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 Vladimir Yakovlev's chances of running for a third term as governor suffered a serious blow this week when, after 15 hours of hearings and deliberations, the St. Petersburg City Charter Court handed down a ruling at 3 a.m. on Wednesday saying that the City Charter rules out such a candidacy. |
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While corruption and bribe-taking have long been endemic problems in relation to St. Petersburg police and Russian police in general, a recent spate of robberies by police officers reported by foreigners has foreign consulates in the city warning citizens of their countries to be take special care when dealing with law-enforcement officers. |
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MOSCOW - Although a videotape shot by a British reporter provides compelling evidence that Chechen rebels are allowed to move freely in Georgia's Pankisi Gorge, Russia will hold off from taking any action until President Vladimir Putin meets with Georgian leader Eduard Shevardnadze this weekend, analysts said. Rossia television broadcast a video this week of Chechen rebels crossing from Pankisi to North Ossetia and then sneaking into Ingushetia, where they fought Russian forces near the village of Galashki. The footage was shot by Roddy Scott, a freelance British reporter who apparently was killed in the fighting. "The tape is evidence that Chechen rebels can move freely through Georgian territory," said Dmitry Rogozin, the chairperson of the State Duma's international affairs committee. |
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 GROZNY - At age 29, Grozny-based psychiatrist Kheda Omarkhadzhiyeva's hair has turned almost completely gray - not just, she says, because of the many friends and relatives she has lost in the second Chechen war, but from the stress of her work with Chechen children. |
 MOSCOW - President Vladimir Putin on Thursday appointed Alexander Khloponin as acting Krasnoyarsk governor while the chaos surrounding the region's recent gubernatorial election is sorted out. Putin, who had kept silent as the scandal unfolded this week, intervened a day after regional election officials invalidated the results of the Sept. |
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Avalanche Body Found VLADIKAVKAZ, North Ossetia (AP) - Emergency workers on Thursday recovered the body of a 67-year-old man from the mass of ice, mud and debris left by an avalanche in North Ossetia last month, bringing the total number of bodies recovered to 17, officials said. |
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 A British company, Hospitality Developments Ltd, is to invest in the reconstruction of the Gavan Hotel, currently owned by Lenexpo, which will be renamed the Ramada Pushkin Hotel. Located on Sredny Pr. on Vasilievsky Island, the hotel was built as accommodation for the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow but, by 1993, it had already been closed for major reconstruction. |
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MOSCOW - President Vladimir Putin on Monday ordered his cabinet to make sure regional utilities are fully prepared for the heating season, to avoid a repeat of the crisis that left hundreds of thousands of people in the cold and dark two winters ago. |
 MOSCOW - Vodka magnate Yury Shefler, wanted in Russia for allegedly threatening to kill a government official, says that he has no intention of returning to his homeland any time soon. "It's much easier to do business from an office in the West than in Butyrka prison," Shefler said from Cyprus in an e-mail interview. |
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MOSCOW - In a symbolic gesture that Russia hopes portends the future, U.S. Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham guided Energy Minister Igor Yusufov through a key section of the heavily guarded U. |
 MOSCOW - U.S.-based Intel Corp., the world's largest chipmaker, intends to triple its Russian workforce over the next two years and open four new research and development laboratories, Intel chief Craig Barrett said Wednesday. "Russia is one of the top three countries where we are planning to increase our investment," Barrett said at the Intel Developer Forum at the Russian Academy of Sciences. |
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MOSCOW - The Central Bank and the government on Wednesday confirmed their commitment to reforming Russia's banking sector, which remains an obstacle to economic growth. |
 MOSCOW - Once the proud producers of a quarter of the world's commercial fleet, Russian airplane manufacturers are now humbly trying to re-enter markets they previously ruled. Emboldened by renewed government interest in the long-neglected industry, companies like Tupolev, Aviastar-SP and the Kazan Aviation Production Association, or KAPO, have been scouring the globe in search of clients. |
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MOSCOW - Forty-three years after his first visit to Moscow, former PepsiCo Inc. President and CEO Don Kendall is back in town on a mission. This time, however, it is not to swap Pepsi for vodka or deliver a message from the U. |
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GIANTS of the American and Russian oil industries come together in Houston this week for the first U.S.-Russia Energy Summit. The event brings together cabinet members, top corporate executives, legislators and financiers and could lead to a breakthrough. |
