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MOSCOW - Boris Berezovsky, the controversial powerbroker who has been living in exile in London for nearly three years after locking horns with President Vladimir Putin, has been granted political asylum by the British government. But British courts still have to rule on whether to continue to consider Russia's request for his extradition to face fraud charges. |
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"It's very bad here ... We're hungry here as wolves in winter, and if I had three loaves of bread I would eat it all at once." So wrote seven-year-old Asya in a letter to her relatives during the 900-day siege of Leningrad in World War II. |
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How about a horse for governor? Walking down Nevsky Prospekt on Wednesday, you were likely to be stopped by several clowns introducing a horse to you and asking you to support it. This was, of course, no ordinary horse: According to a large poster next to it, the horse is running for St. Petersburg governor and is supported by the president. |
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MOSCOW - The last two serious challengers in Chechnya's presidential election w!ere taken out of the race Thursday, clearing the way for the Kremlin's favored candidate, Akhmad Kadyrov, to win handily on Oct. 5. Aslambek Aslakhanov, who represents Chechnya in the State Duma, said Thursday that he withdrew from the race and will serve as an adviser to President Vladimir Putin. |
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MOSCOW - A 29-year-old, little-known political analyst who once campaigned for the pro-Kremlin party was named the head of leading national polling agency VTsIOM after its original team of researchers left in protest at a state takeover and started an independent agency of their own. |
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The U.S. Consulate held a ceremony to commemorate the second anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on Washington and New York on Thursday at the consul general's residence. "Sept. 11, 2001 was a day of shock and horror which no American will ever forget. |
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MOSCOW - Tehran has made an unexpected and unacceptable demand that could derail Russian-Iranian cooperation on the Bushehr nuclear plant, a senior Nuclear Power Ministry official said Wednesday. |
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Markova Files ST. PETERSBURG (SPT) - Gubernatorial candidate Vice Governor Anna Markova filed a complaint with the City Election Committee against opponent Valentina Matviyenko over a poster featuring President Vladimir Putin, Interfax reported Thursday. Posters featuring Matviyenko, widely seen as the Kremlin's choice for city governor, with Putin and the slogan "Together We Can" have been placed prominently around the city. |
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MOSCOW - The State Duma wants to radically cut the law on compulsory automobile insurance this fall, a year after the same deputies passed it, amid loud public complaints that insurance costs too much. The proposed amendments would slash the base insurance premium, postpone the full introduction of compulsory third party insurance for at least a year or cancel it altogether. |
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Government efforts to smooth the vast budget imbalances among the regions will likely succeed - leading to possible ratings downgrades for the wealthiest regions, Standard & Poor's warned in a report Wednesday. |
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City to Get New Hotels MOSCOW (Bloomberg) - Accor SA, the owner of the Motel 6, Novotel and Red Roof Inn chains, will open two hotels next year in St. Petersburg, Russia's second-largest city. Accor will open the 211-room Novotel Moika and the 260-room Novotel Mayakovsky in 2004, a press spokeswoman said. |
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Meeting with Valentina Matviyenko last week, President Vladimir Putin said that he sincerely wished her luck in the upcoming St. Petersburg gubernatorial election. During their meeting, parts of which were broadcast on national television, Putin also discussed with her economic issues relating to the northern capital that she will have to deal with once elected. |
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Two years ago, the entire world was shocked by the scope and deadliness of the terrorist attacks on the Twin Towers in New York and the Pentagon in Washington. |
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In all the justifiable rage that swept America in the days after Sept. 11, 2001, we made some bad decisions. Two years later, they remain with us, like hangovers so miserable they demand we just keep drinking. Consider the Sept. 28, 2001, op-ed column "Talk Later," in which The New York Times foreign-affairs expert Thomas Friedman enthused about having Vladimir Putin on America's side in the "war on terror" - because now we could enlist the Russian mafia. |
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St. Petersburg has seen a number of "invasions" by different countries to promote cultural events this year, but the Finns seem to have done more than most to get themselves noticed. All week, the city has been flooded with Finnish art, dance, music, poetry, puppetry and other art forms - even Finnish magicians have been spotted. |
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After over a century of stormy relations between Finland and Russia, one of the most celebrated artistic happenings in the two countries' history is making a high-profile comeback, and there seems to be renewed hope that the cultural ties linking the two countries can once again become as strong as they were before 1917. |
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Finland continues to be one of St. Petersburg's most important trade and business partners, with investment and trade turnover growing every year. Finnish companies outnumber other foreign companies in the city. Although they find a number of administrative barriers here, including long and tiresome bureaucratic procedures, they are eager to carry out cooperation with the city and local businesses, developing already existing projects and launching new ones. |
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The Evangelical Lutheran St. Mary's Church is the only Lutheran church in St. Petersburg where services are held in the Finnish language. Its parishioners are the hundreds of city residents with Finnish and Ingermanlands roots or Finns working in St. |
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Labor migration and the employment policies were discussed during the international seminar "10 Years of Labor-Market Cooperation Between Russia and Finland" on Wednesday, as part of the exhibition of the Finnish region of Southern Savo, which took place on Wednesday and Thursday at the Ethnographic Museum. |
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To take a little liberty with an old cliche, "When in China, do as the Chinese do." It is my experience, however, that if you're in St. Petersburg and not in China, but you're still looking for some good Chinese food, go where the Chinese go. |
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A 40-strong crowd of Duch jazz musicians will swarm into the city this week, with 15 acts playing in seven venues and jamming with their local counterparts over two weeks in September. In a change from most local jazz agendas, Dixieland and jazz standards will not be featured. |
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Hugely popular ska-punk band Leningrad, which has been showing a renewed burst of activity over the last couple of months, will play a local stadium concert on Friday - something it hasn't done since last December. |
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A festival this weekend aims to showcase some of the people whom you probably walk past every day without noticing them. Singing Nevsky, a festival that brings together the city's multitudes of street musicians, will take over most of the city's major thoroughfare for much of the weekend. Performances will be given between 2 p. |
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Spartak Sacks Coach MOSCOW (Reuters) - Andrei Chernyshov became the second Spartak Moscow coach to lose his job this season after being sacked by the former Russian champion on Thursday. The Premier League club said on its official website that Spartak boss Andrei Chervichenko decided to make a change following a two-hour meeting with Chernyshov earlier in the day. |
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