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Street Art

Graffiti artist Zhenya Pacer paints an advertisement board in central St. Petersburg in preparation for this week’s International Graffiti Art Forum, otherwise known as GraFFFest. The festival will culminate in short films and artwork being projected onto Palace Bridge. See article, page 15.

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Flood Fears Laid to Rest

Could Lenfilm Be Privatized?

Seaside Stories

After years of construction, the St. Petersburg dam is completed.

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Sistema Corp. tipped to buy city’s struggling film studio.

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Tallinn invites visitors to rediscover the city’s long neglected seashore.

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Sistema Tipped to Get Lenfilm Journalist Sacked After

By Galina Stolyarova T H E S T. P E T E R S B U R G T I M E S

Lenfilm, one of Russia’s oldest and most venerable film studios, looks set to pack its bags and leave its central location at the heart of the Petrograd Side as it faces being absorbed at a bargain price by Sistema Financial Corporation, Russia’s largest diversified consumer services company, headed by the tycoon Vladimir Yevtushenkov.

At present, Lenfilm, whose history dates back to 1918, produces only about three to four films per year and is struggling to stay afloat. It is saddled with debts and on the verge of bankruptcy.

Earlier, the Culture Ministry asked the Finance Ministry for a subsidy to remedy Lenfilm’s financial plight. The request has been turned down. Instead, the solution currently being offered is to create a partnership between the state and Sistema under which Lenfilm would merge with a private studio owned by Yevtushenkov. The scheme, if it takes shape, would see Lenfilm moving to new pavilions on the outskirts of St. Petersburg, and Yevtushenkov using the prime location on Kamennoostrovsky Prospekt for lucrative construction projects.

Rumors about the possible sale of Lenfilm have been circulating for almost five years. However, this time, the grounds for concern appear to be substantial.

Last week, the internationally renowned St. Petersburg filmmakers Alexander Sokurov and Alexei German sent an open letter to Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, who is also head of the state government’s film council, asking ADVERTISING

Putin “to save Lenfilm” from being absorbed by Sistema Mass-Media (SMM) holding — the company that unites the media projects of Sistema Financial Corporation.

Speaking to reporters last week, Sokurov shared the information he had just received, explaining what had prompted him and German to act.

“We have obtained a copy of a document numbered 130607/3290 from the Finance Ministry in which the value of Lenfilm is estimated at a laughable 105 million rubles [$3.7 million],” Sokurov said. “We also received a copy of the new list of Lenfilm’s Board of Directors, in which there are no representatives of the studio. The list came through the Federal Agency for State Property Management.”

Sistema, in turn, informed reporters through its press spokesperson Yulia Belous that at present the company “is weighing up and further researching forms of public-private partnership that would allow one of Russia’s finest studios, which is in a state of financial decay, to revive.”

Responding to the open letter, Andrei Komarov, an official spokesman for the Federal Agency for State Property Management (Rosimushchestvo), told reporters this week that Lenfilm’s assets have not yet been evaluated and the studio had not been included in privatization plans for the year 2011.

Komarov, however, stopped short of saying whether or not any such plans for next year are being considered.

Film director Alexei Uchitel, president of the Message to Man International Festival of Documentary, Animated and Short Fiction Films, is con-

vinced that Lenfilm in its current condition is continuously deteriorating.

“Preserving the venerable film studio in its current state and doing nothing essentially means leaving Lenfilm to die,” Uchitel told reporters at a news conference Monday.

As for the role of private funding in a unique project like Lenfilm, Uchitel sounded a note of caution. “It is a positive sign indeed that there are people in Russia who are ready to invest in the development of Lenfilm; however, as we all know, it is treacherous ground.”

A number of filmmakers, industry experts and film critics in Russia share Uchitel’s concern and say that if Lenfilm becomes a commercial enterprise, there will be no place for art house films of the kind that Sokurov and German have been making.

Uchitel recommends that Lenfilm adopts a revival scheme earlier employed by Mosfilm, the country’s leading film studio. “The revival plan has to incorporate economic solutions, technical renovation and an artistic policy,” Uchitel said.

Importantly, Mosfilm owns the rights to all the films that have been made there.

Founded in 1918 in Petrograd, as St. Petersburg was then known, as a film committee, Lenfilm received its current name only in 1934. During its nearly century-long history, the studio has produced about 1,500 films. Some of the country’s finest cinematographic talent such as actors Oleg Yankovsky and Boris Livanov and filmmakers Grigory Kozintsev and Gleb Panfilov worked at Lenfilm.

Exposing Election Plans

By Galina Stolyarova T H E S T. P E T E R S B U R G T I M E S

Maxim Reznik, head of the local branch of the Yabloko Democratic Party, has called for the city’s Prosecutor’s Office to investigate the facts surrounding the sacking of journalist Alexandra Garmazhapova after she wrote an article published on Fontanka.ru web site accusing the Kirovsky district authorities of using administrative resources to reach political goals.

In the article, the journalist reported her experience of sneaking into a closed meeting between Alexei Kondrashov, head of the Kirovsky district administration, and the local community, at which both local entrepreneurs and blind people alike were allegedly instructed on how to act to ensure Valentina Matviyenko’s victory at the forthcoming municipal elections in the Krasnenkaya Rechka district.

The short-lived article, which was removed from the web site less than three hours after it was published on the evening of Aug. 10, has nonetheless managed to make a major splash in the media. In the article, the journalist alleged that the Kirovsky district administration was abusing its powers and pressuring local entrepreneurs in order to help Matviyenko get elected in the Krasnenkaya Rechka district.

The journalist was promptly fired from Fontanka.ru on the grounds that she had allegedly violated the electoral law. However, she managed to draw attention to the issue by posting her story on various social networking sites and describing the motives behind her dismissal as political. The scandal has helped the disgraced reporter to find a new job almost immediately: Diana Kachalova, chief editor of the local branch of Novaya Gazeta newspaper, said her publication would employ Garmazhapova.

City Governor Matviyenko has officially registered as a candidate for the municipal council elections in the Krasnenkaya Rechka municipal district in the Kirovsky district, and in the Petrovsky municipal district of the Petrogradsky district. The elec-

tions are due to be held on Aug. 21.

According to the removed article, the local administration has called on shopping centers and non-governmental organizations to assist in drawing locals to the polling stations.

“The task is to make residents stay in town and attend the elections instead of going to their dachas; this means that a number of appealing events, including fairs, festivities, lotteries and other offerings must be arranged,” the journalist quoted Kondrashov as saying at the meeting.

“We must ensure maximum attendance at the elections. Imagine the horror if only about ten percent of voters come to the polling stations — we would look ridiculous.”

Garmazhapova said that: “Shop owners were literally ordered to place United Russia posters in their premises, while war veterans and disabled people were told to drag their feeble comrades to polling stations.”

