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 In 15 years St. Petersburg will have a new satellite town known as Yuzhny — a self-sufficient miniature city with its own infrastructure and businesses, and whose residents will likely be labeled “southerners.”
“Housing covering an area of 4.3 million square meters for 134,000 residents will be built there,” said Andrei Nazarov, general director of Start Development Management company, the project’s developer, which signed a joint agreement on the realization of the project with the St. Petersburg city government last month.
“The strategic importance of the project is defined by its orientation toward improving the socio-economic, social and cultural life of the population,” said Oleg Lyskov, acting chairman of City Hall’s Committee for Investment and Strategic Projects. “The building of low-rise constructions, which provide a new level of comfort in urban environments, is widespread practice in European cities because of the number of advantages they offer,” he added.
The concept of the Yuzhny satellite town was developed by Urban Design Associates, an American architectural bureau, and Gillespies, a British architecture and urban design firm. |
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HOLD ON TIGHT!
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Gymnast Aliya Mustafina placed first on the uneven bars during the event finals at the 2012 London Olympic Games on Monday. Russia has won many
silver and bronze medals thus far, but not many gold medals. The closing ceremony for the Olympic Games is scheduled for Aug. 12. |
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The court, which resumed after a one-month holiday last week, wrapped up its viewing of the video evidence presented by the prosecution in the trial of the 12 The Other Russia opposition party activists accused of continuing the activities of the banned National Bolshevik Party (NBP).
The Other Russia was formed by opposition leader and author Eduard Limonov after his former organization, the NBP, was banned by a Moscow court for being extremist in 2007.
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Boats Collide on Neva
ST. PETERSBURG (SPT) — A collision between a pleasure boat and a cargo ship on the Neva River last Tuesday night was the result of river traffic safety rules being violated, Russia’s Investigative Committee said.
“The crew of the pleasure boat violated the water traffic safety rules. We are not excluding professional errors in the work of the cargo ship either,” the Investigative Committee said on its website last week.
The two vessels collided on the stretch of the river near the Summer Garden. As a result of the incident, the motorboat, which had 13 passengers and two crewmembers on board, sank. All those on board were rescued from the water. |
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 Seventy percent of St. Petersburgers aged between 16 and 35 do not use any form of contraception when having casual sex, according to the results of a nationwide sociological poll conducted earlier this month by NewsEffector and PN Reader monitoring agencies. |
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Forty-five percent of Russians believe that society is prejudiced against overweight people and does not respect them, according to sociologists from the recruitment portal Superjob.ru, Interfax reported.
Women are more often inclined to think that being overweight leads to discrimination: Fifty-six percent of women believe it to be the case, compared to 36 percent of men. |
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 LONDON — After a miserable first week in the gold medal stakes, traditional powerhouse Russia is showing signs of a revival, though not enough to avoid its lowest Summer Olympic finish in 60 years.
While some of Russia’s strongest events are still to come, the team is set to wind up outside the top three in golds for the first time since the Soviet Union began competing at the games in 1952. |
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MOSCOW — Prosecutors on Tuesday called for three-year sentences for the members of the feminist punk band that performed an anti-Vladimir Putin stunt in Moscow’s main cathedral, ignoring demands by human rights groups that the three women be set free. |
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 The notion that several children of the sleeper spies arrested in 2010 in the United States were groomed by Russian authorities to become foreign spies as adults is more evidence of the absurdity of the whole operation.
Tim Foley, 20, is the eldest son of Donald Heathfield and Tracey Foley, whose real names are Andrei Bezrukov and Yelena Vavilova. |
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Yury Milner, the billionaire business partner of Alisher Usmanov and graduate of the physics department of Moscow State University, made his fortune investing in Facebook and Groupon. |
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 Pop music fans are not the only ones eagerly anticipating the visit of American music icon Madonna, who is performing in Moscow and St. Petersburg this week as part of her MDNA tour in support of her twelfth studio album of the same name.
The imprisoned women of the feminist punk band Pussy Riot, currently on trial in Moscow, and their supporters are hoping for the pop superstar’s backing, while the Russian LGBT community is waiting for her to voice her opinion against the infamous anti-gay propaganda law as she promised to on Facebook earlier this year. |
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 A small, compact container is currently playing host to a two-week-long art gallery on New Holland island at which the exhibition changes every three days. |
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Áîãîõóëüñòâî: blasphemy
I have been reluctant to wade into the linguistic morass of the Pussy Riot case mostly because I’m not a specialist in religious or legal terminology. But I finally gave in to my curiosity and decided to read îáâèíèòåëüíîå çàêëþ÷åíèå (indictment).
Half a page into it, the legal language was pretty clear, but my desk was covered with reference books on church and religious terminology. If you’re trying to follow the case, it may be helpful to understand a few of the recurring terms.
First, where the action took place. In an Orthodox church, the raised platform in front of the iconostasis is ñîëåÿ (solea). The section of the solea in front of the royal doors is called àìâîí (ambon). |
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 Lately everyone’s attention has been on the Pussy Riot trial, whether wishing the women freedom or joyfully anticipating a long sentence, like pop singer Yelena Vayenga, who said she has already put champagne on ice. |
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Feasting among ruins
Il Konti is a bright bite of Italy hidden on a corner of drizzly Petersburg. After bringing his Italian flare to the taste buds of diners in both Moscow and the northern capital and opening several venues in the former, last November Giuseppe Conti finally opened his first eatery in St. |
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 Russian aristocrats and members of the Romanov dynasty were once some of the most important clients for Cartier, one of the world’s most celebrated jewelry brands. In recent decades, however, high jewelry has become accessible to the new emerging elites far beyond Europe. And while Cartier is looking east, and in particular to the fast-developing Chinese market, Russia remains a key focus of the brand’s attention. |
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 IRKUTSK — There are many ways to describe Lake Baikal: The world’s oldest and deepest freshwater lake, the Pearl of Siberia, and a perennial headache for Russia’s environmentalists. |
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