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Police say a bus crash in northwest Russia has killed six people and injured at least 18 others, including orphans returning from a field trip.
Police in the Vologda region said Thursday the crash occurred after a truck veered into the oncoming lane, hitting a bus that was carrying 31 people including 25 children returning to St. |
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Local non-governmental organizations were targeted last week in a wave of unannounced inspections, where they were asked questions about their alleged involvement in extremist activities and ordered to present detailed documentation of their work.
The NGOs and human rights organizations condemned the inspections — conducted by teams of prosecutors, Justice Ministry officials and police — as an attempt by the Kremlin’s to further intimidate the civil society in Russia.
On Monday, the Justice Ministry said the goal of the inspections is to reveal organizations acting as “foreign agents.”
On March 19, the inspection team checked Bellona, the local branch of the Norwegian-based ecological organization. The human rights law society Peterburgskaya Egida (St. |
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SHOP ON
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A public discussion of the redevelopment of the Apraksin Dvor market that took place last week favored the creation of a multifunctional culture and leisure center, as well as a shopping complex. Apraksin Dvor, located in the center of the city on Sadovaya Ulitsa, has been a site for retail activity since the mid-18th century. |
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Record Cold Spring
ST. PETERSBURG (SPT) — Russia’s meteorological service has said this March has turned out to be the coldest in the last 60 years.
The European part of Russia has not experienced such cold March weather since the early 1950s, said Roman Vilfand, head of Russia’s Hydrometeorological Center.
“We registered such cold temperatures only in 1942 and the early 1950s.
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Yulia Vasyutina, the deputy head of the Culture Committee of the St. Petersburg administration, served as a peacemaker in a meeting between a group of angry employees of the city Zoo and its director, Irina Skiba.
Over the recent months, the zoo’s staff has been busy writing complaints to the authorities accusing the organization’s management of ill-conceived policies that are leading it astray.
While various experts are assessing the efficiency of the Zoo’s policies, Vasyutina blamed miscommunication for the escalating conflict at the company. At the meeting the official defended the management and stressed that at least part of the frustration of the zoo’s employees is due to the fact that most people are not aware of the activities of other departments, and therefore cannot make a fair judgment. |
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 Leningrad-born pop artist Vladislav Mamishev-Monroe died in Bali at the age of 43. The artist drowned in a hotel pool on March 16th, but the death was only reported last Thursday. |
 Winter may still hold the city in its snowy clutches, but while St. Petersburg’s Orthodox Christians are busy digging out recipes from their Lenten cookbooks, the city’s Catholics, Protestants, and members of other denominations of Western Christianity are preparing to celebrate Easter this weekend. |
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St. Petersburg’s Kuibyshevsky district court has remanded Ilya Khubayev, who is suspected of having caused a fatal injury to a FC Zenit soccer fan, into pre-trial custody, the news website Fontanka. |
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 MOSCOW — British police released a statement late Monday saying that the cause of self-exiled tycoon Boris Berezovsky’s death “is consistent with hanging.”
Berezovsky, 67, was found dead on the bathroom floor in his estate near London last Saturday afternoon. |
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MOSCOW — Nationalist politician Vladimir Zhirinovsky was re-elected leader of the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia on Monday, quashing speculation that he would hand over control to an anointed successor after more than two decades at the helm. |
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MOSCOW — A deal between Cyprus and European lenders was backed by the Kremlin on Monday, even as top Russian officials unleashed a storm of angry rhetoric about a compulsory levy on local bank accounts included in the rescue package.
President Vladimir Putin “decided to support” the agreement between Cyprus and the European Commission, said his spokesman, Dmitry Peskov.
Russia will begin working on restructuring a 2.5 billion euro ($3.2 billion) loan given to Nicosia in 2011, Peskov added. Renegotiating the loan was a key aim of Cypriot Finance Minister Michalis Sarris when he came to Moscow for talks last week.
While Putin’s move appeared to suggest a tentative backing for the deal, other officials were deeply critical. |
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 MOSCOW — In a veiled criticism of the U.S., new Chinese President Xi Jinping has denounced foreign governments that meddle in the domestic affairs of other countries, adopting rhetoric favored by President Vladimir Putin as he wrapped up his first foreign trip in Moscow. |
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MOSCOW — Moscow saved $850 by taking part in the international Earth Hour campaign last week, City Hall said Monday.
City authorities marked Earth Hour, part of the international campaign to show awareness of and appreciation for the environment, by shutting off the lights at 90 landmark buildings in Moscow, including the Kremlin, for one hour last Saturday. |
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 On March 14 and 15, the Mariinsky Ballet and Orchestra were basking in the sunny glow of Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates, in more ways than one. The troupe was there for their U.A.E. premiere and to open the international portion of one of the region’s annual arts festivals of global significance.
“It was really spectacular, just beautiful,” said Hoda Ibrahim Al Khamis-Kanoo, the founder of the Abu Dhabi Music and Arts Foundation and the presenter of the Abu Dhabi Festival. |
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 One hundred and fifteen years ago, on March 19, 1898, the first state museum of Russian art opened its doors in St. Petersburg. Today, the State Russian Museum is a unique repository of artistic treasures. |
 There is hardly anything more boring than seeing tribute and cover bands churning out some other band’s songs trying to sound as close to the original as possible — but an annual music event called Cover Party offers listeners something completely different.
The event, where the participating groups perform versions of music written by other bands, often in an unlikely manner, is created for the joy of it, according to organizer Yana Chudit. |
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 Once again Tallinn is becoming a hotspot for St. Petersburg fans of rock music. With Tallinn Music Week, a three-day music industry event and festival, being held early next month, it has been announced that the legendary Soviet-era outdoor rock festival Rock Summer is to make its return to the Estonian capital this summer. |
 The enfant terrible of the Russian art world, gallery owner and curator Marat Guelman is renowned for organizing large-scale art exhibitions which challenge established notions of art in Russia.
Now Guelman, who opened Russia’s very first private contemporary art gallery in 1990 and also founded PERMM, Russia’s first museum of contemporary art outside of Moscow and St. Petersburg, is throwing down yet another challenge to ignorance by bringing the exhibition “Icons” to St. |
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 A new book that has been published this month takes a close look at the history of Russian fashion and costume in the times of Russia’s last tsar, Nicholas II. |
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There are times when, as a foreigner, you realize that concepts that are familiar in your homeland have a distinctly translated touch when you find them in Russia. Such was the experience at CoCoCo, a recently-opened restaurant in the city center, owned by Leningrad singer Sergei Shnurov and his wife. |
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 St. Petersburg residents make frequent pilgrimages to nearby Finland for a number of reasons: Aesthetes visit the capital for performances by the renowned Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, the romantics spend weekends at art nouveau cottages on the outskirts of the capital, while shoppers opt for day trips to the malls of Lappeenranta. |
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