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    The Atlantic - Thursday 23rd May, 2013

    A Russian policeman guards a protest rally in central Moscow October 30, 2005. (Sergei Karpukhin/Reuters) Last week, Russia expelled an American diplomat, accusing him of being a spy for the CIA. Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) said that U.S. Embassy Third Secretary Ryan Fogle had been caught red-handed with disguises, spy equipment, and wads of cash, trying to recruit a Russian ...

  • Minority Holders Mull Suing Former TNK-BP Management

    The Moscow Times - Thursday 23rd May, 2013

    Minority shareholders are considering suing the former management of TNK-BP in an attempt to recover the dividends earned by their shares prior to March 21, ...

  • Russias top military officer skeptical about further nuclear arms cuts

    Canada.com - Thursday 23rd May, 2013

    Gen. Valery Gerasimov, the chief of the Russian military's General Staff, speaks during a security conference in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, May 23, 2013. The top Russian military officer has warned the West that Moscow reserves the right to take steps in response to the U.S.-led NATO missile defense plans for Europe if it sees it as a threat. (AP Photo/Mikhail ...

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  • New business centre in St Petersburg remains contraversial

    Okhta Centre has become one of the most contentious development projects in all of Russia. It is a project that offers St Petersburg two options that can’t be matched, either to embrace the modern world and allow a world-class business centre to be built, or maintain the city’s historic skyline, architecture and reputation as a major tourist destination with huge historical significance.

    Before 2007, Okhta Centre was called Gazprom City and was promoted as such in Russian and St Petersburg news media, but from the start the project was a contentious issue, due primarily to the fact that the development calls for a massive tower to be built in its centre, a tower that will be the tallest in Europe and one of the largest in the world. Read more

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  • Any city that has changed its name three times in less than 100 years might appear to have an identity crisis. And so it does, but St. Petersburg's upheavals mirror that of its mother country. It frequently took center stage in the drama that was Russia in the 20th century, not to mention the tumultuous centuries that came before. The names of its places and people are almost a roll call of Russian history: the Winter Palace, the czars, Dostoyevsky, the Peter and Paul Fortress, Tchaikovsky, Lenin. The city remains essential for visitors who want to understand what came before and what's happening in the country now. As the city celebrates its 300th anniversary in 2003, travelers will find much of interest on the streets and canals of Russia's most beloved and stylish city.

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