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In one of the most bizarre turns in U.S. electoral history, a vote counted in St. Petersburg, Russia could now seem to be more significant than a vote cast in St. Petersburg, Florida. That's because a now-underway recount in Florida - now the decisive state for the election - has George W. |
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DOLINA KANYONA, Eastern Si be ria - Josef Stalin sent millions of Soviet citizens down Siberia's so-called "Road of Bones" to the misery and death of the gulag labor camps. |
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MOSCOW - A Communist has won the Kursk governorship and a Kremlin ally in Kaliningrad has been put in a solid position in regional elections punctuated by charges that Moscow is trying to manipulate local politics. Results from the weekend elections showed Communist Alexander Mik hai lov had won in the Kursk region. He takes over from incumbent Alexander Rutskoi - who was disqualified hours before a first round two weeks ago. In the Baltic Sea enclave of Kaliningrad, the commander of the Baltic Fleet, Vladimir Yegorov, took 38.45 percent to 18.29 percent for current Governor Leonid Gorbenko in Sunday's voting. Since no candidate got more than 50 percent, a runoff will be held Nov. |
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 MOSCOW - Anatoly Babkin, the key witness in the espionage case against U.S. businessman Edmond Pope, retracted an earlier statement against Pope in a letter to the court Wednesday, saying he had been forced to give the testimony. |
 Ever since a presidential decree signed by Boris Yeltsin came into effect four years ago, the public holiday on Nov. 7 has officially been named the Day of Harmony and Reconciliation. But most of those who gathered in Palace Square on Tuesday, the day was still really what it was for seven decades: the anniversary of the Great October Socialist revolution. |
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City Hall Media Committee Chief Alexander Potekhin filed suit against local daily Nevskoye Vremya late last month over an article that cast aspersions on his committee's expenditures on local sociological surveys. |
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Russian 'Pooh' Dies MOSCOW (SPT) - Boris Zakhoder - the poet in whose voice Winnie the Pooh, Alice in Wonderland and Mary Poppins speak in Russian to millions of kids - died Tuesday in Mos cow. He was 82. Zakhoder also wrote elegant and humorous original poetry for children and adults, but became widely popular with his translations of foreign children's literature. |
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MOSCOW - For a man who hates the limelight, ex-spy Sergei Ivanov is becoming almost uncomfortably visible. In the past week alone there have been three full- or double-page interviews in Russian newspapers about his life, his ties to President Vladimir Putin and his work as secretary of the Kremlin's Security Council. |
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SAO PAULO, Brazil-It might be slow, heavy and noisy, but the Russian Niva four-wheel-drive vehicle could once again be a feature on Brazil's hilly coffee plantations or bumpy rural roads if local entrepreneur Carlos de Moraes has his way. De Moraes, an executive director of Brazil's Abeiva Car Imports Association, said he has a deal with Niva parent maker AvtoVAZ to make the car in Brazil. |
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MOSCOW - The government has put an end to a bitter conflict between the Central Bank and the Federal Securities Commission over who will control the country's commercial banking sector. |
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MOSCOW - Despite critics who say it slows industrial growth, the government's strong ruble policy is generally a good one, the International Monetary Fund says in a new report. In recommendations printed in the fund's annual overview of member countries' economic policies, which was released in Washington on Thursday, the fund said: "Most [IMF] directors believe that real appreciation [of the ruble] would be both desirable and unavoidable, and that it would be preferable for this to take place through a nominal appreciation rather than through inflation." At the same time, some directors - which the fund calls its top economists - "noted that an excessive real appreciation could threaten the recovery. |
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 MOSCOW - It's shaping up to be a supercalifragilisticexpialidocious battle. Two dairies are caught in a fierce fight for the rights to the popular brand name 33 Cows (33 Korovi), inspired by Russia's version of the film "Mary Poppins. |
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MOSCOW - A long-simmering feud over the biggest name in Russian vodka escalated into violence over last weekend when masked police, in an apparent attempt to enforce a court decision on company control, forcibly entered the Moscow office of the Smirnov distillery, fending off attacks from workers . |
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MOSCOW - The government has ordered state-owned Rosneft to set up a majority-owned subsidiary to extract and export Chechen oil, but the Chechen administration insists it should have control of the new company. |
