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 Governor Valentina Matviyenko's statement that some of Moscow's functions as a capital will soon be transferred to St. Petersburg was contradicted by the Kremlin press service almost as soon as she made it. "A decision to move some capital functions to St. |
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MOSCOW - It may not have wanted to boost the business of foreign lenders or strengthen its own de facto monopoly on personal savings, but that is exactly what happened when the Central Bank promptly pulled the plug on a mid-level bank, triggering the biggest bank run since 1998. |
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About 600,000 children across Russia, or up to 2 percent of all the country's children, are locked in mental institutions where their rights are violently breached, the international Citizens Commission for Human Rights, or CCHR, said Tuesday. The commission is the organizer of a traveling exhibition "Broken Life: Psychiatry Exposed" that has run for the last month in the St. |
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City Makeover ST. PETERSBURG (SPT) - Much of the city faces a complete overhaul by 2025 Interfax reported Tuesday, following the announcement by the city government of the concept of a new city plan for St. Petersburg. With more than 500 hectares of industrial land being converted to other uses, the plan aims to stimulate economic development. Governor Valentina Matviyenko called for widespread access to the plans in order to acquaint every citizen with the future developments and gauge public opinion. Support for Girenko ST. PETERSBURG (SPT) - Federal Human Rights Ombudsman Vladimir Lukin met with supporters of the late ethnographer Nikolai Girenko in St. |
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 MOSCOW - The older brothers of Paul Klebnikov, the Forbes Russia editor who was shot dead in the street outside his office last week, challenged the government Wednesday to solve the murder and show that Russia is becoming a normal country. |
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MOSCOW - President Vladimir Putin has cut the number of top officials in the Federal Security Service and the Emergency Situations Ministry in a move widely predicted to herald further reorganization of the government's so-called "power agencies. |
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Police in St. Petersburg are still looking for journalist Maxim Maximov who was reported missing after failing to turn up for work on July 5. Police said Thursday they have no information on the whereabouts of Maximov, 41, a correspondent for the Gorod magazine, who had been investigating the Galina Starovoitova murder case. |
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MOSCOW - Defense lawyers acting for two Russian intelligence agents convicted by a Qatari court of the assassination in Qatar in February 2004 of a Chechen separatist leader have appealed against the 25-year sentence handed out on June 30. Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev, a former Chechen separatist president, was killed on Feb. |
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Governor Valentina Matviyenko this week canceled a notorious decree by City Hall 's property committee that ordered the privatization of city-owned artists' studios for subsequent sale or rent at market prices. |
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 Korean Air Lines, the biggest air carrier in Korea and one of the biggest in Asia, became the first Asian airline to offer scheduled flights to St. Petersburg this week. The Airbus-330 jets, which accommodate about 270 passengers, will provide business travelers and tourists with a direct service between Seoul and St. |
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The city government has turned down Canadian Bombardier's $527 million monorail project, as one that St. Petersburg can no longer afford. The decision was made after Moscow refused to extend any financial assistance to several other city construction projects last weekend. |
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Taxi Routes Cut ST.PETERSBURG (SPT) - The amount of routes for fixed-route minibuses, or marshrutki will be reduced next year from 460 to 303, Rosbalt News Agency reported Vice-Governor Mikhail Oseyevsky as saying. The administration plans to switch the fixed-route service from vans to larger buses and to increase qualification standards for taxi drivers, Oseyevsky said. |
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MOSCOW - Oil magnate Mikhail Khodorkovsky pleaded not guilty to charges including fraud and tax evasion in a Moscow court room on Thursday. "I plead not guilty to all the points on which I have been charged," Khodorkovsky told the court, as prosecution began to lay out its fraud case, a process that could last days, but will include details of the sentence it is seeking against him. |
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The editor of the Russian edition of Forbes magazine, Pavel Yuryevich Klebnikov, an American citizen with a Russian name, was murdered on Friday evening as he was heading home from work. Thus was tragically cut short the experiment that this "Russian foreigner," who took a professional interest in Russia and loved the country, chose to perform on himself. |
