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 St. Petersburg Governor Vladimir Yakovlev this week came up with one more idea of how the city's residents might go about preparing for the city's 300th anniversary - making babies. The countdown to the May 27 event reached 300 days on Wednesday, so Smolny hosted an event at the 300th Anniversary Press Center in Dom Radio on Italyanskaya Ul. |
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MOSCOW - Alimzhan Tokhtakhounov, the alleged Russian crime boss arrested on suspicion of trying to fix Olympics skating competitions, has no influence over Russian sports and could not have fixed the Olympic results, Russian officials said Thursday. |
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MOSCOW - A top German aviation lawyer who won a $144-million settlement in the Concorde disaster in 2000, said his team has been selected to represent the Russian families of those who died in a midair collision over southern Germany last month. Elmar Giemulla, who also advised on the privatization of Aeroflot, said Wednesday that he would seek a settlement of at least $4. |
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MOSCOW - Salman Sagidov, a 52-year-old Muscovite living in a posh building near Belorusskaya metro, made the same mistake for the umpteenth time: Having come home from his dacha Sunday evening, he forgot to phone in his password. |
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The government started sending funds to reconstruct Chechnya five months late, according to a report by the State Construction Committee. The report, a copy of which was reviewed by The St. Petersburg Times, said the first of the 3 billion rubles ($96 million) earmarked in the 2002 federal budget for the program to restore Chechnya's economy and social sphere was only released in May-June. |
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MOSCOW - A key witness in the case of Yury Budanov, the army colonel on trial for killing an 18-year-old Chechen woman, said in an interview published Wednesday that he had lied to investigators to help his commander. |
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Mr. Popular MOSCOW (SPT) - The popularity of Russian President Vladimir Putin remains high, with 73 percent of those questioned in a recent survey giving a positive evaluation of his work and only 20 percent disapproving, Interfax reported Thursday. The research was carried out between July 26 and July 29 by the Russian Center for Public Opinion Research, which questioned 1600 Russian citizens. |
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 Swedwood, an international division of the IKEA furniture retail and manufacturing concern, opened its first manufacturing plant in Russia on Tuesday, in the town of Tikhvin in the Leningrad Oblast, 200 kilometers southeast of St. Petersburg. The plant plans to process 150,000 cubic meters of timber per year and produce 30,000 cubic meters of furniture components for IKEA factories located in Sweden and central Europe, with further plans for the manufacturing of furniture for the international retail giant. |
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MOSCOW - The national daily newspaper Kommersant made headlines this week by becoming the first Russian company to win back the rights to its dot.com domain name (www. |
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AS preparation for war against Iraq intensifies, the time has come to pause and consider the view from Baghdad. Conclusions from such an exercise are not comforting. But to strike without thinking seriously about how Saddam Hussein could respond would be irresponsible. |
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LAST Sunday, Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov visited Kaliningrad, the main base of the Baltic Fleet, and told journalists that the situation in the Baltic region may destabilize when the former Soviet republics of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania join NATO and the European Union. |
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 Ring out the bells! The first ever International Carillon Festival at the Peter and Paul Fortress starts on Friday, attracting musicians from Russia and abroad to give a series of concerts on the fortress' recently repaired carillon. A carillon is a set of bells that can be played by one or more musicians, via a system of levers that connect the bells to a set of keys and pedals down below. Carillons date back as far as the 14th century, when the first ones appeared at the top of towers and in chapels in Holland, Belgium and northern France. |
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 To the average European, Mexico is a country steeped in mystery. This perception is shaped by works such as Sergei Eisenstein's unfinished film "Mexican Fantasy" and popular, pseudo-scientific books such as "The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge," by Carlos Casteneda. |
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The alternative-rock club Poligon is to move from Lesnoi Prospect to the fourth location in the club's eight-year history. The club has previously been in Kupchino, on the Petrograd Side, and by Obvodny Kanal. The club's all-night farewell concert on Thursday, which featured more than a dozen acts, was also held to celebrate the club's anniversary. |
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Strapped for cash and in search of one of the myriad business-lunch deals that seems to be cropping up around town, the Astoria Club, an attachment on Malaya Morskaya Ul. |
 The plans for the Mariinsky Theater's new production of Puccini's last opera, "Turandot," which premiered last week, only materialized very late in the theater's season, and the production seems to have been a spontaneous decision. It is also unclear why the theater decided to put the opera on: Maybe the Mariinsky wanted to get the jump on Moscow's Bolshoi Theater, which premieres its new "Turandot" at the beginning of September; or, perhaps, Mariinsky Artistic Director Valery Gergiev remembered that he has to conduct the opera at the Salzburg Festival in August and realized he needed the extra practice. |
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 Upon arriving in Vladivostok, in Russia's Far East, the first thing you'll notice is the wide expanse of the Pacific Ocean, but the city's ubiquitous maritime imagery comes a close second. |
 The Kirov Ballet - the name under which the ballet company of the Mariinsky Theater tours abroad - is now back in St. Petersburg and, with regular performances beginning again in its home theater, probably has little time to reflect upon its two-week season at New York's Metropolitan Opera House, one of the world's most high-profile venues. |
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Risks of Iraq Invasion WASHINGTON (NYT) - In the first public hearings on the administration's goal of ousting Saddam Hussein from the Iraqi presidency, an array of experts warned a Senate committee on Wednesday that an invasion of Iraq would carry significant risks, ranging from more terrorist attacks against American targets to higher oil prices. The witnesses - including former senior military officers and nongovernment experts on Iraq - expressed confidence that American forces would prevail in an invasion. But they said it would be a difficult fight, requiring a major commitment of troops and the support of many allies. The experts said said that the military would need to deploy tens of thousands of ground troops as well as many aircraft, ships and armored vehicles to ensure victory. |
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 Mikhail Biryukov must be a worried man. Zenit has played five matches with Biryukov as head coach since Yury Morozov retired for health reasons, and Zenit has gained just one point, sliding down to ninth place in the Russian Premier Division in the process, 17 points behind league-leader Lokomotiv Moscow. |
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Waugh To Retire? SYDNEY, Australia (Reuters) - Mark Waugh says failure in the test series against Pakistan later this year could signal the end of his Australia career. Waugh, speaking at the launch of his autobiography on Thursday, said he hoped to regain his place in the one-day side in time for next year's World Cup but added: "First of all, I've got the test series against Pakistan. |
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