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Western donors and Russian taxpayers are propping up an outdated and dangerous Russian nuclear power system that is being managed by dubious methods, Norwegian-based environmental organization Bellona says. In the last 10 years, the G-8 group of leading industrial nations, the European Union and the United States have spent billions of dollars keeping the Russian nuclear industry safe and afloat, Bellona spokesman Igor Kudrik said Thursday in a telephone interview from Oslo. |
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The St. Petersburg Legislative Assembly on Wednesday ratified a law creating a discounted monthly travel pass, which city pensioners and war veterans will be able to buy for 230 rubles ($8. |
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MOSCOW - Finnish media giant Sanoma has agreed to pay 142 million euros ($186 million) for all of Dutch-owned Independent Media, the largest publisher of consumer magazines in Russia, both companies said Wednesday. If approved by anti-monopoly authorities and completed in the second quarter, as the companies expect, the deal will be the largest in Russian publishing history The magazine division of Helsinki-based SanomaWSOY Group, whose titles range from the Dutch version of Playboy to the Bulgarian version of Cosmopolitan, called the acquisition of Independent Media, which also publishes The St. |
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Finnish Sex Probe HELSINKI (Reuters) - Finnish police said Wednesday they wanted to question two Russian diplomats in connection with a prostitution ring that operated out of property owned by Moscow's trade representation in Helsinki. |
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St. Petersburg's Evangelical Lutheran St. Mary's Church - the only Lutheran church the city where services are held in Finnish - will celebrate its 200th birthday this weekend with a festival of cultural and religious events. "It will be a very important event for the church, which has had very difficult periods in history, which was closed for many decades, but still survived and keeps leading people to God and giving them hope," said Juhani Porsti, head pastor of the church. |
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The St. Petersburg State Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory elected a new rector Wednesday. Moscow composer Alexander Chaikovsky was the sole candidate in the election, receiving 240 votes. |
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The St. Petersburg City Court on Tuesday sentenced a former policeman to life imprisonment on Tuesday for murdering four people in an amusement arcade in 2003. Konstantin Olenchikov, 28, was convicted of multiple crimes, including the four murders; the attempted murder of a 14-year-old, who survived by pretending to be dead after being shot in the neck, and robbery, Fontanka. |
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A lawyer for the families of crewmembers who died on the nuclear submarine Kursk that sank in the Barents Sea in August 2000 have filed an appeal to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, Interfax reported Thursday. |
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Officials from eastern Estonia made a serious case for Russian businesses to invest in their region, offering ready access to EU markets and low percentage bank loans as an incentive. Representatives of Ida-Virumaa district authorities, the closest part of Estonia to St. |
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Famous Irish stout Guinness will start being brewed in Russia at Heineken Brewery LLC's St. Petersburg factory at the start of this summer, the company announced Thursday. |
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EuroConsult in Oblast ST. PETERSBURG (SPT) - A consortium of European companies will perform consulting services for small and medium-sized businesses in the Leningrad and the Kaliningrad regions, Interfax reported Thursday. Firms including Belgium's IBF International Consulting, Spain's ACE, and Greece TREK Consulting, will provide advice on economic development, social reforms and democratic processes, confirmed BDO Yunikon, a Russian audit company (part of BDO International) that is also involved in the project. The initiative from European consultant firms comes as part of an 18 months joint program between the EU and Russia called TACIS. |
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 St. Petersburg's sea tourism industry will disappear by 2006 unless a solution for operations under a toughened visa regime, rising tariffs and a lack of advancement on the new passenger terminal construction is found, cruise ships and ferry line operator representatives said Thursday. |
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Central Asia is confronting its first succession crisis of the post-communist era. By promising to leave office this October, at the end of his third term, Kyrgyz President Askar Akayev unleashed a scramble for power that has divided the political establishment and raised the specter of a new colored revolution, a yellow one. |
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This week, I read in the local media about disturbing events at a maternity hospital. I was reminded of a similar horrible experience described by a journalist at The St. |
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LONDON - Up to 95,000 Londoners and Russians visited Trafalgar Square in central London last week to celebrate Russian "Old New Year" at the biggest showcase of Russian culture that Britain has ever seen - an event that many hope will become an annual fixture of London's cultural calendar. |
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R.E.M. promises be the first international music event of note in the city this year. Tossed between Tallinn and Helsinki, the concert will be the band's first and only Russian show with its local promoters attempting to draw fans from other cities as well. |
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St. Petersburg's love affair with sushi, which began as a heated tryst a couple of years ago, can no longer be dismissed as a one-night stand. Among the rash of places that seemed to open daily in 2002 and 2003, most have endured and some have become fixtures of the city's dining scene, foxing the naysayers who said that Russians weren't really interested in Japanese cuisine but were simply in the throes of a crush for the latest foreign trend. The best places have learned to adapt to Petersburgers' tastes without compromising the integrity of the cuisine. The downhome sushi-bar Kaminari on Voznesensky Prospekt, popular during the week with civil servants working in the Mariinsky Palace, the home of the city's Legislative Assembly is one such place. |
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 Nikolai Gogol's "Dead Souls" is one of the great Russian novels - which is to say, it is one of the great novels of the world. Yet when so sensitive a reader as the Irish short-story writer Frank O'Connor finished it for the first time in 1920, he came to the following conclusion: "I thought it a great bore. |
 Combining the retro aesthetic of recent TV miniseries such as "Moscow Saga" and "Children of the Arbat," both set in 1930s Moscow, and new Russian special effects adventures such as the blockbuster "Night Watch" (Nochnoi Dozor), "Call Me Genie" is a musical comedy film for young people that hits St. Petersburg screens on Thursday. An updated version of the popular Soviet children's tale "Starik Khottabych," "Call Me Genie" is a large-scale film which impresses mostly by means of technical gimmicks, such as computer-generated animation and scenes filmed on location in Goa, India. |
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 The club Platforma was packed on Monday. Some fans were even locked outside the launch party for the long-awaited “Huiniya,” the joint album by Leningrad and bizarre U. |
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The 100-year old Walcker organ which has been reinstalled at the Shostakovich Philharmonic Hall. After more than a year's absence, the venerable 100-year-old concert organ made by the illustrious German company E.F. Walcker & Son, is back at its place in the Grand Hall of the Shostakovich Philharmonic. |
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French Teachers Strike PARIS (Reuters) - French teachers went on strike on Thursday, the third day of public sector protests over pay, reforms and job cuts that have sent a sharp warning to President Jacques Chirac's conservative government. Some schools were expected to close because of the one-day protest focusing on resistance to planned education reforms, and thousands of civil servants were expected to march through Paris to show their discontent with the government. |
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Big Brother Speaks MELBOURNE (AP) - Russia's Dinara Safina put a scare into second-seeded Amelie Mauresmo, but she didn't impress her older brother, former No. |
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