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"There is a clear parallel between the shelling of the White House in October 1993 in Moscow and the recent gubernatorial elections in St. Petersburg," one of the election's candidates, Sergei Belyayev, wrote in an open letter to President Vladimir Putin this week. |
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The St. Petersburg branch of the Russian Tourist Industry Union begged city police last week to undertake urgent action after numerous cases of street robbery sparked letters of complaint from foreign tourist operators in September. |
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Russian and Spanish officials are discussing the return to Novgorod of a cross from one of Russia's oldest and most significant churches - Novgorod's St. Sophia Cathedral - that was taken to Spain during World War II. "This cross belongs to Russia, and it should come back to Russia," said Fernando Polonio, head of the Spanish Association for those Missing in Action in Russia, in a telephone interview from Toledo on Monday. Polonio led a delegation that about two years ago informed the Novgorod authorites that a cross in a military academy outside Madrid belongs to St. Sophia. He raised the topic again when visiting Novgorod this September. |
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 ST. PETERSBURG - The famous illustration of the nose from satirist Nikolai Gogol's story of the same name that was stolen from the Frankfurt Book Fair last week has been recovered. |
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 MOSCOW - A debate is under way whether to move the country's highest courts from Moscow to St. Petersburg - and the Central Bank to Krasnoyarsk and the Cabinet to Yekaterinburg. St. Petersburg Governor-elect Valentina Matviyenko is pushing to move the Constitutional Court, the Supreme Court and the Supreme Arbitration Court to the Imperial Capital. |
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Governor-elect Valentina Matviyenko has not yet decided who will fill the key position of head of the city's finance committee, waiting for President Vladimir Putin to make the choice for her, Gazeta newspaper reported Monday. |
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The Constitutional Court started hearings Monday on a petition by lawmakers and journalists challenging the constitutionality of a new law that sharply restricts media coverage during election campaigns. The law, which came into force this summer, bans the media from publishing critical reports or commentary beyond the bare facts about candidates. |
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Student Kills Librarian ST. PETERSBURG (SPT) - City police on Sunday detained a Railway Transport College student suspected of setting fire to the college library and murdering the librarian, Interfax cited the criminal police as saying. |
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MOSCOW - A year and a half after the editor of the Tolyatti Review newspaper was gunned down, his friend and successor was stabbed to death outside his apartment building. Both killings were seen by their colleagues and investigators as contract hits aimed at silencing the newspaper, known for its hard-hitting investigative reports of organized crime and official corruption in Tolyatti, the hometown of AvtoVAZ, the country's largest automaker. The Press Ministry expressed its indignation at the attacks on journalists who were "carrying out their professional duty." Alexei Sidorov, 31, was stabbed several times with a rough, handmade knife as he approached the entrance to his apartment building on Kommunisticheskaya Ulitsa at about 9:50 p. |
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 MOSCOW - When she started her career, Olga Kryshtanovskaya signed a pledge for the KGB that she wouldn't poll people about Communist Party bosses. Today, the social researcher has collected some of the most comprehensive archives on Russia's pinnacle of power, from President Vladimir Putin's team to the powerful business barons. |
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MOSCOW - In about a year, the traffic police will lose one of their favorite ways of exhorting bribes from drivers - issuing car roadworthiness certificates, or tekhosmotr, the Cabinet decided Thursday. The decision was one of several reached at an administrative reform meeting aimed at revamping the country's bureaucracy by stripping ministries and other state agencies of some of their powers. "Nowhere else in the world are the police in charge of car technical inspections," Deputy Prime Minister Boris Alyoshin told reporters after the Cabinet meeting. "It's as odd as if we were to make the police in charge of the quality of the roads. |
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 MOSCOW - When American entrepreneur Glen Gordon decided to manufacture and sell his innovative "flying tractor," Russia was about the last place he thought he'd build it. |
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The leader of the Latvian branch of Russia's radical National Bolshevik Party was released Monday from Moscow's Lefortovo prison after prosecutors said the charges against him were politically motivated. Vladimir Linderman, a friend of writer Eduard Limonov, had disappeared three weeks ago after he went out to buy newspapers. |
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MOSCOW - In the government's strongest endorsement yet of a possible sale of a stake in YukosSibneft to global oil giant ExxonMobil, Energy Minister Igor Yusufov said Friday that Russia would welcome such a deal as a "positive step." "Of course, it fills us with pride that discussions are under way with the first company in the world, ExxonMobil," Yusufov said at a news conference for foreign reporters, AP reported. |
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MOSCOW - Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov said Friday that the government would decide on restructuring Gazprom in the next few months, an apparent turnaround on comments made the day before by President Vladimir Putin that seemed likely to slam the brakes on any prospect of reform. |
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Baltika Boosts Export ST. PETERSBURG (SPT) - Baltika brewery exported 9 percent more beer between January and September 2003 than during the same period in 2002, or 8.113 decaliters more, the brewery's press service reported to Interfax. Baltika exports beer to 27 countries of the world, including Great Britain, Germany, Iran and Israel. Iran receives shipments of nonalcoholic beer, while Israel buys kosher beer. An earlier report stated that Baltika beer accounted for 70 percent of all beer exported from Russia. Baltika operates plants in St. Petersburg, Tula, Rostov-on-Don, Samara and Khabarovsk. Apatit Investment MOSCOW (SPT) - The Fosagro is investing $65 million in Apatit, according to a Fosagro press release reported by Interfax. |
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 ZHUKOVKA, Moscow Region - A day after prosecutors raided Yukos-related offices, lawyers on Friday condemned the searches at the business center in the suburb of Zhukovka, saying the documents seized by investigators will not hold up in court because they were confiscated illegally. |
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The Camp David meeting between Presidents Vladimir Putin and George W. Bush demonstrates the growing strength of the U.S.-Russian relationship, which has not only survived but transcended disagreements over Iraq. Even if our two presidents did not see eye to eye on every issue, they have developed a remarkable mutual understanding. |
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The central theme of the World Economic Forum meeting held in Moscow 11 days ago was the much-touted goal put forward by President Vladimir Putin to double GDP in a decade. |
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If bull markets classically climb a "wall of worry," then surely the RTS must be fitted out with ropes and pitons! Repeatedly this year we have been warned that the Russian bull was to be slaughtered - by reform fatigue and political volatility, by the Yukos scandal or the "summer doldrums," even by the dread "September effect. |
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At a meeting with foreign journalists on the eve of his trip to the United States, President Vladimir Putin said that the case against Yukos involved "possible links of individuals to murders. |
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Red River On March 17, 2003, George W. Bush appeared before the American people to announce that he had ordered the invasion of Iraq. In a short speech, Bush declared that there was "no doubt" that Saddam Hussein possessed a storehouse of weapons of mass destruction that posed an imminent threat to the security of the United States and the world. |
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In Response to "City Chooses Putin's Envoy," an article by Vladimir Kovalev on Oct. 7 Editor, As an American former resident of St. |
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Terrorist Killed MANILA, Philippines (AP) - President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo praised security forces Monday for an operation that killed one of Asia's most-wanted terror suspects, whose escape from Philippine police headquarters three months ago embarrassed the government. Fathur Roman Al-Ghozi, a suspected bombmaker for the al-Qaida-linked terrorist group Jemaah Islamiyah, was shot dead Sunday after he and his companion opened fire on a joint police-military team that tried to stop their vehicle, said national police chief Hermogenes Edbane. |
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