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THE election skulduggery in Krasnoyarsk and Nizhny Novgorod last weekend made for depressing news, but at least it has put an all-too-welcome spotlight on the dubious practices employed in gubernatorial and mayoral elections. |
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MANY in the Arab world portray Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon virtually the same way the administration of U.S. President George W. Bush portrays Saddam Hussein. The parallels are astounding. The Bush administration says that Hussein has twice invaded his neighbors - Iran in 1980 and Kuwait in 1990. |
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 MOSCOW - The Russian National Orchestra last week announced the appointment of Mikhail Pletnyov as its artistic director, for a tenure to begin in January. The move comes less than a week after internationally-reknowned violinist Vladimir Spivakov resigned as musical director and principal conductor, following the orchestra's decision not to renew his contract when it expires next fall. |
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The Mariinsky Theater opens its 220th season on Sunday, and, for the first time in its history, the venerable company is starting its season with a film premiere. |
 First of all, a disclaimer. As the editor of All About Town, I could be accused of a conflict of interest; this article's subject is an exhibition of work by Sami Hyrskylahti, who has been contributing articles and photographs to this paper, and in particular to All About Town, for the last few years on a freelance basis. Nevertheless, the exhibition of Hyrskylahti's photographs, "Five Years of Photographs," that opened at the cafe-club Che on Thursday deserves attention for more than one reason. |
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 MOSCOW - Imagine a theater director who, during his career, has staged 101 shows in 30 cities in 15 countries. Keep in mind that, before this director founded one of the most famous theaters of the 20th century at the ripe age of 47 in 1964, he had been a popular film and theater actor and had won a coveted Stalin Prize for his work on stage. |
 How many violinists do you know who graduated from one of the world's top conservatories, were an integral part of an underground scene under a repressive regime, played for five years with a legendary rock band after their best friend, the band's violinist drowned, before reinventing themselves as their country's leading exponent of the baroque violin? Anyone who has talked with Andrei Reshetin, the artistic director of the ongoing festival Earlymusic, will recognize this description. |
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 Club Sputnik - the promoters who have presented Helsinki bands to St. Petersburg club crowds, and vice versa on a regular basis - have announced the folding of the project. |
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This Sunday is set to be one of the busiest days of the year in terms of the number - and quality - of events taking place at St. Petersburg's many cultural venues, with high-profile happenings at the Mariinsky Theater, the Shostakovich and Glinka Philharmonics, Baltiisky Dom, the Alexandriinsky Theater, to name but a few. |
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Spanish conductor and Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory graduate Alexis Soriano has a special feeling for the city where he studied music. "I have been in many countries and towns, but only here I have met such an incredible love and enthusiasm for Spain and Spanish [culture]," he recalls. |
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Despite negotiations and rumors about a one-time gig at a Moscow club, Morrissey's Russian tour is not happening at the moment, the tour's British promoter revealed on Thursday. Meanwhile, Morrissey triumphantly returned to the U.K. |
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Sometimes, you plan fine dining well in advance. Other times, a colleague may invite you out after a hard day at work. Or, a colleague may have thoughts about a restaurant and ask you to go instead, to tell them about it later. |
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Grasshopper Zurich midfielder Mate Baturina broke the hearts of Zenit fans at Petrovsky Stadium on Thursday night, when he stunned the Petersburgers with a last-minute goal to advance the Swiss team into the second round of the UEFA Cup winning 4-3 on aggregate despite losing to the Petersburg side 2-1. |
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Boris Mikhailov, the head coach of the Russian national ice-hockey team, was named as the head coach of SKA on Thursday. "I can't give any details regarding [Mikhailov's] contract, but I know that he is in St. |
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Ponting in Command COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) - Ricky Ponting blazed 141 runs to guide Australia from a first-over setback to a commanding 330 for five when bad light stopped play Thursday on the opening day of the first test against Pakistan. Ponting went to the crease at the departure of Matt Hayden (4) on the fifth ball of the morning and combined with Justin Langer in a 183-run wicket to salvage the innings and put the world No. |
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