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MOSCOW - Moscow city authorities have decided to go ahead with outdoor broadcasts of Russia's make-or-break World Cup match on Friday, but they banned alcohol sales near the big screens and promised to deploy a police force capable of preventing a repetition of the rampage after Russia's 1-0 loss to Japan. |
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MOSCOW - More and more names have been linked to an Italian-led operation against money laundering by Russian organized-crime groups, which led to more than 50 arrests in Europe and Canada earlier this week, giving some indication of how sprawling a network investigators have hit upon. |
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When Sergei Bolshakov tried on a new prosthetic leg on Thursday at St. Petersburg Albrecht Institute of Prosthetics (SPIP), it made him feel like playing soccer for the first time since he was seven, when he lost his left leg to a train. |
 While organizations representing Russia's gays, lesbians and bisexuals say that the level of social awareness about their issues is on the rise, questions about their legal status, the levels of social acceptance and integration still remain. These were a few of the issues that were discussed last weekend at a meeting organized by St. |
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Good News, Bad News Legislative Assembly Speaker Sergei Tarasov said Thursday that he thought St. Petersburg Governor Vladimir Yakovlev was a good bet to occupy high office once his term expires, Interfax reported. |
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 MOSCOW - Interest in quality real estate space is growing in Russian cities with a population of more than 1 million, but incomes will have to rise before regional capitals enjoy the boom that Moscow and St. Petersburg are experiencing. Natalia Oreshina, head of retail at Stiles & Riabokobylko, the Moscow office of Cushman & Wakefield Healey & Baker, said the capital's retailers are eyeing the regions' potential for when the Moscow market becomes saturated. |
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Crude Exports Up 25% MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian crude exports soared 25 percent year-on-year in January to April, customs data showed Tuesday, confirming once again that the world's second-largest oil exporter has abandoned its deal with OPEC to curb supplies. |
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JOHN Gotti was a lousy crime boss. But he played a great gangster. As the head of the Gambino crime family, he did just about everything wrong. But in the role of mobster, he was almost perfect - perfect in the sense that he lived up to everyone's expectations of what a gangster is, particularly a man of the Mafia. |
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WE owe ourselves a pat on the back - Russia has finally become a "normal" European country. First, the United States officially recognizes Russia as a market economy. |
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 The traditional eastern-European Jewish music known as klezmer is remarkably prominent in today's Russian music scene. It resonates in songs by bands such as the popular ska-punk group Leningrad, and in the gangster songs, or blatnaya muzyka, so beloved in certain sections of Russian society. This week, however, the sixth annual St. Petersburg KlezFest seminar and music festival is focusing on teaching and demonstrating the music's more traditional, refined aspects. |
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 Two contrasting crowds dominated St. Petersburg's cultural scene on Sunday, May 26. The larger, more raucous crowd filled most of the streets of the city center to celebrate the city's 299th anniversary. |
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Rammstein's Moscow concert, scheduled for June 19, has been cancelled as a result of the riots in the city following the national soccer team's 1-0 World Cup loss to Japan last Sunday, the band's promoters TCI said this week. Instead of the show, the Germans, who enjoy an ambiguous political reputation, will appear live on a local radio station to chat about "fascism, extremism and totalitarianism in contemporary civilized society," according to TCI's press release. |
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Our first-choice venue this week - which shall remain nameless as we want to be served there next time we go - was closed. (Serves us right for not checking. |
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The "intellectual spirit of contemporary art" is once again reigning at the Manezh exhibition hall, in the form of the "Master Class" festival. Started 10 years ago as a local festival, "Master Class" has now expanded into a huge event, including not only traditional works of art, such as paintings, drawings and sculptures, but also musical and theatrical performances, fashion shows and master-classes in ceramics and glass blowing. While exhibitions happen throughout the city's art galleries and performances take place in its concert halls, the Manezh remains the kernel of the event. "Today, art does not exist in a vacuum," says Latif Kazbekov, a member of the Masters' Council, the festival's representative committee, which consists of twelve respected local artists. |
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 There was much ado during U.S. President George W. Bush's recent visit to Russia about the new, close relationship between the United States and Russia. |
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In the current atmosphere of reconstruction that has undeniably overtaken St. Petersburg, the new exhibition of creations by world-renowned French designer Philippe Starck that opened at the State Russian Museum's Marble Palace last week is right to the point, as Starck has proven to be a master of transforming everyday items into something extraordinary. |
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Over the years, the "Message to Man" film festival - which this year kicks off on Saturday - has proved to be one of Russia's best film festivals, with its consistently intriguing and variegated mix of documentaries, shorts and animations from around the world. |
 Known as the mother of all Russian cities, Kiev looks suitably impressive astride wooded hills and ridges above the Dnepr River. A gleaming array of golden churches and monasteries reflects the city's glory years from the 10th to the 12th centuries when it was the capital and spiritual heart of Kievskaya Rus, the first great Eastern Slavic civilization, while steep, cobbled streets and faded mansions evoke its later prosperity as one of the main trading hubs between the Black Sea and the Baltic Sea. |
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Americans Arrested ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (NYT) - Several men believed to be American citizens have been taken into custody here during the past few weeks on suspicion of being linked to al-Qaida, senior Pakistani officials said on Thursday. They said that they believe that the men form a disjointed network of disaffected Westerners who converted to Islam and have been drawn to militant causes, fighting alongside al-Qaida, the Taliban or guerrillas in Kashmir, the mostly Muslim region claimed by both Pakistan and India. Pakistani officials say they have picked up about 400 suspected members of al-Qaida and the Taliban in sweeps around the country since December. |
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 YOKOHAMA, Japan - A goal by Alessandro del Piero five minutes from fulltime on Thursday saved Italy from joining France and Argentina on the list of top teams going home early from the World Cup. |
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