In the article, Garmazhapova quoted Marina Filippova, a specialist with the social care department of the Kirovsky district administration, as saying: “We know for a fact that in the other district, Petrovsky, at least 3,000 people will be brought to polling stations at gunpoint.” The official was apparently referring to a military academy located in the Petrovsky district.

Filippova herself took a direct shot at a representative of a group of blind people. “There are only twenty of you; can’t you organize yourselves to make sure that everyone votes?”

The journalist said one of the most shocking elements of the story for her was what she described as the “brutal truth” of just how cynically and openly the authorities behave in order to reach their goals.

“I would not say I was surprised by what I saw,” Garmazhapova told Radio Liberty. “But it was heartbreaking to see the elderly and sick being humiliated. It was a really appalling sight.”

The Agency for Journalistic Investigations, which publishes Fontanka.ru, offered no official comment on Garmazhapova’s departure.

Ban Sought on Animal Exploitation

By Irina Titova T H E S T. P E T E R S B U R G T I M E S

St. Petersburg’s environmental prosecutor has called for a ban on the use of animals that have no health certificates on the city’s streets.

“Activities related to the showing of animals and allowing people to have photos taken with them when those animals lack essential veterinary documents may cause the spread of infectious diseases common to both animals and humans,” the city prosecutor’s office said in a statement.

Prosecutors said that people who invite members of the public to have their picture taken with ponies near the Leningrad Zoo, and a man who offers photo opportunities with a snake in the same area, do not have the documents required for transporting such animals.

This also applies to those who bring monkeys to the city’s central Palace Square in order to charge people money to have their photographs taken with the animals.

The prosecutors have filed criminal cases with the city’s district courts to ban the exhibition and transportation of animals without the necessary documents.

Local animal rights activists say the exploitation of animals for photography is not a civilized practice.

“It’s an extremely cruel business,” said Marina Pushenko, head of the Poteryashka Stray Animals Help Center.

“People who use animals for these purposes do so only for their own profit.

Usually they use young animals and give them sedatives to make them sit still.

And they use them for as long as they need to during the day, as long as there is demand for it,” Pushenko said.

Pushenko said she had witnessed small monkeys being photographed outside when the temperature was as low as minus 30 degrees Celsius.

“They had only thin clothing on,” she said.

“It’s very similar to people who use babies or small children to beg outside.

Nobody knows what happens to those children or animals afterwards,” Pushenko said.

Pushenko said that usually such animals are kept in poor conditions in small cages.

In most “civilized” countries, activities such as using animals for street photography are prohibited, she said.

Pushenko said that the prosecutors’ call for a ban of such activities was very positive.

“Be it because of the risk to people or for any other reason, it will be a good thing for the animals themselves,” she said.

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Police Seize Newspaper Of A Just Russia Party

By Irina Titova T H E S T. P E T E R S B U R G T I M E S

Police seized the circulation of A Just Russia newspaper published by the St. Petersburg branch of A Just Russia political party Monday.

Police confiscated at least one tenth of the 1.5 million copies printed of the newspaper when they were being transported by two vehicles. Police said they did so to check for the presence of extremist content in the publications, the press service of A Just Russia party said.

Police said they had doubts about the documents that the drivers gave to them, and therefore confiscated the materials to check the documents and for the presence of extremist content in the newspapers, Interfax reported.

“There were no extremist materials in those newspapers for sure,” Olga Kovalevskaya, spokeswoman for the St. Petersburg branch of A Just Russia party, told The St. Petersburg Times on Tuesday.

“In the newspapers, we had an article about an independent public referendum for the forthcoming gubernatorial elections in the city, about whom city residents would like to see as their next governor,” Kovalevskaya said.

Kovalevskaya said the party’s office was lucky not to have lost all the issues of the newspaper, and that they were continuing to distribute the materials in the city.

“All the documents for transportation and publication were legal,” she said. “Furthermore, our lawyers have

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not received any documents regarding the act of confiscation. Therefore, our lawyers qualify the actions of the police as a violation of their duties and will appeal the matter to the city prosecutor’s office,” she added.

Oksana Dmitriyeva, head of the St. Petersburg branch of A Just Russia, said at a briefing Tuesday that the people who continued to distribute the newspapers on Tuesday were also being detained and that newspapers were being confiscated without any explanation.

The inspection of the confiscated newspapers will take at least a week, Interfax cited the police as saying.

That means that the confiscated copies of the newspaper may not reach readers before Aug. 21, when the Krasnenkaya Rechka and Petrovsky municipal districts will hold elections for the district councils, in which St. Petersburg Governor Valentina Matviyenko is due to take part.

Matviyenko is standing in the elections in order to have the legal grounds to assume the position of Speaker of the Federation Council — a job that she was offered by President Dmitry Medvedev earlier this summer.

Previously, the Federation Council was headed by the leader of A Just Russia party, Sergei Mironov. Mironov has been critical of Matviyenko’s candidature for the post.

However, Kovalevskaya said that there were no materials regarding the municipal elections in the confiscated issue.

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Northwest Extremism ■ ST. PETERSBURG (SPT) — Russia’s northwest has been ranked the second most dangerous place in the country in terms of the number of extremist crimes, the region’s officials said.

During the first six months of this year, 40 crimes linked with extremism were registered — 41.8 percent more than in 2010. Meanwhile, the number of such crimes in Russia as a whole decreased by 6.5 percent, said Alexander Nesterov, deputy head of the northwestern region.

The majority of extremist crimes happen in St. Petersburg, the Leningrad and Vologda Oblasts, and in the Republic of Karelia, Nesterov said.

He added that the statistics are not complete, because a number of similar crimes are classified under different articles of the Criminal Code, such as hooliganism, vandalism and others.

Private Plane Crashes ■ ST. PETERSBURG (SPT) — The pilot and two passengers of a small private plane died when the aircraft crashed in the Leningrad Oblast on Monday, Interfax reported.

The Piper PA-28 Cherokee plane took off from the village of Kusino, located 100 kilometers from St. Petersburg. It is thought that the plane got caught in overhead cables and fell into the River Tiboda.

All three people on board — pilot Alexander Pribylsky and passengers Anatoly Baranov, 36, and Dmitry Pichugin, 31 — died, 47 News portal reported.

Toxic Dump Fined ■ ST. PETERSBURG (SPT) — The Krasny Bor toxic waste dump has been fined 150,000 rubles ($5,217) for the fire that occurred there in June, Interfax reported.

The Environmental Watchdog Agency that investigated the fire at the dump said 18.6 tons of contaminated substances had been released into the air as a result of the accident.

The dump was fined for the violation of ecological and sanitation requirements when dealing with dangerous waste.

The fire broke out at the toxic waste dump located 30 kilometers from St. Petersburg on June 23.

Double Detention ■ ST. PETERSBURG (SPT) — Police twice detained Boris Nemtsov, the co-head of the People’s Freedom Party or PARNAS, in St. Petersburg on Sunday and Monday.

