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MOSCOW - The Nuclear Power Ministry on Monday denied corruption allegations leveled against the head of the agency, Yevgeny Adamov, by the State Duma's anti-corruption commission. The report - a copy of which was obtained by The St. Petersburg Times on Monday from the Duma, where it was distributed among deputies Friday - said that Adamov illegally continued to engage in business activities after becoming minister in March 1998, and used his post to appoint business associates to key positions. "Let the Prosecutor General's Office and the Audit Chamber sort it out," Nuclear Power Ministry spokesman Yury Bespalko said Monday in response to the report, which recommended that law enforcement agencies open a formal investigation into the charges against Adamov. |
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 In what is being labeled the first big case on organized crime in St. Petersburg to have reached the courtroom, the City Criminal Court has resumed the trial of the so-called Akulovskaya gang, which allegedly operated in the city between 1992 and 1997. |
 In the days before television, a face that everyone could imagine but no one could describe held St. Petersburg in the grip of terror. Now, nearly 80 years after the head went missing, it still looks a fright - floating in a dim jar of murky greenish formaldehyde. The head is all that remains of Leonid Pantelkin, also known as Lyonka Panteleyev and by his mob nickname "Lyonka the Lucky," who was one of the most feared gangsters in 1920's Petrograd, as St. |
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 Editor's note: This is the second in an occasional series on education in St. Petersburg. During the demonstrations organized by teachers, professors and students last week, out on the streets to protest against government plans they say would mean paid university education, there was a familiar complaint being voiced almost as an afterthought: teachers' salaries. |
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MOSCOW - Russian and foreign dignitaries paid tribute on Friday to former the Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev, marking his 70th birthday with flair in a country where most people still dismiss the legacy of his reforms. |
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Environmentalists and officials are protesting over a factory that will rework radioactive metals - currently in waste storage at the Leningrad Atomic Energy Station, or LAES - for eventual use in all manner of consumer products, from refrigerators to utensils. |
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In a surprise audit by City Hall, Legislative Assembly lawmakers saw their reserve funds frozen on the order of Gov. Vla dimir Yakovlev, who ordered city district authorities to stop doling out the cash effective February 20. |
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MOSCOW - The top pro-Kremlin party gave its backing on Monday to a no-confidence vote in the government appointed by President Vla dimir Putin. But it said its aim was to force early elections and win more seats in the State Duma for the Kremlin. The manoeuvre by the Unity Party, seemingly going against Putin's government, followed months of speculation over Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov's cabinet, with many media predicting Putin would soon reshuffle the cabinet. |
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MOSCOW - The Russian branch of the Salvation Army has been granted the status of a "centralized" nationwide religious group. The church hopes this will improve its chances for resolving its legal problems in Moscow, where a local court refused to reregister the group last year on the grounds that it poses a "national security threat. |
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MOSCOW - A total of 48 bodies have been found scattered through an abandoned village of summer homes on the outskirts of Grozny, said the chief prosecutor for the pro-Moscow Chechen administration. But whether there are more bodies and who the dead were remained in dispute. |
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Mole Exposes Tunnel MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's Foreign Ministry summoned the U.S. chargé d'affaires on Monday to demand an explanation for reports that intelligence services had dug a tunnel under the Soviet embassy in Washington during the 1980s. |
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 MOSCOW - Caught in the crosshairs of verbal snipers from both the left and the right, Anatoly Chubais is once again exactly where he wants to be: at the center of Russia's most daunting project. Chubais, who has been accused of everything from creating the oligarchy to precipitating the country's 1998 financial meltdown, is under intense pressure to reform the world's largest power grid. |
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LONDON - Russia's giant energy firms, armed with cash stockpiles from the oil price rally, are on the march with acquisitions in mind - from the United States to Ukraine. |
