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MOSCOW - The country's often-criticized electoral system took a thrashing Monday as turmoil broke out in elections in Krasnoyarsk and Russia's third-largest city, Nizhny Novgorod. The head of the Central Elections Commission, Alexander Veshnyakov, cut short a vacation in Sochi to fly back to Moscow to try to sort out the confusion, which exposed serious gaps in the electoral system 15 months ahead of State Duma elections. |
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The remains of what the human-rights group Memorial says are approximately 30,000 victims of the Stalinist purges of the late 1930s that the group has discovered outside the Leningrad Oblast town of Toksovo may include those of prominent Russian philosopher, theologian and scientist Pavel Florensky, representatives announced on Thursday. |
 Oksana Fyodorova, the St. Petersburg law-enforcement student who was crowned Miss Universe in May, only to surrender the title last week over scheduling conflicts, said at a press conference here on Friday that she had not signed any contracts with contest organizers detailing her expected duties and schedule. |
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TBILISI, Georgia - Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze said Monday that his country had successfully completed its operation to bring order to the Pankisi Gorge - a source of tension with Moscow, which says the gorge serves as a base for Chechen rebels. |
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MOSCOW - Valentin Danilov, a physicist accused of spying for China, was released from custody Friday after 19 months in a Krasnoyarsk prison and said his release showed the judge was following the law. |
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Taking Too Long ST. PETERSBURG (SPT) - The Supreme Court on Monday ruled that a Charter Courts decision to extend the detention of St. Petersburg Legislative Assembly lawmaker Yuri Shutov past July 1 was unlawful. Shutov was arrested in 1999 after being charged with setting up a criminal group responsible for the murder of a number of high-ranking officials and businesspeople. |
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 MOSCOW - Submitting to a wave of criticism from minority investors, Unified Energy Systems on Friday created a working group to raise the national power grid's sagging share price. The group's formation, announced at a board meeting Friday, follows an earlier attempt by UES chief Anatoly Chubais to lift the stock by halting asset sales planned under an industry restructuring. |
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MOSCOW - Twenty four major international and domestic consumer-goods companies - including Proctor & Gamble, Unilever, Philip Morris and Wimm-Bill-Dann - have teamed up to fight for their property rights. |
 MOSCOW - Despite concerns about rampant piracy, Microsoft sees a rosy future in Russia and will continue to invest here, Microsoft president Steve Ballmer said Friday. While in Moscow on a one-day visit as part of a whirlwind tour of Europe, Ballmer met with major Microsoft clients, including Sberbank, and took part in a forum that brought together several hundred Microsoft partners from Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States. |
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 MOSCOW - A former Central Bank subsidiary with a murky history has become the newest player in national broadcasting. On Thursday, Evrofinance, a former finance company that evolved into one of Russia's largest banks, struck a $700-million deal with Gazprom to acquire 49 percent of a new holding company to be based on the assets of Gazprom-Media, the gas giant's media arm. |
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MOSCOW - Frustrated in its attempts to lease locally built aircraft, Krasnoyarsk-based KrasAir is negotiating with German charter operator Germania to create a joint-leasing company and add eight Western jets to its fleet, officials with the state-controlled airline said last week. KrasAir management met with Germania chief Hinrich Bischoff in Krasnoyarsk on Thursday, and will finalize the agreement in Germany in two weeks, KrasAir spokesperson Svetlana Volodina said in a telephone interview Thursday. Volodina would not detail the structure of the new company, saying only that the company will be registered in Krasnoyarsk. "The contribution of each side and share in equity are still under discussion," she said. |
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 KAZAN, Central Russia - "Every business needs one owner," said Airat Khairullin, head of the Krasny Vostok brewery. "I am risking my money on the market and my business and myself . |
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AS finance ministers gathered in Washington last weekend for the World Bank and International Monetary Fund annual meetings, their focus was on implementing the historic compact between rich and poor nations that emerged from a year's worth of global summits in Doha, Monterrey and Johannesburg. |
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IN September 1960, the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries was born at a conference in Baghdad. Over the following 42 years, it has managed to avoid serious retaliation for operating the most significant pricing cartel the world has ever known, as well as frequent threats to its unity resulting from internal differences and disputes. |
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THE police may still be trying to figure out who abducted Sergei Kukura, CFO of LUKoil, but the Russian business elite knows perfectly well who pulled off the kidnapping and why. While the press plays up the juicy details ($6 million in small bills, a videotape unearthed in a cemetery), big-business types can't help but laugh. |
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In Response to "Beauty Queen Stripped of Title" on Sept. 24. Editor, Being an older American woman going to school, I want to applaud Miss Fyodorova for her dedication and determination to her profession and her education. |
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LAST week, the United Nations momentarily turned its attention away from the Middle East to congratulate itself on a job well done on the other side of the globe. There was much reason for pride, as delegates ushered in East Timor as the newest member of the international body. |
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A Chechen rebel videotape was released last week showing the last moments of the Mi-26 military helicopter as it fell out of the sky in August near the federal military base of Khankala, in a crash that killed at least 119 people. |
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Brothers in Arms Last week, Global Eye explored the extremist texts underlying the Bush Regime's maniacal foreign policy. On the very day that column was published, George W. Bush made these dreams of global domination the official "National Security Strategy" of the United States. |
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 What does the word "vacation" stand for? A transparent, emerald-colored sea, sparkling under the tender sun and splashing over beige rocks? Ancient temples and imperial palaces, hidden among palm and fig tress, with smoky silhouettes of mountains in the background? Tasty wines and magical, black, star-studded nights? Is it possible to find all this in one place? Or maybe you think that this paradise is so far away that your budget will never stretch that far? Think again. |
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Gonzalez Wins Vuelta MADRID (Reuters) - Spain's Aitor Gonzalez won a thrilling Tour of Spain Sunday after a superb time-trial ride secured him the 21st and final stage. |
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