| The St. Petersburg Times Issue #1698(9), Wednesday, March 7, 2012 |  | ||
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| Protesters Face Second Night in Police Custody | Putin Loses 17 Percent of Vote in City | ||
 | Hundreds were detained in downtown St. Petersburg on Monday as the authorities clamped down on protests against violations during Vladimir Putin's presidential election campaign and the March 4 voting. Read the story... | Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, the winner of Sunday's national presidential elections, officially gathered 58.77 percent of votes in his hometown of St. Petersburg — 5 percent less than his overall rating of 63. Read the story... | |
| IN BRIEF | Yeliseyevsky Store Reopens on Nevsky | ||
| Policeman Detained ST. PETERSBURG (SPT) — Police have detained Oleg Prokhorenkov, deputy head of the police department at which a 15-year-old boy was beaten to death earlier this year. Prokhorenkov was detained last week in connection with the teenager's death, Interfax reported, citing the city's Investigation Committee. Read the story... | The historic Yeliseyevsky store, one of St. Petersburg's oldest food stores, will reopen after undergoing years of renovation work on March 8. The reconstruction work has restored the original façade of the historical building on the corner of Nevsky Prospekt and Malaya Sadovaya Ulitsa. Read the story... | ||
| Big Workload and Money Send Sick Russians to Work | City to Become More Bicycle Friendly | ||
| Fifty percent of employees in Russia go to work when they are sick, according to research by HeadHunter recruitment website. HeadHunter also discovered that the main medicines used by Russian employees are "folk remedies" such as garlic and lemons. Read the story... |  | City Hall plans to launch a pilot scheme of park and ride facilities for cyclists by the middle of this year, it was announced at a press conference last week. Alexei Bakirei, head of the city's Transport and Transit Policy Committee, said that two to four facilities would be set up in the second quarter of 2012, allowing cyclists to ride to the nearest metro or railway station from home, park their bicycles in a secure place, and then continue on into the city center. Read the story... | |
| Poll Shows Russians Prefer Their Men Older and Women Younger | SKA Fighting to Defeat CSKA in Play-Off Series | ||
| Men remain attractive longer than women as they reach their peak significantly later in life, a poll conducted by Superjob.ru's research center reported. Russian women set the most attractive age for men at between 36 and 40 years old, while men said women were at their most attractive between 26 and 30. Read the story... | St. Petersburg SKA avoided disaster by edging CSKA Moscow out 2-1 in overtime in Moscow on Sunday. They now lead their Kontinental Hockey League conference semi-final play-off series 3-1. SKA has dominated at home with 4-1 and 7-1 performances at the Ice Palace last Wednesday and Thursday, respectively, but fell to the rival Red Army team 3-2 in overtime in game 3 in Moscow on Saturday. Read the story... | ||
| Finns Seek Russian Partners | Forum Strives to Save Baltic | ||
| Alexander Stubb, the Finnish Minister of European Affairs and Foreign Trade, has invited Russian business representatives to take part in a Finnish Business Forum in St. Petersburg on May 30, 2012. The purpose of the forum is to bring together businessmen and top managers from both countries. Read the story... |  | The plight of the Baltic Sea, in particular the Gulf of Finland on which St. Petersburg stands, was in the spotlight last week at an environmental forum held in the city. A group of environmental experts, NGOs and volunteer organizations came together Thursday at the Finnish Consulate in St. Read the story... | |
| Experts Say Clocks Out of Sync | Ombudsman Criticizes City's Anti-Gay Bill | ||
| Participants of a roundtable discussion held in the State Duma recommend revoking the country's permanent summertime status, Interfax reported Tuesday. The participants of the roundtable, which was organized by the Health Committee to examine the effects of the country staying on summertime from October last year, concluded that the time system used in Russia is two hours out of sync with astronomic time and does not correspond to people's natural biorhythms. Read the story... | Russian ombudsman Vladimir Lukin added his voice to growing domestic and international uproar by denouncing United Russia's anti-gay bill — which passed in a third and final reading in the Legislative Assembly in St. Read the story... | ||
| Election Webcams Reveal a Slice of Russian Life | Medvedev Calls for Yukos Case Review | ||
 | MOSCOW — The costly web cameras put in place in Russia's polling stations to combat fraud served a dual purpose over the weekend, giving viewers an unusual glimpse of the lives of people all over the country — from small Chechen villages to Tyumen nightlife and beyond. Read the story... | MOSCOW — With his final days in office counting down, President Dmitry Medvedev on Monday ordered a review into the conviction of the country's most famous prisoner, former Yukos chief Mikhail Khodorkovsky, whose jailing has long been considered politically motivated. Read the story... | |
| Duma Needs More Women | Cops Must Help Drunks | ||
| MOSCOW — State Duma speaker Sergei Naryshkin expressed dissatisfaction with the low percentage of female parliamentarians, saying it's "not right." Naryshkin, a deputy from the ruling United Russia party, noted what he called a negative contrast between the prevalence of women in civil service and the low percentage of female Duma deputies. Read the story... |  | MOSCOW — Police often turn a blind eye to public intoxication. But under the new rules, they have been instructed to pay more attention. The rules, published in Rossiiskaya Gazeta last week, require police to ensure the safety and health of people intoxicated in public, including driving them to the hospital if necessary. Read the story... | |
