| The St. Petersburg Times Issue #1695(6), Wednesday, February 15, 2012 |  | ||
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| Prokhorov Attempts to Woo City | City Police Chief Fired Amid Power Struggle | ||
 | Presidential candidate Mikhail Prokhorov denied persistent speculation about him being a Kremlin project during a pre-election visit by the billionaire to St. Petersburg on Saturday. "Why would I be a Kremlin project? What do I owe to Putin? I'm just taking my own risk," Prokhorov, Russia's third-richest man, said in his distinctive baritone at a meeting with the city's young people at Yubileiny sports complex. Read the story... | MOSCOW — The head of the St. Petersburg police was sacked following an investigation into the beating death of a 15-year-old boy while in custody, amid an ugly power struggle that came to a head at the annual meeting of police brass with President Dmitry Medvedev. Read the story... | |
| University Closes Hostel As Measles Outbreak Spreads | Disputed Gay Bill Gets More Criticism From Abroad | ||
| The number of measles cases in the city had risen to 130 people by Tuesday, Interfax reported. Ninety-one of those affected are children, Interfax quoted the local branch of Rospotrebnadzor, the consumer goods watchdog, as saying. Read the story... |  | British actor and author Stephen Fry joined opponents of United Russia's bill outlawing "promoting homosexuality," as the Legislative Assembly passed it in a second reading. Last week, Fry condemned the St. Read the story... | |
| Forum Hopes to Improve City's Ecology | Russian Capitals Make Top 50 Investment List | ||
| Urban beaches could appear in St. Petersburg by 2015 or 2016, local officials said last week. "All we need to do is to disinfect sewage at the Central and Northern water supply plants in St. Petersburg, but the problem is that the bodies of water that border St. Read the story... | Moscow and St. Petersburg were among the world's top 50 cities for the highest volume of real estate investment last year. According to 2011 year-end results, Moscow ranked among the top 20 cities with the highest investment activity, while in 2010 it held 25th place, according to a report published by Jones Lang LaSalle real estate consultancy. Read the story... | ||
| Oil and Utility Prices to Rise Post-Elections | Russian Teens Are Prone To Depression | ||
 | Prices will rise after the upcoming presidential elections, with utilities and petrol among the first expenses predicted to increase, economic analysts in St. Petersburg said last week. "It's no secret that the current temporary price freeze in the country is a pre-election decision," Yury Gatchin, head of the Industry, Economy and Property Commission at the city's Legislative Assembly, said at a press conference Friday. Read the story... | Russian teenagers are four times more depressed than those the same age in the West, Interfax reported. About 20 percent of Russian teenagers suffer from serious depression, according to a UNICEF report. Read the story... | |
| IN BRIEF | |||
| Investment on the Rise ST. PETERSBURG (SPT) — Investment in the economy of the Leningrad Oblast increased by 11 percent last year. Investment in the real economy of the Leningrad Oblast reached 300 billion rubles ($9. Read the story... | |||
| Putin's Newest Plan Offers Perks to Boost Population | Putin Aide Asserts Corruption Was 'Civilized' | ||
 | MOSCOW — Prime Minister Vladimir Putin unveiled his plan on social policy Monday, focusing on how Russia will boost its dwindling population amid a demographic crisis that threatens to turn the country into "void space. Read the story... | MOSCOW — Corruption in Russia was "normal" and "civilized" during Vladimir Putin's first stint as president and support for him has grown stronger as a result of recent opposition rallies, the prime minister's campaign manager has boasted. Read the story... | |
| Turkmen President Wins 97 Percent | United Russia To Be Dismantled? | ||
 | ASHGABAT, Turkmenistan — Turkmenistan's President Gurbanguli Berdymukhamedov won a new five-year term by capturing 97 percent of the vote, election officials said Monday, but a Western expert called the vote a democratic sham. Read the story... | MOSCOW — United Russia, the country's dominant political party for more than a decade, might be radically reformed or even dissolved in the coming months, media reports said Friday. The party has long been a bulwark of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's grip on power. Read the story... | |
| Mikhalkov States He Would Vote for Opponent in Debate | Nukes on Sub During Fire | ||
| MOSCOW — Nikita Mikhalkov, director and official backer of presidential candidate Vladimir Putin, admitted during a debate that he would vote for his opponent Irina Prokhorova, sister of billionaire presidential candidate Mikhail Prokhorov, if she were on the ballot. Read the story... | MOSCOW — A fire at a dry-docked Russian nuclear submarine in December could have sparked a radiation disaster as it was carrying nuclear-tipped ballistic missiles and other weapons, despite official statements to the contrary, a Russian news magazine reported Monday. Read the story... | ||
| Kangaroo Meat May Return to Russia | Despite Law, Booze Delivered at Night | ||
 | MOSCOW — Australia is making a renewed effort this year to lift a 2009 ban on imports of kangaroo meat to Russia. The Federal Consumer Protection Service, which issued the ban after it uncovered cases of bacterial contamination, said Australia is also asking to allow its meat producers to ship other animal products to the newly formed Customs Union of Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan, Bloomberg reported. Read the story... |  | MOSCOW — According to the law, it's impossible to buy alcoholic beverages at night, but there are ways around that. For example, alcohol can be received as a present, rented, or accepted as collateral. Read the story... |
| KamAZ Sees Stress With WTO Entry | Navalny Nominated For Aeroflot Board | ||
