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While the city's residents were dealing with the heavy haze that descended over St. Petersburg on Thursday, officials at Smolny and from the Leningrad Oblast were mostly busy with arguing over which fires were responsible for filling the city with smoke. |
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GROZNY - Kulimat Magomadova did not like living much in the muddy Znamenskaya refugee camp in northern Chechnya. But at least she and her family had food, a large tent over their heads and a bathroom at night. |
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MOSCOW - Russian President Vladimir Putin turned up the heat on Georgia on Thursday, accusing leader Eduard Shevardnadze of lacking the political will to root out Chechen rebels. In a message to the Georgian leader, Putin repeated he was ready to send the Russian military to help in joint action against Chechen guerrillas in Georgia's lawless Pankisi Gorge who were sowing "death and destruction" against Russia. |
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MOSCOW - The second of a trilogy of books about President Vladimir Putin hit the shelves Wednesday, with its author, Oleg Blotsky, insisting that the president did not have a hand in putting together his rather glowing biography. Blotsky revealed that the only editorial interference in the manuscript of "Vladimir Putin: The Road to Power" came from Putin's wife, Lyudmila, who corrected some misinformation about German sausages. |
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NOVGOROD, Central Russia - German President Johannes Rau laid a wreath Thursday at a cemetery for Wehrmacht soldiers from World War II, joined by the Novgorod governor. |
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MOSCOW - Krasnoyarsk votes for a governor Sunday in a tight race that observers predicted would go into a runoff. The winner will take over an office left vacant when Governor Alexander Lebed died in a helicopter crash in April. "It's a very interesting campaign and the most unpredictable one we have ever had," said Vyacheslav Nikonov, director of the Politika think tank. |
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Fire Fatality ST. PETERSBURG (SPT) - A 30-year-old man died and three people were injured as a result of a fire at Moskovsky Vokzal on Thursday. |
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MOSCOW - The saga of U.S. pop singer Lance Bass and his hopes of flying into space on a Russian rocket seemed to come to an abrupt end Tuesday when the Russian Aviation and Space Agency announced that it was tired of waiting for him to pay up and evicted him from the cosmonaut training center. |
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MOSCOW - Former Gazprom CEO Rem Vyakhirev tried not to breathe too deeply on his way to the gas monopoly's headquarters in southwest Moscow. Usually a landmark visible for kilometers, the blue-and-white skyscraper disappeared into the thick smog that covered most of Moscow on Tuesday. |
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MOSCOW - German President Johannes Rau said Wednesday that Russia's hopes for increased economic cooperation with Europe should be based on a common set of values, expressing concern over the continuing campaign in Chechnya and crackdowns on media freedom. |
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MOSCOW - More than 100 of the country's largest energy consumers and producers are set to begin simulated trading on Russia's first free market for electricity. |
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Were Russia to accede to the World Trade Organization, competition on the Russian market would be greatly intensified, having a major effect on the quality of goods and services, according to participants in a roundtable discussion in St. Petersburg on Thursday. |
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MOSCOW - Moscow law-enforcement agencies have opened a criminal investigation into the June seizure of oil company Slavneft's office, a company spokesperson said on Wednesday. |
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IN one of his legendary moments of brilliance, Sherlock Holmes pointed the attention of the police to the curious behavior of a dog on the night of the murder. The baffled police inspector pointed out that the dog had been silent during the night. "That was the curious incident," explained Holmes. |
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THE visa controversy between Russia and the European Union over Kaliningrad was the chief focus of public attention and discussion this summer, as the prospect of EU accession for Lithuania and Poland will soon mean that the Kaliningrad Oblast will be surrounded by members of the Shenghen zone - a unified visa area that mandates strict border controls and includes most EU member states. |
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 The Mariinsky Theater's recently concluded season was played out to the accompaniment of a stormy dispute over the planned reconstruction of the theater's main building. U.S. deconstructionist architect Eric Owen Moss' design for the new building has drawn vicious criticism since its adoption by the State Construction Committee, Gosstroi. |
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On Friday, the Grand Cascade at Peterhof hosts what should be one of the year's most spectacular events, and the start of what is planned to be one of the most ambitious charitable programs ever. |
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The joint anniversary party thrown by Tequilajazzz and Fish Fabrique, held this year on Thursday, traditionally marks the time when the local club scene starts reviving after the summer. St. Petersburg's top alternative band and its favorite venue celebrated their ninth and seventh birthdays, respectively, with a concert/drinking session. |
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Those of us who happen to live and/or work in the area around Bolshaya Morskaya Ul. have been intrigued by the recent appearance of greenish, opaque glass panes, simply adorned with the letter V, on the site of what used to be the restaurant "Po-Barabanu," opposite the local McDonalds. |
 An enterprising group of young Finns has managed to do what most of the rest of their compatriots can only dream about: They have retaken a part of Karelia. Well, almost. While there are still strong currents in Finnish public opinion that demand that Russia return Karelia and other areas that it took from Finland during the Northern War of 1939 to 1940, the young artists in question have taken a more realistic, small-scale approach. |
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 How do you react to an event like Sept. 11? For one local artist, the answer is simple - by painting. Next Tuesday, one year - minus one day - after the terror attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, Gennady Zubkov will open his exhibition "Made in America. |
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"Red Rabbit" is the third of Tom Clancy's Cold War novels to incorporate the word red in its title, after "The Hunt for Red October" and "Red Storm Rising." But in this elaborately detailed account of an assassination plot against Pope John Paul II in the early 1980's, red tape is at least as important to Clancy's storytelling as the red menace. Not much in "Red Rabbit" seems to happen without meetings, evaluations and analyses of protocol. It's a book well suited to those who find protocol sexy, and this author is one of them. In the face of world events that undermine the monolithic simplicity of Cold War thinking, Clancy has dialed backward through history to find more accommodating times. |
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 Saratov - "Yellow Mountain" in Tatar - lies on the Volga, halfway between Moscow and Astrakhan, about one hour's flying time from Moscow, or 1,000 kilometers from St. |
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MOSCOW - Three months ago at the World Cup, he was the only bright spot of a dim tournament for Russian soccer. Now, 18-year-old striker Dmitry Sychyov - once dubbed the golden boy of Russian soccer - has been banned by the Russian Professional Football League (RPFL) for walking out on defending champion Spartak Moscow, after a contract dispute; been dropped from the national team; and been called a liar and a traitor by his manager and Spartak fans. |
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Koreans Get Together SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - A 49-member North Korean soccer delegation arrived in South Korea on Thursday for an exhibition match this weekend as part of reconciliation efforts on the divided peninsula. |
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