| The St. Petersburg Times Issue #1683(45), Wednesday, November 16, 2011 |  | ||
On November, 29 in the St. Petersburg Music Hall and on November, 30 in the Moscow International House of Music the "Musical Olympus" Foundation will present the audience with a long-awaited project – a sensual and emotional night in the company of Roberto Fonseca, an outstanding Cuban pianist and composer. Additional information: +7 (812) 356 50 42 | |||
"Improving tax efficiency using foreign companies'" Date: 17, 23 and 29 November 2011 Place: Conference Room b / c "Senator", 7th Line VO, 76 The discussion will cover topics as follows: 1. International trade 2. International holding structures 3. Taxation of passive income: dividends, interest, royalties 4. Registration of foreign companies 5. Use of companies incorporated in foreign jurisdictions in a tax efficient way To get more information about the seminar and to register, use the link: www.offshore-manual.ru | |||
| 'Homophobic' Bill Attracts Protests | Zyuganov To Watch Elections | ||
 | LGBT activists and human rights organizations are protesting in St. Petersburg with petitions against what they say is a homophobic draft law proposed by Vladimir Putin's United Russia party in an attempt to gather more votes from conservatives ahead of the Dec. Read the story... | The Communist Party intends to take control over upcoming parliamentary elections by placing their representatives at polling stations and installing video cameras throughout the Leningrad Oblast to ensure the close monitoring of ballot boxes and vote counting, the party's leader Gennady Zyuganov said at a press conference in St. Read the story... | |
| Ballet Stars Abandon the Bolshoi for Petersburg's Mikhailovsky | New Metro Station Causes Hike in Real Estate Prices | ||
| The world of Russian ballet was rocked by controversy this week when dancers Natalya Osipova and Ivan Vasilyev announced they would leave Moscow's celebrated Bolshoi Opera and Ballet Theater for St. Petersburg's Mikhailovsky Theater. Read the story... | Landlords have increased prices for premises surrounding Admiralteiskaya metro station, which is due to open by the end of the year at the intersection of Bolshaya Morskaya Ulitsa and Kirpichny Pereulok. Read the story... | ||
| NGO Prints Advice For Army Recruits | Multiple Children Cause Parents Financial Stress | ||
| When what is supposed to be a standard process of drafting army conscripts becomes a nocturnal raid or semi-criminal ensnarement, a new book compiled by the local NGO Soldiers' Mothers may come in handy. Read the story... | Having a second child can double a Russian family's financial stress, experts said. In Russia, 32 percent of families live below the poverty line, said Yelena Nikolayeva, member of the presidential commission on demographic policy, Interfax reported. Read the story... | ||
| IN BRIEF | |||
| English in the Metro ST. PETERSBURG (SPT) — Recorded announcements in the St. Petersburg metro will be played in English from Nov. 14 through Nov. 20. as part of the International Metro Week campaign, Interfax reported. Read the story... | |||
| U.S.-Russian Crew Blasts Off for Space Station | Lost Flamingos Visit Siberia | ||
 | MOSCOW — A Russian spacecraft carrying an American and two Russians blasted off Monday from the snow-covered Kazakh steppes in a faultless launch that eased anxiety about the future of U.S. and Russian space programs. Read the story... | MOSCOW — Two wayward flamingos got a taste of Russian hospitality after they landed in rural Siberia last Friday, Itar-Tass reported Monday. The battered, freezing flamingos were recovered from a lake in the Tomsk region, and hunter Ivan Metla put the more injured bird in his banya — presumably to simulate what he believed to be its natural habitat — and fed it broth and compound feed, Komsomolskaya Pravda reported. Read the story... | |
| S. Ossetia Split on Kremlin Nominee | Bus Ads Offend Officials | ||
| MOSCOW — The weekend's presidential election in South Ossetia ended with a surprise tie between the candidate supported by Moscow and a major opposition figure, authorities in the tiny Georgian breakaway region said Monday. Read the story... | MOSCOW — Authorities in Siberia have ruled that political ads denouncing "crooks and thieves" could only be interpreted as an attack on the ruling United Russia party. The slogan "For Russia Against Crooks and Thieves" —based on whistleblower Alexei Navalny's catchphrase "United Russia is a party of crooks and thieves" — was included on posters that the newly oppositional party A Just Russia placed on 30 buses in Novosibirsk, party activist Alyona Popova said Monday. Read the story... | ||
