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 One million dollars in donations has been raised since January for the restoration of the Konstantinovsky Palace in Strelna, south of St. Petersburg, according to representatives of the fund set up to carry out the restoration work. The 18th-century palace, which is listed as a UNESCO world heritage site, is slated to become President Vla di mir Putin's presidential residence. The renovation work is expected to cost at least $170 million, and most of it is scheduled to be completed by May 2003, according to Viktor Khrekov, a spokesperson for the presidential administration. |
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 At about 1 a.m. on Aug. 19, 1991, Sergei Yevdokimov, a major in the Soviet Army's elite Tamanskaya division, was roused from his bed by a messenger who told him to report immediately to the division's grounds. |
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Interior Minister Boris Gryzlov has disbanded the ministry's regional organized-crime directorates, a network of law enforcement bodies set up by his predecessor that answered directly to the interior minister. The order gets rid of a powerful network, known as RUBOP by its Russian acronym, whose officers have been repeatedly accused in the press of acting on behalf of the highest bidder in political and business disputes. |
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Putin to Germany BERLIN (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin will make a state visit to Germany from Sept. 25 to 27, a German government spokesperson said Saturday. |
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MOSCOW - Some 10,000 North Koreans are working in Russia under the supervision of their country's security forces and without legal protection, making them essentially serfs, various state and regional officials from across the country admitted this week. |
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MOSCOW - A presidential decree dismissing writer Anatoly Pristavkin from his post as head of the presidential pardons commission has been drawn up and could be signed within the next few days, news agencies reported last Thursday, citing anonymous government sources. |
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MOSCOW - With repeated warnings from President Vladimir Putin in mind, the cabinet on Thursday agreed to disburse about $700 million to prepare for winter and to keep residents warm during the cold months. Hundreds of thousands of people in the Far East were left without heat and electricity last winter during the coldest months the region had seen in decades. |
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A six-day strike involving privately operating harbor pilots in the city's port officially came to an end on Saturday, with the port and cargo companies still unsure of the total losses incurred as a result and the two sides disagreeing over the nature of the settlement. |
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MOSCOW - Aeroflot tentatively agreed Monday to order up to 30 regional jets built by Sukhoi and Ilyushin in cooperation with Boeing Co., a deal that aircraft makers no doubt hope casts a good omen on their chances to clinch contracts at this week's Moscow Air Show. |
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MOSCOW - George Soros has held onto his blocking stake in state telecoms monopoly Svyazinvest after fellow investors voted Friday to extend the life of Mustcom for four more years, according to sources close to Mustcom. Mustcom has a 25-plus-one stake in government-controlled Svyazinvest and, under the previous trust agreement, the notes were to convert back into shares in the telecoms holding on Aug. |
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MOSCOW - The courts in Kemerovo have again sided with an individual shareholder over a major Russian company. A court in the Kemerovo Region last week ordered RTS and MICEX to cease trading in shares of No rilsk Nickel and MMC Norilsk Nickel. |
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MOSCOW - In an initiative expected to reduce car importers' headaches and boost state coffers at the same time, the State Customs Committee on Monday opened the country's first customs warehouse for automobiles. The 3,500-square-meter warehouse, located on the 34th kilometer of the MKAD in southern Moscow, has space for 1,700 cars. |
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MOSCCOW - An Inkombank external manager accused of approving 14 suspect transactions involving more than $100 million defended his record Monday, saying he has submitted over 300 kilograms of documents on hundreds of transactions to law enforcement authorities. |
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Despite adverse legislation and regulation, as well as the lingering effects of the 1998 financial crisis, the local advertising industry has been following a national trend of impressive growth. According to the St. Petersburg branch of the Gallup AdFact research agency, advertising outlays by firms have jumped by 20 to 30 percent since this time last year. |
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Russian advertising has come a long way since the days when snappy slogans like "Drink Tomato Juice: It's Good" were commonplace. Before 1998, Western multinationals, which dominate advertising spending in Russia, had fought a saturation advertising war almost exclusively focused on establishing brand loyalty through television and posters. |
 With the start of each navigation season on the Neva River, the city's tourist boats and piers are transformed into a lucrative platform for advertising. The river is the center of city life, and mobile advertising platforms have the advantage of coming within sight of a large percentage of city residents and visitors. |
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As the level of competition in the local advertising market rises, firms are increasingly searching for advantages in the marketplace and are turning to market-research to help. |
 One of the biggest questions faced by marketing departments is what to call a product in the first place. In naming their products, many Western firms operating in the Russian market have chosen to "go native," or at least to try to give consumers that impression. At the beginning of the 1990s, Western brands gained considerable popularity, based largely on the perception of higher quality. |
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 While the advertising market in St. Petersburg may not be awash in the kind of money available in Moscow, according to Ilya Shamin, the general director of the Business Territory advertising firm, dealing with less money is not necessarily a bad thing. |
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AUG. 19, 1991. So it's happened, after all. My husband woke me this morning with the words, "Get up, Cassandra, there's a coup." The State Committee for the Emergency Situation, GKChP, announced that Gorbachev has taken ill and therefore cannot perform his presidential duties. |
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HOW hard is it to lie to President Vladimir Putin? Not very, judging from a letter sent to the Kremlin on July 26 by acting Justice Minister Alexander Karlin. |
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In response to "The 'KGB Files' Heading for TV," Aug. 3. Editor, All this does is assure the American people that Hollywood people are nothing but a bunch of low-life leftists. To make a television series praising an organization that murdered and imprisoned millions of innocent people is outright despicable. |
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Crash Kills 23 BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) - A bus lost its brakes and plunged into a ravine in western Colombia on Sunday, killing 23 passengers, officials said. Fourteen other people were injured and rushed to hospitals in Valle de Cauca state with serious injuries. |
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Driver's Ed. BEREA, Ohio (AP) - Cleveland Browns cornerback Corey Fuller was arrested Sunday following a preseason game against Green Bay for refusing to move his car from an intersection. |
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