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MOSCOW - Navy vessels plowed the rough and cold waters of the Barents Sea above the sunken K-159 submarine on Monday in what the Northern Fleet described as a "search operation" - despite an admiral's admission that the missing seven crewmembers were probably trapped inside the sub. |
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More than 200,000 copies of gubernatorial candidate Vice Governor Anna Markova's campaign newspaper were confiscated at a printing house on Friday. Police in Kirishi, a town in the Leningrad Oblast about 150 kilometers south of St. |
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In some respects, the so-called Mail-Order Bride Bill now being considered by the U.S. Congress is as controversial as the multimillion-dollar - and still growing - industry it seeks to regulate. Drafted in the wake of the death of Anastasia King, an ethnic Russian from Kyrgyzstan murdered in 2000 by her American husband in Seattle, the bill marks the most far-reaching effort to date by any country to impose standards on the international matchmaking industry. |
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St. Petersburg sociologists said Monday that Valentina Matviyenko still has a substantial lead in the race for city governor, followed by Anna Markova, Mikhail Amosov and the option of voting against all candidates. |
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MOSCOW - An Athens court freed Vladimir Gusinsky on bail on Friday, as Russian prosecutors continued to draft a request to extradite him to Moscow to face multimillion-dollar fraud charges. Casually dressed in blue jeans and a bright blue T-shirt, a smiling Gusinsky made no comment as he walked out of the maximum-security Korydallos prison with his lawyers and headed for a luxury hotel. |
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MOSCOW - Russia joined the list of countries that have issued stamps that smell with the "Gifts of Nature" series released last week. The circular stamps - fearuing strawberries, a pear, a melon, two apples and a pineapple - can be bought for 5 rubles each at most post offices nationwide. |
 Two businesspeople were seriously injured when a bomb exploded on the first floor of an apartment building at 76 Nab. Kanala Griboyedova on Monday afternoon. The bomb, which allegedly contained 400 grams of TNT, went off at about 2:25 p.m., the St. Petersburg department of the Emergency Situations Ministry said. |
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 Unified Energy Systems (UES) announced on Friday that it will hold a tender open to international utilities firms to chose a firm to manage one of its more modern installations, the Northwest Combined Heat and Power Plant (TETS), located in Olgino, a suburb to the west of the city. The national power monopoly said that the managing company would be charged with overseeing an influx in investment total investment of $227 that UES says is needed to improve efficiency and production at the facility, which already supplies power to parts of St. |
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 Eurofinance bank has moved into the St. Petersburg television market, purchasing a 23.34-percent stake in local media outlet Petersburg Television. At an auction for the stake that was held by the Leningrad Oblast Property Committee on Friday, the Eurofinance Group, a subsidiary of the bank by the same name bought the stake for 65 million rubles ($1. |
 MOSCOW - In order to expand the Bureya hydroelectric power station, which came on line this June, the federal government must relocate some 50 kilometers of Trans-Siberian rail line - a 4 billion ruble ($131 million) task. Although the sum pales next to the massive capital poured into the Amur-region project, the government so far has been unable to cough up the funds. |
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MOSCOW - RBC-TV, the country's first 24-hour business-news channel, is set to go on air Sept. 2, after signing cooperation agreements with CNN International and CNBC Europe. |
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MOSCOW - Staff Writers A State Duma deputy from Yabloko briefly put his party in the unlikely position of pushing for the revision of privatization results last week by filing a formal request to the Prosecutor General's Office to investigate the privatization of Norilsk Nickel, a core enterprise of Vladimir Potanin's Interros empire. In a letter filed Thursday, Alexei Melnikov requested that a criminal investigation be reopened against Alfred Kokh, the head of the State Property Committee when Norilsk Nickel was privatized in 1995 and currently the campaign manager for the Union of Right Forces, a party that competes with Yabloko for the support of liberally minded voters. |
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 MOSCOW -Thanks to the Kontakt-Kultura publishing house, Russians are once again hanging Soviet propaganda on their walls. But neither political indoctrination nor profit is the goal of the small, family business, which has spent the past six years rummaging through state libraries and archives, digging out the best examples of Soviet and pre-Revolutionary poster art and digitally restoring and republishing them in all their original kitschy glory. |
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The Anti-Monopoly Ministry's approval of the Yukos-Sibneft merger three weeks ago would never have happened without the Kremlin giving the "go ahead." The assumption of the pundit community, eager to switch its attention to the unfolding election vanity fair, was that the attack on Yukos CEO Mikhail Khodorkovsky was over. |
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For a week last month, the town of Zhukovsky in the Moscow oblast played host to the sixth Moscow Aviation and Space Show. The major networks hailed the exhibition as equal or even superior to its chief European rivals, France's Le Bourget and Britain's Farnborough. |
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In response to "Answers to Russian Complaints About Visas," a comment by James D. Pettit, on Aug. 29, "The Real Problem? Visas" a comment by Yuri Ushakov on Aug. 26, and" U.S. Visa Mess Hits Students' Summers," an article by Robin Munro on Aug. |
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Visit the Ukrainian town of Rakhiv, resting in the foothills of the Carpathians a few kilometers from the border with Romania, and some of the rhetoric accompanying the enlargement of the European Union takes on a different perspective. |
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Russian helicopters have been falling out of the sky. Two weeks ago, an Mi-8 helicopter crashed in the far eastern region of Kamchatka, killing the 20 people on board, including the governor of Sakhalin. Last week, two Mi-24 helicopter gunships collided in midair and crashed in sight of Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov, killing six men. |
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Die Laughing Here's a headline you don't see every day: "War Criminals Hire War Criminals to Hunt Down War Criminals." Perhaps that's not the precise wording used by the Washington Post this week, but it is the absolute essence of its story about the Bush Regime's new campaign to put Saddam Hussein's murderous security forces on America's payroll. |
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MADRID - David Beckham scored his first Primera Liga goal for Real Madrid while his former team, Manchester United, lost for the first time in eight months in the Premiership. Beckham took just two minutes to score in his Spanish league debut. The England captain scored off a low cross from Ronaldo, who later added the second goal. |
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Moses Returning? PARIS (AFP) - Edwin Moses officially announced a return from self-imposed sporting exile on Sunday - his 48th birthday. The former 400-meter-hurdles world-record holder and two-time Olympic champion's aim is to qualify for the US Olympic trials next year - a time of 0:50. |
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