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 None of the teenagers who killed a nine-year-old Tajik girl on Monday night had been found or detained by Thursday, St. Petersburg police said. However, the main department of Interior Ministry in the Northwest region told Interfax that St. Petersburg police are following leads. |
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MOSCOW - President Vladimir Putin kicked off his re-election campaign Thursday with a speech to supporters in which he laid out the achievements of his first term and plans for his all-but-assured second - and made an unexpected promise to pick an heir. |
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MOSCOW - As the dollar fell steadily throughout the summer and fall of 2003, Patrick's employees began to clamor for a change. "Their salaries were pegged to the dollar, and people were upset," said Patrick, who heads the Moscow branch of a European company. "The dollar was falling very quickly, and people's lifestyles were getting more expensive very fast. |
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MOSCOW- Expats, tourists and companies with foreign employees face a few more visa and registration hurdles that promise to create more paperwork - and headaches. The new rules, which came into force over the past couple of weeks, appear to be an attempt to keep closer track of foreigners, particularly the large number from other former Soviet republics who illegally live and work in Russia. |
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St. Petersburg residents are having more children, marrying more and later, officials say. They also use surrogate mothers more frequently than before, and prefer to marry Americans more than other foreigners. |
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Representatives of the international public organization for recovering drug-addicts Anonymous Drug Addicts or ADA gathered for an international four-day meeting in St. Petersburg on Thursday. St. Petersburg has a high rate of drug addiction as evidenced by its HIV rate that is among the highest in the country. |
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MOSCOW - Two months after their painful defeat in the State Duma elections, most of the country's leading liberals have put their political ambitions on hold, with many saying they had found other jobs outside politics. |
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MOSCOW - Rebeccca Santana, an American reporter for Cox Newspapers whom the U.S. Embassy had reported missing in the North Caucasus, was located Wednesday afternoon in Chechnya and was safe, her editor said. "She's been in Chechnya the last couple days, unaware there was any concern for her safety or whereabouts," Cox Newspapers foreign editor Chuck Holmes said by telephone from Washington. |
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Average Wage $250 ST. PETERSBURG (SPT) - The average monthly wage for St. Petersburgers was 7,388 rubles (about $250) last year, Interfax quoted Vladimir Blank, head of City Hall's committee for economic development, industrial policy and trade, as saying Tuesday. |
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MOSCOW - Aeroflot on Wednesday moved a step closer to achieving its goal of increasing its market share in Asia by 30 percent this year after Russia and Hong Kong agreed to expand air services. As part of an agreement signed by civil aviation authorities from both sides, Russia's flagship carrier will add a sixth weekly flight to the former British colony and eventually a seventh. |
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MOSCOW - The government's commitment to bank reform was called into question Wednesday after the Cabinet failed to approve a much-anticipated five-year development blueprint for the struggling sector. |
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MOSCOW - Russia's economic system provides "growth without development," Yabloko party leader Grigory Yavlinsky told an audience gathered in Moscow on Tuesday for the launch of his latest book, "Peripheral Capitalism." Economic indicators like credit ratings and Central Bank reserves may rise, he said, but they are not helping to modernize society. Yavlinsky, an economist by training, established himself as a leading democrat after entering politics in the early 1990s. One quarter of the population enjoys an "average, modern standard of living," he said, while the remaining three quarters falls short of that. |
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 Step into the shops around St. Valentine's Day and you will see that local chocolate makers have yet to discover a marketing tool already familiar in the West. |
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The drubbing taken by the Communist Party, the Union of Right Forces and Yabloko in December's State Duma elections obviously resulted from the Kremlin's decision to bring all the power of the state to bear in its battle with disobedient political parties. |
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Last week Vsevolod Khmyrov, head of the administration of St. Petersburg's Frunzensky district, reproached me for being unpatriotic by calling into question a letter he had sent to 200 private housing committees, demanding that they work to ensure a high turnout in the presidential election next month. |
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 The mood at last Wednesday's Moscow premiere of Vladimir Khotinenko's "72 Meters," which opens in St. Petersburg this week (see Screens, page viii) was understandably somber. With naval bands and officers in the audience, the Russian drama about a sinking submarine inevitably brought back memories of the Kursk submarine tragedy of August 2000, in which 118 crewmembers died. But there was also a celebratory feeling in the air; the film, released to general acclaim, focuses on the submariners' bravery and comradeship. |
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 In the mid-'60s, the head of Spain's Communist Party sends his daughter off to Moscow. After studying in Paris, she has strayed too far from Marxist ideas, and this must be corrected. |
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It is probably not too difficult to pack out Fish Fabrique, a small underground art cafe and part of Pushkinskaya 10 art center, but it was packed anyway last Saturday when Spanish band Refree played there and, moreover, the concert was good. |
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If a restaurant has delicious food at fantastic prices with prompt service, it is easy to write a glowing review. Likewise, if a restaurant is an absolute abomination with greasy food, outrageous prices and painfully slow staff, it is simple to report the facts. |
 Pushkinskaya 10, a former squat populated by underground artists and musicians since 1989, used to mark its anniversaries with open-air performances right in the middle of the downtown building complex, calling the celebrations "Den Dvora," or "Day of the Yard. |
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Êîíòðîëüíûé çâîíîê: a confirmation call, a call to confirm a meeting. We’ve all had it happen. The phone rings in your apartment, you answer in your most polite voice, “àëëî?” And in reply a cantankerous voice asks, “êòî ýòî?”(who’s that?) You sigh and say: âû, íàâåðíîå, íå òóäà ïîïàëè (you’ve probably got the wrong number, literally, you landed in the wrong place). |
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Iraq Blasts Kill 100 BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - A second suicide bombing in as many days killed up to 47 people Wednesday, pushing the toll in the back-to-back attacks to 100. Again, Iraqis were the targets - this time, a crowd of volunteers for Iraq's new army - in an apparent campaign to wreck U. |
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