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Saint Petersburg

Type: City

Name: Saint Petersburg

Country: Russia

Latitude: 59.93

Longitude: 30.32

population: 4,039,751

First reported 3 hours ago - Updated 3 hours ago - 1 reports

Is Russian on its way to becoming Finland’s No. 2 language?

Finland has steadily been filling up with Russian immigrants and if the trend continues, they will outnumber Swedish speakers as the largest language minority in the country.!--more--> Some 60,000 Russian speakers were recorded in Finland during ... [Published IceNews - Daily News - 3 hours ago]

Entities: Finland, Immigration, Saturation

First reported 10 hours ago - Updated 8 hours ago - 1 reports

Russian cult film director Balabanov dies

Alexei Balabanov, a director who captured the essence of Russia's early post-Soviet years with cult films about crime and the Chechen war, has died at the age of 54 following a long illness."The films of Alexei Balabanov are a collective portrait of our ... [Published MSN New Zealand - 10 hours ago]

Entities: Russia, Saint Petersburg, Xenia Sobchak, Crime, Dmitry Medvedev

First reported 10 hours ago - Updated 10 hours ago - 1 reports

Dmitry Medvedev

Dmitry Medvedev expressed condolences over Balabanovs death

"The films of Alexei Balabanov are a collective portrait of our country at its most dramatic time in history," Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev wrote on Facebook."I liked his work. The passing of a talented director is a great loss for friends and fans ... [Published Voice of Russia - 10 hours ago]

Entities: Dmitry Medvedev, Russia, Saint Petersburg, Xenia Sobchak

First reported 18 hours ago - Updated 18 hours ago - 1 reports

Park Geun-Hye

S. Korea, Russia in talks for summit in fall: ambassador

SEOUL, May 19 (Yonhap) -- South Korea and Russia are in talks for a summit meeting later this year on the sidelines of a multinational conference in the Eurasian country, Seoul's ambassador to Moscow said Sunday.Wi Sung-lac, the South Korean ambassador ... [Published Yonhap News Agency - 18 hours ago]

Entities: South Korea, Russia, Park Geun-Hye, G20, Saint Petersburg

First reported May 18 2013 - Updated May 18 2013 - 1 reports

IAEA International Atomic Energy Agency

ATOMEXPO 2013 to take place in St Petersburg on 26-28 June

(BelTA) – The International Industry Forum ATOMEXPO 2013 will be held in Saint Petersburg on 26-28 June, BelTA learnt from the State Atomic Energy Corporation ROSATOM, an organizer of the event.A plenary discussion “Nuclear Energy in the 21st century: ... [Published Belta - May 18 2013]

Entities: Nuclear Power, Nuclear, IAEA International Atomic Energy Agency

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

Friday random ten: The city never sleeps, part 6

More Memphis and more foreign places. 1. Leningrad – Billy Joel 2. Lisdoonvarna – Ceili’s Muse 3. Liverpool Sunset – Gerald Jay Markoe 4. London Homesick Blues – Flying Fish Sailors 5. (Making The Run To) Gladewater – Michelle Shocked 6. Marching ... [Published Off the Kuff - May 17 2013]

Entities: Memphis (Tennessee, United States), Merano (Italy), Shorty Long, Chess

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

OECD

World economies unite against tax fraud at Moscow forum

Tax administrators from 45 countries urged their governments on Friday to combat tax fraud and avoidance by boosting coordination and transparency, vowing to find tax evaders anywhere they might hide.Meeting for a summit in Moscow, heads of tax administrations ... [Published XinMsn - May 17 2013]

Entities: Tax Fraud, Taxes, Moscow, OECD

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

Scientific aspects of northern planting of greenery will be analyzed in Salekhard

The scientific and practical seminar "Prospects of growing of local and introduced tree-like plants in conditions of Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Okrug" is taking place in Salekhard. It is being conducted by the regional department on science and innovations ... [Published Yamal.org - May 17 2013]

Entities: Saint Petersburg, Kirov (Kirov, Russia), FAR

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 2 reports

TV satellite hit by lightning

A television satellite has been struck by lightning in the Russian city St. Petersburg.The flash of light was caught on camera striking the highest point of the city.The tower transmitts the signal from the Leningrad Television Broadcasting Centre.Russian ... [Published BigPond News - May 16 2013]