 | KAZAN — Truck maker KamAZ could see a reduction of its market share due to price competition from other manufacturers after Russia joins the World Trade Organization. "Will our efforts suffice when Russia joins the WTO, when structural business reform should continue further? We have not yet achieved the technological level we need," said KamAZ general director Sergei Kogogin last week, Interfax reported. Read the story... | MOSCOW — Anti-corruption blogger and opposition leader Alexei Navalny could become a member of the board of Aeroflot after he was nominated to the position by billionaire Alexander Lebedev. Lebedev's National Reserve Bank, which owns about 15 percent of the airline, said late Monday that it had nominated three people, including Navalny, to the board of directors. Read the story... | |
| Meds Market Warned To Prep for WTO | Olympic Hotel Prices Reported | ||
| MOSCOW — New regulations are needed on the pharmaceuticals market before Russia enters the World Trade Organization, the head of the Association of International Pharmaceutical Manufacturers said Monday. Read the story... | MOSCOW — During the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi a three-star hotel room will cost $160 per night and a four-star room $240, organizing committee president Dmitry Chernyshenko said Sunday, RIA-Novosti reported. Read the story... | ||
| Brutal Cold May Kill Grape Crop | |||
| MOSCOW — Up to 50 percent of Russia's grape crop could be lost due to the extreme cold, spokesmen for several wineries told Vedomosti. First tests on grapevines in Krasnodar's Taman region are showing a 30 percent loss, said Fanagoria chief agronomist Pavel Kurilo. Read the story... | |||
| Kremlin's Youth Agency Resembles Cosa Nostra | between the lines: The Public Television Predicament | ||
 | In the Internet age, the famous aphorism of the 19th-century military theorist Karl von Clausewitz, "War is the continuation of policy by other means," may no longer be applicable. Today it's difficult to say whether an Internet war is the continuation of political battles "by other means," or whether it's the spark that sets off new political conflicts. Read the story... | Responding to efforts to formulate a concept of public-service broadcasting in Russia, legendary television personality Anatoly Lysenko quipped: "The authorities tossed the public a bone, and rather than chew on the bone members of the public began gnawing on one another. Read the story... | |
| CHERNOV'S CHOICE | Artists back Civic Union | ||
| As most St. Petersburg rock musicians and artists show no sign of rushing to disclose their attitude to lawlessness and violations in view of the upcoming presidential elections (see article, this page), some people invited criticism by appearing on a list of 499 official endorsers of Putin published last week. Read the story... |  | Musician Mikhail Borzykin believes it will take a long time for St. Petersburg artists and musicians to unite to fight electoral fraud and oppression. Borzykin, who has fronted rock band Televizor since the 1980s, is one of the most high-profile members of the newly formed Civic Creative Union. Read the story... | |
| Getting political | the word's worth: Putting everything in its place | ||
 | British director Graham Vick is closely monitoring the course of the presidential campaign in Russia, trying not to miss television reports about mass public protests in Moscow and other Russian cities that have been gathering dozens of thousands of people who are looking for an alternative to the Putin-Medvedev vertical of power system. Read the story... | To put: about a dozen Russian verbs Remember how I drove you all nuts with the innate propensity of Russian creatures and inanimate objects to stand, sit or lie? And how relieved you were when I moved on to other topics? Well, I'm back. Read the story... | |
| Strutting-edge | Buddhist bounty | ||
 | Russian fashion from the dawn of perestroika to the turbulent '90s is the subject of a new exhibit at Loft Project Etagi. "Alternative Fashion Before the Arrival of Glamour: 1985-1995,' which comprises a collection of about 100 photographs, offers insight into the Russian underground scene in its most fecund period through the prism of fashion. Read the story... |  | Russia's only traveling exhibition of Buddhist art has returned to the city in a new and bigger format, nearly 10 years after it was first unveiled in St. Petersburg. This time around, "Treasures of Buddhism," which has been to nearly 40 cities and been seen by 65,000 museum-goers since it was last on show in the city, is a key event of the Days of Tibetan Culture in St. Read the story... |
| in the spotlight: MTV teaches politics | THE DISH: Luce | ||
 | Last week, MTV Russia switched off the reality shows for an hour to teach the kids about politics with a chat show called "Gosdep," or "State Department," presented by blonde it-girl and media personality Ksenia Sobchak. Read the story... | Slimline dining Luce will inevitably arouse high hopes and vast expectations of any visitor. After all, it is a restaurant neatly tucked onto the top floor of the upscale Grand Palace boutique mall and boasting a fabulous panoramic view over the Church on the Spilled Blood, Arts Square, the Russian Museum and the Mikhailovsky Castle. Read the story... | |
| Retail Leads Commercial Real Estate Sector in City | Lost Version of 'Eugene Onegin' on at Princeton | ||
 | St. Petersburg was the "breakthrough of the year" on the world's commercial real estate market last year, as the investment volume here increased almost 10 times and reached $2.1 billion, according to Global Capital Flows research published by Jones Lang LaSalle. Read the story... |  | MOSCOW — A play lost but not quite. A musical score quartered and plundered. Three great names in the Russian arts — Alexander Pushkin, Sergei Prokofiev, Alexander Tairov — who were to have come together under a single marquee in 1937 but never quite did. Read the story... |
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