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 A new plan that aims to reconcile those eager to bring experimental modern architecture into the historical center of St. Petersburg and those who would like the heart of the city to be preserved was proposed Monday. Vladimir Lisovsky, a professor at St. Petersburg's Repin State Institute for Art, Sculpture and Architecture and head of the local branch of the Society for the Preservation of Cultural and Historical Monuments, suggested that the whole city be divided into zones. |
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 Kremlin loyalist party United Russia is seeking to expand its membership not only by recruiting businesses, but also by mustering support in schools, Legislative Assembly Speaker and newly elected head of the regional branch of the party Vadim Tyulpanov said Saturday. |
 St. Petersburg schoolgirl Nadezhda Petukhova, 17, was not just the first girl in the Russian team to compete in this year's International Math Olympiad since 1998, she also won a gold medal. Petukhova has just returned from the Olympiad, which was held in Athens on July 9 to 18. She received her gold medal from Greek Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis, who told her: "I'm so glad that you're a girl. |
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MOSCOW - A policeman suspected of helping to stage last month's raids on police headquarters in Ingushetia set off an explosive attached to his leg when called in for questioning over the weekend, killing himself and badly injuring two investigators, Ingush police said Monday. |
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MOSCOW - The day after refusing to register Malik Saidullayev, the main challenger to the Kremlin's pick for Chechen president, Chechnya's election committee on Friday announced the final lineup of seven candidates for the Aug. |
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City Streets Reopen ST. PETERSBURG (SPT) - Several streets in different city districts have been opened after repairs, Interfax reported Friday, quoting City Hall's maintenance committee. Among the reopened streets are Shaumyanskaya Prospekt on which the asphalt had been replaced. On Bolshaya Ozyornaya and Zhaka Dyuklo streets work had been competed in stages, leading to the replacement of asphalt on roads and sidewalks. |
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 Activity at the St. Petersburg cargo sea port has been paralyzed since early last week due to the conflict between the dockers and the port's largest owner, the Novolipetsk Metallurgical Combine, or NLMC. Over 1,000 carriages loaded with metals and fertilizers have accumulated at the Novy Port station of the Oktyabrskaya railroad, the railroad office's press secretary Andrei Yadrin said Monday. |
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Siemens, the world's second-largest maker of turbines, agreed to raise its stake in Power Machines (Siloviye Mashiny), Russia's leading power-equipment company, to exploit growth from Eastern Europe as demand for turbines in the U. |
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MOSCOW - Disco lights flashed to the beat of a blaring "Star Wars" soundtrack Friday as the Economic Development and Trade Ministry announced the winners of this year's Best Russian Exporter competition. The little-known helicopter and airplane maker Ulan-Ude Aviation Production Plant took the top prize, "The Most Dynamically Developing Russian Exporter of 2003. |
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Tyumen Oil company or TNK will give money to the St. Petersburg Development Fund, which is to be established under the agreement signed Monday between Smolny and the Tyumen region administration. |
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Oblast Reports Success ST.PETERSBURG (SPT) - The total volume of investments in the Leningrad Oblast has increased by 9 percent from January to May of this year from the same period growth last year, said the oblast's Governor, Valery Serdukov at a news conference last week. |
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MOSCOW - Kremlin held off answering the proposal put forth last week by a consortium of investors to pay off Yukos debt. The group led by Menatep ally Konstantin Kagalovsky is proposing to pay off up to $10 billion in Yukos tax debts and buy out a majority stake in the company, which is currently frozen as collateral in the state's legal onslaught against Mikhail Khodorkovsky. |
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UNITED NATIONS - Russia on Friday rejected U.S. criticism of its sales of military aircraft to Sudan and moved to block efforts to impose UN sanctions against Khartoum for not doing enough to end atrocities against civilians in Darfur. At initial Security Council negotiations, Russia, China, Pakistan and Algeria all opposed a U. |
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MOSCOW - Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov's 26-year-old son has been named the deputy general director of the Far East Shipping Co., or FESCO, Russia's third-largest shipper, Kommersant reported Saturday. |
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MOSCOW - Aircraft maker Sukhoi, keen to make more civil jets, struck deals to sell a total of 77 airplanes to Russian customers last week at the Farnborough Air Show in Great Britain, a company official said Friday. Sukhoi will sell 20 planes to domestic airline UTair, the official said. |
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J.P. Morgan Raps Putin LONDON (Bloomberg) - President Vladimir Putin's administration has lost its direction, with the government disregarding the concerns of foreign investors, J. |
 For theater buff and travel executive, American Steven Caron, Russia has become home, after his thirst for adventure and aspirations to become an actor brought him to the country 14 years ago. Caron is co-founder and president of St. Petersburg-based Sindbad Travel International, a youth and student travel agency, which has established itself as one of the leading companies in the industry throughout the world since its start nine years ago, five years after Caron first came to Russia. |
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MOSCOW - The list of global financial giants that do not trade Russian stocks is about to get one shorter. Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein, the securities unit of Germany's Allianz, Europe's largest insurer, said Friday it plans to start buying and selling shares in Russian companies next month. |
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MOSCOW - The RTS stock index declined by 4.48 percent to the level of 565.77 points during the period from July 19 to July 23. The RTS Stock Exchange press office reported the decline was led by Yukos, whose ruble-denominates shares were suspended by the MICEX exchange on Monday after slumping 18 percent to their lowest level since December 2001, the Volga Hydroelectric Power Plant, which dropped by 20. |
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The AIDS epidemic in Russia has entered a dangerous and decisive stage. Most experts agree that about 1 million Russians are living with HIV today, and there are strong signs that Russia's AIDS epidemic is moving into the general population. The number of HIV-positive mothers is skyrocketing along with the number of HIV-positive babies, many of whom are abandoned at birth. |
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The main merit of the concept for the General Plan for the Development of St. Petersburg up to 2025 is that its authors have made a valiant attempt to overcome the chronic inability of previous city administrations to ensure efficient use of land. |
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Hard Reign The dictator walked into the prison courtyard, his entourage of government officials and foreign bodyguards scurrying around him. A crowd of policemen had gathered there to hear the Leader speak. Under the blinding fury of the desert sun, he ordered them to strike without mercy at the enemies of the state - and to fear no retribution should their zealotry devour the innocent with the guilty. |
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Hussein Prison Poetry LONDON (Reuters) - Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein is passing his time in solitary confinement by reading the Koran, writing poetry, gardening and snacking on cookies and muffins, Britain's Guardian newspaper reported on Monday. Iraq's human rights minister Bakhtiar Amin said Saddam's health was "generally good" but he was being treated for high blood pressure and had suffered a chronic prostate infection. |
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