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MOSCOW - In a continuing effort to tighten up migration policy, the State Duma has given preliminary approval to a bill expanding the grounds for denying entry to foreign nationals or expelling them from the country. The bill, which also establishes new visa categories, consists of amendments to the existing law on entering and leaving Russia. |
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MOSCOW - With the apparent blessing of the Kremlin, the Education Ministry has defied resistance even from its own ranks and taken a step toward introducing an Orthodox Christian component into the public school system. |
 A design for a monument to be erected in St. Petersburg's Serafimovskoye Cemetery to the 118 sailors who died when the Russian submarine Kursk sank on Aug. 12, 2000 was selected Friday from a group of 11 submissions. But the selection was not everyone's first choice. The submission by architects Nikita Sokolov and Gennady Peichev comprises a black granite cube - symbolizing the ocean depths - with its top shaped to imitate the restless surface of the Barents Sea, where the submarine sank, and a stormy petrel - a kind of sea bird - flying above the waves as a symbol of tragedy. |
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MOSCOW - Prosecutors have sent Denmark evidence implicating Akhmed Zakayev in the 1996 kidnapping of two priests in Chechnya to back up a request for his extradition, Interfax reported Saturday. But the human-rights group Memorial, whose members interviewed one of the priests after he was freed, said the evidence does not hold up. Zakayev, a top aide to Chechen separatist leader Aslan Maskhadov, was detained Oct. 30 in Copenhagen after attending a congress of Chechen separatists and human rights activists there. A Danish court ruled he should remain in jail until Nov. 26 while Russia's extradition request is considered. Interfax, citing Prosecutor General's Office spokesperson Leonid Troshin, said prosecutors sent Danish officials evidence of Zakayev's involvement in the kidnapping of Sergei Zhigulin and Anatoly Chistousov, two Russian Orthodox priests. |
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 MOSCOW - They once wandered Europe from southern Britain to Russia in the thousands but, now, the European bison, a shaggy-haired cousin of the American buffalo, number a few hundred. |
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St. Petersburg police force said Monday that it had detained three people suspected of stealing three rare and valuable editions from leading St. Petersburg libraries. The criminal group is suspected of being behind the theft of at least 20 such books from major libraries in Moscow, Saratov, Kazan and St. |
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Bulking Up for Bush ST. PETERSBURG (SPT) - City police say they are strengthening safety measures in the city ahead of Friday's meeting between U. |
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MOSCOW - The State Property Fund announced Monday that it has begun accepting bids for a 74.95-percent stake in the Slavneft oil company at a starting price of $1.7 billion and will continue until Dec. 15. The fund starting accepted bids Saturday and the winner will be announced Dec. |
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TOULOUSE, France - With the prime ministers of France and Russia looking on, officials of Aeroflot and Airbus signed a contract Monday for the purchase of 18 Airbus passenger planes worth hundreds of millions of dollars. |
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MOSCOW - LUKoil said Friday that it intends to sell its stake in a key Azeri oil field to an unnamed Japanese company for $1.25 billion, a record transaction in Russian corporate history. LUKoil said that it would sell its 10-percent stake in Azeri-Chirag-Guneshli, because the company wants to focus on projects where it holds majority stakes. |
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MOSCOW - With no substantial increase in financing earmarked in the draft 2003 budget, Russia's space research and development program will see cutbacks next year that might be to the detriment of its involvement in the international space station, or ISS, officials said Friday. |
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MOSCOW - Rising personal incomes, a stronger economy and even a bumper grain harvest are pushing Russians to spend more on telephone services, Communications Minister Leonid Reiman said Friday. Overall revenues for telecom services rose 45 percent year on year to 195. |
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MOSCOW - Metals giant Russian Aluminum has become IKEA Group's first domestic supplier of nonstick cookware. Under the terms of a deal officially announced Thursday, RusAl subsidiary Kappa-Kalitva will provide 280,000 pots and pans annually to IKEA for its stores around the world. |
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When St. Petersburg Deputy Governor Valery Nazarov addressed the Sixth Annual U.S.-Russian Investment Symposium on Friday, he was looking for more than just a birthday bonus for Russia's second city, which celebrates its 300th anniversary in May 2003. The topic of his late-afternoon panel was fundraising programs for the city's tercentenary, but Nazarov's bigger mission is to drum up post-party investment. |
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IN life, WorldCom tormented its rivals by wrapping the planet in telecom capacity, thus depressing prices, and then lying about its profits, which made everybody else look like slackers. In death, or something like it, WorldCom still weighs on its enemies. |
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PRESIDENT Vladimir Putin has pledged to hold a referendum in Chechnya on adopting a new constitution for the republic. A constitution is, of course, just what Chechnya needs - about as much as a ballerina needs a supply of Pampers. |
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WHAT'S the chance that credit markets could suffer the kind of bubble-bursting collapse that has afflicted stock markets around the world over the past two years? Even if the likelihood of such a financial crisis is relatively small, that's the kind of question U. |
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THERE is widespread agreement that Russia's economy has done well over the last four years, despite an increasingly volatile international environment. |
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FOR many people, St. Petersburg is the most European of Russia's cities. The signs of this are everywhere. Its history, geographic location and cultural heritage all indicate its orientation toward European traditions and values. There is a stong symbolic element as well in St. |
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Taking the Fifth Since the last Global Eye, George W. Bush has been enthroned in near-absolute power by a whopping, er, 21 percent of the American electorate, which narrowly voted in a slate of congressional Republican rubber-stamps - who bid fair to outdo Baghdad's parliamentarians in their cringing obedience to the all-wise Leader. |
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MOSCOW - CSKA Moscow will meet city rival Lokomotiv in a one-time "golden" game on Thursday to decide the Russian championship, after both teams ended the season with the same number of points. CSKA defeated Saturn Ramenskoye 3-0, while Lokomotiv edged Dinamo 2-1 in a heated Moscow derby on Sunday. |
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