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MOSCOW - A confidential Interior Ministry document, obtained by the Institute of War and Peace Reporting, accuses Akhmad Kadyrov, President Vladimir Putin's appointed ruler in Chechnya and his favored candidate in Sunday's presidential election, of using systematic extortion and violence. |
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If President Vladimir Putin had decided to quit his job in the Kremlin to join the gubernatorial race in St. Petersburg, he would have won, but not in the first round, according to a survey conducted by local PR agency Business Market. |
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MOSCOW - President Vladimir Putin told top military commanders Thursday that Russia will put dozens of the SS-19 multi-warhead, intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) on combat duty. In a separate development, a Defense Ministry paper released ahead of Putin's comments warned that Russia might have to revise its plans for military reform and nuclear defense strategy if NATO did not drop what it termed its "anti-Russian orientation. |
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MOSCOW - U.S. first lady Laura Bush departed from Moscow for Washington on Thursday after raising Washington's concerns about press freedom in Russia. She departed for Washington early Thursday after having coffee with Cherie Blair, the wife of British Prime Minister Tony Blair, who was also visiting Moscow. |
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St. Petersburg will on Saturday join the world's largest simultaneous singing event Voices for Hospices - a series of charity concerts to raise funds for international hospices. |
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MOSCOW - She may be President Vladimir Putin's choice to be the country's first woman governor, but the frontrunner for the St. Petersburg runoff is keen to be seen as her own woman. As a former deputy prime minister and ambassador, Valentina Matviyenko can certainly claim a wealth of experience in city and national government. |
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Like her former boss, Vladimir Yakovlev, Anna Markova hopes to step up to lead St. Petersburg from the vice-governor's post. Like Yakovlev, who beat liberal Anatoly Sobchak in a closely contested 1996 election, she started the campaign as underdog and faces a candidate backed by fellow St. |
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MOSCOW - The Kinocenter movie theater on Wednesday refused to screen hard-hitting documentaries about Chechnya for a film festival, saying the 18 films from six countries were "unacceptable" and "too highly politically charged." Festival organizers accused the authorities of intimidating Kinocenter into canceling the event and promised to show all of the films at the Sakharov Museum instead. |
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Locals agree that St. Petersburg is beautiful in autumn, but most foreign and out-of-town Russian tourists prefer to go elsewhere at this time of year. |
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MOSCOW - Former Kursk Governor Alexander Rutskoi will be charged with abuse of office over deals that allegedly cost the Kursk region millions of rubles when he was governor, the Interior Ministry said Wednesday. Investigators summoned Rutskoi to appear at the ministry's Voronezh branch Wednesday to face charges on suspicion of authorizing the purchase of agricultural equipment at inflated prices, said the office of Kursk Governor Alexander Mikhailov. |
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MOSCOW - Tver Governor Vladimir Platov has been charged with abuse of office for allegedly helping a friend win a regional tender - a deal that cost the Tver budget $13. |
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A top Kremlin economist said Thursday that Russia was on target to double gross domestic product in the next 10 years, despite the economy's sensitivity to oil price fluctuations. Andrei Illarionov, President Vladimir Putin's chief economic adviser, said that doubling gross domestic product in a decade was "completely realistic. |
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The market went into overdrive Thursday as the Russian Trading System climbed up another 2.5 percent to hit a new record high of 588.4 by close of trading. |
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Local Exchange Growth ST. PETERSBURG (SPT) - Turnover at the St. Petersburg Currency Exchange grew 43.5 percent in September over August and amounted to 71 billion rubles, Interfax reported on Thursday. According to a stock exchange press release, September dollar turnover reached $528,559 and euro turnover was 90. |
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MOSCOW - The first Russian-American automobile will no longer be priced in dollars. Market analysts view GM-AvtoVAZ's trek into the euro zone this week as another excuse for the company to jack up prices for its sole product - the Chevrolet-Niva. |
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MOSCOW - United Heavy Machineries on Tuesday became only the fourth Russian company to be fully listed on the London Stock Exchange - and the industrial giant's CEO and main shareholder, Kaha Bendukidze, took the opportunity to attack American foreign policy. |
