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Perhaps feeling energetic after a long layoff, the Legislative Assembly managed for the first time in almost a month on Wednesday to achieve a quorum, and then worked until 9:30 p.m., instead of their normal quitting time of 5 p.m, and voting on a full agenda, . |
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On Dec. 30, Russian-born pianist Zoya Streib and her German husband, Dieter Stinner, were looking forward to returning to their home in Zurich for New Years when a dispute with Pulkovo Airport customs officials put an end to their plans and, almost certainly, her career. |
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MOSCOW - Gearing up for December's parliamentary elections, the United Russia party presented the basics of its platform Wednesday - a heady mix of support for President Vladimir Putin, a resounding "no" to revolutionary reforms and populist measures to win the support of disgruntled voters. |
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MOSCOW - The chief of Russia's nuclear-safety watchdog said Thursday that security is being shored up at nuclear facilities across the country, with special attention being given to two nuclear power plants near Chechnya. |
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MOSCOW - Anatoly Babkin, a 73-year-old university professor who has been under house arrest for 34 months, was found guilty of espionage by a Moscow court on Wednesday and given a suspended sentence of eight years in prison. Babkin, 73, a professor at Moscow's prestigious Bauman Technical University, was accused of providing classified information about the high-speed Shkval torpedo to former U. |
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Federal Deputy Prosecutor General Vladimir Zubrin said Wednesday that St. Petersburg was lagging behind the rest of the Northwest Region in fighting crime, providing a laundry-list of particular charges, investigations and statistics, but few specifics. |
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Conscript Kills 4 MOSCOW (AP) - A conscript shot and killed four fellow servicemen guarding an equipment storehouse on a missile base near Krasnoyarsk early Thursday, then killed himself, the Strategic Rocket Forces said. Sergei Khanov had been stationed at the base for a year, the Rocket Forces said in a statement. |
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 MOSCOW - The country's manufacturing sector may be contracting for the first time in more than four years, but not all industry players are suffering. United Technologies Corp., for example, says that it is poised for its best year ever in Russia, where it has invested more than $400 million over the last decade in two dozen projects that make everything from elevators to aircraft engines. |
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MOSCOW - Is the government ready to bite the hand that feeds it? German Gref says that it ought to be if it wants strong and sustainable economic growth, although "bite" might be a little strong. |
 MOSCOW - When Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov tasked the Finance Ministry with designing a stabilization fund to cushion against vacillating oil prices, he didn't tell it to make the money off-limits for use in pursuing tax reform. First Deputy Finance Minister Alexei Ulyukayev said Tuesday that under his ministry's draft concept, stabilization-fund resources could not be used to finance tax reform, as it was difficult to determine exactly how much financing would be needed. |
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 MOSCOW - The government is making it stronger, pushing it on its neighbors and planning to proliferate it around the world. It's not a new weapon but it could be. |
 MOSCOW - The so-called union of oligarchs rolled into the Kremlin on Wednesday night to chat about corruption, a problem that the President Vladimir Putin said would take time to fix. "This is a problem that cannot be resolved in an instant," Putin said in televised remarks. |
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MOSCOW - Nestle announced Wednesday that it has purchased 100 percent of Clearwater, putting the Swiss food and beverage giant atop the country's rapidly expanding water-delivery market. |
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MOSCOW - A controversial management reshuffle at NTV television and its sister companies appears to have been completed with the election of a new board of directors and that board's approval of the appointment of Nikolai Senkevich as the channel's general director. |
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Great Danes ST. PETERSBURG (SPT) - In an official statement released on Monday, Bravo International General Director Viktor Pyatko announced that the company will be renamed Heineken Breweries on March 1 The brewery will also begin producing beer under the Heineken label this year, the statement said. |
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THE past few weeks have changed Europe. With their signatures on the "Letter of Eight" and the subsequent "Letter of 10" resolving to stand by the United States in the confrontation with Iraq, the future members of NATO and the European Union from the east of the continent demonstrated that they are not simply interested in joining the Western clubs - but also in influencing them. |
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President Putin's meeting Wednesday night with business leaders from the Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs to discuss the delicate issue of corruption proved an interesting spectacle. |
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WHILE I understand that just about anything is possible, it is hard for me to imagine a place where ice has occupied a bigger place in the news than it has here of late. On Thursday, the Fontanka.ru Web site reported that eight city residents this week suffered concussions from falling ice. Last month, the city's ambulance service reported that 2,510 people had suffered serious injuries as a result of falling on the ice between the beginning of November and Jan. |
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 As Moscow artist and avant-garde fashion designer Andrei Bartenev performed a "rescue operation" on a boat involving large-scale paper figures of "shark-journalists," the curators of Moscow and St. Petersburg galleries turned their attention to summing up the results of the first day of "Moscow Art Manezh St. Petersburg," the "festival of Moscow and St. Petersburg art galleries" that opened at the Manezh on Tuesday. |
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 The Residents - described as the "World's Most Famous Unknown Band" on their official unofficial Web site - bring their current tour to St. Petersburg next week. |
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Boris Grebenshchikov once said that Akvarium is a club band that plays concert halls due to a misunderstanding. However, the band has never been seen in local clubs, with one notable exception - a gig at the now-defunct Poligon, which used to define itself as an "extreme club. |
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Before we put on the metaphorical bib and tuck into this week's The Dish, there is a bit of dirty laundry I need to get out of the way. (Don't all great liaisons begin under dubious circumstances?) The choice for this week's evaluation in fact hosted The St. |
 Nikolai Tsiskaridze, a principal dancer at Moscow's Bolshoi Theater, is used to being a prince. He has the lead roles of much of the classical ballet repertoire under his belt, including "Giselle," "Sleeping Beauty," "Swan Lake," "The Nutcracker," "Legend of Love," "Romeo and Juliet," and "La Bayadere," in which he dances the role of Solor on Sunday for the Mariinsky International Ballet Festival at the Mariinsky Theater. |
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 The Mariinsky International Ballet Festival, which kicks off at the Mariinsky Theater on Friday is by no means a veteran in the theatrical world yet, over first three years of its history, it has grown big enough to attract the world's top dancers to St. |
 "Before you die, you see 'The Ring,'" as the ads for this remake of a Japanese suspense film say. With ads like this, the movie has certainly built up a lot of anticipation. But, while impressively made, this impassive and cold feature fails, in a spectacular fashion, to deliver the thrills. |
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At 11:28 on the morning of Saturday, Aug. 12, 2000, the nuclear-powered submarine Kursk was just below the surface of the Barents Sea, preparing to fire a practice torpedo in a naval exercise. |
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Nerovno dyshat: to be interested in someone, to be keen on someone, literally "to breathe heavily." It's surprising that Russia didn't invent Valentine's Day - Russian is a great language for expressing affection and intimacy. First, Russian gives you a chance for the linguistic equivalent of undressing as you go from the buttoned-up vy form of address and Gospodin Ivanov to Ivan Ivanovich and then - traditionally after drinking brudershaft (or, with your arms entwined) - to the unadorned ty and Vanya. |
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