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The City Election Commission has forwarded what it says are examples of violations of Russia's new elections law to the St. Petersburg office of the Media Ministry for further examination. The penalties set out in the new legislation, which came into effect on July 19, can include the closing of a media outlet for the duration of the election campaign in cases of severe violations. Among the examples the commission cited were a number of articles about vice governor and candidate Anna Markova and one the news daily Smena published about Valentina Matviyenko, the presidential representative for the Northwest Region, as well as a public-opinion survey about the election in the weekly newspaper Delo, which did not state who had commissioned the survey, news Web site Fontanka. |
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 KYZYL, Eastern Siberia - Most St. Petersburgers would probably be unable to locate Tuva on a map of Russia. Yet the tiny republic on the Mongolian border this week made its contribution to the northern city's ongoing 300th-anniversary celebrations. |
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MOSCOW - While the Federal Security Service cannot extend its influence to the skies to block the record rainfall that has inundated Moscow over the few days, its agents were prepared to go underground Thursday to combat the flooding. FSB experts were to begin an inspection Thursday of the city's subterranean water routes and sewage systems to improve drainage in districts where rain has left residents wading knee-deep in water, said Natural Resources Ministry officials, who met with FSB and Prosecutor General's Office representatives Wednesday to discuss ways to address the damage. Moscow saw its heaviest rainfall in 30 years early Wednesday morning, with more than 60 millimeters of precipitation falling on parts of Moscow, said Dmitry Kiktyov, the deputy head of the federal weather agency. |
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 Hundreds of relatives and friends of the 118 sailors killed when the Kursk nuclear submarine sank gathered at Serafimovskoye Cemetery on Tuesday for the unveiling of a monument on the third anniversary of the disaster. |
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Eleven candidates were registered by the City Election Commission by Thursday's deadline to run in a by-election to fill the Legislative Assembly seat for the 41st District, which was left vacant after the City Court stripped Yury Rydnik of his victory in the district in the elections to the assembly in December. |
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St. Petersburg Vice Governor Anatoly Kogan remained in the intensive-care unit of the Mariinskaya Hospital on Thursday, with injuries suffered when he was attacked on Tuesday night outside the apartment building where he lives. |
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MOSCOW - Doubts lingered on Thursday about how much of a real threat was posed by British citizen Hemant Lakhani, who is accused of buying an anti-aircraft missile from Russian undercover agents to sell to their U.S. counterparts, apparently without noticing that the missile was inert. |
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GARDEN CITY, New York - Hundreds of people - including doctors, lawyers, chiropractors and psychologists - have been indicted on insurance fraud and other charges involving millions of dollars in claims on staged auto accidents that prosecutors say was part of an organized-crime ring with links to Russia. |
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 MOSCOW - After a mere five-hour meeting, the Russian government agreed on Thursday to send a draft 2004 budget calling for a surplus to parliament for debate next month. "The 2004 budget is aimed for the future, a budget with a stabilization fund and lower tax burden will support economic growth," Interfax quoted Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin as saying following the Cabinet meeting. |
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First Passenger Company, a privately owned company, is set to begin operations between Moscow and St. Petersburg in the summer of next year, bringing to an end an 85-year-old state-monopoly-situation in Russian passenger-rail service, according to Vasily Golubtsov, the deputy head of the Oktyabrskaya Railway. |
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Leave it to a movie star to come up with a stunning plot twist. Arnold Schwarzenegger has to be credited with pulling off one of the biggest surprises in California political history by throwing his headband into the ring. It appears that he deliberately misled some of his own political advisers, who had been saying that the actor was unlikely to run. |
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One of my favorite ways to pass my weekends at the family dacha is to basically do nothing, just kick back and watch the potatoes grow. More adventurous readers might find this picture a little lacking in excitement, while the more agriculturally inclined would likely point out that you can't actually watch potatoes grow - they're underground. |
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 As one of St. Petersburg's best live rock bands, Kacheli has long enjoyed a cult following in the city. Now, it's getting ready for a shot at the big time - with some help from a new label set up by Sergei Shnurov of local ska-punk phenomenon Leningrad. Kacheli garners frequent Leningrad comparions for its foul-mouthed lyrics, but frontman Lyokha Lysy, who sings and plays guitar, says his songs included four-letter words before the better-known group even formed. |
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 Sergey Kalmykov, the subject of the State Russian Museum's latest exhibition, presents art historians with something of a typological headache. Sometimes described as "scientific-artistic fantasies," the little-known artist's works are apparently very difficult to compare with those of other artists - including his contemporaries. |
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Local club band Wine, which has long had a cult following, has put together a few gigs this week - its first since June. The band, which takes its influences from such uniquely British acts as The Kinks and The Smiths, was a fixture on the local club scene in the 1990s, performing at TaMtAm, Fish Fabrique and, later, Moloko. |
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I've harbored a secret fondness for rodents since childhood, when two of my favorite pets were a pair of gerbils named Ron and Ron, after the eponymous characters in a sketch by British comedy duo Hale and Pace. |
 LONDON - The Mariinsky Theater's ballet company on Saturday wrapped up its London season at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden with two performances of its spectacular production of "La Corsaire," with which it opened up on July 21. The troupe's three-week season provided plenty of highlights and talking points, including two Stravinsky ballets, some promising debuts, and the imminent move to Moscow of a top star. |
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Since launching her career some 40 years ago, Yelena Obraztsova has established herself as one of the foremost sopranos of the modern era. Now, the Leningrad-born singer is aiming to promote the opera stars of tomorrow with her own competition - the Yelena Obraztsova Competition for Young Opera Singers - the third running of which kicks off at the Glinka Philharmonic this week. |
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Razgovor po dusham: a heart-to-heart talk; talk in which you bare your soul. If there is one thing that seduces us foreigners and makes us lifetime captives of the charm of life in Russia, it's the capacity of Russians to engage in deep, soul-baring, intimate conversations about life, values, love and all the pleasures and pains of being a human being. |
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On Aug. 15, 1953, a group of anxious CIA officers huddled in a safe house in Tehran, sloshing down vodka, singing Broadway songs and waiting to hear whether they'd made history. |
 In "Identity," a group of strangers find themselves stranded at a ramshackle motel on - how to put it? - a dark and stormy night. Like the setting, the characters themselves have the damp, bedraggled air of cliche. There is a spoiled, has-been actress (Rebecca DeMornay), whose limo driver, a former police officer (John Cusack), has apparently driven in from a French movie, with his dark overcoat and his dog-eared copy of "Being and Nothingness. |
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