After being detained Sunday on unclear grounds, Nemtsov resumed his aim of handing out materials to St. Petersburg residents, calling on them not to vote for St. Petersburg Governor Valentina Matviyenko at the municipal elections on Aug. 21.

The car Nemtsov was driving was stopped by police, and some pro-Kremlin youths threw eggs at him, Nemtsov said. After that, Nemtsov was taken to a police precinct, Interfax reported.

Peeing Policeman Saga ■ ST. PETERSBURG (SPT) — A policeman who uploaded the much talkedabout video of the “peeing police colonel” has been forced to resign from his job, Fontanka.ru reported this week.

The policeman who uploaded the video of his colleague recognized that his actions violated police regulations, and he decided to leave his job of his own accord, the police press service was cited as saying by Fontanka.ru.

The incident took place on June 28, when the police colonel filmed himself urinating on his own office door from the corridor. He was apparently drunk.

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City Governor Valentina Matviyenko, left, and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin at the opening of the new $3.6 billion dam.

Dam Complex Complete At Last

By Irina Titova T H E S T. P E T E R S B U R G T I M E S

St. Petersburg is finally protected from potentially devastating flooding after the St. Petersburg Flood Protection Complex (FPC) was officially completed Friday.

The complex, located between the village of Gorskaya and the city’s naval suburb of Kronshtadt on Kotlin Island, is designed to hold at bay water levels rising up to 5 meters.

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, who took part in the opening ceremony, said the construction was “worthy of St. Petersburg.”

“It’s a grandiose construction. There is some technological beauty in it,” Putin was cited by Interfax as saying.

The opening of the dam was timed to coincide with the launch of a tunnel running underneath a new shipping canal to connect Kotlin Island and the southern and northern parts of the city. The six-lane tunnel is both a part of the dam complex, and the final part of the city’s 140-kilometer Ring Road.

The construction of the FPC was one of the city’s biggest and most complex projects, and regularly faced

financial problems and ecological scandals.

St. Petersburg has been hit by more than 300 floods in the city’s 308-year history. It was a flood in 1955 that pushed the Soviet government to consider protecting the city with a dam.

Construction finally began in late 1979. The plan was to build a 25-kilometer dam complex that would curve around the Neva Bay to protect the city from the gulf beyond, but it was halted in the late 1980s because of ecological worries and a lack of funds.

In 2001, the Dutch government and the European Bank of Reconstruction and Development sponsored initial research into the possibility of reviving the plans for the dam’s construction.

Construction work resumed in 2005.

The protection barrier can close within thirty minutes of an alarm signal. Meteorologists warn of a possible flood 48 hours and then 24 hours beforehand. Meteorologists and dam workers keep a close eye on the water level in the final 24 hours, and if it looks set to rise 1.6 meters above the norm, the dam is closed.

The complex includes 11 dams, sluices that allow gulf water to go back

and forth in measured quantities, two ship-passing facilities that also work as flood gates and a six-lane automobile road with bridges, a tunnel and transport interchanges.

Experts say completion of the barrier will save the city substantial sums of money.

Alexander Boutovsky, senior consultant and business development director for the Coastal and Rivers Division in Russia for the Dutch company of Royal Haskoning, said last year that the dam saves the city more than $100 million every year in potential flood damages. Haskoning provided engineering and consultancy services for almost a decade on the flood protection complex.

Concerns about environmental damage to the fragile ecology of the Neva delta had to be taken into account during the dam’s construction. There was also the significant problem of unexploded World War II mines in the area.

The project cost $3.6 billion in total, Interfax reported — approximately as much as the world’s biggest flood defense construction in the Netherlands.

London’s dam, built in 1984, cost $2.5 billion, Novaya Gazeta newspaper reported.

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FSB Foils Sapsan Attack

By Alexandra Odynova T H E S T. P E T E R S B U R G T I M E S

MOSCOW — A group of North Caucasus insurgents, including at least one young Chechen driven by hatred over Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s decision to launch the second Chechen war in 1999, attempted to bomb a Sapsan bullet train last month, but their plot was foiled by the Federal Security Service, a news report said Monday.

The report in Kommersant provided the first details of a plot first mentioned by Federal Security Service director Alexander Bortnikov during a televised meeting with President Dmitry Medvedev last month.

Bortnikov gave no details at the time and did not mention the Germanmade Sapsan, popular with the country’s rich and powerful.

The FSB did not comment on Kommersant’s report Monday, but RIANovosti provided some confirmation and an additional detail, saying the FSB had learned about the plot from an informant within the insurgency. RIANovosti cited an unidentified law enforcement official as its source.

Kommersant, citing the FSB, said the agency has arrested a group of four men from Kabardino-Balkaria, Chechnya, Ingushetia and Mordovia on suspicion of organizing the plot on a Sapsan traveling between Moscow and St. Petersburg.

The Sapsan carries up to 600 passengers and runs at up to 250 kilometers per hour, meaning the death toll from an attack could have stood in the hundreds.

The FSB believes the attack was masterminded by Kabardino-Balkaria native Islam Khamuzhev, 22, who alADVERTISING

legedly trained with Islamist militants in Dagestan and was assigned the bombing mission by them last year, the report said.

Khamuzhev then traveled to Moscow, where he recruited three others for the job, including natives of Chechnya and Ingushetia who played football in local amateur teams. All four met through one of the city’s mosques, the report said.

One suspect, Chechen Murad Edilbiyev, 22, told investigators after his arrest that he decided to participate in the attack as revenge for the 1999 war in Chechnya, where “his countrymen were killed” and “the rights of residents were grossly violated,” the report said. He was 10 at the time that then-Prime Minister Putin initiated the war in response to a Chechen rebel incursion in Dagestan and a series of deadly apartment bombings in Moscow and other cities.

The attackers constructed a time bomb using ammonium nitrate, an agricultural fertilizer, and chose the site for the blast: a train station some 20 kilometers north of Moscow.

But the suspects were detained before they could plant the explosives, the report said, adding that the FSB had been tracking the group’s preparations for a long time.

The four suspects face up to 20 years in prison on charges of terrorism and illegal firearms possession.

This is not the first time that a train has been targeted en route between Moscow and St. Petersburg.

The Nevsky Express was derailed by bomb attacks in 2007, which injured about 60, and in 2009, which killed 28.

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A busload of OMON riot police officers take an afternoon nap in Moscow last week.

Big Names in United Russia Primaries

By Natalya Krainova T H E S T. P E T E R S B U R G T I M E S

MOSCOW — Deputy Prime Minister Igor Sechin, cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova and tennis star Marat Safin are among the hopefuls running in United Russia’s primary elections, a novelty for Russian politics meant to give an aura of competition to the State Duma elections.

The celebrities are competing against thousands of regular people who stand little chance of making it into United Russia’s party list for the Duma elections because, as one party official said, the votes cast in primaries count for nothing.

United Russia’s primaries, which run from July 21 to Aug. 25, are largely intended to ensure the rotation of lawmakers in United Russia and combat its image as the party of bureaucracy.

