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GROZNY - Kremlin-favored candidate Alu Alkhanov won 74 percent of the vote in Chechnya's presidential election, election officials said Monday, amid reports of widespread vote rigging from independent monitors. Chechen Interior Minister Alkhanov, 47, replaces Kremlin-backed President Akhmad Kadyrov, who was assassinated in a bomb attack in May. |
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STOCKHOLM - The youngest sea on the planet, the Baltic Sea, is also one of the most polluted in the world. This year all countries around it, except Russia, have appealed to the International Maritime Organization to grant the Baltic the official status of a particularly sensitive sea area, or PSSA, so that they can join forces in tackling environmental threats in the region. |
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A small paper has found itself in big trouble for demanding that President Vladimir Putin do his job as guarantor of the constitution. The staff of St. Petersburg weekly Konsyerzh have come under pressure from the local administration after it organized a petition of city media organizations against rampant in-fill construction and sent it to Putin. |
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Trophy Art Set Free MOSCOW (SPT) - A 400-year-old painting by Flemish master Peter Paul Rubens that had been held in a Moscow museum while the Prosecutor's Office decided if it could be legally handed back to Germany has been released to its owner after finding it was legally purchased, Interfax reported Friday, quoting Vladimir Logvinenko, a businessman and art collector. |
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MOSCOW - After analyzing flight recorders and the debris from two planes that crashed almost simultaneously last week, investigators concluded Monday that the planes had been blown up in a terrorist attack and had not been hijacked first. |
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The producers of the ill-fated Russian musical "Nord-Ost" sent an open letter to Governor Valentina Matvienko on Friday in a desperate move asking her to let the show be staged at the city's Music Hall. A City Hall commission declared Thursday that the Music Hall stage is too fragile to host the production's massive sets, although preparations had been underway to use the hall for several months. |
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This weekend, two managers of St. Petersburg's central drug clinic were the targets of bomb attacks organized by unidentified criminals that resulted in the death of one of them, Interfax reported Monday, quoting the city police. |
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MOSCOW - The Foreign Ministry said Friday that it has pulled out of talks with Georgia over disputes in separatist Georgian regions due to days of loud and abusive protests outside the Russian Embassy in Tbilisi. The nonstop protest, organized more than a week ago by a group of Georgian computer programmers and Internet users, is calling for the withdrawal of Russian peacekeepers from breakaway Georgian regions, South Ossetia and Abkhazia. |
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MOSCOW - President Vladimir Putin signed into federal law has signed a key piece of legislature on social benefits reform that will replace Soviet-era non-monetary benefits with cash payment next year. |
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MOSCOW - Following two near-simultaneous plane crashes, airports across the country reported Wednesday that they were tightening security, yet both airport and airline officials complained that there are no clear laws on how they should combat terrorism and other threats. |
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MOSCOW - As the nation observed a day of mourning for the 89 victims in Tuesday's dual plane crashes, the travel industry on Thursday barely registered a change in people's willingness to fly. |
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MOSCOW - The Russian saying "God takes care of the intoxicated" proved to be all too true in the case of six passengers who did not board the Sibir Tu-154 jet that crashed Tuesday night. Of the 44 passengers who booked reservations to Sochi, six did not take their seats after airport security guards barred the group from boarding, according to media reports. Several in the group drank heavily while waiting for the flight. Domodedovo Airport spokesman Igor Tikhomirov said Thursday that he had been instructed by airport directors not to provide any information other than "they registered, checked in their luggage, came late when boarding was closed and their luggage was taken off the plane. |
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 MOSCOW - As the Iron Curtain began to fall, Igor Dzhadan left the Soviet Union with his family, bound for Israel and a long-forbidden opportunity. Dzhadan was luckier than most of the 11,000 Soviet doctors who rushed to Israel around the same time, 1990, under Israel's Law of Return. |
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Newcomers to Russia in need of quick answers to frequently asked questions can now turn to a new book in English, "Foreigner in Russia: 100 Questions and Answers." The book by Sergei Melnikov and Anatoly Bolsunovsky is published by Vash Poverenny, or Your Attorney, a Moscow-based group of consulting companies. "Foreigner in Russia," attempts to answer a wide range of questions in only 62 pages. The books assumes that readers have little or no knowledge of Russia, with initial questions such as "What is Russia?" and "What is its political structure?" The book focuses on legal issues, answering questions about clearing customs, obtaining visas, registering with the police and obtaining work and residence permits. |
