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 Sixty years ago on Jan. 27, 1944 the city of Leningrad marked one of the happiest days in its history - the end of the horrible siege of the city by fascist Germany. Hitler's troops attacked the Soviet Union with no warning in the early morning of June 22, 1941, throwing the country into a tragic and bloody war, that killed about 30 million Soviet citizens. The Third Reich killed people in battles, in concentration camps, civilians were shot down or burned in their villages and under bombardment in cities. |
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 On the 60th anniversary of the breaking of the Siege of Leningrad and in the wake of the release of a series of political card packs, a St. Petersburg man who painted just such a deck of cards depicting the Nazi leadership during World War II is back in the public spotlight. |
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MOSCOW - Pop crooner Iosif Kobzon, the new head of the State Duma's culture committee, said Monday that he will push for bans on sex on television and lip synching and take steps to promote the art of whistling. Kobzon, who is often referred to as Russia's Frank Sinatra due to his velvet voice and alleged mafia ties, was elected in the single-mandate Buryat-Aginsk district in eastern Siberia with the help of the pro-Kremlin United Russia party. |
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The St. Petersburg Times asked St. Petersburgers what their views are of the Siege of Leningrad, which was finally broken 60 years ago on Tuesday. Natalya Kosichenko, 28, art critic: The siege is history. |
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MOSCOW - Union of Right Forces leader Boris Nemtsov emerged from a marathon closed-door session of his party's congress Saturday night to deliver this message: "We're alive, healthy and united." "Despite some divergence of views, we're united on the main thing: that SPS must be preserved," he told a group of journalists at the Holiday Inn Vinogradovo, where members of the Union of Right Forces, or SPS, retreated Saturday and Sunday to thrash out answers to the party's - if not the country's - eternal questions: Who is to blame and what is to be done? The declaration of a strong front from Nemtsov, flanked at the news conference by fellow SPS leader Anatoly Chubais, was presumably meant to dispel prevalent perceptions that the party is dead, dysfunctional or headed for a split. |
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Britain said it has issued documents allowing the wealthy businessman who is wanted in Russia on fraud charges to travel under the new identity. "Boris Berezovsky . |
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MOSCOW - Andrei Vavilov, the one-time oil baron and former first deputy finance minister, said Friday that he left U.S. investigators satisfied after four hours of questioning in connection with a high-profile embezzlement case against former Ukrainian Prime Minister Pavlo Lazarenko. |
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Yushenkov Jury MOSCOW (SPT) - The Moscow City Court selected 12 jurors and two alternates Monday for the trial of six men accused of participating in the killing of State Duma Deputy Sergei Yushenkov, Interfax reported. |
 Vera Lyudyno, now 80, spent six years in Soviet camps for keeping a diary of the horrors of the 900-day Nazi siege of Leningrad. "In that diary I wrote about what I saw: frightful hunger, the number of bombardments, about frozen corpses of people left leaning against city buildings and trucks loaded with corpses that drove through the city," Lyudyno said. |
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 The Leningrad Oblast economy grew steadily last year with the total amount of investments and average salaries up on 2002, Grigory Dvas, an Oblast vice governor said at an Interfax briefing Monday. "If in 1996, when I just started working as a vice governor, we made an effort to attract investments to liquidate unemployment, now we have a different problem. |
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St. Petersburg developers are about to gain access to a prime piece of land in the city center if Governor Valentina Matviyenko gets her way. Last week Matviyenko presided over a meeting of the government at which the issue of transferring the freight and customs functions of Moskovsky Station to the city's outskirts was discussed. |
 MOSCOW - The St. Petersburg IKEA outlet is to undergo an environmental audit to stave off closure by the Natural Resources Ministry, the Swedish furniture giant said Monday. The store, which opened in December, failed to comply with ecological standards and could be closed as early as Tuesday, the Environmental Audit Chamber said last week. |
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MOSCOW - The verdict in the criminal case against Vasily Shakhnovsky, a key Yukos shareholder charged with tax evasion and fraud, is to be delivered on Feb. |
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MOSCOW - Need a penis extension? Reach into your pants and pull out your mobile phone, as companies in Russia are offering to send spam straight to your cellphone. E-mail offers for breast enlargements or mortgages don't surprise anyone anymore. But few people are prepared for the flood of advertising that companies promise to send to cellphones via the Short Message System, or SMS. A quick Internet search turns up dozens of web sites offering telephone spamming services. One such firm, Vzlyot Rakety, offers to send unsolicited messages to 1,000 cellphone subscribers for 3,000 to 6,000 rubles ($100 to $200), depending on which of the three major phone companies is targeted. |
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 Hidden in the backyards of Ulitsa Bolshaya Morskaya, just a block away from Nevsky Prospekt, is a fashion design studio called Ulita. An atmosphere of mystery and warmth draws the odd passerby. |
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Investment demand was the main internal economic driver in 2003, key economic indicators published Monday by the State Statistics Committee showed. Fixed investment expanded by 14.5 percent in December. This represents a 12.5 percent gain for the full year. A United Financial Group market report released Monday stated that company analysts view "the speeding up of investment growth in December as further confirmation of our robust outlook for 2004. |
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In a seminal 1995 paper, Jeffrey Sachs and Andrew Warner demonstrated that the more a country is dependent on the export of natural resources, the lower its economic growth - by examining the performance of a large number of countries between 1970 and 1990. |
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The issue of taxing natural resources has been raised more and more often since world oil and gas prices rocketed, and Sergei Glazyev's contribution to this debate in The St. |
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Despite all of Russia's current problems, many Russian officials and commentators express enormous confidence that their country will once again be a great power. Bolstering this confidence is the observation that since the country has previously been able to survive periods of extreme weakness and (like the proverbial phoenix) risen from the ashes to become stronger than before, it can - and will - do so again now. |
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"One death is a tragedy," said Josef Stalin, one of last century's greatest tyrants. "A million deaths is a statistic." Recognizing the suffering of the about 1 million civilians who died in the Siege of Leningrad is about much more than statistics. |
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A 5-year-old child, a Chinese babushka, a Welsh insurance agent, a prominent scientist and two average Joes. Six cases of mistaken identity - six grounded flights between Paris and Los Angeles. Most of us are in favor of the authorities erring on the side of caution when it comes to keeping airlines from being hijacked. |
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Out of the blood and murk of Iraq, yet another sinister connection is emerging, a skein of corruption tying Dick Cheney's Halliburton, the Bush Family fortunes - and a mysterious Kuwaiti company that peddles material for building weapons of mass destruction. |
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Genocide Conference STOCKHOLM (AFP) - Security was tight in the Swedish capital Stockholm as UN Secretary General Kofi Annan and 10 heads of state or government joined other delegates from some 60 countries for a conference on ways to prevent genocide, ethnic cleansing and mass killings. |
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MELBOURNE, Australia - Hicham Arazi of Morocco was nearly perfect, while Australia's Lleyton Hewitt came undone after a mistake. Arazi, ranked 51st, upset 10th-seeded Mark Philippoussis 6-2, 6-2, 6-4 on Monday to advance to the quarterfinals of the Australian Open. |
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Russian soccer officials have said they are shocked after Yegor Titov, one of the country's most recognized and influential players, failed a drug test. The 27-year-old Spartak Moscow captain was handed a 12-month ban Friday from all UEFA competition matches after he tested positive for the banned stimulant bromantan. |
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