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Petersburg Telephone Network (PTS) announced at a press conference Friday that its merger with St. Petersburg National and International Telephone (SPB MMT) and St. Petersburg Telegraph (SPT) has been completed. The St. Petersburg merger is one of a number which fit into national telecoms holding Svyazinvest's plans to restructure Russia's telephone market. |
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MOSCOW - The European Union's plan to make Russia its major energy supplier is inching toward reality. In addition to being the major source of natural gas to Germany, the EU's largest economy, Russia is also gradually becoming its main source of crude oil. |
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Alrosa (Almazy Rossii-Sakha), the world's second largest diamond producer, said Thursday its $3.2 billion, five-year development plan includes exploration for new deposits not far from St. Petersburg, opening new diamond mines in Arkangelsk, as well as opening diamond cutting and trading centers here. Next year Alrosa, which accounts for nearly 25 percent of world and 98 percent of Russia's diamond output, will begin exploration in the Leningrad Oblast and in the neighboring Republic of Karelia. The company has earmarked 30 million rubles for exploration. In Karelia, Alrosa owns 51 percent in Alrosa-Karelia, which is itself 49 percent owned by the Australian company Ashton Mining. |
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 As the rest of Russia will observe the 10-year anniversary of the end of the Soviet Union in December of this year, Kirovsky Zavod, one of the country's largest and most successful factories, is gearing up for a celebration of its own in April. |
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THE question of land ownership has been one of the most debated issues in Russia during the past 10 years. Presidential Decree No. 301 of March 25, 1992, established the procedure for acquiring land. According to this decree, individuals and legal entities, which acquired state enterprises through privatization, were entitled to apply to purchase the land sites on which the privatized enterprises were located. |
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IT is no secret that most people have little trust in newspapers. The received wisdom is that journalists are in somebody's pocket, which is galling for those sections of the press who are only paid by their employers. |
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SCHAUMBURG, Illinois - Motorola Inc., the world's No. 2 mobile phone maker, on Monday said it has received more than $1 billion cash from the sale of investments in five cellular operating companies. The company said that since Jan. 1 it had received cash payments for the sale of its investments in cellular operations in Brazil, Egypt, Israel, Jordan and Pakistan. |
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Ford's Spanish Fiesta LONDON (AP) - Ford Motor Co. said Monday it will manufacture the next generation of its Fiesta passenger car in Valencia, Spain, at the same Ford factory where Japan's Mazda Motor Corp. |
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SOME aging wit once said that he would wake up in the morning, check the obituary column, and if his name wasn't in it, he would get out of bed. Working in Moscow's murky media market is something like that. You come into the office and look at the day's edition of The Moscow Times. |
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LAST week FBI agent Robert Philip Hanssen was arrested in the United States and charged with spying for the Soviet Union and Russia for the last 15 years. |
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SEVERAL reasons come to mind to suggest the Clinton pardon scandals are hysterically overblown: a) Marc Rich's indictment was an overreach typical of so many of the grandstanding prosecutions to come out of Rudy Giuliani's office when he was U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York. |
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THE State Duma's anti-corruption commission has made some serious allegations that Nuclear Power Minister Yevgeny Adamov has been involved in activities that amount to an impermissable abuse of power. |
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AS the Bush administration develops a harder-line policy toward Russia - a move that threatens to substitute greater prejudice for more objective analysis - some observers have argued that Western analysts are guilty of hypocrisy stemming from Russophobia. |
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THE last victim of Russia's "Alumi num Wars," Mikhail Zhivilo, has been arrested in Paris. He is accused of observing Russia's traditions, i. |