But so far, the in-house elections have been plagued with typical bureaucratic problems, including murky rules and an overall lack of transparency.

United Russia is holding its primaries jointly with its new electoral ally, the All-Russia People’s Front, an informal group created in May by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, who heads United Russia but is not a member.

A quarter of the seats on United Russia’s list of 600 Duma nominees will go to the All-Russia People’s Front, whose stated goal is to bring together nonpolitical groups to give them broader representation in the legislature. Analysts say the people’s front is an attempt to garner more votes for United Russia, whose popularity has sunk in recent years.

A total of 4,700 candidates are running in the primaries, and only 3,000 are United Russia members, Duma Speaker Boris Gryzlov, who heads the party’s Duma faction, told President Dmitry Medvedev during a Kremlin meeting earlier this month.

Even though the All-Russia People’s Front will only get a fourth of the seats in the party list, it is putting forth half of the 226,000 voters for the primaries, according to rules for primaries available on United Russia’s web site.

The other half of the voters is nominated by United Russia.

The rules, however, offer no guarantee that winners of the primaries will automatically make the Duma vote list.

Neither do the guidelines say the winners will be those who collect the most votes. Duma Deputy Sergei Markov — who is running in the primaries — said the votes do not matter.

“It’s participation that counts, and the number of votes is a less crucial factor,” Markov told Kommersant in an interview published Monday.

“I do not rule out that in the next [electoral] cycle, figures from primaries will have a direct impact on the distribution of names on the party list,” he said.

Markov did not say how the party list would be compiled for the December vote. Repeated calls to his cell phone went unanswered Monday.

A party spokeswoman in Moscow said by telephone that no one at the party was available to comment on the primaries.

Putin and the rest of United Russia’s leadership will have the final say on the party list, Kommersant reported last Tuesday. Candidates will be announced at a United Russia congress in Moscow on Sept. 23 and 24, which will gather more than 10,000 participants, the party’s web site said.

Between 15 percent and 20 percent of United Russia’s current lawmakers stayed away from the primaries, mostly because they are near retirement age or have other career plans, and as a result will not be in the next Duma, Markov said.

Moreover, United Russia is cutting down on the practice of “locomotives” — political slang for popular faces, usually governors, who head party lists in the regions to boost vote results but give up their Duma seats after the elections, senior party official Andrei Vorobyov said.

“While governors often acted as ‘locomotives’ in the past, we believe that they will not head the lists in at least 30 regions this time,” Vorobyov told a briefing Friday, according to United Russia’s web site.

But the party’s stab at rejuvenation largely amounts to shuffling familiar faces between regions, not ditching them in favor of new candidates, said Anna Lunyova, an analyst with the Center for Political Information.

“Old party members who lost credit in one region are running in another region,” Lunyova said by phone.

Besides, there are still a lot of big names running in the primaries, and not all of them are expected to give up their day jobs for a Duma seat.

Prominent candidates who already made it through the primaries — which wrapped up ahead of schedule in some regions — include Mayor Sergei Sobyanin in Moscow and former tennis champion Marat Safin in Nizhny Novgorod.

Also participating are chess master Anatoly Karpov, cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova, film star Vladimir Mashkov, and fitness club owner and socialite Olga Slutsker, party official Sergei Neverov said last month.

Among the 4,700 candidates are also Speaker Gryzlov, Deputy Prime Minister Sechin, Emergency Situations Minister Sergei Shoigu and Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Zhukov, party official Vorobyov said Friday.

Some rank-and-file activists have also made it onto party lists, among them a miner in the Rostov-on-Don region and two farmers, one in the Ryazan region and the other in the Kurgan region, Gryzlov told Medvedev at the Kremlin meeting.

United Russia first held primaries ahead of the 2007 Duma elections, but only members of the party or Young Guard, the party’s youth wing, were allowed to take part.

The primaries have not been without controversy. The Prosecutor General’s Office on Monday threatened Investigative Committee spokesman Vladimir Markin with disciplinary sanctions for running in primaries in the Volgograd region even though his job prevents him from participating in public politics. The two agencies are currently waging a turf war.

In Perm, former Duma Deputy Speaker Alexander Babakov came in a decent 15th place out of 40 candidates without even visiting the region, Kommersant reported.

Babakov, who ran on the All-Russia People’s Front ballot, was a member of the ruling party’s rival, A Just Russia, which expelled him for participating in the primaries. No word was available on whether switching sides would make him eligible for United Russia’s Duma list despite the primaries’ outcome.

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Chechen War Prepared 2 Charged in Magnitsky Case Teens for Norway Terror

By Alexandra Odynova T H E S T. P E T E R S B U R G T I M E S

By Nikolaus von Twickel T H E S T. P E T E R S B U R G T I M E S

MOSCOW — Two Chechen teenagers who survived last month’s massacre on Norway’s Utoya Island said they pelted right-wing extremist Anders Breivik with stones and saved lives.

Movsar Dzhamayev, 17, and Rustam Daudov, 16, told the Norwegian Dagbladet daily that they were reminded of the war in their native Chechnya after seeing Breivik killing three people in front of their eyes on July 22.

“I saw people being shot before in my country when I was small and had flashbacks,” Dzhamayev said in the interview published late last week.

But after speaking to his father by cell phone, he pulled himself together. “My dad said, ‘Attack the perpetrator and do it properly,’” he said.

With a third unidentified friend, the teens armed themselves with stones and returned to the scene only to witness Breivik killing another young camper on the island outside Oslo.

“We stood three meters from him and wanted to beat him, but then he shot one of our friends in the head. So we just threw the stones and ran for our lives,” Daudov said.

While he was unsure whether he hit Breivik, Dzhamyev said he was certain he had.

“First he howled and then turned to me and shouted, “[expletive] [racial slur],” he said.

The teens said they decided that it was too difficult to stop the gunman

and better to save lives. They discovered a cave-like opening in a rock where they managed to hide 23 children from Breivik, who ended up killing 69 people at the camp and eight more people in a bombing in central Oslo.

Dzhamayev, who kept guard outside, also dragged three youngsters from the lake who were close to drowning.

The two Chechens, who both live in Norway, said they first met each other at the summer camp and immediately became close friends.

Norway has a sizable population of Chechens, most of whom came as refugees from the wars that have ravaged the North Caucasus republic over the past 15 years.

Dzhamayev and Daudov are not the only Chechens reported to have survived the camp. A third, Anzor Dzhukayev, 17, was briefly arrested after the massacre on suspicion that he was an accomplice, Norwegian media reported last week.

A police spokesman said he was suspected of throwing away his gun and blending in because he showed no emotions, the Verdens Gang newspaper reported Friday.

Dzhukayev, who was released the following day, explained his coolness with his childhood experiences.

“When I was little, I lived in a house full of bodies. I remember seeing dogs eating them,” he was quoted in media reports as saying.

