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 Almost four years after the assassination of State Duma Deputy Galina Starovoitova, six people were detained last week in connection with her murder by the St. Petersburg and Leningrad Oblast Administration of the Federal Security Service (FSB). The FSB said that the arrest, which was announced on Tuesday, was made following an investigation into a criminal group active in the region, according to Interfax. |
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 Four people were killed and another five injured when two cars from a commuter train jumped the tracks at Baltiisky Vokzal on Monday morning. According to initial reports from the press service of the St. Petersburg branch of the Emergency Situations Ministry, at 10:25 a. |
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Chemical Arms MOSCOW (AP) - The top official in charge of destroying Russia's chemical arsenal said Monday that the biggest threat to the program was a lack of certainty in funding. |
 MOSCOW - Except for the empty music stands in the orchestra, the moment of silence and the somber demeanor of the emcee, this concert might have seemed like any other. Performers from "Nord Ost" sang and danced with obligatory enthusiasm and the audience kindly cheered, but there was no denying that last Saturday's concert "Nord-Ost, We're With You!," presided over by Georgy Vasilyev, the musical's director and himself a former hostage, was filled with the emotion of the past two weeks. |
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 MOSCOW - Oct. 23 was Olga Romanova's last day at one store in the L'Etoile perfume chain before moving to a long-awaited job in another. She returned home - an apartment around the corner from the theater where, just hours before, hundreds of people had been taken hostage - at around 1:30 a. |
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 MOSCOW - IKEA is planning three new stores in Russia by 2006 but must hike local production before it can make a profit here, the reclusive head and founder of the Swedish furniture giant said Friday. "It's no secret that we have a certain loss today," Ingvar Kamprad, 76, whom Forbes ranks as the world's 16th richest person with an estimated worth of $13. |
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MOSCOW - The European Union has officially granted Russia market-economy status and simultaneously enacted amendments that could negate some of the benefits. |
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MOSCOW - A Kemerovo court presidium on Monday overturned the $95-million decision against leading pulp-and-paper holding Ilim Pulp Enterprises that led to it losing a 61-percent stake in its flagship mill, the company said. The original case, brought on April 25 by a super-minority shareholder named Sergei Melkin, accused Ilim Pulp of violating the terms by which it privatized the Kotlas Pulp and Paper Mill in the northern Arkhangelsk region. |
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MOSCOW - A pioneering program created by presidential decree in 1997 to foster a new breed of business leaders was given a new lease on life on Tuesday. |
 MOSCOW - Tyumen Oil Co. has officially entered the Slavneft sweepstakes, publicly confirming for the first time its intention to participate in the largest privatization tender of the year. Simon Kukes, the president of Tyumen Oil Co., or TNK, told the Financial Times in an interview published Tuesday that his company, the country's fourth-largest crude producer, would submit a bid for the government's 74. |
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 MOSCOW - The drive to create a new Russian short-range commercial jet is gathering momentum, with domestic manufacturers slugging it out in a bid to win a government tender as part of the country's regional jet program. |
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MOSCOW - Brewers gave a weary welcome Tuesday to a government decision to halve import duties on aluminum cans and foreign equipment. An upbeat Deputy Prime Minister Alexei Kudrin said that the move would finally let Russians "drink world-class beer at lower prices." But the country's leading brewery was more morbid. "It's like sewing severed fingers back on," Baltika spokesperson Alexei Kedrin said. "This news would have been better had they not increased import duty on cans back in January." The decision is technically a recommendation, but it is widely expected to be adopted by the end of the year. When it does, the duty will drop from 41 euros ($41) per 1,000 cans to 22 euros, while duties on foreign brewing equipment will drop to 5 percent from 10 percent. |
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 MOSCOW - Russia has become a major target for many prestigious business schools, but while the number and quality of budding Masters of Business Administration programs is growing, Russia is still catching on to the true value of an advanced degree. |
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THE ChevronTexaco tanker pulled into Pascagoula, Mississippi, in August, laden with 485,000 barrels of Iraqi crude. As raw oil goes, the cargo was nothing special, soured as it was by 2.4 percent sulfur. But ChevronTexaco's refineries are better equipped than many to handle the contaminants common to the Iraqi product. |
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PRESIDENT Vladimir Putin and the team of "St. Petersburgers" in the top echelons of government could soon find themselves embroiled in a financial scandal involving tens of millions of dollars and pretty much the entire Russian economy. |
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INTERNATIONAL arbitration is now recognized and can be enforced in the 132 countries which are members of the New York Convention of 1958. In Russia, the general rules for the enforcement of arbitration awards were duplicated in a federal law on international commercial arbitration in 1993. |
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In response to "A Pyrrhic Victory for Western Civilization" on Nov. 5. Editor, I would like to compliment Yulia Latynina for her excellent, insightful writing and well thought-out perspective. |
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AFTER the hostage crisis ended in bloodshed in Moscow, the Kremlin announced there will be no peace talks with rebels under any conditions. Sergei Yastrzhembsky, the Kremlin's chief spokesperson on Chechnya, said that "there is no one with whom to negotiate in Chechnya. |
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BOTH the Chinese and Russian leaders have reached the same conclusion and have adopted similar policies toward Washington. "If you can't beat them, join them," says it simply. |
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THE unanimous vote by the UN Security Council on Friday was an important achievement for U.S. President George W. Bush in his campaign to rid the world of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction. The resolution lays out a relatively tough program of inspections to verify whether Saddam Hussein's regime is giving up chemical and biological weapons, missiles and work on nuclear weapons. |
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WASHINGTON - Richard Gephardt, then the top Democrat in the U.S. House of Representatives, came out several months ago with a proposal: "an 'Apollo Project' to develop environmentally smart, renewable energy solutions. |
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England Humiliated BRISBANE, Australia (Reuters) - Australia crushed England by 384 runs to win the opening Ashes test in less than four days on Sunday after one of the worst English batting collapses in almost 100 years. Set 464 to win after Australia declared their second innings at 296 for five, England crumbled to 79 all out in little more than two hours. |
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