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City Hall has named the banks that it will use to process up to 4.5 billion rubles ($155 million) of surplus city budget income in 2004. Conspicuously absent from the list is Baltinvestbank, which was one of City Hall's biggest partners when former governor Vladimir Yakovlev was in charge of the city. |
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Two Russians were freed in Iraq on Monday after being held hostage for seven days. Construction workers Alexander Gordiyenko, 27, and Andrei Meshcheryakov, 33, appeared unharmed and cheerful on NTV television late on Monday afternoon. |
 When Reverend Harry Hayden used to look up at the white ceiling of the St. John the Evangelist Episcopal Church in Brunswick, New Jersey where he preaches, he thought: "Something is missing." What was missing was provided by St. Petersburg-based Orthodox icon painter Filipp Davydov, 29, who has created a new atmosphere in the church by adding a Russian-style fresco painting. |
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MOSCOW - Chechen warlord Shamil Basayev on Monday claimed responsibility for the assassination of Chechnya President Akhmad Kadyrov and for the first time threatened to carry out an attack on President Vladimir Putin. |
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MOSCOW - The Russian and U.S. military launched an unprecedented six-day command post exercise in Moscow on Monday to train for conducting joint operations in a third country. For the first time, more than 100 officers from the Russian ground forces' Combined Arms Academy will work together with the U. |
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KALININGRAD - A few days after New Year's Day, in January 1255, several hundred tired knights of the Teutonic division moving east from the German province of Elbe stopped on a hill by a river flowing into the Baltic Sea. |
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A thousand city residents have been infected with HIV over the last six months and by 2010, one in every 100 St. Petersburgers will be infected, experts said Sunday at a rally commemorating World AIDS Memorial Day. "The disease spreads at such a rate that sooner or later it will concern all of us," an organizer said. "By 2010, the rate of infected people will be 1 percent." That would mean 1.45 million people infected with HIV across the country. In 2001, the CIA already put the Russian figure at 0.9 percent of the population or 1.3 million cases. By comparison, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimated a cumulative total of 886,575 AIDS cases in the United States through 2002. |
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 A memorial plaque to murdered State Duma deputy Galina Starovoitova was unveiled in St. Petersburg on Monday - the date of her 58th birthday. It is the first memorial to Starovoitova, who in the 1990s became one of the most outspoken and respected democrats in Russia. |
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Manevich Investigation ST. PETERSBURG (SPT) - The investigation of the 1997 murder of city property committee head Mikhail Manevich has been extended by three months, Interfax reported Monday. "The work is ongoing and there will be a result," Interfax cited the press service of the city and Leningrad Oblast Federal Security Service as saying. |
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MOSCOW - Economic Development and Trade Minister German Gref acknowledged that Moscow has turned a blind eye to the desperate need to rebuild Chechnya and said that the situation there could be easily fixed. |
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MOSCOW - Regional prosecutors on Monday formally charged Saratov Governor Dmitry Ayatskov with abuse of office in an investigation into the suspected large-scale misappropriation of regional funds. Ayatskov was summoned to the Saratov regional prosecutor's office Monday afternoon where formal charges were presented to him, said Nina Gellert, an aide to the senior prosecutor, by telephone from Saratov. |
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MOSCOW - A bus carrying passengers rammed an Aeroflot jet at the Sheremetyevo Airport on Saturday, injuring nine people and damaging the plane, officials said. |
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MOSCOW - The average Russian laborer may earn less than a tenth of a western European worker's wages. But Russia's fat cats face no such indignity, netting even more than their western European counterparts, a new survey has found. Thanks to favorable tax conditions and a booming economy, executives at Russia's biggest companies on average take home 750 euros more per month than western bosses, according to a survey by global consultants Watson Wyatt. |
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MOSCOW - State Duma deputies have been accused of having their cake and eating it. And not giving back their spoons. Up to 12 teaspoons per week mysteriously go missing from a Duma cafeteria and ice cream-scoffing deputies are seen as the likely culprits. |
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 The Russian market holds lucrative opportunities for Dutch shipbuilders and marine equipment manufacturers, renowned for their quality standards. The ticket to the Russian market is good legal consultants and flexibility. Even though Russia continues to be a legislative roller-coaster and its market is yet to mature, it is no longer an uncivilized debris of speculative prices and cheap labor, experts said at a recent maritime mission. |
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Transneft Capacity Low MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian oil exports have hit a ceiling and after many years of growth the world's second largest oil exporter cannot boost shipments if new pipelines are not built, oil pipeline monopoly Transneft said on Friday. |
 Russians' perception of modern Germany is a mix of respect for its economic achievements and romantic affection for its cultural heritage. Nevertheless, the German's addiction to schedules makes working with Russians difficult, locals say with a smile. Russia is not a country where you can plan far ahead, they say. Germans form the biggest foreign business community in Russia and are not lagging in cultural and educational exchanges either. |
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 Germany has been the biggest Western trading partner of Russia since 1972. In 1997 it overtook Ukraine and became Russia's biggest trading partner altogether, according to the Moscow-based Delegation of German Industry and Commerce. |
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The current crisis of liberalism and communist ideas in Russia has created a vacuum which is gradually being filled by different ideologies. Among them, the attempt by some Russian analysts to formulate a brand of so-called conservatism particularly stands out. |
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Governor Valentina Matviyenko's initiative to privatise historical buildings has caused a stir in Russia. Many have a sinking feeling in the pit of their stomach. |
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Criminal Negligence The decapitation of American citizen Nick Berg at the hands of the Jordanian terrorist Abu Zarqawi was a shattering act of barbarism. What is perhaps equally disturbing is the fact that George W. Bush could have prevented it - but refused to do so. Long before the war, Zarqawi and his band of non-Iraqi extremists had a camp in northern Iraq, in territory controlled by U. |
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