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The initial results of an experimental program of fast-track 72-hour visas that was launched on Feb. 1 have been disappointing, say tourism operators dealing with the new regulations. According to the federal government's Tourism Department, just 34 tourists received 72-hours visas in St. |
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UFA, Bashkortostan - Sergei Neverovsky, 40, a construction engineer, heard someone outside his apartment talking about the census and threw open the door, saying hospitably, "At last, the census is on. |
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UFA, Bashkortostan - For eight days in October, 600,000 census takers will knock at every door, canvas every dacha compound and visit every inhabited slum to try to reach every single human being in Russia. They will get help from the police - who will accompany them to apartment buildings where people with criminal records are known to live and to places inhabited by vagrants - and from maintenance workers, who will be responsible for getting them into buildings with locked entryways. |
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Two liberal lawmakers entered the country Sunday with copies of a controversial documentary presented last week by one-time Kremlin insider Boris Berezovsky, but only one of them was allowed to bring in the politically charged consignment. Sergei Yushenkov, a leader of the Liberal Russia political movement funded and co-chaired by Berezovsky, returned to Moscow with 1,000 copies of the film, which accuses the Federal Security Service of complicity in a series of deadly apartment bombings in 1991. |
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MOSCOW - Putting an end to days of difficult negotiations, the team of ousted TV6 journalists led by former General Director Yevgeny Kiselyov has agreed to join forces with a broadcasting group created by former Prime Minister Yevgeny Primakov in a bid to get back on the air. |
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Alfred Kokh, the former Gazprom-Media general director who was named a member of the Federation Council last month, faces legal challenges ahead of his confirmation scheduled for next week, Kommersant newspaper reported Thursday. Kokh was elected on Feb. |
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MOSCOW - After seeing 82 residents killed or vanish, the Chechen village of Tsotsin-Yurt has signed an appeal urging the West to prevent the "mass extermination of Chechens" by Russian troops, a Chechen organization said Monday. |
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ASTRAKHAN, Southern Russia - Alexander Kitanov is on the front lines of the battle to save the 200-million-year-old beluga sturgeon from disappearing, a victim of the tastiness of its own eggs. Kitanov, who for two decades has been running a fish farm to raise sturgeon fingerlings, or babies, for release in the Volga, is alarmed with the recent decision by the animal-protection arm of the United Nations, CITES, to lift its first-ever ban on international trade in Caspian caviar. |
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Kursk Plan MOSCOW (AP) - A top submarine-design bureau has worked out a plan for raising fragments of the sunken Kursk nuclear submarine that were left on the Barents Sea floor when its gutted carcass was lifted last fall, its director said Monday. |
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 While a new air-cargo terminal that has been in the works for four years opened its doors last Monday, squabbles between terminal management and air-freight carriers have led the latter to continue to work from the old facilities. The project to build the Pulkovo Cargo Terminal, which is located in the area between the Pulkovo-1 and Pulkovo-2 airports and the Pulkovskoye highway, was initiated by Pulkovo Airlines and Germany's Lufthansa in 1998, with $8 million of the $12 million construction cost covered by a loan from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. |
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MOSCOW - Discount chain Pyatyorochka used to fill the freezers of its stores in St. Petersburg and Moscow with inexpensive U.S. poultry. But the Russian ban on the birds, which came into effect Sunday, has left the retail giant scrambling to find new suppliers that can provide cheap meat. |
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MOSCOW - In a legal coup for Gazprom, a Siberian judge on Monday appointed an external manager to oversee operations at Sibur, Russia's largest petrochemical holding. The Salekhard Arbitration Court picked Mikhail Fomenkov, a Moscow-based lawyer, to put together a recovery plan that will stave off Sibur's bankruptcy. |
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THE latest business scandal has hit Russia. It would appear that the almost-completed deal to sell Ingosstrakh, Avtobank and Nosta to Roman Abramovich and Oleg Deripaska has been halted. |
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ONE of the most serious issues encountered by companies with foreign investment that utilize customs and VAT exemptions on in-kind contributions is that of compliance with requirements of Article 29 of the Russian Customs Code. The provisions of this article place limitations on the use of conditionally released goods on which customs-payment exemptions have been granted. |
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In response to "58 Years on, This Love Is Still Going Strong" on March 7. Editor, I only discovered your excellent Internet site a few days ago, since my interest in Leningrad during World War II was recently stirred after reading a novel titled "The Bronze Horseman" by Paullina Simons, who was born in Leningrad. |
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By Maria Gorban, Sergei Guriyev and Ksenia Yudayeva ALTHOUGH the Russian goverment has decided to join the World Trade Organization, there is no consensus in society regarding WTO membership and its consequences for the economy. |
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IT'S an old story. Last week, another soldier at a military base in Leningrad Oblast grabbed his machine gun and made a break for it, looking for a better life. Although his weapon was found soon after, the soldier is still at large, one of about 5,000 young conscripts who escape from the army each year. |
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Picture this: the skulking ruler of a corrupt and vicious regime, hunkered down in his palace, besieged by the forces of good as he plots to unleash weapons of mass destruction on his "satanic" foes across the sea. |
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 With his smash hit film, "Moulin Rouge", behind him, Australian filmmaker Baz Luhrmann is looking ahead to new projects: specifically, his Broadway production of Puccini's opera "La Bohème," which he plans to make into a movie. After a comprehensive search for the right soprano to sing Mimi, Luhrmann settled on a relative unknown - 26-year-old Yekaterina Solovyova from St. |
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 A moment of madness from goalkeeper Vyacheslav Malafeyev and a cruel deflection were enough to deflate the pre-season hopes of St. Petersburg soccer fans, as Zenit lost 2-0 away at Anzhi Makhachkala on Saturday. |
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Safin, Wilander Split INDIAN WELLS, California (Reuters) - Marat Safin has confirmed that his coaching partnership with Swedish tennis legend Mats Wilander is over. The 22-year-old Australian Open finalist teamed up with Wilander in March 2001, but the Swede's busy life means he no longer has time to coach the Russian player. |
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