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Legislative Assembly Speaker Sergei Ta rasov refused to allow the use of the Ma riinsky Palace this weekend for events commemorating the 10th anniversary of the Aug. 1991 coup attempt that ultimately marked the end of the Soviet Union. Instead, about 100 local residents gathered on St. Isaac's Square on Sunday to mark the occasion with speeches and street theater. During the three-day attempted coup in 1991, anti-coup forces - including Mayor Anatoly Sobchak and members of the Leningrad City Council - used the Mariinsky Palace as the nexus of resistance activities. "Unfortunately, it is impossible to provide space for the meeting of the August 1991 movement members at the Mariinsky Palace, since there is repair work taking place during the [Legislative Assembly's] vacation," Tarasov wrote in a letter to commemoration organizers dated Aug. |
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 Little Vasya laughs joyfully as a dolphin named Dasha presses her smooth, wet, curious nose against his body, bobbing in the blue water of a local swimming pool. |
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Prominent Communists, after largely keeping their peace during the 16 months since President Vladimir Putin took office, have broken their silence with a hard-hitting open letter warning about the march of capitalism and crime across the country and appealing for the secret police to stop "destructive" reforms. |
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 After a bitter fight to maintain SpartaK - one of St. Petersburg's most illustrious revival movie houses and alternative-music venues - the club's management has given in and turned its space over to the Hollywood Nites nightclub for management. SpartaK is the name of the movie theater and the alternative-rock venues housed in a former Lutheran church at 8 Kirochnaya Ul. |
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A fire has destroyed the only synagogue in Ryazan, about 150 kilometers south of Moscow, in what a Jewish organization has said was an arson attack. The synagogue was ruined in a fire that began early Thursday. |
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Spanning six islands in the approaches to Helsinki, Sveaborg Fortress is a great weekend getaway. Built by the Swedes after the devastating wars with Peter the Great that resulted in Russia gaining the territory on which St. Petersburg now stands, Sveaborg was only completed in 1783. |
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MOSCOW - Chelyabinsk Governor Pyotr Sumin has warned the prime minister that radioactivity in some of his region's waterways is reaching dangerous levels and has proposed a solution: building a nuclear power station that would use the polluted water as a cooling agent. |
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Police Snag Thief ST. PETERSBURG (SPT) - James Pivovarov, a 76-year-old American citizen, was caught by a guard at the Russian State Historical Archives in St. Petersburg on Aug. 9 as he was allegedly trying to remove documents dated to the beginning at the 20th century, Interfax reported. According to Komsomolskaya Prav da, Pivovarov confessed to Admiralteisky District police interrogators that he wanted to bring the documents home from the library so that he could study them at his leisure. |
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 MOSCOW - After months of stalemate, Russia and Ukraine on Monday plugged back together their power grids in a move that will open the door to energy exports to Europe. The switch was flipped at 4 p.m., shortly after Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov signed a power agreement with Ukrainian Prime Minister Anatoly Kinakh. |
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MOSCOW - A cabinet meeting Tuesday may decide to allow natural monopolies to raise their tariffs by as much as 32 percent, according to a newspaper report. |
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Zapsibgazprom (ZSGP), a subsidiary of Russian gas giant Gazprom, has announced the signing of a document of intent with the administration of the Leningrad Oblast to expand its natural-gas delivery infrastructure in the region. According to an agreement on cooperation signed by Vladimir Nikiforov, the general director of ZSGP, and Governor of Leningrad Oblast Valery Serdyukov earlier this month, ZSGP will build a 342- kilometer system of pipes to supply gas to six of the 29 regions of the Leningrad Oblast, including the Vyborg, Gatchina, Priozersk and Luga regions. The deal also calls for ZSGP to modernize a number of stations providing heating. |
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 ZHUKOVSKY, Moscow Region - The Moscow Air Show wrapped up Sunday with well over half a billion dollars in pledges for aircraft, engines and other parts, a feat that analysts said should give the Russian aviation sector a welcome boost. |
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MOSCOW - An affiliate company of Russian Aluminum, or RusAl, won a tender on Friday for the federal government's 14 percent stake in the Novokuznetsk Aluminum Plant, or NkAZ, whose bankruptcy last year lies at the root of a $3 billion racketeering suit against RusAl. |
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Norilsk Fire MOSCOW (Reuters) - Metals producer Norilsk Nickel said Monday that an accident at its key nickel smelter had led to a temporary shutdown of the plant's four furnaces. |
 "How can the economy advance if it creates preferential conditions for backward enterprises and penalizes the foremost ones?" - Mikhail Gorbachev, Nov. 9, 1987 From a purely economic perspective, it is hard to believe so few people saw the collapse of the Soviet Union coming. There were clear signs that changes more radical than perestroika were afoot. |
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THE fervor with which demonstrators protest ed last month's summit meeting in Genoa, Italy, of the Group of Eight - an annual gathering that brings together the leaders of the world's wealthiest countries - suggests that the growing economic gap between the world's rich and poor will be a major international issue of the 21st century. |
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RUSSIA is undoubtedly becoming more civilized. Just look at the aluminum companies. The first aluminum war was fought with pistols and machine guns. The second with the help of bribed courts. |
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Editor, In my local news, it mentioned that it has been already a year since 118 sailors tragically perished aboard the submarine Kursk on Aug. 12, 2000. I am an ordinary French-Canadian citizen living in Montreal and feel very sad for the families of these sailors who are still grieving. |
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THE 10th anniversary of Russia without the Soviet Union and without the all-powerful Communist Party makes a great pretext for reflection on the past decade's missed opportunities. |
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IT has been 10 years since the vanishing of the Soviet Union, and you'd think that the people in power would have changed a bit by now. But they haven't. A surprising number of our governors, for instance, seems to think that it would be much better if the country avoided the unpleasant inconveniences of elections and simply adopted a system under which the president appointed regional leaders. |
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LAST Friday, we reported on two visiting Swedish diplomats who have filed a complaint against local police, charging that they were manhandled during a late-night document check. |
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Hush Hush When dealing with potentially scandalous stories concerning respected public figures, we at the Global Eye eschew lurid speculation in the Larry King-Fox News-Wall Street Journal manner. There, you will find daily doses of sex-crazed conjecture and feverish fantasy; here, we confine ourselves to the dry recitation of fact. |
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 There are worse ways to spend a rainy Saturday afternoon than eating authentic pasta all'Amatriciana. And it's certainly an experience chatting with Italian Caterina Innocente, the sole agent in the Russian Federation and the former Soviet republics of international fashion designers such as Donna Karan, Thierry Mugler, J. |
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One of the distinguishing attributes of the so-called St. Petersburg style of architecture is the liberal and often eclectic use of those wonderful sculptures that tirelessly support the city's balconies and archways. |
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Gang Gets Death BEIJING (Reuters) - A court in central China has sentenced six members of a notorious criminal gang to death for a string of armed robberies, the Financial News reported on Monday. The Intermediate People's Court in Zhengzhou, capital of Henan province, passed the death sentences on Zhang Shuhai and five others on Saturday, the newspaper said. |
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