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MOSCOW - The worn folders are labeled "Top Secret" and bear the insignia of the Soviet secret police - GPU, NKVD, KGB. Inside, in faded ink on yellow paper, the now declassified files from the archives of the Federal Security Service, or FSB, have much to tell about a milestone in the establishment of totalitarianism in Russia - the 1922 expulsion of non-Communist intellectuals. |
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New Miss Universe NEW YORK (AP) - Miss Panama Justine Pasek was crowned Miss Universe on Tuesday, replacing St. Petersburger Oksana Fyodorova, who became the first woman to be fired in the pageant's 52-year history for being too busy to keep up with her travel duties. Pasek, 23, the first runner-up, was crowned at a news conference, saying of her predecessor, "I wish her the best and I'm very happy to be taking over this job now." Paula Shugart, president of the Miss Universe organization, said Fyodorova, a 24-year-old law student, was dethroned because she "was unable to fulfill her duties." She visited France, Italy, Kenya, Canada and Greece while wearing the crown. |
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 A monument to Major Kovalyov's nose, one of Nikolai Gogol's most famous protagonists, may have been inspired by its literary model and is on the loose in St. |
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MOSCOW - The Justice Ministry has registered a radical nationalist party with an openly anti-Semitic leadership. But a party official said Thursday that the National Power Party of Russia would follow a more mainstream platform in hope of winning votes. |
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Ten of the 12 South American monkeys that were stolen from the St. Petersburg zoo on Tuesday night were safely returned to their home Thursday. The other two have yet to be located. |
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MOSCOW - Contradicting his finance minister and setting the tone for the State Duma's budget debate, President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday declared there will be no more tax cuts. "We have come to a point where it is impossible to continue reducing taxes," Putin told participants in the All-Russia Forum of Young Managers meeting in the Kremlin, in comments broadcast on the state-run Rossia television channel. "That's it, the party is over." Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin last week said the government over the next three years would cut the unified social tax from 36.5 percent to 30 percent, and value-added tax from 20 percent to 16 percent. |
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 The opening of the "Chechen Children" exhibition in St. Petersburg on Thursday is linked to the beginning this week of the fourth year of war in Chechnya. |
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MOSCOW - Investigators Thursday resumed questioning LUKoil Chief Financial Officer Sergei Kukura but said he was still disoriented after his abduction. On Wednesday afternoon, two weeks after being kidnapped on his way to work, Kukura was dropped off near his home in a release that was as mysterious as his abduction. |
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 MOSCOW - Responding to intense pressure from investors, Unified Energy Systems chief Anatoly Chubais on Wednesday unveiled a seven-point plan to regain the confidence of demoralized shareholders, amid a sweeping overhaul of the world's largest electricity utility. |
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Philip Morris International announced at a press conference on Tuesday that is investing another $30 million in the expansion of cigarette-manufacturing facilities in the Leningrad Oblast this year, expanding production capacity to 50 billion cigarettes per year. |
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THE shortcomings of Russia's bureaucracy are legion, its incompetence is legendary. Therefore, the release of a report last week highlighting the ineffectiveness of the executive branch and its lack of discipline in fulfilling orders and instructions did not come as any great surprise. |
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FOR 18 months Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon responded to Palestinian terrorist attacks by systematically destroying the infrastructure and institutions of the Palestinian Authority, all the while insisting that his intention was to pressure the very forces he targeted into cracking down on the terrorist groups. |
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THIS week's column is devoted to the start of the fall television season. Traditionally the season gets under way in September, but I'd like to begin back in August, when I was vacationing in Lithuania at the seaside (pine forests, the beach, hot sun, lapping of the waves, rustling of the dunes). Before bed, I would watch television, and thankfully there were plenty of Russian channels. |
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 What sort of thoughts would most likely cross your mind when, squirming your way through a bustling downtown crowd of unmemorable faces, your eye lights on a unique briefcase: transparent photographs of two lions, intricately illuminated from behind? Bizarre? Refreshing? Ingenious? Would your interest be sparked? To the point that you would stop in your tracks and fall into conversation with the owner of a briefcase less ordinary? That's the reaction that Mark Scheflen, a professional photographer and renowned visual artist from New York, hopes for when walking his "lions" around the streets of the Big Apple. |
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 In the 1980s, Televizor spearheaded Russia's "rock revolution" - its rock protest anthems such as "Vyiti Iz-Pod Kontrolya" ("Get Out of Control"), "Syt Po Gorlo" ("Fed Up") and "Tvoi Papa - Fashist" ("Your Daddy Is a Fascist") were direct and outspoken, while the rest of the pack limited itself to hints and metaphors. |
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More and more international acts have included St. Petersburg in their tour schedules. Something of a sensation is Cesaria Evora, at the Oktyabrsky Concert Hall on Oct. 12. At the height of popularity of world and Afro-Latin music, West African singer Evora is a big hit in Russia. |
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In an attempt to broaden our culinary horizons beyond the confines of the center of the city, our tight-fisted team of restaurant reviewers decided to venture onto Vasilievsky Island in search of unexplored eateries. |
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What tireless troupers the Mariinsky Theater's dancers are! When the theater reassembled last week after the summer holiday, half of its ballet company was busy rehearsing and preparing to leave on a two-week tour to China, where it last performed in 1999. The tour, which begins on Monday, will take in the capital, Beijing, as well as the financial powerhouse city of Shanghai. The company is also due to tour the Chinese territory of Hong Kong separately in December - details of that tour will be announced next month. In China, the Mariinsky will perform the most famous classic of all time, "Swan Lake," as well as George Balanchine's 1967 three-act plotless masterpiece, "Jewels," both of which the company performed in New York's Metropolitan Opera House in July, to great critical acclaim. |
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 Two weeks ago, two local artists unveiled the result of eight months hard work, having turned a 150-square-meter former communal apartment at 7 Moskovsky Pr. |
 An ancient statue kept at the State Hermitage Museum for 70 years has been identified as being of Egypt's most famous queen and last pharaoh, Cleopatra VII. In addition, according to the Hermitage, while there are many statues of the famous lover of Julius Caesar and Mark Anthony, the Hermitage statue is the best preserved in the world. |
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A few words like "mizzle," "tubernose," "nuncle" and "minikin" soon warn the reader here that "Nowhere Man" is no ordinary book. |
 If the State Hermitage Museum's latest exhibition, "Man in the Middle," has become the must-see event of the season in the sphere of fine art (see last Friday's All About Town), then Earlymusic - the newly adopted name of the fifth running of the St. Petersburg Early Music Festival, which gets going this week - is set to be the highlight of this season's musical life. |
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ANAHEIM, California - The Anaheim Angels are running out of games. After Anaheim's 4-2 loss to Texas on Wednesday night, Seattle came from behind to beat Oakland, denying the A's the AL West title and keeping the Angels on hold for one more day. Needing just one victory to clinch their first postseason berth since 1986, the Angels have lost four straight. |
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SKA Loses Again ST. PETERSBURG (SPT) - SKA continued its losing streak last week, dropping the first two home games of the Professional Hockey League season. |
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