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St. Petersburg police want to install 50,000 security cameras to monitor and prevent crime in the city - if City Hall can find the at least $250 million needed to buy and operate them. The city would need that number of cameras if they are to use the new technology effectively, officers say. |
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"And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the Lord caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided. |
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St. Petersburg is no longer Russia's criminal capital - this is the good news announced in a new book called "Banditsky Peterburg 1703-2003," by the city's most famous crime reporter Andrei Konstantinov. "The 'Banditsky Peterburg,' the history of which we followed attentively since the beginning of the 1990s . |
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 Sergei Mironov, speaker of the Federation Council and co-chairman of the Party of Life, has gathered 2.36 million signatures that will enable him to register as a candidate in the March 14 presidential elections, he said Monday at a city news conference. |
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MOSCOW - Military prosecutors opened criminal proceedings Monday against three high-ranking military officers in connection with an outbreak of severe respiratory illnesses among border guard conscripts who were forced to stand outside in freezing temperatures while their plane was being refueled. |
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The City Prosecutor's Office has initiated a criminal case against Yury Belyayev, head of the Party of Liberty and editor of newspaper Express Khronika for allegedly publishing an article inciting attacks on ethnic Caucasians, Interfax reported Monday. |
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Intruders Shot Dead ST. PETERSBURG (SPT) - A pensioner in the Leningrad Oblast has shot dead two men who tried to break into his house, Interfax quoted the city and oblast police as saying Monday. |
 MOSCOW - After quietly installing loyalists in a number of senior federal and regional posts, the Kremlin's siloviki clan has built a formidable pyramid of power that is reshaping the face of politics, political analysts said. "The strength of the clan is in its pyramid-like structure. |
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MOSCOW - Americans have a unique social security number. Brits have a national insurance number. Within two years, each Russian could have a universal identification number, under plans submitted Thursday to the Cabinet by the Economic Development and Trade Ministry. |
 In the humming quiet of a spacious tram, three teenage girls giggle in grammatically perfect, accented English. If you think that these are friends from different countries communicating in a language that they all have in common, think again. They're Finns, and for Finns it's cool to throw a few English sentences into conversation. |
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As part of its regional expansion, the Moscow restaurant chain Yolki-Palki opened its first restaurant in St. Petersburg at the end of December. Yolki-Palki, founded by Moscow entrepreneur Arkady Novikov, owns 28 restaurants, 26 of which are located in Moscow. |
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MOSCOW - Vneshtorgbank will lend small and medium-sized businesses $1 billion this year, bank head Andrey Kostin said after a meeting with President Vladimir Putin last week. |
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New Skyscrapers? ST. PETERSBURG (SPT) - Two 40-story high-rise buildings will be erected in St. Petersburg, the city's committee on urban planning and architecture announced Monday, Interfax reported. The LEK Estate construction company will build the high-rises designed by Arkhstudiya. The new buildings will stand on a 1.2-hectare plot behind the Russian National Library on Moskovsky Prospekt. With a total of 472 apartments and 35,000 square meters of floor space, the two buildings will share a ground-floor complex with 4,680 square meters of office space. Finnish Tech Prize HELSINKI, Finland (SPT) - This year's Marcus Wallenberg Prize, a major international technology award, will be awarded to Paul Olof Meinander, president of the Finnish company POM Technology Oy. |
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 Dostoevsky brought Adrian Terris to Russia. As a psychology student in his native Scotland, Terris, now the general director of the St. Petersburg Yellow Pages, asked a professor for something more interesting than the typical textbook fare. |
 A leading relocation company has opened an office in St. Petersburg in response to a growing need in the business community, company officials said. Crown Relocations, a company specializing in the relocation of executives and their families internationally, has expanded its Moscow office to open a small branch office in St. |
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MOSCOW - Rosneft, state-owned oil producer, said it wants to acquire as much as a quarter of a $1.5 billion project led by Lukoil and ConocoPhillips, the third-largest U. |
 Ecologists are increasingly concerned about possible oil spills in the Baltic Sea and in the Gulf of Finland in particular with heavier traffic on oil transportation routes. While all countries sharing the Baltic Sea agree on the need to increase safety in the region, most focus their attention on Russia as oil exports through new ports around St. |
