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Daughter ofKiev Mayor Reports $5.5Million Worth ofJewelry Stolen From Her Purse inParis[1 -    The Moscow Times 2010]


PARIS The daughter ofKievs mayor told police that she was robbed of4million euros ($5.5million) worth ofjewelry as she traveled bycar from Charles de Gaulle airport tothe French capital, Paris police said Tuesday.

Aspokesman for her wealthy father, however, immediately denied the report, which could be embarrassing considering that his daughter heads acharity organization funded byhis own city government and many Ukrainians are struggling amid awidespread recession. AParis police official said Kristina Chernovetska reported that aman broke into her luxury car Monday as it stopped on ahighway north ofParis, then stole her purse. Chernovetska reported the incident toauthorities and said the purse contained valuable rings and earrings, the official said. The official was not authorized tobe named according topolice policy and gave no further description ofthe jewelry. But aspokesman for Kiev Mayor Leonid Chernovetsky denied that there was arobbery. This is somebodys bad joke. We completely deny these reports about arobbery. There was no robbery, spokeswoman Marta Hrymska said.

Chernovetsky was one ofthe first banking magnates inUkraine after the fall ofthe Soviet Union and sold his Pravex Bank for 493million euros toItalys lntesa Sanpaolo inJune 2008. His term as mayor since 2006has been marked bypersistent corruption scandals, and he has often boasted ofhis daughters charity work tobolster his scarred public image. This would be the first public flap involving Kristina.

French police said they contacted the Ukrainian Embassy about the incident, but the embassy would not comment on it Tuesday. Hrymska insisted that Chernovetska was inKiev on Tuesday, but her whereabouts remained unknown. Areceptionist at the luxury George V hotel just off the Champs-Elysees confirmed that aChristina Chernovetska was registered, but it was not clear whether that was the same person. At the George V, the least expensive room is 750euros ($1,025) anight. Luxury limousines lined up infront ofthe hotel for guests infurs and designer sunglasses, while diners inside lunched beneath crystal chandeliers. Among goods on sale at the George V are 100,000euro ($136,700) pearl necklaces.

Chernovetska, 30, has degrees inlaw and economics, and she heads the charity organization Luchshy Dom, or Best House, ahome for poor older people funded bythe city ofKiev. She has also previously worked on her fathers political campaigns. The report ofthe jewel theft led toapolitical backlash Tuesday, as Volodymyr Bondarenko ofthe Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc, her group oflawmakers inthe parliament, poked fun at both daughter and father. Chernovetsky needs toimmediately call up his favorite grandmas and grandpas so that they could sacrifice part oftheir pensions tobuy Kristina back her jewels, Bondarenko said inastatement.

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Russia Sends Aid toQuake-Hit Chile[2 -    The Moscow Times 2010]


President Dmitry Medvedev has ordered the Emergency Situations Ministry tosend two cargo planes loaded with humanitarian aid toChile after the South American country was rocked byapowerful earthquake last week, aKremlin spokesman told reporters Tuesday.

The first cargo plane carrying tents, blankets and electric power generators will arrive inChile on Wednesday, and asecond plane with other humanitarian aid will follow aday later, aministry spokeswoman told The Moscow Times on Tuesday. No Russian rescue teams will be sent there, only the aid, she said.

More than 700people have died and about 2million have been displaced after the magnitude-8.8earthquake hit the Chilean coast last Friday. No Russian citizens were killed or wounded during the quake, but the Russian Embassy inthe capital ofSantiago was slightly damaged. Russian rescue teams recently took part inarelief operation inHaiti after the Caribbean Island was devastated byapowerful earthquake inJanuary.

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		Powerful         
		Recently          ,  
		Relief (n)         
		Rescue           
		Rock (v)          , 
		Slightly           , 
		South North       
		Take part in(took, taken)  
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		Tell (told, told)     , 
		Wound           




Investigator Released in$15M BribeCase[3 -    The Moscow Times 2010]


Asenior federal investigator has returned towork while under indictment for purportedly extorting $15million from alocal businessman, Interfax reported Thursday.

Andrei Grivtsov, incharge ofhigh-priority cases with the Investigative Committee, was detained Jan. 15on suspicion ofsoliciting the enormous bribe from Vladimir Palikhata, head ofRosenergomash, aleading electrical engineering manufacturer. AMoscow court, however, released Grivtsov from pretrial detention late Wednesday, Interfax reported.

Grivtsovs lawyer, Alexander Zabeida, told Interfax on Thursday that his client had returned towork because he had not been fired or suspended from his post while under investigation. Grivtsovs suspected accomplice, Sergei Karimov, was detained Jan. 14while collecting $8million as afirst installment ofthe bribe at Interkommertsbank, investigatorssay.

Investigators accuse Grivtsov ofdemanding the bribe inexchange for not opening acriminal case against Palikhata. Moscows Basmanny District Court had sanctioned the arrest ofthe two men, but the Moscow City Court ruled Wednesday that investigators had insufficient evidence tohold the two men incustody, Kommersant reported Thursday. The Basmanny court must now issue anew ruling on whether toplace the two suspects under arrest, the report said. Investigators earlier said Grivtsov conspired with several former and current law enforcement officials who have not been arrested.

