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 A car belonging to missing St. Petersburg journalist Maxim Maximov was found parked outside Nakhodka, a store near the St. Petersburg Hotel, the Agency of Journalistic Investigations reports. Maximov's Ford Escort had been reported missing together with the reporter, who has not been seen since June 29. |
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At the height of the tourist season and a year after St. Petersburg captivated the world as it celebrated its 300th anniversary, top local hotels report high occupancy but warn of more empty rooms in the future. |
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St. Petersburg city prosecutors are being asked to investigate an ultra-nationalist newspaper that printed articles identified by slain city racism expert Nikolai Girenko as breaking laws on inciting racial hatred. A statement by a nationalist group called Russian Republic, which claimed responsibility for Girenko's murder, said his evidence about the newspaper's articles was one of the reasons why the group had sentenced him to death. |
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MOSCOW - Young activists from the Yabloko party, who were detained Tuesday for staging an unsanctioned protest at FSB headquarters, refused to show up for a court hearing Wednesday, Ekho Moskvy radio reported. |
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MOSCOW - A gray-haired crowd of more than 2,000 protesters - many of them ill and impoverished and some in wheelchairs - gathered Thursday on Ploshchad Revolutsii to demand that the government abandon plans to convert their Soviet-style social benefits into cash payments. |
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MOSCOW - Seventy-one percent of ordinary Russians and 41 percent of journalists say they would approve of some media censorship, a new study by polling agency Romir Monitoring says. |
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Lessons in Smiling? ST. PETERSBURG (SPT) -Russians and citizens of St. Petersburg smile far too little, Interfax quoted writer Danil Granin as saying Thursday at a roundtable on the theme of "Gloomy St. Petersburg: why its citizens smile so little. Granin said that a smile is acquired and that people need to learn good manners before they will see smiles around them, the report said. |
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MOSCOW - The man widely believed to have spearheaded the legal assault on Yukos was handed the chairmanship of Rosneft on Tuesday, just as Russia's last state-owned oil major appears to be positioning itself for the upcoming forced-liquidation of Yukos' main production unit. |
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MOSCOW - The government expects privatization to bring in at least 40 billion rubles ($1.38 billion) next year, the Economic Development and Trade Ministry said Wednesday. |
 Only local breweries will be allowed to participate in the sixth St. Petersburg Beer Festival, which is expected to attract over 150,000 people to Krestovsky Island on Saturday. This is the first year that imported beer will be excluded, which should aid the promotion of St. |
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The city's consumer real estate price growth has slowed down, said St. Petersburg Realty, a real estate agency monitoring the market. It will become clear at the end of August - beginning of September whether this is a stable pattern or a temporary phase, analysts say. |
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Leningrad Oblast administration said it doubts that oil major Rosneft will stick to its plans of building an oil treatment plant and terminal in the area. "It's been over a year since the agreement for construction was signed by the administration and the two participating companies, Rosneft and Surgutneftegaz, "said the Oblast Vice Governor Grigory Dvas in a statement on Tuesday. |
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A social partnership agreement was signed in Moscow on Thursday between the Union of Russian Brewers and Russian Communication Agents Association or RCAA. |
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St. Petersburg-based Baltika, Russia's leading brewery, and its British partner CPL Entertainment plan to open a pub in Glasgow in September, Vedomosti reported Wednesday. CPL Entertainment, an owner of six pubs in Glasgow, will invest $3 million in the project with an expected payback period of about 36 months. |
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For more than a week, national and local media have been kicking around news of a possible imminent attack by Chechen terrorists on a St. Petersburg clinic or hospital, according to a recent FSB warning. Television and newspapers tell chilling tales of how hospital staff around the city are on high alert and show policemen guarding entrances with machineguns, training exercises on how to bolster security if there are explosions. |
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 SAVONLINNA, Finland - When you see the rotund towers of Olavinlinna, even from far away, you feel the magic instantly. The closer you get, the stronger the vibe, and when you finally enter this magnificent 15th century castle looming above a tiny island in Savonlinna, Southern Finland, you are dying to know the story. |
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GEZ-21, or the Gallery of Experimental Sound, part of the Pushkinskaya 10 arts center, is closing temporarily in line with a number of other local clubs, who think that August is a bad month for holding concerts because the public tends to go on holiday away from the city during this time of year. |
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Cafe/Club Velvet on the corner of Professor Popov and Aptekarsky streets lies just north of the Botanical Garden on the Petrograd side. Originally established by Peter the Great in 1714 as a "pharmaceutical garden" for growing medicinal herbs and rare plants, the garden is both an ordered landscape of walkways lined with exotic plants and flowers and a dense forest with bogs, crumbling bridges, and a massive greenhouse. If you exit the garden and turn left a large V in red paint is visible just beyond the intersection. What could it possibly mean? It means "Velvet" and as far as I know is not a veiled reference to Thomas Pynchon's debut novel. |
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 If charming or intriguing bete noir patriarchs, like the Godfather in Francis Ford Coppola's trilogy, usually turn up in crime-related movies in Hollywood, in Russia they are often heroes of political melodramas. |
 Nikolai Cherkasov may not have been the best of fathers, but his son still cherishes the actor's memory. When Josef Stalin banned the second part of Sergei Eisenstein's film "Ivan the Terrible," Nikolai Cherkasov, who played the title role, went to see the Soviet leader. |
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Of the numerous books that have been written about Josef Stalin, relatively few have focused on the twilight years of his dictatorship, from the end of World War II to his death in March 1953. |
 The Manezh Central Exhibition Hall - one of the main city venues for various types of exhibitions - annually carries out its own festival for contemporary art, permanently headed by curator Larisa Skobkina, and every year by rotation paying attention to performing or visual art. |
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Zhit khorosho, a khorosho zhit — eshchyo luchshe: Life is good, and living well is even better.
You have only to look at the full title of one of Russia’s favorite films to see how much life has changed since 1966: Kavkazskaya plennitsa, ili novye priklyucheniya Shurika — ekstsentricheskaya komediya (Captive of the Caucasus, or the New Adventures of Shurik — an eccentric comedy). |
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Pyongyang Criticism SEOUL (Reuters) - Communist North Korea on Thursday accused the South of committing "a terrorist crime" when it brought in more than 450 North Korean refugees from Southeast Asia in secretive flights this week. The North Korean body, which handles ties with South Korea, broke its silence a day after the end of a two-day operation that brought the largest arrival of refugees from the North since the 1950-53 Korean War. |
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Iran Crisis Solved CHONGQING, China, (Reuters) - Iran's Asian Cup campaign is back on track after the team was thrown into disarray by suspensions during the first round of the soccer tournament, coach Branko Ivankovic said. |
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