Entities: City St Petersburg, Saint Petersburg

First reported May 15 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 2 reports

TV tower struck by lightning

Dramatic pictures have emerged of St Petersburg television tower being struck during a lightning storm on Monday.The head of the Leningrad Television Broadcasting Centre, Vladimir Baturin, is reported to have said service from the tower was disrupted ... [Published BBC - May 16 2013]

Entities: Saint Petersburg

First reported May 15 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 2 reports

Video captures lightning striking TV tower in Russia

Footage of lightning striking Russia's second tallest tower this week has been posted online.Lightning struck the Saint Petersburg Television Tower during a thunder storm, lighting up the sky in a spectacular display.Service from the television tower ... [Published ONE News - May 16 2013]

Entities: Russia, Saint Petersburg, YouTube LLC

First reported May 14 2013 - Updated May 15 2013 - 2 reports

Skeletons dating back to 1930s found near Moscow

:The remains of 11 people buried about 80 years ago have been discovered near the Russian capital, officials said.The remains were found on the bank of the Pakhra river south of Moscow, the Russian Investigative Committee said in a statement.A forensic ... [Published ProKerala.com - May 15 2013]

Entities: SKELETON, Moscow, Famine, Saint Petersburg

Quotes

"This is a tragedy - a huge tragedy for Russian film" the Kommersant business daily wrote on Sunday

Russian cult film director Balabanov dies [Published MSN New Zealand - 10 hours ago]

Dr Polonsky says: "We live in an age of unprecedented access to information. Researchers have greater freedom than ever to travel in Russia and are rich in contacts with Russians of all kinds, if they choose to seek them out InIn turn, Russians now have access to books written about Russia in the West, many of which are now translated into Russian. The result is a constantly enriched field of writing about all aspects of Russian culture, which the Pushkin House prize is intended to cultivate and celebrate."

Russia: Up close [Published University of Cambridge - May 18 2013]

"The detainees have already pleaded guilty in the fact that in November 2006, with the use of physical violence, they kidnapped a 20-year-old son of a businessman from Vladikavkaz for ransom, and in 2007, they kidnapped a businessman from Moscow, born in 1952, whose body was exhumed on May 16 on the southern outskirts of the village of Tarskoe" the MIA's report notes

North Ossetia: two men suspected of kidnappings detained [Published Caucasian Knot - May 17 2013]

These three countries "will use these data to share useful information for other members" of the Forum, the OECD's statement said

World economies unite against tax fraud at Moscow forum [Published XinMsn - May 17 2013]

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Blogs

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Friday random ten: The city never sleeps, part 6 [Published Off the Kuff - May 17 2013] More Memphis and more foreign places. 1. Leningrad – Billy Joel 2. Lisdoonvarna – Ceili’s Muse 3. Liverpool Sunset – Gerald Jay Markoe 4. London Homesick Blues – Flying Fish Sailors 5. (Making The Run To) Gladewater – Michelle Shocked 6. Marching ...
Google shutters Quickoffice R&D offices in Russ... [Published The Next Web - May 16 2013] Editor’s note: This article was written in collaboration with our partner East-West Digital News , a leading English-language resource on Russian digital industries and related venture activity.One thing Google apparently forgot to announce yesterday ...
Google shutters Quickoffice R&D offices in Russ... [Published The Next Web - May 16 2013] Editor’s note: This article was written in collaboration with our partner East-West Digital News , a leading English-language resource on Russian digital industries and related venture activity. One thing Google apparently forgot to announce yesterday ...
a fault line of European civilization [Published 3quarksdaily - May 16 2013] By the mid-thirties there were already fifty seven large cinemas in Moscow and hundreds of other places where films could be shown. The party was very well aware of the propaganda potential of the medium, and generous provision was made for cinemas ...
Dreams and Nightmares: Europe in the twentieth ... [Published The Coffee House \| Politics and News Discussion ... - May 10 2013] So much abuse has been heaped on the European Union in recent years that it is easy to forget that Europe and the EU are not the same thing. Geert Mak reminds us of this fact. He is one of the most celebrated journalists and commentators in the Netherlands. ...

Audio/Video

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VIDEO: Mariinsky Theatre's new building [Published BBC News Video - Entertainment and Arts - May 03 2013]

Press Releases

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