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A number of candidates for the post of St. Petersburg governor were present on Thursday for the opening of the Regional Elections 2003 press center but, while reviews of the center were good, the results of a recent public-opinion poll drew more of the attention - and fire - from those present. The organizers say that the center, which is located inside the headquarters of the Rosbalt news agency on Krasnogvardeisky Bulvar, is intended to provide an equal opportunity to all candidates in the election to deliver their message to voters and to discuss issues with each other. "Elections should not be a form of fist fight or some kind of obstacle course," Natalya Cherkesova, Rosbalt's general director, said at Thursday's opening. |
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 MOSCOW - Before walking into a Moscow cafe, Asma Ismailova looks over her shoulder and whispers, "you see those two smoking over there? I noticed them following me yesterday. |
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MOSCOW - Police and secret-service agents have arrested a suspected organizer of last month's double suicide bombings at the Tushino rock concert, which killed 17, including the two female attackers, officials said on Wednesday. The suspect, Deni Elikhadzhiyev, 19, is a brother of Zalikhan Elikhadzhiyeva, the first suicide bomber at Tushino, and was arrested in the Ingush capital, Nazran, last week by a group of Federal Security Service agents and Interior Ministry commandos flown in from Moscow, local media reported on Wednesday. |
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MOSCOW - To the chagrin of the Kremlin and with a warning from Lithuanian security services, the Chechen rebels' main propaganda tool, the Kavkaz Center Web site, is back online. |
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MOSCOW - Striking back at fellow traveler Sergei Glazyev's plans to form a new electoral bloc, Gennady Zyuganov said that his Communist Party will not reform and will fight what he called efforts by the Kremlin to push it toward "Menshivism." Zyuganov made his case in an article that was due to be published Thursday in Pravda, according to Interfax, which said the party gave it a copy of the article on Wednesday. |
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Big Bond NEWARK, New Jersey (AP) - A Manhattan diamond dealer charged with money laundering connected with an alleged plot to smuggle a Russian missile into the United States was released after posting a $10-million bond. |
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 ZHUKOVSKY AIRFIELD, Moscow Region - NPK Irkut, the privately managed producer of Su-30 fighter jets, announced on Wednesday that it will merge with the Yakovlev design bureau within a year - a deal that analysts said will give the government a run for its money in its plans to consolidate the mostly state-controlled defense industry. |
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Air Merger ST. PETERSBURG (SPT) - Pulkovo Airlines Director Boris Demchenko announced on Monday that the local aviation company is planning a merger with state-owned airline Rossiya, Interfax reported. |
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Thirty five years ago, on Aug. 20, 1968, Anton Tazky - a secretary of the Slovak Party Central Committee and a personal friend of Czechoslovakian Communist Party chief Alexander Dubcek - was driving back to Bratislava from an outlying district. He noticed odd, bright lights in the distance and, as he drove closer, he realized he had been seeing the headlights of tanks and military trucks with soldiers in foreign uniforms at the wheels. |
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As Valentina Matviyenko's campaign cakewalk to the governor's seat in Smolny wanders on, a hackneyed phrase appears to have become the motto of many of the city's career politicians and officials: If you can't beat 'em, join 'em. |
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 Anyone interested in getting up close and personal with the private lives of Russia's pre-1917 ruling family should head to Peterhof's new museum. Some real rarities are on display, including many that have never been seen by anyone apart from their owners. The items include Catherine the Great's saddle, a golden box that once held the baptismal clothes of members of the Romanov family, a silver mirror used by all the tsarinas after Catherine and a watercolor on parchment that hung in Nicholas II's bathroom. |
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 It may be the second motorcycle festival taking place around this city this month, but local bikers and alternative rockers insist that this weekend's event is the first and only real one. |
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The weekend's biggest event will be The Sixth International Biker Festival, which features Leningrad and Tequilajazzz (see article, this page), but there are a few smaller gigs that also sound promising. Boom, an underground club in the center of the city, seems to have reconsidered its policy and schedule - no membership cards any more (good) and no events on weekdays (not so good). |
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When we arrived at Kollegiya early on Friday evening, the restaurant was empty and a young man in overalls was stencilling a corinthian pillar capital on the wall in the entranceway. |
 Street musicians do more in their day-to-day musical exploits than play their instruments at the mercy of a transient audience. In addition to dodging local authorities and trying to play enough to earn their keep, they deal with the region's temperamental climate, attend schools - or hope to one day be able to stop playing on the street altogether. Concentrated along Nevsky Prospect, in the Gostinny Dvor underpass and underground in the city's metro stations, singing old ladies and accordion players of all ages warble Russian folk songs. |
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 War produces casualties, but it also has a habit of making good cinema. With the conflict in Chechnya turning into Russia's Vietnam, Russian filmmakers have turned out a clutch of acclaimed films, including Sergei Bodrov's "Kavkazsky Plennik," or "Prisoner of the Caucasus," and Aleksei Balabanov's "Voina," or "War. |
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Zagadka russkoi dushi: the mystery of the Russian soul The Russian soul is a mystery indeed. You start with a few soulful expressions of love and intimacy, and before you know it, you've moved into the realm of economics and murder. That is to say, dusha (soul) has many shadings of meaning and is the source of a great many idiomatic expressions. |
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Barely a generation separates two milestones in the history of the United States military: in March 1973, the last American combat troops departed from Vietnam, demoralized standard-bearers of the country's most ignominious modern failure at arms. |
 The action comedy "Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl" raises one of the most overlooked and important cinematic questions of our time: Can a movie maintain the dramatic integrity of a theme park ride? In this case the answer is - sure. Director Gore Verbinski's penchant for logistics - combined with the producer Jerry Bruckheimer's desire to spend like a drunken pirate when it comes to putting everything on screen - melts into an often frenetic, colorful and entertaining comic adventure that often seems to be using "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" as a template. |
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ANAHEIM, California - The U.S. women were trying to come up with a suitable nickname for their scrappy team when Chellsie Memmel suggested, "The Five Left Standing." Better yet, "World Champions." Between injuries and illness, the Americans ran into so much bad luck in the World Gymnastics Championships it seemed someone must have been sticking pins in a doll somewhere. |
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COMMACK, New York - Gustavo Kuerten of Brazil defeated Karol Beck of Slovakia 7-5, 6-3 Wednesday to advance to the quarterfinals of the TD Waterhouse Cup. |
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