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Three stations to collect hazardous waste will open their doors in St. Petersburg in September, the city’s Nature Use, Environmental Protection and Ecological Safety Committee said, Interfax reported.
The test project will be conducted in the city’s Pushkinsky, Frunzensky and Nevsky districts in September and October. They will be open every other day in the mornings and evenings.
In either November or December these stations will be moved to the Kalininsky, Primorsky and Vyborgsky districts.
The stations’ exact addresses are currently under discussion.
The cost of the three stations totals 2.6 million rubles ($81,000). It will cost four million rubles ($124,600) to service the stations over a four-month period. |
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POWER SHOWER
ALEXANDER BELENKY / SPT
A restorer from the workshops of the Urban Sculpture Museum hoses down the horses atop the Narvskiye Vorota in time for the celebrations of the
200th anniversary of Russia’s victory over Napoleon in 1812. The triumphal arch was built from 1827-1834 as a memorial to the heroes of that war. |
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The prosecution misrepresented a book launch event at the Russian National Library as an “unsanctioned rally,” the defendants said last week as the Trial of 12 opposition activists continues in St. Petersburg.
A technical specialist was summoned to the Vyborgsky District Court early last week where 12 activists of The Other Russia opposition party are on trial for organizing or continuing the “extremist activities of a banned organization” [the banned National Bolshevik party], but the specialist has so far failed to appear.
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MOSCOW — A group of right-wing activists in St. Petersburg has filed a $10-million lawsuit against Madonna, claiming that the pop star’s Aug. 9 concert promoted homosexuality and offended Orthodox believers.
The suit, which demands 333 million rubles ($10. |
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American coffee shop chain Starbucks is set to open in St. Petersburg this fall.
A source close to Monex Trading, which is developing the chain in Russia via a franchise, told the newspaper that cafes covering areas of 200 to 300 square meters would open in the Galeria, Piterland and Mega Dybenko malls. |
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Woman Buried Alive
ST. PETERSBURG (SPT) — City police are searching for a man who buried a woman alive in a local cemetery.
On Monday, police received a message that two injured women had been found in the city’s Victims of January 9 Memorial cemetery. One of them had had her arms tied up and was covered in soil, Fontanka. |
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 Given how famous Pussy Riot has become, people are sometimes surprised to learn that the entire oeuvre of the female punk band is made up of six songs and five videos.
Badly recorded, based on simple riffs and scream-like singing, the feminist singers were dismissed by many critics and listeners as amateur, provocative and obscene. |
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MOSCOW — While the two-year prison sentences given to members of punk band Pussy Riot on Friday continue to mobilize unseen levels of outrage at the Kremlin in the West, the verdict could lead to a split in the country’s fledgling protest movement. |
 NALCHIK — Natai Al Sharkas’ great-grandfather killed his Russian commanding officer and defected to the enemy.
The ethnic Circassian swells with pride at the thought of the century-old act.
Natives of what is now Russia’s Caucasus region, Circassians fiercely resisted the Russian tsarist conquest that ended in the 1860s after decades of scorched-earth warfare, mass killings or expulsions that some historians and politicians consider genocide. |
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Three lawyers from St. Petersburg and Moscow have offered to provide their services for free to victims and relatives of those affected by crimes committed by Sergei Tsapok’s gang. |
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 There was shock, if no real surprise, at the verdict against Pussy Riot on Friday. Despite whispers of leniency, I never doubted that a conviction and prison term would result. Not because they violated anything in the Criminal Code, which, as of this writing, is still freely available on the Internet. |
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The worst calamities tend to befall Russia in August. It’s been called the month of disasters, but it is rather a month of shrinkage. It seems that every August, Russia is diminished — in size, reputation and stature — both in the eyes of its own citizens and internationally. |
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 The two-year sentences a Moscow court handed down to three young women from the feminist punk group Pussy Riot have sparked waves of protests and indignation around the world.
The members of Pussy Riot have already been imprisoned for nearly six months and have been dubbed “prisoners of conscience” by Amnesty International.
The verdict was condemned by governments, human rights organizations, artists and ordinary people around the globe. |
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 A woman veiled in black enfolds her wounded adult son in her white-gloved hands, burying his head in her chest. This picture was taken during the demonstrations in Sanaa, Yemen, against president Ali Abdullah Saleh last October and is the winner of the World Press Photo contest 2012, the most important journalism photography contest of the year. |
 Last week, the sultry model girlfriend of footballer Cristiano Ronaldo was hired to replace Ksenia Sobchak as the judge of “Russia’s Next Top Model” after the channel got cold feet about Sobchak’s political protest activities.
“A model should also be a role model,” the channel hinted in its trailer for the show, which is an official remake of “America’s Next Top Model. |
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Ñìèðåíèå: humility
Afew years ago I decided that a look at the ñåìü ñìåðòíûõ ãðåõîâ (seven deadly sins) would be culturally enlightening and personally edifying. |
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Playing with food
Stepping into Teatr, a new restaurant-cafe next to the Theater Estrady, guests may be caught by the prickling discomfort sensed when entering a restaurant that is almost completely empty. At nine in the evening, there were only two other diners, who had tucked themselves away in one of the corners of the single rectangular room. |
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 MOSCOW — Yury Sidorov was afraid he wouldn’t find a job after he lost the use of his legs in a car accident five years ago.
“I thought employers wouldn’t take me seriously. I thought people would treat me like an outcast and everyone would feel bad for me,” the 28-year-old said.
Sidorov had reason to worry: Eighty-four percent of Russians with disabilities, 3. |
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