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I never have given even a single thought to becoming a politician - I don't want to be a part of a dirty game. But Wednesday last week I regretted that I could not become a Legislative Assembly lawmaker for just a couple of hours. |
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 David Byrne, former frontman of Talking Heads, the band that revolutionized music in the late 1970s and the early 1980s, brings his My Backward Life Tour to Russia, performing a one-off concert in St. Petersburg, in between dates in Tampere and Stockholm. His most recent album, "Grown Backwards," saw the innovative musician and singer adopting a new songwriting technique, mocking the Republican Party and even singing opera arias. |
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 One of the most scandalous and provocative artistic movements in Russia, Bubnovy Valet ("The Knave of Diamonds") is enjoying its largest ever exhibition at the Benois Wing of the State Russian Museum, showcasing some of the most acclaimed names of the Russian avant-garde. |
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Eduard Ratnikov of the Moscow-based promoters T.C.I., described the U.K. rock act DIO as "naphthalene", in an interview with the newspaper Kommersant last week. The band are fronted by Ronnie James Dio, memorable for his mid-1970s heydays as singer of Rainbow. |
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The outside of the Madridsky Dvor (Madrid Courtyard) gives the wrong impression. Don't be fooled by the garish plastic, yellow and blue signs - rather take note of the wrought iron door furnishing and the tasteful dried orange slices decorating the windows and you'll get a better idea of the class of restaurant you're entering. |
 The State Hermitage Museum, Infon Russia, a cell-phone service provider and Rosbalt News Agency have forged a strategic trinity to attract the sophisticated young generation to classical values by making the museum's treasures available on mobile phone screens. "To mobilize the youth into cultural awareness we have to be innovative and smart enough to make the cultural aspect of life fashionable and more accessible through simple and modern technology," said director of the Hermitage Mikhail Piotrovsky, adding that the latest endeavor would also enable the wider audience to gain an easy access to the museum's collections. |
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 "Night Watch", Timur Bekmambetov's science-fiction thriller, released July 8, is being aggressively marketed as the first Russian blockbuster. |
 Like many in the fashion design trade, Asya Kogel has a signature color. You'll find it on her business cards, in her collections of women's clothing, and splashed on the walls of her comfortable studio: bright orange, like the sunny hue you'd find in a child's crayon box. "Orange is the color of the sun, tropical fruit, optimists," says Kogel. "I always add a few drops of orange to every collection I do, whatever the color scheme. |
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 Not long has passed since the death of national artist of Russia Zinovy Korogodsky to leave the "Theater of Generations" troupe (Teatr Pokoleny) without its founder, leader, and chief director. |
 TIKHVIN, Leningrad Oblast - With its performance of Rimsky-Korsakov's "Kitezh" in Tikhvin on Sunday evening 11 July, the Mariinsky Theater brought to a close the two-week long national celebration surrounding the return of the revered icon Our Lady of Tikhvin from more than 50 years of exile in Chicago. Senior administrators at the Mariinsky hope the performance acted as the laying of foundations for a national center of Rimsky-Korsakov operas in Tikhvin, similar to the Wagnerian center in Bayreuth, Bavaria. |
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 Death threats were a fact of life for Yury Shchekochikhin. As an investigative journalist who had been exposing high-level corruption since the 1980s, Shchekochikhin often received sinister, anonymous notes and calls; he usually brushed them off with idealistic bravado and a flippant sense of humor. |
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Собачник/собачница: dog lover. Russian dog lovers are no less passionate about their pets than their cat-loving cousins. A dog in Russian is собака or пёс. Both words are usually made into a million loving diminutives: собачка, собачонка, пёсик. A pedigree dog is either породистая or родословная (a pedigree is a родословие, the same word you use to describe a person’s illustrious parentage). |
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Officials Receive Implants MEXICO CITY (AP) - Mexico's top federal prosecutors and investigators began receiving microchip implants in their arms in November in order to get access to restricted areas inside the attorney general's headquarters, said Antonio Aceves, general director of Solusat, the company that distributes the microchips in Mexico. |
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France Hires New Coach PARIS (AP) - Raymond Domenech was hired as the coach of France's national team on Monday, taking over a squad that won the World Cup in 1998 and European championship in 2000. |
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