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 The 11 designs for the Mariinsky Theater's new building went on display at the Academy of Arts on Monday, marking the beginning of the end of Russia's highest-profile architectural event in 70 years and drawing praise and criticism for the different visions to expand the theater. The designs, by five Russian and six foreign teams, will be on show at the academy through June 25. The 13-member jury will announce the winner of the competition, officially entitled "Mariinsky II" on June 28. |
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 MOSCOW - A Kremlin-connected executive in charge of one of the country's biggest defense concerns was shot dead on Friday and a top official at one of the company's subsidiaries was killed the same way hours later, a double murder that has sent the defense industry reeling. |
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Chart the Communists' popularity ratings over the past decade and the result will be nearly a straight line. With State Duma elections just six months away and the Kremlin-backed United Russia party nipping at its heels in the opinion polls, the Communist Party is under pressure to breathe some new life into its support base. |
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The Northwestern Region Police Administration Office has recommended that the St. Petersburg Police Department provide bodyguards for Vice Governor Anna Markova after she said that she had been threatened with violence. But Markova, who announced last Thursday that she would run for the post of city governor once Vladimir Yakovlev leaves office, turned down the offer, her office said on Monday, saying that she could take care of herself. |
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MOSCOW - A derailed metro car shut down a large stretch of Moscow's busy green line for nine hours on Monday, creating huge traffic jams in northern and central Moscow as hundreds of thousands of frantic passengers tried to get to work or school. |
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MOSCOW - In a deal expected to bring stability to the debt-laden TVS television station, shareholders previously allied with UES chief Anatoly Chubais announced Friday that they are selling their 45 percent stake to a rival group of owners headed by aluminum magnate Oleg Deripaska. The sale, which has yet to be finalized, would concentrate 90 percent of the station's parent company, Shestoi Telekanal, in the hands of Deripaska and his allies. "We have decided that the consolidation of Shestoi Telekanal's shares by the group of shareholders led by Oleg Deripaska would maximally foster the development of TVS and decided to sell our shares," Chubais' associates Oleg Kiselyov and Igor Linshits said in a statement. |
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 MOSCOW - After 15 years and $1 billion in charity, international financier and philanthropist George Soros bid an emotional farewell to Russia on Thursday evening, saying it was time to focus his efforts on a country more in need of help - the United States. |
 HELSINKI - Women in political leadership are a rarity in most of the world, except in Finland, the only country governed by a female president and, since April, a female prime minister. But the only thing Prime Minister Anneli Jaatteenmaki finds odd about this is why it took so long, especially in Finland, the first country in contemporary Western history where women were simultaneously given the right to vote and run for election, nearly 100 years ago. |
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Hang Fire ST. PETERSBURG (SPT) - The number of fires reported in St. Petersburg during the period of the 300th-anniversary celebrations was 30 percent lower than reported for the same period last year, according to the head of the Federal Fire-Fighting Service. |
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 MOSCOW - Russia's military-industrial complex enjoyed its third consecutive year of growth in 2002 on the back of lucrative arms export deals, according to a report to be released Monday. But the report's authors say the expansion is running out of steam and could fizzle out altogether as early as 2005. |
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MOSCOW - The government will not allocate any federal funds for the maintenance of housing and communal systems in those towns and cities that have signed contracts with the newly created Russian Communal Systems company, Nikolai Koshman, the head of the State Construction Committee, said Friday. |
 The paint was still wet on some buildings when St. Petersburg's birthday bash kicked off, and frantic, round-the-clock building work continued well after the official opening of the celebrations on May 23, despite that date having been seen as a deadline for the reconstruction of countless public buildings as well as for a large number of private developments. |
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MOSCOW - The State Duma passed in the crucial second reading Friday a set of amendments to the law on communications that critics say falls short of what it was supposed to do - level the playing field for market players and boost development of the telecommunications sector across the country. |
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SAN FRANCISCO - An auction to sell a model of the Sputnik satellite that launched the Space Age went sky-high before crashing when the bidding was determined to be a hoax, officials said. Sovietski Collection offered the satellite for sale on eBay Inc. Bidding started at $25,000. "When it went to $26,000, we were kind of excited, and then it shot up to $200,000 and we were really excited, and then it went up to $500,000 and we were kind of becoming a little more skeptical," said Rob Fess, an official at Sovietski Collection, a San Diego-based vendor of Soviet collectibles. |
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Unified Energy Systems is at a turning point. The painful restructuring process is at last entering the implementation stage. In one or two months the board is expected to approve the company's strategy for the next five years. By the end of June, representatives of many Russian industrial groups will appear on the boards of UES itself and of many of its regional subsidiaries alongside representatives of portfolio investors in the same companies. |
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On the eve of the 300th anniversary of St. Petersburg, two things happened. The speaker of the St. Petersburg legislative assembly announced that Governor Vladimir Yakovlev would resign immediately following the festivities. |
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Editor, Thank you so very much for your wonderful reports on the 300th anniversary!! They made me feel like I was there ... almost. I so dearly love St. Petersburg and have been studying about it for 30 years now, but I will probably never get the money to visit. |
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The top-level meetings held in St. Petersburg last week produced positive results for Russia, Europe and the entire world. Common Russian and European interests were spelled out, and some progress was made toward the creation of a greater Europe. |
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In the 1980s, the Soviet Union was the main supplier of arms and military technology to Iraq, providing Saddam Hussein's military with some 80 percent of all its equipment. While we were Iraq's best friends, we could not sell arms to Hussein's arch rival - Iran. |
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Revise and Conquer Holocaust revisionism took decades to rear its ugly head, but the whitewashers of war crimes in the Bush regime are trying to pervert the facts of history mere weeks after their leader triumphantly declared "mission accomplished" in the war on Iraq. |
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