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A high-speed train service which would take just 3 hours to travel from St. Petersburg to Helsinki may start as early as 2008, Governor Valentina Matviyenko said Friday. The journey takes 5 1/2 hours now, but using trains running on a high-speed rail track, due to be completed in four years' time, travelers will be able to cut as much as 2 1/2 hours off the journey. |
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Prosecutor Found Dead ROSTOV-ON-DON (AP) - A prosecutor in the Volgograd region was found dead Monday with gunshot wounds, police said. Anatoly Kolosev, the prosecutor of the Yelan district of the Volgograd region on the Volga River, was last seen alive Sunday when he went hunting with four other men. |
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The director of the State Hermitage Museum has urged German diplomats and officials to be more sensitive and "especially accurate" when speaking about so-called trophy art being returned to Germany. Trophy art refers to paintings, sculptures and other cultural treasures that were brought to the Soviet Union after World War II. |
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About 50 Jewish graves were defaced with fascist signs and slogans at the city's Jan. 9 Cemetery on Saturday night. Unknown vandals painted swastikas on all the graves and wrote racist graffiti on some, including "Yids Get Out of Here!," said Mark Grubarg, head of St. |
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The State Hermitage Museum's pricing policy is resulting in the optimal number of visitors Interfax quoted general director Mikhail Piotrovsky as saying Monday. About 2.5 million people visit the celebrated museum each year, he said. "Up to 7 million visit the Louvre each year, up to 10 million visit the Prado [museum in Madrid]," he was quoted as saying. |
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Manevich Extension ST. PETERSBURG (SPT) - The investigation into the 1997 assassination of Mikhail Manevich, head of the city's property committee, has been extended by three months until May 18, Interfax reported Friday. |
 MOSCOW - The massive concrete roof of Transvaal Park indoor water complex in southwestern Moscow collapsed Saturday evening, killing at least 25 people and injuring more than 100. Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov visited the scene on Monday morning and said that nine to 13 people were still missing after a further search for survivors had been abandoned. |
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MOSCOW - Challengers to President Vladimir Putin protested Friday that the sweeping state television coverage of his campaign speech the day before violates election laws because the airtime was not paid for from his campaign funds. |
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Presidential candidate Ivan Rybkin said Friday that he had been drugged and abducted during his five-day disappearance last week, and said he was the victim of a "special operation" to discredit him. Speaking to reporters in London, Rybkin said he had been lured to Kiev by a false offer to hold peace talks with Chechen rebel president Aslan Maskhadov, but instead had been drugged and held against his will by armed men, who showed him a compromising videotape apparently taken during his abduction. |
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MOSCOW - A split in the nationalist Rodina bloc opened wide Sunday when its members voted to remove a co-chairman who is challenging President Vladimir Putin in next month's election. |
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 Winter used to be a dead season in St. Petersburg, but not this year. Only one room out of the Angleterre's 193 was available for view Thursday, when the hotel officially reopened after refurbishment. Occupancy was at nearly 100 percent. Rocco Forte Hotels International, which manages both the Astoria and the Angleterre, invested around $8.5 million in the hotel's renovation. The Angleterre is St. |
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 MOSCOW - Viktor Ivanov, deputy head of the presidential administration and one of the leaders of the siloviki group, came down hard on the Interior Ministry on Friday, criticizing the police for failing to crack down on economic crime and accusing them of whitewashing statistics. |
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Current rules governing registration of legal entities in Russia were first introduced in the federal law On State Registration of Legal Entities that came into force on July 1, 2002. The law was supposed to be a turning point in the reform of the procedure for setting up a business in Russia. |
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MOSCOW - The Natural Resources Ministry on Friday waded into the growing debate on ways to increase taxes on oil producers, saying plans to introduce a differential tax will only encourage corruption. |
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MOSCOW - When the expensive Moscow private school where Patricia Gillespie sends her son asked to be paid in rubles instead of dollars, Gillespie didn't think much of it. Until she heard the catch. "Before, I had always paid in dollars," she said. |
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MOSCOW - Industrial production rose 9.2 percent in January, the fastest in three years, as machine building and housing material output soared, the State Statistics Committee said in an e-mailed statement. |
 Joerg Schiffmann has a pretty lofty goal. After his hotel brought in $12 million in revenue last year, the Radisson SAS Royal's general manager says he expects a similar number for 2004, despite the fact that the city's tercentenary celebrations are over. |
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President Vladimir Putin, in an address to the Russian Chamber of Commerce at the end of December, said two things. First, the oil industry has been making "super-profits" due to high oil prices, and whereas the norm around the world, he claims, is an 80-20 split of super-profits in favor of the state, in Russia the split is about 50-50. |
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Two weeks ago, Moscow was hit by the worst terrorist act since the Nord Ost hostage-taking in October 2002 - the official body count is 39. Over the weekend, Dmitry Rogozin, co-leader of Rodina, called for the declaration of a state of emergency. Mikhail Leontyev, presenter of Odnako on Channel One, argued that the forces behind the terrorist act are those whose toes the state has been stepping on most actively of late, and "first and foremost the oligarchs. |
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The Russian stock market continues to grow with the RTS index hitting a new record. Meanwhile, the Prosecutor's Office dismissed charges against Vimpelcom, which once again drove the stock higher. |
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In response to "Teen Killers Of Tajik Girl Still At Large," an article by Irina Titova on Feb. 13. Editor, I am deeply offended and saddened to see this act of brutality to a defenseless little girl. This act of violence stems from fear based out of ignorance. |
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It's hard to believe it was just last September when President George W. Bush stood beside President Vladimir Putin at Camp David and announced, "I respect President Putin's vision for Russia. |
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The new administration of St. Petersburg has continued to follow some ill-advised policies of the previous administration. This can be seen in the area of housing reform. One of the main reasons why the housing reform policies failed - in addition to former governor Vladimir Yakovlev's unwillingness to tackle the problem in the political sense - was the lack of consistent action by his government. |
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End Game
Well, that's it then. The show is over. The scales have fallen. The monstrous gears of the dark satanic mills that spewed their poison fog across the land have ground to halt at last. |
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Saturn Coach Quits MOSCOW (Reuters) - Oleg Romantsev has quit as coach of Saturn Ramenskoye because of health problems, the Russian premier league club said on Monday. "Oleg Romantsev twice asked to be relieved of his coaching duties, citing poor health and the second time the management agreed to his request" Saturn said on their website. |
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