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This is a full directory of all 54 articles about St Petersburg, listed in reverse order, with the most recent article at the top. If you'd prefer to search for some particular article, please use the search facility on the news front page. | |
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Arts Square Festival kicks off
Visitors to the city this month will get the chance to re-live the grand heyday of Russian Imperial society with all its masquerades, balls and exquisite theatr... | Art and Culture |
Madonna - the Red Revolutionary ?
Were you at the city's Madonna gig last week? Can you vouch for Madge that she was sporting a Chairman Mao, oh so modest, buttoned up to the collar waist coat... | Art and Culture |
Maritime Magnificence in St Petersburg
A convey of age-old sailing ships, some with masts towering 120 feet tall, graced St Petersburg's waters this week as the city played host to the Baltic Seas Ta... | City Focus |
St Petersburg Remembers
It's a season of anniversaries for St.Petersburg this month, as its 18 years since it was re-christened with its original name and 337 years since the birth of ... | City Focus |
Travel Visa-Free to St.Petersburg
Some foreigners to St.Petersburg will soon be able to wave goodbye to the arduous task of queuing up for visas for their trip to Russia's most beautiful and vis... | Business |
International Irish Dance Festival
St. Petersburg will be the host of the International Irish Dance Festival, which begins on May 4th.
Irish Dance lovers from all around Russia, as well as Eu... | Art and Culture |
The Obama Ice Cream?
"It’s on everyone’s lips — the Dark is in the White!" says the line on an ad poster for the Duet Ice Cream. A Russian ad agency, which used a ... | Comment |
Exhibition On Afghanistan
A branch of the Museum of Political History - Gorokhovaya 2 - invites everybody to a new exhibition called "Afghanistan 1979-1989". According to the exhibition'... | Art and Culture |
65th Anniversary Of Siege
Next Tuesday, St Petersburg will be celebrating the end of one of the most atrocious Nazi blockades, which lasted for 900 days. “This is a tragic and yet ... | Comment |
Rautakesko supplying St Petersburg
The mysteriously sounding Rautakesko is a Finnish company offering building and home improvement products. The chain operates in eight countries in the Nordic a... | Comment |
Crash landing in St. Petersburg
A Turkish Airlines plane had to land in St. Petersburg on its way to Russia, after sending out a highjack signal over the Black Sea.
The landing took place af... | Current Affairs |
Helping South Ossetians
The city of St. Petersburg has been organizing a variety of humanitarian efforts in the last couple of weeks in aid of South Ossetians caught in the recent mili... | Current Affairs |
Saint Stalin?
An online competition to nominate the greatest Russian in history is being used by the Communist Party in St. Petersburg as the base for their petition to canon... | Current Affairs |
The Gazoskryob Chronicles Continue
A new chapter to the "Gazoskryob" or Gasscraper tower chronicles was added on June 27th, with the 2 year long planning process growing more absurd by the day.
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Zenit Victorious In Manchester
The 2007 Champions of the Russian Premier League, Zenit St. Petersburg, won their first ever European trophy this May with a 2-0 victory over Scottish opponents... | Comment |
Close at the Hermitage
American artist Chuck Close has arrived in St. Petersburg for an opening of an exhibition of his works at the Hermitage. The artist, though severely handicappe... | Art and Culture |
Dancing Robots On The Railways
Russian railway bosses are replacing man with machinery when it comes to difficult maintenance work on trains and tracks.
The state-of-the-art Russian andro... | Comment |
A Day At The Pig Races
This weekend will be an exciting one for residents of Lakhta, just northwest of St. Petersburg, as a major big pig racing event is planned.
Pig racing in Rus... | Comment |
Nuclear Waste Protesters Arrested
Police mounted a strong attack on protesters recently, after they unfurled a large banner in front of St. Petersburg's parliament denouncing the arrival of a sh... | Comment |
Lie Back And Think Of Russia
Yes, Wednesday September 12th, is officially bonking day in the region of Ulyanovsk in Russia. Well officially it's 'family contact day', but that's just a euph... | Comment |
Chinese Warships In St. Petersburg
Two vast ships from China's navy arrived today in the port of St. Petersburg, but thankfully there was no cause for alarm from the local citizens. The guided mi... | Current Affairs |
Gay Parade Rescheduled
The organisers of St. Petersburg's gay parade have reconsidered their proposed date of the 8th September for their march, as it co-incides with the anniversary ... | Comment |
Mile High (Fight) Club
Well you've probably heard of the Mile High Club - maybe you're lucky enough to be a member - but it seems the citizens of St. Petersburg have their own Fight C... | Comment |
Thai Queen in Russia
Queen Sirikit of Thailand arrived in Russia on Monday for a nine-day visit to Russia to commemorate the 110th anniversary of Thai-Russian relations, having been... | Current Affairs |
Summer Gardens To Be Restored
St. Petersburg's famous Summer Gardens have won approval for restoration works. The Gardens were founded by Peter the Great in 1704 at his summer residence, Pet... | City Focus |
Rolling Stones To Play St. Petersburg
Legendary British rockers, the Rolling Stones are all set to play the Palace Square, St. Petersburg this summer.
