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Federal prosecutors announced Tuesday that they had filed a bribery charge against Vice Governor Valery Malyshev, a close ally of Governor Vladimir Yakovlev. "Malyshev has been charged in connection with a criminal case over receiving a particularly large bribe," Vladimir Goltsmer, assistant to the deputy prosecutor general for the Northwest Region said in a telephone interview on Thursday. |
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When the events of 1917 hit Petrograd, the members of the Imperial family who hadn't yet been driven abroad by the mass demonstrations demanding their blood, made a mad dash from the city, carrying all the valuables they could. |
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MOSCOW - Boris Nemtsov, leader of the liberal Union of Right Forces political faction, announced on Wednesday that he would accept Alfred Kokh's "gift" of a stake in Ekho Moskvy radio station, although he would not manage the stake himself, Interfax reported. Nemtsov said that he and Kokh, the chief executive officer of Gazprom-Media, which controls 52 percent of the station, would negotiate the terms of the deal and the size of the stake over the next 10 days. |
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Along with giving his approval of a controversial nuclear-waste import law, President Vladimir Putin named local Nobel laureate Zhores Alfyorov to head a special committee that will oversee implementation of the project. Putin signed the law, which allows Russia to accept spent nuclear fuel for storage and reprocessing, at the Kremlin on Wednesday. |
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Although the city is home to just a few hundred French citizens, Bastille Day - France's annual commemoration of its 1789 revolution - will be duly celebrated here on Friday and Saturday. |
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Moscow Bomb Trial MOSCOW (Reuters) - Five men went on trial in Stavropol on Tuesday in connection with two Moscow bombings that killed more than 200 people. The trial began behind closed doors amid tight security in a prison colony outside the southern town of Stavropol, about 250 kilometers west of Chechnya. |
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MOSCOW - The controversy surrounding last week's federal operation in two Chechen villages has been mounting, with various government and military officials making contradictory statements about the incidents. |
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MOSCOW - A military court in Rostov-na-Dony has decided to send Colonel Yury Budanov to Moscow for an additional psychiatric evaluation, in a move that could result in him being found emotionally unstable and set free. Budanov, who is charged with the abduction and murder of a young Chechen woman, is something of a hero to Russian nationalists. |
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MOSCOW - The 145 people on board a doomed Tu-154 jet were violently spun around in circles for a harrowing 22 seconds while their plane spiraled from 800 meters to smash onto the ground belly-first, investigators said Tuesday. |
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MOSCOW - The government is threatening to restrict flights from the European Union if Russian airlines aren't granted an extension on new noise and emission standards that would effectively ban them from flying to EU countries. As of April 1, 2002 the EU will adhere to the new standards set by the International Civil Aviation Organization, and currently just 488 of the 6,540 planes flown by Russian carriers are compliant, according to the State Civil Aviation Service. |
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Shareholders of the raw-metals refinery Glinozyom and the aluminum producer Volkhovsky Aluminum Factory approved the merger of the two firms last week at a joint shareholders meeting, paving the way for both concerns to reap the benefits of a direct-supply process. |
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MOSCOW - The State Duma decided Wednesday to push through the controversial new Land Code before ending the summer session, and scheduled the second reading for Saturday. The proposed Land Code has been heavily amended since it passed in the first reading June 15, but it retains the most controversial provision: the right of foreigners to own land, although with some new restrictions. The code allows the sale of commercial and residential plots in cities and villages, which the government says is 2 percent of all Russian land. The even more sensitive issue of agricultural land has been left to future legislation. The code passed 251-22 in the first reading, but the session was raucous, with deputies chanting, coming to blows and the Communists and their Agrarian allies walking out in protest. |
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 MOSCOW - Out in Eastern Siberia, Oleg Puzanov knew it was there. He also knew that it was up to his team to find it. On July 3 they did, and it was bigger than expected. |
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MOSCOW - The Audit Chamber said on Tuesday that its investigation into the relationship between Itera and Gazprom had uncovered no legal violations. This finding corresponds to the results of an earlier audit conducted by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), a Big Five firm and Gazprom's official auditor, in which PwC could not confirm whether or not top Gazprom managers were ever shareholders in Itera Group. |
