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St. Isaac's Square is facing a massive upheaval, following a decree signed last month by Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov to give four buildings on the square to the Presidential Administration. According to the decree, which Kasyanov signed Dec. 17, organizations based in the buildings will have to relocate "in order to effectively accommodate federal administrative offices in St. |
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The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, or EBRD, has granted a $5.4-million loan to the St. Petersburg Sea Port Authority to complete a modern navigation system to make the Gulf of Finland safer for the growing amount of shipping traffic in the region - particularly traffic carrying oil. The five-year loan is guaranteed by the federal government and will be spent on constructing steel radar towers and communications equipment, to be installed on the islands of Gogland, Sommers and Seskar, which are all located in the gulf. "This will allow us to monitor ships in the area up to the [Finnish-Russian] border, and we plan to integrate our system with those operating in Estonia, Finland and Sweden, so that we will be able to monitor the entire area," said Andrei Markelov, the St. |
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 The Communists and their allies risked doing something this month that they have been loath to do in the past: They aired their dirty laundry. Moreover, they've blamed the Kremlin for sullying it, with the most outspoken of them accusing the presidential administration of planting subversives in their ranks and funding the "moles" through loyal businesspeople. |
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Prompted at least partially by a boycott by Finnish tourist agencies and a visit to the town by the Finnish Consul General from St. Petersburg, authorities in the Russian town of Vyborg, 20 kilometers from the Finnish border, say they are taking measures to protect tourists. |
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Taimyr Poll Held MOSCOW (SPT) - Norilsk mayor and one-time Norilsk Nickel official Oleg Budargin has been elected the new governor of the resource-rich Taimyr Autonomous District, Interfax reported Monday. |
 While Sergei Ivanov's colleagues at St. Petersburg's metro system hurry to grab a bite on their lunch breaks, he races off for a quick, refreshing dip near the Peter and Paul Fortress in the frozen Neva River. "I feel extreme excitement and physical euphoria when getting out of that cold water," said Ivanov, a 43-year-old engineer, pulling on his clothes over skin reddened by the sub-zero water on Friday. |
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MOSCOW - Thousands of conscription-age men are exploiting a legal loophole that allows them to get out of mandatory military service by signing up for two-year stints as firefighters and police officers - jobs that let them spend nights at home, the Defense Ministry said Monday. |
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 DAVOS, Switzerland - A year ago, the World Economic Forum, the annual gathering of the world's business and political elite, had moved to New York to show solidarity with the United States after the attacks of Sept. 11. This year, with the WEF back in Davos and the world a different place, the United States has been the target of attacks. |
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MOSCOW - Alexander Zurabov wants to make one thing clear: He is not joining the government. He may have just been named Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov's first (and only) aviation adviser, but the man widely credited with turning around the fortunes of Russia's flagship airline says that he has no interest in politics. |
 MOSCOW - The cabinet on Thursday agreed in principle to a list of $42-billion worth of assets that will make up the charter capital of corporate newcomer Russian Railways Co., the linchpin in the government's ambitious overhaul of the country's sprawling railroad system. "[Railways reform] is going according to plan," Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov told his ministers. Railways Minister Gennady Fadeyev said that ministers will take the next two weeks to study and tweak a 51-page inventory of the companies that will form the massive backbone of the new monopoly. |
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 MOSCOW - The government's decision last week to appoint Vneshekonombank as the state's Pension Fund manager raises doubts about the government's commitment to competition in the troubled banking industry, and could prove damaging to the development of the sector as a whole, analysts said Friday. |
 In the last year, over ten new packaging-materials facilities have appeared in St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Oblast, with total investment amounting to about $150 million. For the most part, this impressive expansion is the result of flourishing local manufacturing and foodstuff enterprises and, say market analysts, the sector is set to continue growing, thanks to the squeezing out of foreign competition. |
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BARON Nathan Rothschild, one of the best investors in history, said that the right time to invest is when blood is running in the streets. His point was that periods of turmoil, when investors are panicked and everyone assumes that only catastrophe awaits, offer the best opportunities. |
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DAVOS, Switzerland - The Russians are coming, but quietly. And that is just how some of them seem to want it to be. A decade ago, before the financial crisis of 1998 ended the stampede of Western investors looking for a slice of post-Soviet riches, Russian executives attending the annual World Economic Forum in this Alpine resort carved out quite a reputation. |
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BORIS Jordan did not carry the mantle that he snatched from Vladimir Gusinsky for very long. He was purged from Gazprom-Media after President Vladimir Putin uttered the phrase - following the Dubrovka hostage siege - about a certain national television channel making money "on the blood of its fellow citizens. |
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STORM clouds have been gathering over Baghdad. Even before UN weapons inspectors discovered 12 warheads designed to carry chemical weapons that were not included in Iraq's declaration to the UN Security Council, Chief UN Weapons Inspector Hans Blix had assessed the situation as tense and unpredictable. |
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THE Communist Party's brand name is one of the most valuable assets on the Russian political market. Just about anything or anyone can be concealed in the folds of the Communist Party's banner, from the State Duma Perk Lovers Society to the Tsarist Fan Club. |
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Street Legal Hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets in the United States last weekend to protest the Bush regime's planned invasion of Iraq. |
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 CHUPA, Far North - While the rest of the world is just discovering that diving under ice-covered lakes can be fun, a bright young Russian marine biologist is already leading teams to the White Sea, the North Pole and Antarctica. Ice diving is dangerous, expensive, complicated, unprofitable and uncomfortable, and even less popular than cave diving. So why is he devoting his life to pioneering it? Because he loves what can be found only under ice: the clear water and the fantastic, infinitely varied shapes of the ice itself; the violent mating of the giant snow crabs, the delicate combfish that float by; and, in lakes, teasing crawfish and catching sleepy fish by hand. |
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 MOSCOW - I met Mikhail Safonov at the North Pole in 1999. The previous year, a professional rescuer, Andrei Rozhkov, approached him about organizing the first spring dive at the pole. |
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THE HAGUE - Former Serbian President Milan Milutinovic on Monday pleaded not guilty to crimes against humanity during the 1999 conflict in Kosovo as he made his first court appearance since surrendering to the tribunal in The Hague. The former ally of ex-Yugoslav leader Slobodan Milosevic denied four counts of crimes against humanity including murder, deportation and persecutions, and one charge of war crimes at the UN International Criminal Tribunal for former Yugoslavia. |
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Lemiex Doubtful PITTSBURGH (AP) - Mario Lemieux might miss the NHL All-Star game because of a groin injury. Lemieux, who has missed eight of the Pittsburgh Penguins' last nine games, does not plan on playing in Tuesday night's road game against the New York Islanders. |
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