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The prosecution continued its attempts Tuesday to prove that The Other Russia’s activists on trial in the city were members of the banned National Bolshevik Party (NBP). They did so by playing videos of the activists meetings, held at an apartment on Lesnoi Prospekt in 2009.
Andrei Dmitriyev, the local leader of the Other Russia party in St. Petersburg, Andrei Pesotsky and Alexei Marochkin have been charged with organizing activities of a banned organization and face up to four years in prison. Vladislav Ivakhnik, Andrei Milyuk, Oleg Petrov, Vadim Mamedov, Ravil Bashirov, Roman Khrenov, Alexander Yashin, Alexei Zentsov and Igor Boikov have been charged with participating in such activities and face up to two years in prison. |
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BIG BUCKS
ALEXANDER BELENKY / SPT
A man contemplates a display of money at Lenexpo center on Wednesday, a day before the opening of the annual St. Petersburg International
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The St. Petersburg City Court on Wednesday sentenced two local scientists to lengthy terms in prison for treason amid protests from the international human rights community.
Yevgeny Afanasiev and Svyatoslav Bobyshev are professors at the city’s State Military Mechanical University. Afanasiev was found guilty of treason in the form of espionage and sentenced to 12-and-a-half years in a penal colony.
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WASHINGTON — U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is planning to travel to St. Petersburg next week, a visit that follows recent talks between U.S. President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Mexico.
The U.S. State Department said Wednesday that Clinton will attend a meeting of Asia-Pacific foreign ministers in St. |
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The St. Petersburg authorities are seeking to ban opposition rallies in the city center by introducing draft amendments to the local law “On Assemblies, Rallies, Demonstrations, Marches and Pickets in St. |
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The cultural capital is a city that knows how to put on a show. During this year’s St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF), guests and city residents alike will have the chance to experience the finest the city has to offer.
The 2012 SPIEF, which runs from Thursday, June 21 through Sunday, June 23, offers a rich cultural program geared toward participants and those accompanying them, as well as events that are open to the public. During the forum, participants can enjoy a variety of events ranging from first class ballet and opera to exhibitions of Rodin sculptures and from cooking classes to visiting the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts of the Russian Academy of Sciences. |
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 Nearly 5,000 investors leaned forward in their seats during Dmitry Medvedev’s keynote address at the annual economic forum in St. Petersburg last year, eagerly waiting to hear whether he would run for a second term as president. |
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MOSCOW — The Russian Orthodox Church reacted strongly after Patriarch Kirill was given the Silver Shoe award, handed out each year “for the most dubious achievements in show business.”
At an elaborate award ceremony, the patriarch was given the prize for “the immaculate disappearance of a watch” in the category of “miracles up to the elbows,” RIA-Novosti reported. |
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KIEV, Ukraine — Ukraine’s prime minister says even he saw the ball cross the line.
Mykola Azarov attended the European Championship soccer match between his country and England on Tuesday night, when Ukraine striker Marko Devic’s shot appeared to go over the line before being cleared away by defender John Terry. |
 MOSCOW — Most Muscovites disapprove of new rules hiking protest fines and think the authorities are afraid of a rise in protest activity, a poll released Wednesday showed.
In response to questions from Levada Center pollsters in Moscow, 28 percent of respondents said they strongly disapproved of the new protest rules, while 39 percent broadly disapproved, Kommersant reported. |
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MOSCOW — The Constitutional Court has received a request from 131 State Duma deputies to examine Russia’s accession to the WTO, citing irregularities in its approval process, Kommersant reported Wednesday. |
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MOSCOW — Three aviation officials were charged Wednesday in connection with a RusAir plane crash in bad weather last year in Petrozavodsk that killed 47 people and injured five others, the Investigative Committee said.
Two airport employees, Vladimir Shkarupa and Vladimir Pronin, are accused of failing to provide proper weather information to the crew of the doomed Tu-134, which crashed short of the runway in foggy weather in June 2011 as it approached from Moscow. |
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MOSCOW — A court ruled Wednesday that three members of a punk band who stormed the pulpit of Moscow’s main Orthodox church and asked for Russia to be freed from Vladimir Putin will remain in jail until late July. |
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 Piterland, described by its creators as a new “multifunctional complex with retail elements” opened on Friday, June 15.
