http://www.sptimes.ru The St. Petersburg Times 1993 - 2011 webmaster@sptimes.ru 60 http://www.sptimes.ru/images/spt_logo_rss.gif http://www.sptimes.ru en Latest News http://www.sptimes.ru/story/35654 http://www.sptimes.ru/story/35654 Wed, 16 May 2012 00:00:00 +0400 Latest News http://www.sptimes.ru/story/35653 http://www.sptimes.ru/story/35653 Wed, 16 May 2012 00:00:00 +0400 Latest News http://www.sptimes.ru/story/35651 http://www.sptimes.ru/story/35651 Wed, 16 May 2012 00:00:00 +0400 There are still more than 104,000 communal apartments in St. Petersburg, with residents of 750 flats being relocated this year at a cost of 1 billion rubles ($33 million), the city's mayor Georgy Poltavchenko said Tuesday.]]> Latest News http://www.sptimes.ru/story/35652 http://www.sptimes.ru/story/35652 Wed, 16 May 2012 00:00:00 +0400 Local News By Galina Stolyarova http://www.sptimes.ru/story/35620 http://www.sptimes.ru/story/35620 Wed, 16 May 2012 00:00:00 +0400 It is a bitter truth that while there are many paths that lead to homelessness in Russia, there are no legal ways back, except for — as more cynical officials sometimes suggest to their humble homeless visitors — simply buying themselves a new home.]]> Local News By Sergey Chernov http://www.sptimes.ru/story/35621 http://www.sptimes.ru/story/35621 Wed, 16 May 2012 00:00:00 +0400 Local News http://www.sptimes.ru/story/35622 http://www.sptimes.ru/story/35622 Wed, 16 May 2012 00:00:00 +0400 Local News By Irina Titova http://www.sptimes.ru/story/35623 http://www.sptimes.ru/story/35623 Wed, 16 May 2012 00:00:00 +0400 Local News By Irina Titova http://www.sptimes.ru/story/35624 http://www.sptimes.ru/story/35624 Wed, 16 May 2012 00:00:00 +0400 Local News By Irina Titova http://www.sptimes.ru/story/35625 http://www.sptimes.ru/story/35625 Wed, 16 May 2012 00:00:00 +0400 Local News By Irina Titova http://www.sptimes.ru/story/35626 http://www.sptimes.ru/story/35626 Wed, 16 May 2012 00:00:00 +0400 Local News By Irina Titova http://www.sptimes.ru/story/35627 http://www.sptimes.ru/story/35627 Wed, 16 May 2012 00:00:00 +0400 National News By Jonathan Earle and Kevin O’Flynn http://www.sptimes.ru/story/35628 http://www.sptimes.ru/story/35628 Wed, 16 May 2012 00:00:00 +0400 MOSCOW — A week after bloody clashes between radical youths and riot police tarnished the first major protest rally in months, the moderate middle-class opposition appeared to re-assert itself Sunday with an unexpectedly large march of thousands in Moscow led by some of Russia’s most prominent writers.]]> National News http://www.sptimes.ru/story/35629 http://www.sptimes.ru/story/35629 Wed, 16 May 2012 00:00:00 +0400 National News http://www.sptimes.ru/story/35630 http://www.sptimes.ru/story/35630 Wed, 16 May 2012 00:00:00 +0400 National News http://www.sptimes.ru/story/35631 http://www.sptimes.ru/story/35631 Wed, 16 May 2012 00:00:00 +0400 National News http://www.sptimes.ru/story/35632 http://www.sptimes.ru/story/35632 Wed, 16 May 2012 00:00:00 +0400 National News http://www.sptimes.ru/story/35633 http://www.sptimes.ru/story/35633 Wed, 16 May 2012 00:00:00 +0400 MOSCOW — Two Russians and an American blasted off in a Soyuz spaceship headed for the International Space Station Tuesday, overcoming more than a month’s delay caused by problems with the Russian spacecraft.]]> National News By Natalya Krainova http://www.sptimes.ru/story/35634 http://www.sptimes.ru/story/35634 Wed, 16 May 2012 00:00:00 +0400 Business By Alec Luhn http://www.sptimes.ru/story/35636 http://www.sptimes.ru/story/35636 Wed, 16 May 2012 00:00:00 +0400 MOSCOW — Russia has been widely touted as the world’s most deadly place to fly after a series of air crashes. The Russian aviation industry faces another pressing issue that may eventually compound safety problems — a shortage of personnel, especially pilots.]]