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 More than 50 editors and journalists from 30 St. Petersburg media outlets have written to President Vladimir Putin calling on him to stop rampant in-fill construction in St. Petersburg. They are expecting an answer within a month, as required by law, and have threatened that if no action is taken they will inform their foreign colleagues of the parlous management of construction in the city. |
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MOSCOW - Tatyana Zhdanok, the first ethnic Russian ever to have won a seat in the European Parliament, is having a busy week. Her cell phone is constantly ringing, and reporters are hanging about asking for interviews. |
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Additional police patrols will protect tourists in St. Petersburg's airports, ports and major railway stations this summer, says Major-General Anatoly Zhukovsky, head of the Transport Police of the Northwest region. "Major railway stations are among the worst sites for robbery and theft," Zhukovsky said Wednesday at a news conference. |
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Starovoitova Trial ST. PETERSBURG (SPT) - State Duma Deputy Galina Starovoitova did not have a large sum of money with her when she was killed, her sister Olga said at the trial of the deputy's alleged killers on Thursday, Interfax reported. Olga Starovoitova said her sister was carrying about $2,000 to renovate her parents' apartment and to buy a television, the report said. Asked if the deputy had hoped to raise $8,000 to $10,000 for her election campaign, Olga Starovoitova said that as far as she knew this money had not been raised. The trial will continue July 28. Petersburgers Content ST. PETERSBURG (SPT) - The majority of St. |
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 About 50,000 people are expected to attend ex-Beatle Paul McCartney's concert at St. Petersburg's Palace Square on Sunday. The concert was almost sold out on Thursday, the impressive stage was under construction, and tens of thousands of Beatles fans were getting ready to experience their idol playing live. |
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Plans to shift control of 140 St. Petersburg historical monuments from federal bodies to the control of City Hall does not concern Mikhail Shvydkoi, head of the Federal Culture and Cinematography Agency, Interfax reports. Most of the city's palaces, nationalized after the Bolsheviks seized power in 1917, are still state-owned, but not all are under the control of the city. |
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MOSCOW - The British Council will turn over financial records to the Interior Ministry's tax and economic crimes department and the ministry will drop its threats to penalize the council for not opening its books, officials said Tuesday. |
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MOSCOW - Locked in a metal cage surrounded by special forces troops, Yukos billionaires Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev faced trial together for the first time Wednesday as sources indicated the core Yukos shareholders might cave in and reduce their stakes in the oil major. |
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Oil exports as a proportion of economic growth will drop to a third of current levels "in a few years," Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov said Tuesday, as another government official predicted that Russia's GDP growth would halve if global oil prices slumped. |
 Russian oil giant Lukoil opened its new oil export terminal Lukoil 2 on Vysotsky Island located in the Gulf of Vyborg on Wednesday. The region's chief executives welcomed the project, expected to bring lucrative gains to the federal budget in tax returns. |
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The Russian information technology industry has the potential to be number one in the world, but it is hampered by a lack of government incentives and support, experts say. |
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Ring Road Funding ST. PETERSBURG (Interfax) - Prime minister Mikhail Fradkov said that he deems it absolutely necessary to allocate an additional 23 million rubles for the construction of St. Petersburg's Ring Road during a government meeting Thursday. "Due to obvious reasons St. Peterburg attracts a lot of attention, there is culture and history there," Fradkov said in an explaination of his support for the funding. |
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Following its recent enlargement from 15 to 25 states, the European Union faces the question of whether and whither to expand next. Support for further enlargement within the EU is limited and the EU is preoccupied with a host of internal problems. Irrespective of the present mood, however, the 2007 accession of Bulgaria and Romania cannot now be stopped. |
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International Herald Tribune Excerpted from "Putin's Heavy Hand Could Halt Russia's Rise," a comment in Wednesday's International Herald Tribune by George Soros, financier and philanthropist. |
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 Proving, as if proof were needed, that classic stories stand reinterpretation and even changes of genre while maintaining their artistic worth, "The Nutcracker" -known chiefly in St. Petersburg as a Tchaikovsky ballet - can now be seen in a stunning post-modern circus version. E.T.A. Hoffman's tale "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King," was written in 1816, while the Tchaikovsky ballet (itself based on a revision by Alexandre Dumas) dates from 1892. |
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 Laika & The Cosmonauts is possibly the best known Finnish surf band in the world, but the band itself seems to find the term misleading, describing its music as "melodic instrumental rockular music with furious and atmospheric visual vibes" on its official web site. |
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The central event of the weekend is no doubt an open-air concert by Paul McCartney on Palace Square. However, the much anticipated and talked about gig brings some sadness, as it probably means saying farewell to an illusion that helped many to go through the communist era. |
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The Primorskaya metro station near the northwestern edge of Vasilyevsky Island empties out onto Nalichnaya Ulitsa, a broad avenue that bisects the island from the maritime station just south of the Lenexpo exhibition pavilions to the mouth of the Small Neva where it flows into the Gulf of Finland. |
 NEW YORK - New York audiences will see the premiere of "Musagete" on Friday, a new ballet based on the life of the St. Petersburg-born dance genius George Balanchine, choreographed by the renowned St. Petersburg-based choreographer Boris Eifman. Eifman's first work for an American company will be performed by Balanchine's own company, the New York City Ballet (NYCB), as part of its celebration of Balanchine's centennial year. |
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 The department of contemporary art at the State Russian Museum arranges large one-man shows by artists from the older generation of so-called "Other Art" movement one at a time. |
 Boris Akunin's thrillers have sold more than eight million copies in Russia to date. U.S. publishers hope to cash in on his success. In most respects, Erast Fandorin is an exemplary specimen of the late 19th century. Though he is only 22 years old and in exceptional health, he never fails to take a walking stick out for his midday stroll. Supper with company demands a starched white collar and a red carnation in the buttonhole. |
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 When Russian Playgirl hits newsstands next week, its target audience may be confronted with an unfamiliar sight. The Russian edition of the erotic magazine for women will primarily be filled with photographs of nude, circumcised American men. |
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Âèííîöâåòíîå ìîðå: wine-dark sea. About 3,000 years ago, Homer described the evening sea as oinos, translated as “wine-dark,” starting off a debate on language and perception that has yet to be resolved. Was this a poetic reference to the sea burnished by the magenta sunset? Was wine in those times bright red? Or did Greeks use one word for “dark color” that could be applied to red wine or a blue-green sea at twilight? Or, like most men, was Homer incapable of perceiving and naming colors? (Ask any woman what color her dress is, and she’ll tell you: “Aquamarine with an ecru collar. |
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WASHINGTON - The Sept. 11 commission reported Wednesday that it has found no "collaborative relationship" between Iraq and al-Qaida, challenging one of the Bush administration's main justifications for the war in Iraq. Along with the contention that Saddam Hussein was stockpiling weapons of mass destruction, President George W. |
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Clinton on Infidelity NEW YORK (AP) - Former U.S. President Bill Clinton called his marital infidelity a "terrible moral error" whose disclosure to his wife put him "in the doghouse," during an interview scheduled for this Sunday's "60 Minutes. |
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LISBON - Portugal have resurrected their Euro 2004 hopes by ending those of Russia with a 2-0 victory on Wednesday. Russia became the first team to be eliminated from the championship. Russia's qualification hopes disappeared on the back of their ninth successive winless European Championship game - an unwelcome tournament record reaching back to the 1988 final. |
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