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 While its whereabouts between its disappearance after a reception in New York last year and its resurfacing in a post office in Kansas this January remain a mystery, the return of a work worth $1 million by Russian artist Marc Chagall has the State Russian Museum all in smiles. |
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MOSCOW - Former FSB officer Alexander Litvinenko said Thursday that he has heard from the main suspect in the 1999 apartment bombings, who claims he had nothing to do with the explosions and was set up by a childhood friend he suspects was an FSB agent. |
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The last 22 people still living in the partly-collapsed building at 8 Dvinskaya Ulitsa were evacuated in the early morning on Tuesday after one of the residents alerted the Emergency Situations Department (ESD) to concerns that the building might collapse entirely. City authorities were quick to claim on Tuesday that the fears were unfounded, although the residents were relocated, leaving the operator of one local hotel angry. |
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 MOSCOW - After resisting the bear market that has been mauling investors around the world for weeks, Russia's stock market finally capitulated Wednesday, plunging 7.4 percent in the largest one-day loss in 17 months. On Thursday, stocks yielded early gains by the end of the day, led down by Unified Energy Systems after the release of negative U. |
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Standard & Poor's Ratings Service announced on Wednesday that it has for the first time assigned a rating to a St. Petersburg bank, Menatep. Standard & Poor's is one of the leading rating agencies in the world, having been founded in 1860. |
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MOSCOW - Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov emerged from a four-hour meeting with business leaders late Tuesday and announced that all Russian companies must switch to international accounting standards by Jan. 1, 2004. After his meeting with the Council of Entrepreneurship, which complained bitterly about Russian accounting standards, Kasyanov ordered the Finance Ministry to develop a step-by-step plan for the transition by the start of next year, according to the government's Web site. |
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MOSCOW - Russia has agreed to a six-week extension on soon-to-expire veterinary certificates needed for imports of U.S. poultry, Interfax quoted First Deputy Agriculture Minister Sergei Dankvert as saying Thursday. |
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MOSCOW - Russia is looking to take a lesson in German accuracy by using digital land-measurement techniques to bring the country's surveying technology and records up to date. The project will use Russian satellites from the GLONASS system, foreign GPS satellites and German-made ground stations to process the information received from the satellites and produce digital land maps to an accuracy of less than one centimeter - techniques that were applied in the former East Germany after Germany's reunification a decade ago. |
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FARNBOROUGH, England - The Sukhoi-led Russian Regional Jet project got off the ground Wednesday as the company identified a shortlist of producers to supply the engine for the family of regional jets slated to enter the market in five years. |
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MOSCOW - A Moscow court on Tuesday overruled the acquittal of a Central Bank official charged with abuse of office for giving a loan to a troubled bank, and ordered a retrial, news reports said. Prosecutors have accused Alexander Alexeyev, a deputy head of the Moscow city branch of the Central Bank, of extending the loan to collapsed giant SBS-Agro bank during the financial crisis four years ago. |
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THE political ice that has been holding regional political life in tense calm over the past three months was suddenly thawed by the judges of the Constitutional Court and their ruling that all terms served by regional governors prior to the federal law on the organization of regional government coming into force on Oct. |
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IN a recent speech that he delivered at the Russian Foreign Ministry, President Vladimir Putin called upon the country's governmental agencies to take a more active role in the defense of the rights of Russian citizens abroad. |
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 Think of "Murder by Numbers" as a classic 1940s double bill uneasily contained within the confines of a single motion picture. The A-picture at the top of the bill is a fairly standard star vehicle like those that used to be specially tailored for Joan Crawford or Barbara Stanwyck. This one features established film diva Sandra Bullock as Cassie Mayweather, a sharp-tongued "get the hell out of my crime scene" type of homicide detective who has to solve the toughest case of her career. |
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 The Golden Sofit awards were created in 1995 to highlight artistic achievements in St. Petersburg's theater world, quickly becoming the most prestigious award of its kind in the city. |
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The long-awaited Neva Delta Folk-Blues Festival will hold its postponed open-air Gala Concert at 3 p.m. on July 27. The location has been changed to Yusupovsky Sad at 50 Sadovaya Ul. According to festival promoters, the concert's lineup will include the Blues Cousins, Mushouris and His Swinging Orchestra, the Mississippi Twins, Liapin's Blues, Big Blues Revival, Blues. |
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I've seen the future, and it is both more beautiful and more spartan than anything Hollywood has shown me. I've seen the future, and the future is the Tinkoff Brewery and Restaurant. |
 While most cinemas are experiencing the second coming of Men in Black, Spartak, removed from the commercial bustle of Nevsky Prospect, welcomes its visitors with the movie masterpieces of the world. Spartak also attracts cinema-goers with its cozy, unpretentious atmosphere. The comfortable hall with cushy chairs, sofas and soft pillows lying on the floor makes it seem as though you are sitting at home in a favorite armchair and watching a much-loved film. |
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 French photographer Valerie Pacquet came to St. Petersburg in 1992 to visit, and later found herself mesmerized by the many images of drainpipes that she had captured. |
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Half a century ago, the Princeton literary scholar Joseph Frank read "Notes From the Underground" for a study of existentialism, concentrating on what he took to be "the irrationalism and amoralism" of Dostoevsky's underground man. Later, dissatisfied with this approach, he took a second look and spent the next 20 years steeping himself in Russian language and culture. In 1976, he published the first volume of a biographical study of the author that was meant to run four volumes and grew to five, of which the final volume has just appeared, some 26 years after the first. Whatever else one may think, it is a monumental achievement and appears, among other things, to have edged out Leon Edel's five-volume work on Henry James as the longest literary biography in English. |
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 The exhibition "In Print" is being held in two neighbouring venues - Anna the Akhmatova Museum in Fontanny Dom (Liteiny pr., 53) and the St. Petersburg Centre of Books and Graphics (Liteiny pr. |
 The production of Giacomo Puccini's last opera "Turandot," which opened on July 25th, is the Mariinsky Theater's first ever full production of this opera, though a concert version has been given from time to time over the past couple of years. |
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It could be argued, and with some justice, that this year's Philharmonic season has been a fairly tepid affair. Even the Arts Square Festival in the winter, billed as a key event, brought little that was unexpected, with the line up of those performing, for the most part, being made up musicians that have already appeared at the festival in years gone by, such as Gidon Kramer, Gennady Rozhdestvensky and Viktoria Postnikova. |
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Blair's Iraq Waffle LONDON (AP) - The British government is not on the verge of deciding whether to commit troops to any military action in Iraq, Prime Minister Tony Blair said on Thursday while refusing to promise to seek Parliament's approval before joining such strikes. |
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MOSCOW - In Soviet days, the national Dinamo and Spartak sports societies gave hundreds of thousands of people the chance to take part in sports. Sportivnaya Rossiya, or Sporting Russia, is hoping to do the same now. |
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Sabres Staying BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) - Five groups are interested in buying the NHL's Sabres and keeping them in Buffalo, commissioner Gary Bettman said Thursday, a day after the team's outgoing owner was arrested on fraud charges. Bettman, who did not identify the potential ownership groups, said it was "purely a coincidence" that he was in Buffalo 24 hours after John Rigas and two sons were arrested in connection with the financial meltdown of Adelphia Communications. |
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