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 Eleven coffins, draped according to navy tradition with the blue-and-white cross of the Andreyev flag, stood in a row at the St. Petersburg Naval Institute Saturday as a line of mourners passed slowly by. Relatives of the Kursk crew members who were being laid to rest stood by the coffins throughout the ceremony. |
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MOSCOW - Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov has rebuked Audit Chamber head Sergei Stepashin for harshly criticizing him to senators last week, saying Stepashin was speaking out of turn. |
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MOSCOW - Hundreds of North Koreans who were brought to Russia over the last decade to work as indentured servants in a controversial debt-repayment scheme are apparently at large after escaping the strict supervision of their country's security forces, officials of the Russian government have reported. |
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Fire in the Fortress ST. PETERSBURG (SPT) - The director of the Peter and Paul Fortress stated that arson may have caused the blaze that damaged the Naryshkin battlement Sunday evening, Interfax reported Monday. |
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MAKHACHKALA, Dagestan - Salman Raduyev, the most prominent Chechen rebel leader to be arrested and brought to trial, maintained his innocence Friday after the Dagestani Supreme Court finished reading his 700-page indictment. "Not guilty," said Raduyev when judge Baguzha Unzholov asked how he pled. Raduyev and three alleged accomplices are on trial for a hostage-taking raid on a Dagestani hospital in 1996 that left 78 people dead. Prosecutor General Vladimir Ustinov is leading the prosecution. Raduyev, 34, with his trademark tinted glasses and beard covering facial wounds suffered in one of several past attempts on his life, testified for more than two hours Friday. |
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 MOSCOW - An envoy of Chechen rebel leader Aslan Maskhadov made a lightning visit to Moscow on Sunday for the first face-to-face settlement talks with a Kremlin representative since war started in Chechnya two years ago. |
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MOSCOW - The backslapping has subsided. The barbecue grills have been packed up and put away. The three-day meeting between presidents Vladimir Putin and George W. Bush is over. Last week's U.S.-Russia summit, although short on tangible results, served as another step in reinforcing the two countries' new relationship - one in which common interests and pragmatism, to a large extent, have replaced ideological incompatibility. |
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LONDON - British Prime Minister Tony Blair is proposing the creation of a close, new partnership between Russia and NATO under the auspices of a Russia-North Atlantic Council, Blair's advisers said. |
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MOSCOW - As oil prices continued to slide Monday, senior government officials looked increasingly worried that the trend could jeopardize next year's economic forecasts. The government's press service Monday moved quickly to counter impromptu remarks made Saturday by Science and Technology Minister Ilya Klebanov, who told journalists that, in light of the slump in crude prices, it was "time to think about [cutting] the [2002] budget. |
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On Friday, the Izhorskiye Zavody metallurgical plant shipped the first component for a reactor that is to be built at the Bushehr Nuclear Power Station in Iran. |
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Delta Telecom, a local cellular-phone- service provider operating on the NMT-450i analog standard, has announced that it will build a new, so-called "third-generation" digital network using the newly developed IMT-MC 450 standard. IMT-MC 450 stands for "International Mobile Telecommuni ca ti ons- Multi-Carrier 450 megahertz. |
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Mutual Admiration ST. PETERSBURG (SPT) - Northwest Region Governor General Viktor Cherkesov has thanked Moody's international ratings agency for the positive attention it pays to Russia and the region. |
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SO, pension "reforms" are coming to Russia. I refer in particular to the piece by Kirill Koriukin in the Nov. 13 edition of the St. Petersburg Times: "Will Pension-Reform Package Change How Russians Retire?" This is part of a world-wide movement to privatize pension provision in one way or another. |
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A GRAPHIC, but somewhat misleading term met in the modern criminal-law codes of market-economy countries, namely "money laundering," has recently been redefined by the new Russian federal Law On Combating Money Laundering, adopted on Aug. |
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CYPRUS is famous as an offshore haven, a place where Germans register shipping firms and Russian tycoons stash their dollars to avoid the tax collector at home. But my recent attempt to place $10,000 in a Cypriot bank left me with a frozen account and a newfound relationship with my Visa credit card's fraud department. |
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THE agreement among the World Trade Organization's 142 member states on a new round of talks represents an important victory over isolationism. The bargaining at last week's meeting of trade ministers in Doha, Qatar, was tough; implementing agreements during the planned three years of talks will be even tougher, but the result surely will be worth it. |
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In less than a month, the State Council will convene in the Kremlin to hammer out a national plan to develop the country's neglected small-business sector. As staff writer Simon Ostrovsky reports, thousands of people, from union leaders to ordinary proprietors, are eagerly awaiting the results and hoping that, after seven years of mere rhetorical support, the government will finally put its money where its mouth is. |
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A Little Behind BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - Argentine Economy Minister Domingo Cavallo said on Sunday he hoped the IMF and world markets would understand the country's "lag" in keeping its vow to balance its budget amid a deepening recession in its fourth year. |
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Editor, On Friday, the day before our city celebrated its militsia on Police Day, I was the victim of a crime. It happened very quickly, in the early afternoon, on the wide-open Marsovoye Polye. I was ambushed by a group of young punks (the police had no qualms about calling them gypsies, but let's call them "a roaming gang" instead). |
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BLACK smoke rises up from terrorism and war, perfect concealment for a Bush administration assault of a different kind. This other attack is on history itself. |
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"WHEN'S the last time you had a mouth-watering boiled and baked BAGEL?" I saw this question the other day on Bagel Wise, a California-based company's Web site and I thought: What would businesspeople from the United States and Canada say? People who have lived and worked in St. |
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The Shadow Knows The U.S. media's long-delayed recount of the disputed Florida ballots from last year's presidential election is finally in, and the winner is - George! George Orwell, that is. |
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Parvanov in the Lead SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) - Bulgaria's new Socialist president, triumphant after his apparent victory in a difficult election battle, pledged to continue efforts to win the country membership in the European Union and NATO. Final results from Sunday's runoff election were expected Tuesday because of delays in counting ballots from overseas. |
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And Once Again ... NEW YORK (AP) - Barry Bonds became the first player to win four Most Valuable Player Awards, capping a record-breaking season in which his 73 home runs set the biggest mark of all. |
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