> Business By Peter Spinella http://www.sptimes.ru/story/35637 http://www.sptimes.ru/story/35637 Wed, 16 May 2012 00:00:00 +0400 Opinion By Georgy Satarov http://www.sptimes.ru/story/35639 http://www.sptimes.ru/story/35639 Wed, 16 May 2012 00:00:00 +0400 In just six months, from the end of September to March, Russia was transformed. The state’s gradual decomposition — its degenerate ethos of rent-seeking and appropriation of public goods — finally pushed Russians, especially its young post-Communist middle class, into the streets.]]> Opinion By Alexei Bayer http://www.sptimes.ru/story/35640 http://www.sptimes.ru/story/35640 Wed, 16 May 2012 00:00:00 +0400 Culture By Sergey Chernov http://www.sptimes.ru/story/35641 http://www.sptimes.ru/story/35641 Wed, 16 May 2012 00:00:00 +0400 Genesis P-Orridge — of Throbbing Gristle and Psychic TV fame — will headline SKIF (the Sergei Kuryokhin International Festival), St. Petersburg’s leading experimental and avant-garde music event that will be held this week for the 16th time.]]> Culture By Sergey Chernov http://www.sptimes.ru/story/35642 http://www.sptimes.ru/story/35642 Wed, 16 May 2012 00:00:00 +0400 Culture By Galina Stolyarova http://www.sptimes.ru/story/35643 http://www.sptimes.ru/story/35643 Wed, 16 May 2012 00:00:00 +0400 How can you make a fashionable coat when the only fabric available is a piece of coarse felt used to make military overcoats? A possible solution — accompanied by spirited sewing patterns — can be found in the old, yellowing pages of a fashion magazine published in Russia in the 1940s.]]> Culture By Michele A. Berdy http://www.sptimes.ru/story/35644 http://www.sptimes.ru/story/35644 Wed, 16 May 2012 00:00:00 +0400 Culture By Galina Stolyarova http://www.sptimes.ru/story/35645 http://www.sptimes.ru/story/35645 Wed, 16 May 2012 00:00:00 +0400 An array of once neglected and forgotten architectural gems from the former imperial estate of Tsarskoye Selo have been brought back to life and will be unveiled to the public this summer.]]> Culture By Anna Malpas http://www.sptimes.ru/story/35646 http://www.sptimes.ru/story/35646 Wed, 16 May 2012 00:00:00 +0400 Last week, Vladimir Putin invited rapper Timati and lion-taming brothers Edgard and Askold Zapashny to his big day. On the other side of the barricades, it girl and media personality Ksenia Sobchak won the activist’s badge of pride by finally getting arrested.]]> Culture By Galina Stolyarova http://www.sptimes.ru/story/35650 http://www.sptimes.ru/story/35650 Wed, 16 May 2012 00:00:00 +0400 Features By Irina Filatova http://www.sptimes.ru/story/35635 http://www.sptimes.ru/story/35635 Wed, 16 May 2012 00:00:00 +0400 KRASNOYARSK — One of the oldest cities in Siberia, Krasnoyarsk boasts sights like picturesque churches and fountains with dazzling night lighting. But none of them can compare to its main attraction — majestic Siberian nature.]]> Features By Irina Titova http://www.sptimes.ru/story/35638 http://www.sptimes.ru/story/35638 Wed, 16 May 2012 00:00:00 +0400 Although vegetarianism is not as popular in Russia as in many Western countries and some Russian psychiatrists even consider some of its forms to be indicators of mental illness, the number of Russian vegetarians and vegans continues to grow.]]> World http://www.sptimes.ru/story/35647 http://www.sptimes.ru/story/35647 Wed, 16 May 2012 00:00:00 +0400 PARIS — Socialist Francois Hollande took over as France’s president Tuesday and jetted off to Berlin hours later for talks on Europe’s debt crisis — only to have his plane struck by lightning.]]> World http://www.sptimes.ru/story/35648 http://www.sptimes.ru/story/35648 Wed, 16 May 2012 00:00:00 +0400 World http://www.sptimes.ru/story/35649 http://www.sptimes.ru/story/35649 Wed, 16 May 2012 00:00:00 +0400