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MOSCOW — Russia has broadened the authority of the Federal Security Service, the KGB’s main successor agency, giving it Soviet-style repressive powers in a move critics say could be used to stifle protests and intimidate government opponents. Russian ... |
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 MOSCOW — President Dmitry Medvedev has ordered Prosecutor General Yury Chaika to investigate possible Kremlin corruption linked to the 2014 Sochi Olympics ... |
 Ten British schoolchildren visited St. Petersburg this week as part of a program for budding artists organized by British portrait painter Alexander Talbot Rice. The artists have been attending lectures and anatomy classes at the Repin Institute of Arts ... |
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MOSCOW — A Far East court has banned YouTube and four other web sites for “extremist” content in a ruling that promises to raise new worries about free ... |
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The internationally renowned Spanish choreographer Nacho Duato has been appointed creative director of the Mikhailovsky Theater ballet troupe. He was previously at the helm of the National Spanish Dance Company. “Once Duato said he was giving up that job, he was invited to take charge of four or five ... |
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MOSCOW — A brawl at a youth camp near the site of the 2014 Winter Olympics has turned into an ethnically charged battle pitting Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov against Krasnodar Governor Alexander Tkachyov. What exactly happened on Sunday night at the Don camp in the Krasnodar region’s Tuapse district remains a matter of dispute, but the incident serves as an embarrassment for Tkachyov, who is overseeing preparations for the Sochi games. Prosecutors said the fight broke out after a deputy camp director saw three Chechen campers arguing with a 14-year-old girl from the Rostov region and asked them to back off. Fists started flying, and the deputy director, Boris Usoltsev, suffered a broken nose and an injured leg, the Prosecutor General’s Office said in a statement. A Chechen adult supervising the Chechen teens at the camp joined in the melee, the statement said. Then, a few hours later, a throng of unidentified people arrived at the camp and initiated a clash with the Chechen campers, it said. Three people were hospitalized — Usoltsev, a Chechen teen and a local resident ... |
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German soldiers at the Sologubovka Cemetery, 80 kilometers east of St. Petersburg, fill in the graves of German World War II soldiers discovered in the Leningrad Oblast during recent searches. The cemetery celebrates its 10th anniversary on Sunday. |
 MOSCOW — A Moscow region court ruled Wednesday that an amateur poet crossed the line between art and crime by turning a youth commune into an illegal militant group and abusing several of its members. But Yulia Privedennaya, 34, who was handed a 4 1/2-year suspended sentence, said the commune’s goal was only to educate the young through poetry. Privedennaya ...
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MOSCOW — Two men from the Perm region were sentenced Wednesday to jail terms for holding 11 homeless people captive for up to five years at a scrap metal processing plant and plying them with alcohol in lieu of salaries, prosecutors said. A jury convicted ... |
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MOSCOW — Russians think that public relations jobs are prestigious and profitable, but immoral, and do not want their own children to take up the line ... |
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 The opening of the first Starbucks coffee shop in St. Petersburg has been postponed by two years, while its fellow popular American cafe chain Cinnabon is due to open two outlets in the city this fall. “Now I can say for certain that a Starbucks cafe ... |
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 St. Petersburg’s Pulkovo Airport is financing its expansion at almost twice the average cost for similar projects in emerging markets through the country’s ... |
 MOSCOW — Former TNK-BP chief Robert Dudley, forced from the post in 2008, will take the helm at BP in October, while outgoing CEO Tony Hayward will be nominated for a board seat at Russia’s third-largest oil producer, BP said Tuesday. Both the Russian ... |
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 MOSCOW — Russia’s worst drought in a decade will probably generate losses for bondholders as food prices rise and the government may be pushed to tap debt ... |
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 As BP CEO Tony Hayward clears his desk from St. James’s Square in London, Robert Dudley is getting ready to take his place, effective Oct. 1. The rationale is clear: BP wants an American to take care of its U.S. assets. But in the end, this could prove ... |
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During his visit to Ukraine on Saturday, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin told journalists that he met with the 10 Russian “illegals” — who pleaded guilty ... |
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 VILLERS-AU-TERTRE, France — A French woman who admitted to suffocating eight of her newborns and concealing their corpses in the garden and garage of her home has been charged with manslaughter, a prosecutor said Thursday. Dominique Cottrez, a 46-year-old ... |
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BARCELONA, Spain — Lawmakers in the region of Catalonia thrust a sword deep into Spain’s centuries-old tradition of bullfighting, banning the blood-soaked ... |
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COOKE CITY, Montana — A woman who was attacked by a bear in the middle of the night at a busy campground was bitten on her arm and leg before she instinctively played dead so the animal would leave her alone, she said Thursday. At least one bear rampaged ... |
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ISLAMABAD — Relatives desperate to find the bodies of loved ones joined emergency teams Thursday at the scene of Pakistan’s worst-ever plane crash, but ... |
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 The artistic life of St. Petersburg is not losing ground, even during the summertime. New exhibitions of modern art are currently on display at 5 Etazh studio, Art re.Flex gallery and Al Gallery. At the 5 Etazh (Five Floors) studio, an art photography exhibition titled “On the verge of reality” has opened in conjunction with the KOPPA advertising agency and photo center. “Originally we had an idea to organize a series of exhibitions,” said Yulia Povorotnaya, head of the KOPPA advertising agency. “For the initial exhibition, we have chosen the genre of artistic photography because it seemed the most interesting today.” Thirteen photographers are taking part in the project, including two artists from Belarus and the participants of the first Russian Museum Biennial, Arseny Semyonov and Pavel Kuznetsov. The exhibition will run through Aug. 6. Meanwhile, the Art re.Flex gallery presents the first individual exhibition by young artist Natalya Rumyantseva, titled “Dreams of a diver.” Rumyantseva graduated from the Academy of Arts and now works in the field of abstract painting. The current exhibition shows a series of works devoted to diving. “The artist herself does not dive for a hobby,” says Anastasiya Lesnikova, the project’s curator. “She is playing in an imaginary world, where divers plunge into painting.” In addition to painting, video works titled “The cult of the ocean” will be introduced at the exhibition in order to create a unique marine atmosphere, the curator said. The exhibition will run through Sept. 1. To mark the end of the season, Al Gallery has opened a combined exhibition of works presented during the year. Among them ... |
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The Boris Eifman Ballet Theater will perform its latest production, ‘Onegin. Online’ at the Alexandriinsky Theater on Friday. |
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Ðàé: paradise Goooood morning, Moscow! You’re listening to Radio TMT, and it’s time for the weather report. Looks like it’s going to be another beautiful day: temps in the 30s, clear blue skies and humidity at 33 percent. It’s another day in paradise! Wait a minute … How come weather that would be heavenly in New York or London is hellish in Moscow? ...
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 Choirs from around the world will flock to St. Petersburg this weekend for the Singing World international festival of choral art, which runs from Friday to Wednesday. Every year, professional and amateur choirs appear on the city’s leading stages, including ... |
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 Last week, President Dmitry Medvedev tweeted about a visit to Finland, the blast in a hydroelectric power station in Kabardino-Balkaria, oh and a rather ... |
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With attentive wait staff, a relaxed atmosphere, simple yet chic d?cor and an extensive menu offering a variety of classic Italian dishes, the owners of the old-standing favorite Da Albertone on Millionaya Ulitsa seem to have come up with another winner with this new offering on Zagorodny Prospekt — ... |
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