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Kremlin-backed candidate Valentina Matviyenko did not get enough votes to win the gubernatorial race in the first round, garnering just 48.61 percent in the Sunday poll, the City Election Commission reported Monday. Matviyenko, the presidential envoy to the Northwest Region, needed more than 50 percent of votes to win outright. |
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With 936 out of 973 polling stations returned, Leningrad Oblast Governor Valery Serdyukov had more than 50 percent of the vote in the oblast's gubernatorial election, meaning a second round will not have to be held. |
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About 500 German war veterans and relatives of those who died in the Second World War attended the handing over of a restored Orthodox church beside what is to become the largest German war cemetery in the world in the village of Sologubovka, 80 kilometers southeast of St. |
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MOSCOW - A game of cards can now become a quick lesson of who's who in Washington with the release of a new deck that looks an awful lot like the United States' own deck of most-wanted Iraqi leaders. |
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MOSCOW - Whatever the political make-up of the new State Duma, one result is already virtually a shoo-in: Women deputies will be in a tiny minority, just as they have been in all three elections since Soviet rule ended in 1991. And of the small number of women in Parliament, only two - Irina Khakamada, the co-leader of the Union of Right Forces party, and Communist deputy Svetlana Savitskaya, the first woman to walk in space - made the top five in their parties' lists this time around. |
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MOSCOW - President Vladimir Putin made an unannounced appearance at United Russia's congress on Saturday and left no doubt that the party is his choice to win the Dec. 7 parliamentary elections. He said he had voted for the party in the last elections, in 1999, when he was prime minister and that he did not regret it. |
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MOSCOW - An investigation into the death of Yabloko Deputy Yury Shchekochikhin is showing some "very alarming" results suggesting he might have been killed, Yabloko leader Georgy Yavlinsky said Monday. |
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Draft Budget Approved ST. PETERSBURG (SPT) - The St. Petersburg government has approved the draft city budget 2004 with a deficit of 4.4 percent of a total spending, Inerfax reported Monday. Total income would approximate 83.9 billion rubles (about $2. |
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MOSCOW - Leonid Parfyonov's "Namedni," CTC television and the "Idiot" mini-series were the winners at the third annual TV Press awards Friday. |
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MOSCOW - Few lawyers successfully win a suit against the Moscow city government on its home turf. The media avidly followed lawyer Igor Trunov as he lost suit after suit in his high-profile battle to win damages for dozens of relatives of those who died in the "Nord-Ost" theater seize, and few expected that anyone else would have much success. |
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MOSCOW - Russian secret service agents planned to kill tycoon Boris Berezovsky in Britain, according to a report in The Sunday Times, the website lenta. |
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If last year's buzzword was "dialogue," this year's was surely "partnership." It doesn't sound like much of a difference, but unlike the get-to-know-you session in Texas last year, the second annual U.S.-Russia energy summit in St. |
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Soyuzpushnina, the organization that runs Russia's only fur auction, will be privatized within the next two months. It looks likely that the company's suppliers will gain a controlling interest. |
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Belarussian brewery Krinitsa has returned 5 percent of its $10.7 million debt to St. Petersburg's Baltika brewery, ABN reported Monday. According to the Baltika press service, the loan was extended to the Belarussian brewery in 2001 and was slated for repayment on May 31, 2002. |
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YALTA, Ukraine - Leaders of former Soviet republics endorsed an ambitious plan Friday aimed at recreating the economic union that collapsed with the breakup of the Soviet Union, a move they stressed was a not a bid to turn back the clock but to pump up the region's sagging economic might. |
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MOSCOW - Basking in the glow of the BP-TNK union and buoyed by macroeconomic stability, Russia has for the first time cracked the top 10 list of the world's most attractive countries for foreign direct investment, according to a new poll of chief executives conducted by global management consultancy firm A. |
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MOSCOW - President Vladimir Putin said Saturday that he couldn't interfere in the inquiry into Mikhail Khodorkovsky's oil giant Yukos because crimes such as murder have been alleged and are too serious to ignore, Interfax reported. |
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Capital has been flying out of the country since July, several economists say, which reverses the much-touted inflows over the second quarter of the year. The Central Bank's gold and foreign currency reserves have not regained their high-water mark for the year, posted the week Platon Lebedev, a major Yukos shareholder, was arrested, despite factors like high oil prices and large trade surpluses that normally boost their volume. |
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The walkout by a group of disgruntled poor nations that led to the dramatic collapse of global trade talks in Mexico last week raised speculation that the WTO's days may be numbered ~ but it also breathed new life into Russia's decade-long quest to join the global trade body. |
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Ford Testing Facility ST. PETERSBURG (SPT) - Ford Motor Company has completed construction of a new safety testing facility at the Ford Vsevolozhsk plant in the Leningrad Oblast. According to the Moscow office of Ford, this facility will be used to test all vehicles produced by the plant. Manufacturing capacity at the Ford Vsevolozhsk plant stands at 25,000 cars a year, which could be increased to 100,000 cars a year if demand increases. |
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The late-night news on Channel One recently led with the Russian national soccer team's emphatic 4-1 victory over Switzerland in a European Championship qualifying game. The report featured highlights of the game, shots of ecstatic fans and of respectable middle-aged men in dark suits jumping for joy and hugging one another. |
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One year ago, Jack Welch, who as CEO of General Electric created $400 billion in stockholder wealth, faced a storm of public protest over his retirement benefits, which were worth a modest $2. |
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President Vladimir Putin will meet with his U.S. counterpart, George W. Bush, at Camp David this Friday and Saturday, two years after a shift in Russian foreign policy that led to increased cooperation between the two countries. The fall of 2001 was a honeymoon of sorts in U. |
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Sunday's gubernatorial election in the Northern Capital clearly demonstrated that St. Petersburgers will not blindly vote for whichever candidate has President Vladimir Putin's blessing (although there were no equine candidates in the race to test a theory advanced by one of the candidates in the run-up to the poll). |
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I had to chuckle when told that Gennady Zyuganov had just been sent a copy of The Moscow Times' three-year-old investigation into fraud and falsification in Vladimir Putin's election. Judging from my e-mail box, that September 2000 report is getting attention. |
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Vanishing Act It's a shell game, with money, companies and corporate brands switching in a blur of buy-outs and bogus fronts. It's a sinkhole, where mobbed-up operators, paid-off public servants, crazed Christian fascists, CIA shadow-jobbers, war-pimping arms dealers - and presidential family members - lie down together in the slime. |
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Africa AIDS Warning NAIROBI (Reuters) - The United Nations AIDS group warned on Sunday of a 3 billion shortfall in funding to fight the disease in sub-Saharan Africa where almost 30 million people are living with HIV/AIDS. "Even with recent increases in AIDS spending, the mismatch between need and funding continues to be one of the biggest obstacles in the struggle to control the epidemic," UNAIDS said. |
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