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By Sergey Chernov
The St. Petersburg Times

Dmitry Konradt, one of the city’s top fine-art photographers, was there with his camera to document most of the historic moments as well as the liberating spirit of St. Petersburg rock music during the Leningrad rock explosion of the 1980s.

Photo by Ben Westoby, Courtesy White Cube

DESIGN WITHIN REACH

By Natalya Smolentseva
The St. Petersburg Times

Some of the world’s best designers and architects, as well as lesser-known yet promising talents, are in town this week as part of the third St. Petersburg Design Week, which began yesterday and continues through May 29. Bulthaup Design Gallery, the DLT department store, Peter and Paul Fortress and a number of design showrooms around town are taking part in hosting a full program of events.

Photo by Natasha Razina

LIGHTING UP THE WHITE NIGHTS

By Galina Stolyarova
The St. Petersburg Times

The 21st annual Stars of the White Nights music festival opens on Friday and will be held for the first time at all three Mariinsky theater venues. The long-awaited stage of Mariinsky II will finally be christened with its first premiere, up-and-coming young director, Vasily Barkhatov, will open the festival with his rendition of Dargomyzhsky’s opera “Rusalka”

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The celebration begins on Saturday, with the annual festival of street theaters on Palace Square. Theater troupes from Russia, Germany, the United States, France, Holland and Austria will all stage performances. The final performance of the day will be given by St. Petersburg avant-garde theater Derevo.St. Petersburg Marks 310th Anniversary

Isaac Sheps, CEO of Russia’s largest brewer Baltika, says that his job is “selling fun.” The fun materializes when a waiter brings over several pints of an amber-colored liquid.Baltika’s Isaac Sheps Likes a Good Challenge

St. Petersburg authorities abruptly ended a previously authorized LGBT protest rally against homophobia and transphobia — described as Russia’s largest in the past few years — for alleged security reasons on Friday.Abrupt End for Approved Gay Rally

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MOSCOW — Nestle Purina PetCare, a subsidiary of Nestle Russia, opened a $45 million line for pet food production in the Kaluga region last Thursday.Pet Food Profitable in Russia

ST. PETERSBURG (SPB) — Among talk of the problem of unpaid gas bills and the possibility of opening a St. Petersburg Gas Museum, participants at last week’s St. Petersburg International Gas Forum broached an issue of rare environmental significance — the use of natural gas to power Russia’s buses, instead of gasoline.Natural Gas to Power Russian Buses

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