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Seven years have passed since May 1996, when then Mayor Anatoly Sobchak was defeated by his deputy, Vladimir Yakovlev. On Sunday, when St. Petersburgers again go to vote, Yakovlev is not running and the city faces another change at the top driven by an aggressive drive to replace the former governor with a pro-Kremlin protege, initiated and provided by the Northwest Region presidential representative's office. |
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German director Oliver Hirschbiegel sent a team across Europe to find a location for filming his new movie "The Downfall" about the last days of the Third Reich in Berlin. |
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MOSCOW - A year ago, in Texas, it was all about oil. But when the second U.S.-Russia Commercial Energy Summit opens in St. Petersburg next week, the star of the show is expected to be natural gas, particularly in its liquefied form. Eager to diversify its supplies from declining Canadian production, the United States is setting its sights on Russia as a long-term supplier of liquefied natural gas by sea. |
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Staff at Kresty, St. Petersburg's most notorious pre-trial detention center, got the shock of their lives when Anna Vladimirova, 29, who was visiting her common-law husband, unexpectedly gave birth to a baby daughter inside the prison on Monday. "I've been working in Kresty for 30 years, but we have never had women giving birth here before. |
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Lawyers for gubernatorial candidate Anna Markova on Monday asked the Central Election Commission to file a lawsuit in the Supreme Court against President Vladimir Putin for breaking election laws by publicly supporting another candidate, Valentina Matviyenko. |
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Ferry Touches Vessels ST. PETERSBURG (SPT) - Finnish passenger ferry Silja Opera brushed against two other vessels moored in Morskoi Kanal as it sailed for Helsinki on Wednesday night. Some technical equipment on the deck of the two boats suffered as a result was damaged, but the ferry continued on its voyage after a hasty inspection, Interfax reported. |
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MOSCOW - From a cluttered television studio in central Moscow, a small group of journalists and commentators is doing the kind of broadcasting that has all but disappeared from the major networks - by daring to criticize Kremlin policies. |
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MOSCOW - The nation's leading businessmen were left sweating Wednesday after presidential Chief of Staff Alexander Voloshin made rare public statements on two multibillion-dollar issues that are eating big business - property rights and the rules of the game for the upcoming UES sell-off - and failed to clear the air. |
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MOSCOW - A day after trading accusations with the government over the cause of project delays, Royal Dutch/Shell on Tuesday approved a budget of more than $1 billion to develop the Salym fields in western Siberia. |
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MOSCOW - President Vladimir Putin came out of talks with his Belarussian counterpart Alexander Lukashenko on Monday saying the two sides had reached an understanding on differences over the pricing of Russian gas supplies and over their planned monetary union. |
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$1.5Bln Paper Mill ST. PETERSBURG (SPT) - Finnish firm Metsaliito plans to build a new pulp-and-paper mill in Leningrad Oblast, Interfax reported Wednesday. |
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At a time when international leaders have rightly focused attention on Africa's HIV/AIDS tragedy, the potentially devastating epidemic has surfaced in Eurasia. Russia, in particular, faces a serious crisis: Experts estimate that as many as 1.5 million Russians - more than 2 percent of its adult population - have become infected in the past six years, potentially making this the world's highest rate of new HIV infection. |
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The problem of getting visas for Russians traveling to the United States just seems to be getting worse. Certainly the number of cases of delays and denials, coming across my desk, experienced by our membership supports that contention. |
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The meaning of what President Vladimir Putin called a "dictatorship of the law" in spring 2000 became clearer to me after a conversation on election issues with the St. Petersburg police this week. A police official warned me - off the record, of course - that our newspaper might be stripped of its license if we are not sufficiently careful in following new election laws. |
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This weekend sees the return of The Tiger Lillies, a trio of London musicians whose accordion-driven operatic ballads have been drawing crowds at concert venues in both Moscow and St. Petersburg since the band debuted in Moscow in April 2000. After that first show - at the then newly opened club Project O. |
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"Well, Moses finally stopped leading his people through the desert. We have the manuscripts now," was how prominent local actor Andrei Tolubeyev, head of the St. |
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Red Club's second anniversary festivities continue this week with Akvarium playing on Friday and two concerts by The Tiger Lillies on Saturday and Sunday (see article, this page). Akvarium, the seminal Russian rock band whose history officially started in 1972, used to perform at stadiums and large concert halls after Russian rock was legalized in the late 1980s, but over the past couple of years has become more of a frequent sight in local clubs. |
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The first thing I noticed on approaching the brand-new Marius Pub on Ulitsa Marata from Nevsky was a gigantic red flag with white cross flying outside the same building. |
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The annual Earlymusic festival, which opened Thursday with a concert by the brand-new Catherine the Great Orchestra, is now as inseparable a part of the St. Petersburg autumn as the capricious weather. Glamorous pictures of festival director Marc de Mauny and artistic director Andrei Reshetin in carefully studied poses and stylish costumes can be found in all of the city's glossy magazines. |
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Obkhodnoi list: departure clearance; a document signed by department heads certifying that an employee leaving his job doesn't owe anything. For those of your who aren't sick to death of the ins and outs, ups and downs of Russian verbs of motion, there are a few more that are particularly rich in primary, secondary and alternative meanings. |
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Attractions like the Anna Akhmatova Museum at Fontanka House or Amsterdam's Anne Frank House are proof, if proof were needed, of the international obsession with the personal side of celebrities. For contemporary-arts fans, however, it may all be a bit staid, but a new exhibition at the Peter and Paul Fortress is aiming to change that by bringing the two worlds together. |
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During the Soviet period, some of the best books about Russia were written by Western journalists. Soviet secrecy limited scholars' ability to study the present, or even the past. |
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Born in Leningrad in 1951 and graduated from that city's Institute of Cinematography in 1975, director Alexei Uchitel spent nearly two decades making documentary films before he found his true calling: feature films. It happened in the mid 1990s, when one of Uchitel's principal subjects died during the making of a documentary film. |
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Ex-General to Run LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas (AP) - Wesley Clark launched his first bid for elective office Wednesday, setting his sights on the presidency with a war-tested military record he said makes him the ideal Democrat to ensure the nation's security in a post-Sept. |
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KIEV - Defending Premier League champion Lokomotiv Moscow got off to a bad start in its Champions League campaign Wednesday, losing 2-0 to Dynamo Kiev in its opening Group B game. |
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Russia Gets Worlds HERSONISSOS, Greece (AP) - Russia was awarded hockey's 2007 World Championships on Thursday after Canada withdrew. The Canadians plan to bid next year for the 2008 event. Russia earned 61 of 88 votes. Germany received 16 votes and Sweden 11 in balloting at a meeting of the International Ice Hockey Federation in Crete. |
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