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 MOSCOW - When political life starts to seem painfully dull, many of the city's politically conscious head to the imaginary world of www.vladimir.vladimirovich. |
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MOSCOW - The editor of a controversial web site that claims to battle corruption was convicted of extortion and sentenced to 7 1/2 years in prison Thursday. Yulia Pelekhova, a former journalist for the tabloid Versia and the editor of Dossie.ru, plans to appeal the ruling by the Tverskoi District Court. |
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Smolny is reaching deep into its reserves to increase the city budget revenue, which Governor Valentina Matviyenko promised to double this year. To make the set mark, the city will sell its remaining shares in 65 local companies and convert 76 state-controlled governmental unitary enterprises, or GUPs, into joint-stock companies, which will allow for better management of the enterprises, the city property committee said Monday. The joint-stock companies the city plans to sell off include: Piterstroi - which the city government owns outright; Skanska St. Petersburg Development - a company with a 50-percent city share, Dinamo - a football club with a 26-percent city share; and Sankt-Peterburgskiye Vedomosti - a newspaper with 25-percent city ownership, Interfax reported last week. |
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 A new extended international terminal opened to passengers today at Helsinki-Vantaa, Finland's largest airport. The extension, which covers an area of 6,000 square meters, includes a range of new passenger and border facilities and has increased the airport's passenger capacity by one-fifth - from 12 million passengers to 15 million, the airport's press release said. |
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Arms Ready for Iraq Sale MOSCOW (AP) - President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree permitting Russian organizations to sell weapons and military equipment to Iraq's provisional government, the Kremlin said Monday. The order posted on the Putin administration web site says that under the June U. |
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A recent change in the VAT system placed serious limitations on reclaiming tax credits. Published in July, the Russian Federation Constitutional Court Determination No. |
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Over the last few years there has been a gradual investment growth in commercial real estate development in St. Petersburg. The numbers of modern office centers, shopping malls, hotels, hyper-markets, bowling clubs and fitness centers have increased in the city's center and its outskirts. In general, the increase of investment activity on the real estate market is due to the development of Russian investment companies and banks that have accumulated large monetary resources and the growing interest of Western developers, banks and investment funds. RETAIL REAL ESTATE In 2003 and the first half of 2004, there has been over 20 new retail outlets opened, each with a total area of over 10,000 square meters. |
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 As a child, Henrik Lax, the Finnish European Parliament deputy, believed that the world ended at the shoreline of the Baltic Sea to the south of his country. |
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The reason why Russia's richest oligarch is sitting in jail is because he wanted Russia to become the new Saudi Arabia. President Vladimir Putin said he wants Russia to pursue a European economic model and prefers to focus on catching up with Portugal (until recently the poorest of the EU member states in per capita wealth). |
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It's no secret that Russia has a poor reputation for intellectual-property rights protection. To an extent, this reputation is justified, but not entirely. |
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In the spring of 1999, then-Prime Minister Yevgeny Primakov set off on an official visit to the United States. Over the mid-Atlantic, however, Primakov ordered his pilot to turn the plane around and return to Moscow. He canceled his visit to protest the bombing of Yugoslavia by the United States and its NATO allies. |
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I'm not a specialist in sport, but I was interested in the opinions of several acknowledged experts, who assert that the failures of the Russian team at the Olympic Games were due to problems of sport management in Russia. |
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Cry Havoc If you would know the hell that awaits us-and it is not far off-there's no need to consult ancient prophecies, or the intricate coils of hidden conspiracies, or the tortured arcana of high-credentialed experts. You need only read the public words, sworn before God, of top public officials, the great lords of state, the defenders of civilization, as they explain-clearly, openly, with confidence and pride-their plans to foment terror, rape, war and repression across the face of the Earth. |
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ATHENS - After 16 days of competition and 301 events, the United States finished atop the medal charts for the third straight Summer Olympics, with Russia the overall runner-up and China second in gold medals - its best showing ever and the leading edge of a surge by Asian teams. A late comeback saw Russia more than quadruple its gold medal count from a mere six on Tuesday to 27 on Sunday. |
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