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 MOSCOW - Gov. Vladimir Yakovlev brought a St. Petersburg roadshow to Moscow on Wednesday, in an effort to gather moral support for his city's year-long tricentennial clebrations in 2003. Flanked by Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov and Deputy Prime Minister Valentina Matviyenko at the capital's Gos tiny Dvor shopping center, Yakov lev unveiled an exhibition honoring "the past, present and future" of his city to other politicians, business leaders and the media. |
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MOSCOW - U.S.-funded Radio Liberty said on Thursday it would go ahead with plans to broadcast in Chechen despite angry comments by a Russian minister that the move was politically motivated and a challenge to Moscow. |
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A little over six years ago, Norwegian environmental activist Tomas Nilsen recalls standing on the Russian-Finnish border, trying to halt the passage of a cargo train loaded with Finnish nuclear waste into Russia. The train, as he described it in a telephone interview from the Oslo offices of the environmental group Bellona, differed little in appearance from a standard, rundown cargo train - except for the heavy presence of armed Finnish military guards who were along for the ride. |
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VIENNA, Austria - President Vladimir Putin stressed the importance of Austria's post-war neutrality Thursday and repeated Russian opposition to the eastward expansion of NATO. Putin told reporters after talks with Austrian President Thomas Klestil after arriving in Vienna that although the world situation had changed considerably since the days of the Cold War, Austrian neutrality - imposed in 1955 - still held international importance. "In the Cold War, in those very tense times, Austrian neutrality proved its value ... for Austria and for Europe and the whole world," Putin said. "Today, when there is no such challenge and there are no opposing blocs . |
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 MOSCOW - In an apparent bid to compete with Ted Turner and George Soros on the pedestal of would-be saviors of NTV, Boris Berezovsky has offered to loan his long-time rival Vladimir Gusinsky up to $50 million to help pay his Media-MOST's operating costs. |
 At 76 meters tall and 19 kilometers from the city center, the St. Petersburg observatory is a well-known and somewhat mystical-looking landmark to drivers on the highway to Russia's south, and to the city's air traffic. By day, the building - officially known as the Pulkovo Central Astronomy Observatory - seems eerily quiet, even though there are more than 400 scientists and technical assistants dotted around several buildings. |
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Porcelain To Stay ST. PETERSBURG (SPT) - The unique porcelain collection that has for 150 years been tended by the Lomonosov Porcelain Factory (LFZ) will officially come under the control of the State Hermitage Museum from February, according to a pending order from the Culture Ministry. |
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WASHINGTON - The World Bank on Tuesday significantly increased the amount of lending it will consider for Russia over two years to $2 billion, including a $60 million loan to improve traffic management in Moscow. The World Bank's board approved increasing its lending limit to Russia to up to $600 million in the fiscal years 2001 and 2002, up from a previous limit agreed to in December 1999 of $150 million, bank spokesman Nick Van Praag said. |
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MOSCOW - U.S. aid worker Kenneth Gluck said on Thursday he had no answer to the riddle of who seized him in Russia's rebel province of Chechnya almost a month ago. |
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MOSCOW - After years of delay, U.S. auto giant General Motors has given the green light to a $330 million venture with car maker AvtoVAZ and the EBRD that will be one of the biggest foreign investments yet in Russia, an executive close to the talks said Wednesday. |
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MOSCOW - Prosecutors in the southern Siberian city of Barnaul are investigating whether a police driver arrested this week for alleged attempted rape is also behind the disappearance of five girls from a local university. |
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MOSCOW - When President Vla di mir Putin asks for money, he gets it. At a much-hyped Kremlin roundtable Jan. 24, Putin told a group of the country's wealthiest businessmen that he would like them to contribute money to a new fund for victims of military conflicts. The speed of the response was staggering: In just 10 days, some 1. |
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Mil Nearer Settlement MOSCOW (SPT) - The Moscow arbitration court ruled Wednesday in favor of Mezhregionalny Investitsionny Bank, and excluded the state investment company Gosinkor from the list of creditors of the bankrupt Moscow Mil helicopter plant, said Vadim Mikheyev, a spokesman for the Mil plant. |
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Sick of those commercials interrupting "Santa Barbara" every 15 minutes? If the State Duma gets its way, you'll be able to watch the hour-long soap opera commercial free. |
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An item carried by a Russian Internet site set the rumor and denial mills in the country's telecommunications industry in motion on Thursday, reporting that Sistema Telekom, a Moscow-based holding company, has received a license to provide GSM-standard cellular telephone service in the Northwest region. The report, carried by Sotovik.ru, which specializes in coverage of the telecommunications industry, did not say how or from whom Sistema, which owns 43 percent of Mobile Telephone Systems (MTS), Moscow's largest cellular provider, had gained the license. "Reliable officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity, confirmed that Sistema Telekom received a GSM license in the Northwest region," Sotovik. |
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 MOSCOW - Positioning itself for a possible contract bonanza resulting from the restructuring of the national power grid, Vla dimir Potanin's Interros group said Tuesday it has formed a consortium out of its energy machine-building enterprises. |
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EXPATRIATES in Russia seem to be in a state of panic as Media-MOST's financial problems draw toward their almost inevitable conclusion - the takeover of Media-MOST and its television channel NTV by Gaz prom. Many expats see the current situation as more critical than the August 1998 financial crisis. |
