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Chinese junks; cables pulled by tanks; creating a giant cone of ice: These are but three of the more outlandish suggestions received by St. Petersburg's Rubin submarine design facility as proposals to float the Kursk submarine to the surface of the Barents Sea. According to an open letter from Rubin's chief designer Igor Spassky, published in Thursday's issue of Izvestia newspaper, these are three of the 500 suggestions received from around the world as possible methods of raising the sub, which sank Aug. 12 after military exercises, killing all 118 crew members. As yet, it is not clear what sank the sub -either an on-board explosion, as Western research suggests, or a collision, as many on the Russian side say. |
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 It may not be difficult for a select few to learn to work under pressure, consistently meeting grinding deadlines and then making the right decision within seconds. |
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MOSCOW - Russian survivors of Nazi-era slave-labor camps are now eligible for a share of some $415 million in compensation, which is to be offered by Austria's government and industry, a Vienna-based reconciliation fund said on Tuesday afternoon. Fund representatives told reporters in Moscow, however, that about 150,000 East European victims of Adolf Hitler's forced labor programs in Austria would not receive any payouts until U. |
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MOSCOW - A bill aimed at easing conditions in the country's overcrowded jails, which had been passed unanimously by the State Duma, was stopped in its tracks Wednesday when the upper house of parliament heeded the Prosecutor General's last-minute protest. |
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 For 30 years, the crew of the K-19 Soviet nuclear submarine were forced to keep silent on the tragic accident that crippled their vessel and led to the deaths of eight of them. Now, Hollywood wants finally to tell their tale. But two competing studios are fighting over who has the rights to reveal what happened in the North Atlantic on July 4, 1961. |
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Mikhail Mirilashvili, a prominent Russian-Israeli businessman and vice president of the Russian Jewish Congress, was formally charged with kidnapping by prosecutors on Wednesday. |
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After months of exhaustive work, the Legislative Assembly finally passed its final version of the 100-plus City Charter amendments aimed at bring the document into accord with federal legal standards. But the process was characterized by last-minute amendment bartering between City Hall and Assembly deputies that extended the lawmakers' jobs by moving back their election date from December 2002 to April 2003. |
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MOSCOW - On the eve of Boris Yeltsin's 70th birthday, a Russian magazine ran a full-page cartoon of the ex-president - slouched lethargically in a chair, eyes closed, head adorned with a tsar's crown. |
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MOSCOW - Kremlin Chief of Staff Alexander Voloshin, who is credited with orchestrating the rise of Vla dimir Putin, appeared to become even more entrenched in the Kremlin Tuesday when Putin gave him control over his representatives in the seven federal districts. |
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MOSCOW - The Russian Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday it was seeking a meeting with one of its diplomats missing in the United States and criticized U. |
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Almost Epidemic ST. PETERSBURG (SPT) - City health officials warned on Wednesday that St. Petersburg's flu and cold level of 7,412 infected people was rapidly approaching official epidemic proportions of 9,000, Interfax reported. According to the city branch of GozEpidNadzor, which monitors the spread of infectious illnesses, 30 to 50 people, mostly children, are hospitalized daily with the flu and severe colds, Interfax quoted the organization as saying. |
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MOSCOW - A second publisher for the memoirs of former British spy Richard Tomlinson came forward Tuesday, saying previous announcements of the book being published in Russia may be "an English joke. |
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MOSCOW - European Union ambassadors met journalists from NTV on Wed nesday in what the reporters said was a gesture of support in their battle against prosecutors and a hostile takeover bid. NTV's parent company, Media-MOST, is seeking a Western investor to stave off a takeover bid by Gazprom-Media, which it says would be fatal for press freedom in Russia. |
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MOSCOW - A group of State Duma deputies have drafted a raft of amendments to the law on mass media that, among other things, would forbid journalists from shielding their sources and would outlaw any reports that could be perceived as instigating riots. |
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MOSCOW - The ties are off. Expat managers suffer from a false sense of superiority. They ignore local traditions. They fail to learn from new experiences. And they insist too much on doing things the "Western" way. Russian managers have an over-acute sense of nationalism. |
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MOSCOW - Russia's largest steelmaker, Severstal, has a bone to pick with its potentially most lucrative customers, Europe and the United States. The company is eager - and able - to produce hundreds of millions of dollars worth of steel each year for these markets but has found its access forcefully capped. |
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MOSCOW - Russian-built passenger and cargo jets without airborne collision-avoidance systems will be banned from the European skies as of April 1. The requirement, which was set three years ago by Europe, could keep many of the aging workhorses - Tu-134, Tu-154, Il-62 and Il-76 jets - of Russian aviation out of the continent. |
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The reorganization of St. Petersburg's telecommunications companies has led to the cancellation of a contract Ericsson of Sweden originally signed with St. |
 A flap over $36 million in cargoes that Russian customs authorities say were never delivered has brought work by 1,300 of the 2,500 trucks in the northwest branch of Russia's International Truck Drivers Association (ASMAP) to a halt over the last two weeks. And Yury Romanov, chief of St. Petersburg's external transport committee said that this will definitely be a blow to the amount of transport activity to the city. |