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Oblast Investment ST. PETERSBURG (SPT) - The Leningrad Oblast administration met representatives of more than 20 foreign and domestic banks on Wednesday to discuss the creation of a nonprofit investment-bank group. |
 While Pyatyorochka is Russia's largest supermarket chain and one of St. Petersburg's most successful retail companies, until now it has never attempted to gain a foothold in the lucrative Moscow market. But all this is about to change, said chain director Sergei Lepkovich at a press conference Wednesday. |
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MOSCOW - On the eve of the Canadian prime minister's meeting with President Vladimir Putin, Tyumen Oil Co. has taken total control of an oil complex claimed by a Canadian producer. |
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MOSCOW - Russian Aluminum has presented its new corporate face - but had to answer the same old questions about shady business dealings. In his first news conference since being put in charge of international operations for the world's No. 2 aluminum producer, former deputy prime minister Alexander Livshits let it be known Tuesday that RusAl wants to tap Western markets and is prepared to improve its corporate transparency accordingly. |
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I had been invited by Boris Nemtsov from the Union of Right Forces and Alexei Venediktov from Ekho Moskvy to participate this weekend in a conference on freedom of the press in Russia, also co-sponsored by Gazprom-Media. When Venediktov informed me that he and his associates were withdrawing from this conference to protest the recent Gazprom takeover of the station, I decided to do the same. |
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ALTHOUGH we've known for months now that things were coming to this, the final approval of the obscene plan to import nuclear waste for storage and reprocessing still comes as a heavy blow. |
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Rearview Mirror Image from an enigmatic London billboard: A man's naked, hairy butt, poking through an innertube as he floats through the air. What could it be? A scathing visual metaphor for the emptiness of New Labour? Yet another bold artistic salvo aimed at shocking the bourgeoisie? An off-beat ad for Preparation H? Nope. |
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 Neither the Mussorgsky Theater nor its bigger, richer and more illustrious counterpart the Mariinsky have much success with Italian opera as a rule - either with the tragic, dramatic works of Puccini and Verdi or with the lighter Rossini, Cimerosa and Paisiello. |
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Teatr Vladimira Malyshchitskogo (The Vladimir Malyshchitsky Theater) is one of the smallest in the city - and one of the most innovative. Despite its size, the company has a large repertoire and stages at least five new productions a year at its home on Bolshaya Konyushennaya Ul. |
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CD pirates outdid themselves last week. Not only did they react to the impressive concerts by Tindersticks last month by duly putting out the U.K. band's last album - they also "improved" it. Unhappy with the brevity of the album "Can Our Love ...," they augmented the record's original eight tracks with eight more, making it almost 80 minutes long. The "bonus tracks" have been culled from Tindersticks' first three albums, and also include the rare duet featuring the band's singer Stuart Staples and Isabella Rossellini, called "A Marriage Made in Heaven." The local band Leningrad also suffered from illegal activities, when its members were surprised to see their new album on sale in kiosks - when no album is due out for a few months yet. |
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 Tequilajazzz has begun a crusade against all that it sees as bad about the Russian music business - and it has started with itself, burying what would have been its new album. |
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Ulitsa Korablestroitelei, the long, two-way thoroughfare bordering the Gulf of Finland on Vasilievsky Island, is one of the many St. Petersburg streets whose numbering system defies all logic. Even though I live on said street, it took me a good 25 minutes of walking to find No. 14, which is supposedly only a few numbers away from my apartment. |
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Wahid on the Offensive JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia's political crisis deepened on Thursday as increasingly isolated President Abdurrahman Wahid thumbed his nose at parliament and ordered his police chief arrested for refusing to quit. "The president ordered the chief political and security minister and the caretaker police chief to take tough action . |
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Hasek in Hospital PRAGUE, Czech Republic (AP) - Dominik Hasek, the NHL's top goalie, remained in the hospital Thursday, eight days after he was admitted with a possible viral infection. |
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