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Residents of a building at 9 Institutsky Prospekt in the Vyborg district on Monday stopped a construction project in their yard. For weeks they had clashed with officials who were acting against one of Governor Valentina Matviyenko's key election platforms last year: no additional construction in residential areas. |
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MOSCOW - NTV fired star journalist Leonid Parfyonov in a dramatic decision that his colleagues and media experts decried Wednesday as the latest setback to press freedom. |
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With tourist season in full swing, the city administration on Thursday held a special meeting dedicated to the security of foreigners as travelers' complaints appear to be growing. City officials were joined by the police, health officials and travel industry representatives to discuss ways to improve St. |
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Former U.S. president John Quincy Adams joined the small list of foreigners to be honored in St. Petersburg by a memorial plaque on Thursday. "It's a way of reminding people of the long history of our relations and also honoring our first diplomat here who kind of has been a model for all 60-plus ambassadors that have come after him, including myself," U. |
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The St. Petersburg City Court has annulled the results of elections for the State Duma in the city's District 207, saying that Alexander Morozov, who received the most votes on March 14 won as a result of violations at polling stations. |
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St. Petersburg residents who live north of the Lesnaya metro station will in less than a month be able to ride the subway into the city without having to transfer to surface transport between the Lesnaya and Ploshchad Muzhestva stations. "We plan to completely open the metro's red [Kirov-Vyborg] line by June 26," said Dmitry Burin, deputy head of the city metro. |
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 Finding itself suddenly neighboring the EU, Pskov administration is putting a lot of effort into publicizing the city's investment advantages to the West. One of Russia's most ancient cities, Pskov is crying out for investments. And no matter how crude and old-fashioned the PR campaign seems, the opportunities are there - even though few businessmen have dared to go for them so far. |
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Citibank will be opening its first consumer branch in St. Petersburg by the end of this summer, Citibank officials said. The new consumer branch "is under development," said Ludmila Botsan, Citibank's public relations manager in Moscow. |
 MOSCOW - Russia stopped clearing beef, pork and poultry shipments from the European Union on Tuesday in a spat over certification that could have dire consequences for European producers. "We have suspended meat imports as of June 1 and are not signing off on old veterinary certificates," a spokeswoman at the Agriculture Ministry said Wednesday. |
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New RusAl Plant LONDON (Bloomberg) - Russian Aluminum, which makes an eighth of the world's aluminum, said it may build a 600,000-ton aluminum smelter in the Irkutsk region, in what will be its largest-ever expansion. |
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When veterans of the D-day landings gather in Normandy this weekend to be feted by assorted heads of state and government on the 60th anniversary of their epic assault, it will probably be the last time they do it in such style. In another 10 years, their ranks will be sorely depleted. |
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A selection of letters and phone calls to The St. Petersburg Times about the activities of the police shows our readership has no illusions about the people who are supposed to enforce the law. |
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Whoever's idea it was to fire NTV anchor Leonid Parfyonov and cancel his feisty and irreverent "Namedni" show - consistently one of the top five most-watched programs on NTV -would seem to have shot themselves in the foot quite spectacularly. Over the past couple of days, endless column centimeters have been devoted to the events leading up to Parfyonov's dismissal and to speculation about the combination of personal, political and professional factors that precipitated the coup de grace delivered by NTV general director Nikolai Senkevich on Tuesday night. |
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 For five days after May 26, Petersburgers in the know were able to enjoy carillon concerts in the Peter and Paul Cathedral given by the Belgian master musician who was responsible for the reinstallation of this medieval instrument in St. Petersburg in 2001 and who has returned periodically since to perform and to promote the cause. Jo Haazen is the director of the Royal Carillon School in Mechelen, near Brussels. |
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 The innovative British director Declan Donnellan is coming to town next week with his company Cheek By Jowl to perform a rendition of Shakespeare's "Othello," which first premiered in France in April. |
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The concert season should be at its height, but this week seems to be deprived of truly exciting musical events. There are a couple of exceptions, though. La Minor, the local band that offers sophisticated, live and jazzy treatment of vintage Soviet-era urban folk - not the simplified, loutish version that one usually hears in cabs or on local radio - will give a concert at Fish Fabrique on Sunday. |
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The final page of the menu at Noyan Tapan (Noah's Ark) is a list of prices for broken dishware. One-hundred and fifty rubles for a ceramic mug, 300 rubles ($5-$10) for an earthenware plate, and so on. |
 The U.S. choreographer George Balanchine, who was born Georgy Melitonovich Balanchivadze in St. Petersburg in 1904 and whose centenary is being marked by a newly opened exhibition in the Hermitage Theater, was one of the 20th century's leading creative forces with a worldwide impact on dance. The exhibition, held in the foyer of the Hermitage Theater and one of the first joint projects between St. |
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 The scraping of a carpenter's plane mingled with the first sounds the orchestra made shortly after the Mariinsky Theater's famous blue curtain rose to unveil the premiere of Mikhail Glinka's "A Life for The Tsar," Russia's first classical national opera, on May 30. |
 A century after the birth of Soviet Nobel laureate Mikhail Sholokhov, author of "And Quiet Flows The Don," opinions on the writer's legacy are as divided as ever. With the 100th anniversary of the birth of Mikhail Sholokhov just around the corner, official centennial celebrations are already in the works. |
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One of these days I'm going to apply for a grant to write a dissertation on "Cross-Cultural Equivalents and Divergences in Bathroom Behavior and Terminology," since the subject seems relatively unplumbed (pun intended) and as fertile as a pile of compost. |
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Moore Has Distributor LOS ANGELES (AP) - Michael Moore's award-winning documentary "Fahrenheit 9/11" has found a U.S. distributor and will hit theaters June 25. The film will be released by a partnership of Lions Gate Films, IFC Films and the Fellowship Adventure Group, which was formed by Harvey and Bob Weinstein specifically to market Moore's film. |
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PARIS - Anastasia Myskina has made history by setting up an all-Russian French Open women's single final when she defeated an out-of-sorts former champion Jennifer Capriati of the United States 6-2, 6-2 in the semi-finals. |
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