Latest St Petersburg (Russia) News
RSS-
Avrora May Go for Repairs in September – Russian Navy
MOSCOW, May 24 (RIA Novosti) – Russia’s legendary cruiser Avrora, a symbol of the October 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, will most likely be moved for repair work in September this year, a Navy spokesman said on Friday. "The Avrora is expected to be sent for repair work in September 2013," the official said, adding that the work will be carried out in an as yet undecided ...
-
Magnitude 6.7 earthquake shook Sakhalin region of eastern Russia
Magnitude 6.7 earthquake shook Sakhalin region of eastern Russia MOSCOW - Magnitude 6.7 earthquake shook eastern Russia on Friday. The earthquake was located in the Sea of Okhotsk.According to information released by Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations, the epicentre of the quake was located at a depth of 600 kilometres in the Sea of Okhotsk.The statement added, the earthquake was felt in ...
-
Russia Pledges 1.7 Bln Euros for Serbian South Stream
BOCHAROV RUCHEI (Sochi), May 24 (RIA Novosti) – Russia will provide 1.7 billion euros to finance the construction of Serbia’s stretch of the South Stream gas pipeline that will carry Russian natural gas through the Black Sea to Bulgaria and then on to Greece, Italy and Austria, President Vladimir Putin said on Friday. "The Russian side undertakes to finance that ...
More St Petersburg (Russia) News
RSS-
Liquor Sales in Russia Drop 23 in Jan-April
MOSCOW, May 24 (RIA Novosti) – Production of vodka and other spirits in Russia dropped 23.3 percent in the first four months of 2013 year on year to 5.7 million decaliters, the Federal Statistics Service (Rosstat) said in a report on Friday. Beer production declined 10.7 percent compared to the same period last year, to some 78.2 million decaliters. Production of wine rose 19.1 percent ...
-
Russian Minister Urges Completion of 2 New Radars
KALININGRAD, May 24 (RIA Novosti) – Construction of Russia’s two new antimissile radars – one in the Baltic exclave of Kaliningrad and the other in Siberia’s Irkutsk region – should be complete by the end of next year, Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said on Friday. The minister, who was visiting the Voronezh-DM-class radar station near Kaliningrad, said that on ...
-
World Briefing | Asia Earthquake in Russias Far East Prompts Evacuations
An 8.3-magnitude earthquake struck ...
-
Russia evacuates drifting Arctic research station as ice floe melts
As global warming accelerates, the life span of Arctic ice floes is decreasing, shocking Russian scientists who base their 'drifting' research stations ...
-
Russia to cut the budget of CIA
At times, though, Western publications comment on the statements from Russia after they take place. This may mean that Western intelligence services may have missed a new Russian ...
-
Gays may shake up Russian-Polish relations well
Former Polish President Lech Walesa has caused a storm of negative remarks in the European media, having said that homosexuals "have to sit on the last bench in the parliament, or even farther than that - behind the wall." Poland opposes the legalization of same-sex cohabitation, which has been promoted in Europe lately. This may become the reason to shake up Russian-Polish ...
-
Magnitude 8.2 earthquake rocks Russian Far East
A magnitude 8.2 earthquake struck off Russia’s eastern coast on Friday, briefly prompting a tsunami scare but causing no casualties or substantial damage, Russian emergency authorities said. The epicentre of the quake was located at a depth of 385 miles (620 km) in the Sea of ...
-
Russian Envoy Congratulates Bulgaria on Cyrillic Script Day
Russia's Ambassador in Sofia Yuriy Isakov has congratulated Bulgarians on their national day of Culture and Slavic Script. "I wish all our Bulgarian brothers a happy holiday, well-being, good and happy days - despite the difficult life in Bulgaria," Isakov told reporters on Friday. The Ambassador noted that Bulgaria and Russia should always remember they have some things in ...
-
Russia Serbia sign strategic partnership declaration
MOSCOW, May 24 (Itar-Tass) - Russia and Serbia have signed a declaration of strategic partnership in all spheres, including politics, trade, economy, culture, science, technology, and ...
-
Russia to finance construction of hospitalsschools in Dniester Reg
In the plans is the construction of new buildings of the republic's maternity centre, the central clinic, the tuberculosis treatment clinic in Bendery and a new tuberculosis treatment centre in Rybnita. Agreements were also signed to build schools in Tiraspol. Bendery, Rybnita and the village of Tashlyk and new kindergartens in Rybnita and ...
-
Agreements on missile defense unlikely at Russia-US talks
SOCHI, May 24 (Itar-Tass) - Russia and the US are preparing a number of decisions for the Putin-Obama talks due in Northern Ireland on June 17-18, but there are no agreements on missile defense among them, Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov has ...