No one quite knows how any of the band are ... | Art and Culture |
Russian Theatre Jams Mobiles
Yes, finally someone has gone and done it! And that someone is the manager of the Alexandrinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg. Fed up with the lack of consideration... | Art and Culture |
Russian Filmmaker Under Threat
Russian Filmmaker Andrei Nekrasov has been quoted in the press as saying he is scared to return to his homeland, after he received ominous threats via his famil... | Current Affairs |
Darwin rubbished in St. Petersburg
A Russian teenager at the Cervantes Gymnasium School in St. Petersburg has baffled authorities by suing the St. Petersburg city education council for teaching ... | Comment |
Ancic wins St Petersburg tennis title
He's tall and has a decent serve, and even though he's still no Goran Ivanisavic, Croatian Mark Ancic pulled off quite an upset when he won the St Petersburg te... | Comment |
Google Choose St-Petersburg
Google has chosen St-Petersburg as the base of its second research and development centre in Russia.
After establishing its first Russian R&D center in Mosc... | Business |
St. Petersburg Skyscaper Criticized
The director of St Petersburg's renowned Hermitage museum has spoken out against plans to build a 300-metre high skyscraper in the heart of Russia's former impe... | City Focus |
Zenit rewards loyal fans
St. Petersburg, Russia (AHN) - After driving for 9320 Miles to watch their team play in the far east of Russia, three fans of Zenit St Petersburg were offered a... | Comment |
Tsereteli statue in St. Petersburg
September 25th saw the unveiling of a huge Peter the First made by Zurab Tsereteli in St. Petersburg.
The monument presented to the city by the sc... | Art and Culture |
Racism rife in St. Petersburg
An Indian student was stabbed to death on Sunday night in the fourth racist murder in St. Petersburg this year. Indian students rallied outside the St. Petersbu... | City Focus |
Empress reburied in St. Petersburg
COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - The remains of Empress Maria Fyodorovna, mother of Russia's last tsar, Nicholas II, will be moved from Denmark to Russia on Saturday, fin... | History |
War veteran honoured
A war veteran from Exmouth in the UK has flown to St Petersburg to receive the thanks of the Russian people for his heroism in World War Two.
Ron Pettitt, 87... | Comment |
Blow-up dolls ride the river
St. Petersburg - Last weekend witnessed the unlikely event of the fourth annual blow-up doll rafting competition - officially known at the Bubble Baba Challenge... | Comment |
Nicholas II in pictures
St. Petersburg, August 25, Interfax - The last days of the Romanovs exhibition of photos by Pierre Gilliar, the teacher of the children of the last Russian empe... | Art and Culture |
Fire destroys St. Petersburg cathedral
ST PETERSBURG, Russia (Reuters) - A fire gutted a 19th century cathedral in the heart of Russia's second city on Friday, destroying its famous azure domes which... | City Focus |
Police hold two Hermitage suspects
ST PETERSBURG, Russia (Reuters) - Police have detained the husband and son of a museum curator on suspicion of stealing hundreds of artworks from Russia's world... | Current Affairs |
Thieves hit Hermitage
ST. PETERSBURG, July 31 (RIA Novosti) - Over 200 jewelry items have disappeared from storage in St. Petersburg's State Hermitage Museum, the press service of th... | Art and Culture |
Dick to manage St. Petersburg
Dutch football coach Dick Advocaat has signed a two and half year contract to manage Russian premier league side Zenit St. Petersburg.
Advocaat revealed tha... | Comment |
Grand Prix for 'Blockade'
Russian film director Sergei Loznitsa has won the Grand Prix at the 46th Cracow Film Festival. 'Blockade', a documentary about the Nazi siege of St. Petersburg ... | Art and Culture |
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