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MOSCOW - Monday may have been the last day of broadcasting for TV6 as the Press Ministry prepared to comply with a court order to pull the plug on Boris Berezovsky's television station immediately. The threat of a shutdown came hours after TV6 journalists backed out of a temporary broadcasting deal cut with the ministry last week. Press Minister Mikhail Lesin said earlier that he would fulfill the court order, brought to the ministry by bailiffs Monday afternoon, within two to three days. It was not clear what programming, if any, would be on TV6 on Tuesday. Several television companies are considering ministry offers to "come on air on a temporary basis and ensure [continued] broadcasting on this frequency," Lesin said on ORT television. |
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 The Russian government intends to spend nearly $130 million on the reconstruction and expansion of the Mariinsky Theater, officials announced Friday during a visit to the city by Culture Minister Mikhail Shvydkoi. |
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The Communist Party re-elected Gennady Zyuganov as its leader Saturday, but cracks appeared in the ranks with some members suggesting selective cooperation with the Kremlin. Zyuganov was backed by all but a handful of the 300 delegates at a special Congress, said Gennady Seleznyov, a Communist and the speaker of the State Duma. |
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Bomb Scare ST. PETERSBURG (SPT) - A bomb scare at the building housing the local self-government of the Primorsky District on Monday proved to be a false alarm, Interfax reported. |
 MOSCOW - The latest biography of President Vladimir Putin has hit the shelves, complete with resounding praise for the president and a family tree dating back to the era of Peter the Great. But its author told reporters Monday that he had come under no pressure from the Kremlin - either to write the book or to show his manuscripts - and was driven by his own inquisitive nature. |
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MOSCOW - The United Nations top official for refugees on Friday presented his blueprint for improving security inside Chechnya and making it possible for the tens of thousands of Chechens who have fled the republic to return home. |
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Two of the three Interior Ministry officers accused of negligence in the friendly fire deaths of 22 OMON service personnel in Chechnya maintained their innocence at the opening of their closed-door trial Friday. The third officer, Major Igor Tikhonov, did not appear at Moscow's Presnensky district court, sending notice that he was ill. |
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MOSCOW - The Prosecutor General's Office filed charges against two top Sibur executives Friday night, the first indictments in an investigation into the Gazprom subsidiary for the alleged theft of state assets. Prosecutors charged Sibur President Yakov Goldovsky and Vice President Yevgeny Koshchits with abuse of authority. If found guilty, they face up to five years in prison. Both men had already been in custody for 10 days, after a criminal case was opened Jan. 7. By law, they could only be held 10 days without charges being filed. A prosecutor's office spokesperson said there was no word on whether Sibur chairperson Vyacheslav Sheremet, who is also Gazprom's first deputy CEO, would be charged. |
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 In a surprise decision, St. Petersburg-based Baltiisky Zavod on Saturday was named the winner of a $1.4-billion tender to deliver two Sovremenny-class destroyers to China. |
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MOSCOW - The government is making a big mistake by shackling what should be an independent regulator of natural monopolies, the deputy chairperson of the Federal Energy Commission warned Monday. Vyacheslav Ovchenkov said the government, by pushing the State Duma to amend tariff-regulation law that would strip the FEC - Russia's supposedly independent regulator - of its authority, is making it just another government department, defeating a key purpose of its existence. |
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MOSCOW - A standoff between the Nuclear Power Ministry and a private U.S. company over Russian uranium supplies used to produce some 10 percent of America's electricity looks set to be resolved before deliveries are interrupted. |
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CPI Seen at 2.3% MOSCOW (Reuters) - Consumer- price growth will quicken month on month to 2.3 percent in January from 1.6 percent in December, Interfax quoted First Deputy Finance Minister Alexei Ulyukayev as saying Monday. "Like in 2001, there will be a burst in inflation in January, but it will be a smaller burst [than last year]," Ulyu ka yev told reporters Inflation is one of Russia's most difficult economic problems. |
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Utility To Appeal BERLIN (AP) - Utility giant E.On AG will appeal to the German government to back its plan to acquire the country's dominant gas company and support its drive to become a force in the global power industry. |
 During the Soviet era, the lion's share of economic activity in the Omsk region was in defense production. Today oil major Sibneft dominates the economic landscape, but as staff writer Robin Munro reports in the second article of a four-part series on regional investment, the region is trying to diversify. |
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IN a comment by Mikhail Delyagin published a week ago in The St. Petersburg Times, the past year was described as another "lost year for reforms," in which the economic boom ran out of steam due to "the unwillingness of the authorities to tackle key structural problems. |
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IN Russia, we plant potatoes in May, and in winter we plant our oligarchs - behind bars, that is. The new year has seen a number of arrests. Perhaps the one most symptomatic of underlying trends is that of Sibur President Yakov Goldovsky. Goldovsky got his entree to Gazprom through his work with Roskontrakt - an organization that took over many of the functions of the Soviet supply agency Gossnab. |
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CONTRARY to what many people think, the new Land Code adopted in October has not brought about private ownership of land in Russia. The concept of private title to land has already existed for a number of years. |
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In response to "Who Owns Little Che bu rashka?" on Jan. 15. Editor, Let us call a spade a spade. (1) Eduard Uspensky, the great Russian patriot who has managed to get himself a U.S. green card, was allowed by Rospatent to patent as his own an image created by the artist Leonid Shvartsman. |
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IT cannot be seriously disputed that, since the tragic events of Sept. 11 and President Vla di mir Putin's statement two weeks later, the tone of the U. |
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RUSSIAN officials can be very bad with abbreviations. And I don't mean those long acronyms that sprouted up in 1917 containing the first few letters of seemingly 100 incomprehensible words. Somehow, even today I'll bet there are at least 100 million people on the face of the Earth who can tell you what LenBetonSpetsStroiMontazh and GiproMyasoMolAgroProm mean. |
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The bloviations of public hypocrisy are a never-ceasing wonder to behold. The art of mouthing sanctimonious twaddle while peddling murderous hardball on the side requires a degree of moral dislocation - an almost total divorce of word from deed, of image from reality - rarely seen outside madhouses, government offices, televised pulpits and certain caves in remote Afghanistan. |
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Cupboard to Court LONDON (Reuters) - Russian model Angela Ermakova, who had a daughter by Boris Becker, returned to London's High Court on Monday for a brief private hearing in a legal battle with the German tennis ace. German media said the hearing centered on continued wrangling with the three-time Wimbledon champion over a court order that he pay for a house for Ermakova and her daughter, Anna. |
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