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Two weeks ago, Alfred Kokh unexpectedly won a seat in the upper house of parliament. But his appointment, now facing a challenge in a regional court, has yet to be confirmed - and there are indications that the force opposed to Kokh's posting is the Kremlin. |
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MOSCOW - Fresh from starring in a movie about a Soviet submarine disaster, Harrison Ford is teaming up with the screenwriter of the Oscar-winning "Gladiator" to film the story of U. |
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MOSCOW - The Liberal Russia movement presented the much talked-about documentary film alleging FSB involvement in the 1999 apartment blasts to a packed audience of journalists, human-rights activists and curious truth-seekers at the Sakharov Museum on Tuesday. |
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MOSCOW - The bodies of two newborn babies were found this week in Moscow, the latest of 10 babies who apparently have been killed by their mothers in the city since the beginning of the year, Interfax reported Thursday, citing the police. |
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The Legislative Assembly on Wednesday voted down City Hall's spending report on the 2000 city budget, arguing that more than 1.5 billion rubles ($54 million) had been spent in violation of the budget authorization. Eighteen deputies voted to reject the report and 16 voted in support of it. |
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MOSCOW - The Constitutional Court on Thursday stripped prosecutors of one of their most important rights by striking down legislation that allows suspects to be detained for more than 48 hours without a court ruling. |
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WASHINGTON - U.S. President George W. Bush on Wednesday expressed optimism that a deal on nuclear-arms reduction would be ready for his summit meeting with President Vladimir Putin in May, and clearly moved from reluctance to enthusiasm about signing a formal agreement with his Russian counterpart. |
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Ex-Officer Sentenced MINSK, Belarus (AP) - A Belarusian court on Thursday sentenced a former police officer to life in prison for several crimes, including kidnapping a camera operator for Russian television, one of several well-known people to disappear in Belarus in recent years. |
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MOSCOW - Calling it a "burning issue for the nation," Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov on Thursday signed off on a government plan to legalize agricultural-land sales for the first time since the Bolsheviks seized power in 1917. "There is now no law on the sale and purchase of land, yet such sales and purchases exist in large quantities," Kasyanov told a cabinet meeting. "This lowers the real value of Russia's farmland and encourages corruption and the ineffective use of land," The Associated Press quoted him as saying. "The time has come to remove the irregularities and establish a clear, transparent law," Kasyanov said. |
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 On April 1, new sound-emission standards will bar a number of Russian aircraft currently in use from the skies over Europe, and St. Petersburg-based Pulkovo Airlines, while saying this won't reduce the number of passengers the it flies, is saying that it will adversely affect its bottom line. |
 MOSCOW - For months, he has railed against the way Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov's government has handled the economy, calling 2001 a "lost year" in terms of reforms. He blames the government for doing little to curtail the "burgeoning corruption" he says is sweeping the country and calls its stated intention of joining the World Trade Organization by the end of 2003 a "huge mistake. |
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MOSCOW - The cabinet on Thursday approved Gazprom's 140.8-billion-ruble ($4.5-billion) investment program for 2002, a month after the gas monopoly agreed to a reduction in spending. |
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EU Growth Uneven LONDON (Reuters) - Industrial output figures from around Europe on Thursday showed that, while the euro zone as a whole may be recovering, the performance is uneven. Industrial production in France, the euro zone's second-largest economy, rose surprisingly strongly in January but output in Italy, the region's third largest, made little progress and Dutch and Belgian production contracted. |
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AND in the sixth month, we went nuclear. On paper, anyway. Word from the Pentagon leaked to the Los Angeles Times that the United States government has changed the way it looks at The Bomb. It has, for more than two generations now, been seen as the ultimate horror. |
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LOOKING deeply into the eyes of Vladimir Putin, George W. Bush famously concluded that Russia's president is "a man America can do business with." That observation proved to be truer than most people predicted, especially on issues dear to Bush's heart, such as oil and war. |
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IN the March issue of Sreda magazine, Manana Aslamazyan, director of Internews, reports on the progress of the ongoing Russian-American Media Enterpreneurship Dialogue, or RAMED. The dialogue was initiated by presidents Vladimir Putin and George W. Bush at last year's summit, and Internews coordinates the dialogue on the Russian side. |
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THE New York-based economist Doug Henwood likes to judge the health of the U.S. economy not so much by looking at the numbers as by checking how often the words "recession" and "crisis" appear in the press. |
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 Ever since Valery Gergiev became the Mariinsky Theater's artistic director and general director five years ago, the company's ballet reportoire has developed on an equal footing with opera, and its dance initiatives have been fittingly promoted and acclaimed, especially its reconstruction of "Sleeping Beauty" and "The Nutcracker." In the midst of the theater's enthusiasm for dance, the young ballet master Alexei Ratmansky appeared and promptly produced a formally rich, but aesthetically spartan, triptych based on music by Igor Stravinsky, Alexander Skryabin and Yury Khanon. |
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 The notion of suffering for one's art is nothing new, but a group of Dutch artists visiting St. Petersburg this week have been practicing what they preach. |
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Guitarist Marc Ribot spent two days in St. Petersburg this week, and how did he pass his time? "Last night, I got drunk and today I slept," he explained to this column before his concert on March 12. "We went to a Latin-music club last night and hanged around a little bit. Then we walked around the big square in front of the Hermitage. And the more ambitious members of the band woke up and went to the Hermitage. I was going to go, but I was feeling a little weak this morning. I wanted to sleep so I could do good concert," he said. The sleep seems to have worked, since the concert was indeed great. However, fans encountered some inconveniences such as the long queue outside Red Club while security conducted meticulous weapons checks. |
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 Opulent brunches at luxury hotels are one of the enchanting indulgences of expat life in Russia that for many verges on being a necessity. Even those of us without expense accounts can hardly fathom the possibility of getting through a whole St. |
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Island Detention CANBERRA (AP) - The Australian government announced on Tuesday it is building a new migrant detention center on a remote Indian Ocean island. Immigration Minister Philip Ruddock said the new center on Christmas Island would hold about 1,200 people and would be used when the asylum seeker camps on two neighboring Pacific island countries fill up. |
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Sampras Through INDIAN WELLS, California (AP) - Pete Sampras, his overall game a bit ragged but his serve still sharp, beat Albert Costa 6-4, 6-4 Wednesday in the second round of the Pacific Life Open. |
 Zenit kick-started its season Wednesday, with a 1-0 home victory over Rotor Volgograd on Andrei Arshavin's 56th-minute goal. Zenit turned in a much more fluent performance than it did in Saturday's 2-0 road loss to Anzhi Makhachkala, and could have emerged with a much more convincing margin of victory. |
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LONDON - A mass brawl involving players, officials and riot police after the Roma-Galatasaray match overshadowed Bayern Munich and Manchester United's progress to the quarter-finals of the Champions League on Wednesday. |
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