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MOSCOW — Police have opened a software piracy investigation into the Russian branch of LG Electronics, in the first anti-piracy case against a major foreign company. Pirated software is widely used in companies and homes across the country, and the LG ... |
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 Despite Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s warning, hundreds more people than ever before took part in the banned pro-constitution demos in Moscow and St. ... |
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MOSCOW — Prime Minister Vladimir Putin dipped a careful toe into the heated and high-stakes battle for control of Russia’s largest miner on Tuesday, telling Norilsk Nickel’s warring shareholders during a visit to the plant that it paid unusually high ... |
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A new TV channel, 100-percent owned by the City Administration and titled “St. Petersburg” will begin its broadcasting on Oct. 10. Yuri Zinchuk, the channel’s ... |
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MOSCOW — The opposition’s attempts to stage rallies in Moscow and St. Petersburg got an unexpected boost this week when Russian emigrants took to the streets in several world capitals to express their solidarity. The 31st rallies, which took place in ... |
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A number of regions in the European section of Russia are now facing shortages in eggs that will in turn lead to significant price increases. The shortages ... |
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 An eight-story building that until recently housed the city’s main police investigation department partially collapsed on Wednesday. The building, located in the city center at 145 Ligovsky Prospekt was under repair and there were no people inside apart from four employees of a store located on the ground floor. One of the employees, a 23-year-old manager, received a light injury, Fontanka.ru reported. As the city’s emergency service feared that people could be under the debris, 12 emergency rescue teams were sent to search for them, the press service of the St. Petersburg Emergency Service said. As a result of the collapse, a large section of Ligovsky Prospekt was closed to give emergency and other services free access, causing substantial traffic jams. The residents of the neighboring building were evacuated, the press service said. According to preliminary investigations, the collapse was caused by the dismantling of safes that previously belonged to the investigation department, Fontanka.ru reported. On Monday the safes were dismantled, and on Tuesday cracks ... |
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Participants attend the Russian Territory - Digital Space conference at the Presidential Library on Senate Square on Wednesday. From Sept. 1, the Russian Territory collection of books, maps, atlases and photographs can be accessed for free on www.prlib.ru. |
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MOSCOW — The state will not privatize stakes in its natural monopolies or defense firms next year, Economic Development Minister Elvira Nabiullina told reporters Tuesday in the latest sign of skittishness in the government to part with key assets. In late July, Nabiullina and Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin put together a list of 11 state-run companies ...
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MOSCOW — Masked intruders broke into the Moscow region branch of the Investigative Committee early Tuesday, rifling through 18 offices and cracking open 25 safes after tying up the sole security guard, investigators said. But the Investigative Committee’s ... |
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 MOSCOW — A mother of four who is pregnant with a fifth child has become a cause celebre after a court jailed her for three years even though it could have ... |
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MOSCOW — Coca-Cola, the world’s largest soft-drink maker, said Wednesday that it had acquired one of Russia’s biggest juice producers, Nidan Soki, as part of its plans to expand in the fast-growing market. The company bought a 75 percent stake in Nidan ... |
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MOSCOW — A Moscow court awarded 5 million rubles, or $160,000, in damages to Knauf in a case against a counterfeiter, the German building materials manufacturer ... |
 MOSCOW — Aeroflot has filed a lawsuit against the Moscow city government, seeking compensation for losses caused by a days-long traffic logjam on a highway leading to Sheremetyevo Airport, court documents showed Wednesday. City Hall denied any wrongdoing. Traffic ... |
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MOSCOW — The government may sell more than 35 percent of VTB to bring its stake in the bank to just over 50 percent, Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin said ... |
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 This summer has been one of weather-related extremes in Russia, Pakistan, China, Europe, the Arctic — you name it. But does this have anything to do with global warming, and are human emissions to blame? While it cannot be scientifically proven — or disproven, ... |
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Moscow’s horrendous daily traffic jams and this summer’s wildfires have something in common: The roots of both of these problems can be found in the government’s ... |
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 WASHINGTON — Israeli and Palestinian leaders are set to resume direct talks on Thursday, seeking to clinch an elusive peace deal for the Middle East within a year against a backdrop of renewed violence. As Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and ... |
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THATTA, Pakistan — Relief efforts in flood-ravaged Pakistan are being stretched by the “unprecedented scale” of the disaster, with the flow of international ... |
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RALEIGH, North Carolina —Tens of thousands of people were ordered to evacuate North Carolina’s barrier islands as Hurricane Earl closed in on a large part of the US east coast on Thursday. The strongest Atlantic storm of 2010 was on course to lash the ... |
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SYDNEY — Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard won the support of a key independent MP on Thursday, leaving her close to breaking the worst political ... |
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 The history of the “Dream Factory” takes center stage at this year’s Open Cinema international short film festival which kicks off at the Dom Kino cinema on Friday. Open Cinema, arguably Russia’s premiere short film and animation event, is celebrating Hollywood’s 100th anniversary with a string of exciting offerings, from the screening of D.W. Griffith’s movie “In Old California” (1910), which was shot in the north-west of Los Angeles, to a thrilling photographic exhibition showcasing more than twenty images of Hollywood icons such as Humphrey Bogart and Marilyn Monroe. The display, which opened on Sept. 2 at the Mikhail Shemyakin Foundation, can be seen until Sept. 12. The Hollywood anniversary has influenced the whole concept and style of this year’s rendition of Open Cinema. According to the festival’s ideologists, Open Cinema-2010 is rolling back the decades and exploring the connections between classical cinema and new forms of cinema art. For the first time in its history, the festival has joined forces with the U.S.’s Turner Classic Movies (TCM) TV Channel which boasts more than 5,000 American and European films in its extensive Classic Movies collection, covering a vast period from Hollywood’s Golden age up to the end of the 20th century. But there are more than well-known masterworks on offer. The channel will also present a program that incorporates a series of unique documentaries and rare interviews with some of the founders of the Hollywood industry and the most important figures in its history. Founded in 2004, Open Cinema traditionally features open-air concerts and film-screenings for the general public on the beach of the Peter and Paul Fortress. The ... |
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‘Squirrels’ painted by Anya Abelit, one of a series of images released by the Pavlovsk Museum to mark Pavlovsk Squirrel Day, which it celebrates on Sunday. |
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Ìîëíèÿ: a lightning bolt, a news flash, a zipper Everyone knows that during a thunderstorm, you wait for a bolt of lightning (ìîëíèÿ) and then count the seconds until you hear the clap of thunder (ãðîì). If you’re in Russia and there are five seconds between light and sound, the storm is five kilometers away. If you’re in the United States, the storm ...
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 Every night, TNT airs a show called “Sex With Anfisa Chekhova,” whose curvaceous host promises that she knows “everything about sex.” In a show this week, a man confessed to replacing his wife with a rubber doll, a stripper called Cleopatra took a barking ... |
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Many of St. Petersburg’s restaurant owners have the curious habit of mixing various kinds of cuisines in their establishments. Combinations such as Chinese ... |
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