| Tymoshenko Looks Set to Remain in Jail | Kremlin Insists That Tajik Deportations Are Not Political | ||
 | KIEV, Ukraine — Efforts to free former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko from prison through the domestic legal system are almost certainly doomed and she is likely to remain in prison for many months, her lawyer said Monday. Read the story... | MOSCOW — Kremlin pressure on Tajikistan continued Monday as President Dmitry Medvedev denied that the deportation of Tajik migrants from Russia was a tit-for-tat response to the harsh sentence Tajikistan handed down to a Russian pilot. Read the story... | |
| Elderly Man Injured at Rally | |||
| St. Petersburg resident Nikolai Shkalin, 72, is one of the first victims of the ongoing parliamentary campaign, having sustained a broken hand at a rally crashed by a ruling party candidate. Several city media outlets reported that Shkalin was thrown down from the stage by candidate Maxim Dolgopolov's bodyguards during Sunday's rally where some 700 residents protested development plans for the district. Read the story... | |||
| Four Seasons Prepares to Open | WTO to Accept Russia As Its Newest Member | ||
 | The Four Seasons Lion Palace Hotel, set to open in the historic Lobanov-Rostovsky mansion, has entered the final stages of preparation for its opening in St. Petersburg early next year. Tristar Investment Holdings, in charge of carrying out capital repairs and construction to transform the celebrated Lion Palace building into a hotel, and Uralsib Financial Corporation, the projects' financial partner, have announced they have entered the final stages of construction and begun the gradual handover of the hotel to the operator, Four Seasons Hotels & Resorts. Read the story... | MOSCOW — The "reset" between Russia and the United States appeared to be in full force at the annual Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation conference, held in Hawaii's capital, Honolulu, over the weekend. Presidents Dmitry Medvedev and Barack Obama, who may be meeting for the last time as presidents with elections in both countries coming up next year, praised each other and discussed further cooperation. Read the story... | |
| A Wasteful Russia Criticized | Sberbank Has Europe's Largest Data Center | ||
| MOSCOW — The International Energy Agency stressed in its annual World Energy Outlook report released last week that while Russia will remain crucial to the international energy market, its domestic inefficiencies are enormous. Read the story... | MOSCOW — During an opening ceremony Saturday, Sberbank flaunted its 16,500-square-meter data center Yuzhny Port — the largest of its kind in Europe. The data center, developed by Irish and Russian contractors in 15 months, cost about $1. Read the story... | ||
| WTO at Last | between the lines: From Earthquakes to Elections on TV | ||
 | On Thursday in Geneva, Russia completed negotiations on its accession to the World Trade Organization. Stop for a minute and reread that last sentence with me: Russia's negotiations with the WTO are completed. Read the story... | The State Duma election television campaign kicked off Nov. 5 by intruding on the usual morning programming. In nonelection times, the programming follows a standard pattern. Every 30 minutes, a five-minute news block airs. Read the story... | |
| THE DISH: Khochu Kharcho | CHERNOV'S CHOICE | ||
| 24-Hour Georgia Khochu Kharcho, a new Ginza Project restaurant specializing in Western Georgian cuisine, is eager to please whenever, whoever and almost wherever it can. Located on Sennaya Ploshchad, the two-story restaurant is open 24 hours a day, equipped with hookah and a kids' menu that includes Georgian classics such as khachapuri as well as not-so-Georgian hotdogs, and is ready to deliver anywhere within a five-kilometer radius. Read the story... | Moscow rock veteran Andrei Makarevich of Mashina Vremeni has found himself in a series of awkward situations recently, as Vladimir Putin's United Russia party campaigns ahead of the upcoming State Duma elections. Read the story... | ||
| New Model DDT | TALK OF THE TOWN | ||
 | Yury Shevchuk, arguably Russia's most popular rock musician known for his political dissent, walked out during a press conference in St. Petersburg last month. He had just performed an unpolished set of new songs, complete with elaborate video art and a light show that he is going to premiere in the city with a mostly new lineup of his band DDT this Wednesday, and wanted to discuss his work, but the questions were too frequently about politics. Read the story... | The Corinthia Hotel St. Petersburg has shaken up the city's Sunday brunch scene by dramatically slashing the cost of its brunch at Imperial restaurant to 2,011 rubles ($66). With an emphasis on seafood, including oysters, giant king prawns, sea scallops and mussels, as well as free-flowing alcoholic beverages and freshly squeezed juices, it's not hard for brunch-goers to get their money's worth. Read the story... | |
