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MOSCOW - Russia's $8-billion man, Yukos CEO Mikhail Khodorkovsky, brought Union of Right Forces leader Boris Nemtsov on side Thursday to step up the pressure on the government to approve long-fought-for plans to allow the construction of privately owned pipelines. |
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MOSCOW - Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov warned the United States on Wednesday not to start a propaganda war against Russia and ridiculed Washington's efforts to portray the U. |
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MOSCOW - Boris Berezovsky was arrested by Britain on a fraud charge forwarded by Russia and released on bail. Berezovsky, 57, and his close ally Yuly Dubov were detained Monday morning, London police said. "Both were charged on the extradition warrant issued by Bow Street Magistrates Court following a request for assistance from Russian authorities investigating allegations of a fraud," the police said in a statement. The charge is linked to Russian accusations that Berezovsky and Dubov defrauded the Samara regional administration of 60 billion rubles between November 1994 and July 1995 when they were directors of the LogoVAZ car dealership. |
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 The already extensive list of projects being launched and the program of events planned to mark St. Petersburg's 300th anniversary continues to grow but, according to one local information and advertising agency, there are few cases where children are a specific target audience. |
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MOSCOW - In what could be seen as a reminder of his political victory three years ago and a preview of another electoral campaign to come, President Vladimir Putin marked the third anniversary of his presidency on Wednesday by meeting with the leaders of the United Russia party - some of whom were once seen as his political opponents. |
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MOSCOW - The Prosecutor General's Office summoned Culture Minister Mikhail Shvydkoi on Tuesday to hand him an official warning that he faces criminal charges if he goes ahead with a plan to return an art collection to Germany. |
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Elections Chief MOSCOW (AP) - The head of the Central Election Commission was appointed to a second term in office, news agencies reported Wednesday. Alexander Veshnyakov, who oversaw the election of President Vladimir Putin in 2000, was reappointed by a unanimous vote of his fellow commission members, Interfax reported. Veshnyakov's name was the only one on the ballot, Interfax said. Veshnyakov oversaw this month's constitutional referendum in Chechnya and will preside over parliamentary elections this December and presidential elections next March. Not Giving Up ST. PETERSBURG (SPT) - Governor Vladimir Yakovlev said he may call for a referendum to amend the City Charter so he can run for a third term in office, Interfax reported Thursday. |
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 While opposition to the war in Iraq is very strong in Russia - public-opinion polls generally show that about 90 percent of Russians are opposed - public reaction here has been relatively tame. |
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MOSCOW - The U.S.-led war in Iraq has claimed the lives of both civilians and coalition soldiers and is now beginning to take its toll on an unlikely population: flocks of migrating Russian birds. Ornithologists said they feared more oil wells would be set on fire, releasing smoke that will cause several thousands of birds wintering in Iraq to become disoriented and confused. |
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MOSCOW - In the twilight days of the Tax Police, two of its officers - one a major general - were caught at work in the process of accepting a $20,000 bribe. The internal sting took place Monday at noon in the offices of the Federal Tax Police at 12 Ulitsa Maroseika in downtown Moscow as part of the agency's "clean hands" anti-corruption drive, launched two years ago. Sergei Platonov, a major general and deputy head of the organizational and inspection department, and Mikhail Petrovsky, an employee of the same department, will be held until Wednesday, when a court will decide whether to arrest them, representatives of the Prosecutor's Office said Tuesday. |
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 Work on the construction of the Southwest Wastewater Treatment Plant was restarted at a ceremony on Friday, following a halt in construction in 1995. Speaking at the ceremony, Governor Vladimir Yakovlev said that the facility will service the homes of 700,000 inhabitants or process 85 percent and the total volume of sewage produced in the city, contributing to efforts to clean up the ecology of the Gulf of Finland. |