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"What?!! What did he say? How the hell... Oh Christ!" For somebody who knows a foreign language, yelling is the safest way to watch "imported" dubbed movies without smashing the TV to pieces. If you've ever had the luck to see your best hopes of anticipation turn into worst nightmares of disappointment, I can bet my philologist's diploma you have had experiences such as watching your beloved Kevin Spacey talk like Schwarzenegger when he was learning to say "I'll be back" in English. Or you've heard somebody offer a buddy "Ty - chelovek!" (You're a man) instead of a not so obvious "Yo man!" If anything, such experiences make you crave for a commercial break. |
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 How does a two-room apartment just off Nevsky Prospect for $65 a month sound? What about a three-bedroom pad on the Neva for $3,000 a month? Depending on where and how you look, how quickly you need to rent and what length of time you are willing to sign a lease for, apartments in St. |
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Bridge Collapses CASTELO DE PAIVA, Portugal (Reuters) - A Portuguese road bridge collapsed into a river on Sunday, a bus packed with day-trippers plunging into the fast-flowing water and killing about 70 people. Only one body has so far been recovered after the bus, believed to be carrying 67 local people on a day-trip, plummeted into the surging Douro river just outside Castelo de Paiva town about 30 km east of Portugal's second city, Oporto. Two cars also tumbled into the river. It was not known how many people they carried, but some residents suggested there could have been as many as nine people. Bomb Strikes BBC LONDON (AP) - A powerful bomb blamed by police on IRA dissidents went off early Sunday outside the British Broadcasting Corp. |
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 For more than 40 years Terek, Chechnya's first professional soccer team, was the republic's pride within the Soviet league. Some of the finest players came from Grozny, an area better known for its violence than for its love of sports. |
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The price of a haircut, in Rubles. Women's Men's Salon Alexandra 150 150 Alla's Salon 290 290 Alyosha Hairdressing Salon 110 80 Boris & Co 70 70 Eva 80 75 Iolanta 100 100 Looch 90 90 May Salon 320 230 Prestige Beauty Salon 300* 250 Style 80 80 Salon Verol 60 60 Salon Alexandra; 53 Bolshoi Pr., M. Petrogradskaya. Tel: 233-29-23 Alla's Salon; 131 Nab. Reki Fontanki, 131, M. Sennaya Pl. Tel: 327-20-89 Alyosha Hairdressing Salon; 20 Ul. Vosstaniya, M. Pl. Vosstaniya. Tel: 273-13-94 Boris & Co; 75 Moskovsky Pr., M. Frunzenskaya. Tel: 316-17-95 Eva; 92 Bolshoi Sampsoniyevsky Pr., M. Lesnaya. Tel: 244-20-70 Iolanta; 17 Pr. Chernyshevskogo, M. |
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 LONDON - Controversy reigned in matches involving the leaders in Spain and England this weekend. Barcelona was furious after a late winner from Brazilian Rivaldo was ruled offside in its Spanish league clash with leaders Real Madrid at the Bernabeu, which ended 2-2. |
 Arts management in Russia is not likely to earn you a fortune, and those looking for rewards for their managerial skills would be better off working in real estate. Running a state arts institution takes much more than just skill and knowledge. It takes enormous enthusiasm. |
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Raised eyebrows, admonishing me with their condescending disbelief, was a common enough response when I told people that I was on my way to Russia in 1998. |
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Despite being officially International Women's Day, nowhere is this holiday taken more seriously than in Russia. March 8 promises the usual festivities, which include a day off work (Friday too for most people, although they make up for it by working on Sunday), giving mimosas to women (other flowers are acceptable, but the mimosa is traditional) as well as other presents and grand television pageants devoted to the country's female majority. |
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March 5, 1953 - Josef Stalin dies in somewhat mysterious circumstances at his dacha in Kuntsevo. March 5, 1953 - Death of Sergei Prokofiev in Moscow on the very same day, unaware of the dictator's death. |
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Ruiz Upsets Champ LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - Decided underdog John Ruiz knocked down Evander Holyfield in the 11th round and won a hard-fought unanimous decision to capture the World Boxing Association heavyweight title on Saturday night. Ruiz, a two-to-one underdog, dominated the final two rounds to pull out the victory in a bout that had distinctive ebbs and flows. |
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LONDON - England continued its stroll to a repeat Six Nations title with a convincing 43-3 victory over Scotland, while France looked uninspiring in its 30-19 victory over Italy on Saturday. |
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Monday's ruble/dollar rates in St. Petersburg: Address Buy Sell Alfa Bank 6 Kanal Griboyedova 28.30 28.90 BaltUneximbank Grand Hotel Europe 27.35 29.00 Baltiisky Bank 34 Sadovaya Ulitsa 28.30 29.29 Bank Sankt Peterburg 108 Ligovsky Prospect 28.35 28.95 Impexbank 58 Nevsky Prospect 28.15 28.90 MOST Bank 27 Nevsky Prospect 28. |
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