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MOSCOW — One of Russia's biggest female ballet stars is leaving her full time job at a SaintPetersburg theatre to join London's Royal Ballet, in the latest of a string of convulsions to hit theRussian dance world. Natalia Osipova told a Russian ...
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Philips and Optogan JV begins LED luminaire production in St Petersburg
Semiconductor Today
Saint Petersburg governor Georgy Poltavchenko and Anatoly Chubais, CEO & chairman of RUSNANO (Russian Corporation of Nanotechnologies, a sovereign investment corporation based in Moscow, Russia), visited the St Petersburg site of LED chip and ...
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Election monitoring group becomes first target of new Russian NGO law
Bellona
But Golos, which revealed widespread vote fraud during Russia's December 2011 Duma poll – sparking months of street protests in Moscow, St. Petersburg and other major Russian cities – has been under special scrutiny from the Kremlin, and on Tuesday ...
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Top Russian official held in $13 mn fraud case
TwoCircles.net
Moscow: The director of the Central Naval Museum in Russia's St. Petersburg city has been arrested as part of an investigation into a $13 million fraud, the Investigative Committee said. This is the latest corruption scandal surrounding the defence ...
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Soccer-Zenit beat Lokomotiv to close gap on leaders CSKA Moscow
Yahoo! Sports
MOSCOW, April 13 (Reuters) - An early goal by Viktor Faizulin propelled champions Zenit StPetersburg to a 1-0 win at Lokomotiv Moscow on Saturday as they stayed in the hunt for theRussian league title. Russia midfielder Faizulin fired in a rebound in ...
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Mark Knopfler Cancels Russian Concerts After Government Crackdown on ...
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Mark Knopfler has canceled a pair of upcoming concerts in Russia because of some recent incidents in which that country's government reportedly harassed Amnesty International and other human-rights organizations. The shows, which had been ... “Given ...
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Mark Knopfler Protests Human Rights In Russia By Canceling Gigs There
RTT News
Mark Knopfler will not be playing in Russia following his cancellation of upcoming gigs in Moscow and St. Petersburg. The former Dire Straits frontman has nixed hisRussian shows based on his disagreement with the Russian government's recent ...
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Russian reporter dies five years after savage beating
Chicago Tribune
"The culprits have not been found and now we can honestly say these people were murderers," said Yevgenia Chirikova, an activist who campaigned with Beketov against plans to build a highway between Moscow and St. Petersburg through a forest. Beketov ...
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Opinion: Russia's underachieving economy
Montreal Gazette
Most of Russia's commerce happens at its capital — Moscow, which was also the first destination of our trip. We met ... After spending six days in the political, business and power centre of Moscow, we travelled by a Soviet style night train to St ...
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Montreal Gazette
Russia's Creative Revolutionaries Would Like the Whole Country to Resemble ...
In the Air, Art+Auction's Gossip Column (blog)
The Guardian has a long piece this week about Russia's “creative revolution,” which sounds more or less like and invasion of the hipster sensibility, developing both in the country's traditional cultural hubs, St. Petersburg and Moscow, as well as ...
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Opinion: Algirdas Butkevičius drew a clear line in Moscow
LithuaniaTribune
On the contrary, the talks in Saint Petersburg demonstrated that very difficult negotiations with Russia are awaiting Lithuania. After all, Moscow expressly implied having a new priority in the relations with our country, i.e. the issue of gas transit ...
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Nearly 400 People Detained in Immigration Raid in Russia
New York Times
Published: April 11, 2013. MOSCOW — Russian security services and immigration police raided a market in the center of St. Petersburg on Thursday and detained 378 people, many of them migrants from Central Asia and the mainly Muslim North Caucasus.
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Russia's airline company launches charity projects for children
BSR Russia
The cartoon Sonya made was drawn by children undergoing cancer treatment in Moscow and St.Petersburg clinics. Yet there is nothing in those colourful episodes of the Brief History of Aviation project to suggest the authors are ill. The videos tell ...
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Bemused Vladimir Putin and Angela Merkel confronted by topless Femen ...
Telegraph.co.uk
The Russian president was confronted by a topless protester with an obscene slogan insulting Mr Putin painted on her back - and, he admitted, he “liked” it. Mr Putin was with German Chancellor Angela Merkel at at a ... Relations between Russia and ...
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Telegraph.co.uk
Activists in Russia angry after journalist attacked in '08 dies
China Post
He connected the repeated attempts on his life to the local authorities, who had lobbied for theMoscow-Saint Petersburg highway project. “Nobody is trying to find those who attacked him with baseball bats,” the head of Russia's Glasnost Defence ...
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Fury as Russian Khimki forest journalist Beketov mourned
BBC News
The newspaper was the first to raise the issue of illegal felling of trees in Khimki forest - a protected area - and other violations which accompanied construction of theMoscow-St Petersburg highway. The controversial project, backed by the Russian ...
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Model Vodianova honored by Diller-von Furstenberg foundation for philanthropy ...
Washington Post
It has now grown to 90 play parks in 68 Russian towns. “I conduct most of my fundraising in the fashion industry. It's very international, and we have a lot of events outside of Russia, and even those in Moscow or St. Petersburg bring international ...
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