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Shortly before a city-wide law to protect green areas of the city from being destroyed by construction companies came into force Sunday, Governor Valentina Matviyenko reportedly signed a decree allowing local developer LEK ESTATE to chop down trees around buildings No. |
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Ordinary St. Petersburg citizens are worried that City Hall’s plans to clean up the taxi industry, including putting drivers in uniforms, will mean they lose the relatively inexpensive luxury of waving down gypsy cabs. |
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Doubts are being raised about how a group of nongovernmental organizations that promote prevention and treatment of HIV/AIDS in Russia will handle an $88 million grant to the country from international donor the Global Fund. “It appeared doubtful [after a review of the proposal] that this consortium was competent enough to implement a project of this magnitude at the national scale,” organizers of the 12th AIDS, Cancer and Related Problems Conference, held in St. Petersburg at the end of May, said in a joint statement. The conference, one of the most respected of its kind in Russia, expressed concern just a month before the Global Fund is scheduled to decide on a reported $200 million-plus, fourth-round grant and in the wake of President Vladimir Putin’s criticism of NGOs in his recent state of the nation speech. |
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 SVETLANA, Leningrad Oblast - Some 160 kilometers east of the hustle and bustle of St. Petersburg, nestled in the fertile, river-crossed lands surrounding Lake Ladoga, exists a small, unassuming community named Camphill-Svetlana. |
 Leonid Kantorovich, the St. Petersburg scientist who was awarded a Nobel Prize in 1975, bridged the theoretical world of mathematics and the practical world of economics, research that sometimes put him at odds with the Soviet state. The methods he developed were universal - useful not only in a planned economy such as the one he lived in, but also in capitalist countries where free markets operated. |
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Markova Suit to Lapse ST. PETERSBURG (SPT) — Governor Valentina Matviyenko intends to withdraw her lawsuit against Anna Markova, who ran against her in gubernatorial elections last year, Interfax reported Monday. The governor’s press service was cited as saying that the slander suit had been addressed by Markova, who had said that the statements in contention had been made during an election campaign and were not intended as personal attacks on Matviyenko. |
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Hooligans, not racist extremists, killed a nine-year-old Tajik girl in St. Petersburg on Feb. 9, the city prosecutor's office said Friday. "We consider hooliganism as the main motive," Chief city prosecutor Nikolai Vinnichenko said at a news conference. |
 A symbol celebrating an autocrat's military prowess served as a model for the home of American democracy, a new exhibition in St. Petersburg's St. Isaac's Cathedral shows. The dome of the cathedral, one of the largest in the world, alongside Rome's St. |
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MOSCOW - The Interior Ministry's department for economic and tax fraud announced Monday that it has been investigating the British Council, the cultural department of the British Embassy in Moscow. |
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MOSCOW - A powerful blast shook an outdoor market in the Volga region city of Samara on Friday, killing 10 people and injuring about 60 in what law enforcement agencies said could have been either a terrorist act or a business dispute. A bomb containing about 1 kilogram of plastic explosives was attached to the back of a metal container at the Kirovsky open air market in Saratov district on Friday afternoon, police said. |
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MOSCOW - Russian business tycoon and ethnic Georgian Kakha Bendukidze was last week appointed Economics Minister by Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili. |
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MTS, one the leading mobile service operators in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus, announced plans for drastic expansion into the regions and the restructuring of management. MTS will invest over $1 billion in the company's expansion this year, said president of MTS Vasily Sidorov at a St. Petersburg press conference on Monday. The company's shares, traded on the New York Stock Exchange, went up five times, and the Financial Times rated MTS among the world's 500 largest companies, Sidorov said. The company's further development involves restructuring of management system to form three levels of management: a corporate center in Moscow, and ten macro-regions subdivided into regions. |
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 The Leningrad Oblast Legislative Assembly has passed a law on agricultural land sales in the region, banning such land from being purchased by foreigners, as determined by federal legislation. |
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ST. PETERSBURG - Marriott International, which officially opened its sixth hotel in Russia on Friday, is planning to establish a string of its brands across the country within the next few years, a company official said. Speaking at the official opening ceremony of Renaissance St. |
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$161 Million Loan ST. PETRESBURG (SPT) - The city administration plans to receive the first part of a loan from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development by the end of 2004. |
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SAN FRANCISCO - A U.S. jury convicted a former Ukrainian prime minister last week on criminal charges of using his position to extort tens of millions of dollars from his country and then launder it through Californian banks. A grim-faced Pavlo Lazarenko, 51, who became a multimillionaire while in power during Ukraine's economic depression in the 1990s, said he would appeal the rare case against a former foreign leader in the United States. |
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Meat Ban Lifted ST. PETERSBURG (SPT) - Russia has lifted a ban on meat imports from the European Union from June 5 to June 10, an official with the North-Western division of the Veterinary Service said on Monday. |
 Sauli Valmaa has been doing business in Russia for 30 years. Over this period, he has not had time to learn Russian, but he did manage to build Sautek - a company specializing in construction machinery and transportation - and become the first foreign national to receive an award for his contribution to Russia's transportation industry from the country's Ministry of Transport. Always accompanied by his loyal interpreter, Valmaa has become a living legend in St. |
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 With greater numbers of Russian travelers heading to spend their holidays and money abroad, Russia is widely considered to be an emerging market with the highest potential in many countries' tourism industries. |
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MOSCOW - Investors jittery about the risk-fraught Russian media sector need not be wary of buying into RosBusinessConsulting as its news coverage is too dull for the Kremlin to care, RBC CEO German Kaplun said Friday. Previewing RBC's second roadshow later this month, Kaplun said the software, information technology and business television specialist will offer 15 million new shares to help fund expansion, in an emission expected to raise up to $20 million. |
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Certainly no more improbable star has crossed the U.S. political firmament than Ronald Reagan, the former governor of California and 40th president of the United States. Reagan left the presidency in January 1989, the only modern president to emerge from office more popular than when he entered. |
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City Hall's plans to clean up the city's taxi industry are driven by good intentions. It would be good if all drivers were polite, spoke English, drove cars that meet safety standards, used a meter wherever they go and paid their taxes. |
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A huge scandal broke out at a city government session last week. It emerged that the new procedure for allocating state orders, or goszakazy, in St. Petersburg, approved by a government resolution on Dec. 23, 2003, is being openly sabotaged at lower levels of the administration, where officials prefer to keep working as they always have. |
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Animal House Every now and then the mask slips, and we see the true face of the system that marshals the world. For an instant, the heavy paint of sober wisdom and moral purpose falls away, and there, suddenly, with jolting clarity, is the snarling rictus of an ape. |
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