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 Irina Khakamada, Union of Right Forces co-leader and a candidate in the St. Petersburg electoral district No. 209, and Anatoly Golov, Yabloko's candidate in the No. 210 district, on Monday complained they face serious administrative pressure in the election campaign. Speaking at a news conference at the ABN news agency, Golov and Khakamada urged St. Petersburg residents to vote Sunday to assist society in getting rid of the so-called "administrative resource," saying that the success of the economically liberal and pro-civil rights parties depends directly on how big the turnout is. |
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 Four hundred out of every 100,000 St. Petersburg residents are HIV-positive, says Aza Rakhmanova, head of St. Petersburg center for HIV-positive mothers and children. |
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A foreign woman who was raped in St. Petersburg says going to the local police for help was a humiliating ordeal and only added insult to injury. Sasha, who was willing to be identified, but whose name has been changed on the advice of her lawyer, said that at the beginning of November after a night out with friends a man attacked her on the staircase to her St. |
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Peacekeepers to Liberia MOSCOW (AP) - President Vladimir Putin has ordered 40 military officers to be sent to Liberia to serve in the United Nations' peacekeeping mission, the Kremlin said Monday. Putin's order, which was released by the presidential press service, said the officers would serve in the mission's headquarters and also work as liaison officers and military observers. |
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St. Petersburg Governor Valentina Matviyenko has asked President Vladimir Putin for additional funding so that big city projects can proceed at pace. She asked the president for additional federal funding of 200 million rubles ($6. |
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The refusal rate for applications for U.S. visas in St. Petersburg is falling, Interfax quoted Christopher Misciagno, consul at the U.S. Consulate General, as saying Friday. In the financial year ending Sept. 30, 2002 only 17 percent of applications were refused compared to a 24-percent refusal rate during the previous financial year, Misciagno said. |
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MOSCOW - Elections, the independence of the courts and a high-profile furniture scandal converged Monday, as a Moscow City Court judge accused the Prosecutor General's Office of pressuring the court to issue rulings in its favor. |
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St. Petersburg governor Valentina Matviyenko was booed when she arrived at Boris Grebenshchikov's 50th anniversary concert at the Oktyabrsky Concert Hall on Thursday to decorate the lead singer of the seminal local rock band Akvarium with a state honor. |
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Votes by Russian citizens living in the United States are unlikely to have a big influence on the outcome of voting in electoral district No. 209 in St. |
 PERM, Ural Mountains - With a healthy dose of populism, Sergei Shoigu took the United Russia show to Perm on Friday, showing off his soccer skills and offering a vision of Russia's future geography that could make for some nervous neighbors. "In the end, I hope we live to see the day when we again have a huge country within the borders of the Soviet Union," said Shoigu, emergency situations minister and No. |
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MOSCOW - To the strains of the national anthem, a half-empty State Duma on Friday ended its last session before new elections of Dec. 7, having rushed through a last-minute flurry of largely economic measures. |
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CHELYABINSK, Ural Mountains - Some 450 students sat in a hall of the Chelyabinsk State Pedagogical University, licking ice cream cones and munching on potato chips as they waited with increasing impatience for Boris Nemtsov to show up and explain why they should vote for his Union of Right Forces, or SPS, party. |
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NOVOSIBIRSK, Western Siberia - In a campaign environment strikingly devoid of issue debates, candidates are left to seek creative and sometimes manipulative ways to win voters' affection. |
 MOSCOW - For more than an hour they streamed into Vladimir Zhirinovsky's office, handing written complaints and legal documents to the leader of the Liberal Democratic Party and asking for assistance. To each, Zhirinovsky, like many politicians, promised solemnly, "We'll try to help you." But, unlike most politicians, he often meant it more personally. |
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 St. Petersburg's new administration wants to work with the foreign business community to make the city attractive to investors, says Mikhail Brodsky, Governor Valentina Matviyenko's representative in the Legislative Assembly. "I am ready to listen to any proposals from this association," he told a briefing organized by the St. Petersburg International Business Association and The St. Petersburg Times. |
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 MOSCOW - "Three Romanians with no business experience and an Israeli with alleged mob ties register a trading company in a Hungarian village. Before the company is even legally formed it is granted the rights to transport billions of dollars' worth of natural gas from Central Asia, across Russia, to Ukraine. |
 There is a contagious enthusiasm about Olga Litvinova, office managing partner of Ernst & Young and EY Law in St. Petersburg. For a start, she manages to make tax law sound exciting. More than that, she makes it sound exhilarating. A useful quality for Litvinova, as this week she launches EY Law in St. |
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MOSCOW - Russian external debt was lower last week in line with global markets. The benchmark Russia 30 ended the week at 93 7/8 (-7/8), with its yield increasing from 7. |
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Russians are rightly proud of their rich heritage of music, literature, theater and film, as well as their achievements in science, space and technology. The critical acclaim of recent films such as "The Return" shows that Russia's long tradition of literary and artistic creation is still alive and well. |
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Not long ago my old friend Stepan asked me sheepishly if I would spot him 2,000 rubles till the end of the month. "Of course," I replied. "What's wrong?" I was surprised by Stepan's request. |
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Naked Gun Don't kid yourself - and don't let them kid you. When they come at you with that pious sugar, telling you how they're going to protect you, secure you, keep you free, you better run and check the back door ... because that's where their goons will be breaking in. Last week, the U. |
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Skating Fixing Denied PARIS (AP) - A reputed Russian mobster told a French sports daily that he had no role in fixing figure skating results at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City. "I have nothing to do with this affair," Alimzhan Tokhtakhounov was quoted as telling L'Equipe in an interview published Friday. |
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