News & Views Directory 1
This is a full directory of all 66 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.
June.30.2011 | |
Following in the footsteps of such tourist hotspots as New York, London, Paris, Barcelona and Stockholm, St Petersburg has rustled up its own “Guest Card”, offe... | |
May.27.2011 | |
A team of over a hundred engineers, craftsmen and modelling artists are currently beavering away in a bid to recreate Russia in miniature. The vast concocti... | |
April.25.2011 | |
Policemen in St Petersburg are claiming that a robbery in the romantic city was inspired by a plot from one of Arthur Conan Doyle's classic tales. The incid... | |
March.27.2011 | |
Famed British graffiti artist Banksy has paid the bail of two Russian artists who are awaiting trial for hooliganism. The artists belong to the controversia... | |
Feb.24.2011 | |
Russian tycoon Roman Abramovich has invited some of the world's finest architects to take part in a competition to revive a battered St Petersburg island. ... | |
Jan.28.2011 | |
A jaw-dropping hoard of mammoth tusks has been confiscated from a criminal gang in St. Petersburg. As many as 64 pristine tusks and 14 reconstructed ones we... | |
Dec.30.2010 | |
Russia got an early Christmas present when the golden envelope was opened on December 2nd and the Federation came out on top over joint bidders Portugal and Spa... | |
Nov.24.2010 | |
Russia's PM hailed Hollywood heartthrob Leonardo DiCaprio as amuzhik ("a real man"), after the actor pressed on to St. Petersburg in spite of an engine failure ... | |
Oct.19.2010 | |
St. Petersburg is getting ready to host what's considered a critical attempt to save the world's tiger population. As the Global Tiger Initiative declares: "... | |
Sept.17.2010 | |
An archaeological team is claiming that the missing remains of an 18th century Tsar have been located. The group is now calling for a state burial in St.Petersb... | |
June.17.2010 | |
The organisers of St Petersburg’s first gay-pride march have recently applied for permission to hold the parade on the 26th of June. More than 500 participants ... | |
Apr.27.2010 | |
A crowd of youths blowing bubbles have been attacked by a group of right-wing extremists in the center of St Petersburg. According to the organizers of the bub... | |
Dec.16.2009 | |
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... | |
August.13.2009 | |
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... | |
July.12.2009 | |
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... | |
June.14.2009 | |
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 ... | |
May.16.2009 | |
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... | |
28.04.2009 | |
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... | |
31.03.2009 | |
"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 ... | |
23.02.2009 | |
A branch of the Museum of Political History - Gorokhovaya 2 - invites everybody to a new exhibition called "Afghanistan 1979-1989". According to the exhibition'... | |
29.01.2009 | |
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 ... | |
28.11.2008 | |
The mysteriously sounding Rautakesko is a Finnish company offering building and home improvement products. The chain operates in eight countries in the Nordic a... | |
Oct. 24. 2008 | |
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... | |
Aug.26.2008 | |
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... | |
Jul.28.2008 | |
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... | |
July.02.2008 | |
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. ... | |
May.22.2008 | |
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... | |
Mar.03.2008 | |
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... | |
Dec.21.2007 | |
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... | |
Oct.24.2007 | |
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... | |
Oct.11.2007 | |
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... | |
Sep.12.2007 | |
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... | |
Aug.27.2007 | |
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... | |
Aug.02.2007 | |
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 ... | |
Jul.16.2007 | |
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... | |
Jul.02.2007 | |
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... | |
May.30.2007 | |
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... | |
Apr.05.2007 | |
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 ... | |
Mar.08.2007 | |
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... | |
Jan.22.2006 | |
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... | |
Dec.14.2006 | |
A Russian teenager at the Cervantes Gymnasium School in St. Petersburg has baffled authorities by suing the St. Petersburg city education council for teaching ... | |
Oct.30.2006 | |
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... | |
Oct.23.2006 | |
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... | |
Nov.22.2002 | |
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... | |
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... | |
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... | |
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... | |
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... | |
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... | |
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... | |
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