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MOSCOW - Oil major Yukos on Monday ramped up the damage control, distancing itself from its troubled group of core owners by announcing that it had dismissed Mikhail Brudno, the last key shareholder to hold a management position. The move came just days after prosecutors announced Brudno and other core Yukos shareholders, including the company's co-founder Leonid Nevzlin, had been placed on an Interpol wanted list on embezzlement and fraud charges. |
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MOSCOW - Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov warned Monday of a "legal vacuum" that could arise once 10 new member states join the European Union this spring. |
 Two professional boxers who wed in St. Petersburg on Saturday said celebrating their marriage in a boxing ring was a knockout. An audience of about 150 guests went wild when Natalya Karpovich, 31, and Nikolai Kibkalo, 40, dressed in their wedding finery, put on boxing gloves and sparred with each other in the ring shortly after getting married. |
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MOSCOW - Yelena Tregubova, a newspaper reporter who recently published a tell-all book about her days covering the Kremlin, was about to step outside of her apartment on Monday when a small bomb exploded in the corridor. |
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TALLINN - Estonia intends to ask Russia for compensation for its citizens who were repressed in Soviet times, Interfax reported Friday. Estonian Justice Minister Ken-Marti Vaher announced the decision at a press conference, the news agency reported. His ministry is preparing to calculate the losses Estonian citizens suffered during Soviet rule of the republic after 1940, as a first step in the process, he said. |
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 McCartney even wrote a letter to President Vladimir Putin asking to support the planned event, according to Russian media and promoters. Very few details are available about the concert that is being negotiated between McCartney's management, Moscow-based Alfa Bank and promoters SAV Entertainment, who cooperated on McCartney's Moscow concert last May. |
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MOSCOW - In the latest twist surrounding a proposal to move Russia's highest courts from Moscow to St. Petersburg, Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov has canceled a feasibility study into the idea. |
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HIV Infections High ST. PETERSBURG (SPT) - St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Oblast had some of the highest rates of new HIV infections in Russia, Interfax reported Friday. Citing the disease monitoring arm of the Health Ministry, the agency reported that last year 86.18 people became HIV-positive out of every 100,000 citizens of the city and 63.29 per 100,000 are HIV-positive in the oblast. Other regions with high infection rates include Sverdlovsk region (68.85 cases per 100,000), Samara region (58.31), Irkutsk (54.39) and Khanty-Mansiisk (56.61), the report said. The ministry said that 31,986 new cases of HIV infection were registered nationally last year, a 27. |
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 MOSCOW - Millions of Muslims across Russia began celebrations Sunday for Eid-ul-Adha, or the Festival of Sacrifice, a major Muslim holiday that symbolizes Ibrahim's willingness to obey God and sacrifice his son Ismail. |
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MOSCOW - By this fall, State Duma deputies may need an electronic card key in place of a simple ID to get to their desks. If the Duma's regulations committee gets its way, access to parliament buildings and movement between floors will be restricted by an electronic security system. |
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MOSCOW - It's the country's last major broadcaster of independent news, a radio station that the Kremlin reportedly sees as hostile but still respects for its biting professionalism. |
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MOSCOW - Russia has taken its first steps toward tackling the serious problem of human trafficking but much remains to be done, with thousands of women and children being sold into slavery every year, anti-human trafficking organizations warned Tuesday at Russia's first conference on the issue. U.S. |
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 Construction of a new highway between St. Petersburg and Moscow has been approved by President Vladimir Putin, according to the Russian Transport Ministry. During his visit to St. Petersburg last week President Putin discussed the issue with St. Petersburg Governor Valentina Matviyenko, who said the Russian government has already been asked to start working on the project. |
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After a hiatus of more than ten years, the St. Petersburg Sea Port will start regular ferry services on the Helsinki-Tallinn-St. Petersburg route on April 2. |
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Interest in land buyout is growing rapidly, and the reason is clear. Once title to the land is obtained, the owner's further cash outlay depends only on the land tax rate. Tenants, however, base their payments on lease agreements. Given the deficiencies of current legislation, the tenant-landlord relationship could turn into a battleground. |
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More than half of the housing in the city's historic center is in need of capital repairs, Interfax reported Monday. Vladimir Antonov, head of the Tsentralny District administration, aired at a press conference Monday data showing that 934 apartments in the district are considered dilapidated. |
 St. Petersburg real estate increased sharply in overall cost in 2003 as the real estate market experienced significant growth, experts say. Last year proved to be a year of prosperity and growth in the housing, retail, business and industrial sectors of the market, with some figures increasing as much as 30 percent over 2002, according to experts. This has also been matched by a significant increase in construction and housing costs in the city. |
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 Valery Nazarov has a reputation as a government man with liberal economic views. As a St. Petersburg vice governor he distanced himself both from politics and from former Governor Vladimir Yakovlev, who was often in the doghouse with the Kremlin. |
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Last week was calmer than the previous weeks after the New Year with weaker activities and lower volumes on the Russian stock market. However, on the foreign currency front Monday witnessed a rise of the U.S. dollar rate unprecedented since the beginning of the year. In terms of growth, last week was less exciting than early January and the market was ruled mainly by profit-taking, a Troika Dialog report said. |
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Russia's real GDP growth over the past five years has averaged an impressive 6.6 percent per year. There is general agreement that the strong recovery after the 1998 crisis owed much to favorable external conditions, in the form of buoyant oil prices, as well as the effects of the sharp 1998-99 ruble devaluation. |
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In early 1996, in the small Swiss town of Davos, Communist Party leader and presidential hopeful Gennady Zyuganov was staying in a hotel room next to Mikhail Khodorkovsky. |
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In response to a series of articles printed on Jan. 23, 27 and 30 by Irina Titova, Galina Stolyarova and Matt Brown about the Siege of Leningrad and events to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the final breaking of the siege. Editor, It never ceases to amaze me what strength of character the Russian spirit can display. |
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Considering that she is a marginal challenger to a powerful Russian president embraced by U.S. President George W. Bush, Irina Khakamada got quite a reception during a 36-hour visit to Washington last week. |
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Later this month, Russia's strategic nuclear forces will hold their largest exercises since the early 1980s. The official explanation, according to a report in Kommersant, is that the war games are designed to help Russia prepare to counter terrorist threats. |
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The Latvian parliament has passed a law dictating that from Sept. 1 all Russian-language high schools will switch to instruction in Latvian. The law makes an exception for subjects intended to preserve national cultural identity, that is Russian language and literature. |
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Ground Zero A man in Lawrence, Kansas walks into a day-care center. He has a gun in his pocket but nobody sees it. He goes up to the second floor, where the preschool kids are having their afternoon snack of cookies and juice. He pulls out the gun and shoots a little boy in the head, leaving his face a mass of bone-flecked goo. |
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Jail Standoff Ends PHOENIX, Arizona (Reuters) - Two inmates of an Arizona jail surrendered on Sunday after holding a woman prison officer hostage in an observation tower for 15 days, ending the longest U.S. prison standoff in decades. The standoff, which started on Jan. |
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Maier Wins Again GARMISC-PARTENKIRCHEN, Germany (AP) - Hermann Maier won his fifth World Cup super-giant slalom title Sunday, and also put himself in the running for the overall crown. |
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