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 The local oil company Faeton announced Wednesday that it will provide 550,000 rubles ($18,300) to repair three important city monuments, including the Bronze Horseman on Ploshchad De kab ristov. The funds will also be used to repair the monument to poet Alexander Pushkin on Ploshchad Iskusstv and the two sphinxes on the Universitetskaya Naberezhnaya. |
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A recent instruction by the Northwest Customs District requiring item-by-item searches of containers and trucks importing selected goods into Russia has seriously affected the work of the St. Petersburg Port. The regulation, which created lines of trucks of up to 15 kilometers on the Finnish border last weekend, has now left the port's container storage facility overloaded, meaning that the facility may soon stop accepting new arrivals, officials said this week. "The capacity of the storage lot is 8,500 containers, and we have 9,715 standing there at the moment. So instead of two levels there are three in some places, which makes it more difficult to process the cargo and slows down all the work," said Alexander Svetlichny, director for St. |
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 More than 50 weapons have been taken off city streets in the first 11 days of a police buy-back program, officials reported this week. Operation Oruzhiye (Weapons) began on Nov. |
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With over 100 amendments added, the 2002 city budget was passed by the Legislative Assembly in its second reading Wednesday. The amendments added over 3 billion rubles (about $100 million) to projected revenues, which now stand at 57 billion rubles ($1. |
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MOSCOW - President Vladimir Putin hints that Russia wants to join NATO, and U.S. President George W. Bush thinks, "Why not?" Putin tells Bush about losing then finding a cross his mother gave him, and Bush takes at as sign that Putin believes in a "higher power. |
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MOSCOW - On the sidelines of their summit in the United States, Presidents Vladimir Putin and George W. Bush have agreed to set up the Russian-American Media Entrepreneurship Dialogue to build Russia's media industry. "The dialogue is intended to promote efforts to build a competitive media sector in Russia, able to deliver a full range of media services based on the latest technology and the highest journalistic standards," the White House said in a statement on Tuesday. |
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