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BOSTON - Alfred Kokh, of Gazprom-Media fame, has given Russia's relations with the United States new depth and a new twist, calling it a marriage of sorts. "America demands more from Russia than it does of its other international neighbors," a wry Kokh told Harvard's fifth annual Russian Investment Symposium here on Saturday. "It's like an Italian-Sicilian marriage with passionate dish-breaking and tears, followed by a passionate reconciliation filled with kisses and embraces." The events of Sept. 11 have brought Russia and America closer together politically, and investors and the government hope this will translate into increased economic cooperation. |
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 MOSCOW - Mention the name Vlasov to an ordinary Russian and one word will pop into mind: traitor. Ask whether history should smile down on Lieutenant General Andrei Vla sov, the Soviet commander who defected to the Germans in World War II, and the ground would be laid for hours of heated debate. |
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Anatoly Chubais, the chief of Unified Energy Systems, stepped forward over the weekend to defend Railways Minister Nikolai Aksyonenko, who is under criminal investigation. "I do not understand how the authorities can treat ministers in such a manner. |
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MOSCOW - The provisional 10-day deadline for opening talks between the Kremlin and Chechen rebel leaders came and went this weekend with no official reports of any such meetings. |
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City Hall reported Monday that 5.2 million square meters of city roads had been repaired this year and approximately the same amount is slated for repair in 2002. "We will not reduce the pace of work next year but will maintain the current level," said Vladimir De dyu khin, head of the City Hall Roads Committee at a press conference on Monday. |
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Six crewmembers died Monday afternoon in a military helicopter crash near the Leningrad Oblast village of Krasny Bor, about 30 kilometers south of the city. |
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TBILISI, Georgia - Hundreds of student protesters rallied Friday and Saturday near the Georgian government offices, demanding the resignation of President Eduard Shevardnadze, who ousted his entire cabinet on Thursday. But the political crisis, triggered by security agents' raid on a critical television station Tuesday, appeared to subside. |
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Chubais Boosts Reform ST. PETERSBURG (SPT) - Anatoly Chubais, chairperson of Unified Energy Systems and a leader of the Union of Right Forces political faction, told journalists Saturday that the current successes of the Russian economy are directly connected to the reform policies of former acting Prime Minister Yegor Gai dar in the early 1990s, Interfax reported. |
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MOSCOW - Alarmed by the sliding price of oil, President Vladimir Putin on Monday ordered his government to find ways to adjust next year's federal budget to accommodate lower revenues from crude exports. "The government should react appropriately to the recent changes, and we have the means," Interfax quoted Putin as telling a cabinet meeting Monday. |
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MOSCOW - The benchmark dollar-traded RTS index defied global market gloom and falling oil prices in October, rising 13.4 percent for the month and breaking the psychologically important 200 barrier for the first time since the Sept. |
 MOSCOW - Gazprom CEO Alexei Miller went back to work Monday after two weeks of illness, which had sparked rumors that he had resigned from his powerful but politically sensitive post. Media reports had said Miller had quit due to conflicts at the top of the firm and dissatisfaction in the Kremlin over the way it was being run. "Miller came back to work and plans to hold a series of meetings today," a Gazprom source said, declining to make further comment. |
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 MOSCOW - The entrance to the building reeks of its Soviet past. The marble memorial to workers fallen in World War II, the uniformed guard barking into a walkie-talkie for an escort to "get over to Post 1," the brittle chairs stacked to the ceiling in a corner. |
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For different courts to offer contradictory decisions concerning the same case is not unheard of anywhere and is an especially common occurrence in Russia. For the same court to contradict itself in two rulings concerning the same case is somewhat less common. |
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Aluminum Lobby MOSCOW (SPT) - Russia's leading aluminum companies are petitioning the government to tie export tariffs to the price of world metals, regulate railroad tariffs and put pressure on the European Union to lower their 6-percent import duties. |
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Sales Pitch BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany's ruling coalition of Social Democrats and Greens wishes to fill an expected shortfall of tax revenue next year with additional sales of shares in state-owned companies, the Financial Times Deutschland (FTD) said on Monday. In a statement ahead of its Tuesday's publication, the FTD quoted Hans Georg Wagner, budgetary spokesperson for the Social Democrats, as saying that both SPD and Greens were in favor. "We would be able to reach almost exactly what was required. The planned new indebtedness of 21.1 billion euros remains within reach," Wagner told the FTD. Budgetary experts in the finance ministry expect that the tax revenues for the central government, states and local authorities will be 10 billion euros ($9 billion) lower than originally forecast in May, the FTD said. |
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 MOSCOW - A jovial President Vladimir Putin wowed a standing room only crowd at the World Economic Forum in Mos cow last week, fielding questions from every direction and clearly pleasing the more than 350 business leaders in attendance. |
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In response to Global Eye, a column by Chris Floyd. Editor, We all know that America is duplicitous and its leaders are hypocrites. Please, show us a country where this is not true. The question that Floyd refuses to address is this, "What should [U. |
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THE catastrophic terrorist attacks in the United States on Sept. 11 sent an urgent and long overdue wake-up call to America and the rest of the world to take seriously the continuing efforts by terrorist groups to acquire nuclear weapons. |
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SOMETHING very weird happened last Tuesday evening on the Russian-Finnish border. A piece of land about 800-square meters in area with two five-meter-high birch trees on it broke away from the Russian bank of the Saimaa Channel and silently drifted off toward the Finnish coast. |
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Constant Craving The "Bush Doctrine" now guiding American policy holds that any country that harbors terrorists becomes the enemy of the United States. |
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 "I've learned to see the world through another's eyes, through the eyes of a painter," said 16-year-old Marina Semenyuk, a student at the St. Petersburg Pedagogical University, who is participating in an international exchange program called The St. Petersburg Project. The project, which was conceived as an artistic, cultural and educational exchange, is the brainchild of New York photographer Mark Scheflen and aims to foster communication and understanding through creativity. |
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 Just recently the scaffolding came down from yet another of the long-running facade restorations going on downtown. Although some of the details are yet to be finished, St. |
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Ortega Trailing MANAGUA, Nicaragua (Reuters) - Nica ra gua's conservative ruling party took a strong lead over leftist Sandinista leader Da niel Ortega as early official results came in from Sunday's presidential election, officials said on Monday. |
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Marathon Records Fall NEW YORK (Reuters) - Tesfaye Jifar of Ethiopia and Margaret Okayo of Kenya ran the fastest-ever New York City Ma ra thons in an emotional 32nd running of the race through all five boroughs of the city Sunday. |
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