| Foreigners See Vote as Flawed | Navalny and Others Detained at Moscow Protests | ||
| MOSCOW — International observers criticized Sunday's presidential election as seriously flawed Monday but avoided statements about the vote's legitimacy. "Conditions for the campaign were clearly skewed in favor of one candidate," Dutch lawmaker Tiny Kox told reporters, adding that national media coverage had given a clear advantage to Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. Read the story... |  | MOSCOW — The opposition showed its resilience on Monday night, drawing thousands to a Pushkin Square rally in the freezing cold to protest Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's landslide victory in the weekend presidential election. Read the story... | |
| FBI Looking at Murdoch in Moscow | |||
| MOSCOW — U.S. investigators have opened a Russian front in the wide-ranging investigation into Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. media empire. The Wall Street Journal, which is owned by News Corp., reported Monday that FBI agents investigating corruption at the New York-based media giant were looking into the possibility that managers at Moscow-based News Outdoor, which specializes in outdoor advertising, paid bribes to local officials to approve the placement of billboards. Read the story... | |||
| Leaders Not Swapping Residences | Markets Still at Risk | ||
 | MOSCOW — Under Russian law, the future president and prime minister should swap their official residences after the March 4 presidential election. "But we have no assignments for it at this moment," Office for Presidential Affairs spokesman Viktor Khrekov told The St. Read the story... | MOSCOW — A muted market reaction to the news of Vladimir Putin's crushing electoral victory over the weekend prompted some members of the investment community to suggest Monday that questions over the regime's legitimacy would persist. Read the story... | |
| Putin: Privatizations to Be Fair, Somehow | |||
| MOSCOW — Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has promised that privatizations of state assets will be carried out more properly than those in the 1990s, with the companies' stakes to be sold "at a real price. Read the story... | |||
| Beware of the Post-Election Bubble | regional dimensions: Why Putin Will Face More Protests | ||
 | As Russians voted for a new president on Sunday, their country was back in fashion with foreign investors. The ruble has gained 12.2 percent against the dollar-euro basket since this fall and is not far from its post-2008 crisis high. Read the story... | Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's victory in Sunday's election means he will return to the Kremlin once again, albeit in far less triumphant fashion than he had imagined in September. The other four candidates mounted surprisingly passive campaigns. Read the story... | |
| Eternal theme | Snow Show at Igora | ||
 | Bad Influence call themselves a funeral band: They first reformed to perform at a memorial concert for Eduard Nesterenko, their former guitarist and founder of the band Petlya Nesterova, held at Griboyedov bunker club in December 2008, 40 days after Nesterenko's death. Read the story... | Those who missed the chance to bid farewell to winter at the city's Maslenitsa (Shrovetide) celebrations shouldn't despair: There will be another chance this weekend, when Igora Park hosts the Quiksilver New Star snowboarding show. Read the story... | |
| A stroll down memory lane | Cooking up a storm | ||
 | Pioneer uniforms, candy wrappers, board games and other remnants of Soviet childhood are on show at a new exhibit titled "Lukomorye. The World of Soviet Childhood," which is guaranteed to evoke a feeling of nostalgia among those who grew up under Communism. Read the story... |  | Gastronomy takes center stage at a new project just launched in the city to showcase the cream of the crop of international cuisine to St. Petersburg. Titled Chef's Discovery, the project features six tours to the city by some of the world's most dynamic chefs from locations ranging from South Africa to Seychelles during the course of this year. Read the story... |
| Let the good times roll | in the spotlight: Prokhorov takes on Sobchak | ||
 | If the sell-out crowd at the St. Petersburg State Jazz Philharmonic on Saturday is anything to go by, American idiomatic music is alive and well and about to take Russia by storm. Part of an ambitious series of musical events curated by the American Folklife Center of the U. Read the story... |  | Last week, it girl and media personality Ksenia Sobchak reopened her talk show on politics after it was shelved by MTV Russia. The show, now called "GosDep 2," or "State Department 2," came out on the Snob. Read the story... |
| XII / Dvenadtsat | |||
| The art of translation If you're looking for a warm welcome, you might want to look somewhere else. While Dvenadtsat prides itself in being an upscale swanky venue, catering to those who can afford it, the staff could use a bit more training when it comes to hospitality and service. Read the story... | |||
| Book Teaches Women There Is Life After Cancer | |||
 | Breast cancer is not a death sentence; it is curable, and women who overcome it can and should enjoy life as before. This is the message of a new book by the Russian writer Larisa Zalesova titled "Live As Before" about a woman who survives breast cancer. Read the story... | ||
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