-
US president to pay visit to Russia before G20 September summit
SOCHI, May 24 (Itar-Tass) - President of the United States Barack Obama will pay a visit to Russia before September 5, Russian president’s aide Yuri Ushakov told journalists on ...
-
Russia’s NIS GLONASS India’s TechMahindra sign cooperation agreement
NEW DELHI, May 24 (Itar-Tass) - Russia’s JSC Navigation Information Systems (NIS GLONASS) has signed an agreement on cooperation in the sphere of navigation with India’s ...
-
Oswald to communicate decision on whether he will stand for IOC President after St Petersburg
Frank Kugler won four Olympics medals in freestyle wrestling, weightlifting and tug of war at St Louis in 1904, making him the only competitor to win a medal in three different sports at the same Games. He claimed a silver medal in the heavyweight category in wrestling, bronze in the two hand lift and all-around dumbbell events in weightlifting and another bronze in the tug of war competition as ...
-
Russian Navy to receive new invisible ships
Russia has recently unveiled its Project 1239 rocket ship to the world. Representing Russia's Black Sea Fleet, the unique missile hovercraft "Bora" took part in the international exhibition of defense industry AIDEF 2013, which was held in Istanbul on May 7-10. The newest Russian rocket ships of this type will soon turn 20 years ...
-
Can foreigners treat Russian tourists better
The behavior of Russians abroad has long been a topic of dirty jokes. A collective image of a Russian tourist is a cad, who likes to drink and arrange scandals. Changing a stereotype is hard, and many Russian vacationers notice cool attitude to themselves in foreign countries. Is it true that the tourist industry is not loyal to ...
-
The behavior of Russians abroad has long been a topic of dirty jokes. A collective image of a Russian tourist is a cad who likes to drink and arrange scandals. Changing a stereotype is hard and many Russian vacationers notice cool attitude to themselves
The quality of hotel rooms, restaurant service, attention to wishes of guests and the speed of response to their requests are not always the same for Russian and non-Russian guests. There are many complaints saying that hotel managers save rooms facing construction sites or other unpleasant facilities primarily for Russian tourists. A Russian tourist may often have to fight for a room with a sea ...
-
Sweden Russia Nato and the theatre of military-industrial complex
Dateline Dalarna, Sweden: Sometimes truly extraordinary events occur, events which impact an entire nation's people, though, the word 'surreal' perhaps fits better than 'extraordinary' in describing events here during the last third of April. Of course, too much has too long been overblown, the strongest of adjectives too frequently employed to mask the weakest of ...
-
Russias Uralkali plans no H2 potash contract with China
MOSCOW | Fri May 24, 2013 11:07am EDT MOSCOW May 24 (Reuters) - Russia's Uralkali, one of the world's largest potash producers, does not plan to sign a contract with China to supply potash in the second half of 2013 due to unfavourable market conditions, a company spokesman said on Friday. Potash producers around the world keenly look out for signs of flagging demand in China, ...
-
Arsenal striker Andrey Arshavin fails to impress Zenit St Petersburg
Arsenal expires at the end of the month."He hasn't played much for lately. Why? You would have to ask him that question," their coach Luciano Spalletti said in reference to the former Russia captain, who joined Arsenal from Zenit for 15m in early 2009.Arshavin, who turns 32 next week, rejoined Zenit on a three-month loan from Arsenal in February last year after but failed to ...
-
Human rights group Memorial ‘has signs of foreign agent’ – Russian prosecutors
Russia A Moscow court has ruled that prosecutors' inspection of human rights group Memorial was lawful. The inquiry, held after the 'foreign agents' law was enacted, revealed that the NGO received $3 million from abroad to shape public opinion in Russia. On Friday, the Zamoskvoretsky District Court rejected Memorial's appeal against the off-schedule inspection carried out ...
-
JPMorgan wins contract from Russian government to boost its credit rating
Russian economy Beating out a number of other investment banks, JP Morgan will consult Russia in its effort to boost the country's sovereign credit ratings. Deputy Finance Minister Sergey Storchak said JP Morgan will act as a liaison between the Ministry of Finance and rating agencies, RIA Novosti reported. Storchak also hinted that Russia will be reviewed by one of the major ...
St Petersburg Focus
-
New business centre in St Petersburg remains contraversial
Okhta Centre has become one of the most contentious development projects in all of Russia. It is a project that offers St Petersburg two options that can’t be matched, either to embrace the modern world and allow a world-class business centre to be built, or maintain the city’s historic skyline, architecture and reputation as a major tourist destination with huge historical significance.
Before 2007, Okhta Centre was called Gazprom City and was promoted as such in Russian and St Petersburg news media, but from the start the project was a contentious issue, due primarily to the fact that the development calls for a massive tower to be built in its centre, a tower that will be the tallest in Europe and one of the largest in the world. Read more
News from around our Network