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MOSCOW - National security is on the line, a government agency is claiming as it moves to edge out a U.S. aviation industry investor. Connecticut-based Pratt & Whitney should not be allowed to hold more than a blocking stake in Aviadvigatel, the designer of engines for most modern domestic aircraft, the Russian Aviation and Space Agency reportedly argued in a recent letter to the Aviadvigatel board of directors. P&W holds less than 25 percent in Aviadvigatel, along with a 2-percent stake held by a subsidiary, Turboenergoprom, that is Russian-registered but P&W-owned. The Rosaviakosmos letter, dated last month but delivered to the board on March 19, is said to argue that this effectively gives P&W a 27-percent stake. |
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 MOSCOW - When Deputy Prosecutor General Vladimir Kolesnikov let slip during a news conference last week that Yury Moskaltsov had been arrested, he quickly corrected himself. |
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MOSCOW - Russia is ready to supply stocks of wheat to Iraq as humanitarian aid, Agriculture Minister Alexei Gordeyev was quoted as saying on Wednesday. "Russia is ready to help Iraq if there is a humanitarian disaster, a shortage of food and famine," Gordeyev was quoted by Itar-Tass as saying. |
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WITH the approach of parliamentary elections in December and presidential elections in March next year, the Kremlin's political advisors are no doubt devising and pitching various electoral strategies to President Vladimir Putin. While it is unlikely that any of Putin's advisors will recommend it, they should advise him to join a political party and to join one now. |
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"Moscow, the Kremlin, 2003. Alexander the Great and Napoleon are standing on the Lenin Mausoleum, watching a military parade A: If had all of this equipment, I could have concurred the world in 30 days. |
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 One of the most high-profile events taking place in St. Petersburg this year, the Golden Mask, the annual festival and award ceremony honoring the top achievements in performing arts in Russia, got underway on Thursday with an opening ceremony at the Alexandriinsky Theater and a performance of one of the nominated productions. Previous runnings of the festival have all been held in Moscow, but is coming north this year in honor of St. |
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 With her simple, yet cheeky, pop songs, local singer/accordionist Sveta Kolibaba is now looking to hit the big time in Moscow. However, the road to success, always strewn with obstacles, may be further complicated for Kolibaba, whose profile doesn't really fit any of the accepted categories of Russian showbusiness. |
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Local all-female alt-pop act Kolibri celebrates its 15th anniversary with a concert at the Estrada Theater on Saturday. For the occasion, the band will reunite, if only for a couple of numbers, with its founder, Natasha Pivovarova, who quit in 1998 to indulge in her theatrical projects, as well her pop/grunge band S. |
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The prospect of making a trip to Che, located just a stone's throw away from Moskovsky Voksal, was the subject of some heated discussion in our office. |
 Alexei Stepaniuk, nominated for a Golden Mask for his production of Bizet's opera "Carmen" at the Novosibirsk Opera and Ballet Theater, graduated from the Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory. He started his directing career at the Chelyabinsko Opera and Ballet Theater, where he put on Puccini's "La Boheme," Camille Saint-Saens "Samson and Delilah," Rimsky-Korsakov's "The Snow Maiden" and Tchaikovsky's "Yevgeny Onegin," among other operas. |
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 One of the most influential figures on the Moscow theater scene, Yelena Kovalskaya is no backstage Machiavelli, making and breaking careers. As well as being theater editor of the Moscow edition of the popular entertainment magazine Afisha - the first St. |
 For those who find more reality than they can easily stomach in the season's harrowing final episodes of "The Sopranos," "Analyze That" offers instant antacid relief. As the lightheaded sequel to the 1999 hit comedy "Analyze This" evaporates across the screen, its low-cal effervescence emanates from the comfortably goofy chemistry of its stars, Robert De Niro and Billy Crystal. |
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It is too easy to forget how crazy the Soviet Union was - not the madness of Joseph Stalin, but the everyday craziness of a cockamamie system. Consider the tragicomic case of Alexei Larionov, who in 1958 was the Communist Party boss of Ryazanskaya Oblast. |
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Kak vam ne stydno: you ought to be ashamed of yourself. I started my translating career in Moscow in the late 1970s, when to translate Soviet articles about international politics was to learn a thousand ways of expressing criticism, from mild to wild. So I feel very much at home these days as we discuss what is usually called the "skladyvayushchayasya slozhnaya obstanovka vokrug Iraka" (the complex situation concerning/ around Iraq). |
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