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Alexandra Kachko, who is attempting to get a policeman whom she says fractured her wrist at a protest rally on May 31 identified and punished, said Thursday she was being pressured by an investigator to withdraw her complaint and testify that the fracture resulted from an �accident.�
The 25-year-old architect said the investigator told her she would �ruin the man�s life� and that she �didn�t know who it was anyway� when she was summoned for a second interview on Wednesday.
When Kachko refused to withdraw her complaint, the investigator said that he knew her boyfriend was a military officer with the Russian Space Forces, and that she had been fined for drinking champagne outdoors in 2005, she said.
�He probably wanted to intimidate me so that I would withdraw my complaint without making a fuss,� she said. �He also tried to pressure me to testify that it was an accident.�
According to Kachko, the investigator added sentences to her testimony stating that she was aware that the Strategy 31 campaign was founded by the oppositional politician Eduard Limonov and that she was committing an administrative offence by coming to the rally.
Kachko, who is a member of The Other Russia political party, said the investigator also suggested that it was the party that had made her file a complaint about the policeman�s actions.
�He does not intend to file a criminal case, and of course, it would be good for him if I drop it myself,� she said.
Kachko was detained at the rally and says her wrist was fractured when an unidentified policeman twisted it behind her back while she was being held in a police bus.
Kachko was then taken with the other detainees to a police precinct, from where she was taken by ambulance to hospital and diagnosed with a distal radius ... |
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Igor Tabakov / The St. Petersburg Times
The headquarters of Izvestia newspaper in downtown Moscow are pictured beside a monument to Alexander Pushkin. Journalists at Izvestia fear for their jobs after the newspaper�s publisher announced a shakeup aimed at making the publication more profitable. |
 The Investigative Committee will investigate the actions of an unidentified policeman who allegedly fractured the wrist of an activist during the Strategy 31 rally in defense of the right of assembly last week, its spokesman told Interfax on Friday.
Architect Alexandra Kachko, 25, known for her dissident street art, has filed a complaint about the ...
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Wedding tourism, yachts and camping are among the focal areas of a set of measures aimed at boosting tourism to St. Petersburg to eight million people a year during the next five years, up from about five million tourists last year.
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Murder in the Metro
ST. PETERSBURG (SPT) � A metro train operator shot his colleague dead in the St. Petersburg subway on Saturday.
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 The 12 most outstanding St. Petersburg residents were selected Sunday night on the stage of the city�s Mikhailovsky Theater.
The official awards ceremony was preceded by two months of voting on the Internet for St. Petersburg inhabitants who have made ... |
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 The 2011 National Bestseller (NatsBest) Award was given to author Dmitry Bykov on Sunday for his novel �Ostromov, or the Sorcerer�s Apprentice,� set in ... |
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A group of Dutch pediatricians visited the city this week to share knowledge and techniques with their Russian counterparts.
Five pediatricians from St. Petersburg and four from Murmansk met with a group of four specialists from the Dutch city of Groningen headed by Professor Pieter Sauer for a conference ... |
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 MOSCOW � A�fire, possibly sparked by�a discarded cigarette, engulfed a�Urals arms depot over the�weekend, injuring at�least 95 people and�prompting 2,000 others to�seek psychological help, officials said.
The�military said no one was killed in�the blaze, ... |
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MOSCOW � The�Communist and�Just Russia parties are creating organizations to�counter Prime Minister Vladimir Putin�s All-Russia People�s Front ahead of�State ... |
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MOSCOW � Russia is falling behind other BRIC economies in�global competitiveness and�growth, according to�The Russia Competitiveness Report 2011, released Monday by�the World Economic Forum.
The�country ranked 63rd out of�139 countries based on�the report�s ... |
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MOSCOW � A�human rights worker was hospitalized after being beaten up in�his apartment building, an�attack his employer said was linked to�his work, Reuters ... |
 MOSCOW � The�publisher of�Izvestia, once known as Russia�s New York Times, signaled Monday that two-thirds of�the newspaper�s journalists might face dismissal as he seeks to�turn the�publication into�something �cooler� than Kommersant and�Vedomosti.
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MOSCOW � EU and�Russian officials expressed hope Monday that a�dispute over Russia�s decision to�ban European vegetables amid an�E. coli outbreak in�Germany ... |
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MOSCOW � A�new visa agreement between Russia and�Europe�s Schengen zone could significantly reduce red tape and�travel restrictions by�next year � but only for�professionals, not tourists, a�European diplomat said Thursday.
The deal could cover lawmakers, ... |
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MOSCOW � State-controlled NTV television has aired a�lengthy report on�the luxury lifestyles of�officials implicated in�the case of�Hermitage Capital lawyer ... |
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 LONDON � Vasily Vereshchagin�s painting �The Taj Mahal, Evening� set a new record for the painter at Sotheby�s auction house on Sunday night when it was sold for $3,749,919.