Poland Offers Apology For Exposing Belarus Activist T H E A S S O C I AT E D P R E S S

WARSAW — Poland’s Foreign Ministry apologized Friday after prosecutors gave Belarussian investigators financial information about a human rights activist who was then detained.

The incident comes as an embarrassment for Warsaw, which has made it a key foreign policy priority to support the pro-democracy movement in Belarus, which is located on its eastern border.

The ministry said Belarus had “taken advantage” of international procedures when it requested banking information about Ales Belyatsky — one of Belarus’ leading rights activists.

Polish prosecutors transferred the data to Belarus in June.

The ministry said Belarus found a way “to use the system of international procedures and agreements on financial transfers — meant to control the contemporary terrorist and criminal threats — in order to use them for repressive action against the country’s own citizens.”

Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski also apologized on Twitter on Friday and vowed to improve efforts to support democracy.

“I apologize in the name of the Pol-

ish republic. A reprehensible mistake despite warnings from the Foreign Ministry. We will redouble efforts for democracy in Belarus,” he wrote.

Polish efforts to help Belarussians have included opening up Polish universities to Belarussians who lost their rights to study at home as punishment for opposition activities.

Earlier this year Sikorski also presided over a donors’ conference in Warsaw — which Belyatsky attended — that raised millions of dollars for the Belarussian opposition.

Belyatsky is the leader of Vesna, the most prominent human rights group in Belarus. He was detained Aug. 4 and faces up to seven years in jail for helping political prisoners and government critics in Belarus.

Vesna said he has been charged specifically with “concealment of income.”

It said Belyatsky has received large amounts of cash in neighboring Lithuania from Western donors since the group was officially barred from receiving grants in Belarus.

The U.S. Embassy in Minsk condemned Belyatsky’s detention as “another, unfortunate sign of Belarus’ selfisolation and further deviation from European standards and principles.”

Court Refuses to Release Tymoshenko T H E A S S O C I AT E D P R E S S

KIEV — A Ukrainian court on Friday refused to consider an appeal to release former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko from jail, where she has been kept for a week while her abuseof-office trial proceeds.

Tymoshenko was jailed on Aug. 5 for violating court procedures at her trial, including refusing to rise when requested by the judge. She says her resistance is a protest of a trial she contends is politically motivated.

On Friday, the Kiev Appeals Court

refused to hear an appeal, saying the country’s criminal code does not allow appealing a preventive measure.

Tymoshenko’s lawyer Yury Sukhov said that ruling would be appealed to the Supreme Court.

Tymoshenko is charged in connection with a natural gas deal with Russia in 2009 that prosecutors claim was disadvantageous to Ukraine.

The United States and the European Union have condemned the court case against Tymoshenko.

MOSCOW — The Investigative Committee has filed the first charges in connection with the pretrial detention death of lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, 20 months after he died and two weeks after the United States blacklisted dozens of Russian officials implicated in the case.

But the charges, announced Friday, are limited to two minor officials in the saga, prison doctors who Magnitsky’s supporters and human rights activists say are scapegoats.

Larisa Litvinova, the doctor for the Butyrskaya prison responsible for supervising Magnitsky’s health, was charged with causing death by negligence and faces a maximum of five years in prison if convicted.

Dmitry Kratov, the deputy director of the prison whose responsibility includes health care, was charged with carelessness and, if found guilty, could be imprisoned for up to three years.

The Investigative Committee said in a statement that it had established a “direct link” between the doctors’ conduct and Magnitsky’s death.

“In the course of the inquiry, a direct cause-and-effect link was determined between Magnitsky’s death and the actions of the doctors at the detention center where he was held,” the Investigative Committee said.

Investigators opened a criminal case into Litvinova and Kratov last month around the time that the Kremlin’s human rights council released an independent report into Magnitsky’s death that concluded that both doctors and law enforcement officials were to blame.

The Investigative Committee statement made no comment about the report’s finding that Magnitsky had been severely beaten by prison guards in the

Matrosskaya Tishina detention center, where he had been moved for medical treatment, shortly before his death.

Valery Borshchyov, the human rights activist who oversaw the independent inquiry on behalf of the human rights council, said Sunday that Kratov and Litvinova share a minor part of the responsibility for Magnitsky’s death.

“But he died at Matrosskaya Tishina, not the Butyrskaya prison,” Borshchyov said by telephone.

He said Interior Ministry investigator Oleg Silchenko, who helped oversee the arrest of Magnitsky and later denied him medical treatment, and Matrosskaya Tishina chief doctor Alexandra Gauss should be charged “before anyone else.”

In an indication that more people could be charged, the Investigative Committee said in its statement that the inquiry was ongoing. But it gave no hint about who might be charged.

Borshchyov said the two doctors could provide investigators with helpful information. “I hope Litvinova and Kratov won’t keep quiet,” he said.

Litvinova and Kratov, who have not been taken into custody, could not immediately be reached for comment.

A member of the human rights council, Lyudmila Alexeyeva, head of the Moscow Helsinki Group, criticized the charges as a “half-measure,” Interfax reported.

The council’s report, which was presented to President Dmitry Medvedev late last month, also found that Magnitsky was denied treatment for existing health problems partly in an effort to make him testify against Londonbased Hermitage Capital Management, once the biggest foreign investment fund in Russia, whom he represented through the Firestone Duncan law firm.

Hermitage Capital questioned the credibility of Friday’s charges, saying the two doctors were “scapegoats who followed the orders of their seniors.”

“The authorities are trying to create the impression they are doing something with these indictments of doctors for negligence, but all they are doing is protecting killers and thieves in uniforms,” Magnitsky’s former boss, Jamison Firestone, told The St. Petersburg Times.

Magnitsky, 37, accused Interior Ministry officers Artyom Kuznetsov and Pavel Karpov of participating in a $230 million tax refund fraud and was subsequently arrested by those same officers on charges of organizing tax evasion in 2008.

Magnitsky died of health problems in November 2009, after 11 months in jail, at which point the Interior Ministry accused him of organizing the $230 million theft that he reported and closed the case without bringing charges against any of the officers or recovering the stolen money.

The charges against the doctors came amid escalating international pressure that has resulted in the U.S. State Department blacklisting dozens of Russian officials connected to the case.

“Their names — Kratov and Litvinova — were familiar to investigators more than 20 months ago, but the charges have been pressed only now, when the West has introduced sanctions against officials on the list,” Hermitage Capital said in an e-mailed statement.

Litvinova and Kratov are both on a list of 60 Russian officials that Magnitsky’s supporters have asked Western governments to sanction with travel restrictions and asset freezes. The United States has not said which officials are on its blacklist. РЕКЛАМА

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How To Get There From St. Petersburg, Eurolines (www.luxexpress.eu) and Ecolines (www.ecolines.net) operate daily bus services to Tallinn, and Estonian Air (www.estonian-air. ee) flies to Tallinn.

