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 Disegni General Director Harald Jonassen says he came to do business in Russia with an "innocent optimism." But following police raids, the arrest and detention of the administrative director of his firm and the seizure of all its assets, that blush of innocence is gone. In July, police investigators closed down and then conducted four raids at the main office of the clothing-store chain, removing 21 boxes of documents. |
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 MOSCOW - Vladimir Isayev joined the thousands of people who formed a human chain around the White House on Aug. 20, 1991. He stuck with the crowd on Aug. |
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VYBORG, Leningrad Oblast - More than 3,000 signatures have been gathered on a petition to force a referendum on removing the mayor of the Leningrad Oblast town of Vyborg, in what many locals see as a conflict over key local business interests. The petition drive earlier this month was organized by Vitaly Kiryakov and Yevgeny Zhzhonov, both former deputies of the Vyborg City Council. |
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Boris Yeltsin turned down an invitation on Wednesday to celebrate the 10th anniversary of his victory over a hardline Communist coup. Vladimir Putin was too busy vacationing in Novgorod. |
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If some politicians in the city of Volgograd have their way, the city could soon return to its old name, Stalingrad. Nikolai Maksyuta, the governor of the Volgograd Region, has come out in support of the change, saying it would be a fitting tribute for the 60th anniversary of the battle of Stalingrad in 2003. |
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Allen Throws Party ST. PETERSBURG (SPT) - American Paul Allen, co-founder of the computer software behemoth Microsoft, threw several extravagant parties last weekend, one in the Tauride Palace on Saturday night and the other in the Catherine Palace in Pushkin on Sunday night, said individuals involved in the events' organization. |
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MOSCOW - With 97 percent of its shares already having been swapped, metals giant Norilsk Nickel said on Wednesday it was nearing the end of its complicated and contested restructuring process. But if the Federal Securities Commission has its way, the home stretch could be longer than the company initially planned. |
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MOSCOW - The company that pioneered Russia's nascent domestic aircraft leasing industry said Wednesday that it had struck a deal with Far Eastern airline Dalavia to lease six new Tupolev passenger jets - tripling the number of craft currently in its leasing portfolio. |
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MOSCOW - After a 33-month investigation that tracked money flows through 14 countries, German prosecutors said Tuesday they have sufficient evidence to charge a former Russian citizen with being part of an organized gang that laundered about $3.5 million. |
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MOSCOW - Russia is hammering out a debt-for-factories deal with Armenia under which it would forgive Yerevan's post-Soviet debt of $114 million for stakes in at least two rundown defense enterprises. |
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MOSCOW - The Prosecutor General's Office earlier this month dropped all criminal cases against oil major Sibneft, while Boris Berezovsky said he has plans to pull out of the oil business. Although these two events are connected only tenuously, they are both prerequisites for making the company fully acceptable to investors, said Chris Weafer, head of research at the Troika Dialog brokerage. |
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CPI To Stay Flat? MOSCOW (Reuters) - Consumer prices are likely to stay flat or edge up just 0.1 percent in August (following a 0.5 percent rise in July), if current price trends continue, the State Statistics Committee said Thursday. |
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DESPITE American and Russian ratification of the Chemical Weapons Convention in 1997 - a full decade after the Bush-Gorbachev Bilateral Chemical Weapons Destruction Agreement of 1990 - the specter of chemical weapons still haunts both countries and international society. |
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EVERY once in a while the idea of restoring the name Stalingrad to the southern city of Volgograd gains currency and starts making the rounds. Now the region's Communist governor, Nikolai Maksyuta, has endorsed the idea, as has his party as a whole. |
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"DO not become a tool of the [enemy] by passing on the malicious, disheartening rumors which he so eagerly sows. Remember he asks no better service than to have you spread his lies of disasters to our soldiers. And do not wait until you catch someone putting a bomb under a factory. |
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I DON'T blame President Vla dimir Putin for not saying a word on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the 1991 coup. After all, what could he say? He belongs to the breed of second-rank Soviet nomenklatura who succeeded in gaining the most out of those events. |
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EXACTLY one month ago, the papers, including this one, were full of praise for President Vladimir Putin and his new policy of openness with the media. At that time, a gaggle of reporters was being ushered to the site of the Kursk recovery operation, and Putin himself held a free-wheeling press conference with hundreds of reporters. |
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 Go to almost any concert by any even remotely interesting British group in St. Petersburg, and it is likely that you will see a tall, curly-haired man somewhere near the stage making sure that things are running smoothly. Nick Hobbs, a London-based concert organizer, musician and actor, has been on the Russian scene since the mid-1980s and has been involved in bringing some of the finest Western acts to this country. |
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 German avant-garde artist Jurgen Klauke, one of the key figures in contemporary European photography, came to town this week to introduce his art to Russia's cultural capital. |
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Neither stargazers nor the paparazzi found any trace of the Western pop megastars who, "according to reports," were supposed to visit the city for a "billionaire party" last weekend. Paul McCartney, Mick Jagger and even Madonna all seem to have failed to attend the event, which was to include "a ride to a shooting range," where the stars were to fire weapons "previously used by the KGB. |
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St. Petersburg restaurants are fast gaining a reputation not only for fine cuisine, but for charming interior design as well. The national decorating magazine Salon - Russia's answer to Architectural Digest - regularly spotlights local clubs and eateries, and the August issue includes no fewer than three of them, including a lovely Chinese place called Kitaisky Dvor on Ploshchad Truda. |
 Forced like chopped meat through a flagrantly self-reverential "Ghostbusters" template, "Evolution" seems to be producer-director Ivan Reitman's attempt to show he can recreate the success of his biggest comedy ever. What he proves instead is that, given time and money, a comedy director can devolve into a lower life form. |
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"Hypocrisy," according to La Rochefoucauld's maxim, "is the tribute that vice pays to virtue." Every nation has its own kind of virtue and its own style in hypocrisy. |
 By all accounts, the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Moscow Conservatory Great Hall on April 17 marked a low point for Russian culture. Instead of an occasion worthy of Tchaikovsky or Shostakovich, the concert, sponsored by Rosinterfest, a commercial presenter, turned into a musical smorgasbord, laced with free martinis, ordered up by Russia's new rich. |
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Tamil Rebels Attack COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (Reuters) - Tamil guerrillas launched coordinated attacks on army camps in eastern Sri Lanka on Thursday and at least 15 people were killed in the latest battle of a steadily escalating ethnic war, military officials said. |
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Wings Sign Hull DETROIT, Michigan (Reuters) - All-Star right wing Brett Hull signed a two-year contract with the Detroit Red Wings Wednesday. Terms of the deal for the 37-year-old Hull were not disclosed, but USA Today reported that the seven-time All-Star had agreed to $9 million to $9. |
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