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... the muddy ground will react to new construction. Apart from that, the dam was built without taking into consideration a new large port facility nearby," said Sergei Malkov, a deputy with the St. Petersburg city parliament. Oranienbaum City, an NGO that takes its name from the town of Lomonosov's pre-1948 name, claims that the Bronka project could repeat the negative impact of massive land reclamation on St. Petersburg's Vasilyevsky Island in 2006. "The two-year-long construction created...
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Green on Green: Shipping Threatens to Trouble Baltic Waters
24 May 2012
By Angelina Davydova and Ekaterina Glebova / Special to The Moscow Times
Pro-Kremlin Military Party in the Works
28 April 2012
... tentatively called Defenders of the Fatherland, would hold patriotism, family, and Russian education and faith as its highest values and priorities. He also said the organization would be fiercely pro-Kremlin, following in the steps of the Russian Officers NGO. "Our committee has supported and will support Vladimir Putin. We participated in rallies in his support at Poklonnaya Hill and Luzhniki," he said, emphasizing that they are not out to "fight the power around the Kremlin, but in fact...
Teens Get a Crash Course on Living in U.S.
28 April 2012
By Jonathan Earle / The Moscow Times
... Sirchenko, who coordinates student exchange programs for the U.S. Embassy in Moscow. Skinny girls, your host parents might think you're not eating enough, cautioned Yelena Fomenko of the American Councils for International Education, a Washington-based NGO that runs the FLEX travel-study program with funding from the U.S. State Department. Host parents also might ask you to do "man's work" like shoveling snow, said Fomenko, herself a FLEX alumna. Girls in the room tittered. The dangers of...
Q&A: Republican Entrepreneur Touts Obama's Reset
18 May 2012
By Howard Amos / The Moscow Times
... another legacy business, Maxim Osipov, is a doctor. Maxim set about saving the hospital. To support his ultimately successful effort, we founded two charitable structures. In the United States I am very involved in Venture for America — a new NGO trying to change the conversation about what American higher education is about. We don't think it's a particularly good thing that kids leave top universities and go on to become bankers, lawyers and consultants. These are jobs for middlemen. While...
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