Where To Eat Restaurant Platz Part of the renovated Rotermann Quarter, Platz offers a special Tallinn 2011 three-course menu for 20 euros ($28.50). Roseni 7.

Tel. + 372 6645086. www.platz.ee

Where To Stay Tallink City Hotel A modern business-class hotel with a spectacular black mirrored facade in the center of Tallinn, right behind the Viru Sokos Hotel. A. Laikmaa 5.

Tel. +372 630 0800. http://hotels.tallink.com

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Sokos Hotel Viru Formerly the famous Soviet Intourist hotel Viru and Tallinn’s first high-rise right next to the Old Town, it has been fully renovated after being acquired by the Finnish Sokos hotel network.

Viru väljak 4.

Tel. +372 6 809 300. www.sokoshotels.fi/en/hotels/ tallinn/

Residents and tourists inspect ships at the Seaplane Port during the Tallinn Maritime Days held last month. The city is actively developing its seaside.

Tallinn Returns to Its Maritime Roots Estonia’s capital is drawing residents and visitors to its once restricted and neglected seashore.

By Sergey Chernov T H E S T. P E T E R S B U R G T I M E S

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ALLINN — The life of Estonians — and especially residents of its capital Tallinn — has been connected to the sea for centuries.

But under the Soviets — the small Baltic nation was annexed by the Soviet Union in August 1940 — few had access to the seashore lying within walking distance from the picturesque Old Town.

As Tallinn, a medieval Hansean city located on the southern coast of the Gulf of Finland in northwestern Estonia, is only 60 kilometers across the sea from Helsinki, the shore was under tight control by KGB border guards and the military, with industrial facilities such as a power plant and a fish-processing factory as well as the Tallinn Central (Paterei) Prison scattered along the coast.

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A seagull in Tallinn’s Admiralty Bassin. glected, deserted seashore to residents and visitors to the city, with Tallinn Maritime Days — an annual three-day free festival celebrating the sea — having drawn a record-making 100,000 visitors last month.

This year’s Maritime Days, launched with an open-air concert by Tanel Padar & The Sun with the Estonian Youth Symphony Orchestra, were held at and between Tallinn’s three ports — Peetri Harbor, Admiralty Bassin and the Seaplane Port — connected both by small ferries and the Culture Kilometer, a newly built 2.2-kilometer promenade for pedestrians and cyclists.

Visitors moved enthusiastically from port to port to catch the extensive program of performances and concerts, including those by the Estonian Police and Borderguard Orchestra, and by the

folk band Untsakad (which translates from Estonian, ironically, as “Grateful Dead”). Untsakad inspired some older members of the audience to dance. Kids and adults alike climbed on ships including the Germany-made, Russia-owned historic four-masted barque Krusenstern that paid a visit for the occasion.

Others bought eels at a fish market, or enjoyed smoked salmon served with fried potatoes and vegetables, all washed down with some Saku Originaal, the refreshing beer that has been produced in the village of Saku near Tallinn since 1820.

Launched in May, the Culture Kilometer encompasses the coast’s most important sites, most of which are former industrial structures currently being transformed into cultural venues.

One is the historical Seaplane Port

Hangar, which is slated to become a spacious, state-of-the art branch of Tallinn’s Maritime Museum, whose main collection is located in Fat Margaret’s Tower near the Great Coastal Gate on the edge of the Old Town.

Earlier in July, the legendary Estonian submarine Lembit — which was taken out of the water in late May and is due to be the new museum’s central showpiece — was brought to the hangar on special air cushions in one of the most complicated water engineering operations ever to be carried out in Estonia. Launched in 1936, the Lembit was, until this development, the world’s oldest working submarine.

During Tallinn Maritime Days, the hangar — a massive structure with three domes on the roof now each crowned with a small airplane — was

Wednesday, August 17, 2011 opened to the public for a premiere of “Sool” (Salt), a musical composition written by acclaimed Estonian composer Helena Tulve especially for the venue, taking into consideration the location, the hangar’s unique dome construction and acoustics.

The work, whose title is a reference to the fact that salt is found both in seawater and human blood, is a quiet chamber piece in which the sound of the gulf is accompanied by musical instruments and vocals, as well as texts in Estonian, German and English shown on a screen.

Close to the Seaplane Hangar is the Paterei (Battery) Prison. Begun as a Russian fortress to protect Tallinn from attacks from the sea in 1829 and completed in 1840, the intimidating redbrick structure was turned into a prison in 1919 by the first Estonian Republic and remained one throughout the Soviet, Nazi German, and again Soviet occupations. It even remained a working prison in the newly independent Estonia, despite being ill-famed for its harrowing conditions, until December 30, 2002, when the last inmates were moved to a new prison in Tartu, in the south of Estonia.

Occupying four hectares, the prison, which is protected as a heritage site by the state, now operates as a museum and occasionally as a venue for all kinds of events including dance parties. It has changed little inside or out since 2002, according to a guide named Nikolai, who declined to give his last name, saying that he has had “enough publicity.”

Nikolai is certainly in a position to know, having been the prison’s last director from 1997 to 2002. He had a lot of dark stories to tell visitors, mentioning 207 Jews shot in the prison by the Nazis and the public hanging of two Estonian and two Russian prisoners in the courtyard (under the German occupation during World War II, the number of prisoners was a record 4,600). He also showed the execution room where shootings were carried out under the Soviets, usually by anonymous officers arriving in Tallinn from Leningrad or Riga.

The stretch of seashore next to the prison is still fenced off by barbed wire, but a beach café operates there, serving beer and snacks.

Further along the Culture Kilometer is a discarded oil shale-fired thermal power plant, which once heated the city, and is now being transformed into the Cultural Cauldron (Kultuurikatel), an cultural center and performance venue.

The letters “U.N.” painted on the power plant’s chimney are a reference to film director Andrei Tarkovsky: This was how the plant appeared, in a thick mist, in his classic 1979 sci-fi drama film “Stalker,” which was shot in and around Tallinn. Some of the real-life settings for the post-apocalyptic landscapes of the Zone — an internationally guarded forbidden area in the film — are unrecognizable, like the Rotermann Quarter, or are undergoing fundamental changes right now.

To honor the late director, a five-day event called “Stalking the Stalker” featuring film screenings, lectures, music concerts and a Polaroid exhibition will be held in Tallinn from Aug. 24 to 28.

Another great Russian, St. Petersburg’s own Sergei Dovlatov, will be honored during the Days of Dovlatov, running from Aug. 25 to 27.

The period spent by the dissenting author in Tallinn — as a reporter for the Sovetskaya Estoniya (Soviet Estonia) newspaper from 1972 to 1975 — inspired him to write “Compromises,” one of his best works, in which he described and analyzed compromises he made with his conscience along the way.

