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 Construction of the ambitious $1 billion Ring Road around St. Petersburg could be delayed by a recent Supreme Court decision, project managers and Legislative Assembly lawmakers said on Monday. The court ruled last week that the federal government had broken at least five federal laws, the Land Code and the Federal City Development Code with a decree it issued in March in order to speed up construction of the project. |
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The State Duma easily pushed through the draft 2002 budget in a first reading Friday despite sharp criticism that the plan would strangle the economy in its effort to ensure funds were available for foreign debts. |
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MOSCOW - Publishers are fighting what they say is a life-or-death battle for print media as they lobby over tax bills before the State Duma's budget committee. With the law extending the media's tax breaks due to expire Dec. 31, the committee is looking into two bills - one proposing extending the tax breaks for two more years, and the other proposing to strip media of their tax-exempt status and impose a reduced value-added tax of 10 percent. |
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There are nearly 3,000 official musuems in Russia, preserving and exhibiting more than 50 million cultural artifacts. And yet, the opinions of the people who run them are often ignored by the political powers-that-be. That is why many of them intend to form a union. |
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Russian troops claimed Monday that they killed a rebel chief in Chechnya, the breakaway republic where fighting continues despite a Kremlin offer to begin negotiations on laying down weapons. |
 BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan - When the Taliban captured Kabul, Afghanistan, in 1992, rockets and mortar fire rained down on the city, and the citizens hid in bomb shelters they dug in their yards. As they rolled into town, the Taliban soldiers - fanatical Islamic students turned guerrilla fighters - seized their enemies and hanged them. |
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MOSCOW - In the build-up to the meeting between President Vladimir Putin and NATO Secretary General George Robertson in Brussels on Wednesday, there has been speculation about whether Russia might ask to join NATO. |
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U.S. intelligence agencies have uncovered information that Russian criminal groups have been supplying Osama bin Laden and his al-Qaeda terrorist group with components for chemical, biological and even nuclear weapons, The Washington Times reported. The Foreign Ministry called the report an attempt to undermine relations between the United States and Russia at a time of increased cooperation. |
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Dysentery Outbreak ST. PETERSBURG (SPT) - Thirty-six preschool children have been hospitalized with dysentery in St. Petersburg, Interfax reported Monday. |
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 Three days of meetings between a delegation of government officials and businesspeople from the Netherlands and local government officials ended on Saturday. But note before completing discussions in areas ranging from support for developing the local port infrastructure to a plan to ship wood-industry by-products to Holland for energy production. |
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MOSCOW - Iranian Defense Minister Ali Shamkhani arrived Monday to negotiate new weapons deals believed to be worth about $300 million a year. Russian officials and Shamkhani also are expected to discuss planned U. |
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MOSCOW - Alexander Mamut has been removed as chairman of MDM Bank's board of directors, following a failed bid at banking reform. The board voted at an extraordinary shareholders meeting this weekend to replace him with Andrei Melnichenko, founder and chairperson of MDM, the bank said in a press release. |
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MOSCOW - Gazprom is in talks with Yukos to partner up in the development of East Siberia's hydrocarbon reserves, a joint effort that could pave the way for exports to China. |
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Budget Caution Urged MOSCOW (Reuters) - President Vla dimir Putin called on his government Monday to keep a cool head when deciding on spending in next year's budget, saying resources should only be allocated when they had been gathered. The State Duma has approved the 2002 budget in a first reading, including a planned budget surplus. |
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Another Loser TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's biggest brokerage house, Nomura Holdings Inc., said on Monday it would post an appraisal loss of 54 billion yen ($452 million) at the end of September for stock held in its affiliates amid heavy falls in Tokyo share prices. |
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Editor, Why do they hate us so much? What could cause a group of individuals to be consumed with so much hatred toward the United States that they are willing to kill themselves while committing premeditated mass murder? The United States is not yet sure who carried out the shocking attacks that rocked the country, but there is no shortage of people with a motive. |
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RUSSIA has made absolutely the right decision in joining with Europe and the United States in the fight against terrorism. President Vladimir Putin made a very important statement on Sept. |
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LAST week I returned to St. Petersburg from my first-ever trip to the United States. Naturally, I am full of impressions after what I saw and heard in the wake of the tragic terrorist attacks in Washington and New York on Sept. 11. I spent a long time thinking about exactly which topic I should choose to write this column about. |
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Follow the Money Why couldn't American agents find Osama bin Laden's money and stop the flow of his support to terrorist networks around the world before they struck on Sept. |
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 Vitaly Mlynchik's business partner was more than a little surprised when, after calling to organize an urgent meeting, Mlynchik responded, " I can't make it tomorrow, that's the last day I can harvest potatoes." Mlynchik's friends tell this story as a joke, and he is used to hearing jeers like "You'll reap just what you sow," and "Better stock up for the winter or you'll starve. |
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 If it seems that the number of buildings covered in scaffolding is increasing daily, there's a good reason. As St. Petersburg prepares for its 300th-anniversary celebrations in 2003, much of downtown has been designated for renovation. |
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Car Bomb Kills 15 SRINAGAR, India (AP) - A car bomb exploded near the entrance of the state legislature Monday in the summer capital of Kashmir, killing at least 15 people. A suspected Islamic militant drove the car to the assembly building and blew it up just after most of the legislators had left a meeting being held there, police said. |
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