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 Thousands of mourners gathered Thursday to pay their last respects to the 14 crew members who died after an Il-86 passenger plane lurched upward and crashed shortly after taking off from Sheremetyevo Airport in Moscow. Pilots and flight attendants from St. |
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An inspection of two-thirds of the city's district police departments that was begun by an Interior Ministry commission in early July has found cases of negligence and inefficiency to be widespread among St. |
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MOSCOW - Flooding caused by torrential rains submerged the Black Sea coast Thursday, killing at least two people and leaving more than 100 people missing. Rail links and power were also cut off in parts of the Stavropol and Krasnodar regions. The downpour came as Europe saw some of its worst flooding in decades, with fierce rainstorms filling London's subway system, ravaging wine grapes and olive groves in northern Italy and deluging scenic Austrian villages. |
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MOSCOW - Perhaps more than anyone, Larisa Savitskaya can empathize with the two flight attendants who survived the recent Il-86 crash at Sheremetyevo Airport. |
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 MOSCOW - Wednesday, on the eve of second anniversary of the blast in a Pushkin Square underpass in Moscow that killed 13, Moscow city prosecutors released new details about how the attack was staged, but acknowledged that they have failed to make any arrests. |
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MOSCOW - With only a month left before Krasnoyarsk's gubernatorial election, Alexei Lebed pulled out of the crowded race Tuesday, saying that the fight for control of the resource-rich Siberian region was turning ugly. |
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MOSCOW - Marijuana is being grown on about 1 million hectares of Russia but drug-enforcement officials managed to destroy only a tiny one-thousandth of those crops in the first half of the year, officials said Tuesday, warning that the country's drug problem would grow. |
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MOSCOW - At the personal invitation of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, the two teenage daughters of President Vladimir Putin are frolicking at one of Europe's fanciest sea resorts on monthlong summer vacation. |
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MOSCOW - Russian skating officials, coaches and judges on Thursday vehemently denied any wrongdoing at the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City and accused a U.S. judge of pressuring the other judges in the disputed pairs competition. "We rarely open up our house to outsiders, but now we are forced to do so," Russian Skating Federation head Valentin Piseyev said at a news conference titled, "The incessant campaign of unfounded attacks on Russian skaters launched in North America. |
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Fliers Found ST. PETERSBURG (SPT) - A team searching for war artifacts and memorabilia in the Leningrad Oblast has found two crew members of an Il-2 bomber plane that was shot down during World War II that they were attempting to dig up, Interfax reported the oblast administration as announcing on Thursday. |
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 MOSCOW - Prompt, brief and vague. That's the kind of answer Henri Bardon got when he asked President Vladimir Putin to redress the loss of $12 million he invested in a Vladivostok grain company. Bardon, who runs Seattle-based Euro Asian Investment Holding Inc. |
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MOSCOW - The Cabinet continued to puzzle investors and analysts Wednesday, uttering contradictory remarks regarding the country's fiscal health and borrowing plans. |
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MOSCOW - Gazprom will not sell its media holdings until after the presidential election in 2004, Vedomosti quoted Gazprom sources as saying Wednesday. "This was a political decision that was made from above," an unnamed executive at the state-controlled gas monopoly was quoted as saying. |
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MOSCOW - Aeroflot expects to quadruple its net profit this year, according to international accounting standards, to a staggering $80 million, the flagship carrier's financial director said Wednesday. |
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ALTHOUGH the current South Asian crisis seems to have ebbed for the present, the underlying dynamic remains. The next flare-up will be even more dangerous if the region's nuclear confrontation develops in the same direction as the Cold War U.S.-U.S.S. |
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THE presidential property department has proudly announced that when European leaders visit Russia next year, they will be met in style. Some 3,000 workers are toiling overtime to complete the renovation of the Konstantin Palace, a regal 18th century residence that will serve as a presidential abode and an upscale center for international conferences. |
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WHAT could be more gratifying than publicly exposing a friend and mentor? I shall allow myself that satisfaction in this column. Dmitry Furman is one of Russia's brightest political scientists and winner of the Cassandra prize for journalism. Last week, he published an article in the newspaper Moskovskiye Novosti called "History Will Determine the Guilty," about the question of who blew up the apartment buildings in Moscow in 1999, and why. |
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 With an all-night concert featuring a dozen bands last Thursday, the notorious alternative rock club Poligon celebrated its eighth anniversary - and the closing of its current location on Lesnoi Prospect. According to a posting on the club's official Web site, Poligon will reappear in a different location before long. During its eight-year history, Poligon has held hundreds of concerts by both popular and completely unknown bands - the latter often played on the condition that they would buy a portion of the tickets for their own show - and gained a somewhat odious political reputation. |
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 It was supposed to be the biggest event of the summer, a triumph for one of Moscow's biggest clubs in the backyard of its competitors in the Northern Capital. |
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The hip, grungy student bar Cynic, which has been on the brink of closing down for the past six months or so, has finally called it quits. Cynic's owner, Vladimir Postnichenko, said it was officially closed on July 23, though it kept operating "secretly" until last week, when the electricity supply was cut off. |
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The self-described "art cabaret cafe-bar-restaurant" Prival Komediantov ("Comedians' Rest-Stop") has to be one of the most intriguing venues that this column has covered in some time. |
 Everything is going well for Irina Matayeva, a soprano who has been a member of the Mariinsky Theater's Academy of Young Singers since 1998. Having returned from Washington, where she sang the p art of Micaela in a production of Bizet's "Carmen" conducted by Placido Domingo, she is now rehearsing for the lead female role of Tatyana in Tchaikovsky's "Yevgeny Onegin," for the Mariinsky's new production, which premieres on Wednesday. |
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 St. Petersburg often makes a proud boast of its nearly 300-year history as the cultural capital of Russia. But the crowds of tourists that flock to the city during the summer rarely stop to consider that three centuries of ruling the Neva delta and the surrounding area leaves a whole swathe of history unaccounted for. |
 One spring day in 1925, Igor Stravinsky, the diminutive 42-year-old Russian composer with thick, round glasses, dropped in on Serge Diaghilev's Ballets Russes in Monte Carlo to observe the restaging of his 1920 "musical fairy tale," "Le Chant du Rossignol." In charge of the rehearsal hall he found a thin, intense 21-year-old dancer, George Balanchine, who had left Soviet Russia in July 1924. |
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 St. Petersburg is not the only European city that lays claim to the title of the "Venice of the North." Of the others, Brugge is probably the best contendor for the title: Not only are there so many canals in the city that visitors are almost guaranteed a hotel room with a canal view, or at least to dine out by one, but, in medieval times, the Belgian city was a trade rival of its now better known Italian counterpart. |
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Saudi Arabia Opts Out JIDDAH, Saudi Arabia (AP) - Saudi Arabia will not give the United States access to bases in the kingdom for an attack on Saddam Hussein, but the foreign minister said Wednesday that the longtime U.S. ally does not plan to expel American forces from an air base used for flights to monitor Iraq. |
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Mutombo a Net EAST RUTHERFORD, New Jersey (AP) - The New Jersey Nets acquired 7-foot-2 (218-centimerter) center Dikembe Mutombo from the 76ers for forward Keith Van Horn and center Todd MacCulloch in a trade Tuesday between the last two Eastern Conference champions. |
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