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The murderers of an Azeri watermelon vendor on Friday evening recorded the killing on video, an action that may lead to their conviction, St. Petersburg police said Monday. What appears to be a racially motivated murder sent ripples of fear through the northern capital's large Caucasian community over the weekend, despite police reluctance to pinpoint the motive or who stood behind the attack. "The videotape was seized on Sunday, and shows the killing and the assailants," said Elmar Shakhirzayev, deputy head of the press service of the Interior Ministry's Administration for St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Oblast (GUVD), in a telephone interview on Monday. |
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 MOSCOW - Liberal lawmakers and human rights activists on Monday fervently protested Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov's plan to put a statue of Felix Dzerzhinsky back on a pedestal in front of the former KGB headquarters. |
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 Crowds of believers flocked to see an ancient icon that is believed to have a strong connection with the fate of Russia as it was displayed in St. Petersburg for the first time last week. Interfax estimated that 50,000 people came to worship the Fyodorov Virgin and Child, which is reputed to have miraculous properties. |
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Bering Probe Opened MOSCOW (SPT) - The General Prosecutor's Office will re-evaluate the 1990 agreement between the Soviet Union and the United States on the boundary of exclusive economic zones in the Bering Sea, Interfax reported Monday. |
 GROZNY - Buses with the sign "Student" in their windshields rumble through Grozny during the early morning hours, bringing thousands of students from the suburbs and even distant villages to Grozny University. The campus was all but destroyed in the ongoing Chechen military campaign, but professors use the limited educational materials at their disposal to teach 8,000 eager students. |
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MOCOW - The State Duma on Friday voted overwhelmingly to crack down on beer advertising, including prohibiting the use of images of people or animals and banning television commercials altogether between 5 p.m. and 10 p.m. Ignoring Kremlin opposition, deputies passed amendments to the law on advertising in the crucial second reading by a margin of 231 to 24. |
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MOSCOW - Already reeling from a Kremlin threat to strike Chechen bases in the strategic Pankisi Gorge, Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze must now engage Russia on another front: securing stable gas supplies. |
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MOSCOW - The government rejected and then blasted efforts by Roman Abramovich's Millhouse Capital to change Aeroflot's board of directors at an extraordinary shareholders meeting Saturday. "The state does not see any grounds to terminate the work of the board that was elected in May," Aeroflot chairperson and Transport Minister Sergei Frank told reporters after the meeting. |
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MOSCOW - The United States has blacklisted three Russian defense contractors that it says are "transferring lethal military equipment" to countries supporting terrorism. |
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THE problem of what to do with Martha Stewart is beginning to assume grotesque proportions, somewhere between an incompetently staged melodrama and one of those scenes in a Jerry Springer show where families behave like baboons. If Martha had been roasting on a spit since she unwisely dumped 4,000 shares of ImClone Systems last December, she couldn't have endured a more cruel and unusual punishment. |
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THE State Fisheries Committee has intervened on behalf of the Russian trawler Viytna, seized last week by the U.S. Coast Guard for illegal fishing and failing to stop when ordered. |
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THE telephone rang on my desk. It was Alexander Knaster, the chief executive of Alfa Bank, Russia's largest commercial bank. It was early 2000. I had written a profile of the bank, and it had recently appeared in a business magazine. I had interviewed Knaster, a soft-spoken American citizen of Russian heritage, in his office for the article. |
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A YEAR after Sept. 11, one of the most notable features of international politics is how the United States has become both utterly dominant and lonely. |
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PRESIDENT Vladimir Putin's keen eye for analogies in international power politics has paid off once again. By outlining plans for a possible military strike on Georgia and citing UN resolutions as the basis, Putin has underscored the similarity between Moscow's conflict with Tbilisi - which it accuses of harboring terrorists who pose a direct threat to Russia's security - and Washington's explosive conflict with Baghdad. |
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Blood SimpleAs the fog of war emanating from Washington D.C. spreads over the world, smothering us all in its impenetrable haze of posturing and propaganda, you must hold on to one hard fact, one demonstrable, incontrovertible truth: The warmongers are liars. |
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 The people of the Netherlands, already beloved by the rest of the world for their tulips, cheese and wooden shoes, are establishing themselves in Russia by exploiting another of their national characteristics - talking. With more than three weeks of conferences, seminars and cultural events, currently happening as part of the "Window on the Netherlands" festival, the eager Dutch are obtaining a firm footing in the business, political, scientific and cultural life of St. |
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 Since the era of Peter the Great, who himself worked in a Dutch shipyard, business ties between St. Petersburg and the Netherlands have been close. In the post-Soviet era, those links have again flourished, with over 50 Dutch companies currently operating in various business sectors in St. |
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Teachers at orphanages often complain that their pupils lack knowledge of many practical, everyday things - such as how to send a letter from a post office, how to manage their pocket money, or how to take care of an orchard or animals. The children would have learned these things naturally if they had parents who took them out to different places. |
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Sufficient Reason? SANAA, Yemen (Reuters) - A Yemeni man divorced his first wife because she was loud and argumentative and picked a deaf and mute woman as his new bride, a local newspaper said on Monday. |
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TASHKENT, Uzbekistan - Yevgeny Kafelnikov fought off an injured finger and qualifier Vladimir Voltchkov to win the $550,000 President's Cup 7-6 (8-6), 7-5 on Saturday. Kafelnikov earned an early service break in the second set to grab a 3-0 lead. But Voltchkov increased the power of his serves and improved his ground strokes to win the next three games and get even. |
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