|
|
|
|
MOSCOW - TVS journalists cast around for new jobs Monday, while the Press Ministry struggled to find a legal justification for its decision to yank the channel off the air a day earlier. The Press Ministry cited TVS's long-standing financial and management troubles as the reason it replaced TVS with the new state-controlled Sport channel on Sunday. |
|
The general director of local television channel Petersburg Television resigned on Friday during a tumultuous few days of events that insiders and analysts said were orchestrated by the Kremlin to strengthen the federal government's grip on one of St. |
|
They may be best known for scientific discoveries that could potentially change the course of history, but Nobel Prize winners have their human side, too. The 20 Nobel Prize winners who assembled in St. Petersburg last week for the first meeting of its kind in Russia said that gatherings like last week's are valuable not just from a scientific point of view, but are also a great way for them to get to know each other personally. |
All photos from issue.
|
|
|
|
|
Over one third of the beaches in and around St. Petersburg may be contaminated and unfit for use, according to figures released this month by the St. Petersburg Center for Epidemic Control. Eight of the 23 beaches checked by the center had sand or water - or both - that registered dangerous levels of contaminants or toxins, the study, released June 8, found. |
|
MOSCOW - The Kremlin opened the English-language version of the presidential Web site on Friday. "As an integral member of the global community, Russia considers Internet to be an indispensable tool in the modern times for fast and easy access to information," Putin says in a greeting to visitors on the site at Kremlin. |
|
MOSCOW - In a broad sweep across domestic and foreign policy challenges, President Vladimir Putin answered journalists' questions Friday on topics ranging from his re-election and government reshuffles to Russian intelligence estimates of the war in Iraq and Iran's readiness for random inspections of its nuclear program. The annual press conference, which lasted two hours and 40 minutes, also produced inquiries on less burning issues such as "bio-terrorism" in the Volga River delta and potato farming. The Kremlin gathering got under way with a question from a Tomsk newspaper editor who first half-jokingly announced that Putin's wish to a newlywed couple in the region to conceive a baby has already been fulfilled before inquiring whether there is a conspiracy on the part of the oligarchs to turn Russia into a parliamentary republic. |
|
 MOSCOW - What makes Vladimir Putin ashamed? The poverty of his people. The antidote? A stronger economy. His answers may not have been revelatory, but in the course of a marathon press conference Friday, the president displayed a detailed understanding of a staggering array of economic issues, from oligarchs and capital flight to the sales tax and sturgeon. |
|
Starovoitova Probe ST. PETERSBURG (SPT) - The investigation into the 1998 murder of Duma Deputy Galina Starovoitova has been extended until December 20. "The decision for another half year extension was called for in the interests of the investigation," Interfax quoted the press service of the FSB's St. |
|
|
|
 A new $10-million EkoNord meat-packing plant was opened by Holland-based company Carpenter Investment B.V. and US-based company Crown Investment in Vsevolozhsk, Leningrad Oblast, on Tuesday. According to the executive director, Mattias Frank, the new plant's production capacity will be 100 tons of vacuum-packed cold meat per day. |
|
MOSCOW - The State Duma, heading for re-election later this year, on Saturday approved a government-backed plan to trim value added tax and eliminate the controversial 5-percent sales tax from next year to spur economic growth. |
|
Although the City Administration has yet to release any official statistics on the number of tourists who visited St. Petersburg during the 300th anniversary celebrations, travel companies and hotels have already begun to collate their results. Travel businesses appear to have weathered the difficulties presented by jubilee well, and are now have high hopes for the future, believing that the celebrations will continue to boost in-coming tourism in the coming months. |
|
MOSCOW - When it comes to luring direct investment from the locomotive of the global economy, Russia has a PR problem. While much of the world has been mired in an economic downturn, Russia has posted four consecutive years of stellar growth, and the administration of President Vladimir Putin has laid the groundwork to keep the ball rolling with progressive changes to the tax, customs, land and legal codes. |
 MOSCOW - Back in 1993, U.S. Ambassador to Russia Robert Strauss had just left that post and Eugene Lawson was stepping down as vice chairperson of the U.S. Commerce Department's Eximbank. A decade later, they are celebrating the 10th anniversary of the U. |
|
MOSCOW - Three weeks after the U.S. and Russian presidents met in St. Petersburg and three months before they meet again in Camp David, the U.S. government's top foreign-trade official described business ties between the two countries as the ballast that will carry bilateral relations through rough political waters. |
|
|
|
|
Foreign and domestic shareholders alike remain disgruntled with Gazprom's performance, and are becoming increasingly vocal. The short-lived flurry of optimism at the time of Rem Vyakhirev's dismissal as Gazprom CEO in May 2001 has given way to entrenched frustration at the lack of tangible results. |
|
Russia's relations with neighboring Belarus have been rocked by one more in a long line of scandals. In 2001 and 2002, the Russian Central Bank issued credits to Belarus totaling 4. |
|
I was one of the thousands packed into Red Square last month to hear Paul McCartney. Those of my generation - the generation that grew up with the Beatles - had, I am sure, a single thought in our minds: This was one of those events that, 20 or 30 years ago, we would never have expected to see. |
|
From early Sunday morning, TVS' usual programming was interrupted by wall-to-wall sports. I am not going to speculate about exactly what spurred Press Minister Mikhail Lesin to pull TVS off the air so abruptly, although one thing is clear: He cut short the agony of its death throes. |
|
Cry Freedom They were digging mass graves in Iraq last week. No, not the mass graves that George W. Bush now reflexively invokes to justify his murder of up to 10,000 innocent Iraqi civilians and the needless deaths of more than 200 United States soldiers in the aggressive war that he launched on the basis of proven lies and outright fabrications. |
|
|
|
|
MOSCOW - Two of Russia's most promising young basketball players unexpectedly pulled out of the 2003 NBA Draft late last week even though both were probable first-round selections. Pavel Podkolzin, the 7-foot-5 (226-centimeter) 18-year-old who in the last six months went from a bench warmer in the Italian first division to a projected NBA lottery pick, and CSKA Moscow and Russian national team player Viktor Khryapa both withdrew their names from the draft list shortly before the 5 p. |
Temp: 0°C partly cloudy 
Issues Archive