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 According to the Bolshaya Sovietskaya Entsyklopediya, German socialist Klara Zetkin's original idea of International Women's Day, which this year falls on Saturday, was "a day for the international solidarity of women in their struggle for economic, social and political equality. |
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MOSCOW - Showing its exasperation with Russia's growing defiance of U.S. war plans, the United States on Wednesday resorted to economic blackmail and warned Russia that it risks jeopardizing its bid to join the World Trade Organization if it vetoes a UN Security Council resolution. |
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 Pro-City Hall members of the Legislative Assembly found themselves shut out in the choosing of important committee spots and the deputy speaker's seat as the chamber completed the selection process on Wednesday. But the process went anything but smoothly as the United City bloc members of the assembly's counting commission did not show up to approve the results, causing a delay. |
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VLADIKAVKAZ, North Ossetia - In an apparent bid to win greater public confidence in the run-up to a referendum in Chechnya, the Moscow-appointed Chechen authorities announced plans Thursday to close more military checkpoints. |
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Maybe Moving ST. PETERSBURG (SPT) - Governor Vladimir Yakovlev said Thursday that he had not given any consideration to seeking a nomination to run for the same office in the Leningrad Oblast, Interfax reported. "I still have not even thought about such a prospect, but I promise to consider all of the information, provided there is still time," Yakovlev told journalists on Thursday. Earlier, the Leningrad Oblast electoral commission announced that there was no rule that prohibited the present governor of St. Petersburg from running for the main office in the oblast. No Discipline ST. PETERSBURG (SPT) - The Military Prosecutors Office of the Leningrad military district confirmed the existence of a "conflict situation" in Nakhimov Naval Academy. |
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 KALININETS, Moscow Region - Holding a leopard-skin bag in one hand, with her long blond hair cascading down her shoulders, Alla Terentyeva waited in full uniform by the T-80 tank. |
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Although contemporary Russia celebrates Women's Day with roses and greeting cards, the holiday has its origins in the socialist and women's suffrage movements, and many consider the first Women's Day to have taken place on March 8, 1857, when New York seamstresses took to that city's streets to protest low wages and an exhausting 14-hour work day. Decades later, in 1910, the Socialist International resolved to celebrate the feminist and suffrage movements every spring. Two years later, in 1913, Women's Day was first celebrated in Russia - on the last Sunday in February, as part of demonstrations in the capital against Russia's involvement in World War I. |
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 As part of countrywide events to mark the 50th anniversary of Joseph Stalin's death on Wednesday, a group of about 40 mostly elderly people gathered at the statue of Karl Marx on the grounds of Smolny to mark the occasion. |
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WASHINGTON - U.S. Trade Representative Robert Zoellick said Wednesday that Russia could face U.S. trade retaliation if it does not remove import barriers for meat. Zoellick told the Senate Finance Committee that he would not shrink from that course of action, if necessary, to help persuade Russia to drop the restrictions. "Since they're not a WTO member, there's a full range of options, including Section 301 [of U.S. trade law], and they all ought to be on the table," Zoellick said. Under Section 301, the United States could impose unilateral trade retaliation if, after a potentially lengthy investigation, it determined that U.S. |
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 The St. Petersburg branch of the American Chamber of Commerce in Russia (AmCham) summed up the results of its activities in 2002 and announced the appointment of Yelena Berezantseva as new executive director at a press conference at the Hotel Astoria on Tuesday. |
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MOSCOW - The company that flies the likes of Tom Hanks and high-powered business executives around the world has set its sights on Russia. NetJets, which manages a fleet of more than 500 private jets, is courting wealthy Russians with the deal it offers thousands of clients in the United States and Western Europe: Buy a share in a jet and, within six hours, you'll have it at your beck and call to travel anywhere in the world - unless you want to fly between two Russian cities. |
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MOSCOW - The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development will lend Russia $290 million to complete the only trans-Siberian road linking the Far East to Europe, First Deputy Transport Minister Igor Slyunyayev said Wednesday. |
