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With less than a week to go before Sunday's elections for the St. Petersburg Legislative Assembly, the candidates weren't the only ones keeping busy over the weekend. Due to a federal law that came into force earlier this year, the St. Petersburg City Court spent the weekend and most of Monday working its way through a stack of complaints against different candidates. |
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MOSCOW - After failing to pass housing reform two days earlier, the State Duma mustered enough votes to pass a government-drafted bill to phase out subsidies for gas, electricity and water in first reading on Friday. |
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MOSCOW - A comprehensive, two-year program to reduce the spread of HIV/AIDS and sexually transmitted infections among young people in the Altai and Volgograd regions started on Monday. The $2.5-million program is intended to serve as a model for dealing with the AIDS epidemic that could be extended nationwide. |
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MOSCOW - Russia's efforts to beef up its military presence in Central Asia will gain new momentum this week when a group of its warplanes arrives at an airbase outside the Kyrgyz capital, Bishkek. |
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MOSCOW - The Labor Ministry is collecting wish lists from federal agencies of jobs for young men who opt for alternative military service, and the positions being suggested might make draftees think twice before refusing to pick up arms. Labor Minister Alexander Pochinok told reporters late last week that pacifist-minded young men will have "an enormous choice" of employment opportunities at polar stations and in far-flung forests when the alternative civil-service law comes into force in January 2004. |
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VLADIKAVKAZ, North Ossetia - Hundreds of Chechen refugees living in a tent camp in Ingushetia are being ejected and told to return to Chechnya, human-rights workers say. |
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MOSCOW - The Prosecutor General's Office says it has provided Denmark with new evidence of Akhmed Zakayev's involvement in war crimes, including the testimony of jailed rebel leader Salman Raduyev. The Izvestia newspaper also has published what it said was new evidence against Zakayev, based on the accounts of several Chechens, which included allegations that he took civilians hostage and gave orders to kill Chechens loyal to federal troops. |
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Car Explodes MOSCOW (AP) - A car exploded Monday near a settlement housing military personnel outside Moscow, an air force official said. News reports said three people were killed. |
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MOSCOW - A trading company owned by Alfa Group chairperson Mikhail Fridman is under fire for chartering outdated oil tankers, including the 26-year-old Prestige, which disastrously broke up off the Spanish coast on a voyage for the trader from St. Petersburg two weeks ago. |
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MOSCOW - The flow of imports entering the country by road could slow to a trickle if Europe's leading truckers union follows up on its threat to stop issuing special permits used by thousands of trucks each month to avoid lengthy customs inspections. |
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MOSCOW - LUKoil is negotiating to sell off its fleet of tankers for about $300 million, said a former manager at the oil major's subsidiary, LUKoil Arctic Tanker. The manager, who requested anonymity, said the company is in talks with three interested parties: Sovkomflot, Novoship and the Far Eastern Shipping Co., controlled by Sergei Generalov. The fleet includes 10 icebreakers with a load capacity of 15,000 to 20,000 tons that were built in Germany and St. Petersburg in the last five years. LUKoil also owns five river-sea tankers, two of which are being completed in Volgograd. All 15 are owned by LUKoil Arctic Tanker, or LAT, a fully owned subsidiary of the oil major that has debts of $527 million as of Aug. |
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 KHARKOV, Ukraine - While Russia's aviation authorities strive to identify which regional jet will roam the country in the next decade, its southern neighbor is throttling up an attempt to break into the market. |
 MOSCOW - Turf wars between the Railways and Transportation ministries are causing havoc with the country's cargo network and threatening economic growth, Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov warned top officials from both ministries Friday. Speaking at the government's biennial so-called transport summit, Kasyanov urged Railways Minister Gennady Fadeyev, Transportation Minister Sergei Frank and their top deputies to put aside their differences and increase cooperation for the sake of the economy. |
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 ALMATY, Kazakhstan - The indefinite suspension of the biggest construction project in the former Soviet Union throws into doubt Kazakhstan's attractiveness to foreign investors, said bankers and oil executives in Almaty. |
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Clearing 9,000 NEW YORK (AP) - A strong start to the holiday-shopping season incited more buying Monday, this time on Wall Street, where stock prices rose sharply and the Dow Jones industrials climbed back above 9,000 for the first time since summer. |
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The name is Bond, Corporate Bond. As the Russian market grows bigger and more liquid, bonds have become cheaper and more attractive as a way to raise finances and companies are pumping them out. |
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ANDERS Åslund, in his article "How Russia Was Won," has written another remarkable piece, trying to explain that the recent "success" of Russia is due to it following the advice of the International Monetary Fund and the U.S. |
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THE administration of U.S. President George W. Bush is starting to flesh out its promise to expand the United States' paltry foreign assistance. Measured as a share of the economy, the aid budget has fallen from 0. |
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OLEG Misevra, president of Siberian Coal Energy Company Baikal-Ugol, or SUEK, the country's top coal producer, has released details of his negotations with rival Russky Ugol. Misevra alleged that Vadim Varshavsky, head of Russky Ugol, had threatened to have him jailed for murder if he did not hand over a 30-percent stake in Dalvostugol, a major coal producer in the Amur region. |
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PRESIDENT Vladimir Putin arrove in Beijing on Sunday for a three-day state visit that will be important in at least three respects. First, Putin's visit marks the tenth anniversary of former Russian President Boris Yeltsin's critical Dec. |
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WASHINGTON-The Bush administration, after resisting it for more than a year, has finally ordered up an investigation into how Sept. 11 came about. The man in charge? A 79-year-old Cold Warrior infamous for dabbling in secret wars, coups and assassinations. |
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Base Bawl . So, it really is true. Osama and the boys really do "hate us for our way of life," as George W. keeps saying. Funny thing, though: the Western "ways" that the terrorists hate seem to be the same ones that also get up the nose of George W. |
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 More than 150 short-track speed skaters descended on the city over the weekend, as St. Petersburg hosted one of the six rounds of the sport's World Cup for the first time. The competitors were drawn from more than 21 countries - a record for a World Cup round - but the center of attention at the Ice Palace was Apolo Anton Ohno of the United Skates, the sport's "bad boy" and winner of a disputed gold medal at the Salt Lake City Winter Olympics. |
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MADRID - Surprise Primera Liga leader Real Sociedad kept hold of Spain's top spot for the seventh straight week by beating Barcelona 2-1 Sunday, while Lazio took over the Italian lead with a 3-2 win over Piacenza. |
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