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Despite official assertions that the situation regarding the provision of insulin in the city is "stable and does not provoke concern," documents obtained by The St. Petersburg Times show that there have been serious and ongoing shortages of many types of insulin since 1996. On Oct. 11, 2001, Sergei Shustov, the city doctor who oversees treatment of diabetics, wrote to the City Hall Health Committee to complain about the insulin situation. "The absence of a 10-percent insulin reserve and a deficit of the most modern types of insulin are leading to serious interruptions in the provision of care to those who are ill ... which has negative consequences for their quality of life and in some cases leads to instability in their condition," Shustov wrote. |
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 LONDON - Waves of laughter rolled out from the Barbican Hall, but it wasn't a stand-up comic working the room. It was Mstislav Rostropovich taking the London Symphony Orchestra through a rehearsal of Prokofiev's "Romeo and Juliet. |
 The commander of the Kursk nuclear submarine, Captain Gennady Lyachin, and six other crew members were buried Saturday at the Serafimov Cemetery. Twenty-five other Kursk victims had already been interred there. During a solemn ceremony attended by hundreds of naval officers, cadets and ordinary citizens, the seven coffins stood in the hall of the Peter the Great Naval College, draped in the blue-and-white flag of the Russian Navy. |
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MOSCOW - Three top lawmakers called on the State Duma's procedures committee Friday to get the ball rolling for a vote on dismissing the chamber's speaker, Gennady Seleznyov. The move was one of several attacks against Seleznyov by fellow deputies over the past week, but politicians and analysts said the campaign to unseat the Communist speaker could prove successful only with the blessing of the Kremlin, which has thus far remained neutral on the issue. The request submitted Friday was signed by the head of the pro-Kremlin Unity faction, Vladimir Pekhtin, the deputy leader of the Fatherland-All Russia faction, Farida Gainullina, and the first deputy chief of the liberal Union of Right Forces (SPS) faction, Boris Nadezhdin, Interfax reported. |
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 MOSCOW - Alexei Novikov no longer lets his wife go outside alone to walk the dog at night, even though it has been her evening ritual for years. "I go out with her and smoke in the yard, always keeping my eyes on her," said Novikov, 29. |
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Briton Charged LONDON (AP) - A British defense-company worker charged with spying appeared in court Monday on charges of stealing secrets about stealth technology designed to cloak combat aircraft from radar. The Independent newspaper reported Monday that Ian Parr, a worker at BAE Systems, was working for Russia. |
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MOSCOW - The rate of new cases of tuberculosis fell in 2001 for the first time in a decade, giving hope that efforts to curb the epidemic are starting to take effect, health officials said Friday. |
 MOSCOW - The first attempt by Russian authorities to address the problem of "friendly fire" in Chechnya fizzled Friday when a court acquitted two senior Interior Ministry officers and instead laid blame posthumously on the commander of the targeted unit. |
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Film Broadcast MOSCOW (SPT) - Boris Berezovsky's politically charged documentary film about the 1999 apartment bombings was broadcast on television for the second time over the weekend - and once again in a Baltic state. |
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As part of the merger of Arthur Andersen Russia/CIS into former financial-services competitor Ernst & Young CIS, the unification of the offices and clients of the two companies in St. Petersburg will make the new entitiy the largest of the international consultants working in the market in the Northwest Region. |
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MOSCOW - Gazprom took control of Sibur's board at an extraordinary shareholders meeting Monday, sealing a victory for Gazprom management in their drive to crack down on asset-stripping. |
 MOSCOW - Already the darling of white-collar nine-to-fivers, the pot-smoking local cyber-chick dubbed Russia's answer to Beavis and Butthead is now officially all the rage in elite circles, too. Masyanya, a foul-mouthed, short-skirted slacker, may not respect authority, but she has certainly made her creator famous - while crashing his Web site. |
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Severstal, Arcelor JV MOSCOW (SPT) - Steel major Severstal is close to finalizing a $140-million joint venture with Arcelor, the world's largest steel producer, the Financial Times reported Monday. |
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MOSCOW - There are two emotions driving the markets: greed and fear. So says Peter Westin, chief economist with Aton brokerage - and in recent years he has seen much change in investors' feelings toward Russia. "Greed prevailed in 1996 and 1997, while fear dominated after the 1998 crisis," Westin said. |
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IF there ever were a group of taxes that businesses in Russia just loved to hate, they were surely the infamous turnover taxes. Consisting of the Federal Road User's Tax (2 1/2 percent) and the local Housing Tax (1 1/2 percent), they scalped companies out of 4 percent of their turnover, even if were losing money. |
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IT'S March, time to entertain questions about the Final Four. No, we're not talking about college basketball. We're talking about accounting firms. After all, the stunning criminal indictment of Big Five firm Arthur Andersen for its role in the Enron scandal may well be the death blow for the proud old partnership. |
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In response to "U.S. Steel Tariffs Take Gold Medal for Stupid," a comment on March 15. Editor, In an effort to get to the real issues here, the first thing we should not do is resort to name calling and finger pointing. The U.S. steel-import tariff and the Russian poultry ban are attempts by the United States and Russia to accommodate domestic producers of the respective commodities, and nothing more. |
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THE Luigi Pirandello play from which the title of this piece is paraphrased deals with several characters who arrive at a theater in search of an author. |
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A COUPLE of weeks ago, March 8 to be exact, I found myself at the Finnish parliament in Helsinki. Although back in Russia this was, of course, International Women's Day and I probably should have been presenting flowers to all the people in my life whom I fail to appreciate properly the other 364 days of the year, instead I was being ushered around the Suonen Eduskunta (the Parliament of Finland) by a female deputy of the chamber. |
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MECCA, March 22, 2005 - President Osama B. Laden today called for a "regime change" in the United States, saying the military dictatorship led by unelected strongman George Walker Bush "is an ever-present threat to world peace. |
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 He's played film versions of Chekhov, Hitler and Lenin, but Leonid Mozgovoi's most challenging role has yet to hit the cinema. In his most recent film by famed director Alexander Sokurov, Mozgovoi, 60, plays a spy who silently follows Marquise de Custine throughout the Hermitage. |
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LOS ANGELES - "A Beautiful Mind" may have won the best-picture award at the 74th Annual Academy Award, but the whole town is talking about two other victories. |
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Aussies Protest MELBOURNE, Australia - Up to 30,000 people around Australia rallied on Sunday to protest against the government's policy of detaining asylum seekers, police and government officials said. Leading religious, political and academic figures joined the protests which were also held in Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth and the national capital Canberra. The government uses navy ships to patrol waters between Indonesia and northern Australia to prevent people smugglers dumping boatloads of asylum seekers along the remote coastline. Those caught are sent to detention centers set up by Australia in Papua New Guinea and Nauru until their asylum applications have been processed. |
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 Torpedo Moscow's Igor Lebedenko had a memorable Russian Premier League debut on Saturday. The 18-year-old striker grabbed two goals in 12 second-half minutes to ensure that the teams were knotted at 2-2 in his side's clash with Zenit at Petrovsky Stadium. |
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LONDON - Liverpool is back on top in England, and Internazionale has first place all to itself in Italy. Liverpool beat Chelsea 1-0 Sunday on a goal by Vladimir Smicer and moved into first place in the Premier League. In Italy, Inter beat AS Roma 3-1 Sunday night behind two goals and an assist by Alvaro Recoba. |
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NAGANO, Japan - One month after failing to win the Olympic gold medal, Michelle Kwan is no longer even the world champion. Kwan lost the world title she held for the last two years, finishing second to Rus sia's Irina Slutskaya on Saturday at the World Figure Skating Championships. |
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