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MOSCOW - After months of courtship and several bouts of cold feet, the pro-Kremlin Unity movement and its allies from the Fatherland-All Russia bloc gathered Saturday for the founding congress of their new party - All-Russian Unity and Fatherland - a rigidly structured organization likely to dominate the national political scene in the coming few years. |
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MOSCOW - Niva owners, beware! As of this month, the federal traffic inspectorate has introduced a new layer of paperwork for owners of Russian-made sports-utility vehicles and reinforced the state's right to snatch up their cars if military officials believe the country's defensive capacity depends on it. |
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MOSCOW - Hours after gingerly casting blame on the navy for the deadly sinking of the Kursk submarine, President Vladimir Putin on Saturday disciplined several high-ranking commanders. The Northern Fleet commander, Ad miral Vyacheslav Popov, was fired from his position, as was Vice Admiral Mik hail Motsak, the fleet's chief of staff, and Vice Admiral Oleg Burtsev, its submarine commander. |
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The Prosecutor General's Office obstructed justice for more than two years by refusing to act on evidence of widespread corruption in Nikolai Aksyonenko's Railways Ministry, according to a new report by the State Duma's anti-corruption commission. The scathing report, made available to lawmakers Friday, also says that the Prosecutor General's Office, by looking the other way, facilitated further embezzlement at the ministry from when the Audit Chamber first presented evidence of wrongdoing in 1999 until October this year, when Askyonenko was charged with abuse of office. |
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MOSCOW - Foreign and local AIDS experts have urged politicians to do more about AIDS in the run up to World AIDS Day on Saturday. "The public is really worried about HIV/AIDS, but for some reason the politicians are busy with other things," Vadim Pokrovsky, chief of the Federal AIDS Center, said Thursday. |
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Hands Off Iraq CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - Russia would oppose a U.S. military strike against Iraq and believes diplomacy is the only way to solve the arms-inspections impasse between Washington and Baghdad, a Russian envoy visiting the Middle East said Sunday. Nikolai Kartuzov said Moscow, a key ally and major trading partner with Bagh dad, was making a great effort to prevent an attack on Iraq. |
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MOSCOW - The Russian Federation's first budget with a built-in surplus - and more money for education than the military - sailed through the State Duma in the key third reading late Friday, as lawmakers put aside fears that falling oil prices will retard revenues. |
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International brewing giant Carlsberg announced on Friday that it will sell just less than a 50-percent interest in the local Vena brewery to Baltic Beverages Holding (BBH). |
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Recent changes in Russian customs procedures produced massive backlogs of trucks trying to cross the country's border with Estonia this weekend. Lines as long as 14 kilometers were reported at the Luhamaa border crossing on Sunday. The Estonian newspaper Postimees reported that local customs officials closed one of the roads leading to the main motorway as a result of the traffic jam at the Russian checkpoint. In October, the Northwest Customs Administration issued orders requiring customs officials to perform 100-percent cargo inspections of trucks carrying any of a number of specified goods, including household appliances, furniture and coffee. |
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 MOSCOW - As OPEC tries to persuade global oil producers - particularly Moscow - to limit crude output, Russia is quietly preparing to launch a pipeline that will increase the country's export capacity by about 240,000 barrels per day. |
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Turkey Carving ANKARA, Turkey (Reuters) - Turkey announced plans to lay off tens of thousands of public-sector workers, slash overtime and cut spending on Monday as an IMF delegation arrived to discuss $10 billion in new loans. Turkey has promised the fund it will reduce bureaucracy and cut costs as it negotiates the details of a $10-billion addition to a $19-billion lending pact. Turkey aims to report a public-sector budgetary surplus before interest spending on a heavy domestic debt of 6.5 percent of gross national product in 2002. That requires a tight, and probably unpopular, budget. Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit on Monday made public a circular to state officials that orders the contracts of all public-sector workers over the age of 50 to be ripped up and the workers paid off with retirement benefits. |
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 Prior to the passage of the new Russian Land Code, the muddied situation concerning land-ownership rights in St. Petersburg was often cited as one of the negative factors influencing investment rates and business development in the city. |
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In response to "Small Business Looming Large in Fueling Economy's Growth," Nov. 20. Editor, Support of small and medium-size enterprises (SMEs) is indeed a fashionable topic. But like most fashions, it is mostly hot air and cheap talk. |
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THERE he was, standing with U.S. President George W. Bush on a podium in Texas, wearing a black-on-black get-up with a velvet collar - at once the model of Western chic and the mysterious foreigner. |
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NO one here derived any satisfaction from writing the front-page headline on last Friday's edition of The St. Petersburg Times, "Another Vice Governor Faces Probe." The fact that a second of our 13 vice governors has attracted the unwanted attention of the Northwest District Prosecutor's Office is not something to be pleased about. |
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YOUNG people today are completely out of hand. They have lost their faith in everything. They have no values. All they care about are drugs, sex and "trip-hop. |
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Gainspotting Among the isolated, out-of-step losers who dare open their mouths to mutter "doubts" about America's military campaign in Afghanistan, you will sometimes hear the traitorous comment: "This war is just about oil." We here at the Global Eye take stern exception to such cynical tommyrot. |
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 Altynai Asylmuratova thrives on challenges. A top-flight soloist at the Mariinsky Theater, she has performed with the world's most acclaimed ballet troupes, including The Royal Ballet at London's Covent Garden and Roland Petit's Ballet National de Marseille. She dances classical and contemporary roles with equal aplomb. Now Asylmuratova, 40, is playing a new role. She became artistic director of Russia's oldest ballet school, the Vaganova Ballet Academy, in January 2000. |
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 The magic of the holiday season in Petersburg transforms all of us, Russians and expats, into excited children longing for fun and festivities. Most importantly, the season lightens our spirit by compelling us to share with those in need. |
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Fedorov Might Yet Play EAST RUTHERFORD, New Jersey (AP) - Detroit Red Wings center Sergei Fedorov will play for the Russian hockey team in the Olympics if he is healthy. New Jersey Devils assistant coach Viacheslav Fetisov, who is also the general manager of the Russian team, said Saturday that he had talked to Fedorov recently and the Red Wings star seemed to be preparing for the Olympics. |
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