| Gogol Bordello unplugged | the word's worth: A nationalist's lexicon | ||
 | Gogol Bordello, an eccentric band made up of musicians who unite their cultural influences to make the inimitable sound of volcanic gypsy punk, plans to take St. Petersburg by storm on Nov. 23. At its latest local concert, the group will give an acoustic concert as part of a European tour. Read the story... | Файеры: flares This week I have a lot to worry about. First on my list: Avoid being hit by that asteroid hurtling toward Earth. Yes, I know scientists say we shouldn't worry, but they said climate change was nothing to worry about, too. Read the story... | |
| Beaujolais season | Emotion in motion | ||
| Wine connoisseurs have reason to rejoice this month: From Nov. 17, St. Petersburg will follow France's lead and mark the Beaujolais Nouveau festival, which celebrates the ripening of the first young wine and has recently become a gastronomic guilty pleasure among Petersburgers. Read the story... |  | Dance and body language are capable of conveying what words alone cannot, according to Boris Eifman, whose ballet troupe will premiere the choreographer's latest work, 'Rodin,' at the Alexandriinsky Theater on Nov. Read the story... | |
| in the spotlight: Cutting off Sobchak's airtime | |||
 | Last week, the scandal around media personality and it-girl Ksenia Sobchak and her jokey exposure of youth tsar Vasily Yakemenko at a pricey restaurant deepened, as a national channel apparently pulled an interview with her. Read the story... | ||
| The Paper Trail Leads to Syktyvkar | Russian Teens Vie for All-Expenses-Paid Trip to U.S. | ||
 | If you've lived in Russia and have scribbled anything on paper, chances are you've left your mark on a Syktyvkar product. Perhaps you are in a job that doesn't require you to write on paper. But you have, at some point, probably calculated a restaurant tip on a napkin. Read the story... |  | MOSCOW — A year from now, Pasha Kormiletsyn could find himself studying at an American high school, sitting around an American dinner table or playing American football in a town like Bozeman, Montana; Willis Point, Texas; or Morrisdale, Pennsylvania. Read the story... |
| Human Trafficking Increasing at Home | Defense Upgrade Starts With Recycling | ||
| MOSCOW — Lax laws and poor enforcement make Russia a popular source for people forced into slave labor and prostitution, a leading international expert on human trafficking said. The problem is also growing within Russia with more people being exploited now than in recent years — a dark side to the country's still robust economy and a reflection of a growing disparity in wealth, said U. Read the story... |  | MOSCOW — Prime Minister Vladimir Putin ordered the military-industrial complex to form a special commission to oversee government contracts and spending on defense projects Monday. Chief military-industrial adviser Igor Borovkov will head the commission and recruit government members from the Defense Ministry, Finance Ministry, Industry and Trade Ministry and various other government spheres, Putin said at a private conference following the Presidium on Monday. Read the story... | |
| Syria Sees Wave of Violence | U.S., Asia Ties Strong Despite China Worries | ||
 | BEIRUT — Syrian activists say a wave of violence has killed more than 70 people in Syria in one day. The activists say many of those killed on Monday are Syrian soldiers who came under attack by army defectors in the southern province of Daraa. Read the story... | TAIPEI, Taiwan — When President Barack Obama arrives in Australia on Wednesday to kick off a four-day Asia-Pacific visit, he should receive a warm reception from America's longtime allies in the region. Read the story... | |
| Israeli Legislators Push Bills Through Despite Criticism | German Designer Launches Milk-Based Fabric | ||
| JERUSALEM — At the end of a stormy debate, Israeli lawmakers pushed ahead two bills that critics say would threaten the independence of the country's Supreme Court, just days after Cabinet ministers advanced another proposal to sharply limit funding for dovish groups. Read the story... | HANNOVER, Germany — Wear Milk? Anke Domaske says why not. The 28-year-old German is the designer of an award-winning new textile made entirely from milk that's environmentally friendly as well as soothing to people with skin allergies. Read the story... | ||
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