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 Every year, 700,000 tons of waste end up in St. Petersburg's three municipal dumps, and the resulting steady increase in the size of the dumps has become a cause of concern for the city administration and environmentalists alike. In search of a solution to St. |
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The candidacy of Alexander Beglov, St. Petersburg Governor Vladimir Yakovlev's nominee for the post of vice-governor and head of the city's treasury, was defeated in a vote by the Legislative Assembly on Wednesday. |
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MOSCOW - A controversial Kremlin bill on combating extremism passed its crucial second reading in the State Duma on Thursday, with critics cautioning that the latest version gives the state even more power to suppress public protest than did the original draft. Pro-Kremlin centrist factions supported the bill, which passed with a 226-126 vote, while liberal parties were split. |
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MOSCOW - The State Duma is expected to pass in a crucial second reading Friday the long-awaited bill allowing the sale of farmland. But a last-minute about-face by the government to bar foreigners from buying the land has observers scratching their heads. |
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MOSCOW - Two masked assailants opened fire on a car carrying top Moscow city official Iosif Ordzhonikidze to work Thursday, seriously wounding his bodyguard and a passenger in a passing vehicle. |
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Not Just Symbolic ST. PETERSBURG (SPT) - The St. Petersburg's Will movement has decided to adopt lion cubs living at the city zoo, Interfax quoted Federation Council Chairperson Sergei Mironov as saying on Wednesday. Mironov said that the movement could not stand by and allow the cubs, which were born at the zoo, continue to live in "conditions that aren't exactly what you could call the best," Interfax reported. |
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 It was billed as the Russian Davos, but the atmosphere is decidedly more Communist Party Congress than exclusive Swiss ski resort. Some 500 delegates from across Russia, the Commonwealth of Independent States and the former Soviet bloc descended on the city Wednesday for the opening day of the sixth annual St. |
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MOSCOW - Looking to find additional resources to boost economic growth, President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday urged Russians to repatriate the billions of dollars that they shifted abroad over the past decade. |
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MOSCOW - Demonized each winter for combating debtors with deadly blackouts, and having suffered the humiliation of having the state's Ministry for Emergency Situations called in to deal with the conseuqences of powercuts, the Primorye region's electricity monopoly Dalenergo gambled on a game show to improve its image and bottom line - and won. And so did dozens of its lucky customers, including a woman named Olga Senko, who is now the proud owner of a new Honda automobile, the top prize in a scheme to encourage consumers to keep up with the payment of their bills. It all began in March, when the Vladivostok-based utility, tired of chronic nonpayment, decided to launch a lottery. |
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 Scania, the Swedish vehicle manufacturer, held the official opening of its new bus factory in St. Petersburg this week, but analysts have expressed doubts about the viability of the facility due to its high production costs. |
 MOSCOW - Two wealthy oil magnates, ashamed of Russia's poor performance in the World Cup, are offering to pay $1 million to a foreign coach that will take charge of the national team. LUKoil Vice President Leonid Fedun and Yukos-Moskva President Vasily Shakhnovsky wrote to the president of the Russian Football Union, Vyacheslav Koloskov, on Thursday, saying they are willing to foot the bill for a foreign specialist - a bill that could notch up to $1 million a year. |
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CANNES, France - Viacom is planning to open a network of movie theaters in Russia, beginning with what the international telecommunications giant says will be the biggest multiplex in the country. |
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STROBE Talbott, architect of Russia's policy throughout the Clinton presidency, recently criticized U.S. President George W. Bush and his team for not pressing the Russian government harder to end the war in Chechnya. That civil conflict, Talbott said, is "a cancer metastasizing in the body politic" of Russia, and if Bush put it higher on the bilateral agenda, he could influence events in a healthier direction. |
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ECOLOGICAL questions always seem to end up getting short shrift so, in this sense, the St. Petersburg story is pretty standard. It's always pretty difficult to find people who come out against the environment but, at the same time, it's often difficult to find public debates where the environment wins out over other concerns. |
