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 Yevgenia Uzdinskaya, an 80-year-old St. Petersburg pensioner, shows the scars on her arms. They are the traces left from numerous injuries received while working as a slave laborer in a cable weaving plant in the German town of Herborn from 1942 to 1945. |
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The State Duma gave final approval on Wednesday to legislation opening Russia to imports of spent nuclear fuel, a project environmentalists say will turn the country into a nuclear dump. |
 President Vladimir Putin has authorized a long-awaited overhaul of the Interior Ministry under which its organized crime, economic crime and criminal investigation directorates will be merged into a Criminal Police Service, Interior Minister Boris Gryzlov said Tuesday. The decree, which Putin signed Monday, also stipulates that the ministry's public security directorate, traffic police, firefighters and visa and registration service will be grouped together and overseen by a deputy interior minister, Gryzlov said on a visit to St. |
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 Several dozen protesters, dressed in animal masks, gathered Thursday at the Leningrad Zoo in support of zoo director Ivan Korneyev, who may be losing his job for alleged financial improprieties, and to protest plans to move the zoo to the suburbs. Korneyev's critics - including members of the City Cultural Committee and the zoo charity fund, Zoosad - say he was mismanaging zoo finances and forcing staff to work long hours, and are accusing him of misappropriating 13 million rubles. |
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MOSCOW - The heads of three village administrations in Chechnya resigned Wednesday, saying they feared for their lives after the killings of two leaders in other villages. |
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When Moscow mayor Yury Luzhkov announced last week that he planned to build a $100 million Formula One speedway, a St. Petersburg firm raised the capital's bet, announcing plans for a $200 million speedway of its own. Both cities are in competition to hold the 2003 grand prix races, but for that to happen, the cities have to cross the hurdles of the the Federation Internationale de l'Automobile in Switzerland, which organizes Formula One competitions around the world and certifies Formula-One tracks. Then - provided both cities are able to met the criteria in time - the final choice of venue will be left up to Barry Eccleston, the chief of Formula One headquarters in London. |
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 MOSCOW - Vitaly Tretyakov, the founder and editor of the first post-Soviet newspaper not controlled by the state, Nezavisimaya Gazeta, announced Wednesday that he had been sacked by the paper's owner, tycoon Boris Berezovsky. |
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MOSCOW - The Defense Ministry will get an extra $1.5 billion next year to spend on weapons, research and hardware upgrades under a draft 2002 budget discussed by the government Thursday. The funds will give new Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov the means to give servicemen salary hikes and implement reforms to build the military into a leaner and meaner force, analysts said. |
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MOSCOW - The Supreme Court overturned Thursday the conviction of the widow of prominent lawmaker General Lev Rokhlin for his death and ordered a new investigation into the 1998 murder. |
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Sentence Reduced MOSCOW (AP) - A court in southern Russia on Thursday cut the prison sentence of an American Fulbright scholar jailed on a drug conviction from 37 months to one year, his lawyer's office said. The regional court in Voronezh was conducting a procedural review of the conviction of John Tobin of Ridgefield, Connecticut, on charges of illegally obtaining, possessing and distributing marijuana. |
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 The 10th annual International Banking Conference opened in St. Petersburg on Thursday with speeches by Central Bank Chairman Viktor Gerashchenko and his deputy, Tatyana Paramonova. The theme of the conference, which was attended by representatives of more than 100 Russian and international credit organizations, banks and other entities, was improving the corporate management at Russia's lending institutions. |
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MOSCOW - Next time you're stuck in a swanky supermarket in Western Europe thirsting for some mors, don't panic: Russia's ill-defined national berry drink could be right in front of you. |
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MOSCOW - Foreign creditors can get ready to heave a sigh a relief. Unlike this year, the government intends to service its maturing debts in full in 2002. The Finance Ministry on Tuesday handed over to the cabinet a 2002 draft budget that seeks to avert a repeat of the embarrassing showdown with foreign creditors that came to a head in January when Russia refused to make first-quarter payments, saying the budget had no provisions for them. |
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Reserves Hit $33.6Bln MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's foreign currency and gold reserves rose $600 million to an all-time high of $33.6 billion for the week ending June 1, the Central Bank said on Thursday. |
