St. Petersburg Journal: Russian Window on the West Reaches for the Sky
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An international design competition for a new tower in St. Petersburg has drawn protests from critics who say the project will kill the city.
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Spain is ceding to Russia the dome cross of St. Sophia s Cathedral at Novgorod the Great.
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Nobel laureate Alexander Solzhenitsyn has accused the West of trying to ignore and sideline Russia.
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With credit comes a credit history, and Russia's booming consumer lending sector saw the first high-profile arrival of a Western credit agency on Tuesday.
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Historic warplanes buzzed over an airfield outside Moscow on Friday in Russia's first vintage aircraft show, attracting aviation enthusiasts from several European nations, World War II veterans and thousands of spectators. Aircrews from Austria, Belgium and the Czech Republic flew planes from the past century to the Monino airfield northeast of the capital for the Flying Legend air show marking Russia's Air Force Day.
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The fight against terror was supposed to unite Russia and the West, pounding the last nail into the coffin of the Cold War. But three years after the Sept. 11 attacks, a series of stunning assaults on Russia has pried the lid open, prompting angry accusations that the West is hindering Moscow's battle against terrorists &#151; and dark suggestions that it may even be aiding them.
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The Museum of Modern Artâs show is a touching, sometimes melancholy portrayal of Russiaâs architectural ferment and the brutality with which it was ultimately suppressed.
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Off-colour language by young Russians is proving a money-spinner for authorities in a southern region.
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For several months now, South Floridian early birds have been treated to a lovely sight above the eastern morning horizon before sunrise.
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ST PETERSBURG, Russia  - Artist and photographer Ivan Ushkov takes dark pictures that set out to puncture the glossy image of Russia that the country's leaders try to project.
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WASHINGTON For once, the West has found something to unite on and rally around. Ukraine's election was a transparent fraud engineered by Moscow, a masquerade of holdover bureaucrats from the old communist ...
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MOSCOW -- When a hostage-taking at a school in southern Russia erupted in explosions last month, viewers who rushed to turn on state-run Channel 1 were treated to a film, ''Lady with a Parrot.&quot; They wouldn't have fared much better on Channel 2, which stuck to a travelogue.
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During the next week, a wayward U.S. spy satellite will make passes across North America and western Europe soon after sunset and should be easily visible to the unaided eye.
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Steven Theede, chief executive of the Russian oil company Yukos, sadly observed during a visit to Washington last week that most Western investors had convinced themselves that the persecution
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By Roy A. Bahls, The Virginian-Pilot, Norfolk, Va.  Dec. 15--Weather permitting, local sky watchers are in for some prime viewing of the international space station and space shuttle Discovery as they streak overhead.   Sightings of the ISS and shuttle can be had about 6:04 p.m.
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SOCHI, Russia  - It takes more than a little imagination to see this Russian ski resort in the same bracket as St. Moritz or Aspen.
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ST PETERSBURG, Russia  - A plan by Russian gas giant Gazprom to build a skyscraper in historic St Petersburg is an object lesson in how power and influence work in Vladimir Putin's Russia.