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 Foreign tourists visiting St. Petersburg for 72 hours or less are soon to be granted the right to get visas at the border, the Foreign Ministry said last week. But the ministry and the City Tourism Committee offered conflicting versions of the plan, while some analysts said that it did not go far enough. |
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Dr. Yury Zotov is used to being paid very little. He is used to being paid months late. He is even used to being paid in goods - but something inside him broke when the hospital where he works offered him three tons of manure instead of back wages. |
 It's not quite the wolf lying down with the lamb, but it's close. Two newly born wolf cubs in Novosibirsk Zoo have been adopted by a Siamese cat after their mother was found to have hardly any milk. "She took to them like her own children," said Rosa Kaipberdyeva, one of the zoo employees who is looking after the cubs, in a telephone interview from Novosibirsk in Western Siberia. |
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VORONEZH, Central Russia - It's hard not to notice the glow-in-the-dark brassieres. Or the tough-looking guys hanging out around the roulette table. Or the bouncer with the metal-detector wand screening customers for weapons. |
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President Vladimir Putin gave high marks Saturday to the group of regional envoys he appointed one year ago to help cement his grip on the country. The move was one of the first steps Putin took after his inauguration as president last May. He said then that Russia would be torn asunder if the Kremlin did not keep tabs on the 89 regions. |
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MOSCOW - Boris Berezovsky announced Friday that he is giving millions of dollars to human rights organizations and is planning to fund a new political party to oppose President Vla di mir Putin, whom he helped bring to power in 1999 and 2000. |
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Former NTV general director Yevgeny Kiselyov was elected general director of TV6 at an extraordinary shareholders meeting Monday as bankruptcy proceedings were started against the channel. Kiselyov had been acting as general director since Gazprom-Media appointed managers took control of NTV on April 14. |
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Nuclear Plan On Track MOSCOW (Reuters) - The government approved a treaty to turn plutonium from nuclear weapons into civilian reactor fuel on Friday. |
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MOSCOW - The parents of 32 soldiers killed in Chechnya were called together Friday so that a charity fund could give them 10,000 rubles ($345), but they found it difficult to express any gratitude. "I would prefer these donations to be brought to my home," said Svetlana Zosimenko, whose son Mikhail, 24, was killed in December 1999 near Argun. |
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MOSCOW - The country's hundreds of aviation companies will be consolidated into a half dozen holding companies by 2004 in a bid to transform the stagnant industry into a mean and lean competitor to U.S. and European rivals, the government has announced. |
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MOSCOW - A bitter labor dispute is casting a pall over the nation's flagship carrier just as the lucrative summer vacation season is heating up. A one-hour strike by 300 Aeroflot technicians on Sunday sparked the ire of airline management, who vowed to sue the technicians' union over the action. |
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MOSCOW - Surgutneftegaz has replaced rival LUKoil as Russia's largest company by market capitalization, but it is still 65 times smaller than U.S. behemoth General Electric, according to the Financial Times' new rankings of the world's top companies. No Russian company cracked the annual global FT500, but five - Surgutneftegaz, LUKoil, Gazprom, Yukos and Unified Energy Systems - made the top 500 in Europe and 26 counted among the top 100 for Eastern Europe, up from four and 20, respectively. |
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MOSCOW - A controversial share emission by Sberbank has diluted minority shareholders' stakes by 36 percent and allowed the Central Bank to increase its ownership by 1. |
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Oil Exports Up 14% MOSCOW (SPT) - Russian crude exports in the first quarter jumped 14 percent over the same period last year to 35.7 million tons, Interfax reported a Customs Committee official as saying Monday. The exports generated a total revenue of $5. |
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Cellular Glitch TOKYO (Reuters) - Sony Corp has become the latest victim of cellphone software glitches, but analysts said on Monday the cost of recalling its faulty handsets would be limited and the firm's brand name should help it bounce back. |
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TO buy or not to buy, that is the question - at least, the unfamiliar question facing Russian businesses today. As the first private enterprises celebrate their 10th anniversaries, entrepreneurs are tired, bored or dead. So the idea of selling those businesses still going has arisen. However, the business of selling a business is pretty new in Russia. |
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SINCE the collapse of the Soviet Union, the West has been rightly concerned about the fate of Russia's vast stockpile of nuclear weapons, materials and expertise. Specifically, the West worried that the disintegration of the Russian economy would make nuclear scientists and experts vulnerable to temptation by rogue states seeking the expertise and material necessary to develop their own nuclear weapons and missiles. |
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WORD from the Foreign Ministry that - finally! - Western tourists visiting St. Petersburg for less than 72 hours will be able to get their visas at the border starting this summer is welcome indeed. |
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LAST Friday I found myself under unheard-of psychological pressure. All day journalists were calling me and demanding that I get on the Web site of the newspaper Stringer and read the transcripts of alleged telephone conversations involving the secretary of the head of President Vla di mir Putin's administration, Alexander Vo lo shin, and Vo loshin himself. |
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FOR a nation intoxicated by the seemingly effortless precision of smart bombs during the Persian Gulf War, the mediocre results of the latest strikes against Iraqi air defense sites are extremely disappointing. |
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BOB Dylan turns 60 on May 24. It's been almost 40 years since Joan Baez took him on stage with her at the Newport Folk Festival, where he appalled just about everyone with his stridently unpretty singing voice and his raucous, edgy lyrics. He was, at least in theory, a folk singer. But Bob Dylan wasn't interested in wistful melancholy or febrile lament. |
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 One of the biggest on-going struggles for most foreigners living or traveling in Russia is gaining a grip on the Russian language itself. However, whether you seek a complete grasp of Russian's tongue-twisting grammar, or simply just enough Russian to get around town, it need not be a complex task to find a language-study program to suit your needs and financial limits. |
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"It's Victory Day, smelling of gunpowder, it's a great day, though our hair is gray on our temples, it's happiness, though we have tears in our eyes, Victory Day. |
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 If you have spent time in the St. Petersburg metro, this picture will most likely sound familiar: An exhausted, dirty child carrying a tot in his or her arms is telling a sad story of a refugee family rescued from Chechnya. |
 "In the Former Hotel d'Angleterre, on the 28th of December, 1925, the life of the poet Sergei Yesenin was tragically cut short." The self-styled "last poet of peasant Russia," and one of the founders of Russia's "Imagist" school of poetry, Sergei Yesenin committed suicide at the age of 30 in St. |
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The cost of getting two ear piercings in St. Petersburg: Beauty Salon - 200 rubles. Leninsky Pr. 118; Tel: 157-29-90 Beauty Salon - 120 rubles. |
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BRIDGE 1ST OPENING 2ND OPENING Volodarsky 2.00 - 3.45 4.15 - 5.45 Finlyandsky 2.30 - 5.10 Alexandra Nevskogo 1.30 - 5.05 Bolshe-Okhtinksy 2.00 - 5.00 Liteiny 1.50 - 4.40 Troitsky 1. |
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Arafat Slams Killings GAZA (Reuters) - Palestinian President Yasser Arafat Monday condemned Israel's killing of five Palestinian policemen as "dirty and immoral" and said the Jewish state would be held accountable for the deaths. |
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