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MOSCOW - Russia rammed home Thursday a warning that it could attack rebel Chechen bases in neighboring Georgia as part of the international fight against terrorism, saying that United Nations resolutions gave it the right to do so. In Georgia, top security officials debated President Vladimir Putin's stern warning, first issued on Russian television on Wednesday night, behind closed doors, but took no action. |
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The Legislative Assembly on Wednesday managed to agree on the vexed question of when elections for its successor will be held, a problem that has been at the center of a heated controversy in the assembly over the past six months. |
 Former Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev on Tuesday laid the foundation stone of the Institute of Child Hematology and Transplantation that will be named after his late wife, Raisa. The new facility is meant to provide medical help to children and teenagers suffering from blood cancer and leukemia. |
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German lawyers representing the families of those who died when a Bashkirian Airlines Tu-154 jet collided in midair with a DHL cargo plane in July say that they are seeking $15 million in compensation from Swiss air-traffic-control body Skyguide and DHL. Berlin lawyers Heiko van Schyndel and Elmar Giemulla said they have sent claims to Skyguide and DHL for the collision over Germany that claimed the lives of 69 people on the Tu-154, most of them children from Ufa, Reuters reported on Wednesday. The two pilots of the DHL Boeing 757 also died. Van Schyndel said that, in addition to damages for the victims' families, the $15-million figure included the value of the Tu-154, the loss of revenue resulting from the crash and the cost of training new crew members. |
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 Hundreds of St. Petersburgers and foreigners on Wednesday attended a public memorial service in the Kazan Cathedral for the victims of terrorist attacks in the United States last year. |
 GROZNY - Many Grozny residents scrape together a living by day, selling bricks, produce and anything else of value that they can get their hands on. At night, they hole up in bombed-out buildings to escape the terror of the streets, where anyone with a gun is king. But the mere fact that a burgeoning trade is taking place in the streets is a sign that life is stabilizing, residents say. |
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 DHL officials revealed their development plans for the Northwest Region of Russia at a press conference Thursday, as well as major plans for investment. "During 2001, we doubled the volume of our turnover in the Northwest Region, in comparison with 2000, while sales volume in the parcel category showed a 64-percent increase during the first six months of 2002, compared to the same period in 2001," said Axel Gietz, corporate-affairs director of DHL Worldwide Express said at the press conference. |
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MOSCOW - The Prosecutor General's Office said Wednesday that it has charged self-exiled tycoon Boris Berezovsky and his business associate Badri Patarkatsishvili with car theft. |
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MOSCOW - There was a little more than hour left in the trading day when the first plane hit the World Trade Center, and then a strange thing happened - the markets actually rose. "The first reaction in the market was even positive," recalled Timor Nasardinov, who was working the phones at Troika Dialog. |
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IT has been a year since the Sept. 11 attacks produced the same reaction of horror and disbelief here in Moscow that they produced in the United States and elsewhere. Russians from all walks of life responded immediately. It was just before 5 p.m. here when the first plane crashed into the World Trade Center. |
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PEOPLE'S minds are very flexible. But, in some areas, flexibility could lead to a catastrophe, even if it does not look so obvious at a first glance. Looking back on the way that Russian-U. |
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 On Sept. 11, 2001 the world was stirred to horror and disbelief, as - literally out of the blue - the most improbable and devastating tragedy struck the United States. The attacks on New York and Washington claimed more than 3,000 lives, and turned the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center - arguably the city's most famous landmarks, which dominated the Manhattan skyline - into burning masses of metal and, eventually, to rubble. |
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Despite recent rumors, it now seems unlikely that Morrissey will appear in St. Petersburg, as local promoters seem unwilling to take the risk of bringing him here (for which read: they probably don't know who he is). |
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Japanese cuisine seems to be St. Petersburg's latest culinary fashion. The recent proliferation of places specializing in cuisine from the Land of the Rising Sun have meant that sushi, sashami and other such dishes are no longer rarities, but part of the city's vocabulary. However, I remain to be convinced of the merits of raw fish and seaweed - before you reach for the pen, that exaggeration was made purely for rhetorical effect - and so I and my dining companion ended up at Barbariya, on one corner of Ul. Marata and Razyezhaya Ul. At first glance, Barbariya (named for the Berber, a tribe in North Africa) is an intimidating prospect, with heavy-looking, intricately carved doors, blacked-out windows and vaguely Islamic-looking gold lettering. |
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 Heaven on Earth. This must be where children at Children's City 2002 must think they have arrived. Through Sunday, the "cultural happening" at the Manezh gives kids the opportunity to redesign St. |
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There was no more hellish place on earth than Berlin in late 1944 and the early months of 1945. Its people were slowly starving to death in horrific conditions that included a relentless bombing campaign by the Allied air forces. A once proud city, Berlin was daily being reduced to smoking rubble. Even so, the German penchant for black humor was painfully evident during the Christmas season of 1944 when Berliners were heard to quip, "Be practical: give a coffin." Before the war ended there would not be sufficient coffins available to bury those killed in Berlin. As the city's inhabitants struggled merely to survive another day, it was already clear to virtually everyone but a vain, delusional Hitler that the war was irrevocably lost. |
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 Thirty kilometers west of St. Petersburg, on the south shore of the Gulf of Finland, lies Peterhof, originally the summer retreat of Peter the Great and now the most popular of the suburban palaces. |
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Unitas Dead at 69 BALTIMORE, Maryland (AP) - Johnny Unitas, considered one of the greatest quarterbacks in NFL history, died on Wednesday of a heart attack at the age of 69. Unitas was involved in routine physical therapy at Kernan Hospital in Baltimore when he suffered the heart attack, a Baltimore Ravens spokesman said. |
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