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Neither President Vladimir Putin nor his representative office in the Northwest Region have broken election laws, the Northwest Prosecutor's Office says. The finding flew in the face of complaints by candidates in the St. Petersburg gubernatorial elections and local politicians that top officials, including Putin, have campaigned for Valentina Matviyenko, the presidential representative in the Northwest Region. |
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MOSCOW - President Vladimir Putin pardoned Olesya Suldina just eight months after she stabbed to death a man who attempted to rape her after a drinking binge in a southern Samara region village. |
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WASHINGTON - Toward the end of a conference here in which speaker after speaker had laid out pessimistic, ghoulish takes on Chechnya, Georgetown University professor Peter Reddaway rose to ask: Are there no Russian government representatives present, who might care to comment? There were, of course. |
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MOSCOW - The last potential serious rival to Akhmad Kadyrov, the Kremlin-appointed head of the Chechen administration, was removed from the Chechen presidential race Thursday. |
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The federal court of the Petrograd district asked the district prosecutor's office to extend its investigation into the abuse of cadets at the Nakhimov college in February. "The prosecutors made several mistakes when deciding against opening a criminal case over the incident," said Ella Polyakova, co-chairwoman of the St. |
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MOSCOW - German media giant Axel Springer has set up a subsidiary in Moscow that will launch a number of new titles in the next two years, reportedly including Newsweek and Forbes. |
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Anatoly Chubais, UES chief executive, caused a stir Thursday by calling for a new Russian empire. After receiving an honorary doctorate, cap and robe from his alma mater, the St. Petersburg State University for Engineering and Economics, Chubais spoke to university teachers and students, focusing on Russia's mission in the 21st century. |
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Russian crude may start flowing regularly to the United States as soon as 2007, Economic Development and Trade Minister German Gref said Tuesday. A new deepwater port in Murmansk and a giant, possibly private pipeline to supply it with Siberian crude could be built by 2007-08, Gref told the second annual U. |
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Baltika Now Kosher MOSCOW (Reuters)-Russia's top brewer, Baltika, which in July sent its first consignment of nonalcoholic beer to Iran, is continuing its march across the Middle East with plans to ship kosher beer to Israel, the brewer said Tuesday. |
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Almost 70 percent of all private ownership in Russian companies, around $85 billion, is not publicly disclosed, Standard & Poor's latest study finds. Another study, released on Wednesday by the Russian Institute of Directors, shows that while companies release a lot of information, they tend to stay mum about data pertaining to their directors and share ownership. |
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News that Roman Abramovich, the billionaire owner of Chelsea football club, had sold his stake in top aluminum firm Russian Aluminum to his partner was shot down Thursday by the purported buyer. Base Element, which owns 50 percent of RusAl, is controlled by another tycoon, Oleg Deripaska. The company's official web site Thursday posted an announcement saying that "the statements made in the [Sept. |
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The gubernatorial election in St. Petersburg has not produced the expected result for the Kremlin. Despite its best efforts, including the prominent deployment of President Vladimir Putin, presidential envoy Valentina Matviyenko (who had at her disposal all the administrative resources of the city administration and the presidential envoy's office) was unable to prevail in the first round. |
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"Could you have imagined we'd end up in a situation like this years after we stood up to this kind of thing in 1996?" a friend said while he and I were sitting at media headquarters as results were tallied Sunday night after gubernatorial elections. |
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The European Theater Festival, which kicks off at the Maly Drama Theater on Saturday, is perhaps the grandest international drama-theater event that St. Petersburg has ever witnessed. St. Petersburg was chosen to host the 12th running of the European Theaters Festival, which continues through Oct. |
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Dutch graphic artist Maurits Cornelis Escher needs little introduction to Russian audiences. They have long been familiar with his legacy through numerous reproductions of his work in books, catalogs, calendars, postcards and other day-to-day objects. |
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The Dutch jazz program, part of the ongoing Window on the Netherlands festival, ends this week with a series of events outside the usual club route. The largest of all will be a joint project with the local SKIF festival, which promotes an annual three-day music marathon focusing on contemporary improvised and world music. |
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Fine art and fine dining would seem to be an obvious combination. But art and a budget-conscious cafe? Art Bufet, which opened recently in the same building as the local branch of the Artists Union of Russia, proves that it is possible. |
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St. Petersburg has become a veritable hotbed of Scandinavian art in the last few months, and it seems as though the stream of exhibitions, performances and video screenings by Nordic artists for the city's 300th anniversary is not going to dry up any time soon. |
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You don't have to go far to get away in spirit from St. Petersburg and feel that you are somewhere deep in the Russian hinterland. Just 3 kilometers - a 10-minute bus ride - from Peterhof's world-renowned parks, fountains and palaces is the picturesque village of Nizino, which is set on a hill with small vegetable plots climbing up its slopes in patchwork fashion. |
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When Russia celebrated its National Day of Cinema on Aug. 27 Alexander Golutva, deputy Culture Minister responsible for the sector, said that he hoped that, after a long pause, the country would soon again have "films of which we can be proud." As it turned out, he did not have long to wait. |
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Jim Carrey may have it all - formidable comic gifts, physical grace, good looks and charm - but "Bruce Almighty," his latest collaboration with director Tom Shadyac, is not so mighty. |
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A new book on Chechnya presents evidence suggesting that Kremlin manipulations, not Chechen terrorism, were behind the start of the second war in the republic in 1999. "Der Krieg im Schatten" ("The War in the Shadows") was released recently in Germany as the war was about to enter its fifth year. |
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Ruchishcha: big hand, paw, mitt. There are a lot of words in Russian that we non-native speakers use and translate without really thinking about where they come from. |
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Guantanamo Probe WASHINGTON - The Pentagon is looking into security procedures at its main prison for terrorism suspects after the espionage-related arrests of two men stationed there. Defense officials said Wednesday that a third service member also was being investigated in the security probe at the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, base. |
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Senator Navratilova? LEIPZIG, Germany (AP) - Martina Navratilova plans to get into public service after she stops serving and volleying in 2005. |
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