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MOSCOW - An International Monetary Fund mission on Wednesday started talks with Finance Ministry officials - talks that the government hopes will lead to the approval of economic reforms and renewed access to IMF loans. A ministry spokeswoman said the mission was scheduled to discuss the state debt and tax system with Deputy Finance Ministers Bella Zlatkis and Mikhail Motorin. |
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MOSCOW - Housing prices in Yekaterinburg have been rising by 2 percent per week since the start of August, while supply levels have fallen. While market players give a variety of reasons for why prices are rising - from undervalued real estate to rumors that free privatization are to be canceled - all agree that prices will go on rising until the end of the year. |
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Dear Editor, As an American Navy veteran, I followed the story of the Kursk with much attention and concern. I am deeply sympathetic to the families of the lost crew members and lament such a terrible tragedy. From what I've read in American newspapers, a collision with a Western submarine is an unlikely cause. |
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IN economic terms, Russia's regions are hopelessly undervalued. The statistics say that Moscow has about about a quarter of the entire national economic volume, with the remaining 75 percent divided among the other 88 regions. |
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BY presidential decree, Nov. 7, formerly the anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution, has been magically transformed into the Day of Reconciliation and Accord. It seems like a good idea, an inspired example of "rebranding" that allows the people to keep their familiar day off, while dedicating it to a cause that is worthy of commemoration. |
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Crime was on the agenda big time this week, with the city's killers, burglars and sharks of various persuasions and in various uniforms all in action in the moments running up to the Day of Harmony and Reconciliation on Tuesday. |
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Director Pavel Lungin's film "The Marriage" (Svadba,) his fourth feature and latest effort, is at last on screen in St. Petersburg. "The Marriage" was first showcased at Cannes in May, but received a comparatively lukewarm reception, garnering a Golden Palm nomination, but no prize. |
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I don't know about you, but I, for one, have always been fascinated by the Russian writer Sergei Dovlatov. His stories, written mostly during the Brezhnev period of Stagnation, are a fine example of that heart-gripping mixture of the ordinary and the grotesque, the funny and the sad, the noble and the pathetic. |
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The world revolves around women - such is the attitude of one female opera director who is preparing to unveil her version of Jacques Offenbach's "The Tales Of Hoffmann," a story of one poet's doomed love for a mechanical doll, a singer and a Venetian courtesan. |
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At the St. Petersburg Cappella, the Third International Festival of Early Music had its triumphant conclusion on Sunday. The best was saved till last with the concerts of the great Dutch harpsichordist and organist Gustav Leonhardt and the British countertenor, Michael Chance, whose voice is fantastically even-toned, possessing a brilliantly refined baroque singing technique. |
 Tribute albums have finally made their way onto the Russian music market. Although the independent record label FeeLee released a Depeche Mode tribute in 1998, the current tribute to the seminal Russian group Kino released on the major label Real Records is on a much larger scale and has already provoked a much more serious reaction - along with much bigger sales. |
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You can't step twice into the same river, as the Greek philosopher Heraclitus once said, and it was indeed a risky move for British director David Freeman to stage his second symbolist opera production in a row at the Mariinsky Theater. |
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The latest addition to the St. Petersburg rock scene is Art Spirit, the nightclub which will open on Vasilievsky Island on Friday. There is no information about times and costs, but the music choice is good, as Auktsyon's Leonid Fyodorov and Sergei Shnu rov's 3D will play at the opening. Live performances will be followed by DJs Arram, Mantana, Phunkee, Redisco and Myst. |
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Israelis Stage Attack BEIT SAHOUR, West Bank (AP) - An Israeli combat helicopter rocketed a car full of Palestinian commanders on Thursday, killing one and wounding another critically. Another six people were injured. The attack outside Bethlehem was likely to intensify the violence and draw a tough Palestinian response, just as President Clinton was set to convene new meetings aimed at resuscitating Mideast peace talks. |
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