Russian police clubbed and detained opposition protestors St. Petersburg on Sunday during a non-sanctioned rally against President Vladimir Putin, The Associated Press Reports.
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April 16, 2007Police have detained six suspects in last month’s bomb attack in a fast food McDonald’s restaurant in Russian city of St. Petersburg, RIA Novosti reported Thursday.
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March 22, 2007A court in California has sentenced two Soviet emigrants to death for kidnapping and brutally murdering five people, the RIA-Novosti news agency reported on Tuesday.
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March 14, 2007Magazine publisher Meredith Corp. will begin distributing a Russian-language edition of More magazine.
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March 6, 2007Russian police detained 50 protesters overnight as 5000 demonstrated in Saint Petersburg against President Vladimir Putin’s leadership.
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March 3, 2007Vietnam has urged Russia to continue hunting for those involved in the brutal murder of a Vietnamese student in St. Petersburg in 2004 after the Supreme Court recently acquitted all 17 charged in the case.
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March 2, 2007Russia’s oldest theater has installed equipment to block mobile phone signals in a desperate attempt to force patrons to stop taking calls during performances.
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One of Russia’s main zoos has closed down after the deaths of two geese sparked a bird flu scare, but a local health expert ruled this out as the cause of their deaths.
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December 19, 2006
One of Russia’s most respected cultural custodians yesterday urged gas giant OAO Gazprom to drop its plans to build a 300-metre-high skyscraper in St. Petersburg’s historic centre.
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November 28, 2006While Moscow is the country’s most attractive investment destination, St. Petersburg is the least risky, according to an annual study of potential and risk by Expert magazine published Monday. Moscow is still a “moderately risky” place to put your money, the study said.
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