The picture was sold to an anonymous buyer on the telephone, far surpassing ... |
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MOSCOW � St. Petersburg realtor Alex Romanenko has been elected president of the International Real Estate Federation, which unites 100 national real estate ... |
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Gazprom Neft is seeking approval to�build a�skyscraper on�the outskirts of�St. Petersburg, Bloomberg reported.
The move comes after the original plan to build the skyscraper in the city center was blocked by protests.
The project may be 15 percent to�25 ... |
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MOSCOW � The�best university in�the country remains Moscow State University, or MGU, but it�s not necessary to�come to�the capital to�get one of�the country�s ... |
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MOSCOW � Viable legislation for�lowering the�social tax burden on�companies, a�key part of�President Medvedev�s modernization agenda, has not been put forward by�the government, prompting suggestions of�a schism between the�White House and�the Kremlin.
The�June ... |
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 SOCHI�� Vladimir Yakunin seemed irked.
�No cherries, no tea?� he said. �Honestly, I can�t work like this.�
But Yakunin, president of�Russian Railways, ... |
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ASHGABAT, Turkmenistan � Turkish President Abdullah Gul met with his counterpart in Turkmenistan last week for urgent talks thought to be related to $1 billion in outstanding bills owed to Turkish construction companies that have revamped the capital city.
Turkish companies have played a leading role ... |
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 Pseudocyesis, or false pregnancy, is the psychological syndrome when a woman is convinced she is pregnant after experiencing similar symptoms that are associated with pregnancy.
Russia�s military hawks, who constantly warn that U.S. missile defense will ... |
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There is nothing very new about recruiting prominent cultural figures to take part in political advertising. It�s a tactic that was adopted long ago by ... |
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 Avant Fest, the music festival showcasing Russian and international indie rock held in Moscow since 2004, returns to St. Petersburg this year for one night only � called Avant Piter and headlined by British Sea Power � at Kosmonavt on Saturday, June 11.
Launched by the Moscow-based promoter Maxim Silva-Vega in 2004, the festival featured St. Petersburg events in 2004 and 2005 at the now-defunct Red Club and the Sergei Kuryokhin Modern Art Center, respectively. In 2005, Avant Piter was headlined by the British post-rock band Hood.
Held for the eighth year running, this year�s event will bring the Brighton-based indie rock band British Sea Power, which released its fourth studio album, �Valhalla Dancehall,� earlier this year.
Also performing will be Chinawoman, a Russian singer/songwriter from Toronto, whose work was influenced by Nico, Leonard Cohen and Marc Almond, as well as a vinyl record collection ... |
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AVANT
British sea power will headline the avant piter music festival this weekend. |
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A concert in support of Moscow music journalist and promoter Artyom Troitsky, now on trial for critical remarks made about a musician, had to switch venues from the Moscow House of Artists, where it had been scheduled to be held on Friday, June 10.
Eventually, another venue, a music club called Hleb, was found and, if it does not face similar problems, ...
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 With only 20 percent of Russians ever traveling abroad, notions of other cultures and peoples are often limited to impressions gained from television, books and magazines. The Magic Table project that opened Monday at the Pro Arte center in the Peter ... |
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Russian insults, ��������� is Zeus � the king of the bad guys. Like Zeus, ��������� is brutish and inhuman. But sometimes ��������� is like Zeus on drugs ... |
 Love it or hate it, public art has been a ubiquitous part of the urban landscape in cites around the world for decades. And despite a period in the 1980s and �90s when it came to be seen as overly decorative, or as a de facto stamp of approval for corporate ... |
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 Last weekend�s attempt to hold a gay pride event in Moscow was the usual truncated affair with protesters running the gauntlet of riot police, icon-brandishing ... |
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The light-filled dining room of Italy, on the fourth floor of an upscale shopping center, provides an object lesson in the possibilities of mall cuisine. Restaurants in Petersburg�s older buildings can be cozy and atmospheric, but for high ceilings, open floor plans, and an expansive view, head to one ... |
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 Guiseppe Verdi�s �Aida� that premieres at the Mariinsky Theater Concert Hall on June 11 and 14, Swiss-born director Daniele Finzi Pasca aims to do far more than offer a striking stage experiment. He wants his production to be a new word in human anatomy. ... |
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 Located in the very center of Europe, the city of Vienna is attracting more and more Russian students of business education programs every year.
As an ... |
 PSKOV �Perched on�Russia�s western fringes, yet one of�the country�s most ancient cities, Pskov may lack industry but it combines a�unique concentration of�crumbling Orthodox churches with echoes of�its proximity to�Europe.
On�the outskirts of�the city, an�unremarkable, modern white building embodies ... |
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