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 NOVOPAVLOVSK, Southern Russia - Larisa Dushko caught a glimpse of the soft curve of her firstborn baby's bottom, nothing more. It took her six years even to get her hands on a photograph, and she has never held her daughter's hand or touched her face. At birth, doctors called the baby a "monster" too terrible for her parents to look at, and her own grandfather tried to have her "put to sleep. |
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 MOSCOW - The Mir space station will most likely be brought down into the Pacific Ocean between March 18 and 20, and the Russian Aviation and Space Agency will insure it against any damage the crash could cause, officials said Tuesday. |
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MOSCOW - A Russian counter-intelligence source dismissed reports of a U.S. eavesdropping tunnel under the Russian Embassy, saying on Thursday they were Washington's invention and aimed at discrediting spy suspect Robert Hanssen. The New York Times reported the existence of the tunnel last weekend, quoting unnamed officials as saying they believed the operation had been betrayed to the Russians by FBI agent Hanssen, who is charged with selling secrets to Moscow. RIA news agency quoted a high-ranking source in Russian counter-intelligence as saying the Cold War-era tunnel never existed, and that the report was intentionally circulated by U.S. secret services to "burden Hanssen with a serious guilt. |
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 CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida - The space shuttle Discovery roared off its launch pad just after dawn on Thursday, easily outracing the rising sun on its way to deliver a new crew to the International Space Station. |
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French Connection MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin and French leader Jacques Chirac on Wednesday discussed tensions in Macedonia as well as an upcoming EU-Russia summit. A Kremlin spokesman said Putin and Chirac had spoken by telephone about what steps needed to be taken to handle the situation in Macedonia, where local troops and foreign peacekeepers have clashed with gunmen described by Macedonia as Albanian extremists. |
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MOSCOW - Media-MOST confirmed Tuesday that Vladimir Gusinsky has received formal proposals from a consortium of potential investors, including U.S. media magnate Ted Turner and financier George Soros, to buy stakes in his holding company. As late as last week, both Media-MOST and Gazprom-Media officials said that despite the interest expressed by foreign investors, they still had many internal differences, and no clear proposal outlining the shape of the potential purchase had been made. |
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It has been nine months since environmentalist Sergei Kharitonov lost his job as the operator of the spent nuclear fuel storage at Leningrad Nuclear Power Station, or LAES, in what he says was the plant's attempt to shut him up. |
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Administrators of a controversial factory to clean radioactive waste metals for commercial use stressed the safety of the project on Tuesday, but only to media members who observers say were chosen for their ignorance of the dangers posed by the plant. The plant, EKOMET-S, is situated on the grounds of the Leningrad Atomic Energy Station, or LAES, in Sosnovy Bor - a militarily closed town 60 kilometers west of St. Petersburg. The factory, which opens in May, plans to produce 5,000 tons of cleaned metal per year initially, with an expanded output of 150,000 tons a year if it gets the go-ahead to build more plants, according to Interfax. But EKOMET-S's proposal has met strong opposition from environmental groups and members of the Sosnovy Bor administration, who say the firm's raw material - taken from LAES' overflowing waste dumps - will expose users of products from kitchen utensils to cars to dangerously high levels of radiation. |
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 MOSCOW - President Vladimir Putin answered questions live on the Internet on Tuesday, defending policies on reform, press freedom and the war in Chechnya and revealing his preferences in music, literature and leisure. |
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A new political movement which claims a close relationship with the Kremlin party of power has sprung up on the political landscape with the support of Sergei Mironov, vice-speaker of the Legislative Assembly. The party, which is to be registered as Volya Peterburga, or Petersburg's Will, claims to be close to president Vladimir Putin, saying that it will become as heavy a presence as the Kremlin's Yedinstvo, or Unity, and will, in the words of its founder Mironov, "unite all of St. |
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KHANTY-MANSIISK, Western Siberia - Under frequent blizzards and subzero temperatures, the brigade at oil well No. 207 has been pounding at the underlying subsoil and rock for 22 days. They are four days from hitting oil. Here, at the Priobskoye oil field - one of the largest left to be developed in western Siberia - they work 11-hour shifts in bright orange thermal suits, like astronauts on a harsh lunar landscape. |
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MOSCOW - The stars were out and not in small numbers at the Intel Russian Internet Awards held at Moscow's Gorky Art Theater last week, with guest presenters including Russian television celebrities Dmitry Dibrov and Lev Novozhyonov. |
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The city's finance committee averted a reduction in heating supply to St. Petersburg residents on Saturday with a last-minute agreement to guarantee a 180 million-ruble ($6.3 million) credit from BaltUneximbank to St. Petersburg Fuel and Energy Complex (TEK SPb). |
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STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Russia has made debt payments to Sweden due by the end of February and to some other European Union countries as well, a Swedish official said Tuesday. |
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MOSCOW - Just three years ago, it looked like a basket case doomed to failure no matter what it did. But then the ruble crashed and gave the Asha Steel Factory a second chance. "We reviewed our strategy after the 1998 devaluation," said Alexander Moiseyev, technical director with Asha Steel Factory, or AMET, which is located in the southern Urals between Chelyabinsk and Ufa. |
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Transaero-China Deal MOSCOW (SPT) - Private airline Transaero and China Airlines will begin jointly operating a Moscow-Taipei route in October, Transaero said Tuesday. |
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WHETHER one likes it or not, Palestinians and Arab nations at large see both the Palestinian cause and the suffering of the Iraqi people as interwoven and inseparable. This might explain the lukewarm - or even slightly hostile - reception that met U.S. |
