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MOSCOW - The commander of federal troops in Chechnya issued new rules for conducting the cleansing operations, ordering troops to identify themselves, be polite and provide a list of all the people they detain. Lieutenant General Vladimir Moltenskoi's order, made public Friday, is a startling acknowledgment of how widespread the abuses have been in Chechnya and appears to be the first serious effort to stop them. "We are increasing the responsibility of all officials so people will not go missing without a trace," Moltenskoi was quoted by Interfax as saying. "There are facts showing that during special operations, perhaps through the fault of individual commanders, innocent or perhaps not so innocent people go missing. |
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 The St. Petersburg Institute for Roads, Bridges and Tunnels has submitted to the city administration a plan to build a 286-kilometer pedestrian-only ring road around the city, which would be aimed at diverting transit pedestrians from the regions away from the downtown area, the newspaper Smena reported on Monday. |
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Kokh Bows Out MOSCOW (SPT) - Amid legal wrangling and allegations of foul play, businessperson Alfred Kokh has withdrawn his bid for a seat in the Federation Council, Interfax reported last week. Kokh, the director of the Montes Auri investment company and the former head of Gazprom-Media, was elected Feb. |
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 MOSCOW - Following a decision by Russian authorities to lift a ban on the import of U.S. chicken, a delegation of veterinary inspectors flew to the United States on Monday to inspect the quality of poultry exported to Russia and make sure a raft of veterinary-service demands are being met, the Agriculture Ministry said Monday. |
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MOSCOW - Scrapping a decade-long practice of short-sighted, year-by-year budgeting, the government made a nod toward fiscal maturity Friday by starting to plan ahead to 2005. |
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Executives from major energy companies, representatives from the federal and local governmets and leading academics will converge as the Tavrichesky Palace plays host to a conference exploring issues in the Russian energy sector. The Fuel and Energy Complex: Regional Aspects forum, which runs from Tuesday to Friday, will address a range of topics in an industry that is the largest source of the country's total exports and of federal-budget revenues. |
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MOSCOW - Lingering memories of pyramid schemes and the 1998 financial crisis have made a lot of people exclude banks as places to put their money, preferring instead to keep it under their mattresses. |
 MOSCOW - In a compromise decision, the air force said over the weekend that it has selected both the Yak-130 and the MiG-AT as its new trainer jets. The manufacturers of both jets have been involved in an almost decade-long tender to replace the air force's aging fleet of Czech-made L-29 and L-39 trainers. |
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IN Russia, the term "independence" is understood as the right to act with impunity and "control" as state intervention. These peculiarities of our national perception of reality were in full evidence during the recent skirmish over the independence of the Central Bank, which ultimately led to Viktor Gerashchenko's departure. |
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ANDERS Åslund, the Swedish economist who helped shape economic reform in the former Soviet Union in the 1990s, has a quality rarely exhibited in macroeconomics: passion. One believes Åslund when, in the acknowledgments of his new book Building Capitalism: The Transformation of the Former Soviet Bloc, he explains the roots of his fascination with eastern Europe in general and Russia in particular: "In Sweden everything seemed gray, while Russia displayed the full spectrum from black to white." It is both the strength and weakness of "Building Capitalism," a 500-plus-page analysis of the economic and social transformation of the former Soviet bloc, that Åslund holds strong views on what is "black" and "white" in the Russian and eastern European transition toward capitalism. |
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 MOSCOW - Post offices have had to rent out space to food stores and barber shops to make ends meet as fewer and fewer people send letters. But that could all change under a Communications Ministry plan to jump-start the postal service by merging the country's 93 floundering regional postal departments into a single company called Russian Post. |
 MOSCOW - It may have come too late for an entry in Sigmund Freud's "The Interpretation of Dreams," but when the first of Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin's airships, the LZ 1, rose from the hangars of Friedrichshafen, Germany, on July 2, 1900 - eight months after Freud's seminal work was published - it floated into public consciousness worldwide. |
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In response to "New Faster Visas Off to Slow Start" on March 12. Editor, I visited St. Petersburg recently, and I arrived from Switzerland with a visa at the airport waiting for me. But the story you wrote and my story are both very symptomatic of the slow start of these "faster" visas. |
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Your parents would surely disapprove of this girl. She's a foul-mouthed, dope-smoking idler with a skirt that's much too short and far too few teeth in her mouth. |
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IT'S an article of faith among some Muslims that Israel and/or the international Jewish/Zionist cabal were behind the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Tales of "4,000 Jewish workers" who stayed home Sept. 11 and of Israeli spies videotaping the twin towers collapsing, were quickly debunked. |
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THERE is a Russian proverb that translates roughly as "Don't blame the mirror if your mug is crooked." Literary types might recall that Nikolai Gogol used it as the epigraph for his play "The Government Inspector. |
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Here's an interesting thought experiment. Let's say that federal investigators raid several Muslim charities suspected of financial links to al-Qaida. Let's say that one of these suspect groups has funneled big money to a Republican Party organization. Let's say this Republican organization shares an office with the man known as "the field marshal of the American Right," one of the most influential advisors to the President of the United States. |
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LONDON - Britons mourned their favorite centenarian and began preparations for a week of funereal pomp and pageantry after Queen Elizabeth II's mother died peacefully in her sleep Saturday at the age of 101. The death of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, known fondly as the "Queen Mum," is the second loss for the 75-year-old queen during national celebrations marking the golden jubilee of her reign. |
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JERUSALEM - Calling Palestinian President Yasser Arafat "the enemy of the entire free world," Prime Minister Ariel Sharon declared Israel on Sunday to be in a war for its survival, and vowed to smash Palestinian militants in an uncompromising offensive as he addressed a country rattled by five suicide bombings in five days, including back-to-back attacks Sunday that killed 15 Israelis. |
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A goal with two minutes left gave Zenit its first road win of the season, as it beat Rostselmash Rostov-na-Donu 2-1 in the southern city. Alexander Kerzhakov opened the scoring for the visitor at 19 minutes. A blunder in midfield by Rostselmash's Andrei Karpovich was siezed on by Yevgeny Tarasov, and Kerzhakov athletically scissors-kicked his cross back across into the net past a helpless Ilya Bliznyuk in the home side's goal. |
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