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Baritone Singer Goes Skydiving toConquerFear[4 -    The Moscow Times 2010]


NEW YORK Star baritone Dmitry Hvorostovsky is fearless when reaching for musical heights. But the Russian singer says hes always been scared ofphysical heights, even on stage sets. So he decided totackle his fear byreaching sky-high literally.

The 47-year-old, silver-haired opera singer parachuted from aplane over Florida inDecember. The proof is aphotograph on his new Facebook page that was taken as he dropped at more than 160kilometers an hour. Ihad todo that, because its another way tochallenge yourself, and life is all about challenges, he said inarecent interview. Im so used toadrenaline, ineverything Ido. He acknowledges that insome crazy productions, when Im up very high, Im trembling. On Saturday, the Metropolitan Opera star will take on another sort ofadventure: ashow at New Yorks Radio City Music Hall featuring the pop songs ofRussian composer Igor Krutoi. Next month, Hvorostovsky is tosing aCarnegie Hall recital with American soprano Sondra Radvanovsky, after appearing with her inlate March at Torontos Roy Thomson Hall, the Place des Arts inMontreal and the Kennedy Center inWashington,D.C.

And he wants toparachute again sometime soon. When Ijumped out ofthe plane, it was the most glorious moment inmy life, he said. You really feel on top ofthe world.

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Consumers toPay Commission on Utilities[5 -    The Moscow Times 2010]


Sberbank Moscow has announced that the commission for utility services, which will be collected from May 1, will be 2percent. Previously it was assumed that it would be 3percent. Maxim Poletayev, the chairman ofSberbank Moscow, announced that the commission will be levied only according toofficial documents.

The date it will take effect remains the same May 1. Previously, the service was free for the majority ofMuscovites because the Moscow government paid costs for the bank toreceive payments for housing and communal services, but this year the responsibility for payment is being passed on toconsumers. As aresult, Sberbank expects that customers will increasingly use remote channels for payment such as the Internet or ATMs, where commission will be 0.5percent.

Residents are already searching for ways tosave on payments. Insome Sberbank branches, pensioners said they had come topay quickly before the commission took effect. Many had gone topost offices for the same purpose, since they take payments without any commission.

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Hundreds ofWWII Artillery Shells Found[6 -    The Moscow Times 2010]


Hundreds ofrusty World War II-era artillery shells were found beneath aroad innorthwestern Moscow, prompting the evacuation ofdozens ofpeople. Sappers removed 916field artillery shells ofvarious calibers after workers expanding Prospekt Marshala Zhukova stumbled upon the cache. Residents oftwo nearby apartment buildings were evacuated immediately, and the road was closed totraffic. At least 28ofthe shells were armed, said Igor Chemego, chief ofthe district office ofthe Emergency Situations Ministry for northwestern Moscow. But he downplayed the danger they posed.

The shells were loaded into trucks for safe disposal, said Major Serge Novikov ofthe sappers unit. The shells were destroyed at aMoscow airfield late Wednesday, Interfax reported. Such finds are relatively common inRussia, which experienced some ofWorld War IIs fiercest battles. Some residents at the scene claimed that the cache which featured 76mm and 152mm shells was part ofawider network ofordnance depots located inthe area since the 1930s. Zufiar Nurimanov, 72, who has been living inthe area for nearly 40years, said residents routinely found shells inthe ground and some boys were killed while playing with them during Soviet times. Many children played with the ammunition, like throwing shells into the fire, and were killed, he said.

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Abramovich Wins LibelSuit[7 -    The Moscow Times 2010]


LONDON Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich has won apublic apology and libel damages from an Italian publisher over allegations that he is acompulsive gambler. Gruppo Editoriale LEspresso agreed topay substantial damages for astory inthe paper La Repubblica inMay titled, Ablack year for Abramovich as he loses ayacht at poker, Abramovichs lawyer John Kelly said Thursday. Kelly said Abramovich would donate the money tocharity.

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Lawyer Confesses to$17M RobberyHoax[8 -    The Moscow Times 2010]


Alawyer arrested for allegedly stealing $17million incash has confessed and disclosed the location ofthe money, RIA-Novosti reported Thursday. Yevgeny Skoblikov, 33, was arrested inOctober soon after he told police that about $6million and 7million euros ($10.5million) incash were stolen from his rented Moscow apartment. He said the money, stored inseveral suitcases, belonged tohis clients from Novosibirsk, who had received it as inheritance. The investigators believe that he faked the robbery and hid the cash. Skoblikov disclosed the information after several months incustody during alie-detector test, the report said. The missing sum was discovered inthe place that he mentioned, alaw enforcement source told RIA-Novosti. The cash was found hidden inthe Moscow region town ofLobnya packed inthree big bags weighing 70kilograms intotal, Moscow police spokesman Viktor Biryukov told Gazeta.ru.




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