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 Security at St. Petersburg's domestic and international airports at Pulkovo has been boosted significantly after last month's suicide bombings of two Russian planes, but this has not been enough to check a fall off in passengers. "The latest terrorist acts on the Russian planes caused a 4 percent decrease to the number of passengers on our domestic flights," Alexander Golovin, acting director of the Federal State Aviation Enterprise Pulkovo, said Wednesday at a news conference. |
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Members of the St. Petersburg International Business Association, or SPIBA, on Thursday were given hope of a slight improvement in the tortuous process of obtaining visas for foreign staff. |
 A German man is hoping publication of wartime photographs of three young Russian women associated with St. Petersburg may help explain how they came into the possession of his late father-in-law. Eckhard Bernecker, 68, of Hanover, found the photographs among the belongings of Friedrich Wilhelm Uebel, who was killed in action in World War II. |
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Local construction companies do not understand public protests against in-fill construction because the sites developers are building on were designated as suitable for construction in a city plan that was approved in 1980s, Lev Kaplan, head of the St. |
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Sergei Zaitsev, a former chief prosecutor with a reputation of fighting police corruption, was appointed the chief prosecutor of St. Petersburg on Thursday after winning overwhelming support in the Legislative Assembly. |
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'Nord-Ost' in Moscow ST. PETERSBURG (SPT) - A new touring version of musical "Nord-Ost" will premiere on its former stage in the Dubrovka theater center on Friday, Interfax reported Wednesday. The musical's directors opted for the return performance after St. Petersburg's Music Hall theater, where the premiere was initially planned for the same date, refused to host the performance. |
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MOSCOW - French oil giant Total ended months of speculation Wednesday by announcing it is buying a blocking stake in Russia's largest independent gas producer, Novatek, in a deal that looks set to revive flagging investor confidence. The news came just hours before Gazprom said it had signed a memorandum of understanding with U.S. oil major ChevronTexaco on cooperation in the gas sector. The move brings the two companies a step closer to joint development of the vast Shtokman gas fields in the Arctic and to supplying U.S. markets with liquefied natural gas. Both announcements are welcome news for an investment climate long in the doldrums over the state's legal onslaught against Yukos. |
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 MOSCOW - Transport Minister Igor Levitin this week dealt a fresh blow to Aeroflot's efforts to build a badly needed third terminal at Sheremetyevo, the nation's largest airport. |
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Russia has temporarily suspended imports of Brazilian livestock and animal products due to fears about a foot-and-mouth-disease contamination, the government's head veterinary inspector Alexander Ponomarev said this week. The ban includes all meat imports which have not undergone thermal treatment since Sept. 20. A Brazilian ship with meat shipments, which has been docked at the St. Petersburg port since last week, will not be sent back. Instead, the shipment will be checked by veterinarians and if declared safe, it will be sold in city markets, said the senior specialist at St. Petersburg's GosVetNadzor, the city's veterinary control bureau, Valentina Andreyeva, in an interview with news agency Fontanka. |
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 Many of Moscow's hotels cater specially to business travelers, providing equipment and services that enable work to be done quickly and easily. Ararat Park Hyatt Moscow Hotel Business Center. |
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With hotel prices soaring and Moscow losing its affordable hotels to demolition and reconstruction as parts of big hotel chains, business travelers are often forced to pay premium prices for a hotel room. Many companies have found a simple and more affordable solution to their housing dilemma - a serviced apartment. Serviced apartments are available for rent from most reputable real estate agencies. They are often cheaper than regular hotel suites and offer a home-like atmosphere to a businessman who may be weary of yet another standard hotel room in yet another city. Such apartments can be rented from one night to several weeks, and agencies offer discounts to long-term lodgers. |
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 Moscow is a city crowded with a history and culture very different to that which visitors will find in St. Petersburg. A brief look at ten of the capital's sights provides a taste. |
 The relative merits of Moscow's nightlife versus St. Petersburg's - like those of the Bolshoi Theater versus the Mariinsky Theater - are a matter of taste. However, by virtue of its sheer size, the capital - described by one visitor as "the New York of the East" - comes into its own when the sun sets, guaranteeing a quantity and variety of entertainment unmatched elsewhere in the country, and in few places around the world. |
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The number of dead and wounded in the Beslan tragedy was stunning, but so were the authorities' lies. They minimized the number of hostages and casualties. They said there were Arabs and "one black" among the terrorists. They got the names and number of terrorists mixed up, as well as the circumstances in which the hostage-taking occurred. |
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Governor Valentina Matviyenko has a strong sense of nostalgia for the Soviet era, when she steadily moved up through the ranks of the Communist Party, getting closer to the top of party. |
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 A dyed-in-the-wool fashion victim, Alexandre Vassiliev appears for the first time in his new book smiling in a satin suit - at the age of one. Still dressing to impress at a recent interview in a Moscow cafe, he sported a large brooch in the shape of a starfish on the lapel of his corduroy two-piece, a casual choice for an overnight train trip later that evening to his summer house in Lithuania. |
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Michael Gira, whose former band Swans was - alongside Sonic Youth - a pioneer of "noise" in New York in the early 1980s, has become a dark balladeer of late. |
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Fish is not to everybody's taste, and there are probably as many fish lovers as there are people who dislike fish. I belong to the former group and was pleased when a friend invited me to a fish restaurant on the Petrograd Side. Since St. Petersburg, dubbed the "Venice of the North," is a city built on water, it is no surprise that fish and seafood enjoy great popularity here. The name of the restaurant, Demyanova Ukha, translates as "Demyan's Fish Soup" from the title of a humorous fable by Russian satirist I. A. Krylov. Those familiar with Krylov's story will easily guess what's on the menu: fish in all forms and varieties, prepared in a Russian style. |
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 This year marks a couple of milestones for the Russian emigre painter Oleg Tselkov: his 70th birthday and, as of last week, the mounting of a one-man retrospective of his work at the State Russian Museum. |
 A group of U.S.-based theater professionals visiting St. Petersburg's New Drama Festival this week has expressed confidence in Russia's fragile contemporary theater scene and hopes to build artistic bridges from here to America. The New Drama Festival, which runs until Sept. 26 in the Lensoviet, Baltiisky Dom and Osobnyak theaters and the city's Academy For Theater Arts, features performances by experimental troupes from Moscow, Yekaterinburg, Perm, Tolyatti and Kemerovo as well as by foreign counterparts from Belarus, Estonia, Latvia, Poland, Serbia, Germany and Iran. |
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