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The suspects being tried for the 1998 murder of Duma deputy Galina Starovoitova had worked for a company that collected debts which was equipped with firearms and listening devices, witnesses told the St. Petersburg City Court as the case resumed this week. |
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MOSCOW - Acting Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov said Thursday that Qatar has arrested and charged two Russian security agents on suspicion of involvement in the car bomb assassination of former Chechen rebel president Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev, and he flatly denied the allegation. |
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Demand from St. Petersburgers for English-language courses abroad, specifically in Britain, is growing at an average rate of 28 percent a year, the British Council has said. During the 2002/2003 school year, about 20,000 students from Russia went to Britain to study. About 3,000 were from St. Petersburg, according to the British Council, which cooperates with many commercial organizations that send students to England, the most popular destination for the courses. |
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Presidential candidate Irina Khakamada filed a suit in Moscow's Basmanny court on Thursday against the inaction of the Central Election Commission over her complaint about breaches of electoral law. Her campaign headquarters said Thursday that the CEC had taken no action against a breach by state-owned television channel Rossia that broadcast a 29-minute address by President Vladimir Putin to his supporters on Feb. 20. Khakamada also called on the Supreme Court to rule that the CEC's inaction on her complaint was illegal. Her actions came one day after she said at a St. Petersburg news conference that she is focusing on building "a real democratic party that will be in opposition to the current regime". |
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 The last of some 5,000 prisoners who went on hunger strike in St. Petersburg and Leningrad Oblast prisons and pre-trial detention centers on Wednesday, ended the protest on Thursday. |
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City to Evict Debtors ST. PETERSBURG (SPT) - People who do not pay their communal housing service bills may be resettled, Interfax quoted Governor Valentina Matviyenko as saying Tuesday. "We have to create precedents in which debtors will be resettled into less comfortable homes if they don't pay for their apartments," she was quoted as saying. "Then people who do not pay will not feel at ease." She called on the heads of district administrations to adopt strict measures against those who do not pay and to ask for court orders for their resettlement. "Most people are capable of paying," she said, adding that if families really did not have the money then they should receive subsidies. |
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 MOSCOW - President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday put a positive spin on his abrupt decision to fire veteran Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov and his government, saying it was designed to accelerate the formation of a Cabinet that could tackle stalled structural reforms. |
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ZURICH - Swiss police on Thursday arrested a Russian citizen on suspicion of murdering an air traffic controller who was on duty when his wife, daughter and son were killed in an air crash over southern Germany in July, 2002. The Zurich prosecutor's office announced the arrest of the 48-year-old suspect but did not name him. |
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MOSCOW - The oil-rich Tyumen region and its smaller neighbor the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous District said they are starting work on a merger that could be put up for referendum as early as next year, Interfax reported. |
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 "We can extract oil and gas to our heart's content and stay really poor. It is machine building that truly forms a country's image," said Peter Semenenko, general director of Kirovsky Zavod - the plant known for its World War II tanks and, later, for Kirovets tractors - at the company's annual media day on Wednesday. "Many enterprises have died," Semenenko said, referring to nearly 20 years of stagnation in the Russian machine-building industry, where many companies still live off their old developments and bring nothing new to the market. |
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 The number of mobile subscribers in Russia has caught up and equaled the number of fixed-line subscribers at 36 million, communications officials and tycoons said to visitors to the NORWECOM-2004 telecommunications and information exhibition on Tuesday. |
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MOSCOW - National No. 2 mobile operator Vimpelcom said it had been denied access to new frequencies, sparking concern that a row with regulators could be behind the move and may inflict real damage on its business. Vimpelcom acknowledged that in December it had been denied requests for additional radio frequencies to expand its network in the regions. |
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9.8% GDP Growth MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Economic Development and Trade Ministry said Wednesday that the country's gross domestic product grew 9. |
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Monday was Defender of the Fatherland Day in Russia, so, of course, there were observances in Moscow. But it also was the 60th anniversary of a Soviet crime perpetrated against the Chechen people - and, of course, there was no official observance in Moscow. |
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Looking at the recent developments in the relationship between Russia and the European Union in the light of the imminent enlargement of the EU, I have to wonder when Russia will finally tire of positioning itself as a powerful empire at the expense of the interests of ethnic Russians residing abroad. |
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Vice governor Andrei Chernenko has a special mission in the St. Petersburg government. In an interview with Expert Severo-Zapad magazine, he said fighting corruption is only part of his systematic approach. His main task is "to create a filter for decisions that originate from the criminal [world] or are dictated by semi-criminal shadow interests. |
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 By far Russia's most internationally active gallery, the State Hermitage Museum welcomes visitors Saturday to its newest overseas branch - the Hermitage Amsterdam, located on the banks of the Amstel River in the Netherlands' capital. Joining the Hermitage Rooms in London's Somerset House and Las Vegas' Guggenheim Hermitage Museum, the Hermitage Amsterdam is third in the parent museum's growing line of international projects, confirming Hermitage director Mikhail Piotrovsky's policy of "cultural expansion. |
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 In difficult times like these, it sometimes takes an artist to speak out for the people. Even if all he's doing is writing a letter. That's the attitude of Dmitry Shagin, an artist who helped found the offbeat Mitki group in St. |
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Oleg Yanushevsky's "Cosmopolitan Icons", an exhibition juxtaposing a series of objects portraying political and mass culture idols as objects of worship, was supposed to run in St. Petersburg's S.P.A.S. gallery for several weeks until March 12th but ended up closing down in a mess just a couple of days after it opened. |
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Georgian fare is famous throughout the former Soviet Union for its rich assortment of exotic tastes, fine wines and endless toasts, making ethnic Georgian food a must for gourmets and amateurs alike. |
 St. Petersburg has often been regarded as a laboratory of architecture. For a long period of time its creators toiled at transforming its northern marshes into a new Rome. The results of that work can be felt by anyone taking a walk along St. Petersburg's embankments and its vast squares in the cold and windy weather. |
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Xозяйство: the economy, a business, a farm, an industry. Xозяйство is whatever the хозяин owns, runs or manages — from the smallest garden plot to the country’s economy. |
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Kuerten in Quarters COSTA DO SAUIPE, Brazil (AP) - Third-seeded Gustavo Kuerten and No. 4 Agustin Calleri advanced Wednesday to the quarterfinals of the Brasil Open. Brazilian Kuerten, finally recovered from a heavy cold, outran 17-year-old Frenchman Richard Gasquet to win 7-6 (3), 6-3. Gasquet was hit with muscle strains in the second set. |
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