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 The threats of terrorism, narcotics-related crime and soccer hooliganism are all issues that have surfaced only in recent years for Russian law-enforcement officers, while their British counterparts have already gained a good deal of experience in dealing with them. But officials involved in a 10-year old cooperative program between the Metropolitan Police Training Center, located in the London suburb of Hendon, and St. |
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The Legislative Assembly confirmed Alexander Beglov, St. Petersburg Governor Vladimir Yakovlev's nominee for the post of first vice governor and head of the city's treasury, by a 38-7 vote on Wednesday, two weeks after it had voted against his appointment. |
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MOSCOW - Iraq's new ambassador to Russia, who served for a time as Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's personal interpreter, officially took up his duties Thursday, saying that his 25-year relationship with the country of his first diplomatic posting has left him "nearly Russified. |
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MOSCOW - Visa problems were all that stood between the air tragedy and the five people who failed to make the flight. Dim Khuzhin, who was to oversee the group of students from Bashkortostan, was furious when the Spanish Embassy balked at issuing visas last week for his wife, Klara, who was also the group's doctor, their two children Diana and Rasul and an assistant. |
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MOSCOW - In the Chechen town of Itum-Kale, a battleground for federal troops and Chechen rebels two years ago, a newly built mineral-water bottling plant was seen as a symbol of the transition from war to peace. |
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MOSCOW - A group of influential lawmakers announced Thursday that they have drafted a new mass media law that aims to discourage the government from owning media outlets and introduce a European style concept of public media. The bill, which should go for a first reading in the State Duma this fall, was written by Mikhail Fedotov, one of the authors of the much-praised yet outdated 1991 Law on Mass Media. |
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Good Friends? MOSCOW (SPT) - Although Russia and the U.S. have reached agreement on a number of issues, almost two thirds of the Russian population believe that relations between the two countries are strained, according to a survey carried out by sociologists for monitoring. |
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 The Ford plant plans to produce 2,369 cars in 2002, with the facility having a full capacity of 25,000 cars per year, the plant's General Director Murray Gilbert said, speaking at the plant on Tuesday. The first Russian-made Ford Focus will be made available in September. |
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MOSCOW - A top U.S. agriculture official said Wednesday that the prolonged spat over American poultry imports to Russia was nearing an end, and normal trade would resume shortly. |
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MOSCOW - SUAL, the country's second-largest aluminum producer, aims to go public next year and is looking for financing for a $2-billion start-up, company President Viktor Vekselberg said Wednesday. "The question of an IPO [initial pubic offering] is not about how ready we are," Vekselberg said at an American Chamber of Commerce conference. |
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U.S. President George W. Bush last week embraced President Vladimir Putin as a fellow foe of terrorism. "President Putin has been a stalwart in the fight against terror," Bush said as the two leaders stood shoulder to shoulder in Canada. "He understands the threat of terror, because he has lived through terror. |
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A CHARTERED plane from Bashkortostan collides with a Boeing flown by DHL in airspace controlled by Switzerland. Bashkortostan - DHL - Switzerland. Which would you first suspect to be the weakest link? So when Swiss air-traffic controllers called a news conference Tuesday morning in the first waking hours after the crash and said the Russian pilot had ignored the first two instructions to change course, it seemed more than likely that we were looking at yet another screw-up in Russian aviation. |
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RECENTLY, both television and the newspapers have started to talk about the "second coming" of Boris Yeltsin. Having observed Yeltsin's goings-on, I think I have come up with the very national idea that Russia's best and brightest have been racking their brains over for some time. In a nutshell, it is the following: We need to create a society that would rule out the possibility of people such as Yeltsin finding their way into major-league politics. |
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 The latest film from director Ivan Dykhovichny, "Kopeika," was a hit Saturday on the closing day of St. Petersburg's biggest film event, the Festival of Festivals. The film describes 30 years of Russian history through the history of a car, the VAZ-2101. |
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For the second time, the beach of the Peter and Paul Fortress has been made into an impromptu, open-air exhibition hall housing masterpieces made of sand. |
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The week's - probably the year's - biggest event will take place on Sunday - but not in St. Petersburg. Iggy Pop, the "Godfather of Punk," will appear at the Tushino airfield in Moscow, and some St. Petersburgers are planning to go. |
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I've never really thought of myself as the kind of person who would dine in an establishment where the service staff dress in rabbit costumes but, on this occasion, I'm glad I made the exception. |
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St. Petersburg's traditional - and traditionally poorly attended - museums will be getting a modern twist until the end of July. The third "Contemporary Art in a Traditional Museum," which kicks off on Saturday, is organized jointly by the Pro Arte Institute, the Open Society Institute, the Museum of the History of St. Petersburg and the city administration's Culture Committee. The ideas behind the festival vary, benefitting both the artists and the museums. The festival brings together traditional culture and modern art, and gives artists - both unknown and established - a chance to exhibit their current work in a higher-profile setting. |
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 With the summer solstice having passed over a week ago, the steady tide of tourists flocking to St. Petersburg is beginning to abate. Trains, planes and automobiles, which were full just a week ago, now have at least a little room to spare. |
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The "Russian debutante'' in Gary Shteyngart's very funny, very deft first novel is one Vladimir Girshkin, a feckless 25-year-old Russian-American who works as a junior clerk at an immigrant-assistance agency in Manhattan. He's what Kingsley Amis' Lucky Jim would be, if he were a Russian emigre trying to cope with the confusions of life in America of the 1990s and the incessant demands of an ambitious and endlessly aggrieved mother. Vladimir is an engaging enough fellow, but he's also a shameless opportunist and self-loathing nerd: envious of those more attractive and successful than he is, self-conscious about his imperfect command of Western manners and mores, and eager to buy himself a portion of the "American Dream" at any cost. |
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 "27 Missing Kisses," the new film from Georgian filmmaker Nana Djordjadze, is a rare romantic treat, punctuated with upbeat humor. Filmed in Georgia and Greece, the film is set in a small, but lively, town in southeast Europe during one summer. |
 The Mariinsky Theater's "Stars of the White Nights" festival wrapped up on Sunday, having featured operas, ballets and concerts performed at venues both in St. Petersburg - the Mariinsky itself, the Shostakovich Philharmonic and Smolny Cathedral - and outside the city - a one-off performance of the theater's new production of Mussorgsky's "Boris Godunov" at Vyborg Castle on June 27. |
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Big Day Defense WASHINGTON (AP) - Americans ventured into searing heat Thursday to watch the first Fourth of July celebrations since Sept. 11, hoping to forget the terror that rattled American well-being. Others watched the watchers, hoping to make sure it wouldn't happen again. |
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The break for the World Cup does not seem to have disrupted Zenit's push for its first Russian Premier Division title. Goals in either half from Yevgeny Tarasov and Alexander Kerzhakov saw off a stubborn Alaniya Vladikavkaz, 2-1 at the Petrovsky Stadium on Tuesday. |
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