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MOSCOW - President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President George W. Bush agreed Thursday to work toward a solution to the Iraq crisis taking into account "the interests of the world community," the Kremlin said. "During a discussion on Iraq, both sides expressed the intention to step up work within the UN Security Council with the aim of working out a plan of action to take account of the interests of the world community," a Kremlin statement said, without elaborating. |
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Alleging that they had been victims of theft, violence and humiliation, three students have left St. Petersburg's Nakhimov Naval Academy, and complaints from the boys' parents have led to the establishment of a commission to look into the charges. |
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Although 16 lawmakers of the pro-Smolny United City bloc have decided to show up for two straight sessions of the Legislative Assembly, it seems to have made very little difference in defending the interests of Governor Vladimir Yakovlev, as his supporters have watched most of the chamber's important committee positions go to their opponents. |
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MOSCOW - Respected human rights organization Memorial warned on Thursday that the planned constitutional referendum in Chechnya won't reflect the will of the people, saying it has documented an increase in kidnappings and disappearances linked to federal troops. |
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About 5,000 health, education and cultural workers joined the countrywide protest by state employees in St. Petersburg on Thursday. The participants marched from Gorkovskaya metro station to the cruiser Aurora, where they held a meeting, and then moved on to the residence of Viktor Cherkesov, the presidential representative for the Northwest Region. |
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Lawyers for military journalist Grigory Pasko said Wednesday that their client still hopes that the presidium of the Russian Supreme Court will decide to overturn a guilty verdict for treason in 2001 and to halt any other criminal procedings against him. "I don't see any other option in relation to the case," said Ivan Pavlov, Pasko's defense lawyer. Pasko was sentenced to four years in prison by a Vladivostok military court after he took notes while attending a meeting of Russian naval commanders in the city. The court said that he had intended to pass the notes to Japanese reporters with whom he was working on environmental issues. |
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 When Kira was diagnosed with cancer three years ago, it completely changed her life. The 67-year-old, a teacher at an orphanage, enjoyed an active life, taking her students hiking and pouring herself into her work, but suddenly found herself unable to work - an invalid. |
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Aid to Afghans BAKU, Azerbaijan (AP) - Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov warned Thursday of continuing instability in Afghanistan, and said more efforts had to be made to eliminate remnants of the Taliban and al-Qaida. "The leaders of al-Qaida and the Taliban are alive and well," Ivanov told reporters during a trip to the Azeri capital, Baku. He said Moscow would continue to support the government of Afghan President Hamid Karzai, providing "not so much military as economic, financial, medical and other help." Dubrovka Settlement MOSCOW (AP) - Faced with an uphill legal battle to win damages for victims of last autumn's terrorist raid on the Theater Center Na Dubrovke, the plaintiffs' lawyer has offered the Moscow city government an out-of-court settlement, Itar-Tass reported Thursday. |
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 MOSCOW - Six months ago, Aset Vatsuyeva's life resembled that of many other Chechen women in Moscow. At home, she cleaned, cooked and looked after her young son. |
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 MOSCOW - To make structural reforms work on the ground and open the country to new business and foreign investments, Russia should start reforming itself from the top down, former Economics Minster Yevgeny Yasin said Wednesday. Yasin, presenting an annual economic and investment report prepared by his Expert Institute in association with Ernst & Young and the American Chamber of Commerce, said that excessive bureaucracy and red tape remain Russia's most troublesome and dangerous problem. |
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MOSCOW - Gazprom has failed to gain control of lucrative gas sales from Turkmenistan to Ukraine, allowing instead a little known Hungarian-based company to pocket over $130 million in fees annually as a middleman. |
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Working in a sector of the economy that is currently shrouded in controversy, the St. Petersburg Futures Stock Exchange has completed the running of a tender for state fish quotas, the stock exchange reported on Wednesday. Five hundred and forty lots were bought for a total of 529 million rubles ($17 million), distributing the right to catch around 67,000 tons of fish. |
