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The registration deadline for the Sept. 21 St. Petersburg elections came and passed at 6:00 p.m. on Thursday, with 14 candidates managing to submit all of the necessary documents and signatures in order to run to replace departed Governor Vladimir Yakovlev. Most of the candidates left the submission of the 37,000 signatures from voters necessary to be registered until the last minute. On Wednesday evening, it still appeared that only one candidate - Presidential Representative in the Northwest Region Valentina Matviyenko - would manage to meet all of the requirements, which would have meant that the election would have to be moved back until at least one more candidate was found. |
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 Tatyana does not fit the stereotype that comes to mind in association with the word "geisha." But when the 31-year-old St. Petersburg lawyer, who describes her relationship with her husband of four years as "happy," began to feel that some of the passion had gone out of their relationship, she says she started to look for ways bring back a little bit of the spark. |
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MOSCOW - Until this month, cellular-phone users could only download erotic pictures, catch up on the latest stock prices and see tomorrow's weather forecast. But now they can deal with matters more spiritual by listening to religious services that are being targeted directly at the Orthodox believer. |
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MOSCOW - Moscow Prosecutor Mikhail Avdyukov resigned Thursday after the General Prosecutor's Office found his office had covered up or fabricated evidence in 9,000 crimes, including at least 43 murders. |
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MOSCOW - The Iraqi Embassy said on Tuesday that masked gunmen broke into the diplomatic compound overnight and stole more than $3 million in cash from a safe. The money had been brought to the embassy to pay staff wages and stipends to Iraqi students studying in Moscow, a Moscow police official said on condition of anonymity. |
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MOSCOW - Moscow Oblast police seized 220 kilograms of pure heroin on Wednesday in the country's largest heroin bust ever, Interior Minister Boris Gryzlov said. |
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Sudan Frees Crew MOSCOW (AP) - Sudanese authorities have freed the crew of a Russian helicopter after a flurry of diplomatic activity by Moscow, the Russian Foreign Ministry said. The Mi-26 cargo helicopter was detained on July 21 by Sudanese authorities, who doubted Russian claims that the craft was on its way to Congo as part of a United Nations mission. |
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 St. Petersburg-based electronics company New Era on Wednesday showed off two recently developed robots, the result of the only humanoid-robot project in Russia. The robots, ARNE and ARNEA, are male and female. Each is 123 centimeters tall and weighs 61 kilograms They are capable of walking independently and avoiding obstacles, can distinguish and remember objects and colors, can follow up to 40 separate commands, and can even talk. |
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The conflict surrounding Yukos is multifaceted, and I would like to look at its causes, mechanisms and possible consequences. First, and most importantly, the battle for President Vladimir Putin's second term has already begun. Political commentators have long predicted such a battle, but it seems we got the timing wrong. |
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It seems that my initial feelings that the battles that have characterized the relationship between City Hall and the Legislative Assembly would evaporate after the Kremlin managed to engineer former Governor Vladimir Yakovlev's exit from Smolny and install Alexander Beglov as a caretaker were wrong. |
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 Triel claims to be the first lesbian club not just in St. Petersburg, but in the whole of Russia. The club - also known as Tri El or LLL - has been keeping a low profile since first opening on May 4 last year, and came to more public prominence only last month, when photocopied posters advertising a concert by avant-rock band Rtut appeared all over the city center. According to Triel's promoter, Irina Inozemtseva - described on the club's Web site as its ideologist - the organizers decided to work in secret because they were unsure about the public reaction a lesbian club might provoke. |
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 New York City Ballet, the biggest and arguably the best ballet company in North America, ended its long absence from Russia with the opening of its short season at the Mariinsky Theater last week. |
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Jay-Jay Johanson's gig last week was probably the peak of open-air festival Stereoleto, the series of parties running every Saturday from June 26 through Aug. 9. The Swedish electronic crooner, who proved to be madly popular in Russia judging from the reaction of the audience, said that it was only his second performance in the last three years - the first being in Moscow the night before. |
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This week, in an attempt to prolong my vacation mood, I went to Amsterdam, a new establishment on Gagarinskaya Ulitsa named after the Netherlands' capital city, from which I had flown back to St. |
 Few people who knew Darci Kistler when she was young would have predicted that she would make a successful career as a world-famous ballet dancer. The New York City Ballet principal, the youngest of five children and the only girl, took on her brothers at many sports - including skiing, water-skiing, swimming, tennis and dirt biking among others - before, at 8 years old, she was given a pair of pointe shoes as a present and turned to a more typically young girl's hobby. |
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 The sixth running of the biennial modern-art festival "Dialogues" kicked off at the Manezh on Friday. The low turnout for the opening suggested that the event has still to shake its reputation for predictability and a strange participant-selection policy, a reputation partially justified by this year's showing, although there are some pleasant surprises. |
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Aga: Yup, sure, uh-huh One of the puzzles and pleasures of Russian is all the muttered sounds that represent agreement, surprise, pain, astonishment, delight, displeasure - that is, every emotion known to mankind, expressed by a laconic mmm or m-da or aga or oi. |
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Business in Russia was looking pretty peachy this spring. GDP was rising, inflation was sufficiently low, the ruble was gaining steadily, the country's balance of payments was strong, and the stock market was booming. |
 MOSCOW - Fame came unexpectedly to Russia's newest film star at the recent Sochi film festival. Born with Down's syndrome, Sergei Makarov never got the chance to go to acting school. In fact, he never went to school at all. There were precious few options for the mentally disabled in the Soviet Union, and the thought that Makarov might someday join a successful theater troupe - much less star in an award-winning film - never crossed anyone's mind. |
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STUTTGART, Germany - Olga Slusareva of Russia won the women's points race on the opening day of the World Track Cycling Championships on Wednesday. Germany's Stefan Nimke delighted home fans when he rode to gold in the men's 1-kilometer sprint, while Switzerland's Franco Marvulli retained his 15-kilometer scratch-race title. |
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Amstrong Again GRAZ, Austria (AP) - Just two days after wrapping up a record-tying fifth straight Tour de France victory, Lance Armstrong edged an Austrian field to win a 59-kilometer race. |
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