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 A nine-story apartment building collapsed Monday in the city's Admiralteiisky Region, killing a 50-year-old man and leaving more than 400 people homeless. Hundreds of emergency workers, aided by two cranes and bulldozers, sifted through the pile of bricks and smoking furniture Monday evening looking for survivors. |
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MOSCOW - The Press Ministry decided Monday to extend NTV's license for another five years, ending speculation that NTV television might be forced to fight for its frequency in a tender. |
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 MOSCOW - A police car traveling at high speed in front of President Vladimir Putin's motorcade struck another car in downtown Moscow on Friday morning, instantly killing its civilian driver. The victim, 44, got in the path of the approaching police car when he attempted to make an illegal U-turn on Novy Arbat, news reports said. |
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MOSCOW - Days after a booby-trapped road sign reading "Death to Yids!" exploded near Moscow and injured a woman, Jewish community leaders are demanding the ouster of a police official who said the slogan was not explicitly anti-Semitic. |
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MOSCOW - Half a year after the Kremlin-sponsored Civic Forum laid down guidelines for dialog between state and civic organizations, civic activists say they understand their limited role in the law-making process all too well. But they are learning how to play the game. |
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MOSCOW - In a further step toward warming U.S.-Russia ties, the U.S. Embassy said Monday that it has slashed prices for Russian student visas from $495 to $65. |
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FSB Man Moves to TV MOSCOW (SPT) - Alexander Zdanovich, a long-time spokesperson for the Federal Security Service, has been appointed deputy head of VGTRK, the state-run radio and television broadcasting company that runs RTR television station, Interfax reported Monday. Zdanovich, a general in the FSB, was sent to Chechnya many times during the second campaign into the breakaway region. |
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 MOSCOW - Deputy Prime Minister Alexei Kudrin last week ordered the State Commission on Debureaucratization, which he heads, to draw up plans to unite the country's business inspection services under one roof. The Anti-Monopoly Ministry originally proposed creating the inspectorate, which would boost efficiency and cut down on inspections of consumer-goods businesses, Deputy Antimonopoly Minister Andrei Golomolzin said. |
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The Moscow company La Max, which owns the Grand and Tri Kita furniture-retail centers in Moscow, is going to set up shop in St. Petersburg. The company plans to build a 30,000-square-meter shop in the Primorskoye region, in the north of the city. |
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WASHINGTON - A pledge to raise domestic natural-gas prices closer to world levels appears to have been key to the European Union's decision to grant Russia market-economy status, a U.S. official said Thursday. "My sense is they did receive a commitment from the Russians to work on eliminating the disparity between world-market prices and domestic natural-gas prices as part of their discussion on market economy," U. |
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MOSCOW - Although Saturday marked the day when Russia officially lifted curbs on oil exports, prices on gasoline and other oil products have already seen significant gains since the beginning of the month. |
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Business advisors Ernst & Young and Andersen announced Friday that the integration of Andersen partners and staff in the Commonwealth of Independent States into the Ernst & Young CIS practice had been completed. The enlarged firm will operate under the Ernst & Young banner. |
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Chickens Check In MOSCOW (SPT) - The first shipments of U.S. poultry have reached Russia after a ban on "Bush legs" was lifted in April, Interfax reported. |
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Euro Zone Picking Up LONDON (Reuters) - Manufacturers in the euro zone enjoyed a second month of modest business growth in May, but the firm global demand behind the expansion has also pushed up costs of raw materials, a major survey showed on Monday. |
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For years, the Russian economy has been precariously dependent on high oil prices. But, as Ben Aris reports, President Vladimir Putin has managed to break the nation's crude habit. |
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BAKU, Azerbaijan - The planned major oil pipeline from the Azeri oil fields to the Turkish port of Ceyhan, once dismissed as too costly, got a further boost Friday, when the EBRD said it would fund at least 10 percent of the project. "We want to finance the Baku-Ceyhan project and are ready to fund $300 million before the end of 2002," said Thomas Moser, the head of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development in Azerbaijan. |
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THE Russian-American Media Entrepreneurship Dialogue missed the point. Media-association officials from both countries met in the days preceding the summit and then, on Friday May 24, briefed Presidents George W. Bush and Vladimir Putin on their conclusions. |
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In response to "How Deep Does the New Friendship Reach?" May 28 Dear Editor, I read Vladimir Kovalyev's article with interest, and would like to offer some observations on my recent trips to Russia. |
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FOR a long time, Russia was known as a country with a low prevalence of HIV. Indeed, until the mid-1990s, only 100 to 200 new cases were reported each year. Today, however, Russia and Ukraine have the highest growth rates of HIV infection in the world. |
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AIDS may seem like an issue that applies primarily to countries far away from home, in Africa and elsewhere. Or it may seem a disease that affects only certain people, outside the mainstream of life. |
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IT was raining as I wrote this, and the weather outside got me to musing a bit. If you listen to some of the people who regularly contribute to the St. Petersburg rumor mill, storm clouds continue to form over the head of Governor Vladimir Yakovlev. |
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The Foggy DewLet us return briefly to the question of Saddam Hussein's employment of the poison gas he developed with the help of those lovers of humanity, Ronald "Bitburg" Reagan and George Herbert Walker Bush. |
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Bishop Confesses SYDNEY, Australia (AP) - A Roman Catholic archbishop said on Sunday that he had offered $28,000 to buy a family's silence about the alleged sexual abuse of its children by a local priest. The Nine television network's "60 Minutes'' program said the offer by Sydney Archbishop George Pell, the church's most senior clergy member in Australia, was made to a family who claimed their two girls were sexually abused for six years by a local priest beginning in 1987. |
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PARIS - Andre Agassi appeared to be on his way out of the French Open. Then he staged his greatest comeback since winning the tournament three years ago. |
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MILAN - Paolo Savoldelli won the Giro d'Italia on Sunday, keeping a lead of nearly two minutes over American Tyler Hamilton through the final stage. Italy's Mario Cipollini claimed the final leg for his sixth stage win of the race. He covered the 140-kilometer leg from Cantu to Milan in 3:35:39. |
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Grim Up North SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea televised two World Cup matches over the weekend, in rare nationwide broadcasts of scenes from outside the reclusive Communist state, a South Korean government official said on Monday. |
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SHIMIZU, Japan - The banners fluttering from yakitori bars and ryokan inns urge "Vperyod Rossia," or "Forward Russia," in both Russian and Japanese. A huge sign screams "Dobro Pozhalovat" on the local government building, and the mayor of this southern Japanese port is backing Russia rather than Japan in the clash between the two on Sunday. |
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