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MOSCOW - An unexpected burst of publicity this week for a series of ongoing investigations by the Audit Chamber and General Prosecutor's Office into federal agencies has stirred up a commotion in the political establishment, sending two powerful cabinet ministers scrambling into hiding. The prosecutor's office is investigating possible financial mismanagement and corruption involving high officials in the Railways Ministry, Emergency Situations Ministry and state committees in charge of customs and fishing. Interfax reported Tuesday that the investigations grew out of reports by the Audit Chamber, which it said is now looking at other federal agencies, including the Press Ministry. |
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 Governor Vladimir Yakovlev suspended Vice Governor Valery Malyshev on Sunday, in response to new abuse-of-office charges filed by the Northwest District Prosecutor General's Office on Oct. |
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MOSCOW - Foreigners leaving Russia may once again have trouble taking cash out with them, and some already have run up against a new customs regulation requiring them to have declared the money when they came into the country. Clearing up some confusion that has been buzzing around the expatriate community in recent weeks, the State Customs Committee on Monday explained that it was forced to change its regulations as of Oct. |
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Hoaxes on the Rise ST. PETERSBURG (SPT) - The direct expenses incurred by municipal agencies as a result of suspicious letters or anonymous bomb threats since the beginning of the anthrax scare have reached 70,000 rubles ($2,330), Interfax reported Wednesday, citing Vice Governor Mikhail Mikhailovsky. |
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The St. Petersburg branch of the Union of Right Forces, or SPS, political faction, one of the most popular local movements, suspended its activity in the city last week after local party members split over an argument about the new head of the St. Petersburg political council. |
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More than 600 museums from across Russia created a new union last weekend, with the goal of developing corporate relations among culture professionals and making themselves heard by national and local authorities. |
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MOSCOW - At the urging of both prosecutors and the presidential administration, the State Duma partially stripped a liberal lawmaker of his legislative immunity Thursday. Vladimir Golovlyov, a renegade member of the Union of Right Forces faction, or SPS, is suspected of financial abuses while serving in the Chelyabinsk Regional Government in the early 1990s. |
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TASHKENT, Uzbekistan - As Mirza Khalmohamedo, a short, thickset man in his 50s, stood outside the courthouse and talked of his son's torture, his relaxed manner was jarring. |
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 The Russian market for foreign cars is booming and, according to representatives from the leading European, North American and Asian auto makers, foreign companies will sell twice as many cars in Russia this year as they sold in 2000. Representatives from both domestic and foreign firms are in St. |
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MOSCOW - The Communications Ministry and the Russian Academy of Sciences are developing a plan to help Russia's software producers that includes changes to the Tax Code and the creation of a venture fund with state participation. |
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MOSCOW - President Vladimir Putin signed a decree late Wednesday creating a new state agency to fight money laundering, making good on a promise he made at the World Economic Forum the day before. Putin appointed a fellow St. Petersburger, Deputy Tax Minister Viktor Zubkov, to head the newly created Financial Monitoring Committee, or FMC, which complements the anti-money-laundering law Putin signed this summer and will work under the Finance Ministry. |
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MOSCOW - President Vladimir Putin poured on the charm Tuesday as he fielded questions from a gathering of more than 350 business leaders at the World Economic Forum, leaving participants clearly impressed with the Kremlin's plans for economic reform. |
 MOSCOW - Before deciding to invest in Russia - as President Vladimir Putin recommended to 350 business leaders at the World Economic Forum in Moscow this week - foreign enterprises should listen to the story of Sawyer Research Products, the No. 1 U.S. |
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MOSCOW - In past years, it has given the stage to billionaire financier George Soros - who described Anatoly Chubais as "tainted." It also once hosted a satellite linkup with then-U. |
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Emergency Plan BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (Reuters) - Argentine President Fernando de la Rua on Thursday gave the first details of a planned voluntary debt swap he said would save the cash-strapped country $3 billion to $4 billion in 2002. De la Rua said the new debt issued would pay 7 percent interest and would be guaranteed by the state. |
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AS we struggle to understand the motives of Islamic extremism and methods for coping, it may be helpful to consider the experience of Dagestan, the southernmost Russian republic, which lies between Chechnya and the Caspian Sea. When Islamic extremism was exported from Afghanistan in the late 1980s, Dagestan was the second place where it arrived. |
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SOME issues of the paper just seem to have a theme, and the current issue du jour is plainly official corruption and the tantalizing, but still hard-to-believe, possibility of a serious fight against it. |
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SOCIALISM may have slipped into the past long ago, but our ministers aren't averse to managing the economy. We have always suspected that Press Minister Mikhail Lesin, one-time owner of the biggest advertising agency in the country, Video International, needed his post to establish a commercial monopoly over the media. |
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The bombing of Afghanistan has been going on for severalweeks already. Hostility toward the United States is growing, and not only in the Arab world. The bewilderment and exasperation can be felt in Western Europe as well, despite assurances of loyalty on the part of those countries' leaders. |
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A WORD of caution to the world's leading business figures gathered for the World Economic Forum's Russia meeting. A week ago, Sibneft provided a textbook case of corporate-governance malpractice that serves to highlight the continuing dangers of investing not just in Sibneft, but in any Russian equity. |
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 At 7 p.m. on Saturday, the curtain will rise at the Mariinsky Theater on the Moscow Bolshoi Theater's production of Tchaikovsky's ballet "Swan Lake." In Moscow, at precisely the same moment, an audience at the Bolshoi will be hearing the opening strains of the Mariinsky's staging of the same composer's "Sleeping Beauty." Both performances will be repeated on Sunday. The exchange continues two weeks later when, on Nov. |
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 The city's most prestigious theatrical award, the Golden Sofit, continued its long tradition of controversial selections at this year's seventh annual awards ceremony on Oct. |
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Vladimir Belinsky of Wild Side fame and until recently the director of Red Club, an expensive-looking but rock-oriented club that opened near Moscow Station on Sept. 28, was dismissed recently and already the first effects of this change are being seen. |
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Recently reopened after a seemingly interminable remont during the heat of the summer, Tinkoff Brewery still provides the best beer in town, straight from its own gleaming chrome vats. |
 Maybe it's the iconography of the pieces or the intensity of the players, but for such a subtle, interior game, chess transfers very well to the screen. "Searching for Bobby Fischer" was one of the best films of 1993; a chess drama, "Dangerous Moves," won the best foreign-language Oscar in 1984; and the game itself has enlivened dramas from "The Thomas Crown Affair" to "The Seventh Seal. |
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Megawati Warning JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) - The head of the world's most populous Muslim country said Thursday that the global coalition against terrorism could crumble if the war in Afghanistan drags on with mounting civilian casualties. In her first state-of-the-nation speech since assuming office about 100 days ago, Indonesian President Megawati Sukarnoputri said prolonged military action "will not only be counter productive, but will also weaken the global coalition to wage war on terrorism. |
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Moscow in Running MOSCOW (Reuters) - UEFA doubts over Moscow's ability to process the visas of thousands of fans could hinder the Russian capital's bid to stage the 2003 Champions League final, Russia's soccer union chief said on Wednesday. |
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