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 MOSCOW - Neither president could refrain from gushing about the three days they spent together in Moscow and St. Petersburg. "Well, first, the hospitality has been magnificent," U.S. President George W. Bush told reporters at the State Hermitage Museum on Saturday. |
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MOSCOW - Right on the heels of the U.S.-Russia summit in Moscow and the NATO-Russia summit in Rome, top European Union officials are coming to Russia this week for a much less hyped, but arguably no less important, summit. |
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MOSCOW - A day after visiting U.S. President George W. Bush stopped at a synagogue and praised religious freedom in Russia, a booby-trapped road sign with an anti-Semitic slogan exploded near Moscow and injured a woman Monday. The woman, Tatyana Sapunova, 28, lost an eye, after she tried to pull the sign out of the ground 32 kilometers southwest of Moscow, local media reported. She was in critical but stable condition at City Hospital No. 1 on Monday night. General Prosecutor Vladimir Ustinov said he would handle the case personally. "All incidents of extremism or racial intolerance will be handled with the maximum strictness allowed by law," he said, according to Interfax. |
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 The 2002 World Cup provides an opportuntity for Russia to salvage some lost pride, following the fiasco that was the Winter Olympic Games earlier this year. |
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MOSCOW - Regional ombudsmen took law enforcement to task Monday for alleged human-rights abuses - and they got no answers. Ombudsmen told a round table in the office of Russia's top ombudsman Oleg Mironov that citizens' rights are most often violated by the police, prison officials and the courts. |
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President Vladimir Putin showed U.S. President George W. Bush his hometown over the weekend, taking him to the State Hermitage Museum, the Mariinsky Theater and St. |
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MOSCOW - True or false? Russian sturgeons are cut open, their caviar removed, and then sewed up to live another day. President Vladimir Putin told U.S. President George W. Bush over dinner at his Novo-Ogaryovo residence Friday night that Russia has many sturgeons swimming about with surgical stitches. |
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 MOSCOW - The signing of the arms treaty may have been hailed abroad as the high point of the summit, but another kind of history was made in St. Petersburg and Moscow over the weekend, one that may prove more profitable to Russia and the United States in the long run. |
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The legendary Minutka sandwich shop on Nevsky Prospect has shut down. Only sandwich lovers would have noticed the closure had the shop on St. Petersburg's main street not been the scene of a battle raging between its owners and the international Subway fast-food chain for the past five years. |
 Competition among St. Petersburg's supermarket chains is set to thrive, as a new 11,000-square-meter store opened Wednesday and another major company announced plans to enter the market in the near future. Liat-Dixi, which opened the new store in Ozerki, to the north of the city center, is currently leading the field in St. |
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MOSCOW - Shareholders of state-controlled Aeroflot voted at their annual meeting Saturday to strengthen the government's control over the flagship airline and curb the powers of management. |
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MOSCOW - The latest battle over control of state-owned oil company Slavneft broke out at the company's headquarters on Friday evening, casting an even bigger shadow of doubt over its scheduled privatization this fall. Taking little heed of the U.S.-Russian summit taking place several kilometers away, Slavneft's former acting president, Anatoly Baranovsky, grabbed his lawyers and 24 police officers, forcing his way through to the office of Yury Sukhanov, whom Slavneft shareholders elected company president earlier this month. |
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City Gas Inquiry MOSCOW (SPT) - Interior Minister Boris Gryzlov has sent a team of law enforcement officials to St. Petersburg to investigate corruption allegations in the city's gasoline market, the ministry's organized-crime department said Wednesday. |
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THE latest battle has kicked off - this time over the Slavneft oil company. Roman Abramovich's Sibneft and Sergei Pugachyov's Mezhprombank - i.e. the Family and the St. Petersburgers - are competing for control of Slavneft's finances. You see, the banker Pugachyov is positioning himself as a close friend of President Vladimir Putin's and the "financial brain" behind the St. |
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AS a follow-up to our April 9 article, on the adoption of a new Code of Administrative Offenses, which will come into force on July 1, 2002, it makes sense to try to clear up some of the controversy surrounding the currency-control issues that remain. |
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SINCE the September 11 attacks, there has been a new assault on poverty. The world's leaders launched trade talks to help poor countries export their way to prosperity; the British government pushed for a doubling in annual aid flows, and U.S. President George W. Bush promised the largest increase in U. |
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AFTER U.S. President George W. Bush signed the Treaty of Moscow with Russian President Vladimir Putin on May 24 to make the largest reductions ever in nuclear weapons, he hailed the beginning of "an entirely new relationship" between the United States and Russia, based upon cooperation and trust. |
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I WILL soon be taking a leave of absence from this paper to work abroad for six months - I won't name my country of destination here for fear of appearing biased in this piece - and it occured to me over the weekend that, by doing so, I'll be missing out on an opportunity to do a little bit of sociological research. |
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Prior Engagement
Last week's outpouring of stories in the mainstream press about the Bush regime's criminal carelessness in safeguarding the citizens of the United States surely came as no surprise to anyone. The facts were always out there, in plain sight. You just had to sift through the sludge - the spin-gobbling, self-serving prose of the corporate media - to find the truth. |
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BETHLEHEM, West Bank- Israeli tanks and armored personnel-carriers raced under a full moon into Bethlehem early on Monday morning, in what military officials said was likely to be the largest invasion yet of the rolling West Bank police action that Israel began after wrapping up its major ground offensive earlier this month. |
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Nepalese PM Expelled KATMANDU, Nepal (NYT) - Nepal was plunged into a fresh political crisis on Monday after the governing party expelled Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba over his move to dissolve Parliament and call early elections. |
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Zenit edged out Italian Serie A giant Milan, 4-3 in a penalty shootout after a 1-1 draw in normal time, in the Cup of St. Petersburg, an international-club friendly match held specially to celebrate City Day on Monday night at the Petrovsky Stadium. In an indication of the mood of the evening, Milan's penalty specialist, Ukrainian striker Andriy Shevckenko, took an unusual penalty with the last kick of the shootout, tapping the ball straight to Zenit goalie Vyacheslav Malafeyev, who duly made the save to give the home side the victory that the fans wanted. |
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PARIS - As in 1998, two-time FIFA player of the year Zinedine Zidane is the key for defending World Cup champion France. The 29-year-old midfielder enjoyed an excellent season at Real Madrid -which he joined last summer in a world-record $65-million transfer from Juventus - including scoring the winning goal in the European Champions League final. |
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France Is the Favorite LONDON (AP) - France is rated as the favorite to retain the World Cup by British bookmakers, with Argentina, Italy and Brazil ranked behind. On Friday, Fran ce was rated at 10-3 by William Hill, 4-1 with Coral and 3-1 with Ladbrokes to win the World Cup. Argentina was listed at odds of 9-2, Italy at 5-1 and Brazil at 6-1 by all three bookmakers. |
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