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Five potential candidates for governor have already submitted their registration documents as the official opening on Wednesday of the campaign ahead of the Sept. 21 vote touched off a flurry of activity. Valentina Matviyenko, the presidential representative in the Northwest Region, filed her documents with the City Elections Committee (CEC) on Thursday morning, making her the fourth person to do so. |
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MOSCOW - Roman Abramovich announced on Wednesday that he is buying the soccer team Chelsea FC for $233 million, sending shock waves through the soccer world. |
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MOSCOW - EU, Lithuanian and Italian officials joined the Kremlin's envoy to Kaliningrad on one of the first trains traveling under new transit rules across Lithuania, and after arriving back in Moscow on Wednesday they conceded that a few kinks remain in the system. |
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MOSCOW - A group of Communist deputies on Tuesday asked the Justice Ministry to issue a warning to United Russia over Interior Minister Boris Gryzlov's leadership post in the party. |
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MOSCOW - Police announced Tuesday that they have busted a ring of active and former Federal Border Service officials who forged Russian foreign-travel passports and arranged for wanted criminals to sneak out of the country through Moscow's Sheremetyevo Airport. |
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MOSCOW - Damages incurred in traffic accidents reached 182 billion rubles (about $6 billion) last year, or a whopping 1.6 percent of 2002 gross domestic product, a senior traffic police official said. |
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Request for Transfer ST. PETERSBURG (SPT) - Legislative Assembly lawmakers sent a petition to the City Court on Wednesday calling for the transfer of fellow lawmaker Yury Shutov to a hospital outside the detention center where he is presently being treated, an Interfax report said. Alexander Redko, the head of the Health and Ecology Commission in the Legislative Assembly, said that the commission received letters from Shutov and the city's chief neurologist, Alexander Skoromyets, saying that Shutov had been diagnosed with serious neurological problems, the Interfax report said. |
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 One of the leading producers of frozen foods in Russia, Daria, opened the first phase of a new production facility in Pushkin on Thursday at a cost of $14 million, according to the company's director Igor Pastukhov. Analysts estimate that the frozen-food market is one of the fastest developing sectors in the food industry, with 75 out of every 82 consumers in Russia regularly buying pelmeni or other kinds of frozen, semi-prepared foodstuffs. |
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President Boris Yeltsin reshuffled personnel so often that officials were prepared for dismissal at any moment. He brought raznochintsy (or "people of other ranks") to the pinnacle of power - people who had no prior experience of government service. |
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Call it self delusion, hallucination or pure, simple disingenuity, but the lengths to which local politicians will go to say that the campaign for September's gubernatorial election will be an open race are remarkable. |
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 "I've become a real hippie these days," says Garry Cobain, one half of the cutting-edge electronic duo The Future Sound of London, which rocketed to popularity as part of Britain's electronic dance-music revolution of the early 1990s. Cobain, who prefers to descibe himself as a "psychedelic collage artist" rather than a musician, comes to St. |
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The Stereoleto festival, which opened last week with an uplifting, punkish performance by Berlin-based duo Stereo Total (which even covered "My Way" rather in the style of Sid Vicious), will be headlined Saturday by Amorphous Androgynous, the psychedelic semi-live project formed by The Future Sound of London's Garry Cobain. |
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Oligarch Roman Abramovich this week splashed out almost $100 million on English football club Chelsea. He probably wouldn't think twice about eating at new restaurant Sedmoi Gost for breakfast, lunch and dinner every day; for the rest of us, the first thing to note is that the restaurant is very much aimed at the more deep-pocketed sections of St. Petersburg society. The second thing to note is that Sedmoi Gost offers an inventive menu and a wonderfully relaxed atmosphere, although - much like Dominique Perrault's design for the Mariinsky Theater's new building - it comes with some reservations (no pun intended). The positive aspects are the food, the interior design and the atmosphere. |
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 The final third of this year's Stars of the White Nights festival at the Mariinsky Theater is being turned over to ballet, and the dance fest kicks off on Tuesday with the first of a week of performances by the Hamburg Ballet, directed by illustrious U. |
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Zagovor: spell, charm, hex, curse. I was on business in the United States last week just in time for all the hoopla over the release of the fifth Harry Potter book. Luckily, I was able to elbow some of the 6-year-olds out of the way and grab a copy before they sold out. Even more luckily, my neighbor on the flight home was a companionable and bilingual 14-year-old with a copy of her own and lots of opinions about Harry Potter, magic and Russia. We decided that if Harry didn't make at least a short visit to Russia by Book Seven, we'd petition that he and his entire Hogwarts class do post-graduate work in Russian village magic. A richer magical tradition is hard to find anywhere on earth. |
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 Better known historically as a formidable prison and, now, a collection of museums, the Peter and Paul Fortress took on a new role as a jazz-festival venue last weekend. |
 In "Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines," just as in "T2" a dozen years ago, the original T-1 killer cyborg from the future, played by Arnold Schwarzenegger, does battle on the streets of Los Angeles with an updated, sleeker, deadlier model. Last time, you may recall, it was the T-1000, played with metallic sangfroid by Robert Patrick. |
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BERLIN - Germany's chancellor demanded an apology Thursday from Italian premier Silvio Berlusconi for saying that a German member of the European parliament would make a good Nazi concentration camp guard in a movie. Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, in remarks to parliament in Berlin, said that the comparison was "completely unacceptable. |
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Bush Talks Tough WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President George W. Bush had a tough message on Wednesday for Iraqi militants attacking U.S. troops- "Bring them on"- and said the U. |
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PARIS - Lance Armstrong looks poised to make Tour de France history, but still insists he will tackle the world's biggest cycling race as "just another Tour." Business as usual for the Texan would mean a fifth victory, a feat only achieved by four men in the past, in the race starting on Saturday. |
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