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 As Russia observes the 100th anniversary of the birth the nation's last heir to the throne, Tsarevich Alexei, a Canadian investigative journalist has written a report questioning whether Alexei had hemophilia and Grigory Rasputin's healing powers. "If we are to accept the popular diagnosis of history and call it a clotting factor deficiency, then the boy's now famous sudden recoveries will remain a complete mystery," John Kendrick writes in an article published on the Internet in the September issue of the respected American Journal of Hematology. |
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Hamburg University has called off its controversial plans to award President Vladimir Putin with an honorary doctorate in economics saying organizational problems not public protests were behind the decision, German media reported this week. |
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Pickpockets who prey on visitors to the Northern Capital are easily identifiable, bu police appear to be turning a blind eye to them, say tourists and expats residents of St. Petersburg. In addition, credit and debit card processing companies appear to be providing the thieves with cash from stolen cards without making thorough checks about who is receiving the money, visitors said. |
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Sanitary Norms Broken ST. PETERSBURG (SPT) - About 38 percent of city food outlets violate sanitary norms, Interfax quoted the St. Petersburg Sanitary Watch Center as saying Thursday. Most violations were registered at places that sell kvas, a traditional Russian drink - 7. |
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MOSCOW - Prosecutors in Kaliningrad have opened a case into large-scale bribe taking by the region's deputy governor, Savva Leonov, on suspicion of taking a $150,000 bribe from a local businessman in return for car import quotas, police said. |
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The St. Petersburg City Court has sentenced Dmitry Chernyayev, one of those accused of the murder of Viktor Novosolyov, a deputy speaker in the Legislative Assembly, to 10 years in jail. The state prosecutor had called for Chernyayev to serve a 12-year sentence. |
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Father Viktor, the senior priest of the Uspeniya Svyatoi Bogoroditsy Church, otherwise know as the Blockade Church, died when the scaffolding on the church collapsed Thursday night. |
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MOSCOW - The Justice Ministry said Thursday it hired investment bank Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein to value Yukos' biggest oil producing unit, due to be sold off to pay the oil company's tax debt. The unit, Yuganskneftegaz, pumps 60 percent of Yukos' daily oil output of 1. |
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MOSCOW - In a move described by some realtors as mere hype, by others as "bold," the Stroimontage construction company will become one of the first Russian developers to enter the Western real estate market when it begins work on a residential project near Paris next summer. |
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 Telemax, the leading electronics and household appliances chain in the city, will open three new stores within the next three months. Telemax, operating 11 stores ranging from 800 to 1,200 square meters in size, will open a new store at 109 Prospekt Veteranov on Saturday, Viktor Vazhagin, general director of the Telemax chain said Thursday at a news conference Thursday. |
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IKEA Russia has officially announced its plans to build a new shopping mall in Kazan. Modeled on the company's two Mega malls in Moscow, the 100,000-square-meter shopping center will have roughly 150 stores. When completed, Kazan Mega, which is scheduled for a late 2005 opening, is set to become the country's largest mall outside Moscow. |
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The city's two renowned film studios, Lenfilm and Documentary Film Studio, are re-emerging as joint-stock companies. The structural change, that will help to allocate funds for reconstructing the worn facilities, should not affect the artistic style both production houses developed over more than fifty years of existence, the studios' directors said at a press conference Wednesday. |
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New Real Estate Spot ST. PETERSBURG (SPT) - International real estate agency Knight Frank opened a St. Petersburg branch. "Knight Frank sees St. Petersburg as one of the most dynamically developing regions in Russia, and the new branch opening is a strategic step that will strengthen the company's position in Russia," the company said in a press release. |
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Little doubt remains that Yukos will soon cease to exist as a unified, powerful force in the economy. Hope that the Kremlin would allow Russia's largest oil producer to atone for the political ambitions of its owners has faded. This does not mean, however, that Yukos will be declared bankrupt. |
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I don't really like fences except when they are used to mark the boundary of someone's private property. However, after visiting nature resorts at Karelsky Peresheyek last weekend I thought that to protect the environment some kind of obstacle should be put in people's way. |
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 A classical music festival with an environmental flavor, aimed at drawing attention to the plight of arguably the most polluted sea in the world opens in Stockholm on Thursday, August 19th. As well as contributing in large measure to the pollution in the Baltic, St. |
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The prominent St. Petersburg-based choreographer Boris Eifman has started rehearsing a new ballet, loosely based on Leo Tolstoy's novel "Anna Karenina" with his troupe. |
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óÂÏÛ .(o)Ú,, ÚÓ"Ó ÌÂ ÏËÌÓ'++Ú,: What will be, will be. Ah, August! The month that begins with just about every Russian knocking wood, spitting three times over his left shoulder, lighting candles and dancing under the moon while muttering spells to keep away the demons that historically plague Russia in this month. |
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Lesson number one: Never get a great idea while exhausted. Inevitably, it backfires and you wind up walking for a seemingly endless amount of time on a seemingly endless path to a seemingly non-existent location in the middle of an island. |
 In his sequel to "Euro Pudding," Cedric Klapisch has chosen St. Petersburg to represent one facet of modern Europe. French film director Cedric Klapisch wrapped up filming the St. Petersburg scenes of the sequel to his hit film "L'auberge espagnole," or "Euro Pudding" (2002) in the city last week - and took time out to explain why he chose Russia as one of the locations for the new film. |
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 Russian history is littered with towns which at one time or another seemed set firmly on the path to greatness, but for one reason or another never fulfilled their potential. |
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Turkish Crash Kills 6 GEBZE, Turkey (AFP) - At least six people were killed and 85 injured when two trains collided head-on Wednesday near Istanbul in northwestern Turkey, according to a crisis cell set up to deal with the incident. Of those injured, 27 remained in hospital, the Anatolia news agency quoted the crisis cell as saying, following the second major rail accident in Turkey in three weeks. |
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