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...trusted friend - and Russia as a close American ally. He and Putin will sign a treaty committing both nations to slash their strategic nuclear arsenals from 6,000 warheads to a maximum of 2,200. Then the Russian President will give his American buddy a tour of St. Petersburg, Putin's hometown, reciprocating the hospitality Bush showed Putin at his Texas ranch last November. The following week they will be together again, this time in Rome, where they are expected to sign an agreement giving Russia a kind of junior partnership in NATO, the cold war military alliance created...
...figure at closer to 50,000. No official data on skinhead violence exist, but an estimate by journalists and foreign embassies suggests that skinhead assaults have left more than a dozen foreigners dead and 100 hospitalized in Moscow since May 2000. Similar attacks have taken place in St. Petersburg, Yekaterinburg and Novgorod. Russian officials dismiss these incidents as simple hooliganism but can't deny that they have become more common. "There is a sharp increase in physical and verbal attacks against foreigners," says a senior U.S. embassy official...
...resources from the worker bees of America as quickly and efficiently as possible and concentrate them in the assets of the wealthy. The Enron collapse just continues what deficit spending and tax breaks for the wealthy have done to widen the income gap since the 1980s. PAMELA MULLER St. Petersburg...
...Russia is selling nuclear power equipment to Tehran--and Russia says it needs proof of Iran's nuclear ambitions before it will consider stopping. But U.S. intelligence officials still fear that sharing the information could reveal too much about U.S. intelligence-gathering capabilities. Meanwhile, the Izhora factory in St. Petersburg, Russia, just completed a 317-ton reactor component bound for Iran's Bushehr nuclear power plant, the first one to be delivered under a 1995 pact worth $800 million...
Contributing to Doyle’s anticipation, the championships were held in his hometown of St. Petersburg, Fla. at the University of Central Florida, where his sister coaches the sailing team...