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MOSCOW - A top U.S. arms expert arrived in Moscow on Thursday to try to persuade Russia to accept "a whole new concept" on missile defense plans that it has already rejected as threatening decades of arms control efforts. Russian officials, on the eve of the talks, made clear they were ready to listen. |
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With reports of increasing mental illness and rising crime among Russian children and teenagers, psychologists are saying that the stresses of post-communist society are not being adequately combated. |
 MOSCOW - Embarrassed Russian military officials said they lost contact with four military satellites after a blaze on Thursday ravaged an important ground relay station. Military chiefs later said that the fire had been brought under control and that they were receiving data from the four satellites. |
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As St. Petersburg's 300th anniversary approaches, the local government has hit on a way of making money out of the city's most famous landmarks by charging companies for the right to use them on promotional material. |
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 MOSCOW - President Vladimir Pu tin on Thursday unexpectedly appointed former Prime Minister Viktor Cher nomyrdin ambassador to Ukraine, signaling the beginning of heavier Russian attention to its troubled neighbor. Chernomyrdin, who founded Gaz prom, is expected to take on the problems over natural-gas deliveries that have hurt relations between the two countries. |
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Prosecutors conducted a search at the Ekho Moskvy radio station Thursday, confiscating financial documents and inviting a well-known journalist for questioning, company employees and media reports said. |
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WASHINGTON - A leading Democratic congressman has launched an effort to suspend Russia's participation in the organization of leading industrial nations known as the Group of Eight. Representative Tom Lantos of California, ranking Democrat on the House of Representatives International Relations Committee, introduced a resolution in Congress on Tuesday calling for Russia's suspension until the government in Moscow "restores press freedoms and respect for human rights. |
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Bosnia Withdrawal MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia will withdraw 150 peacekeepers from Bosnia starting on July 1, scaling down its contingent to 900 men, an unnamed source at Russian armed forces' general staff told Itar-Tass news agency Thursday. |
 Once again, thousands of people thronged the city center on Wednesday to meet with friends, drink, sing, make noise and celebrate an event that happened almost 50 years before many of the revelers were even born. Victory Day, marking the anniversary of the Soviet Union's triumph over Nazi Germany, has been for many the most important of Russia's myriad holidays. |
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 MOSCOW - Swiss-based steel trader Glencore International AG is selling its 65 percent stake in No. 6 steelmaker Mechel and has completed the sale of a 20 percent stake to an unknown buyer thought to be close to coal producer Yuzhny Kuzbass and its partner AO Koks. |
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MOSCOW - Telecoms and Internet provider Golden Telecom has announced that its first-quarter net loss widened from the same period last year but maintained its forecast for strong EBITDA growth for 2001. |
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Companies linked to Sibneft and Russian Aluminum are believed to have acquired more than 25 percent of shares in No. 1 airline Aeroflot. Roman Abramovich, a controversial businessman and politician, holds large stakes in both Russian Aluminum and the Sibneft oil company. |
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The Leningrad Oblast administration is about to become leaner, while its support workers are in line for a pay hike. The oblast's governor, Velry Serdukov, issued an order on April 25 to cut administrative staff by 15 percent while, at the same time, granting custodial and other support staff a 35 percent raise in wages. |
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Dear Editor, I read the letter by Alex Lupis [Letters, April 27], and once more came to the conclusion that our compatriots abroad have the wrong impression about freedom of the press in Russia. Nobody here will say that the press is completely free, because, as everywhere, it depends on the person who's paying. |
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IT used to be the left that ridiculed MAD, the nuclear strategy of "mutually assured destruction." The anti-nuclear movement of the early 1980s blindsided the political establishment like the anti-global-trade movement of the past couple of years. |
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IRA, the girl with the abusive father who wound up in a city crisis center for young children and teenagers, in some ways got lucky. Somebody caught her when she was falling. There are thousands like her, in St. Petersburg and in the country as a whole, who have Ira's problems: a family suffering from the enormous pressures of post-Soviet society, alcoholic parents, domestic violence. |
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ST. PETERSBURG seems incapable of living without political rumor, so here's the latest: Northwest Governor General Viktor Cherkesov could soon be on his way to Mos cow to fill the shoes of the prosecutor general, Vla di mir Ustinov. |
