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The Petrogradsky District Court ordered the district administration Tuesday to pay 430,000 rubles ($14,000) in physical damages to the father of a young Estonian woman who spent more than nine months in a coma after being hit by a chunk of falling ice in February last year.
Vadim Kashtanov, the father of 23-year-old Milana Kashtanova, will be paid specifically by Building Maintenance Service No. 2, the organization responsible for overseeing the ice-clearing works.
Kashtanova, who had come to St. Petersburg to study psychology, was hit on the head by the ice as she walked past an apartment building at 3 Ulitsa Krasnogo Kursanta on the Petrograd Side that was being cleared of ice. She sustained severe brain injuries.
After completing an expensive rehabilitation course at the Reha Nova clinic in Cologne, Germany — the costs of the treatment totaled 100,000 euros — Kashtanova was taken home to Estonia this summer, where the rehabilitation process continues.
Kashtanova’s mother is getting ready to file another suit against the authorities for about 200,000 rubles, and more suits will follow in order to receive full compensation for all of the German clinic’s bills, said Alexander Golovanov, the lawyer representing the Kashtanov family. |
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OFFICIAL RECOGNITION
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Artist Kolya Vasin is pictured with a life-size cutout of Paul McCartney on ‘Ulitsa John Lennon’ at Pushkinskaya 10 arts center. The tribute to The Beatles is set to be entered on an official list of informal monuments, along with the Chizik Pyzhik statue and other sites around the city. |
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A criminal case against the art group Voina over last year’s stunt involving overturning police cars has been dropped by investigators, while the artists continued to find themselves in trouble this week.
Voina artists Oleg Vorotnikov and Leonid Nikolayev were arrested in Moscow in November last year and charged with criminal mischief motivated by hatred of the social group “police,” and spent three months in a pre-trial prison in St.
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St. Petersburg experts have decided that love is not an illness, contrary to what the World Health Organization declared earlier this month, Interfax reported.
“There are no documents that define love as an illness. The more complicated problem today is the human disability to establish significant and long-term relationships. |
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As the number of immigrants from the former U.S.S.R. grows, local representatives of diasporic communities are joining forces with the law in an effort to bring peace and order to the lives of struggling migrants. |
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Opposition parties and preservationists who do not wish to cooperate with the authorities have formed an independent coalition to campaign against the destruction of historic St. Petersburg, they announced at a news conference Monday.
Called Gradozashchita (City Defense), the coalition includes members of The Other Russia, the Party of People’s Freedom (Parnas) and ROT-Front, as well as activists from Okhtinskaya Duga, a group formed to campaign against Gazprom’s plans to build a skyscraper on the Okhta cape, and ERA (Ecology of Ordinary Architecture).
None of the three parties have been registered by the authorities, with various official reasons having been given. |
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 The Leningrad Military base called Sunday’s incident in which a pirate flag was hoisted from the cruiser Avrora an act of vandalism, comparing it to when a visitor to the State Hermitage Museum threw acid on and slashed Rembrandt’s “Danae,” Rosbalt news agency reported. |
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Teremok to Expand
ST. PETERSBURG (SPT) — The fast-food chain Teremok, which offers traditional Russian dishes with a focus on pancakes, plans to increase its turnover in 2011 by 14 percent — up to 3.5 billion rubles from the 2.05 billion rubles it made in 2010, the company said in a statement. |
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MOSCOW — President Dmitry Medvedev has promised to expand the Cabinet and to “seriously reconstruct” United Russia as prime minister next year.
Medvedev’s comments to a ragtag bunch of celebrities and politicians Saturday were an attempt to assure supporters disgruntled by his decision to give up the presidency that he is staying in politics and bringing his modernization agenda with him. |
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BELGRADE, Serbia — Russia has denied news reports that the emergency relief center it is creating in Serbia will be used to spy on neighboring Romania, where U. |
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LONDON — A British lawmaker’s former assistant accused of spying for Moscow went to court Tuesday in a bid to prevent being deported — telling judges that she had had an affair with her boss, but was not a Russian agent.
Yekaterina Zatuliveter, also known as Katya, was arrested in December on suspicion of using her position in the office of legislator Mike Hancock to pass information to Russian intelligence. |
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MOSCOW — Prime Minister Vladimir Putin lauded himself Monday as Russia’s hardest-working leader since World War II, putting himself above Communist-era titans like Stalin and Khrushchev in his first lengthy interview since announcing that he will return to the presidency next year. |
 GAVRILKOVO, Moscow Region — The U.S.-Russian “reset” has yielded no meaningful progress on human rights, and the United States needs to “redouble” its efforts to press Russia on the issue, a senior American diplomat said Saturday.
The unusually harsh rebuke of Russia’s rights record was made by U.S. |
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 Arctic energy was the topic of discussion at a conference held in the city last week.
The Arctic region, rich in energy and fresh water resources, has become a stumbling point of conflicting interests among different countries around the world. The right to develop and use the Arctic energy sector has been already claimed not only by countries making up the “Arctic Five” (Russia, the U. |
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MOSCOW — Prime Minister Vladimir Putin impressed a gathering of heavyweight foreign investors with charm and statistics Monday, at a set-piece annual discussion between government officials and foreign chief executives. |
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 After Vladimir Putin took power as president in 2000, I numbered among the handful of Western commentators who believed that Russia finally had a leader who could steer the country in the right direction.
