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 The festivities marking St. Petersburg's tricentennial centered on the city itself on Tuesday, officially commemorating the day in 1703 when Peter the Great laid the cornerstone of the Peter and Paul Fortress, the event that started it all. |
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May 29 10 a.m. to 11 p.m. "When the Bands Go Marching," an international festival of military brass bands Yubileiny Sports and Music Complex 11 a.m. Grand reopening (after restoration) of the new premises at Pushkinsky Dom of the Russian Academy of Sciences Institute of Russian Literature, 4 Naberezhnaya Makarova 11 a. |
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 Thousands of art lovers enjoyed the State Hermitage Museum's 300th-birthday present to St. Petersburg, taking advantage of the museum being open 24 hours and letting visitors in for free on Wednesday. According to the Hermitage's press service, some 22,000 people visited the museum during the night alone. |
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Amid a little bit of confusion over who the second lucky baby was, three children born in St. Petersburg on Tuesday, will receive free apartments from the city as part of a promise made by Governor Vladimir Yakovlev earlier this year, City Hall officials said on Wednesday. |
 The structure of power in St. Petersburg appears to be changing, as Governor Vladimir Yakovlev has suffered a string of political defeats in recent months. The majority of the deputies in the Legislative Assembly are in opposition to Yakovlev, ruling out the chance of a change to the City Charter that would allow him to run for a third term in office. |
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The lineups at public toilets on Tuesday evening appeared to be just as long as they always are for big events in the city center and, once again, the sight of people stealing out of plain view in order to relieve themselves was a common occurence, but city authorities say that it's not for a lack of effort on their part. |
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Despite giving St. Petersburg a 300th-birthday present, Swiss authorities were overlooked when it came to handing out invitations to the party. Instead, an official delegation from Switzerland will arrive in St. Petersburg a month after the official celebrations have finished. Franz Schneider, a consul at the Swiss Consulate, said in a telephone interview on Wednesday that Switzerland had not been invited as it is not a member of the European Union, but City Hall officials said that this was not the case. |
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LAST month Prime Minister Tony Blair of Britain traveled to Moscow to discuss postwar Iraq with President Vladimir Putin of Russia. Although the war was effectively over, Putin remained skeptical of its aims. "Where is Hussein?" Putin asked at a press conference after the meeting. |
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WHILE the arrival of President Vladimir Putin's official guests and the summits with EU and CIS state leaders still lies ahead, the most important events - those held for residents of St. |
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THERE are 1,500 foreign and Russian journalists who have come from out of town to cover the 300th-anniversary events and, sometimes, it feels like half of them have called our office looking for a local angle. My colleagues, from Britain, Holland, Slovenia, the United States and Japan, ask me to tell them about corruption, about the situation with regard to civil rights, about the way that people are reacting to the celebrations. |
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 Twice a month, a motley collection of hundreds of young people gather to spend the night in a little-known club in what used to be East Berlin. The club goers - native Germans, Russian emigres and a handful of tourists from the United States and Europe - go with a common purpose in mind: to listen and dance to recordings of alternative music from the former Soviet Union. The music runs the gamut of alternative genres, from urban folk to ska punk, but it all comes under the heading Russendisko, or Russian Disco. |
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 The first three weeks of this year's three-month running of the Mariinsky Theater's annual Stars of the White Nights festival is proving wrong the skeptics who thought that the theater had overreached itself, although not everything has gone smoothly. |
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Thursday is the last chance to see Washington, D.C.'s top ska-jazz band, Eastern Standard Time, which has been brought to the city by its local counterpart, St. Petersburg Ska Jazz Review. "From the musical standpoint, we merely use the recipe that was used to create ska originally," EST founder member James McDonald wrote in a recent e-mail interview. |
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Traditionally, finding something to eat in the State Hermitage Museum has been something of a problem, with the only option being an expensive little café on the first floor that served mainly burgers and soft drinks. |
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Sindrom ostrogo respiratornogo zabolevnaniya: Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS). If you haven't been locked in a closet for the last two months, you'll know about SARS, or what is usually called in Russian antipichnaya pnevmoniya (literally "atypical pneumonia"). If you haven't been locked in a closet, hopefully by now you'll also know that you should worry far more about being hit by a car than catching SARS. However, it's worth knowing a bit of the lingo, since if you happen to cough a couple of times on an airplane, an attendant will come up to you and ask, "V kakikh stranakh vy byvali za posledniye dve nedeli? U vas temperatura svyshe 38 gradusov? Sukhoi kashel? Nedomoganie?" (Which countries have you visited in the last two weeks? Do you have a temperature of over 38 degrees Celsius? A dry cough? Feeling out of sorts?) If the answer to any of the above questions is "yes" or "China," prepare for quarantine. |
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 Visitors to the State Hermitage Museum were greeted by a live cobra for the opening of a new exhibition recently. However, the only thing the snake had in common with the art going on display was its name. |
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More than 40 years after they first met, two of St. Petersburg's favorite poets have been brought together again at one of the city's most famous addresses. Joseph Brodsky, then 21, met Anna Akhmatova in 1961, when the latter was in her early 70s. In early April, the exhibition "Joseph Brodsky: Urania. |
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EAST RUTHERFORD, New Jersey -The Anaheim Mighty Ducks know that 16 shots aren't enough to beat most teams, let alone the New Jersey Devils in the Stanley Cup finals. The Mighty Ducks have been rewriting their playoff record book this year in a positive sense. But they've now topped their previous playoff-worst shot total of 20 twice. |
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