The complex represents the first phase of a project undertaken in the Primorsky district by project developer Stremberg, an investment and construction company, and Tor, the project’s general contractor. |
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Local financial analysts are encouraging people not to worry about the recent fluctuation in exchange rates caused by the Eurozone crisis.
“In terms of [financial] safety, it’s better to do nothing now and wait until next year,” said Spartak Sobolev, an analyst from ForexClub. |
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 Special economic zones, widely considered a fast track to economic development, will be one of the most important topics of discussion at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum on Thursday and Friday.
The Shenzhen in China, maquiladoras in Mexico, Jebel Ali in Dubai and the Bataan in the Philippines are good examples of the success stories of economic zones. |
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Proponents of the “reset” in U.S.-Russian relations have reason to celebrate. The meeting between Presidents Barack Obama and Vladimir Putin on the sidelines of Monday’s Group of 20 summit was not a disaster, as many experts had predicted. |
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New York musicians will unite to perform in support of feminist punk group Pussy Riot, as the three women — imprisoned for allegedly performing an anti-Putin “punk prayer” at a Moscow church and labeled “prisoners of conscience” by Amnesty International — have spent more than three months in prison and expect that their detention will be prolonged for another two months this week.
Frank London & Di Shikere Kapelye featuring Michael Alpert, singer-songwriter Alina Simone and a dozen others will take part in a Pussy Riot benefit event due at the Knitting Factory in Brooklyn, New York at 3 p. |
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MAVERICK BRITISH FILM
DIRECTOR PETER
GREENAWAY SPOKE TO THE
ST. PETERSBURG TIMES
DURING A VISIT TO THE CITY
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 Now in its 11th year, Stereoleto (Stereo Summer) — an annual series of summer music and dance events that this year will be headlined by Regina Spektor and Röyksopp — has raised a generation of music connoisseurs, while being viewed with suspicion by the establishment, according to the festival’s founder and head of Light Music promotion agency, Ilya Bortnyuk.
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 Handsome, dapper, erudite and charming, you would never know to look at him that Peter Greenaway is one of the most polarizing figures in world cinema.
Mischievous? Yes. Affected? Sometimes. But at 70 years old, the great British director is nothing if not a supreme gentleman. |
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Ïàðàäíûé: ceremonial, dress, sham
Russia has always had a powerful, relatively small class of rulers and a weak, relatively large class of rulees. Indulging in a bit of armchair philosophizing, it seems to me that when each new type of Russian officialdom starts out, there is a fairly close relationship between word and deed. |
 Loneliness often leads people to the most improbable alliances. This is the case in Avdotya Smirnova’s new film, “Kokoko,” which started screening nationwide on June 14.
At first glance, as they happen to share a cabin on an overnight train from Moscow to St. Petersburg, the two thirty-something heroines seem to be antipodes: The energetic, down-to-earth, foxy, foul-mouthed and heavily made-up provincial Vika (Yana Troyanova), and the anti-glamorous St. |
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 Last week, television presenter Ksenia Sobchak had both her privacy and her safe invaded, as it turned out that investigators were following her love life pretty carefully. |
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Un diner presque parfait
While there are a great many confectionaries in St. Petersburg with French pretensions, few among them actually manage to create an authentic atmosphere or execute the cuisine with that effortless finesse characteristic of France. Du Nord 1834 has a long history of Francophilia: It is so named after one of the first French cafes in St. |
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 They hold the title of man’s best friend, are irreplaceable members of the police force, served in World War II, are excellent guards, lead sled teams and serve as shepherds. They assist the deaf and blind and are faithful companions. These talented beings are not humans, but dogs. Now four-legged friends can even be therapists.
Research has proven that dogs have a positive influence on the human mind and make people happy. |
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 When we are brave enough to look our mistakes square in the face, we often realize that, although each situation was very different, the key to our failure and subsequent frustration was due to the same thing: Fear. |
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 Despite the rapid development of the Russian hospitality industry in recent years, most visitors agree that there is still much to be improved. A large part of the problem is due to a lack of qualified staff who believe in and are willing to work in the industry, says Walter Spaltenstein, head of the SwissAm Hospitality Business School, which opened in St. |
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