With both feet planted firmly in the pro-Putin camp, I argued many times during the past decade that Putin was putting Russia on an even keel after the chronic instability of the 1990s. |
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Mikhail Prokhorov, owner of gold mines in Siberia and a professional basketball team in the United States, is one of Russia’s richest men, with a net worth of $18 billion. |
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Mashina Vremeni’s Andrei Makarevich caused some debates last week when his song “Putin Goes to Kholuyovo” was uploaded onto YouTube, as the event was seen by some as the veteran rock singer’s transition to the opposition.
In the satirical song, officials of Kholuyovo, a fictitious provincial town whose name can be translated as “lackeyville,” are preparing with spectacular servility for a planned visit by Vladimir Putin, but the prime minister ultimately fails to arrive.
But when Makarevich started being questioned by the media about the song, he was quick to say that the song was not about Putin, claiming he has nothing to do with the opposition. |
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THIS PHOTO OF MICHAEL
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 Marc Almond, the British singer who came to fame as a member of the synthpop duo Soft Cell in the 1980s before building a highly diverse and compelling solo career, will be a special guest of the “Side by Side” LGBT film festival that opens in St. Petersburg this week.
Right now, Almond is once again on the rise. Last year he released “Variete,” his first studio album of original songs in almost a decade, before embarking last fall on his most successful tour, celebrating 30 years as a recording artist.
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Top notch Italian regional cuisine is on the menu at the Corinthia Hotel’s Imperial restaurant this week as the hotel hosts the Bella Italia festival, the latest event in the Year of Italy in Russia cultural exchange program.
The restaurant is serving a special menu through Sunday prepared by double Michelin-starred guest chef Valentino Marcattilii from Imola, Italy. As well as the special menu, which includes his signature dish — one giant, delectable ravioli stuffed with spinach, ricotta, Parmesan, truffle sauce and egg yolk — Marcattilii will host a master class on Oct. 19. The culinary extravaganza will culminate in an Arrivederci Brunch at the Imperial restaurant on Oct. |
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 The temperature in St. Petersburg may be distinctly autumnal, but the city’s cultural life will be warmed up this week by a summery event at Dom Kino, which will host the premiere of the Spanish animated film “Chico y Rita” (Chico and Rita). |
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Ïîïàñòü â öåéòíîò: to run out of time
There is a lovely concept in linguistics called the Frequency Illusion, which I personally experience very frequently. In nonspecialist language, it means that once you’ve noticed a phenomenon, it seems to happen a lot. In my case, once I identified the chess metaphor in ðîêèðîâêà (castling), now all I see are chess allusions.
To catch all these allusions in Russian, first you need to know the basics. Øàõìàòû (chess) is played on a äîñêà (board) with ôèãóðû (chess pieces). The names of the pieces vary from language to language. In Russian, the pieces are êîðîëü (king), ôåðçü (queen; literally “vizier”), ëàäüÿ (rook; literally “boat”), ñëîí (bishop; literally “elephant”), êîíü (knight; literally “steed”) and ïåøêà (pawn). |
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 Photos of politicians are usually plastered all over newspapers, but it is usually professional photographs that reflect them most accurately. Only a photographer is capable of capturing the individual as a whole: Their characteristic body movements, gestures and facial expressions. |
 Last week, Channel One started a new show called “Special Assignment,” where famous people have to put on khakis and join the Russian army for six weeks.
The show’s brilliant trailers had Russian tanks waltzing in sync on sand, which looked like a satire on modern warfare — until the waltzing stopped and our lovely hosts, the blonde Vera Brezhneva and the muscled Oleg Taktarov, climbed out of the hatches. |
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All that glitters
To the seemingly never-ending yellow building on Konnogvardeisky Boulevard that is also home to the upscale restaurants Stroganoff Steak House and Russian Vodka Room No. |
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 UFA — Ufa is best seen from the window of a landing airplane in the early fall. The concrete center is surrounded by multi-colored cottage roofs sprinkled on rolling hills, covered in yellow, green, orange and red trees, cut by rivers and lakes as still as glass.
Despite being a manufacturing and oil-refining center, the capital of Bashkortostan has some of the best-preserved nature in Russia. Nearby are hundreds of kilometers of virgin forest and mountains where some of the world’s finest honey is produced by wild honeybees. |
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 Google the phrase “Steve Jobs genius” and in 0.09 seconds 84,000,000 pages will pop up.
“Stay hungry, stay foolish:” Steve Jobs, founder of Apple, and his motto have had a great influence on millions of people, including contemporary Italian artist Alessandro Gedda, whose work is currently on display at the Academy of Arts. |
 A group of St. Petersburg students will make sporting history Saturday when they compete against Moscow in Russia’s first ever lacrosse match.
Although lacrosse has been played in Russia since 2007, only recently have significant steps forward been made in the game’s development. The St. Petersburg White Knights have played the Moscow Rebels on two previous occasions, but this will be the first time both teams have fielded a full side of ten men. |
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 Color is the god that Tricia Guild worships. Admirers of the founder of U.K.-based interior design company Designers Guild call her a color crusader, and she is getting her latest inspiration from St. |
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