A two-storey building formerly occupied by the power plant’s offices is the home of the EKKM (Contemporary Art Museum of Estonia), a small and friendly alternative art center, now complete with a bar, where some of the city’s most fashionable parties take place. The EKKM was opened in 2006 by a group of underground artists as a squat, but has since obtained legal status and is an official participant and organizer of many of the Cultural Capital events.

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‘Soundcheck’ by Estonian artists Johnson and Johnson (Indrek Koster and Taavi Talve) at the EKKM (Contemporary Art Museum of Estonia).

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The view of the Old Town and the Gulf of Finland as seen from the top of the Sokos Viru Hotel.

The district is expected to become more lively and expensive in the near future because of plans to build new, six-floor premises there for the Mayor’s Office, which will move from its current residence on Vabaduse valjak (Freedom Square).

The EKKM is currently running an exhibition called “Lost in Transition,” which aims to examine what was lost on the way from the Soviet era to independence and capitalism. The Soviet era is also the focus at two more new exhibits in the city.

“Soviet Life” at the Rotermann Quarter — the once decrepit 19th-century industrial area closed to residents for 40 years under the Soviets and one of the locations for the filming of “Stalker,” recently turned into a viSERGEY CHERNOV / SPT Tonis Magi, whose concert closed Tallinn Maritime Days, dropped his career as a brant, stylish shopping and cultural Soviet pop star to support Estonia’s struggle for independence in the late ’80s. center — showcases everyday objects and life in Soviet Estonia.

Exhibits include half-empty foodstore shelves containing canned fish and Ersatz coffee, the crumpled grey suit of a Soviet office worker, a room furnished with humble East German furniture and a homemade motorcycle equipped with a motor taken from a Druzhba, the notorious Soviet chainsaw.

Launched in January, “Viru Hotel and the KGB,” Estonia’s first hotel museum, opens up the “secret” 23rd floor of the famous Soviet hotel: Officially, the hotel, built in 1969 and intended exclusively for foreign visitors, had only 22 floors, with the lift going no higher. In fact, there was an extra floor, which housed the KGB room with its eavesdropping equipment.

The small museum, based on Viru’s archives and materials collected by SaSERGEY CHERNOV / SPT Guide Argo Kasela demonstrates the equipment that the KGB used to eavesdrop kari Nupponen, a Finnish economic on Viru Hotel’s foreign visitors between 1972 and 1991. journalist and author who published a

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book called “Time-travelling to Hotel Viru” in 2007, offers a glimpse into the history of the hotel and the city, as well as life at and around the hotel. Aside from KGB secrets, exhibits include artifacts such as the hotel’s list of “undesirable persons:” All female names; presumably prostitutes catering to the hotel’s foreign businessmen.

The KGB officers, whose job was to listen to what suspicious foreign guests talked about, quietly disappeared as the hardliners’ coup in Moscow failed in August 1991. They took the most important pieces of their equipment, and left behind an ashtray filled with cheap Belomorkanal cigarette butts and a Soviet military trench coat.

Twenty years later, the museum’s guide, Argo Kasela, takes pleasure in opening a closet and demonstrating the trench coat — weighing a full 15 kilograms — to curious visitors.

The musicians who opened and closed the Tallinn Maritime Days represent two generations of Estonian musicians: Those who started out under the Soviets, and those whose talents were recognized in independent Estonia.

Padar, now 30, won the Eurovision Song Contest in 2001 with the pop song “Everybody” performed together with the Caribbean-born, Estonia-based pop musician Dave Benton, but has since then switched to guitar-driven modern rock.

Closing the Maritime Days was Tonis Magi, who enjoyed national Soviet fame as a pop singer for a bunch of hits, including the disco song “Olimpiada” aimed at promoting the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow, which were boycotted by the West after the Soviets’ invasion of Afghanistan in December 1979.

In an interview years later, Magi admitted that while leading the life of a Soviet pop singer, his real favorite was James Brown. He dropped his Soviet career in 1987 and became one of the voices of Estonia’s struggle for independence. His patriotic song “Koit” (The Dawn) featured in the legendary “Song of Estonia” concert in September 1988, when 300,000 people gathered at the Tallinn Song Festival Grounds as part of the events that were later dubbed the Singing Revolution.

Now 62, the grey-haired, dignifiedlooking Magi — backed by a rock band and the Estonian Youth Symphony Orchestra — switched between the keyboards and guitar, performing ballads and adult rock numbers before finally erupting into a tongue-in-cheek Estonian-language cover of “Venus,” Shocking Blue’s 1969 classic and once a sort of unofficial rock anthem for Soviet youth, complete with a fire show.

Estonia, which has always been renowned in Russia for its music, will celebrate the 20th anniversary of it regaining independence with “The Song of Freedom,” a free 6.5-hour concert featuring Sinead O’Connor, as well as a number of Estonian and international acts, at the Tallinn Song Festival Grounds on Aug. 20.

Restoration of Independence Day is a public holiday in Estonia, and 60,000 to 80,000 are expected to attend the concert.

The next Tallinn Maritime Days are due to be held in July 2012, while the city’s year as Europe’s Cultural Capital will continue through Dec. 31, 2011.

The St. Petersburg Times was a guest of the Tallinn 2011 Foundation. For more details, see www.tallinn2011.ee.

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Consortium to Build Toll Road Floating Nuclear Station Seized Over Bankruptcy

By Irina Filatova T H E S T. P E T E R S B U R G T I M E S

An international consortium led by investment company VTB Capital, a subsidiary of VTB Group, has won a concession to build a 120 billion ruble ($4 billion) segment of a highspeed toll road in St. Petersburg, the city government announced last week.

The project involves building an 11.5-kilometer segment, including three bridges and a tunnel, which is part of a road that will connect the northern and southern parts of the city and bypass the center.

The consortium — named Magistral Severnoi Stolitsy, or MSS, which also includes Gazprombank, Italian developer Astaldi and Turkish construction company Ictas Insaat — offered more attractive conditions for implementing the project than its rival, St. Petersburg Governor Valentina Matviyenko said.

The other bidders included Sberbank; Terra Nova, which is controlled

by State Duma Deputy Vitaly Yuzhilin; St. Petersburg-based developer Renaissance Construction; French construction group Vinci, and Belgian dredging company Jan De Nul. “The structure of both consortiums is very strong. Both made proposals whose details were well thought out,” Matviyenko said, Interfax reported.

She added, however, that the tender commission had voted unanimously in favor of the MSS offer because the consortium had promised lower costs and a shorter construction period.

VTB Capital already has a successful partnership with Astaldi and Ictas Insaat in a 700 million euro ($1 billion) project to build a new terminal at St. Petersburg’s Pulkovo Airport.

The road project’s financial side was the major criterion for choosing a winner, said Zarina Gubayeva, a spokeswoman for the city’s investment and strategic projects committee.

Another deciding factor was the possible risks for the city, she said by telephone.

According to the concession agreement, MSS will run the central section of the highway over the next 30 years

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The winning consortium is headed by investment company VTB Capital. and expects to earn 9.67 billion rubles annually from operations. According to the deal, the city will have to compensate a concessionaire in case the project brings lower revenues than expected.