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MOSCOW - Just off the Kaliningrad coast, 1,800 tons of Belgian pig manure have been floating in the Baltic Sea for more than three weeks, after becoming stuck in a tug of war between a Belgian company and the regional government. |
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MOSCOW - Over 10,000 bottles of Moskovskaya vodka destined for the Benelux countries have been impounded by Dutch customs officers pending the resolution of a long-simmering spat over the rights to sell Russia's national spirit abroad. Unfazed by the seizure, Soyuzplodoimport, the state-run vodka producer that sent the shipment, said this week that this was, in fact, part of its efforts to outmaneuver SPI Group, with which it is locked in a battle over rights to the popular Moskovskaya and Stolichnaya trademarks, as well as dozens of others. |
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MOSCOW - The government's top cop teamed up with its economic pointman Wednesday to battle the burgeoning bootleg market, which they said is costing the country billions of dollars per year. |
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IT'S not just Russia. Everywhere in the world, state monopolies providing rail and electricity services are being restructured and reformed, and for good reasons. They eat through massive government subsidies, but can't keep their infrastructure from falling apart. |
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TO hear Alexander Afanasyev tell it, they're all innocent. Every time I talk with Governor Vladimir Yakovlev's spokesperson about the latest City Hall official to come under the gaze of the Prosecutor's Office, that's the line I hear. |
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 Tarakany!, one of the country's best-known and articulate punk bands, continues its 12th-anniversary nationwide tour, "Punk Rock Dyuzhina" ("Punk Rock Dozen"), this Friday and Saturday with concerts at local rock club Orlandina. Despite the birthday celebrations, however, the band isn't actually certain about its age: Its members don't remember the date of their live debut as Chetyre Tarakana ("Four Cockroaches"). |
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 MOSCOW - In a small warren of rooms on the fourth floor of the Moscow Conservatory, the sound of sliding scales can be heard. There, a lone musician plays an instrument without ever touching it. |
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Rock club Moloko, which has been asked to leave its premises by its district's Property Committee, has started a petition against the planned closure. The appeal can be signed in the club. The venue has also prepared a letter to city authorities to be signed by some respected mainstream rock figures, from Akvarium's Boris Grebenshchikov to DDT's Yury Shevchuk. |
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Lazy Sunday evenings are by far the best time go and review restaurants. At that time, most people are safely tucked up at home in front of a good film, and you can have a nice quiet meal to give you strength before the start of the week. |
 Alina Cojocaru barely has any time to think seriously about her lightning-fast rise to fame. The 21-year-old principal dancer of London's Royal Ballet says the tempo of her life is even a little scary. "When I think about it, it's always like, 'Oh my God, I'm only 21, and I've been through so much," Cojocaru said in an interview before her debut at the Mariinsky Theater this week. |
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The airplane became one of the most recognizable symbols and one of the most magnetic myths of the 20th century. In the Soviet Union, for example, airplanes were a central theme in the works of avant-garde artist Alexander Deineka, a eulogist for the new Soviet lifestyle in the 1930s and 1940s. |
 Whether gazing darkly over the ocean from a captain's perch in "The Perfect Storm'' or contemplating the viscous, shape-shifting reality of a mysterious planet from a space station in his new movie "Solaris,'' George Clooney projects the brooding solipsism of a man's man encased in a shell of loneliness. |
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Don't judge the subject of this book by the image displayed on its cover: a detailed closeup from Ilya Repin's familiar portrait of Modest Mussorgsky, garish red nose and all, painted in 1881 just days before his death at St. |
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Da net!: absolutely not, no way, under no circumstances! Even before you had your first Russian lesson, you knew that da meant yes and net, no. And then, in your second year of Russian, once you had gotten used to people sleeping on stoves (na pechke) and accepted that you would never ever be able to use certain verbs of motion properly, in one of your translations you come across, "U vas bolshoi kollektiv?" "Da net! Ya da Sveta!" We all got the question: "Do you have a large staff?" But what about the answer? Back to the dictionary. |
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