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The global anthrax scare reached the city this week, when a local construction company received a package containing a white powder on Tuesday. In all, the St. Petersburg Central Post Office has registered more than 50 suspicious mail incidents since Monday, all of them involving white powdery substances. |
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Thirty-six-year-old Aref used to work at the Afghan Ministry of Rehabilitation and Rural Development as the chief engineer in the construction department. |
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MOSCOW - The anthrax scare that has swept the globe reached Moscow this week when a newspaper and a company called authorities after receiving suspicious packages. But the panic that has grounded aircraft and cleared out office buildings elsewhere has yet to arrive in Russia. |
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Hermitage 'Terrorist' ST. PETERSBURG (SPT) - A man who made a crank call to the police claiming that he had planted a bomb in the State Hermitage Museum was arrested Thursday, Interfax reported. |
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No major anniversary in Russia passes without a park being laid out, a symphony being written or a monument being erected. And the 300th anniversary of the founding of St. Petersburg in 2003 will be no exception, if the Public Council of St. Petersburg has its way. |
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The city Audit Chamber issued a report this week stating that City Hall misspent 904 million rubles (about $30.6 million) out of the city's 2000 budget. |
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MOSCOW - In an effort to raise more money for the struggling military at home, Russia will close two bases that came to be symbolic of the Cold War - a radar station in Cuba and a naval support base in Vietnam, a top army official said Wednesday. The surprise departure from the Cu ba station - Moscow's "listening post" on America - signals President Vla di mir Putin's readiness to ignore military hawks and forge closer ties with Washington, according to analysts. |
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 "Corruption is not just a collection of criminal activities in Russia, it is a perverse system of governance," according to a new report on global corruption released this week by Transparency International. Take, for example, Pavel Borodin's safe return to Russia after being arrested in New York on charges of embezzlement. |
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The Kremlin appeared Tuesday to take a deeper look at its strategy for joining the World Trade Organization in response to domestic pressure and a new-found coziness with the United States that could help it win more favorable terms. |
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Shaken by the global aviation slump that has forced it to cut 30,000 jobs, U.S. aerospace giant Boeing is courting Aeroflot with renewed vigor in the hope of securing badly needed orders. Boeing Vice President Thomas Pickering, a former U.S. ambassador to Russia, met with top Aeroflot executives at the company's corporate headquarters in Moscow this week as part of U.S. Commerce Secretary Don Evans' trade mission, but no deals were struck, Aeroflot spokesperson Irina Dannenberg said Wednesday. "In the current crisis for air travel, many airlines have refused earlier optional contracts for Boeing and Airbus aircraft, and therefore, they [the aircraft makers] are actively pushing their craft and obviously see Aeroflot as a possible customer," Dannenberg said. |
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 MOSCOW - Deputy Prime Minister Viktor Khristenko and World Bank director for Russia Julian Schweitzer have hammered out a strategy to unblock $600 million worth of loans and guarantees already approved by the bank but frozen by the government, Schweitzer said in an interview on Wednesday. |
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MOSCOW - Oil major Yukos late Tuesday announced that it was seeking to increase its stake in the financially strained British-Norwegian engineering firm, Kvaerner, in which it already holds 12 percent. Yukos - Russia's second-largest oil company - issued a message to the Oslo Stock Exchange, saying it was seeking to increase its share in Kvaerner to at least 25 percent. |
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$750M Eurobond Issue MOSCOW (SPT) - Gazprom's board of directors is considering a $500-million-to- $750-million Eurobond issue on Oct. 23, Prime-Tass reported the company as saying Wed nesday. |
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MOSCOW - Swept up in the squabbling between Gazprom-Media and Media-MOST for control of the latter's subsidiaries, NTV Plus, already struggling financially, is in danger of losing contracts with programmers, while growth has stagnated and some employees haven't been paid for months. |
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MOSCOW - Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov has signed off on a decree that could have a wide-ranging effect on the telecommunications industry and give dozens of state-run phone companies just what they've been waiting for, the ability to turn a profit. |
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U.S. Commerce Secretary Don Evans on Wednesday praised Russia as a reliable U.S. partner and said both countries would reap economic rewards from fast-developing ties. "This is a very important time in the development of the relationship between the United States and Russia - indeed a very important time as all civilized nations unite in this world," he told a briefing. |
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Los Angeles Times ANTHRAX spores found near the heart of United States government - the offices of Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle - have cranked up bioterrorism anxieties. The worry is still out of proportion to the immediate danger. |
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PART I, SCENE I MARCH 2001. Office of Press Minister Mikhail LESIN. Two American REPORTERS appear to be interviewing the minister. ONE OF THE REPORTERS: Still, I don't understand why you banned Russian newspapers from printing interviews with Chechen leaders. |
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THE attacks in New York and Washington have provided the impetus for a new rapprochement between the United States and Russia. After several years of cool relations and confrontational rhetoric, the Russian government is demonstrating a willingness to be a military and political ally. |
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GAZPROM CEO Alexei Miller has finally broken his silence about his plans for Gazprom-Media, the subsidiary that handles media assets like NTV television, Ekho Moskvy and NTV Plus. |
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 The point of caricature is that the truth can be fun, no matter how awful, disturbing, depressing or ugly it may be. "It's Nothing Serious," the latest exhibition by the local cartoonists' group Nuance, which opened Tuesday and is running for the rest of the month at the Alexander Blok Library on Nevsky Prospect, demonstrates amply that this art form is alive and well in St. |
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The Bombers are powerful, gutsy and rocking. And they are still one of the very few Russian bands to play surf. At least, they were in August, but a month later the three-piece band split up, and is now in the process of rehearsing with a new lineup, the third in the band's history. |
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The quintessence of the multinational world of India is on display at the Kunstkamera, with an exhibition of Indian dolls. Located next to the museum's own impressive Indian collection, the exhibition plunges viewers into India's ethnically diverse culture with a selection of 52 dolls representing India's many nationalities and some of its tribes. |
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Pyotr Mamonov will bring his new production, called "Chocolate Pushkin," to the city this weekend. Mamonov, former frontman and songwriter of Zvuki Mu, the Moscow art-rock band popular in the late 1980s, has recently been involved in theater performances that feature his music and writings. |
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For those who like dining out to be a whole experience that occupies an entire evening, the Mot Cot Pagoda restaurant, which opened recently on Ulitsa Chaikovskogo, is probably the place to go. And for once, the publicity is true. Yes, you really are "greeted by the banging of a gong just like when entering a real Bhuddist [sic] temple" - the man at the coat check does it for you. The numerous other promises the restaurant makes are also all delivered on, including the "welcome discount of 10% due to restaurant opening." Not only were we ushered to an "individual dining cabin" with its own miniature waterfall and an elaborate display of musical instruments adorning the walls, the waitress also gave us a little buzzer to summon her whenever we so desired. |
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 "A.I." is a chilly fairy tale, a spooky and disturbing film about the nature of innocence, an investigation of personal love in which the nominally most caring, feeling creatures are not really human. |
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Japan Support TOKYO (Reuters) - Parliament's Lower House approved on Thursday a bill allowing Japan's military to provide non-combat support for U.S.-led retaliation against the Sept. 11 attacks, clearing the way for enactment of the controversial legislation later this month. |
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Packers Robbed MILWAUKEE, Wisconsin (AP) - Two Green Bay Packer players were robbed by a man with a gun outside a restaurant Tuesday night. No one was injured and the assailant was apprehended, police said Wednesday. |
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