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The City Election Commission (CEC) announced on Tuesday that it had registered 11 of the 13 applicants who submitted all the necessary documents and lists of signatures by July 31 to run in the Sept. 21 elections for governor - but not before there were some disputes over who counted as a real voter and who didn't. |
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MOSCOW - Leading independent pollster VTsIOM is under threat of a government takeover aimed at least in part at silencing growing public opposition to the Chechen war in the election season, its director said Tuesday. |
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Although it is located only 160 kilometers away from the border with Finland, where the posts of both president and prime minister are presently occupied by women, the distance between St. Petersburg and its neighbor with regard to gender equality in politics is much greater. As is the case throughout Russia, the city's political scene has historically been almost exclusively the domain of men, but the Sept. |
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 Rain or shine, sleet or snow, members of the St. Petersburg branch of the Soldiers' Mothers Organization gather at the corner of Nevsky Prospect and Malaya Konyushennaya Ulitsa on late Thursday afternoons to protest against the war in Chechnya. This Thursday, it was under a steady rain that the women, bearing placards reading "Forgive us Russia! Forgive us Chechnya!" or "Let's Protect Our Sons" stood at the corner from 5 p. |
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MOSCOW - Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov on Thursday called for a new UN resolution on Iraq that would speed up election of a sovereign Iraqi government and would recognize the U. |
 In what officials at Ilim Pulp called the latest chapter in a battle with tycoon Oleg Deripaska's Base Element holding over the ownership of some of its subsidiaries, officers from the Special Task Force Unit of the St. Petersburg police staged a raid of Ilim's St. |
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MOSCOW - Alfa Group sparked talk of a shake-up in the mobile telecoms market late Tuesday after announcing the addition of a blocking stake in No. 3 mobile operator MegaFon to its holdings, which feature a similar stake in No. |
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MOSCOW - Roman Abramovich has spent nearly $100 million on new players since he bought the London soccer club Chelsea, after two new signings announced on Wednesday. Manchester United's Juan Sebastian Veron will join Chelsea for an initial Pound12.5 million ($20 million) and another Pound2.5 million depending on his performance in the coming four seasons, Agence France Presse reported. |
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To hear Russian officials, what's happening in Chechnya is not a war, it is a phase in an antiterrorism operation that has reached such a point of "normalization" that control was switched last week from the Federal Security Service, which handles war operations, to the Interior Ministry. |
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Following the goings-on within the United Russia party at both the federal and local levels over the last couple of weeks has led me to one conclusion - "Chaotic Russia" would really be a more appropriate and accurate name. |
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 Thousands of motorcycles will roar into St. Petersburg on Friday to attend the three days of the annual Bike Show hosted by Moscow's Nochnyye Volki, or Night Wolves, motorcycle club. The arrival of the bike enthusiasts and their vehicles will be followed by a weekend of choreographed explosions, post-apocalyptic creatures, airborne stunts - and plenty of leather, music and beer. The Seventh Night Wolves' Bike Show is being held in St. |
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 Brothers Shuya and Yoshihiro Okino - a.k.a. Kyoto Jazz Massive - blend jazz, bossa nova, Latin and house, as many artists do now. But the energy and quality of their music have made them something of a legend in their native Japan. |
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The new club Stary Dom, which opened in June only to decide to take a break the following month, reopens this week with a rare local club appearance by Akvarium on Tuesday. According to an insider, the forthcoming concert will, in fact, be a dress rehearsal for Akvarium's performance at a rock festival at Liepaja, Latvia, scheduled for Aug. |
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It's hard to tell if the management of Burzhui - which means "bourgeois" in Russian - is being sarcastic. A red-and-black striped French changing screen stands by the door; items on the menu bear capricious titles like "Money Bags," "Ocean Cruiser," or "Green Paper Money. |
 The Mariinsky Theater's Stars of the White Nights festival wrapped up on Tuesday with the final performance in a symbolic short season by New York City Ballet, back in St. Petersburg after a break of more than 30 years. New York City Ballet's tour was one of the festival's most eagerly anticipated events, as the company was returning to the home town of one of its co-founders, legendary Russian choreographer George Balanchine, to perform his ballets on the stage on which he made his debut. |
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 "This is an event of world significance," was how State Hermitage Museum Director Boris Piotrovsky welcomed the opening of the latest exhibition in the museum's new 20th-century wing, the General Staff Building, at the beginning of July. |
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Zvukopodrazheniye: Onomatopeia. You don't have to live long in Russia to discover that animals here speak Russian. Not only does your friend's cat understand Brys! (Scat!) and dog understand Lezhat! (Lie down!), they "speak" differently - or at least the Russian transcriptions of their sounds differ from English. I've always wondered if this is just because we use the sounds we have available in our language to describe, say, the mooing of a cow, or if the sounds we have hard-wired into our heads in our languages actually determine what we hear. Luckily for those who have American and Russian feline families, cats are bilingual, albeit Russian cats are slightly more sensuous than their English-speaking cohorts. |
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 In the middle of the 1990s, St. Petersburg entrepreneur Sergei Gutsait was approached by several local tour operators, suggesting that he create a tourist village to serve as a magnet for cruise ships travelling the popular waterways north of St. |
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Recently back from Moscow, I can attest to Boris Akunin's wild popularity with Russian readers. The stacks of his detective novels on sidewalk vendors' tables melted away before my eyes. On the metro's long, slanting escalators, every 12th face was masked by the distinctive black-and-white covers of his books. In fact, Akunin, whose real name is Grigory Chkhartishvili - cause enough for a nom de plume - and who previously translated Japanese literature for a living, has said of the origins of his own career: "I decided to write the kind of detective novel that respectable ladies wouldn't be ashamed to read in the metro." (His wife, a covert fan of the genre, used to cover hers in brown paper. |
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 Life, it's been truly said, has more imagination than we do, and the astonishing story of Seabiscuit proves that absolutely. No novelist or screenwriter would dare come up with the phenomenal incidents and flabbergasting twists of fate that marked the life of this, the original little horse that could, events that turned a disgraced animal nobody wanted into, author Laura Hillenbrand claims, "the subject of the most newspaper column inches in 1938 . |
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 MOSCOW - If you could spend one day with one of the world's most famous trophies, what would you do? For Sergei Brylin, a center with the NHL champion New Jersey Devils, the answer was simple: Show it to as many people as possible. As part of an NHL program in which each player on the championship team is allowed to have the Stanley Cup for one day, Brylin raced around Moscow on Tuesday showing off hockey's most celebrated prize. |
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