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SALT LAKE CITY, Utah — Local figure-skating champions Russians Elena Berezhnaya and Anton Sikharulidze continue to be at the center of a furor surrounding a controversial decision awarding them gold medals at the Salt Lake City Olympics on Monday. With the credibility of the sport under assault in the biggest judging controversy in Olympic figure-skating history, the lead referee in Monday’s pairs final said Wednesday that a judge had admitted during a post-competition meeting with other judges to feeling pressured to vote a certain way. International Skating Union President Ottavio Cinquanta said he interviewed the judge in question, who denied the allegation. |
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 MOSCOW — In a major victory for human-rights advocates, the military arm of the Supreme Court ruled this week to invalidate a secret Defense Ministry document used to prosecute such high-profile espionage suspects as environmentalist Alexander Nikitin and military journalist Grigory Pasko. |
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MOSCOW — Pope John Paul II’s decision this week to upgrade the Roman Catholic Church’s status in Russia will do little to change the rights of Catholic believers here. But by setting up a full-fledged Catholic Church in Russia, the pope has shed all but a few of the ecumenical niceties in the Vatican’s approach to the Russian Orthodox Church and has raised new questions about a long-discussed papal visit. |
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MOSCOW — After three weeks of stormy debate, the military, cabinet and State Duma on Tuesday reached a compromise bill on alternative military service that allows draftees to serve outside army bases and near their hometowns. Left in the draft law, which is expected to get final approval from the cabinet on Thursday, are military proposals requiring civil service personnel to serve up to four years — compared to two years in the army — and be subject to background checks. |
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When several high-profile legislators split from the Union of Right Forces in December, they accused the party and Yabloko, the country’s other main liberal political movement, of irrevocably tainting themselves by toeing the Kremlin line. |
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MOSCOW — While talks continue behind the scenes about a future investor for TV6 television, the majority shareholder of the shut-down channel, Boris Berezovsky, offered Thursday to sell the company’s studio equipment, film library and other assets to the winner of the tender scheduled for March 27. |
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Ivanov Warns U.S. n MOSCOW (AP) — Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov on Thursday joined the chorus of Russian officials warning the United States against attacking Iraq, saying that U. |
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MOSCOW — Canadian Prime Minister and “Team Canada” captain Jean Chretien flew into Moscow on Wednesday with more than 300 top politicians and executives for five days of deal-making and discussions on a host of issues, including arms reduction, HIV, business development — and hockey. |
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Germany’s TelesensKSCL, Europe’s leading provider of billing systems for the telecommunications industry, and the St. Petersburg-based Telecominvest holding company announced Tuesday the creation of a joint venture, TCI-Telesens, to set up the systems in the Russian market. |
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Computer makers shipped a record 607,000 personal computers in the fourth quarter of 2001, up 25.5 percent over the same period the year before, IDC said in a report released on Thursday. The global information-technology research company said the number significantly exceeded the previous record of the 483,000 PCs that were shipped in the fourth quarter of 1997. |
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With the arrival of Mobile TeleSystems (MTS), the local cellular-phone market finally attracted a second GSM-standard operator, and rumors continue to swirl that the arrival of a third is emminent. |
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Distillery Deal n ST. PETERSBURG (SPT) — State-owned alcohol-production company Rosspirtprom and the Veda Distillery, located in the Leningrad Oblast town of Kingisepp, have agreed to spend about $30 million on the construction of a new distillery in oblast, Veda General Director Anatoly Maschenko announced Thursday, Interfax reported. According to the report, Rosspirtprom will finance 51 percent of the construction, and Veda will pay the remaining 49 percent. Construction of the distillery actually began at the end of last year, and is slated to be completed by Fall 2003. Maschenko said that presently his company produces alcohol at the Bakhus plant, located in Smolensk, and that the new facility witll improve the quality of Veda’s product, Interfax reported. |
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 MOSCOW — Russia’s troubled aircraft makers are set to enjoy as much as $2 billion in new orders for short-range airplanes over the next couple of years — but only if they can work out financing schemes that would make it affordable for airlines. |
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MOSCOW — Unified Energy Systems CEO Anatoly Chubais slammed the government’s tariff policy Tuesday, saying it failed to give the natural monopolies’ customers a clear idea of prices for the entire year. Setting up new tariff rates that only cover the first half of 2002 was simply a failure, Chubais told reporters Tuesday. |
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SALT LAKE CITY — Figure skating is in terrible, terrible trouble. The admission by a French Olympic official that a French judge had been swayed in her voting constitutes one of the great scandals in Olympic history. The loud and angry wisdom of the crowd, the roars of “Six! Six! Six!” clearly had more substance than the rules and the ethics of a highly visible sport. |
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WASHINGTON — It will be “Armageddon,” according to the speaker of the House of Representatives: This week, Congress takes up a bill to push corporate money out of U. |
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On this trip to Latin America, I finally grasped the meaning of magic realism. The World Social Forum consisted of a huge number of events taking place simultaneously all over the city of Porto Alegre in Brazil. The program of seminars and conferences was laid out in a 150-page bilingual directory. |
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Bitter after being snubbed for membership in the “Axis of Evil,” Libya, China and Syria today announced they had formed the Axis of Just as Evil, which they said would be “way eviler” than the Iran-Iraq-North Korea axis U. |
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 Leningrad, the local rock band that revolutionized the Russian rock scene and rocketed to national popularity over the past two years, will play its biggest show ever this week — and is claiming that it will be its last. The band is set to play the cavernous Yubileiny Sports Palace on Feb. |
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Last weekend, the audience at the Mariinsky Theater witnessed history with the premiere of the famed company’s first-ever production of Mozart's 1790 classic “Cosi fan Tutte. |
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The local club scene continues to thrive with another two new venues opening this Saturday. Drive Mad Club will be located at 3 Grazhdanskaya Ulitsa, close to Sennaya Ploshchad, while to get to Eklektika Art Club, you’ll have to trek way out to the city’s industrial outskirts, as it will be at 158 Prospekt Stachek. |
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If you keep them there long enough, working in a dungeon will inevitably get to the employees. After making our way down into Dungeon, a basement restaurant on Vladimirsky Prospect, and seeing that all the tables were occupied, my dining companion and I sidled up to the stool-less bar at the front of the room and asked if we could have a beer while we waited. |
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The Zazerkalye Theater has added a new opera to its repertoire or, more precisely, an opera-musical composed by the hitherto unknown Roman Lvovich. Lvovich is a young Moscow-based composer and a recent graduate of the Moscow Conservatory, who decided to test himself in the frontier genre of musical theater by creating an unusual combination of opera and musical. |
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Youngest Medalist n SALT LAKE CITY, Utah (Reuters) — South Korea’s Ko Gi-Hyun became the youngest winner of an Olympic individual short-track gold medal on Wednesday. Fifteen-year-old Ko, who began competing when she was just seven, ran much of the race from the front steering clear of jostling and bumping that resulted China’s Yang Yang (S) crashing just laps from the finish. |
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