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MOSCOW - Joining international hotel operators' rush to expand their market presence, German high-end hotelier Kempinski intends to set up its own chain of three or four-star hotels in the regions, the company's chief executive said in an interview published Thursday. "We are considering the possibility of working under another brand, such as Key International," Reto Wittwer told Vedomosti. The firm plans to open as many as three hotels in the next two years, but did not name specific sites, although Kempinski is eyeing "several Russian cities," Wittwer said, adding that market analyses would be performed before any contracts are signed. |
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 MOSCOW - Illegally imported cellular phones have been a sore subject among handset manufacturers and retailers for years, but their omnipresence has been fading as the sector matures. |
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THE invasion of Iraq led by the United States and Britain - expected any day now - is not going to be a "Russian war." The view of the public and the political elite in this country is that such a war is not justified, either from a legal or moral standpoint. |
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LOOKING at the results of last weekend's parliamentary elections in Estonia, it seems that most of the 170,000 ethnic Russians who have the right to vote there no longer see themselves as Russian nationals, but are thinking of themselves as Estonians, instead. |
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 The Mariinsky International Ballet Festival has come a long way in a short space of time. This year's festival, which wrapped up at the Mariinsky Theater on Sunday, was a genuine treat. Its guest stars, such as Royal Ballet principal dancers Alina Cojocaru and Johan Kobborg, and New York City Ballet's Maria Kowroski, performed with spark and imagination, bringing new colors to classics like "Giselle" and "Swan Lake. |
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 The Dead Kennedys, who play their first-ever St. Petersburg show this weekend, are a legendary punk band without a legendary punk. Today's Dead Kennedys consist of only three of the band's four original members; famed frontman and songwriter Jello Biafra left when the band split in 1986. |
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This week's most talked-about event is a party hosted by the Desperate Sound System, the name under which two former members of Brit-pop band Pulp - frontman Jarvis Cocker and bassist Steve Mackey - play as a DJ duo. With the band's current state described as "dormant" on its official Web site, www. |
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We should have known it would be an evening of contradictions and surprises before we even took a step inside - two Americans, one celebrating a birthday, in St. |
 Dom Knigi, the main bookstore in a city renowned around the world for its literary heritage, is one of St. Peterburg's most important institutions. In 2002, it sold some 4 million volumes - or 70 percent of all the books sold in the city - for a turnover of $11 million. Daily, up to 50,000 people visit the shop, buying a total of 25,000 books on average - although the fiction department alone claims to sell 45,000 on some days. |
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 Lynn Hilton is no stranger to the cold, but the Chicago native hasn't spent a winter in her hometown for years. As a jazz vocalist and pianist of some renown, Hilton has toured far and wide for the last ten years in the Caribbean, Middle East, Southeast Asia, Africa and South America. |
 How angry is Eminem, the brooding dark prince of perpetually aggrieved sensitivity? Let us count the ways. Angry enough to sell 30 million albums, a record for rap. Angry enough to outrage guardians of public decency and allow every disaffected teenager in the United States to slipstream on his inextinguishable hostility. |
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This book, the product of years of writing and thinking on the Vietnam War, is by far Henry Kissinger's most comprehensive defense of the administration of then-President Richard Nixon policies in Indochina. |
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Razvlechenie, zabava, vesele, udovolstvie, shutkazh: fun. One of the first words Russians pick up in America is "fun." After about the third day in New York or Peoria, a well-spoken Russian with two higher degrees in linguistics will cheerfully tell you My byli na vecherinke i bylo fan! (We were at a party, and it was fun!). |
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KRAKOW, Poland- Striker Enrico Chiesa struck early in the second half as Lazio came from behind to beat Wisla Krakow 2-1 on Wednesday to secure a UEFA Cup quarterfinal berth. Lazio, held 3-3 by Wisla in the first leg of the fourth-round tie in Rome, made a nightmare start on a dreadful Krakow pitch, when Wisla's Marcin Kuzba scored in the third minute after a brilliant run by Kalu Uche. |
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