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MOSCOW - An upsurge of violence hit Russia's separatist Chechnya region on Wednesday, with Russian media reporting the deaths of at least 13 people. A 20-month-old Russian military offensive has failed to snuff out separatist guerrillas. Seven people, including four teachers and a teenager, were reported shot dead in their homes in Kirov-Yurt village, in the mountains south of the devastated regional capital Grozny. The son of one of the victims told RTR state television a group of men had summoned his father to the door, opened fire and fled. "This amounts to the destruction of the most educated people in our Chechnya," village school director Srajdi Zumayev told RTR. |
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 It's been through two world wars, the Soviet occupation, saved from a watery grave by Estonian divers, auctioned off, detained by officials, and right now is in the shop undergoing renovations. |
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KOROLYOV, Russia - American multimillionaire Dennis Tito floated out of a Russian capsule through a tight airlock and into the International Space Station on Monday, beginning his $20 million sight-seeing trip in the world's most distinctive vacation resort. Like many first-time spacefarers, the 60-year-old investment fund manager from Los Angeles suffered from nausea and vomiting during the two days it took to get to the station. |
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 GENEVA - Geneva judicial authorities said on Thursday that they had summoned ex-Kremlin aide Pavel Borodin, indicted on Swiss money-laundering charges, to return this month for further questioning. But Geneva's chief prosecutor, Bernard Bertossa, said he was skeptical that the Russian would appear even though Borodin has stated his readiness to return from Moscow for the Swiss probe. |
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In the 1940s and 1950s, Russia's 10 "nuclear cities" were places of relative privilege in the former Soviet Union. Scientists living in these isolated, nameless towns and cities, which were not found on any map, were rewarded for their work on the development of nuclear weapons in terms of good wages and access to a large number of scarce consumer goods. |
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Rebel Leader Held NAZRAN, Ingushetia (AP) - Khidir Matgeriyev, a rebel field commander suspected of having killed police officers and ethnic Russians in Chechnya, was detained Thursday along with several accomplices, Interfax reported. Matgeriyev leads a rebel band of 70 insurgents, the report said. |
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MOSCOW - The AvtoVAZ factory's prototype of the new Chevy Niva is only a few months old but it already looks set to become a collector's item. The first sellable Chevy Niva is expected to exit the Volga region's Tolyatti assembly line in September 2002 - but with half the present parts and features. |
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In an attempt to broaden its client base in the city, North-West GSM, St. Petersburg's largest cellular service operator, began signing up subscribers on Tuesday to its "Universal 902" plan, which uses so-called "federal" numbers. |
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MOSCOW - Shareholders in regional airline Sibir on Friday overwhelmingly approved the acquisition of No. 6 domestic carrier Vnukovo Airlines at an extraordinary shareholders meeting held in Novosibirsk, company officials said. Of the 86.5 percent of shareholders represented at the meeting, more than 99 percent voted in favor of the merger, news of which was announced earlier this year when Sibir took over the management of Vnukovo's flights and cash flows. |
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MOSCOW - Low trading volumes are making brokers bored and jeopardizing the survival of self-regulatory organizations. The RTS' average daily trading volume last week was $12. |
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MOSCOW - Russia is no longer considered the least competitive country in the world. Over the course of last year, Russia surpassed Colombia, Poland, Venezuela and Indonesia to take 45th place in terms of its competitiveness, according to a poll of business leaders conducted by the International Institute for Management Development, or IMD. |
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PTS Retains Director ST. PETERSBURG (SPT) - An extraordinary shareholders meeting of Petersburg Telephone System (PTS) overwhelmingly chose Sergey Soldatenkov for the post of general director on Saturday, according to an Interfax report. |
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Dear Editor, I am writing in response to the article by Irina Glushchenko ["Work the Western Way, Wear Your Short Skirt," April 27]. I completely agree with Irina in her criticism of the way many foreigners are treating their Russian subordinates in their own country. |
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MIKHAIL Gorbachev, the father of free speech in the former Soviet Union, says he was dismayed by the state-sponsored takeover of Russia's NTV television network. |
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SEVERAL weeks ago, Governor Vladimir Yakovlev suggested that visitors to St. Petersburg from Scandinavia should be entitled to cheaper visas, in an effort to lure tourist dollars away from the Baltic states and bring them to the city. A spokesperson for the Foreign Ministry - where ultimate responsibility for such a decision lies - did not exactly rule it out. |
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"WHAT is the Vologda region famous for?" was the question posed at a press conference held in St. Petersburg late last month by the governor of that very region, Vyacheslav Pozgalyev. |
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ON Oct. 13, 1999, police booked a 29-year-old junkie named Olga Bogdashevskaya into Vladivostok's trial-pending unit on Partizansky Prospect. While suffering from heroin withdrawal, the inmate asked for a paper and pen. She wanted to unburden herself. |