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MOSCOW - In what appears to be an attempt to spin some good news beyond the backslapping bonhomie of the recent summit between Presidents George W. Bush and Vladimir Putin, U. |
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Gazprom Satiated MOSCOW (Reuters) - Gazprom said on Tuesday it planned no more borrowing this year. "We are not going to borrow anything for the rest of this year. We are restricted by the fact that we have fulfilled the program for this year," board member Andrei Kruglov told reporters. Gazprom has set a borrowing limit of 130 billion rubles ($4. |
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What October events?" My friend Alexei, a Muscovite born and bred, looked at me blankly when I told him I had a piece to write for the ten-year anniversary of that momentous occasion. "Oh, you mean when Yeltsin pounded the Parliament." He shrugged dismissively. |
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This country is proud of its literary heritage, especially when it wants to demonstrate that Russia is a world power. How could anyone doubt Russia's greatness after seeing the long list of world-famous works written in the 19th and 20th centuries: Joseph Brodsky, Osip Mandelshtam, Nikolai Gumelyov, Mikhail Bulgakov, Boris Pasternak, Lev Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoyevsky . |
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Two magnificent 18th-century towns in suburban St. Petersburg - Pavlovsk and Pushkin - are at the heart of this year's Congress of Russian Historical Towns and Regions. The idea behind the congress - being held in Pavlovsk and Pushkin on Thursday and Friday - is to develop a strong network between professionals involved in the preservation, management and promotion of the country's historical places, and produce an common strategy to solve problems. |
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Vadim Pokrovsky, frontman of popular local band Dva Samaliota and one of the best-loved people on the local club scene, died aged 36 of a liver condition in a Moscow hospital Sept. |
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Seminal local rock band Akvarium will play two concerts - called "Zachem Angelam Samolyot?" ("Why Do Angels Need an Airplane?") - at Stary Dom on Saturday and Sunday. Despite early reports from the club that the band will perform mostly electric instruments in the first concert and acoustic instruments in the second, frontman Boris Grebenshchikov said the two shows will only differ as much as any other two Akvarium concerts. |
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As regular readers of this column may well be aware, Georgian food is a particular favorite of mine. It is always a delight to discover new places to add to the list, which this week gained a valuable new member in Ketino, located 10 minutes walk from Vasileostrovskaya metro station. |
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Sun, stone and water is a simple way to describe the famous archipelago located in a lagoon in the north of the Adriatic Sea. The Venetian phenomenon traces its history back to 5 A.D., and has been formed by centuries of events, including barbarian invasions, the rise and fall of the Byzantine empire, the dynasty of the Doges, wars with the Turks, plagues, Napoleon's campaigns, Austrian rule and many others - including annexation to the Kingdom of Italy and confirmed by the Venetians in 1866. |
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"Once Upon a Time in Mexico" is all that its title implies and more: a homage to the spaghetti westerns of Sergio Leone with a Latin twist and a little John Woo thrown in for good measure. |
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Jhumpa Lahiri was born in London, raised in America and is of Indian descent. With a background similar in outline to that of Zadie Smith, she nonetheless arrived at an entirely different imaginative enterprise. She renounced the writerly flourish, never once played the exotic and scaled her characters to actual human existence. |
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Paronimy: paronyms, words allied by derivation from the same root. Because Russian is largely built on one proto-language that has been fine-tuned by all sorts of prefixes and suffixes over the millennia, there is a plethora of paronymous words that native speakers often confuse. |
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Chinese Free To Wed BEIJING (AP) - Marriage in China used to be a matter for a man, a woman - and the couple's employers. No longer. On Wednesday, China eliminated a much-resented requirement for couples to obtain their bosses' approval before tying the knot, prompting thousands of couples to wed in what, for some, was also a celebration of the retreat of outside interference in their private lives. |
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Limbaugh Resigns NEW YORK (AP) - Conservative commentator Rush Limbaugh resigned from ESPN on Wednesday night, three days after sparking outrage by saying Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb is overrated because the media wanted to see a black quarterback succeed. |
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