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Party Poopers "Tories Admit Failure to Attract Women." - Headline, The Daily Telegraph, Jan. 26. In a shocking confession of amatory impotence, Britain's Conservatives hung their collective head in shame last week as the party's leaders reportedly lined up to catalogue their shortcomings in the sack. |
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Cherkesov as a Putin-Gogol Collaboration WHEN Viktor Cher kesov first came up to take charge of the Northwest Region, he didn't seem to be up to much. |
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Why Inner-City Schools Are Like Our Legislature THIS week's session at the Legislative Assembly gave some indication why the Speaker's chair was left empty for a 1 1/2 years. Not, as you might think, because of what happened to the last speaker, Yury Kravtsov, who was ousted by Gov. |
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Black Beauty of an Ashed City VLADIVOSTOK, Far East - Recently while heading home on the city's major north-south street, I glimpsed a curious sight in the oncoming lane. |
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RUSSIA'S political picture is looking increasingly like typical feudalism. President Vladimir Putin is a monarch trying to turn a patchwork of fiefdoms into an empire, and the governors are barons, feeling their traditional privileges imperiled by those efforts. |
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Two Steps Forward - Then Trip THOSE still struggling to hope that the Kremlin is seriously interested in serious legal reform have suffered yet another blow. |
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Dear Editor, How many more times must we hear the bleating of the foreign community on the subject of entry prices for St. Petersburg's museums, theaters and concert halls? Tom Masters' article ["No End in Sight for Dual-Pricing System," Jan. 30] could easily have been condensed into a one-line whine of "I want to pay less for my culture. |
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 On Monday at the Chamber Theater of the St. Petersburg Opera, the premiere of Alexander Smerklov's "Star of Emrein" took place. In fact, it would be more accurate to describe the event as a revival, as it was first performed 10 years ago on the miniature stage of the Yusupov Palace's own theater, as "The Skewbald Dog Running Along the Sea's Edge," to a libretto based on Chingiz Aytmatov's story of the same name. |
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El Toro has been open since April last year, but until recently has been keeping a relatively low profile. On being confronted the other day with an entirely empty restaurant, I was tempted to think that it needed to up its advertising campaign considerably if it is to stay in business. |
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While she is a graduate of St. Petersburg's famous Vaganova Ballet Academy, ballerina Alla Sigalova has never been known for dancing the classics. Rather, she prefers to choreograph pieces herself, which she performs both for dance companies and drama theaters. |
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Men sitting in bars watching MTV Russia gasp and forget about their Bochkarevs. Here they are - two teenage girls on the screen in shirts soaked through with rain, hugging and kissing. |
 With its title and a stunning bird's-eye opening sequence that swoops high over the roofs of the city, it feels obvious from the beginning of Alexander Zeldovich's "Moscow" that this is a film trying to say something about more than just the lives of its particular characters. |
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It looks like Duran Duran have already arrived in St. Petersburg, after their first Russian show in Moscow on Thursday While the Russian press is busy discussing whether they are Late Romantics or just Pop Trash, Simon Le Bon & Co. |
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Airline Near Miss TOKYO (Reuters) - Two Japanese planes may have come within 10 meters of each other before the pilot of a Japan Airlines Boeing 747 jumbo jet swerved to avoid a collision, injuring 42 people, Japanese media reported on Thursday. The reports also said that flight records showed a confusing exchange of instruction from air traffic controllers, one of whom was apparently a trainee with only three years experience. |
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RALEIGH, North Carolina - Curtis Joseph's milestone was more impressive than Jeff O'Neill's. Joseph moved into sole possession of 15th place on the all-time list with his 306th victory Wednesday night, backstopping the Toronto Maple Leafs to a 4-3 National Hockey League triumph over the Carolina Hurricanes. |
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INDIANAPOLIS - The Boston Celtics extended their National Basketball Association winning streak to a season-high four games with a victory in, of all places, Indianapolis, where they had lost 21 of 22 games over the past 12 years. Bryant Stith and Paul Pierce each scored six points in overtime to help the Celtics to a 102-96 victory over the Pacers and their first victory in Indiana in nearly six years. Antoine Walker just missed a triple-double Wednesday night with 22 points, 11 rebounds and nine assists to lead the Celtics. Stith and Pierce took over in the extra session, combining for 12 of Boston's 15 OT points. Pierce finished with 18 points, including the clinching dunk with 36 seconds left, and added 10 rebounds. |
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 LONDON - Manchester United stretched its premier league lead to a massive 15 points on Wednesday with a 1-0 away win over third-placed Sunderland in a game that saw three players sent off. |
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Soccer Sex Scandal MILAN, Italy (AP) - Several Italian soccer players have been implicated by police in a sex ring that provided prostitutes through an Internet Web site. The players were not identified but police said they were from a "top Milan-based soccer club. |
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MILAN, Italy - Goran Ivanisevic battled back to beat Germany's Nicolas Kiefer in the Milan indoor tournament on Wednesday, while Russia's Marat Safin booked his place in the second round with a 6-4, 7-5 win over another German David Prinosil. |
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