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IF you take the commentators seriously, you might well get the impression that all of Russia's problems are caused by bad laws. A whole horde of Russian and foreign analysts has emerged that studies Russian laws in order to find how they differ from Western models and then proceeds to blame all of the country's shortcomings on those deviations. |
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THE Bay of Pigs invasion 40 years ago this month was, as historian Theodore Draper observed, "a perfect failure." Washington's attempt to overthrow Fidel Castro by sending 1,400 Cuban expatriates ashore to spark a popular insurrection not only proved ineffective, it was also premised on a profound misunderstanding of Cuba by U. |
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 Stereolab - labeled the "thinking person's pop band" - will come to Mos cow to play its first-ever Russian concert at the 16 Tons club on May 12. The Anglo-Gallic outfit, renowned for its blend of past and future, have recently recorded its 11th full-length album, which is due at the end of August. |
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It can be a frustrating reality that in a city with such a thriving theater scene, tickets to the most popular plays, ballets and operas are sometimes seemingly impossible to find in St. |
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There's a suspicious silence from local promoters about the forthcoming concerts of Placebo and Mark Knopfler , which they seemed eager to tell the world about a few months ago. But Knopfler doesn't seem to be worried, with both shows at St. Petersburg's Oktyabrsky Concert Hall on July 30 and Moscow's Kremlin Palace the very next night marked "confirmed" on his Web site, www.mark-knopfler-news.co.uk. Placebo is not that sure at all; the U.K. pop band's brand new site www.placeboworld.co.uk lists a concert at Riga, Latvia on August 9, but no gigs in Russia. Meanwhile, the most popular question among the older rock fans last week was, "Is Gary Brook er playing with Procol Ha rum or not?" The reformed band's site at www. |
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 Russian jails are so overcrowded that it may be a surprise to hear that there is any space left for art. A new documentary exhibition called "Man and Prison" running through May 27 (Wednesday through Sunday, 3:00 p. |
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Not many restaurants can claim to have been officially opened by Placido Domingo and Valery Gergiev, but Backstage (Za Stsenoi) is no ordinary eatery, being the recently unveiled restaurant of the Mariinsky Theater. And this is no half-time stolovaya where you can buy a red-caviar sandwich and a warm bottle of Borjomi and be back for the forth act of Swan Lake. |
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 After scaling the chimney of a St. Petersburg incinerator and unveiling banners in protest against the pollution of the Baltic Sea, Greenpeace activists left the city last week and sailed for a similar action in the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad. Tom Masters joined them aboard their ship, the MV Greenpeace, to sample the life at sea of members of the world’s most famous environmental group. Stepping aboard the MV Greenpeace in the filthy docklands of St. |
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 SKOPJE, Macedonia - Ethnic Albanian rebels killed two Macedonian soldiers on Thursday, hours after U.S. President George Bush gave his backing to a search for a political solution in the troubled Balkan country. |
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Milosevic Indicted BELGRADE (Reuters) - A Yugoslav court on Thursday said it had delivered the UN tribunal's indictment for war crimes to former leader Slobodan Milosevic, who is in custody in a Belgrade jail. The move by Belgrade's district court came about a week after chief UN war-crimes prosecutor Carla del Ponte demanded that Yugoslavia reveal whether its authorities, as required, had delivered the indictment to Milosevic. The court said in a statement it received the indictment on April 26 from the Yugoslav justice ministry, adding that the reason for handing over the document to Milosevic was for him to learn about its content. The UN war-crimes court based in The Hague indicted him in May 1999 for alleged atrocities committed by Yugoslav troops under his command against ethnic Albanians in Kosovo. |
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 PHOENIX - The Sacramento Kings stormed back from a 19-point deficit to beat the Phoenix Suns 89-82 on Wednesday and win their Western Conference first-round playoff series 3-1. |
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Peca Out of Worlds HANOVER, Germany (Reuters) - Canada's hopes of winning the World Ice Hockey Championship suffered a blow as team captain Mike Peca was ruled out for the rest of the tournament with a broken cheekbone. Peca was injured in the first period of Wednesday's 5-1 victory over Russia. The former Selke trophy winner as the NHL's best defensive forward, played on until the final buzzer, claiming a goal and an assist and being named man of the match. X-rays taken after the game confirmed the injury that was announced by team doctor Jim Thorne. Team Canada officials said Thursday that Peca would be returning home. Cubs Pitcher Fined CHICAGO (Reuters) - Chicago Cubs pitcher Julian Tavarez was fined but not suspended for making anti-gay remarks last weekend in San Francisco. |
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 HANOVER, Germany - Mike Peca and Scott Walker each had a goal and an assist as Canada cruised past arch-rival Russia 5-1 on Wednesday to end preliminary-round play unbeaten at the World Ice Hockey Championship. |
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PITTSBURGH - Stu Barnes scored twice in a three-goal third period and Dominik Hasek stopped a penalty shot as the Buffalo Sabres beat the Pittsburgh Penguins 5-2 on Wednesday to even their Eastern Conference semifinal series at two games each. NHL scoring champion Jaromir Jagr returned to the Pittsburgh lineup after missing the previous two games with a variety of injuries. |
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LEEDS, England - Valencia had goalkeeper Santiago Canizares to thank for helping them to hold Leeds United to a 0-0 draw in the first leg of their Champions League semifinal on Wednesday. |
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