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 The poet Iosif Brodsky may have done much to contribute to St. Petersburg's heritage, yet the city where he was born and where he lived for 32 years until leaving Russia in 1972 has never erected a monument to him. All that is about to change, however, after this week's announcement by Alfa Bank and the city's buildings and architecture committee announced an international contest for just such a monument this week. |
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Vladimir Fisinin knows American chicken, and he says it's dangerous. As the vice president of the Russian Academy of Agricultural Sciences and the general director of the Inter-regional Scientific Center for Pedigree Poultry Farming, Fisinin has been studying chickens for decades. |
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Extortion Bust ST. PETERSBURG (SPT) - The St. Petersburg police and FSB have detained seven people reputed to be members members of the Tambovskaya gang, including two former police employees and a former city tax inspecor, Interfax reported on Thursday. |
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MOSCOW - Former Russian diplomat Andrei Knyazev was sentenced to four years in a low-security prison Tuesday for a car accident in Canada that killed a pedestrian and left another badly injured. |
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MOSCOW - The Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected an appeal to release researcher Igor Sutyagin while he waits for the FSB to reinvestigate his spying case. Sutyagin's lawyers said they would file a complaint with the European Court of Human Rights. Igor Sutyagin, a researcher at the prestigious U. |
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MOSCOW - A Geneva prosecutor who convicted former Kremlin property chief Pavel Borodin of money laundering said Tuesday he will this week deduct a fine and court costs from the $3-million bail paid for Borodin. |
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MOSCOW - Russia has beat out Saudi Arabia to become the world's biggest oil producer - for the month of February at least. According the estimates compiled by the Paris-based International Energy Agency, Russia pumped 7 million barrels per day last month, compared to Saudi Arabia's 6.9 million barrels per day. Such an upset in the rankings hasn't been seen since the 1980s, when the Soviet Union led the world in oil production. While the plunge and recovery in oil production mirrors the country's economic health since 1990, Russia's possession of the top spot may be short lived. And oil production isn't exactly what gets politicians excited: Most oil companies get a bulk of their revenue from exports, not domestic sales. |
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 MOSCOW - In an operation dubbed "Cyclone Two" by the media, Samara law enforcement officers are combing AvtoVAZ's ledgers in a fresh thrust to rid the Tolyatti factory of alleged ties to organized crime. |
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MOSCOW - As more and more Russians find themselves in the Forbes list of the richest people in the world, the potential for banks to increase their retail operations within the country is enormous. Raiffeisenbank Austria, a fully-owned subsidiary of Austria's Raiffeisen Bank, announced Thursday its plans to open four new branches in Moscow and one in the regions over the next 16 months. |
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Russia's Hercules has finally met his match. The State Duma on Wednesday accepted the resignation of Viktor "Gerakl" Gerashchenko from his post as chairperson of the Central Bank, ending an era in which the portly banker showed Herculean strength in defending the Central Bank and the entire banking sector from pressure to reform. |
 MOSCOW - The man tapped by President Vladimir Putin to replace Viktor Gerashchanko as Central Bank chairperson has spent this week saying that he would essentially follow the policies of his predecessor and vowed to maintain the stability of the ruble. |
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MOSCOW - Russia said Wednesday it would extend a curb on crude-oil exports until the end of the second quarter, but added a caveat that it might change its mind before then if prices rise steadily. |
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New Audit Merger HONG KONG (AP) - Arthur Andersen affiliates in Hong Kong and China said Thursday that they would merge with rival accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers. Andersen affiliates have been discussing combinations with rival firms since the U.S. arm of the Andersen Worldwide group was indicted last week on charges of obstruction of justice, when employees allegedly shredded documents and deleted computer files related to its work for failed energy-trader Enron Corp. |
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LAST year, there was an overwhelming amount of talk about banking reform, something akin to a river in the spring thaw. The flood, however, abated in December, leaving a bland document on reform of the banking sector signed by Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov and then Central Bank Chairperson Viktor Gerashchenko. |
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"The country that is so proud of its democracy [has] decided to use the methods of Nazi Germany. On March 11, in Washington, it was decided to burn over 2 million books, Russian classics such as Pushkin and Dostoevsky. |
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FROM the time the Soviet Union first established diplomatic relations with Israel, Jerusalem has been an obligatory destination for up-and-coming Russian leaders. Last week, Sergei Mironov, speaker of the Federation Council, had his turn. Once in Israel, the No. |
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FOR most people, being convicted of money laundering would be enough to end a government career and send the guilty party, if not to jail then at least into an early retirement in disgrace. |
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 Yegor Timofeyev, the charismatic frontman of local band Multfilmy, knows all about the so-called "difficult second album syndrome." The band's follow-up to its eponymous debut album has been a full two years in the making. "Superprize" was released on Feb. 26, but will only receive its St. Petersburg live debut next week. Multfilmy, or "The Cartoons," are known for their charming, tongue-in-cheek songs and British pop influences ranging from The Beatles to Travis, but singer-songwriter Timofeyev says that "Superprize" can not be classified so easily. |
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 St. Petersburg jewellery designer Darya Klimina recognises the significance of the Hermitage's new exhibition "Avant-Garde Jewellery: Sources and Parallels," which opened on Tuesday. |
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Last Saturday's DJ Parade at Yubileiny was raided by a narcotics squad, who apparently turned up what they were looking for, according to RIA Novosti. "As a result, two men, aged 24 and 28, were detained for selling 0.7 grams of heroin," the report says. |
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The quest to find the best neighborhood café in town (see The Dishes passim) this week took me and my trusty henchman Gopher to Vasilievsky Ostrov and Inkol, right by the State University's Journalism Faculty. |
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 St. Petersburg's Yevgeny Strausov ignored a cut over his left eye to knock down Moscow's Sergei Andreichikov three times and claim the Russian featherweight title on a close points decision Thursday at Yubileiny Sports Palace. Andreichikov, originally from Belarus, came out the stronger of the two, but Strausov rallied to dominate the third and fourth rounds. |
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Russia Soccer Bid MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Russian parliament on Wednesday approved the country's bid to stage the European soccer championships in 2008. |
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