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An advisory body to Gov. Vladimir Yakovlev has drafted a law that would regulate subsidies to local media companies by drawing up a register of "eligible" organizations. Such a system of "approved" media outlets receiving city funds could potentially replace the existing - and much criticized - arrangement whereby the major St. |
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USSURIYSK, Far East - Galina Savostyanova cupped her hands as if holding a delicate crystal snifter, half-lowered her eyelids and proffered her personal advice on imbibing the finest beverage in all Russia. |
 KALININGRAD - Top European Union officials working out a development plan for Russia's Baltic enclave of Kaliningrad said on Thursday they had received top-level assurances that no nuclear arms were deployed here. Russia angrily denied a report in The Washington Times that U.S. intelligence had pinpointed missiles in the impoverished region wedged between EU aspirants Poland and Lithuania. |
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MOSCOW - Russia said on Thursday it had set in motion plans for long-awaited cutbacks of its troops in rebel Chechnya, but gave few details. Valery Manilov, first deputy chief of Russia's general staff, told the Itar-Tass news agency "a plan and schedule for withdrawing extra military units from Chechnya has been worked out and sent . |
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MOSCOW - Russia's aging Mir space station will come crashing to Earth around a week later than planned, according to more precise calculations on the station's orbit, the Russian space agency said on Thursday. |
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The former governor of the Primorye region, Yevgeny Nazdratenko, emerged from a meeting with President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday saying the two had discussed the region's energy woes, Nazdratenko's next job and elections of a new governor, Prime-Tass reported. |
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Imagine an author as in control of his words as the great Russian expat writer Vla dimir Nabokov spouting utter nonsense in print. Then imagine his horrified fans back in Russia, struggling to obtain a copy of "Lolita" and finding his 1955 classic - written originally in English - contorted into impenetrable Russian, with important passages of the novel entirely absent. |
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Israel Backs Mirilashvili ST. PETERSBURG (SPT) - The arrest of the well-known St. Petersburg businessman and vice president of the Russian Jewish Congress Mikhail Mirilashvili has caused outrage in some political circles in Israel, Interfax reported. |
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MOSCOW - Russia's air force chief denied reports from Tokyo Wednesday that Russian military aircraft had violated Japanese airspace, Interfax reported. |
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One man died and another 10 were injured when an electric commuter train collided with a freight truck at a railroad crossing between the towns of Beloostrov and Levashovo, 29 kilometers west of St. Petersburg. According to Oktyabrskaya Railroad spokesperson Olga Chulashova, the accident occurred at 1:02 p.m. Tuesday when a passenger elektrichka ran full-speed into the rear end of a Kamaz refrigerator truck trailer, derailing two of the trains cars. Train passenger, 39-year-old Yury Kulakov - who was the only passenger to die - survived for three hours pinned in a swampy area by the weight of a 60 ton train carriage, Yury Demyanov, head of the St. |
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 MOSCOW - He climbs manfully out of a limousine at an airbase. Stares intently at the distance before the Kremlin gates. Stands defiantly in his navy pea-coat amid the raging northern seas. |
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MOSCOW - Media-MOST won a small but potentially important victory Wednesday in its battle to retain control of NTV. After several hours of discussions, the Moscow arbitration court postponed hearing a case brought by Gazprom-Media until Oct. 3, effectively shifting the dispute over a decisive 19 percent of NTV shares to Western courts. |
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MOSCOW -The office of Russia's general prosecutor said on Wednesday it would decide by Thursday whether to charge a Russian diplomat who struck and killed a woman in Canada in a drunk-driving incident. |
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MOSCOW - Russia's forthright rejection on Thursday of U.S. allegations that Moscow was responsible for spreading missile technology has added further heat to a furor over U.S. plans for a "Son of Star Wars" missile defense shield. The row has been the main strain in ties between the world's top two nuclear powers and looms over the first face-to-face talks between new U. |
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Metro police officer Nikolai Koles ni kov, who was shot Wednesday morning by a teenage boy at the Ulitsa Dybenko metro station, remained in critical but stable condition Thursday, Interfax reported. |