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FOR some time now, patriots in this country have fallen into two distinct groups: pro- and anti-presidential. The first group is deeply convinced that President Vladimir Putin is their man and always has been. They are firm believers in conspiracy theories and reason that: If (as they are convinced) losing the Cold War, the destruction of the Soviet Union and all the country's subsequent woes were the result of Israeli and U. |
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 "Women differ. There are mice, and there are tigresses. There are lesbians, and there are nymphomaniacs. Kolibri is thoroughly feminine - we are not, though not without a touch of femininity," says Pep-See's Anna Kipyatkova, who is noticeably sick and tired of journalists' questions about Kolibri, another local female band. After releasing its third album, popular local "alternative-pop" band Pep-See, which is fronted by three female singers, is now busy working at a new, acoustic set. |
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 St. Petersburg, which has long enjoyed the reputation as a center of the world's literary landscape, has always held an attraction for foreign writers. |
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This weekend brings several big events, starting with the Viktor Tsoy Birthday Concert. Celebrating what would have been the late Kino singer's 40th birthday - had he not died in 1990 - it will feature some top rock bands from St. Petersburg and Moscow. |
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Where Fonarny Pereulok meets the Moika River, there is a brightly colored restaurant called Popugai, (Parrot), and it unfolds before one in a strange dichotomy of languid mysteriousness. |
 Students and teachers from choreographic schools and institutions have once again gathered in St. Petersburg to pay homage to the priceless contribution that Agrippina Vaganova, one of history's leading ballet teachers, made to the development of world ballet. The Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet opened its doors on Tuesday to the participants in the Vaganov-Prix International Ballet Competitition, a competition for young ballet dancers that, despite being held for only the fifth time, has already won fame and popularity around the world. |
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 The Mariinsky Theater's "Stars of the White Nights" festival shows off one of its recent successful premieres this week. For its new production of Modest Mussorgsky's opera "Boris Godunov," the Mariinsky rejected the traditional 1874 version, which has been a part of its repertoire up until now, in favor of the composer's original version, from 1869. |
 The State Hermitage Museum on Thursday marked the beginning of a new epoch, with the opening to the public of one of Kazimir Malevich's four celebrated paintings called "Black Square." Malevich painted the four pictures in 1913. The Hermitage "Black Square" will, according to Hermitage Director Mikhail Piotrovsky, hang opposite Vasily Kandinsky's "Composition No. |
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Officially, Sergei Rogozhkin's "The Cuckoo" does not premiere until next Wednesday at the Moscow Film Festival. However, The St. Petersburg Times has managed to lay its "long hands" - as Russians would say - on an advance copy. |
 The twelfth annual "Message to Man" film festival, St. Petersburg's premier animation, documentary and short-film festival, wraps up on Saturday, and the judges for the festival's two competitions are deliberating over who should receive the accolades, including the top prize of the Golden Centaur Statuette and $5,000. |
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Murder in the Hague PARIS (NYT) - A Chinese judge from the international war crimes tribunal in The Hague who ostensibly died of natural causes several years ago is now believed to have been killed by a hospital nurse, Dutch prosecutors said on Thursday. |
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SHIZUOKA, Japan - The eyes of the soccer world will turn to the elegant Ecopa Stadium in Shizuoka on Friday, as England and Brazil line up for a World Cup quarterfinal match that has all the makings of a classic. |
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Persona Non Grata ROME (Reuters) - Italian soccer club Perugia has cut its ties with South Korea's Ahn Jung-hwan, after he scored the goal that knocked Italy out of the World Cup, Perugia's chairperson has been quoted as saying. "That gentleman will never set foot in Perugia again," Luciano Gaucci told sports daily La Gazzetta dello Sport on Wednesday. |
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Streak Goes On MIAMI, Florida (Reuters) - Luis Castillo of the Florida Marlins equalled Hall of Famer Rogers Hornsby's 1922 record for the longest hitting streak by a second baseman during the 2-1 Interleague win over the Cleveland Indians on Wednesday. |
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