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 As the world celebrates the 50th anniversary of Yury Gagarin becoming the first man in space (see article, page 6), the cosmonaut’s daughter Yelena has denounced a St. Petersburg musical production that uses her father’s name as its title.
“Gagarin” premiered at the St. |
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The St. Petersburg Investigative Committee filed a new criminal case Thursday against Oleg Vorotnikov, an activist of the Voina art group, over his participation in the banned March on Smolny that took place on March 31. |
 Residents, artists and anarchists united Sunday to protest the St. Petersburg authorities’ failure to deal with housing issues by celebrating the fictitious International Leaking Roofs Day in the courtyard of a 19th-century building on Kolomenskaya Ulitsa. |
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Zenit Punished
ST. PETERSBURG (SPT) — FC Zenit St. Petersburg has been fined 300,000 rubles ($10,687) after one of its fans offered Brazilian player Roberto Carlos a banana at a recent match in St. |
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Girl Froze To Death
ST. PETERSBURG (SPT) — Three-year-old Alyona Shchipina, whose body was recently found in melting snow outside St. Petersburg, died from exposure to cold, the city’s forensic medical experts said last week, Fontanka reported.
The girl disappeared from the dacha where she was staying with her mother and stepfather on January 24 under unclear circumstances. |
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 MINSK, Belarus – An explosion tore through a key subway station in the Belarusian capital of Minsk during evening rush hour Monday killing 11 people and wounding 126. An official said the blast was a terrorist act.
President Alexander Lukashenko did not say what caused the explosion at the Oktyabrskaya station, but suggested outside forces could be behind it. |
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MOSCOW — Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s income rose last year to $180,000, again surpassing that of President Dmitry Medvedev but far behind the $13 million declared by the wife of First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov, according to income declarations released Monday. |
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TBILISI, Georgia — An elderly Georgian woman who purportedly shut off Internet service in her country and neighboring Armenia while scavenging for copper cable is facing charges that could lead to three years in prison.
Authorities say 75-year-old Aiyastan Shakaryan severed a fiber-optic cable on March 28, shutting off the information highway in much of Georgia and all of Armenia for several hours. |
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MOSCOW — The Federal Security Service called for a ban on Skype, Gmail and Hotmail as major threats to national security — but quickly backtracked after a squabble erupted between the camps of President Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. |
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A cyber attack paralyzed the web site of Novaya Gazeta on Friday, days after similar attacks knocked out LiveJournal, Russia’s most popular blogging site.
Novaya Gazeta’s web site went down early Friday after a massive denial-of-service attack, said Dmitry Muratov, the newspaper’s editor. |
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MOSCOW — The plane crash that killed Polish President Lech Kaczynski a year ago has managed to improve Moscow’s troubled relations with Warsaw — but it has opened new divisions in Poland. |
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St. Petersburg manufacturing enterprises are in desperate need of workers, and new research conducted by Ancor recruitment agency has shown that employees in this category value professional growth and an official salary over bonus systems.
The number of vacancies in manufacturing has increased: According to the press service of Silovye Mashiny manufacturing company, core manufacturing plants are already constantly overworked, and there are plans this year to launch the first production line of Metallostroi’s new factory. |
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Between January and March this year, Petersburg residents took out 2,718 mortgages — twice as many as the corresponding period in 2010, according to the St. |
 MOSCOW — Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Monday urged the Pension Fund to be a showcase of the government’s efficiency as national elections loom.
“Almost one-third of our country’s citizens judge the quality of the work of government agencies by the quality with which you operate,” Putin said on a conference call with the fund’s regional chiefs to discuss last year’s performance. |
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MOSCOW — Apple is exploring the possibility of opening its first retail store in Moscow, according to media reports. The web site ifoAppleStore.com reported last week that an official Apple store could be coming to Moscow. |
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MOSCOW — Dagestani billionaire Suleiman Kerimov is ready to invest 1 billion euros ($1.44 billion) in a new stadium if Russia wins a bid to host the 2018 Summer Youth Olympic Games in Dagestan.
The decision to bid for the games was made by Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Zhukov, Russian Olympic Committee vice president Akhmed Bilalov and the president of the International Olympic Committee, Jacques Rogge, during a meeting last week, the Russian committee said. |
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 Ever since Kremlin first deputy chief of staff Vladislav Surkov introduced the term “sovereign democracy” in 2006, senior government officials have claimed that the West does not have a right to meddle in Russia’s domestic affairs, particularly regarding human rights issues. |
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Toward the end of March, Nina Martynova, a 70-year-old pensioner from Voronezh, paid for a loaf of bread and a carton of milk at her local grocery store and then walked toward the door. |
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 The controversial “Dick Taken Prisoner by the FSB” — a 65-meter penis painted on Liteiny bridge to face the FSB (former KGB) headquarters in St. Petersburg when the bridge was raised — won the Culture Ministry-backed Innovation prize at a glitzy ceremony in Moscow on Thursday. |
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Music and politics meet again in Belarus, where dissidents are calling on Western music artists to cancel their concerts in Belarus after hundreds were beaten and detained following the December presidential election, and dozens face lengthy terms in prisons. |
 Every April, Germany traditionally comes closer to St. Petersburg, but for one week only. During the annual German Week, those interested in exploring this country should prepare to immerse themselves in German culture, lifestyle and language via the rich and diverse program, which ranges from classical music concerts to classic German beer tasting. |
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Òàëàíò: talent
Like the vast majority of my fellow Americans, I’m great at making New Year’s resolutions and horrible at keeping them. But there is one resolution I’d like to keep. |
 “Le Parc,” an iconic ballet by the legendary French choreographer Angelin Preljocaj that became an instant hit when it was unveiled by the Paris Opera Ballet in 1994, enjoys its Russian premiere at the Mariinsky Theater on April 14, 15 and 22.
The premiere of “Le Parc” opens this year’s International Mariinsky Ballet Festival that runs through April 24. The festival came into being in 2001 thanks to the Mariinsky’s artistic director, the indefatigable maestro Valery Gergiev. |
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 Last week, MuzTV started a show called “Top Model po-Russki,” a reality show in which a group of would-be models live together and go through tests until they are whittled down to the most lissome one, who wins a modeling contract. |
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Beaujolais wine hails from the thick-skinned Gamay grape, an attribute that aptly lends itself to fine French cuisine being served up from the construction-ridden Bolshaya Konyushennaya Ulitsa. The restaurant’s desirable window seats beg for a better landscape than the muddy trenches and hard-hats that have blighted the street since the end of last year, and one can only sympathize with the many restaurants on the building site — both new ones such as Beaujolais, and older representatives of the dining scene. |
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 STAR CITY, Moscow Region — It was the Soviet Union’s own giant leap for mankind, one that would spur a humiliated United States to race for the moon. It happened 50 years ago on Tuesday, when an Air Force pilot named Yury Gagarin became the first human in space.
The 27-year-old cosmonaut’s mission lasted just 108 minutes and was fraught with drama: a break in data transmission, glitches involving antennas, a retrorocket and the separation of modules. |
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 With the history of the Russian state comprising the core theme of its collection, the Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library in St. Petersburg may sound like a project meant for a very narrow audience. |
 The legendary Russian romance “Dark Eyes,” with its passionate lyrics and soaring spirits, may sound like an unlikely item for an arts festival held in the Persian Gulf region. Yet this was the triumphant finale of the closing concert of the Eighth Abu Dhabi Festival that ended on April 4 with a performance of the song by renowned Russian baritone Dmitry Hvorostovsky and soprano Yekaterina Syurina. |
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