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MOSCOW - Two southbound airliners fell from the sky almost simultaneously Tuesday night after taking off from Moscow's Domodedovo Airport, killing all 89 people aboard and raising fears of a terrorist attack. The first plane, a Tu-134 jet operated by small regional carrier Volga-Aviaexpress, went off radar screens at 10:56 p. |
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MOSCOW - Flight recorders from two planes that crashed just three minutes apart Tuesday night are providing few clues to investigators but indicate "something happened very fast," a Kremlin representative said Thursday. |
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As Russia recovers from two plane crashes that are seen as likely caused by terrorists, St. Petersburg is facing a scandal centered upon a musical that became the center of world attention when Chechen terrorists captured the theater where it was being performed two years ago. "Nord-Ost," based on a 20th-century classic novel "The Two Captains" by Veniamin Kaverin, is a moving story about love, rivalry, justice and polar explorers. |
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Starting School Costly ST. PETERSBURG (SPT) - Parents must spend up to $100 to provide their children with all things they need to start studying in schools for their first year, Interfax reported Tuesday, quoting City Hall's economic development committee. Parents of girls spend about 3,500 rubles ($120) while boys' parents can expect to fork out 3,000 rubles ($103). The school year starts Wednesday. Consultation Promised ST. PETERSBURG (SPT) - City Hall won't make any decisions related to a construction project for an elite apartment bloc in Mikhailovsky Garden behind the Museum of Ethnography without public discussions, Interfax reported Tuesday, citing City Hall. |
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 More than six months after being sworn in as Germany's consul general in the Kaliningrad region, Cornelius Sommer is still operating from a hotel after repeated refusals to approve a building for his use as consulate general. |
 George Edgar, a career diplomat who has spent 20 years in Britain's Foreign Service, has arrived to head the British Consulate General in St. Petersburg. Edgar, whose last posting was for three years as Britain's ambassador to Macedonia, speaks Russian and has long-standing ties to the country, he said Thursday in an interview in his office near Smolny. |
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The Supreme Court has overruled a city court ruling and reinstated Alexander Morozov, a United Russia member, as the representative of the city's electoral district No. |
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GROZNY - Yakha Bisayeva, a 36-year-old Chechen refugee, did not want leave the relative safety of Nazran, Ingushetia, to go home to Grozny. But the unemployed mother of three reluctantly got in a gypsy cab this week to return in time for Sunday's presidential election. But the vote for to replace slain President Akhmad Kadyrov was not what brought her back. |
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 MOSCOW - AvtoVAZ, the maker of the clunky Ladas that ply the nation's pot-holed roads, unveiled a new line of modern-looking passenger cars at the 8th Moscow International Motor Show on Wednesday. AvtoVaz promised to bring the new full-length, manual transmission Priora sedan into mass production in 2006. |
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MOSCOW - With most provisions of the prime-time ban on beer ads taking effect in less than two weeks, confusion reigns over the impact the new law will have on the industry. |
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Over a decade after Finland became an easily accessible destination for many St. Petersburg residents, the demand for Finnish clothing continues to boom in the city, with St. Petersburg dealers being among the leading purchasers at the Helsinki International Fashion Fair held last weekend. |
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A total of 52 million rubles or $1.7 million will be transferred to the city budget by gas station operators Shell and Neste St. Petersburg, the winners of the first land leasing rights auction held by the city property committee on Wednesday. |
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TNK Donates $5.2M ST. PETERSBURG (SPT) - Oil major TNK BP has transferred 155 million rubles or $5.2 million to the city development fund for the reconstruction of the historical city cetner, Interfax reported Thursday. The announcement came from the governor's press office, adding that TNK BP will transfer an additional 25 million rubles before the end of the year. |
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The question of whether the two airliners that crashed Tuesday night killing all 89 people aboard were brought down by terrorists or some other cause is fast becoming a rhetorical one. The Federal Security Service says it has not uncovered any signs of an explosion in its examination of the wreckage and maintains that there is no evidence to suggest a terrorist attack. |
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This summer I have noticed a very positive development in the city that at first glance could be taken as a sign that St. Petersburg is getting close to matching the European standards that Governor Valentina Matviyenko has alluded to as the goal of her administration. |
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Russia has disgraced itself in Chechnya. Now it seems bent on disgracing itself in South Ossetia. The world community has never recognized the republic of South Ossetia, regarding it as Georgian territory. The fact that most residents of South Ossetia have been given Russian passports changes nothing. |
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 Dva Samaliota (the band's official English spelling), St. Petersburg's seminal 1990s band, is to play a concert to officially launch "Kar-Ra-Bas," its first album in four years. Behind the album is the long history of difficult relations with a Moscow production team and a tragedy when Vadik Pokrovsky, the band's singer and guitarist, died of a liver condition last September. Though released in late June, the bulk of the album was recorded in the spring of 2002 in a studio in the village of Gavrilkovo near Moscow after Dva Samaliota had signed a contract with a Moscow company, which the group describes as "profitable," while admitting that the band had to give away a lot of artistic control. |
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 In the week that U.S. Senator John McCain called Belarussian president Alexander Lukashenko a "dictator," the first post-Soviet independent film out of Belarus, "Mysterium Occupation," is showing in St. |
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"Coffee and Cigarettes," an off-beat film by Jim Jarmusch opens at the Avrora movie theater on Friday. The charming film, which the indie director made over 17 years, features all sorts of people that Jarmusch knows and has used in other films. |
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Usually, sequels of successful productions rarely live up to the high expectations set upon them - at least when it comes to the movie industry. However, sometimes the contrary can be the case, and "little brother" turns out to be even more successful than "big brother. |
 The Baltic Sea Festival, which was held for the second time in Stockholm last weekend, showcases classical music, highlights the Baltic identity and campaigns for the endangered marine environment. St. Petersburg's renowned Mariinsky Theater brought its acclaimed new production of Dmitry Shostakovich's "The Nose" to the Swedish capital to join Esa-Pekka Salonen, Manfred Honeck and the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and Choir in the festival, which is hoped to become one of the region's top classical music events in the future. |
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 More than a refresher stop on the Trans-Siberian train route, there is at least one good reason to visit the historically rich city of Yekaterinburg. As well as being the final place on earth where Russia's last Tsar, Nicholas II, stood and breathed, Yekaterinburg was during the Soviet era a closed military city - the scene of the famous U2 affair of 1960 when U. |
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Kakaya naglost`!: What a nerve! What gall! What cheek! H++"ÎÓÒÚ, is one of those tricky words. It's easy to spot, difficult to define and often miserable to translate. You know what it is when you see it. ç++"ÎÓÒÚ, is when the guy in the Mercedes 600 SL uses the nanosecond as you switch gears to zip in front of you. |
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Bush's Lawyer Resigns WASHINGTON (AP) - One of President George W. Bush's top lawyers resigned from his campaign Wednesday, a day after disclosing that he had given legal advice to a veterans group that has been airing TV ads challenging Democrat John Kerry's Vietnam War service. |
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ATHENS - China, guarding against complacency despite its strong showing, estimated Thursday that Russia could still win 20 more Olympic golds and grab second place in the Athens medals table. |
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WEEKEND HIGHLIGHTS HANDBALL - Croatia meets Hungary in Friday's semifinals, while Germany meets 2000 gold medal winner Russia. The final will be played Sunday. EQUESTRIAN - The Olympic equestrian competition ends Friday with medals at stake in individual show jumping. (Reuters) HOCKEY - Defending champions the Netherlands take on Australia in the men's final on Friday while Spain and Germany battle for bronze. |
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