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Vice Governor Anatoly Kagan, head of the City Hall Health Committee, was formally charged on Friday with criminal negligence, making him the third vice governor to face criminal charges in the last five months. The St. Petersburg Prosecutor’s Office claimed that Kagan’s policies led to a misappropriation of budgetary funds intended for the purchase of insulin for the more than 12,000 local residents suffering from diabetes. On Friday, prosecutors also formally asked Governor Vladimir Yakovlev to suspend Kagan pending his trial. Kagan and City Hall both vehemently deny the accusations. Last October, Yakovlev suspended Vice Governor Valery Malyshev after prosecutors filed abuse-of-office charges against him. |
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 “It probably sounds strange, but I dream about those Mannerheim pill boxes practically every other night,” says Roman Petrov, a 27-year-old social-insurance manager. |
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 A little less than one year after President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on the reorganization of Russia’s 36 state-owned film studios, Viktor Sergeyev — filmmaker and director of Lenfilm — has submitted his letter of resignation in protest against a reform that he feels will bring nothing but ruin. “I do not want to take part in something that I see as nothing other than destruction,” said Sergeyev, whose films include “The Hangman” (1990), “The Genius” (1991) and “Schizophrenia (1997). |
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 MOSCOW — With two days left to register for the highly politicized tender for Channel 6, a consortium of businesspeople backing the ousted TV6 team scrambled Monday to finalize its composition as two unlikely new participants entered the fray. |
 MOSCOW — After a major setback last year, efforts to clear the names of several White Army leaders are again gaining pace, with supporters writing to the president and pushing plans to re-inter the remains of two White officers in the Kremlin wall. Cossacks, nobles, monarchists and 14 admirals appealed last month to President Vladimir Putin, Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov and navy chief Vladimir Kuroyedov to rehabilitate Admiral Alexander Kolchak, who led White forces in Siberia during the Civil War after the Bolsheviks took power in 1917. |
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Pasko Ruling Slammed VLADIVOSTOK, Far East (AP) — The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists on Monday called the treason conviction for Russian military journalist Grigory Pasko unjust and embarrassing to Russia. |
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MOSCOW — Oil baron Mikhail Khodorkovsky has been named the richest man in Russia for the second year running by Forbes magazine, which released its annual list of the world’s billionaires Friday. Khodorkovsky, 38, the head of the Yukos oil giant, saw his personal wealth grow by $1. |
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MOSCOW — Unexpectedly positive economic news on both sides of the Atlantic and the anticipation of stable oil prices brought fresh Western money Monday into Russia’s stock market, which joined a global rally to hit a level last seen nearly four years ago. |
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Fueled by a looming ban on U.S. imports, wholesale prices for poultry have shot up 30 percent over the past five days, the U.S.A. Poultry and Egg Export Council said Monday. The government on Friday suspended issuing import licenses for U.S. fowl, which accounted for 70 percent of all domestic poultry sales last year, and said it would introduce a temporary ban on the imports begining March 10. |
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MOSCOW — Russia and Finland are discussing $1.8 billion in investment projects for the timber industry and are looking to form a joint working group to develop relations in the sector. |
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MOSCOW — The country’s telecommunications companies generated revenues of 186 billion rubles ($7.6 billion) in 2001, 40.4 percent more than in 2000, according to Communications Minister Leonid Reiman. Speaking at the final meeting of the Communications Ministry on Monday, Reiman said the revenues of traditional operators totaled 85 billion rubles ($2. |
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MOSCOW — Russia has no obligation to dance to OPEC’s tune and should not reduce oil exports, Andrei Illarionov said Monday. Speaking at a seminar on real exchange-rate appreciation and economic growth, President Vladimir Putin’s top economic adviser said cutting crude exports would hurt the economy. |
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MOSCOW — Five months after a Tu-154 airliner was shot down by a Ukrainian missile over the Black Sea, the families of the 78 victims are fighting for compensation. The Sibir airline, which operated the flight, is being sued and, as a result, saw some of its accounts frozen by court bailiffs last week. |
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The city administration’s Construction Committee announced Thursday plans for its participation at the MIPIM-2002 international real-estate investment exhibition to be held in Cannes, France, from March 12 to March 14. |
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Last May, the administration of President Vladimir Putin sent a strong signal to investors regarding its commitment to improve corporate transparency and the investment climate in this country when Gazprom CEO Rem Vyakhirev was replaced by Alexei Miller — a St. |
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WASHINGTON — Imagine a magazine article three years from now about Ken Lay’s exciting new pig-farm-and-movie-theater holding company. “Lay leads a new generation of responsible CEOs, who renounce the free-wheeling excesses of the past,” the article intones — without mentioning the name of Lay’s old company, Enron. |
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After two years with Vladimir Putin at the helm, freedom in Russia is on the wane, yet order is not on the rise. Putin’s main lever for maintaining control over society has been a war waged by several groups close to the president. This is perfectly natural in a country where the remaining institutions of government and control — the State Duma, the Prosecutor General’s Office and the Interior Ministry — are for sale to the highest bidder. |
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In Japan, economic stagnation is compatible with comfort. Far from being in a “crisis” condition, Japan remains one of the world’s wealthiest countries, with its standard of living among the world’s highest. |
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In response to “Code Could Have Done Enron Some Good,” a comment by Matthew Murray and Anna Ossipova on Feb. 26. Editor, I enjoyed your article on Enron. Probably few in Russia realize that the seriousness of Enron’s problems has been years in the making. |
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As Slobodan Milosevic, the former Serbian dictator nicknamed the “Butcher of the Balkans,” has gone on trial in The Hague on 66 counts of war crimes, he has brought to the process the evil, manipulative cunning with which he once shattered and divided the former Yugoslavia. |
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It would seem that Governor Vladimir Yakovlev is never at a loss for an idea. He’s always thinking. Take, for instance, his visit to Copenhagen last summer. Our sharp-eyed leader noticed some “young girls” on the streets there and still can’t forget them. |
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Flower Power The St. Petersburg Times won a great victory this week when the Pentagon and White House were forced into a most craven climbdown over their plans to launch a new propaganda operation, designed to manipulate the foreign and domestic press with secret spin and outright lies. |
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Chievo Striker Dies ROME (Reuters) — Chievo forward and Democratic Republic of Congo international Jason Mayele died on Saturday in a car accident on his way to team practice in Verona, the Italian club confirmed. Sunday’s Serie A match between Chievo and Parma was postponed until March 13 “as a mark of respect in this time of mourning,” Italian football league Vice President Adriano Galliani said. |
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If Manchester United’s stars fail to win an unprecedented fourth straight premier-league championship, they will remember the name Malcolm Christie, as the young Derby striker scored both of his team’s goals in a 2-2 draw with United on Sunday to leave the title chase wide open. |
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