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 An investigation carried out by the Interior Ministry's investigative department has turned up evidence of embezzlement of funds at the Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory, Interfax reported on Friday, and foreign students at the music school say they are not surprised. |
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As St. Petersburg's 300th anniversary draws closer, the city's anthem is bound to be heard with increasing regularity, and now the city is trying to give people the chance to sing along. |
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MOSCOW - Only one witness showed up at the opening of a trial in August of five young men accused of beating dozens of people with metal pipes in a skinhead rampage at the crowded Tsaritsyno outdoor market in Moscow. The clearly frightened witness, an Azeri merchant, then refused to testify against the suspects. |
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MOSCOW - President Vladimir Putin's softly worded, but firm, refusal to acquiesce to the U.S.-British push for automatic use of force against Iraq over any disruption of the planned weapons inspections demonstrates his unwillingness to cross the Rubicon before it becomes crystal clear whether and when the Anglo-American alliance will attempt a forceful change of regime in Baghdad. |
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As census-takers went into overdrive over the weekend, they added three Russian space voyageurs to the population count and fought off attacks by dogs and even a goat. |
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While plans for a new local facility for the storage of nuclear waste lie unrealized due partially to a lack of funding, local representatives of Russia's State Nuclear Inspectorate, or Gosatomnadzor, say that the capacity of the existing site in Russia's northwest has already been reached. |
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Rebels in Pankisi TBILISI, Georgia (AP) - Georgian Interior Minister Koba Narchemashvili said Monday that Chechen militants could still be hiding in the Pankisi Gorge and that troops would continue their operation in the valley "for a few more months. |
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 MOSCOW - President Vladimir Putin on Monday urged the government to seize initiative and ease restrictions on hard-currency transactions now that Russia has been removed from an international blacklist of "hot money" facilitators. Putin praised the joint work by the government and lawmakers that led to Russia being stricken from the Financial Action Task Force's financial blacklist Friday, but said that creating more stringent foreign-currency rules would be a step backward and would hurt honest businesses and citizens. |
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 MOSCOW - With foreign automakers eroding its market share, AvtoVAZ on Friday announced plans to stop production to cope with growing stockpiles of its best-selling Lada and Niva models. |
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MOSCOW - After a decade of stagnation and a dearth of financing, foreign investors are increasingly seeing the agricultural industry as a land of opportunity. On Thursday, Rabobank, one of the world's largest agricultural banks, and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development announced that they will provide up to $286 million in short-term working capital for companies during the 2002 to 2003 agribusiness season. |
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MOSCOW - After more than two years of legal scrambling, Russia on Friday was erased from the Financial Action Task Force's international blacklist of non-cooperative countries in the global fight against terrorism and money laundering. |
 NOGLIKI, Far East - President Vladimir Putin likes to talk about how important the development of small business is for the country. So the astonishing success of a small bed-and-breakfast hotel in a dead-end town on Sakhalin Island may well be the type of thing to make him prick up his ears. Called Kuban and located in the outskirts of Nogliki, an unsightly oil and fishing town 550 kilometers north of the island's capital, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, the hotel is surrounded by muddy roads and huge piles of timber that have lain there since Soviet times. |
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WHAT if ... what if these corporate buccaneers are right, or half-right, when they say that they never meant wrong? What if prosecutors cannot prove otherwise, beyond reasonable doubt? "These are some of the most intricate, complex facts I've ever run into," said Republican Billy Tauzin. |
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RUSSIA is one of the few countries in the world that has an unofficial budget alongside its official budget. Just like the legitimate budget, it contains revenue and expenditures sections. |
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HARD times continue on the world's financial markets. Every time share prices make a modest gain, analysts breathe a sigh of relief and inform us that the crisis is past. And before long prices start to fall again. After riding that roller coaster for a while, even the professional optimists have become guarded in their forecasts. |
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THE prime opinion-slinging show on Russian TV these days is called "Svoboda Slova" ("Freedom of Speech"). It's like "Crossfire" on steroids, with antagonists exchanging muscular polemics while a fever chart of audience opinion tells you who's winning the argument. |
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THE Russian military, fighting a protracted, seemingly unwinnable anti-guerrilla campaign in Chechnya, has repeatedly accused the Georgian authorities of supporting the rebels. Moscow claims that Chechen fighters recuperate in Georgia after raids in Russia, that Georgia is the main conduit for weapons and supplies into Chechnya and that the Georgian authorities have direct links with warlords accused by Moscow of involvement in terrorist activities. |
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The BaseNSA Echelon, CentComm: E-mail monitored 22/10/04. Dispatched DC. Yo, Ed! I'm looking out the window of Watchtower 19 in Force Zone Seven. |
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India Death Toll GUWAHATI, India (Reuters) - The death toll from attacks by suspected Muslim militants on devotees celebrating a Hindu festival in troubled northeastern India rose to four on Monday, police said. Twenty-two people were wounded when the attackers hurled grenades late on Sunday at two Durga Puja festivals honoring the Hindu goddess, Durga, in Bongaigaon town in Assam state near India's border with Bangladesh, police said. Bongaigaon is 210 kilometers west of Guwahati, the main city in tea and oil-rich Assam, where tension between local people, most of them Hindus, and Muslims, the majority illegal Bangladeshi settlers, has been simmering for decades. |
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 Flashlights beam through the woods and a team of four people, slightly out of breath, comes rushing by through the slush in search of a nearby checkpoint. |
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Brazil Claims Crown BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) - Brazil beat Russia 3-2 to win its first-ever World Volleyball Championship on Sunday. In a match that swung back and forth, Brazil outlasted Russia 23-25, 27-25, 25-20, 23-25, 15-13. Captain Nalbert Bitencourt scored 23 points during the 2:13 match for the Brazilians, who lost their only other finals appearance to the Soviet Union in 1982. |
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