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Three candidates in Sunday's gubernatorial elections have complained to police of biased treatment from law-enforcement officers in the run-up to the elections. Representatives of Mikhail Amosov, head of the Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly, Sergei Belyayev, former director of Moscow's Sheremetyevo Airport, and Anna Markova, City Hall vice governor, say city police have acted in favor of presidential envoy to the Northwest Region Valentina Matviyenko, while hindering or detaining other candidates' campaign workers. |
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"Comrade Stalin, thank you ... " sounds maybe too positive about one of the 20th century's greatest tyrants to be the title of an exhibition about his life and times, especially in a place like the Museum of the Political History of Russia. |
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MOSCOW - When is $48.3 billion not enough? When it's the sum total of foreign investment in Russia since the collapse of the Soviet Union, according to Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov. "[This] is not a lot," Kasyanov told Monday's annual meeting of the Foreign Investment Advisory Council, which unites top foreign investors and government officials. |
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MOSCOW - Old Cold War rivals don't fade away, they just drink tea and crack one-liners together. After meeting with President Vladimir Putin in Sochi, former U.S. President George Bush flew into Moscow Monday and met with his old sparring partner and partner in ending the Cold War, former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. |
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The long discussed re-burial in St. Petersburgof Maria Fyodorovna, mother of Nicholas II, the last tsar, which had been scheduled for Sept. 26 has been postponed until at least next year. |
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Belyayev Excluded ST. PETERSBURG (SPT) - Leningrad Oblast gubernatorial candidate Yury Belyayev was disqualified from running in the regional elections. An oblast court made the ruling after hearing evidence obtained from law-enforcement agencies that Belyayev's associate Yevgeny Tyulkin distributed vodka to potential voters, Interfax reported Monday. |
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Popular left-leaning economist and State Duma Deputy Sergei Glazyev assembled his parliamentary-elections vehicle over the weekend by drawing a group of second-tier opposition-minded politicians into a new bloc called Homeland. |
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Protest Blocks Train VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) - Some 20 protesters, angry about new rules for traveling through Lithuania between Russia and Kaliningrad, chained themselves to a Moscow-bound train car Sunday, according to Lithuanian police. The demonstrators, from the leftist National Bolshevik Party, were upset about a travel policy Lithuania instituted earlier this year that requires Russians traveling between Russia and its Kaliningrad exclave to have travel documents when passing through Lithuania. |
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The Pyatyorochka chain of grocery stores, which previously limited its presence to major cities, is now eyeing towns in the Leningrad Oblast. Market experts and participants consider this a timely step since the discount chain's format will be appreciated by Oblast consumers. |
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St. Petersburg company Petersburg Transit Telecom (PTT) has received 100,000 direct lines in Moscow from Minsvyaz, the Russian communications ministry. |
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Power Stations MOSCOW (Bloomberg) - ENEL SpA and a group made up of Fortum Oyj and St. Petersburg-based utility Lenenergo may bid to run a power station in northern Russia, Vedomosti reported Friday, citing unidentified officials and analysts. |
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When Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov last month put fighter-jet maker RSK MiG on the list of state companies eligible for privatization, it did not go unnoticed by AFK Sistema, which appears eager to snag a stake in the defense giant. |
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MOSCOW - Anti-Monopoly Minister Ilya Yuzhanov said Monday that allowing a merger between any two of Russia's three largest GSM operators would be "sheer lunacy." Reports that rival operators Vimpelcom and Megafon might seek to merge their operations surfaced last month after Alfa Group, a major shareholder in No. |
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MOSCOW - Shares in top oil producer Yukos neared an all-time high on Monday amid growing signs that U.S. companies are preparing to invest $11 billion or more in the company. |
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Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov lashed out Thursday at the "irresponsibility" of regional and municipal leaders who have failed to prepare for the coming winter. "Local leaders are responsible for winter preparations, but the federal government has been forced to discuss the question," Kasyanov told a Cabinet session dedicated to winter preparations before briefing the president on the subject later Thursday. |
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MOSCOW - Beginning next year, foreigners and 14-year-olds can register on their own as entrepreneurs, Sergei Dukanov, head of the Tax Ministry's registration and record-keeping department, said Thursday. |
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Industrial Output Up MOSCOW (Reuters) - Industrial output rose 5.5 percent in August year on year and 6.6 percent in the first eight months of 2003, Deputy Economic Development and Trade Minister Arkady Dvorkovich said Thursday. Industrial production rose by 3.8 percent in the January-August period of 2002. |
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Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah Bin Abdul Aziz Al-Saud's three-day visit to Moscow this month made headlines across the globe. And rightly so. Diplomatic relations between Russia and Saudi Arabia were restored in 1990, but Prince Abdullah's visit was the first by a Saudi ruler since 1932 and a strong indicator of improving relations between the two countries. |
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GENEVA - As trade negotiators were gathering for this week's meeting of the World Trade Organization in Cancun, I had a chance to talk with several dozen activists from around the world who are finding innovative ways to help poor farmers join the global economy. |
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Back when the Kremlin's security services were bringing treason and espionage charges against a mild-mannered environmentalist, I used to shake my head and think, "Only in Russia." Alexander Nikitin's crime was to care enough about the health and safety of Russians that he wrote about the Northern Fleet's carelessness with nuclear waste. |
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The draconian restrictions placed on the media's election coverage, which came into force this summer, have been coming under increasing fire from various quarters as the autumn election season gets under way. |
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The presidential election campaign in Chechnya has at times looked more like a military campaign. But now the endgame is near. Last week, one more bastion of opposition to Kremlin-appointed Chechen leader Akhmad Kadyrov fell, when soldiers from his personal security force seized the Grozny radio and television company created in March by Bislan Gantamirov, the republic's press minister until his dismissal on Sept. |
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Last Rights Once again, the dispiriting spectacle of the American media in full campaign cry is upon us, as coverage of the 2004 presidential race begins in earnest. |
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MOSCOW - The voices running through Sergei Filippov's head don't bother him much, because he can turn them on and off whenever he likes. What's more, when he is tired of one voice, all he has to do is scroll through his mental table of contents and pick out another. |
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Zimbabwe Paper Shuts HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) - Zimbabwe's only independent daily newspaper failed to publish Saturday after armed police raided its offices and the Supreme Court declared the publication in violation of a new media law. |
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Killing Arafat 'Option' RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) - The second-ranking official in the Israeli government said Sunday that killing Yasser Arafat is an option, as thousands of Palestinians took to the streets across the West Bank and Gaza Strip promising to protect their leader. |
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NUSA DUA, Indonesia -Second seed Yelena Dementiyeva took an unexpected victory by making easy work of top seed Chanda Rubin 6-2, 6-1 in the singles final of the WTA tournament. |
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LONDON - Three unidentified billionaires have made separate inquiries into bidding for Premiership champion Manchester United, Britian's Observer newspaper said on Sunday, citing unnamed senior club figures. The front-page report said the Russian, European and Middle Eastern entrepreneurs each sought advice from bankers on the cost of the club, which has a market capitalization of Pound436 million, and if existing shareholders would sell. |
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