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German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder and his wife, Doris Schroeder-Koepf, have adopted a 3-year-old girl from St. Petersburg. Germany's first couple adopted the girl, Viktoria, several weeks ago from an orphanage in President Vladimir Putin's hometown, and the girl is living with the family at their home in Hannover, German newspapers Bild and Sueddeutsche Zeitung reported Tuesday. |
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Foreigners whose bankcards are stolen in St. Petersburg can face huge financial losses and may find no sympathy from banks or the police as they attempt to get their money back if their card was used before the owner canceled it. |
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Construction cranes that tower above a kindergarten and two schools - that's what residents of Granitnaya Ulitsa in the Malaya Okhta district have to put up with even though the city prosecutor's office has ordered that the in-fill construction development should be suspended, a residents' action group said Wednesday. |
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MOSCOW - The Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld Igor Sutyagin's conviction to 15 years in prison on espionage charges in a case that human rights advocates called a miscarriage of justice and part of an FSB campaign to intimidate academics. A Moscow City Court jury found Sutyagin, an arms control researcher at the respected USA and Canada Institute, guilty of treason in April for selling information on nuclear submarines and missile warning systems to a British company that the Federal Security Service, or FSB, claimed was a CIA cover. |
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Law enforcement officials say they expect Belgium authorities to hand over Pavel Stekhnovsky, who is suspected of playing a role in the 1998 assassination of the State Duma Deputy Galina Starovoitova, Interfax reported Wednesday. |
 KANDALAKSHA, Murmansk region - Part of a charity project that started in 2000 came to its completion Sunday when an SOS Children's Village was formally opened in Kandalaksha in the Murmansk region. The Norwegian Broadcasting Corp.'s annual television appeal in 2000 raised $17 million in just one day for SOS Children's Villages in Norway. |
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Moscow collector Vladimir Logvinenko, whose possession of the Rubens painting "Tarquin and Lucretia" has led to charges from German prosecutors of illegal procurement, says he may give it to Germany. |
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7 Face Murder Charges MOSCOW (SPT) - Seven suspects have been charged with being involved in the murder of Khursheda Sultanova, 9, in the center of St. Petersburg in February, Interfax reported Tuesday quoting the federal criminal police. "Three of the suspects have been detained, four others signed declarations that they will not leave the city during the investigation," Interfax cited Yury Demidov, deputy head of the federal criminal police, as saying. |
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 MOSCOW - Children's author Eduard Uspensky, the creator of the beloved Cheburashka character, has fired off an angry letter to the Russian Olympics Committee and a fashion retailer after Cheburashka plush toys wearing Olympics outfits hit Moscow store shelves for 50 euros (about 1,800 rubles) apiece. |
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Smolny will begin allocating funds from the city budget as state guarantees on investment projects. Legal entities with practical work experience of over three years and no city budget liabilities will be eligible for state guarantees, the city government's press service reported Tuesday. |
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MOSCOW - China said it would foot the bill of Yukos shipments to its oil-thirsty economy Wednesday, but investors seemed unimpressed by the announcement, letting shares in the besieged company drop 12 percent. The shares rose insignificantly Thursday, with trading volumes remaining low in the wait of further developments. |
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Finns Get a Go Ahead ST. PETERSBURG (SPT) - The federal anti-monopoly service or FAS approved the request of Finnish Fortum Power and Heat Oy to buy an additional 8. |
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TBILISI, Georgia - Not long ago, the people of Georgia launched a bold and uncertain experiment. After years of decline and chronic lawlessness, they stood up last fall to defend their democracy in what has since been called the "Rose Revolution. |
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While accusing the Baltic States of practicing double standards in their interpretations of their relations with the Soviet Union, Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov showed his own double standard when answering questions relating to contemporary politics last weekend. |
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 MOSCOW - Russia may still be seen as a haven for burnt-out Western rockers, but the arrival of Scissor Sisters, New York's latest music sensation and, as the New Musical Express puts it, "the coolest band on the face of the planet," is a step in the right direction. |
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After almost a year of legal battles St. Petersburg cartoonist Oleg Kuvayev, creator of once highly-popular cyber cartoon girl Masyanya, has successfully secured the copyright of the character. |
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St. Petersburg and Moscow are rivals, no doubt, but even if the former claims it has better bands, it doesn't always win the big gigs. A local promoter said he had declined the offer to promote the Scissor Sisters' show in St. Petersburg due to the fact that now is a "dead season. |
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Fasol, with its low large windows, allowing those passing by to peep in and see those eating, has been attracting our attention since ealier this summer when it opened on Gorokhovaya Ulitsa. |
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A major U.S. music festival stirs up old debates about a Soviet composer's true musical identity Leon Trotsky once wrote that anyone with a hankering for the quiet life had made a mistake to be born in the 20th century. For some public figures who made that mistake, the 21st century has been no more tranquil. One such person is Dmitry Shostakovich, whose life and output have once again become the subject of heated debate in anticipation of his centennial in 2006. It's a debate that began at the height of the Cold War and that is marked to this day with the cultural deceptions, false impressions and hidden agendas of those times. This week the Bard Music Festival (BMF) in upstate New York is re-airing those tensions with a three-week program of concerts and talks as the polarized American musical community tries to get to the heart of the composer's identity. |
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 A special exhibition devoted to Paul I, Russia's most ambiguous tsar, opened in Manezh on Wednesday, marking 250 years since the monarch's birth. It is the first major display of artwork, documents, books and clothes put together to mark Paul's life (1754-1801) and has been put together from various collections, including those at the royal palaces of Pavlovsk and Gatchina, the Artillery Museum, Moscow's Tretyakov Gallery, and the State Russian Museum, as well as a number of libraries and archives. |
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The light-hearted harmonies of barbershop singing can once again be heard in St. Petersburg this week as the Fifth International Festival "Barbershop Harmony" kicks off on Aug. 19th at the Glazunov Hall of the St. Petersburg Conservatory, featuring performances by American and Russian quartets and choirs. |
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Aziz Wins Bi-Elections FATEH JANG, Pakistan (AP) - Pakistan's finance minister took an important step toward becoming the new prime minister by easily winning two bi-elections that give him a seat in parliament that is a prerequisite for the post, state-run television reported Thursday. |
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FENCING - There was blood on the carpet in the Olympic fencing hall Thursday as Frenchman Damien Touya had his right hand sliced open during the climax of the men's sabre team semifinal against the United States. |
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