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DANDONG, China - For most of the day - presumably when there is no power to spare in electricity-starved North Korea - there is nothing to see on DPRK-TV. |
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THE Legislative Assembly is extremely confused. City Hall unexpectedly froze lawmakers' discretionary funds late last month, and then announced that a number of deputies should have the way in which they are allocating their funds reanalyzed by the City Finance Committee, to see whether or not the money is being used in appropriate ways. |
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FOR years now, the saying "if you don't like the news there is, buy some different news" has practically been the motto of post-Soviet Russia - although few self-respecting people have been willing to endorse it aloud. |
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THEY carried placards. On March 8, 1996, a group of women, clad in black, marched on Pushkin Square. One poster, held by a crisis center volunteer, told a tale in hieroglyphics: One picture labeled "March 7th" showed a woman being beaten. A second drawing, labeled "March 8th," showed the same woman receiving a bouquet of flowers. |
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SEVEN years ago a CIA officer working in the elite Directorate of Operations named Aldrich Ames was arrested for having passed some of America's most vital secrets to the First Directorate of the Soviet Union's KGB and later to its successor, the Foreign Intelligence Service. |
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Readers write in on the future of PeterStar, the Eastern and Western character of Russia, a controversial film about a submarine accident and a victory for the Jehovah's Witnesses. PeterStar Reborn Dear Editor, I read with interest the opinion expressed by Anna Shcherbakova ["End of the Road for PeterStar?" Feb. |
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A woman with muscles like the hero of a Hollywood action film is about to hit an anvil with a giant hammer. Her twin, holding pincers, is assisting her. The two women, on a 1920 poster at a new exhibition at the Museum of the Political History of Russia, illustrate just what the young Soviet state wanted from its female population. |
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The Sixth International Jazz Guitar Festival which this year bears the proud title "The Global One" is a tradition established by the small but excellent JFC Jazz Club. |
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A Guide, a Guidess and a Tourist in Addition by Viktor Samoilovich is a book of complications. True, the profession itself - whose intricacies are described profusely in the book's 43 chapters - may not be the easiest one. The author, however, has done little to make these intricacies clearer for the reader. The flowery, if sometimes thorny, ode to a tourist guide's thankless job -"Gid, Gidessa i Turik v Pridachu" in Russian - was conceived as a first excursion into the business. It is crowded with guides and interpreters, tourists and Communist Party officials, historic figures and experts on St. Petersburg museums. Samoilovich's book is heavier with allusions, proverbs, history and bilingual jokes than any manual will allow. |
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 Last weekend saw two remarkable concerts take place at the Mariinsky. The German musician Eustace Frantz, gifted friend and contemporary of Valery Gergiev, conducted first, followed by Gergiev himself. |
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"Kotletnaya" is not the first Soviet retro restaurant to open in the city, but it may be the first one where the cuisine is fully in line with the decor. While, as my Soviet-born dining companion reminded me, this may not necessarily be a bad thing, it is also interesting to find gastronomic tendencies following political trends. Such names as Kotletnaya, Sosichinaya or Ryumochnaya generally represented the bottom of the range in Soviet times, so it is especially unusual to find a new restaurant with a name like this. The Kotletnaya on Pereulok Grivtsova is far from being the cheapest and nastiest the city has to offer, and so there is no question that the retro style on display here is also intended humorously. |
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 It has become habitual to talk about each new performance of Anatoly Praudin as the beginning of a new trend in theater art. This is no exaggeration, as the director invents prodigiously. |
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 LONDON - Valencia and Galata saray secured their places in the quarterfinals of the Champions League on Wed nesday, although Deportivo Coruna stole their thunder on the night with an astonishing 4-3 victory over Paris St. Germain after being 0-3 down. |
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NATO allies agreed Thursday to allow the controlled return of Serbian security forces to a buffer zone along a part of the Macedonian border where ethnic Albanian gunmen have occupied territory. |
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Crum Calls it Quits LOUISVILLE, Kentucky (Reuters) - Denny Crum, a member of the college basketball Hall of Fame, coached his final game Wednesday night as Louisville lost to Alabama-Birmingham in the first round of the Conference USA tournament at Freedom Hall. Crum, who has 675 career victories and coached two NCAA championship teams at Louisville, agreed Friday to a buyout of the remaining two years of his contract and his 30-year career came to an end with a 74-61 loss to the Blazers. "It's been a long career," Crum said. "All I can say at this point is I wish it hadn't ended here tonight. I think that at this point I'm happy that I'm going to get to do some things and spend some time with my family and friends. |
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 ATLANTA, Georgia - The Houston Rockets came back from 20 points down to beat the Atlanta Hawks, 104-98, Wednesday. Steve Francis gave Houston the lead for good in the fourth quarter when he hit the last of his three three-pointers with 25 seconds remaining. |
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SCOTTSDALE, Arizona - Sixth-seed Tim Henman of Britain overcame a six-hour rain delay to beat Spaniard German Puentes 6-1, 7-5 Wednesday and advance to the quarterfinals of the $400,000 Franklin Templeton Tennis Classic. Henman will meet Israel's Harel Levy, who dismissed giant killer Andrew Ilie of Australia, 6-7, 6-1, 6-2. |
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Sharon To Take Power JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Prime Minister-elect Ariel Sharon has completed his political jigsaw, putting together a coalition government with the avowed aim of ending an almost six-month-old bloody Palestinian uprising. |
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DALLAS, Texas - Steve Poapst, who has spent most of his career in the minor leagues, scored twice as the Chicago Blackhawks beat the Dallas Stars, 4-1, Wednesday. Poapst was recalled from Norfolk of the American Hockey League in January. His last NHL goal was four years ago. Eric Daze and Bob Probert had second-period goals to extend Chicago's lead to 3-0. |
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