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MOSCOW - The Foreign Ministry has stopped issuing invitations for multi-entry visas as it transfers part of its visa duties to the Interior Ministry, in a move that threatens to create a headache for foreigners over the next few months. The Foreign Ministry confirmed Thursday that it had stopped issuing invitations for multi-entry visas Tuesday. |
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MANCHESTER, England - The deputy commercial director of Russia's largest steel plant is in a British jail after being arrested for refusing to switch off his mobile phone during a packed commuter flight from London to Manchester. |
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WASHINGTON - When Russian security agents arrived, they saw danger lurking in the 15 newspapers piled on the scientist's desk. The year was 1999, and the Russian and foreign publications before them were available across Moscow at news kiosks. But the investigators from the Federal Security Service, or FSB, demanded answers. |
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MOSCOW - The country's first census in 13 years has been extended until Monday, in an attempt to include those who were unavailable during the weeklong campaign, which was to have ended Wednesday. |
 MOSCOW - It started with a simple rental agreement. But the leasing of two innocuous apartments in downtown Moscow drew the Vatican, Channel One, the nation's biggest tabloid newspaper and the Franciscan brothers into a drama filled with allegations of prostitution and anti-Catholicism. |
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MOSCOW - More dark-skinned people are being harassed by the police and refused residency permits, jobs and health care in a sign that ethnic and religious intolerance are on the rise across Russia, said a human-rights report presented Tuesday in Washington. |
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 The St. Petersburg fast-food market is going through a period of dramatic change. A new chain of restaurants - BlinDonalts - has appeared in the city, while another chain, Grillmaster, has left. McDonald's, in turn, is planning to open three more restaurants by the end of the year, and eight to ten next year. |
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MOSCOW - The Finance Ministry said Wednesday that capital flight plummeted 80 percent to $2.1 billion in the first half of the year, in a sign that entrepreneurs are finding Russia's investment climate more attractive and putting their money to work at home. |
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MOSCOW - Once cut-throat competitors, oil majors Tyumen Oil Co. and Sibneft have revealed themselves in a new guise - strategic partners. By the end of the year, Sibneft is to receive an 8.6-percent equity stake in the offshore company TNK International Ltd. |
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MOSCOW - Swedish retailer Ikea on Thursday called for consumers to return 72,000 stuffed animals purchased at its Russian stores, saying the toys are dangerous to children. |
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MOSCOW - A telephone call between Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov and oil magnate Roman Abramovich in early August has done little to subdue the passions swirling around the Moscow Oil Refinery. Since the infamous call prompted by supply cuts, the Moscow refinery, which supplies 55 percent of Moscow's oil products, has been beset with two opposing boards of directors and two general directors. |
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AT the end of August, the official government newspaper, Rossiiskaya Gazeta, published a sensational article about the bombing of the Pankisi Gorge in Georgia that left one person dead and several wounded. Citing an unnamed source in the Georgian Defense Ministry, the newspaper reported that a Georgian plane piloted by a Lieutenant Georgy Rusteli had dropped the deadly ordnance on his own people. |
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THE United States has accused Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma of flouting UN sanctions by selling a sophisticated radar system to Iraq that could threaten the safety of U. |
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 "New, exciting, surprising, sensual." These four words almost lay the foundations of a manifesto, and show the essential state of mind of Marc de Mauny, the director of the Earlymusic festival, which wrapped up on Saturday. This year's festival, the fifth, reinforced de Mauny's credo of a new approach to music in Russia. The audiences that packed into the warm, intimate atmosphere of the Glinka Philharmonic, where most of the concerts were held over the two weeks of the festival, proved particularly receptive to this message. |
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 MOSCOW - There's no need to fly to New York for the taste of a Broadway musical, when the real thing can be found right here in our own backyard. The 1980s hit "42nd Street" has found its way to Moscow in a joyful, rousing and thoroughly idiomatic English-language version straight from New York. |
 Feature films and documentaries have long been a part of local movie-goers' and art-lovers' cultural menu, yet video art, an eclectic artistic mix, remains largely an exception. For this reason, BLICK, a project to screen "new Nordic films and videos" that takes place at Mirage cinema on Saturday, is being promoted in a party format. The screenings, accompanied by Scandinavian easy-listening music played by local DJs, begin at midnight and run until 4 a. |
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 At first glance, St. Petersburg is hardly short of clubs. Delve a little deeper, however, and a problem becomes apparent - the definition of "club. |
 Renowned director Andrei Konchalovsky's new film, "Dom Durakov," ("House of Fools"), premiered in St. Petersburg this week, and its director was in town for the launch. The film, which won the jury's Grand Prix at the Venice Film Festival in September, tells the story of the first war in Chechnya, which lasted from 1994 to 1996, through the eyes of the mentally ill patients of a hospital on the Chechen-Russian border. |
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 Damo Suzuki is the closest thing to a living legend the experimental-music world has to offer. The Japan-born Suzuki's fame dates back three decades, to the early 1970s, when he was lead vocalist for the influential Krautrock band Can. |
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One of this week's highlights is Griboyedov's Sixth Anniversary Concert and Party on Friday. Griboyedov has announced the lineup of artists who will perform on the night - it includes Leningrad's Sergei Shnurov, Solnechny Udar's Andrei Nuzhdin, Dva Samaliota's Vadim Pokrovsky and Alexei Lazovsky, NOM's Ivan Turist, Petlya Nesterova's Eduard Nesterenko, Caribace's Filipp Nikanorov and La Minor's Slava Shalygin. |
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Palkin, the up-market "new" restaurant in the Premier Casino on Nevsky Prospect, is not really new at all. An establishment of the same name was founded in St. |
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Molina To Return LA CORUNA, Spain (Reuters) - Deportivo la Coruna goalkeeper Jose Molina, who was recently diagnosed as suffering from testicular cancer, has an excellent chance of playing football again, club doctor Cesar Cobian said on Wednesday. "The prognosis is that he will make a full recovery," Cobian told reporters at a news conference in La Coruna. |
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