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 St. Petersburg vice governor Anna Markova became the sole official contender to replace Governor Vladimir Yakovlev when she announced in a speech before the Legislative Assembly on Thursday that she would be a candidate in the next gubernatorial elections. |
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The city's political rumor mill has been working overtime ever since Governor Vladimir Yakovlev announced in April that he was no longer attempting to win the right to run for a third term in office. |
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MOSCOW - UES chief Anatoly Chubais announced Thursday that he is leaving the pool of TVS shareholders, which the television channel's spokesperson said may finally bring stability to "the long-suffering channel and its staff." Chubais told Interfax that he will sell his stock in TVS' parent company, Shestoi Telekanal, to his ally Igor Linshits, chief of Neftyannoi Bank, and Oleg Kiselyov, director general of Media-Sotsium, which holds the channel's broadcasting license. |
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ST. PETERSBURG (SPT) - Six candidates will compete for the position as head of St. Petersburg's Election Commission, Interfax reported Wednesday. All six hold post-graduate legal qualifications, as required by federal law, with one holding a PhD. The Central Election Commission has yet to name its candidate for the post, the last remaining step required by federal law for the election. |
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 MOSCOW - He gathered journalists to talk about the Group of Eight summit in France, but Andrei Illarionov rarely misses a chance to go after Anatoly Chubais in public. President Vladimir Putin's outspoken economic guru lambasted Chubais and his "comrades" at Unified Energy Systems on Wednesday for pushing through a breakup plan for the electricity monopoly that he said will make a few rich people richer and a lot of poor people poorer. |
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A process of de-dollarization has begun in the Russian economy, according to the head of the Central Bank, Sergei Ignatiev, speaking at the 12th International Banking Congress in St. |
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BAGHDAD - Iraq said Wednesday that it had not cancelled oil contracts with Russian companies to develop oil fields after the downfall of Saddam Hussein's government. "So far, the Oil Ministry has not cancelled any contract with any country, or with international oil companies," an Iraqi Oil Ministry source said. |
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The plethora of high-level meetings and summits that take place in May each year have become a traditional feature of the international political landscape. This year, however, these gatherings were of particular importance because of the need to smooth over the cracks caused by the Iraq crisis. |
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According to President Vladimir Putin, "... freedom of movement is one of the most significant rights for every person ... ." He made the comment in relation to opening up the visa regime between Russian and European Union countries during the EU-Russia summit held here last Saturday. |
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 For some people, it's never to early to join the family business. Rokuro Umewaka, the 56th representative of a renowned dynasty of Japanese actors, had his first Noh theater lesson when he was just 3 years old. Now aged 55, Umewaka was in St. Petersburg last week for the first performance in the city of the ancient Japanese performing art, ranked No. 1 on UNESCO's list of non-material cultural assets. |
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 Seminal Russian rock band Akvarium will showcase its long-awaited new album, released last month, with two concerts next week, for which the band will be augmented with a full-fledged jazz horn section for the first time. |
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After Paul McCartney's recent visit, another dream of St. Petersburg rock fans looks set to be fullfilled this week, as veteran British band King Crimson plays the Oktyabrsky Concert Hall on Tuesday. Apart from founder Robert Fripp on guitar, King Crimson's current, sixth line-up includes Adrian Belew (guitar, lead vocals), Trey Gunn (touch guitar) and Pat Mastelotto (drums). |
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It was with a fair degree of excitement that I, along with an English colleague, set off for Leo's Pub, a recently opened establishment on Voznesensky Prospect that claims to be a British-style watering hole. |
 Although the name of Giacomo Quarenghi is associated with dozens of buildings in St. Petersburg, most of the Italian architect's original drawings ended up in his homeland. Now, however, an exhibition at the State Hermitage Museum has put some of these drawings on display, and the results often reveal a different Quarenghi to the one that most St. Petersburgers are used to. "Harmony of Style in Architecture: Drawings by Giacomo Quarenghi (1744-1817) from Italian Municipal Collections" brings together 130 of Quarenghi's drawings, building designs and sketches from Milan's Museo Castello Sforzeso and Bergamo's Angelo Mai Quarenghi was one of the most educated architects of his day, an archeologist and antiquarian who travelled all over Italy measuring and sketching antique monuments. |
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 There was a time when Dmitry Dostoyevsky used to curse the memory of his famous great-grandfather, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, the 19th-century author of such literary classics as "The Brothers Karamazov" and "Crime and Punishment. |
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300-Letiye Sankt-Peterburga: St. Petersburg's tercentenary circus, literally the "zoo-jubilee" of St. Petersburg - a pun based on reading the number "3" as the Russian letter "Z." St. Petersburgers do not seem universally thrilled by the celebration of the city's 300th anniversary. For months, the city has been clogged by traffic jams, buildings have been hidden under scaffolding, and everyone has been depressed by report after report of misused funding. Last week, they had to deal with the actual celebrations, which seem designed to be enjoyed by everyone but those who actually live and work in the city. |
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 The heroes of "Dreamcatcher," Pete, Jonesy, Beaver and Henry, are old boyhood chums, now grown up into a posse of wisecracking bachelors, played by Timothy Olyphant, Damian Lewis, Jason Lee and Thomas Jane. |
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PARIS - Belgium's Justine Henin-Hardenne ended the grand slam dominance of Serena Williams on Thursday when she stunned the defending champion 6-2, 4-6, 7-5 in the French Open semifinals. In her second grand-slam final on Saturday, Henin-Hardenne will play compatriot Kim Clijsters, who benefitted from a little luck Thursday to erase a set point and beating unseeded Russian Nadia Petrova 7-5, 6-1. |
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Seaman to City n MANCHESTER, England (AP) - Longtime Arsenal goalkeeper David Seaman signed a one-year contract Wednesday with Manchester City. Seaman, 39, spent 13 years with the Gunners, and his contract expired at the end of last season. |
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