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KABUL, Afghanistan - Antiaircraft fire crackled in the sky over Kabul on Monday, signaling the start of a second night of U.S. strikes. As the new wave began, the Taliban insisted previous attacks by U.S. and British forces missed their mark. At least three bombs fell in the Kabul area Monday, one each in the eastern, western and northern sections of the city. |
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SOCHI, Southern Russia - With the Kremlin now ready to consider the possibility that a Russian passenger plane was shot down by a stray Ukrainian antiaircraft missile, investigators on Sunday looked through the piles of debris that have been brought ashore and a vessel searched the bottom of the Black Sea for evidence. |
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The management of the Oktyabrskaya Railroad has announced that a high-speed rail link between St. Petersburg and Helsinki could begin service as early as next year. The project, which is part of a larger plan to introduce seven-hour service between Moscow and Helsinki, was given a considerable boost during President Vladimir Putin's state visit to Finland last month. |
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The Norwegian Consulate has sent a diplomatic note to the Russian Foreign Ministry in response to a complaint from a Norwegian citizen who claims that he was beaten and robbed by local police last month. |
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A local newspaper has created a page on its Web site devoted to establishing contacts between local businesses and noncommercial organizations that are seeking their help. The "Social Investment" project grew out of the business daily Delovoi Peterburg's informal experience fulfilling this function, and can be found on the paper's Web site at www. |
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The Mariinsky Theater's symphony orchestra and its opera division failed to leave St. Petersburg on Sunday for a scheduled trip to Australia. The company is set to participate in the Melbourne Festival, but has delayed its departure due to concerns over security raised by the U. |
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Russians Come Home MOSCOW (AP) - Russia sent two planes to Pakistan to bring home citizens because of concerns for their safety, a spokesperson for the Emergency Situations Ministry said Friday. About 130 people, the relatives of diplomats and other Russians living in Pakistan, were evacuated Saturday from Islamabad and Karachi. The official said Moscow was concerned for the safety of its citizens because of growing tensions in the region over U.S. assaults on terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden and his training camps in neighboring Afghanistan. Simpler Visas MOSCOW (SPT) - The new U.S. Consul General, James Warlick, has called for the United States and Russia to simplify visa procedures and lower visa costs on both sides, Interfax reported. |
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 Four years ago, Russian Navy Captain Grigory Pasko - then a military journalist - was jailed on charges of high treason for allegedly selling state secrets to Japan, primarily concerning Russia's disposal of nuclear waste. |
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 With an investment estimated by shipping-industry insiders to be in the vicinity of $40 million, the Leningrad Oblast's Ust-Luga sea port is positioning itself to become a major center for handling cargoes to and from other Baltic sea ports. The Ust-Luga Company, which is behind the plans for the port's development, says the water depth at the facility will allow ships weighing up to 75,000 tons to use the port 250 days per year without the assistance of icebreakers. |
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MOSCOW - Deputy Economic Development and Trade Minister Arkady Dvorkovich urged a delegation of Swedish investors to spend more money in Russia on Monday, showering them with promising economic forecasts. |
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MOSCOW - All three major international rating agencies have handed Russia upgrades over the past two months, but the news has done little to stir Russian stock and debt markets. The reason is that the upgrades were already priced into the market and investments remain highly speculative, market players say. |
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The St. Petersburg Telephone Network (PTS) is once again playing the role of guinea pig for Svyazinvest in the national telephone-network monopoly's scheme to restructure Russia's telecoms industry. |
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MOSCOW - In resolving a long-standing gas-debt dispute with Ukraine, Russia has gone too far in succumbing to the demands of its "brotherly" neighbor and is likely to receive almost nothing in return, industry analysts said. "Russia isn't playing all of its cards," Arkady Moshes, a Ukraine expert with the Institute of Europe, said Friday. |
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MOSCOW - Rosneft, the state-owned oil firm, is considering entering a heated race for Norsi Oil by placing its own bid for the Nizhny Novgorod refinery. |
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Editor, I am a student at St. Petersburg State University, and I read The St. Petersburg Times regularly because it is a reliable source of information from around the globe. Its greatest advantage is that comments are not mixed with reports. That's why its reports are the least biased. |
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FOR Muslims of the Middle East and south and central Asia, the moment of reckoning arrived this weekend. The Bush administration has made what are, for an American government, extraordinary efforts to show that the war that began Sept. |
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WITH just 18 months to go before the city celebrates its 300th anniversary in 2003, I've begun to notice all the various ways in which locals manifest their love for St. Petersburg. Some people wander around in awe, their eyes cast upward toward the Admiralty spire or the golden domes of St. |
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PEOPLE can hardly be blamed for not wanting to pick up a newspaper or watch the evening news on television these days. In addition to the regular horrors that we've been hearing out of Chechnya for the last two years, now there are the U. |
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Speech Impediment First, a stipulation: The Sept. 11 attacks on New York City and Washington were almost certainly instigated and carried out by the forces of religious fascism, who alone bear the responsibility for this atrocious crime. We hope readers will excuse the stupefying obviousness of the above declaration, which wastes their precious time by repeating common knowledge. |
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 As the icy fingers of winter start to tickle, the time has come to roll out the barrel, drink beer and be merry. The ever-popular Bavarian beer festival Oktoberfest raised its head in St. Petersburg on Friday with the opening of a 10-day celebration at the Sheraton Nevskij Palace Hotel, kicked off by none other than St. Petersburg Vice Governor Gennady Tkachov. "Everybody is happy, and everybody drinks beer," Consul General of Germany Ulrich Schöning said over a liter of fine German draught beer on Friday night, "People want to be happy one last time this year before winter sets in. |
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 No one visiting the graves of the Russian tsars in the cathedral of the Peter and Paul Fortress can miss the magnificent tomb of Peter the Great, in a place of honor before the iconostasis and almost always covered in flowers. |
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Collision Kills 114 MILAN, Italy (Reuters) - All 114 passengers and crew on two planes that collided at Milan's Linate airport Monday died in the accident, Italian Transport Minister Pietro Lunardi said. Another four cargo handlers in a baggage zone that was hit by the Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS) jet are missing, he told a news conference at the airport. |
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Mariners Tie Record SEATTLE, Washington (Reuters) - The Seattle Mariners lost their final game of the regular season 4-3 to the Texas Rangers on Sunday and finished with 116 victories, tying the 1906 Chicago Cubs for the most wins in a season. |
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