| The St. Petersburg Times Issue #1699(10), Wednesday, March 14, 2012 |  | ||||
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| Police Focus on Foreign Crime Victims | Gay Law's Author Rejects Criticism | ||||
 | The number of recorded crimes committed against foreign tourists in the city has hardly risen, while more such cases are now being solved, according to the St. Petersburg police. Andrei Stanchenko, head of the city's Police Investigative Department No. Read the story... |  | St. Petersburg Governor Georgy Poltavchenko signed into law a controversial bill against "promoting sodomy, lesbianism, bisexualism and transgenderism to minors" Sunday, drawing a new wave of criticism from around the globe. Read the story... | ||
| SKA Advances After 4-0 Win | French Language Sweeps City | ||||
| SKA St. Petersburg opened its KHL Western Conference semi-final series with a 4-0 win over Atlant Moscow Oblast at the city's Ice Palace on Tuesday night. Vladimir Tarasenko, Fyodor Federov, Viktor Tikhanov and Mattias Weinhandl all scored for SKA, while netminder Jakub Stepanek faced a mere 15 shots on goal. Read the story... | St. Petersburg is celebrating the French language for the next two weeks with the Francophonia Days festival, which runs from March 13 to March 30. An extensive program of cultural events dedicated to the language will include the final of the French Language Song Festival for schoolchildren and students in the northwest of Russia on March 16, and a conference of the International French Language Countries Organization on March 21, at which Swiss writer Pascale Kramer will be a guest. Read the story... | ||||
| City Struggles to Elect New Ombudsman | IN BRIEF | ||||
 | Three months without an ombudsman may seem like nothing compared with the nine years that it took the city to elect its first human rights safeguard. The hundreds of locals who were detained during the recent public protests on the streets of St. Read the story... | Photo Ban Reviewed ST. PETERSBURG (SPT) — The legislative committee of the city's parliament wants to find a way to restore the right of passengers to film and take photos inside all areas of the metro, the committee's head said this week. Read the story... | |||
| Police Arrested After Fatal Rape | Spoof 'Icon' Signs For Pussy Riot Spring Up | ||||
| MOSCOW — Investigators on Tuesday named five suspects in the beating death of 52-year-old Kazan resident Sergei Nazarov at a Kazan police station last week. One suspect, 25-year-old Ilshat Garifullin, has been detained, while investigators are seeking the arrest of four others, all aged 23 to 25, from the Dalny police station where Nazarov was allegedly beaten and raped. Read the story... | MOSCOW — Icon-like signs have appeared in the city of Novosibirsk portraying a masked member of the all-female punk band Pussy Riot, which has gained notoriety after two of its members were jailed last week for participating in an unsanctioned performance at Christ the Savior Cathedral. Read the story... | ||||
| Russia to Continue to Sell Arms to Syria | Sixty-Eight Political Parties Seek Registration | ||||
| MOSCOW — Russia has no intention of curtailing military cooperation with Syria despite calls from the West to stop arming President Bashar Assad's regime, a senior Russian government official said Tuesday. Read the story... | MOSCOW — The Justice Ministry has received 68 new applications to form political parties, a State Duma deputy said, RIA-Novosti reported. The applications come amidst deliberations on a bill that will soften the requirements for creating a political party by dropping the total number of required members from 40,000 to 500. Read the story... | ||||
| Daily Commute Helps to Boost Sales of E-Books | Politicians To Meet | ||||
 | MOSCOW — The country's burgeoning e-book market is seeing dramatic growth rates, with an ever-increasing number of titles available in electronic format and e-readers continuing to fall sharply in price. Read the story... | MOSCOW — Former Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin plans to meet with billionaire politician Mikhail Prokhorov within the next few weeks to discuss possible cooperation. "Prokhorov and I agreed to meet in the coming weeks to discuss future prospects," Kudrin wrote on Twitter in response to a question asking whether he would join forces with the former presidential candidate. Read the story... | |||
| Russian Railways To Reconstruct Stations | WTO Entry Set To Lure Investors | ||||
 | Russian Railways will invest more than 7 billion rubles ($34 million) in reconstructing railway stations this year, including 4.3 billion rubles for the reconstruction of stations in Moscow, the state-owned company said Sunday. Read the story... | MOSCOW — Russia's accession to the World Trade Organization will lead to a substantial increase in foreign investments in two to three years' time, Economic Development Minister Elvira Nabiullina said during a meeting with President-elect Vladimir Putin on Monday, Interfax reported. Read the story... | |||
| Vekselberg Quits As RusAl Chair | Bank Wants to Get Rid of 1, 5 Kopek Coins | ||||
| MOSCOW — Russian billionaire Viktor Vekselberg has stepped down as chairman of aluminum giant RusAl, warning of a "deep crisis" at the company. The resignation prompted RusAl to suspend trading of its shares Tuesday after they shed 1. Read the story... | MOSCOW — That inevitable accumulation of almost worthless change could become a thing of the past this year as the Central Bank pushes to remove all 1- and 5-kopek coins from circulation. There are about 7. Read the story... | ||||
| Jews in Russia | russian unorthodox: Criminalizing Difference | ||||
