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This is a full directory of all 72 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.

Zenit rewards loyal fans

Oct.04.2006

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...

Tsereteli statue in St. Petersburg

Sept.27.2006

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...

Racism rife in St. Petersburg

Sept.26.2006

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...

Empress reburied in St. Petersburg

Sept.22.2006

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...

War veteran honoured

Aug.08.2006

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...

Blow-up dolls ride the river

Aug.31.2006

St. Petersburg - Last weekend witnessed the unlikely event of the fourth annual blow-up doll rafting competition - officially known at the Bubble Baba Challenge...

Nicholas II in pictures

Aug.28.2006

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...

Fire destroys St. Petersburg cathedral

Aug.26.2006

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...

Police hold two Hermitage suspects

Aug.07.2006

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...

Thieves hit Hermitage

Aug.01.2006

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...

Angel Orensanz exhibit coming to St. Petersburg

July.24.2006

A joint presentation of the State Russian Museum with the support the Cologne (Germany) Ludwig Museum in St. Petersburg of a work of Angel Orensanz will mark th...

Cherie Blair offers legal help to human rights groups in Russia

Jul.18.2006

ST. PETERSBURG, Russia, July 17 — Cherie Blair, the wife of Prime Minister Tony Blair of Britain, on Monday stepped into the debate over Kremlin pressures o...

G8 slams N. Korea tests, backs Russia Nuclear fuel plan

Jul.18.2006

REUTERS - St Petersburg - The Group of Eight industrialised nations condemned North Korea’s recent missile tests and endorsed a Russian plan to create internati...

Dick to manage St. Petersburg

Jun.28.2006

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...

St. Petersburg antiterrorism drills ahead of July G8 summit

Jun.22.2006

ST. PETERSBURG, June 21 (RIA Novosti) - St. Petersburg will hold exercises Wednesday on counteracting terrorist attacks involving biological and chemical weapon...

Moscow-St. Petersburg toll highway to start in 2007

Jun.13.2006

ST. PETERSBURG, June 12 (RIA Novosti) - Russia's economics minister Monday expressed hope that the construction of a toll highway between two largest cities in ...

Grand Prix for 'Blockade'

May.8.2006

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 ...

Bird flu trial vaccine begins in St. Petersburg

Jun.07.2006

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...

Police seize 40,000 Nokia handsets in St Petersburg

June.06.2006

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...

G-8 energy dispute looms in St. Petersburg

Jun.07.2006

(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...

From Russia with love - at Eyemouth

May.11.2006

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...

Russia celebrates Victory Day

Mar.10.2006

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...

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