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Gubernatorial candidate Valentina Matviyenko has been the most vocal of those running in calling for a clean election campaign for the city's top post. But, now, she finds herself the center of an election-law controversy after President Vladimir Putin openly endorsed her candidacy in nationally televised coverage of a meeting between the two at the Kremlin on Tuesday. |
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MOSCOW - With its benefactor's business empire under siege and the election season officially underway, Open Russia on Thursday said that it had snapped up one of the country's most prestigious newspaper titles and hired a leading Kremlin critic to run resurrect the publication. |
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MOSCOW - With the Chechen presidential race officially about to begin, it is becoming more and more apparent that the way is being cleared to make it easier for Akhmad Kadyrov to win on Oct. 5. Kadyrov, said Thursday that he is confident he will win the Chechen presidential election in the first round on Oct. |
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MOSCOW - In the gangster flick "25th Hour," Ed Norton's drug dealer suggests that his sidekick is a little persnickety to insist on being called Ukrainian, not Russian. "There's a difference?" he wonders. Ukranian President Leonid Kuchma was in Moscow for the 16th International Book Fair on Wednesday for the official release of his new book, titled simply "Ukraine Is Not Russia," in which he spends 513 pages explaining that there most certainly is a difference. |
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MOSCOW - The crew of the K-159 submarine, which sank in the Barents Sea while being towed to a scrapyard, reported a leak and asked to be re-routed to shallow waters, but their commanders denied the request, Kommersant reported on Thursday. |
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Chubais To Run MOSCOW (Reuters) - Unified Energy Systems (UES) chief and former deputy Prime Minister Anatoly Chubais said on Wednesday that he woule run for a seat in the Duma in December, but remain in his present job during the campaign. "I have decided to participate in the elections to the State Duma . |
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St. Petersburg has a new television station on the air. TV STO, short for Saint Petersburg Television Association - "hundred" in Russian - strives to become the top city channel, says Andrei Maksimenkov, the station's general producer and presenter. |
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Saudi Arabians will soon be building Russian choppers and wearing diamonds cut in Smolensk under agreements reached Wednesday during the first state visit to Moscow by a Saudi ruler since 1932. |
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The Pension Fund on Wednesday signed a two-year contract with Vneshtorgbank that gives the state-owned banking giant full control of the billions of pension dollars that 40 million future retirees will soon be able to invest. Unified Depositary Co., or ODK, a fully owned VTB subsidiary, last week won a government tender to be the specialized depository for pension payments after putting up 5 billion rubles ($163 million) in guarantees. |
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Even during the depths of the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union often worked together to halt the spread of nuclear weapons to new countries. Now, both countries are dealing with the realization that Iran's nuclear program is more advanced than previously thought, and may be aimed directly at acquiring nuclear weapons in the next few years. |
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For journalists, the summer months are a time of intense creative activity. So little happens during the traditional vacation period that reporters have to wrack their brains and use a little imagination to keep the pages filled. |
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It's official: Leningrad is very much alive and kicking Apart from a few tours, the hugely popular ska-punk band has been largely inactive this year, while its frontman, Sergei Shnurov, seemed to be more interested in other projects. He went to literary award ceremonies, recited Pushkin poems on CD, wrote music for television series and films and worked on solo projects or with other groups. |
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St. Petersburg audiences will get to see a new theatrical genre next week when the DanceTheater festival kicks off at the Alexandriinsky Theater on Thursday. |
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The Russian edition of New Musical Express has decided to call it quits after two years of publication, and this week's issue is the last. Alhough it contained a lot of articles translated from the British original, the Russian NME also tried to promote Russian bands that its editors considered to be "Brit-like,"such as the local pop/rock band Multfilmy. |
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"The food here is pure," said Alexander, the disarming man with the shaved head behind the counter at Gauranga on Ligovsky Prospect. By "pure" he meant organic, vegetarian - and, most importantly, spiritually pure. |
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Ukrainian baritone Vitaliy Bilyy scooped the top prize in the third Yelena Obraztsova Competition for Young Opera Singers, which wrapped up at the Shostakovich Philharmonic on Saturday. The 28 year old, a soloist at Moscow's Novaya Opera, beat 191 other hopefuls from 21 countries to take the Grand Prix, which carries $10,000 in prize money. |
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Bukhalovo: name of a village in the Vologda region, Tipsyville, Drunktown. More than a decade of post-Soviet power has not erased the signs of the Great October Revolution on Russia's highways. |
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Just as they did 300 years ago, hundreds of Dutchmen are coming to establish a colony on the banks of the Neva River this month. More than 600 artists, scholars and businesspeople from the Netheralands to Peter the Great - the man they consider their country's closest Russian friend, and the 300th anniversary of his Northern Capital - which was built with the help of many Dutch architects and engineers. |
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The arrival of "Arshile Gorky: His Life and Work" by Hayden Herrera confirms that the Armenian-born American painter has largely eluded the three hefty biographies that have clustered around the centennial of his birth in the early 1900s. |
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"Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle" is like eating a bowl of Honeycomb drenched in Red Bull - a dizzying mouthful of unabashed silliness that leads to an equally precipitous crash once the buzz wears off after the film's first hour. Still, it would be fair to say that the movie is better than both the television show that inspired it and its film predecessor. |
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Pacers Ink Carlisle Deal INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - New Indiana Pacers President Larry Bird signed Carlisle to a four-year contract Wednesday to replace Isiah Thomas, who was fired last week. Carlisle was Bird's hand-picked choice, and the move had been talked about since Bird returned to the Pacers in July. |
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