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MOSCOW - Stock market heavyweights Boris Fyodorov and Bill Brow der have locked horns over a proposed share issue by state savings bank Sberbank. "With great surprise I have read a copy of Hermitage's presentation," head of United Financial Group Fyodorov said in a statement this week to investors and Sberbank shareholders. |
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MOSCOW - Bitter differences remained Wednesday after a three-day discussion on how national power grid Unified Energy Systems should be restructured, with UES head Anatoly Chubais and President Vladimir Putin's economic adviser Andrei Illarionov openly contradicting each other on what had been achieved. |
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MOSCOW - Germany and Russia announced progress Tuesday on a scheme to swap debts owed by Moscow for stakes in Russian companies. The economics ministers from the two countries said they hoped to finalize three pilot deals in the energy and furniture industries in time for a summit between Chancellor Gerhard Schröder and President Vla dimir Putin in April. "We're gaining momentum," German Economics Minister Wer ner Müller told a news conference after a two-day meeting of a bilateral economic cooperation council in Berlin. The panel, which brought together 200 business delegates, was meeting for the first time in four years after Schröder and Putin decided last summer to revive it. |
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 CHEBOKSARY, Chuvashia - How does a region make money off oil, gas, gold and coal when it has no deposits of its own? Chuvashia does it by producing the equipment used to develop such deposits elsewhere. |
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MOSCOW - Steel maker Severstal has bought into engine manufacturer Zavolzhsk Engine Plant in a move that will enable it to put pressure on one of the plant's main domestic consumers, automaker GAZ. The automaker recently became a subsidiary of Siberian Aluminum. |
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Investors Welcomed (SPT) - More than 1000 Russian and international firms and governmental and professional organizations are in St. Petersburg to participate in the Investments 2001, running through Saturday at the Tavricheskiy Palace. |
 MOSCOW - After more than two years of deliberations India has agreed to procure more than 300 main battle tanks from Russia in a contract worth hundreds of millions of dollars and which may be the local armor industry's last major deal, experts said. Indian Defense Minister George Fernandes on Thursday chose to personally announce the landmark deal that provides for 126 T-90s to be supplied by Nizhny-Tagil-based factory Uralvagonzavod and another 184 T-90s to be assembled at a plant in the Indian city of Avadi. |
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VLADIVOSTOK, Far East - Once Harry Wu - a Chinese dissident who spent 20 years in prison camps - said during a visit to Magadan that the growth of organized crime in Russia had its upside. Mafia can be good, he told me. Mafia decentralizes power, takes it out of the hands of the KGB. |
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Ingrained Habits Give us this day our daily bread - even if it kills us. That seems to be the operant theology these days in the Archdiocese of Boston, where a five-year-old girl with a debilitating allergy to bread has been denied communion and forced to abandon the embrace of Holy Mother Church, The Associated Press reports. |
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Dear Editor, I was amazed and delighted to read Peter Ekman's opinion piece concerning the Media-MOST story ["Mismanaging NTV," Feb. 6]. I have been quite distressed at the utterly clueless coverage, not just by the perenually hostile like the Los Angeles Times, but also by those from whom I would have expected better, like The Washington Post. |
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WE have heard a lot lately from the new U.S. administration about the need to modify or cancel the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile treaty and the 1974 protocol to it. |
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GOV. Vladimir Yakovlev's proposal to reduce the cost of visas for the citizens of Scandinavian countries is a good one - as far as it goes. But with the 300th anniversary of the founding of St. Petersburg coming up in 2003, and preparations, if not quite going at full speed, at least cranking into gear, the governor should be asking himself: Why stop there? Yakovlev is perhaps correct in identifying high costs as a reason why people would think twice before jumping on the plane or ferry to St. |
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FIVE or six years ago, a number of St. Petersburg journalists came up with the idea of consolidating the resources of at least three major local newspapers to create just one or two competitive dailies that would be big, thick, colorful and high-quality - "more like Western productions," as one of them said at the time. |
