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

Bird flu trial vaccine begins in St. Petersburg
ST. PETERSBURG,(Itar-Tass) - A 56-day clinical trial of a candidate vaccine against the highly pathogenic bird flu virus H5N1 begins in St. Petersburg on Monday...

Current Affairs

Police seize 40,000 Nokia handsets in St Petersburg
MOSCOW, June 6 (Prime-Tass) -- Police in Russia's St. Petersburg on May 6 seized 40,000 mobile handsets produced by Finland's Nokia that were illegally imported...

Business

G-8 energy dispute looms in St. Petersburg
(Reuters) Heated debate about the security of the world's energy supplies will dominate the agenda when the Group of 8 finance ministers meet this week to prepa...

Current Affairs

From Russia with love - at Eyemouth
A CHANCE to hear Russian music is on offer in Eyemouth next month. Established in 1994 LYRA is a group of professional musicians aiming to introduce Russian...

Art and Culture

Russia celebrates Victory Day
May 9th represents one of Russia's most celebrated holidays, the Victory of Soviet Russia over Nazi Germany in World War II. 25 million Russians died in the str...

History