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At least in its trappings, Friday's meeting between Presidents Vladimir Putin and George W. Bush in the Catherine Palace in the St. Petersburg suburb of Pushkin offered proof of a profound change in the relationship between the two countries. Whereas global confrontation between the rivals in past decades meant that summits were meticulously prepared events of great importance, this time around the U. |
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MOSCOW - Trucks loaded with Danish sausages, air conditioners and freezers are piling up at the border in a customs slowdown that exporters and Danish officials fear might be linked to a spat over Chechnya. |
 Back in February, Vladislav Surkov, the Kremlin's influential pointman for overseeing domestic politics, chided the United Russia party - created to support President Vladimir Putin - for its lack of initiative and fresh ideas. Surkov warned the party that if it didn't speed forward as a "locomotive" of Russia's politcal life, it would become nothing more than "a detachable railway car. |
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MOSCOW - Meeting with a select group of media managers, President Vladimir Putin announced Monday evening that he had heeded their plea and vetoed the restrictive amendments to the laws on media and terrorism. Last Wednesday, top managers of both state and non-state media displayed unusual solidarity in petitioning the president to do so. |
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MOSCOW - The Federal Security Service raided the offices of a Irkutsk environmental group on Friday and seized computer hard drives containing ecological information pertaining to a planned $2. |
 MOSCOW - Russia should take stock of its own weapons stockpile and boost security near its airbases and southern frontiers if it wants to limit the number of aircraft shot down by Chechen rebels, military analysts said Monday. Igla shoulder-fired missiles were blamed for two of the three helicopter crashes in Chechnya in the past three months. |
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MOSCOW - About a year after President Vladimir Putin's push for sweeping judicial reform, legal experts argued that the overhaul has allowed for progress in individual cases, but has failed thus far to improve the court system as a whole. |
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Tunnel Vision ST. PETERSBURG (SPT) - Three men and two women were arrested by St. Petersburg police Sunday night in the collapsed metro tunnel running between the Ploshchad Muzhestva and Lesnaya metro stations. Construction workers involved in repairing the line spotted the people inside the tunnel with a movie camera and called the police, the St. Petersburg police press service said on Monday. "The workers had the impression that the people were trying to hide," said Pavel Rayevsky, the head of the police press service. Rayevsky said that the investigation had been turned over to the Federal Security Service (FSB). The FSB would not comment on the case on Monday. |
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 PETROZAVODSK, Karelia - School No. 17 in the capital of the Republic of Karelia has been known since its inception in 1967 as one of the best schools in Russia for English-language instruction. |
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 TOLYATTI, Central Russia - On normal days, the lifeblood of this one-company town pulses 16 hours a day, six days a week, pumping out 200 cars an hour. But these aren't normal days for AvtoVAZ or its sprawling complex near the banks of the Volga River, where 120,000 people work to produce 70 percent of the country's automobiles. The usually thriving grounds of the factory now resemble a ghost town - traffic virtually non-existent, bus stops vacant. |
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 CHERNOGOLOVKA, Moscow Oblast - The government relaunched production of Stolichnaya and Moskovskaya vodkas on Friday, but its rival for the brands, SPI Group, said that it would never be able to export the produce. |
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MOSCOW - The State Civil Aviation Service has released a directive with strict new requirements for operating charter flights, citing massive delays by some of the country's leading airlines. Airlines that do not meet the requirements could have their flights cut back or lose their charter programs altogether, Mikhail Parnev, head of the service's transportation-monitoring department, said Friday at a news conference. |
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MOSCOW - The heads of rival coal companies accused each other last week of murder, blackmail and slander. On Thursday, Oleg Misevra, general director of SUEK, the country's top coal producer, accused Vadim Varshavsky, the head of rival Russky Ugol, of threatening to have him arrested for the August murder of Ivan Kartashev, the deputy director of SUEK's trading arm Rosuglesbyt. |
 As the economy evolves into a more sophisticated beast, mergers and acquisitions have begun to replace the naked asset-grabbing that was the hallmark of the Yeltsin era. Ben Aris reports on the country's third, and so far quietest, redistribution of property. Neither a candy nor a rapper, M&A is all the rage in corporate circles, as savvy tycoons and entrepreneurs are increasingly snapping up and expanding their corporate castles out of the industrial Legos left scattered about after the the first wave of privatizations a decade ago. |
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FOUR years ago, Russia was riveted by a horrendous financial crash. Today, that is difficult to believe. The standard judgment now is that that was precisely the wake-up call that the country needed. Russia is not only a very stable economy, but also a remarkably dynamic one. |
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BLAME Max Cooper. He is the former McDonald's Corp. executive and current franchisee who came up with the notion of a "value meal." Cooper, who in the mid-1970s began a wildcat experiment with the concept at his own stores, knew it was the next big thing. |
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Andrew Carnegie needed a lifetime; the Rockefellers required several generations. How long does it take nowadays to win respectability in Washington? About two years. That, at any rate, is how long it took Mikhail Khodorkovsky, CEO and main shareholder of the Russian oil company Yukos. |
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AS the autumn political season draws to a close, it is a good time to take stock of the pro-Western shift effected so unexpectedly and so brilliantly by President Vladimir Putin in September 2001. |
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WASHINGTON - With all of their flaws, the CIA and the FBI have evolved over decades as institutions within a democratic and free society. Not so the United States' newly created Department of Homeland Security. The DHS will set up a rival intelligence and espionage shop - at a time of sullenly passive hysteria, under a White House unenthusiastic about our constitutional traditions, and amid a quasi-artificial war crisis. |
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Rough Beast We've said it before, and we'll keep on saying it: A country whose leader has the power to imprison any citizen, on his order alone, and hold them indefinitely, in military custody, without access to the courts, without a lawyer, without any charges, their fate determined solely by the leader's arbitrary whim - that country is a tyranny, not a democracy, not a republic, not a union of free citizens. |
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Haider To Quit VIENNA (Reuters) - Austrian far-right leader Joerg Haider will offer to resign his regional governor's post, saying he has had his fill of politics, after a crushing defeat in Sunday's election. "He will offer his resignation," his spokesperson, Karl-Heinz Petritz, said. Haider, who turned his Freedom Party into Europe's most successful far-right party with 27 percent of Austria's vote in 1999, saw the party lose almost two thirds of that support in Sunday's snap polls. |
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