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As we enter a new investment year, one thing has become very clear: This is a critical transition year for economic policy in Russia and if you want to make money in 2004 then you have to understand what the government wants to achieve and how it plans to achieve it. |
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During the recent State Duma election campaign, our opponents repeatedly accused my colleagues and me of demagogy. For some reason, few politicians seemed to believe it possible to achieve a real increase in our compatriots' standard of living, a doubling of pensions in short order, state stipends of 4,500 rubles to students, and an allowance for soldiers of 1,000 rubles per month. |
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The most important event last week was the Central Bank's lowering of the interest rate to 14 percent starting Jan. 15. Previously the interest rate had been changed on June 21, 2003, from 18 percent to 16 percent. |
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In the golden year 2004, Russia's newest political ideology - Putinism - will flourish, reaching new heights of success. Putinism is the final, highest stage of Russia's brand of criminal, bureaucratic capitalism - the natural, logical mutation of the Yeltsin model of the 1990s. |
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On Christmas Eve, the FBI issued a terrorism bulletin to some 18,000 police organizations across the United States. The message: Be on the lookout for anyone carrying - an almanac. |
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"Murder, though it hath no tongue, will speak with most miraculous organ." - Shakespeare, Hamlet. It's all out in the open now. The fact that the president of the United States and his top advisers deliberately concocted a false case for an illegal and unnecessary war - in plain terms, that they committed cold-blooded, premeditated mass murder - was confirmed this month by the most impeccable mainstream sources: George W. |
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TOKYO - Japan must face its share of the dangers of rebuilding Iraq, Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi said Monday while asking his nation to back his plans to send troops on an aid mission. As Koizumi spoke, an advance team of Japanese soldiers prepared to leave a U. |
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Tens of thousands of Shiite Muslims marched peacefully in Baghdad on Monday to demand an elected government, as U.S. and Iraqi officials prepared to seek U. |
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PAILIN, Cambodia - The top surviving leader of the Khmer Rouge admitted he made "mistakes" during the feared regime's rule but denied being guilty of genocide and rejected the idea that millions of people died. Nuon Chea, second in command under Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot, told The Associated Press in an interview he would gladly appear before a U. |
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LONDON - A huge British archive of World War II aerial reconnaissance photos, including pictures of the D-Day landings in Normandy, is to go on the Internet on Monday. |
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Presidential PR GUATEMALA CITY, Guatemala (AP) - President Oscar Berger invited thousands of Guatemalans to spend a few hours inside the presidential palace on Sunday - part of a massive public relations campaign that has been the centerpiece of his first week in office. |
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HONOLULU, Hawaii - Ernie Els watched a 4-foot par putt slide by the hole and knew it was going to haunt him. This being the Sony Open, he should have known how it was going to end. |
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MELBOURNE, Australia - Top-ranked Andy Roddick had 20 aces on the way to beating Fernando Gonzalez 6-2, 7-5, 7-6 (4) Monday in the opening round of the Australian Open, his first major as men's No. 1. The U.S. Open champion got a lucky line call to reach set point in the second and fell behind 3-5 in the third before Gonzalez's erratic forehand let the Chilean down. |
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MOSCOW - The Russian capital's rich experience of hosting international sporting events coupled with the overwhelmingly positive attitude of it's population are Moscow's greatest assets in its bid to host the 2012 Olympic Games, city and sporting officials said while unveiling their plans last week. |
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PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania - Two men named Manning decided which teams will face each other in the Super Bowl in Houston on Feb. 1. Ricky Manning Jr. picked off three passes by Donovan McNabb and helped put the Carolina Panthers in their first Super Bowl with a 14-3 win over the Philadelphia Eagles in the National Football Conference championship game Sunday night. |
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COLUMBUS, Ohio - Columbus' second-year star Rick Nash scored his NHL-leading 28th goal - and came close to at least another one or two - to help the Blue Jackets tie the Edmonton Oilers 4-4 on Sunday night. |
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Batsman Hookes Dies MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Former Australia batsman David Hookes died in hospital on Monday after suffering serious head injuries in an assault outside a Melbourne hotel, Hookes' family said. "We, the family of cricketer David Hookes, wish to inform David's many friends, family members and fans that he passed away today at the Alfred Hospital in Melbourne," Hookes' brother Terry Cranagh said. |
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