 | After last December's elections to the State Duma, a number of Russian citizens went to the studios of the web TV channel Dozhd to tape a short message explaining why they and their country need free and fair elections. Read the story... | A prominent Russian satirist told me recently that one of the key differences between Russian humor and that of Western Europe or the United States is that Russian people do not "get" gay jokes. "Unlike Russians, people in America find gay jokes funny," he told me. Read the story... | |||
| Riding the wave | CHERNOV'S CHOICE | ||||
 | In the world of pop, you have to run to stay in the same place — or change constantly to keep your work interesting. That's exactly what Marc Collin, the French producer and mastermind behind Nouvelle Vague does. Read the story... | Pussy Riot, the Moscow-based feminist all-woman punk group notorious for its unsanctioned performance, found itself under unprecedented pressure from the Kremlin when two alleged members were arrested on the eve of the March 4 presidential election. Read the story... | |||
| Literary music | the word's worth: All the election slang that's fit to print | ||||
 | Nationality is key to the art of composer Rodion Shchedrin. His operas and ballets are almost exclusively inspired by classic Russian literature. Shchedrin's works — both new creations and those written years ago — such as the ballets "Anna Karenina," "The Seagull" and "The Little Humpbacked Horse," and the operas "The Enchanted Wanderer" and "Dead Souls" are now being enthusiastically staged by Russian companies, with the Mariinsky Theater showing the biggest appetite. Read the story... | Путинг: a rally in support of Putin Why, oh why, do I read readers' comments on online articles about the presidential election? They make me crazy and depressed. What ignorance, stupidity and bad grammar! Jeez, don't Americans know anything? Russian comments on articles about the election make me crazy, too. Read the story... | |||
| Back into the fray | in the spotlight: The Buranovskiye Babushki | ||||
 | A heavily anticipated fight between heavyweight mixed martial arts (MMA) athletes Jeff "The Snowman" Monson and Alexey "The Boa Constrictor" Oleinik is set to be the highlight of the M-1 Mixed Martial Arts Challenge 31 at St. Read the story... |  | Last week, Russia finally got it with Eurovision, sending the Buranovskiye Babushki, who dance in shoes made of birchbark, but to a disco beat. The ladies from the Udmurtia republic, known mainly as the birthplace of the Kalashnikov assault rifle, are going to sing "Party for Everybody" in Baku. Read the story... | ||
| THE DISH: Frida | |||||
| Karmic cuisine Frida is the kind of place that makes you feel as if you have boosted your karma simply by crossing its threshold. The latest café to be opened by the team behind the ever-popular Chainny Dom on Ulitsa Rubinshteina, whose small empire of upscale hippie hangouts also includes the Indian café Kashmir on Bolshaya Moskovskaya Ulitsa, the new eatery bears the distinctive hallmarks of its older siblings. Read the story... | |||||
| The Cradle of Russian Democracy | Fresh Focus on Churches of the North | ||||
 | VELIKY NOVGOROD — Veliky Novgorod is a rather small city of just 200,000 inhabitants and is both the cradle and the symbol of Russian democracy, which was established here more than 900 years ago. For almost 300 years, starting in 1136, the Novgorod Republic was ruled by a local chamber that paid no attention to rulers in Moscow. Read the story... |  | "Wooden Churches: Travelling in the Russian North," a new book by photographer Richard Davies and artist and writer Matilda Moreton, is a cause for both joy and sadness. The book celebrates the simplistic beauty of pre-revolutionary churches hidden away in Russia's northwest but also reflects on the state of disrepair into which many of the buildings have fallen. Read the story... | ||
| Russians Buy Up London | |||||
| MOSCOW — Russian buyers continue to rank first among foreigners spending on high-end housing in London, giving the market a significant boost in the last few years, a consulting company said Monday. Property shoppers from Russia spend an average of £6. Read the story... | |||||
| 31 Killed as Bangladesh Ferry Capsizes | Revenge Sought For U.S. Attack | ||||
 | DHAKA, Bangladesh — A ferry packed with about 200 people capsized in a river in southern Bangladesh on Tuesday, killing 31 people and leaving dozens more missing, authorities said. Local police chief Mohammad Shahabuddin Khan said about 35 people were rescued after the ferry sank on the Meghna River after colliding with a cargo boat early in the morning. Read the story... | BALANDI, Afghanistan — Taliban militants opened fire Tuesday on an Afghan government delegation visiting one of the two villages in southern Afghanistan where a U.S. soldier is suspected of killing 16 Afghan civilians. Read the story... | |||
| Poll Suggests Sarkozy To Win 1st Round of Vote | Former Leader's Husband Detained in Philippines | ||||
| PARIS — French President Nicolas Sarkozy heard his first welcome news in a while Tuesday in his battle for re-election. For the first time in this campaign, a new poll suggests the long-unpopular president could beat Socialist Francois Hollande in the first round of voting next month — but it, like all previous polls, indicates Hollande would win in the crucial runoff. Read the story... | MANILA, Philippines — A court Tuesday ordered the husband of former President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo to be arrested on charges that he received millions of dollars in bribes — part of a wide-ranging prosecution of alleged corruption during her presidency. Read the story... | ||||
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