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MOSCOW - For the first time in Russia's history, more quarterly investment in the non-banking sector came from Cyprus than any other country. Analysts say this means that the volume of funds repatriated by Russian companies through their favorite offshore haven is higher than the flow of funds coming from the United States, Germany and other economic giants. |
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MOSCOW - International financier George Soros said Tuesday he had given the government his own blueprint for liberalizing Gaz prom's two-tiered trading system, a proposal that would level the playing field for foreign shareholders. |
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I REMEMBER standing on a beach on an overcast day in 1985, feeling as if I knew a tragic accident was about to happen and no one could hear my warnings. Now the world knows about what I feared then - the enormous size of the AIDS epidemic - but to look ahead from here is to feel again that not enough people appreciate how a failure to act effectively would undermine the quality of life for everyone on the planet. |
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NO matter how many times one hears them, the stories of horror and inhumanity from the World War II period, like those in today's front-page story about St. |
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I DOUBT anyone would argue that Governor Vla di mir Yakovlev has vast experience in the toils of subway construction. When Yakovlev was elected in 1996 he inherited a massive underground head ache - the collapsed metro tunnel between Les naya and Ploshchad Muzhestvo metro stations, which caved in in 1995 when it was swamped by an underground river. |
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Yum, yum. You'll be glad to know that the chemists and engineers who concoct your favorite snack foods have come up with a new use for olestra, the delicious diet coating on "Fat-Free Pringles" and other such delicacies: Toxic waste clean-up. |
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 Living up to its status as a treasure house of the arts, the State Hermitage Museum marks the new millennium with an international project that will open its doors for the art of music. Though the museum, which currently boasts its own Musical Academy (in addition to the chamber orchestra and theater venue), has already hosted the occasional concert, the Tuba Mirum project juxtaposes an exhibition and a series of concerts to be held in the museum's church, halls and courtyard, which has never been open to the public before. |
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 Is humankind innately brutal? While philosophers may not have an instant answer, most visitors to the new torture exhibition at the Peter and Paul Fortress are likely to reply with an instinctive shrug. |
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Deadushki,the electronic act formed by former members of the seminal St. Petersburg ska band Stranniye Igry, will showcase its new album this weekend. Called "PoRno," it is the band's second album of new material since its record debut in 1998. In the meantime, Deadushki put out two full-length collaboration albums (with Boris Gre ben shchikov and Vya cheslav Butusov) and a number of remixes of differing quality. The band, which consists of Victor Sologub on vocals, keyboards and guitar, Alexei Rakhov on keyboards, saxophone and bass, and Andrei Orlov on drums, will introduce its new songs at a show at the unlikely venue Poligon - notorious for its rowdy public, early times (gigs start at 6 p. |
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 "Sergei Shnurov's Show and Tell" on the newly launched Phantom FM radio station is something that Russian air waves have never experienced, and can easily send an unprepared listener into a state of shock. |
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For a city that has dozens of Chinese restaurants, ranging from cheap cafes to very lavish establishments, it is perhaps strange that other Asian countries get such poor culinary representation. St. Petersburg has four Japanese restaurants, only two Indian restaurants, and, most upsettingly, absolutely no Thai restaurant at all. There is, however, one Korean restaurant. I had been warned off Shilla, the restaurant in question, by friends who had ventured in and been greeted by a terribly expensive menu in conditional units. I was surprised, therefore, to see various menus pinned to the door showing prices in the 100- to 200-ruble range - so we decided to give the place a go. |
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 "Pearl Harbor," the much-anticipated three-hour epic about the day of infamy that pushed the United States into World War II, is a movie meant to explode off the screen - and it's at its best when those explosions are going full blast. |
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Judge Denies Stay DENVER, Colorado (Reuters) - Lawyers for Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh, racing the clock to stop his scheduled execution on June 11 after a federal judge refused to grant him a stay, were expected to file a rush appeal of that ruling on Thursday. |
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LOS ANGELES - Shaquille O'Neal leaned down to the microphone and looked across the room, and perhaps across two months and five days of something close to perfection, a stretch of dynamic basketball that put the Lakers into the NBA Finals against what all agreed was an overmatched team. |
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