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 A group of Legislative Assembly deputies has introduced a draft law to charge foreigners to register with the city police, and the aim of the measure is to clamp down on the city's illegal residents ahead of next year's 300th-anniversary celebrations. |
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MOSCOW - Ever since Lyudmila Yerykalova's son was killed in Chechnya last month, all she has wanted is for the military to ship his body home so she can give him a proper funeral. |
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 MOSCOW - Want to be able to identify terrorists, help war veterans, be a good citizen, or just party with friends? A few hundred children who gathered on Red Square on rainy Sunday morning say they know how - become a pioneer. The Pioneers, once a nationwide political machine that incorporated nearly every child from age 10 to 14, celebrated their 80th birthday Sunday. |
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MOSCOW - The head of a U.S.-based Islamic charity who is suspected of having ties to Osama bin Laden is in jail facing a grand jury investigation after the FBI showed he had lied about his support for Chechen rebels. |
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MOSCOW - A Chechen congress failed to take place in Istanbul over the weekend after Turkish authorities asked organizers to call it off, organizers said, blaming pressure from Russia for the cancellation. "The congress to demonstrate the unity of the Chechens despite their different views on the future of the nation would have meant a fiasco to Russia's policy of separating Chechens," chief organizer Deni Teps said Monday by phone from Istanbul. |
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Bolton Back in Town MOSCOW (Reuters) - Top U.S. arms negotiator John Bolton flew in on Monday, three days before Presidents George W. Bush and Vladimir Putin sign a deal to slash their strategic nuclear arsenals. |
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 The St. Petersburg Sea Port and the Severstaltrans company are planning the launch of a major construction project for railroad-container transportation between St. Petersburg, Moscow and Novorossiisk. According to Igor Rusu, the general director of the port, the project will include the construction of a container terminal at one of the Moscow railway stations, the purchasing of locomotives and rolling stock, and the setting up of a new operating company. |
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MOSCOW - Eight trillion dollars flew out of Russia on Thursday, after dining with Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov the night before. The Russell 20-20 Association, which includes some of the largest asset managers and pension funds, came to Moscow on a three-day exploration trip to meet top political and business leaders. |
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U.S. Steel Ruling MOSCOW (SPT) - The U.S. Department of Commerce announced its finding Monday that Russian manufacturers are dumping structural steel on the U.S. market. The case has been running since December. "We find that structural steel beams from the Russian Federation are being, or are likely to be, sold in the United States at less than fair value," the department said in its ruling. |
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MOSCOW - The government will introduce duties on steel imports and abolish export duties to support domestic producers who have faced anti-dumping measures from abroad, as part of a plan for the ailing metals industry announced Thursday. |
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MOSCOW - After pledging to improve corporate governance and boost its share price, AvtoVAZ management has investors up in arms over a new charter that would strip preferred shareholders of a guaranteed 10-percent dividend. AvtoVAZ, the country's largest automaker, has asked shareholders to approve a new company charter, but has failed to inform them that, by doing so, they would cancel a fixed, 10-percent dividend on preferred shares. |
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Russia may permit the import of chicken meat currently held on two ships in the St. Petersburg port, but only on the condition that its safety be guaranteed, Interfax reported on Monday. |
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IF you watch state-owned RTR television and read state-owned Rossiiskaya Gazeta newspaper, you know that Russia's new leaders have booted impudent insiders like Boris Berezovsky out of the Kremlin and rounded the rest of the oligarchs up into a harem, where they quietly try to outdo one another in the service of the sovereign. |
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Water is the beginning of life, and Russia has the advantage of being one of the world's greatest reservoirs of fresh water. The sad reality, however, is that no more than half of Russia's population drinks water that meets reasonable health standards. |
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WASHINGTON - The administration of U.S. President George D. Bush has had an unpleasant lesson during the past two weeks in the politics of hypocrisy in trade policy. Unless it acts quickly, it's in danger of losing control over trade to a U.S. Congress whose line is, at bottom: If the president can be protectionist, why can't I? The Bush administration set this cycle of hypocrisy in motion in March, when the president chose politics over principle by imposing steel tariffs. Predictably, it has spawned a protectionist-feeding frenzy on Capitol Hill. The latest example of this downward spiral was Tuesday's senate vote to reject fast-track authority for the president to negotiate trade agreements unless congress has the right to veto any dilution of anti-dumping and other trade-remedy laws. |
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 Just where the western tip of the Caucasus range drops into the Black Sea lies a shining new oil terminal like no other. The four crude-oil tanks overlooking the rocky coast are not the biggest in the world, but they are the biggest in Russia. |
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Editor, Any terrorist act - indeed, any exploded bomb - against innocent people is always wrong, whether in New York, Tel Aviv or Dagestan. The May 9 incident, however, raises a few questions. After the devastating Sept. 11 terrorist acts in New York and Washington, some mindless people said "America got what is deserved," although very many victims in the World Trade Center were non-Americans, including Russians, Britons, Pakistanis and Indians. |
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U.S. PRESIDENT George W. Bush is poised to have a terrific trip on his first visit to Russia. He will sign an agreement with President Vladimir Putin that will eliminate thousands of nuclear weapons. |
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AS is sometimes the case with legislative initiatives, it's difficult to determine just what the target of the draft law on registration fees discussed in Legislative Committee hearings on Monday is targeting. The authors of the prospective legislation say that the goal is to limit the number of illegal aliens living in St. |
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IT'S hard to believe but, according to state statistics, Russia ends up with a new civil servant every 18 minutes. As I read this in the Izvestiya daily the other day, I was reminded of the time I sat down with the figures from the state budget and worked out that there are about 1. |
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General Principles Quietly, without fanfare, in a bland statement issued by its most "moderate" frontman, the Bush regime crossed another moral Rubicon last week, carrying the once-great republic it has usurped deeper into the blood-soaked mire of international criminality. The move - committing the United States of America to a policy of Hitlerian military aggression - was little noted at the time. |
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LIDO DI CAMAIORE, Italy - Rik Verbrugghe won Sunday's seventh stage of the Giro d'Italia, and Jens Heppner retained the overall lead ahead of Stefano Garzelli, who is competing while awaiting the result of a backup drug test. Garzelli fell and had a flat tire in the closing miles but still finished in the main pack Sunday. |
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Russians Get Incentive MOSCOW (Reuters) - On Saturday, Russia's world cup team was given an added incentive to win, when an oil firm promised to give players Porsche sports cars as rewards for victories. |
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MOSCOW - Russia came fourth out of four teams in the LG Cup on Sunday after losing to Yugoslavia on penalties at Dinamo Stadium, in what the country hopes is not be a dress rehearsal of Russia's performance in Group H at the World Cup. Yugoslavia won 6-5 on penalties, after the two teams drew, 1-1, in a game of intermittent moments of skill amid hail, rain and sunshine on a particularly unpredictable afternoon of Moscow weather. |
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