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MOSCOW - This week's last-ditch effort by TV6 managers to stay on the air was a compromise struck with the authorities - and brokered by the Press Ministry - requiring the station to cut its ties with majority shareholder Boris Berezovsky, according to several interviews published Tuesday. "There is a chance to create our own media outlet and to get the right to broadcast ... or to get nothing at all," Pavel Korchagin, executive director of Mos cow Independent Broadcasting Corp., which holds the license to TV6, told the Kommersant daily. "When they hit you on the head with a crowbar, you have to protect yourself," he said. |
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 After almost two years in jail - as well as a heart attack and the onset of diabetes - Dmitry Rozhdestvensky, chairperson of the board of directors of the Russkoye Video film-production and advertising company was set free Wednesday by the Petrogradsky District Court. |
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Break Up the Capital ST. PETERSBURG (SPT) - Governors from the northwest region support the idea of transferring some of the functions of the capital away from Moscow, Interfax reported Thursday. Murmansk Region Governor Yury Yevdokimov was quoted as saying that "some functions could be painlessly transferred from the center to the regions, and not only to St. |
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MOSCOW - Think twice before lighting up. Smoking anywhere but in designated areas at work and in government offices, hospitals, universities and theaters was outlawed across the country as this week. |
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MOSCOW - Beginning this week, Russian males aged 16 to 45 applying for non-immigrant visas to the United States must answer almost twice as many questions as before in a new effort by the United States to sniff out terrorists. As of Wednesday, the U. |
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MOSCOW - After two days of street protests and more than 30 hours of court hearings, the Supreme Court of North Ossetia on Thursday annulled the candidacy of the main challenger to long-time President Alexander Dzasokhov in upcoming elections. |
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A Russian diplomat accused of killing a Canadian woman and seriously injuring her friend in a car accident almost a year ago will go on trial Feb. 12, according to a report in the Ottawa Sun newspaper. Andrei Knyazev, 45, has been charged with careless driving resulting in death under the Russian Criminal Code and will be tried in a Russian court, the Sun said Tuesday. |
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NAZRAN, Ingushetia - The top UN refugee official on Wednesday visited people who fled warring Chechnya and are spending their third winter in bleak camps, while international aid groups called for more attention to the conflict. |
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MOSCOW - As U.S. and Russian military officials held a second-day of closed-door talks in Washington, a visiting member of the U.S. Congress said Wednesday that the United States had good reason for wanting to store some of the strategic nuclear warheads it has promised to cut from its arsenal. "Russia continues to build nuclear weapons," Representative Curt Weldon said in a telephone interview. |
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POZNAN, Poland - President Vla di mir Putin and his Polish hosts shifted from gestures of reconciliation to pressing trade matters Thursday in their bid to rebuild relations left in tatters after the end of communist rule. Officials said a long-standing controversy over gas supplies was approaching a resolution but Putin wrapped up his trip without securing a compromise on the issue. |
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Putting an end to a 12-year, $130 million saga, Malta's International Hotel Investments (IHI) announced Wednesday that it had purchased the Nevskij Palace hotel and that it is also planning to develop the buildings on either side of the hotel. |
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MOSCOW - Escalating the battle for tariff-setting powers and policy, Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov on Wednesday quashed a Federal Energy Commission order to raise rail cargo tariffs Jan. 20, while his boss's top adviser attacked tariff hikes altogether. |
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MOSCOW - The cabinet on Thursday approved a plan to dramatically boost spending on arms, upgrades and research in 2002, Russia's top defense-industry official said Thursday. |
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Pipe Welcomes Majors WASHINGTON (SPT) - A meeting of Western companies and shareholders in the Baku-Ceyhan oil pipeline project welcomed the participation of Russian oil majors LUKoil and Yukos, Itar-Tass reported the project's director as saying Thursday. |
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Airbus Axe PARIS (Reuters) - European planemaker Airbus SAS announced plans on Thursday to slash the equivalent of 6,000 jobs in reaction to a slump in demand, but said it could weather the market turbulence without cutting "permanent" staff. |
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AS the theme for the last volume of his history of World War II, Winston Churchill wrote: "How the great democracies triumphed, and so were able to resume the follies which had so nearly cost them their life." A half century later, Churchill's words have regained uncanny relevance. |
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WASHINGTON - Time spent in Russia is excellent preparation for understanding New Moscow, the city of corruption and insider deals rising on the Potomac River. |
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DED Moroz, or Grandfather Frost, is usually considered to be the Russian counterpart of Santa Claus - a bearded, good-natured fellow who stuffs presents into children's stockings hung by the fireplace and is used to advertise various brands on television. |
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THE liquidation of TV6 is not, as much of the Western media insists on describing it, the end of independent national television in Russia. TV6 is independent of the government, but it is controlled by Boris Berezovsky, who openly acknowledges that it is politics, not business, that drives his interest in the television station. |
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 The Terem Quartet, which has fully recovered from the split that occurred two years ago, has managed to accomplish a lot in the last 18 months. Not only has the group been able to successfully integrate the young newcomer Aleksei Barshchev, but it has also renewed its repertoire and even slightly reoriented it toward the ensemble's new artistic goals. |
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Only nine days after the fall of Emperor Nicholas II, the United States became the first nation to recognize the provisional government that replaced him. |
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Many music fans may be heading down to Moscow for the first Russian concert by New York guitarist Marc Ribot, who will appear solo at 16 Tons on Jan. 24. Widely regarded as one of today's most inventive and adventurous guitarists, Ribot (pronounced REE-bow) has been a staple of New York's New Music scene for years, although he is best known for his work on recordings and tours by Elvis Costello, Marianne Faithfull and, most notably, Tom Waits. With the latter he appeared again on the 1999 "The Mule Variations" album and tour. Over the past three years, Ribot has achieved considerable success with his own "fake-Cuban" band, Los Cubanos Postizos. |
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 There's no sign indicating its name (unless that's what the two Chinese symbols over the entrance denote), there's about a 50-percent chance that main courses ordered will arrive strung out over a period of about twenty minutes, and there's always the danger that the arrival of a busload of Chinese tourists will swamp the kitchen and send your schedule reeling. |
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Iraq Prepared BAGHDAD (Reuters) - On the eleventh anniversary of the Gulf War, Iraqi President Saddam Hussein said on Thursday his country was prepared for and would foil any fresh U.S. military attack against Iraq as part of a war against terrorism. |
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Charity Case BOSTON, Massachusetts (AP) - The Massachusetts attorney general made sure the state's charities got their share of money for the sale of the Boston Red Sox. |
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