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 Slain State Duma deputy, democrat and leader of the Democratic Russia Party Galina Starovoitova is more popular now than during the last years of her life. This is the conclusion of the new book by the St. Petersburg sociologist Leonid Kesselman about the late politician, who was fatally gunned down on the stairs of her house on Griboyedov Canal on Nov. 20, 1998 in an apparent contract killing that shocked the nation. |
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 MOSCOW - The Gospel according to Luke is the most important book ever published in the Bezhta language. It is, after all, the only Bezhta book there is. |
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MAERDY, Wales - While Russia urged its team on to a place in the European Championships on Wednesday night, residents of Moscow shouted and cheered on for Wales. This is not surprising, as Moscow, or Little Moscow to be precise, is located a mere 150 kilometers from the stadium where Russia beat Wales 1-0. |
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MOSCOW - The sorry state of the country's housing and utilities sector is one for the record books, Deputy Prime Minister and former St. Petersburg Governor Vladimir Yakovlev said Wednesday, urging the State Duma to quickly pass laws to ward off a looming disaster. |
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In a blow to Communists that could threaten their campaign for next month's parliamentary elections, pro-government centrists in the State Duma asked prosecutors Tuesday to investigate a company that reportedly served as their main cash cow. |
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Top Official Detained ST. PETERSBURG (SPT) - A top official has been detained for accepting bribes, Interfax reported St. Petersburg Governor Valentina Matviyenko as saying at a session of the city government on Thursday. City prosecutors, who later confirmed her statement, would release more information on the case on Friday, she added, declining to name the official. |
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MOSCOW - The Justice Ministry on Wednesday criticized UN recommendations on how to improve human rights in Russia, saying some of them were "tendentious" and showed the United Nations lacks an understanding of the situation in the country. |
 Gourmet restaurants are gaining a presence in St. Petersburg, carrying the story of the post-Soviet enterprise culture. Special outlets labeled "foreigners only" monopolized by Intourist have disappeared and the "discreet charm of the bourgeoisie" is taking precedence. Although St. |
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MOSCOW - The likelihood of the deposit insurance law passing this year has slipped again as representatives from the Federation Council suggested they would block the bill and bankers said deputies acted on purely pre-election motives. The Duma passed an amended version of the bill in a second reading Wednesday. |
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President Vladimir Putin has of late been saying a lot of the right things about the defects of the system of oligarchic capitalism. Albeit somewhat belatedly - four years after his appointment to the presidency by one of the groups of the self-same oligarchs - Putin has nonetheless unearthed that people who made billions of dollars as a result of privatization are prepared to spend "tens or hundreds of millions" to save those fortunes. |
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Assessing the global HIV/AIDS situation, the National Intelligence Council, a U.S. government-sponsored think tank, has identified five countries of strategic importance that have large populations at risk of HIV infection. |
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 Philip Glass, described as probably the 20th century's most commercially successful "classical" composer, who helped to found minimalism and developed his own distinctive style drawing from world music and rock, will come to Russia with his ensemble this week. For his first Russian tour, which takes in St. Petersburg and Moscow, Glass chose "Koyaanisqatsi," the first part of "Qatsi," the film trilogy directed by Godfrey Reggio with soundtracks composed by Glass. |
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 Russian rock guru Boris Grebenshchikov, or simply BG to his fans, will not head to India or London to celebrate his birthday far from St. Petersburg, as he used to. |
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This week will see a concert by Philip Glass, something that has been rumored in the city for the past two or three years. Glass, who has never played in Russia, but has a plenty of fans in St. Petersburg not only for his symphonies, ballets and soundtracks but also for his collaborations with rock figures such as David Byrne and David Bowie. |
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Walking along Liteiny Prospect not long ago I noticed a boisterous looking place promoting itself as a "pivnoy restoran," a beer restaurant. |
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The life of Vladimir Galuzin may be hectic, and full of contradictions, yet the Russian-born tenor thrives on it. The world-renowned singer, who established himself at the Mariinsky Theater in roles like Hermann in Tchaikovsky's "The Queen of Spades", Andrei Khovansky in Mussorgsky's "Khovanshchina", the title role in Rimsky-Korsakov's "Sadko" and other Russian arias, now performs almost exclusively works from the Italian repertoire and almost always abroad - at Milan's La Scala in particular. |
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MOSCOW - During last Saturday's student performance of "La Boheme" at the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory, when tenor Chingis Ayusheyev kissed soprano Elena Bychkova on stage, it was more than just acting. |
 "Intolerable Cruelty" is so clever, so funny, so suavely entertaining, that it comes as a shock to realize that its not nearly as satisfying as all those qualities would lead you to believe. Despite its manifest strengths and multiple pleasures, this screwball comedy about romance and divorce finally leaves us stranded at the altar, caught off-guard by a chill we should have known was coming. |
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 The new production of "Twelfth Night", which premiered at the Bolshoi Drama Theater last weekend, comes amid rumours that its director Grigory Dityatkovsky is being considered to replace the BDT's veteran artistic director Kirill Lavrov. |
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ISTANBUL, Turkey - Trucks packed with explosives blew up near the high-rise headquarters of the London-based HSBC bank and the British consulate on Thursday, killing at least 25 people and wounding nearly 400, officials said. The bombings, which occurred five minutes apart, at about 11 a. |
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Report Faults Utility WASHINGTON (AP) - A computer malfunction at an Ohio utility played a major role in the nation's worst blackout, but a U. |
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MOSCOW - Martina Navratilova calls it "coming full circle." Navratilova emigrated to the United States from Czechoslovakia in 1975 when she was 18, going on to a career in which she amassed 37 Grand Slam titles and becoming the greatest player in the history of women's tennis. Now 47, Navratilova is in Moscow this week to play for the U. |
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