according to the Reuters/MSNBC daily tracking poll released on Monday. Fifteen days before the Nov. 7 election, support stands at 44 percent for the Texas governor and 42 percent for the vice president in the poll of 1,204 likely voters conducted Friday through Sunday by pollster John Zogby. |
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