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HOW do you imagine the system of central heating worked in the 18th-century Ottoman Empire? I imagine that it didn't: Central heating is simply not compatible with universal corruption. |
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WAS there any significance in the timing of Vladimir Yakovlev's proposal to draft a bill giving governors immunity from prosecution after they left office? To the suspicious eye of the hack, yes - all the more so because Yakovlev's spokesman hastened to reassure us that the governor had merely made the remarks to Interfax journalists over a cup of tea. |
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THOSE participating in or witnessing turning points in world history are generally displeased by the way such crises are depicted in films and plays. So, it was only reluctantly that I went to see the film "Thirteen Days," about President John F. |
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IF there is one area in which Russia leads the world, it is in its ambitions for all things nuclear. It is definite that the Nuclear Power Ministry wants to make money by taking other countries' nuclear waste off their hands, just as it is certain that those countries are eager to get rid of that waste. |
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Dear Editor, I think that Stephen Ogden did a fairly strong demolition of his own argument in his badly thought out and frankly bizarre complaint against your foreign-pricing article. |
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Never, ever let it be said that the Global Eye has a partisan bent. Sure, we give those loveable right-wing types a bit of good-natured guff now and then, but that doesn't mean we don't also acknowledge shortcomings on the "other side of the aisle," as the Beltway pundits say. For example, we too look askance, fold our arms and say tut-tut at former President Bill Clinton's last-minute pardon of fugitive businessman Marc Rich. |
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It's something of an incongruity that the "Golden Age" of clubbing in St. Petersburg can be so often harked back to with unseemly nostalgia by young clubbers, themselves often barely in their twenties. This is particularly the case whenever the Tunnel Club is mentioned. |
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The three-day Dvizheniye/Movement #1 Festival, promoted by SP Concert, would be nothing more than three concerts and an all-night dance party, if it weren't for Proryv Festival - which is rather clumsily connected with Dvizheniye. |
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Ballet lovers are looking forward to a week-long feast, and the man to thank is maestro Valery Gergiev. The fiesta - officially called "International Ballet Festival 'Mariinsky'" kicks off Saturday and runs through Feb. 18 at the Mariinsky theater. The list of international ballet stars is impressive and features a number of big foreign names, along with Mariinsky talents such as Ulyana Lopatkina, Diana Vishnyova, Igor Zelensky and Svet lana Zakharova. Vladimir Malakhov - Bolshoi Ballet School graduate, formerly principal dancer at the Moscow Classical Ballet and currently principal dancer at the National Ballet of Canada - performs in "Giselle" on Feb. |
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 The club Faculty, which now attracts hundreds of fans and hosts some of the city's best bands, was launched on Nov. 18 with a concert by Markscheider Kunst - the popular Afro-rock band, which effectively packs any of the city's alternative venues. |
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It's rare in Russia to find a newly-opened restaurant that honestly has to turn people away. Especially when it's an unpleasantly slushy Wednesday night. But the "Priyut Bodlivoi Kozy" beer restaurant, or "Shelter of the Butting Goat," managed to do just that when we visited. Fortunately, we turned up early (before 7 p.m., that is), and were able to sit at one of the few tables that hadn't been reserved. At first we thought this was a marketing ploy, or that we were judged unworthy to sit in the other section, but soon the diners who had booked arrived to fill the empty tables, while less fortunate diners were turned away in droves. |
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 As Jan. 18, 2001, marked the 300-year anniversary of the St. Petersburg Naval Institute, and after celebrating the 300th anniversary of the Navy in 1996, the Central Naval Museum - approaching three centuries itself - looks ahead to similar anniversaries, and to putting the past in a new place, while still guarding its former treasures. |
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Boris Admits Paternity BERLIN (Reuters) - Boris Becker, who divorced his wife last month, admitted on Wednesday that he had fathered a child with a Russian model living in London. "I acknowledge the paternity. I accept the responsibility and will support little Anna," Becker, three times Wimbledon champion, said in a statement. |
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JERUSALEM - Prime Minister-elect Ariel Sharon rejected a key Palestinian demand that peace talks resume at the point they stopped under Israel's previous government, a senior Sharon adviser said Thursday. |
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Pastrana's FARC Talks SAN VICENTE, Colombia (Reuters) - Colombian President Andres Pastrana flew in to a guerrilla-held enclave on Thursday for a key meeting with a leftist rebel leader aimed at reviving the nation's stuttering two-year-old peace process. |
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PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania - The Philadelphia 76ers started the All-Star break about three hours too early. The 76ers looked uninterested and tired in a 112-87 loss on Wednesday to the Houston Rockets, who got another solid game from a rejuvenated Hakeem Olajuwon. |
 DALLAS, Texas - Using a new stick, defenseman Derian Hatcher scored his first goal of the season with 8:20 remaining as the Dallas Stars continued their dominance of the Edmonton Oilers with a 3-2 victory on Wednesday. Hatcher had not scored in 85 games. |
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NEW YORK - Baseball's world-famous New York Yankees teamed up on Wednesday with the world's richest soccer club, Manchester United, in a marketing alliance to boost their names - and sell more shirts and caps to fans on both sides of the Atlantic. |
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LONDON - Tottenham Hotspur fans had their belief in destiny reinforced on Wednesday when their team scored three goals in six minutes to recover from 2-0 down and beat Charlton Athletic 4-2 in the FA Cup fourth round. Minor-league Kingstonian suffered a 1-0 home fourth-round replay defeat by Bristol City while first division Blackburn won 5-2 at premier league Derby County. |
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