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THE political leanings of the Legislative Assembly are fairly fluid. It used to be the case that the "house" was opposed to most things that came out of City Hall, from the laws to the sewage. Then, once Gov. Vladimir Yakov lev took care of Speaker Yury Kravt sov and quieted the more outspoken rump, the assembly became more divided, with those deputies who generally supported the governor seated on one side of the chamber, and those generally against on the other. |
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For those interested in botany and zoology from a culinary point of view, there can be no better place to visit than the Zolotaya Panda (Golden Panda) Chinese restaurant, with a startling diversity of flora and fauna on the menu. While the endangered panda does not make an appearance, bamboo does, and we found it to be surprisingly delicious. |
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The stage adaptation of Viktor Pelevin's 1996 novel "Chapayev i Pustota," was premiered in Moscow in November, with much hype, outdoor events and a rock concert. |
 Tchaikovsky's "Nutcracker" has proved a tough nut for yet another choreographer. Ballet legend Marius Petipa simply gave up and left it for Lev Ivanov in 1892, but his more courageous followers, including Vasily Vainonen, Fyodor Lopukhov and Maurice Béjart, all tried staging the ballet. |
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While theater director Roman Smirnov started his career in the mid 1980s with his work at the Maly Drama Theater, he had a long hiatus from theater, working as a journalist covering major armed conflicts on the territory of the former Soviet Union. |
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Agoraphobics beware - there's a new wide open disco space in town. Maybe you've noticed the posters scattered around Nevsky, advertising the "Neo Fashion Cafe," a new dance club/cafe located in a very unlikely location: the central atrium of a three-story, glass-covered shopping mall - devoid of all its daytime shopping clientele, of course, but reinfused evenings with a night-time crowd of DJ-worshippers. Smack in the middle of Baltiisky shopping center on Vasilievsky Island, glittery opalescent tables and silver chairs sparkle under the swirling glow of black lights and green disco strobes; waitresses in silver shirts flash by to take your order (silver seems to be a key color here), and bartenders (who must dream of one day studying at the Tom Cruise Institute of Bartending) show off their dance moves as they pound out your pizza, even when no music is playing. |
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 Arthur Miller's play " Death of a Salesman" is already an old favorite of 20th century drama, presenting the familiar story of a man disappointed in life, and remains relevant over 50 years after it was first performed. |
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Palestinian Killed JERUSALEM (AP) - A Palestinian security official trying to infiltrate a Jewish settlement was killed in a firefight with Israeli troops early Thursday, the Israeli army said - a day after a Gaza Strip bus driver plowed into a crowded bus stop in Israel and killed eight young Israelis. |
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LONDON - Exciting back play could dominate Saturday's second round of the Six Nations if British Lions prospects Brian O'Driscoll and Jason Ro binson are given the chance to run with the ball. |
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UEFA Cup Clash ROME (AP) - A Liverpool fan was stabbed Thursday, while two others were hurt after clashing with AS Roma fans before a UEFA Cup match. Police identified the man as Gerard Collins and said he was stabbed in the left arm and in the thigh. Tarango Takes Off MARSEILLE, France (Reuters) - American Jeff Tarango stormed off the court and defaulted during a match with Slovakia's Karol Kucera in the first round of the Marseille Open on Wednesday. Tarango, known for his volatile temper on court, walked off with Kucera on match point. Kucera was leading 7-6 5-3. Pepsi Is Out LONDON (Reuters) - U.S. soft drinks giant Pepsi has pulled out of the bidding to sponsor the English premier league next season. |
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 London - Just five goals were scored in four Champions League matches Wednesday night as Groups A and B restarted after the mid-winter break. There was some drama at the San Siro where 10-man AC Milan drew 1-1 with Paris St. |
 PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania - Allen Iverson's league-leading Philadelphia 76ers did not need their All-Star center or his backup to beat the defending NBA champions. With Theo Ratliff on the injured list and backup Matt Geiger suspended, Iverson outplayed Kobe Bryant and the 76ers used a platoon of reserve centers to deal with Shaquille O'Neal en route to an impressive 112-97 victory over the Los Angeles Lakers on Wednesday. |
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EAST RUTHERFORD, New Jersey - Martin Havlat and Marian Hossa scored first-period goals as the Ottawa Senators regained sole possession of first place in the Eastern Conference with a 3-2 victory over the New Jersey Devils on Wednesday. |
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