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Sergey Yastrezhembsky, best known as the Kremlin's spokesperson on Chechnya, and Valentina Matviyenko, the presidential representative in the Northwest Region, briefed the local press on the situation on the eve of the city's 300th-anniversary celebrations on Wednesday. |
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MOSCOW - President Vladimir Putin informed U.S. President George W. Bush on Thursday that Russia is ready to work with the United States on all fronts, the strongest personal signal from Putin yet that he is eager to mend ties that were strained over Iraq. |
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The St. Petersburg Prosecutor's Office sent a request to the City Election Commission (CEC) on Tuesday requesting that Alexander Garusov be replaced as the head of the commission. The Prosecutor's Office request was based on the fact that, contrary to requirements in federal election legislation passed in February, Garusov does not possess a post-graduate, or higher, degree in law. |
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May 23 Jubilee Opening Noon Gala opening ceremony of the Marble Palace Marble Palace 4 p.m. "St. |
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MOSCOW - A new law on obtaining Russian citizenship has created a pile of red tape that threatens to leave more than a million Russians stateless when their Soviet passports are annulled Jan. 1. About 1.5 million Soviet citizens who returned to Russia after the collapse of the Soviet Union could be stranded without citizenship and benefits after an ongoing passport exchange program ends, Vladimir Shumov, the head of the Kremlin's citizenship directorate, was quoted as saying by Izvestia on Thursday. |
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Two days after saying in an interview that a former Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR) deputy had been directly involved in the murder of her sister, liberal State Duma Deputy Galina Starovoitova, Olga Starovoitova said that she would no longer talk to journalists about the case, claiming that many of her comments had been misinterpreted. |
 MOSCOW - With children smoking their first cigarette at age 11, drinking their first beer at age 13 and trying drugs at age 14, teenagers are spending a staggering $8 billion per year on alcohol, tobacco and drugs, according to a new study by the Education Ministry. Education Minister Vladimir Filippov said taxes on tobacco and alcohol should be hiked to discourage teenagers from smoking and drinking - and then later turning to drugs. |
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Telephone databases containing personal information on more than 3.9 million cellular and fixed-line subscribers in St. Petersburg have been stolen, local operators admitted this week. While the private information on fixed-line subscribers has been available for purchase on CD-ROM and over the Internet for several years, this theft, according to analysts, is one of the largest ever leaks of information on cellular subscribers in Russia. |
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MOSCOW - Russians are flocking to the Web like never before, with more than 350,000 new surfers venturing into cyberspace each month, according to a new survey. |
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ST. PETERSBURG - The international rating agency Fitch Ratings has upgraded its long-term foreign and local currency rating for St. Petersburg from BB- to BB, placing the city at Rating Watch Positive. According to anagency statement released on Monday, this alteration results from the recent upgrade of the long-term foreign and local currency ratings of Russia from BB- to BB+. |
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AN attentive reader of last weeks address from President Vladimir Putin might note that it mentions neither federalism nor federal reform directly. The federal districts come up once in passing, presidential envoys do not get a mention at all and the Federation Council itself gets a nod only when the president addresses his audience. |
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IF I had to pick one word to describe Russia, I think that the word would be "priceless." Now, before anyone accuses me of going off on a patriotic tangent, let me explain what I mean by the word in this case: Especially when it's a case of a government-financed project, it is often virtually impossible here to find out exactly what something costs. |
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 Eccentric Seattle-based singer/songwriter Jason Webley caused quite a stir in Moscow when he played a series of club gigs there last year. This week, the troubadour who never misses an opportunity to celebrate vegetables - "Vegetables are great. They feed us. They go away. They come back," he says - plays three concerts in St. Petersburg. At his Moscow gigs, Webley handed out coin-filled plastic bottles for audience members to rattle, decorated the stage with large papier-mache vegetables and threw the occasional carrot into the crowd. |
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 Washington D.C.'s top ska-jazz band, Eastern Standard Time, comes to St. Petersburg to play two concerts at local underground clubs this week. Ska-jazz traces its roots to 1960s Jamaica. |
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While Paul McCartney will play an open-air concert on Moscow's Red Square on Saturday, St. Petersburg's Palace Square will be occupied the same day by Alexander Rozenbaum, the city authorities preferred singer of gangster and macho army songs. |
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A new chamber-music festival organized by renowned Yury Temirkanov kicks off this weekend. "St. Petersburg Assembly," which runs through June 5, is the latest in a seemingly endless series of events that the city's cultural institutions are running to honor the city's 300th anniversary. |
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The first time he noticed that a Latin-American restaurant - La Vida Loca - had opened on Gorokhovaya Ulitsa, our arts editor, bless his warm little heart and twisted sense of justice, decided that I should be the person to write the review. I say "warm heart" because this individual is aware of my own penchant for spicy foods, particularly of the Latin-American variety. I say "twisted sense of justice" because he is also aware of my strong dislike for a certain singer whose song of the same name as the restaurant drove me virtually insane with its omnipresence on local airwaves about three years ago (for reasons of decorum, we decided that it would be better not to mention Ricky Martin here by name. |
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 Sunday was a red-letter day at the State Russian Museum. In one day, the museum opened a new garden, reopened a palace and unveiled two exhibitions. "We are trying to give people more choice," said Russian Museum Director Vladimir Gusev. |
 Filmmaker Alexander Sokurov's latest work, "Russky Kovcheg" ("Russian Ark"), is a record-setting 96-minute tour through Russian history shot in a single take at the State Hermitage Museum last year. The film was recorded using the latest high-definition digital technology (some of which was created especially for the shooting of "Russky Kovcheg") and subsequently transferred to video without any editing. |
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 Let's start with all the things "The Matrix Reloaded" is: . The highly anticipated sequel to one of the most influential, admired (four Academy Awards) and popular (nearly half a billion dollars in worldwide theatrical gross) of films; . |
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