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PAYING taxes in any country is hardly pleasant. But in Russia it puts you directly among the ranks of the country's lunatics and the troublemakers. "How could you not tell us that you pay taxes?" an accountant at one organization yelled at me after I asked for a certificate of my earnings. |
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FOR a mere $20 million or so, you can stuff yourself into a cramped, smelly chamber, strap yourself to a long cylinder filled with explosive liquids and risk your life as someone - safely shielded in a building some distance away - sets the whole contraption alight. |
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WHERE were the people of the United States of America on Feb. 25, 1969? Where were they on that fateful night long ago when Lieutenant Bob Kerrey and the men in his Navy SEAL unit were killing as many as 20 unarmed civilians in the hamlet of Thanh Phong in Vietnam? Where was every one of the adults of the United States at that very moment when innocent women and children halfway across the world were dying? This is the fundamental question that seems not to have been asked thus far as American citizens continue to debate just what Bob Kerrey did so many decades ago. |
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 Frenetic songs about deviant sex, murder and suicide, performed by a crazed trio driven by accordion and operatic vocals - what can be more appropriate for a Russian club-goer? The U.K. band The Tiger Lillies, which caused a stir in Moscow last year, has returned, but this time it is set to conquer St. Petersburg. The Lillies' early Russian fan Sergei Shnurov of Leningrad admitted he was influenced by the band's recordings. |
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 If you've been looking for a film like "The Mummy Returns," "The Mummy Returns" is the film you've been looking for. A new and much improved version of 1999's "The Mum my," this sequel is a shrewdly conceived and efficiently executed Saturday afternoon popcorn movie. |
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As the SKIF Festival brought us one of the finest moments of Azeri folk music as personified by singer/musician Alim Kasimov last month, this month will provide a chance to listen to some of the best folk music that Armenia has to offer. Djivan Gasparyan, described as one of Armenia's greatest musicians and a living legend, will come to play a one-off concert in the city on May 24. |
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Black-light bowling, thumping music and beeping metal detectors - there's something exciting for the New Russian in all of us at M-111 (Mos kov sky Prospect 111). |
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May 9 undoubtedly belongs to the list of Russia's most important holidays, providing a rare opportunity for the country's citizens to feel good about themselves and proud of the nation's achievements, so it is indeed important to spend the day in a suitable manner. Though most of my day was spent with my family, I reserved some time to see a good friend for lunch. |
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 LOS ANGELES - He looks like such a nice, sweet, mild-mannered little old man: twinkling eyes, broad nose, stooped shoulders, an engaging smile. It is hard to believe this elfin gent, too timid to touch a dead mouse, once engaged in cannibalism and has been dining out on the tale ever since. |
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Blair Leading Polls LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's main political parties traded tax jibes on Thursday as a fresh set of opinion polls put Prime Minister Tony Blair streets ahead of the opposition with only four weeks until election day. |
 PHILADELPHIA - Allen Iverson scored a team playoff-record 54 points to lead the Philadelphia 76ers to a 97-92 win over the Toronto Raptors that tied their Eastern Conference semifinal series at 1-1. Iverson scored 19 straight points for his team in the fourth quarter as he rebounded from a poor 11-of-34 performance in game 1 with perhaps the best game of his career. |
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DENVER, Colorado - The Colorado Avalanche set up a meeting with the St. Louis Blues in the Western Conference finals by crushing the Los Angeles Kings 5-1 on Wednesday to win their best-of-seven series 4-3. |
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Stampede Kills 126 ACCRA, Ghana (Reuters) - Thousands of desperate relatives besieged a morgue in Ghana's capital on Thursday to search for victims of a soccer stampede that killed at least 126 people in Africa's worst football tragedy. Authorities promised an inquiry into the disaster, which spectators said was triggered by police firing teargas after fans hurled missiles at the end of Wednesday's game between Ghana's two leading teams, arch-rivals Hearts of Oak and Asante Kotoko. It was the soccer-mad continent's third deadly stadium disaster in a month, raising questions over Africa's hopes of hosting the 2010 World Cup finals. Ghana's state news agency said 126 dead had been reported by officials at six hospitals in Accra. |
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 MUNICH - Bayern Munich still bears the scars of its heart-breaking defeat in the 1999 final, but it is upbeat about winning the Champions League for the first time in 25 years. |
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