The rival consortium was counting on 16 billion rubles in annual revenue, for which the city would have been liable.

VTB Capital expects that after finishing the central part of the highway the traffic along the Western HighSpeed Diameter, as the road is called, will be good enough to reach the forecast revenues quickly, the investment company said in a statement.

According to the Western HighSpeed Diameter’s managing company, which bears the same name, the central segment is “the most expensive and technically complicated” part of the 213 billion ruble highway project.

MSS named a construction cost of 120 billion rubles, of which it will provide about 70 billion rubles, with the rest being paid from the federal budget, said Oleg Pankratov, head of infrastructure capital and project finance at VTB Capital.

“In order to finance the [MSS share of the] project VTB and Gazprombank will provide the project company a loan of 50 [billion] to 60 billion rubles, as well as required equity,” he said in a telephone interview.

The consortium headed by VTB Capital will sign an agreement with the St. Petersburg government and the

Western High-Speed Diameter company by the end of this year, with construction being scheduled for the first quarter of 2012, Gubayeva said, adding that it will take MSS three years to complete the project.

She also said the rival consortium proposed a 48-month construction period.

Given that the city needs the highway, which will help solve a number of problems, the tender commission chose the fastest way to get the project completed, said Dmitry Baranov, an infrastructure analyst at Finam. Building the highway, whose southern section was launched in May, will help relieve traffic, especially in the city center, he said.

Sberbank did not reply to an emailed request last week. Other representatives of the second consortium were unavailable.

VTB head Andrei Kostin said global market volatility would not affect plans to complete the project.

“We have a firm assurance that we’ll build this section over the time period and within the sum stipulated in the agreement,” he said, Interfax reported.

In 2009, the St. Petersburg government decided to finance construction of the Western High-Speed Diameter from the city and federal budgets after a consortium led by Oleg Deripaska’s Basic Element holding, which had won a concession, was unable to bear the construction costs due to the financial crisis.

The fallout from the collapse of the International Industrial Bank last fall led a court to impound the world’s first floating nuclear power station late last week.

But construction of the unique power plant continues. “Work is continuing as normal, and I think it should be commissioned on schedule by 2012,” a Rosatom spokesman said by telephone Friday.

A St. Petersburg court seized the floating nuclear power station under construction at the Baltiisky Zavod shipyards after Rosenergoatom, the division of the Rosatom nuclear monopoly that commissioned it, demanded recognition of its right of ownership to the unfinished vessel.

The July 26 court order, reported

by Kommersant on Thursday, gave the go-ahead for the seizure on the basis of “significant risk” that Rosenergoatom could lose its investment in the 9.8 billion ruble ($334 million) vessel if another claimant seized Baltiisky Zavod’s assets during bankruptcy proceedings.

Baltiisky Zavod general director Andrei Fomichev told Kommersant that the seizure had come as “a surprise” and that the company would challenge it in court.

The shipyard, which is 88.3 percent owned by former Tuva governor Sergei Pugachev’s United Industrial Corporation, is facing litigation from numerous disgruntled creditors.

Claimants include insurance firm Sogaz, which is demanding a 51.1 million ruble premium for insurance of the floating plant, Khanty Mansiisk Bank, which is seeking 128.75 million rubles, and a local Gazprom subsidiary, which wants 36 million rubles, Interfax reported.

International Industrial Bank, also known as Mezhprombank, had its operating license revoked when it declared itself bankrupt in November.

In January prosecutors launched a criminal case against the bank for intentional bankruptcy.

United Industrial Corporation’s stake in Baltiisky Zavod has been pledged to the Central Bank since last fall as collateral for an unreturned loan to Pugachev’s International Industrial Bank, which went bankrupt in November.

The dispute is not the first to hit Rosatom’s ambitious plans to build a generation of floating nuclear power stations to serve remote coastal communities in Russia’s north and Far East.

Interfax on Thursday quoted an unidentified source at Rosatom saying the contract could be reassigned to another shipbuilder.

A Rosatom spokesman reached by telephone Friday declined to comment on the claim.

Baltiisky Zavod is scheduled to finish the first station in 2012, according to the contract. The 70-megawatt plant is destined for Kamchatka.

Putin Appoints Himself to Agency T H E S T. P E T E R S B U R G T I M E S

MOSCOW — Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has appointed himself and Sberbank chief German Gref to the board of the Agency for Strategic Initiatives, a project to curry favor with businesses.

The prime minister, who will chair the board, ordered the organization to officially register itself by Aug. 25.

The other banker on the 11-member oversight body is Vladimir Dmitriyev, chief of state-owned development bank VEB, according to a government decree released late last week.

The agency, set up to help midsized companies expand their business, will

also include the governors of the Sverdlovsk region and Tatarstan republic — Alexander Misharin and Rustam Minnikhanov, respectively — and Economic Development Minister Elvira Nabiullina.

The governors qualified for the seats because their regions had “good experience in supporting entrepreneurship and modernizing social services,” Putin said at a Presidium session Thursday.

The board will meet at least once every three months and will endorse projects for the agency to pursue. Its other members include Alexander Galushka, president of Delovaya Rossia, a lobby group for midsized businesses.

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Belarus Gas Discount Is a Lesson for Ukraine

By Anatoly Medetsky T H E S T. P E T E R S B U R G T I M E S

MOSCOW — President Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Monday unanimously promised Belarus cheaper gas next year as a reward for its accession to a customs union with Russia.

This show of benevolence came just days after Russia turned down a request from Ukraine for a similar discount last week. Kiev had refused to join the customs union of Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan.

Belarussian Prime Minister Mikhail Myasnikovich, in Moscow to meet Putin, contrasted his gratitude to his gas-rich neighbor with criticism of the United States for the sanctions that Washington imposed last week on four subsidiaries of a key Belarussian chemical company. He likened the move to an “act of aggression” and said the measure, which hits a sector dependent on Russian supplies, undermined his country’s ties to Russia.

The United States introduced the sanctions on the state-controlled

companies in response to Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko’s recent crackdown on his political opponents.

Russia has at times criticized Lukashenko, at least ostensibly, for his heavy-handed rule — but that hasn’t stopped a never-ending give-and-take in their economic ties.

Gazprom’s price formula for Belarus, which now stipulates the same profit margin as supplies to the European Union, will next year include an “integration-related” coefficient, Putin said at a meeting of government officials of the two countries. The exact discount is a matter of further talks, he said.

Gazprom chief Alexei Miller said during a separate meeting with President Medvedev that the talks would start in September.

In addition to joining the customs union, Belarus agreed to sell the rest of its transit pipeline to Gazprom.

The contract to buy the remaining half of Beltransgaz, the company that owns the pipeline, is nearly ready, Miller said.

In discussing gas prices, Medvedev urged Gazprom to “take into account” that it will soon own the pipelines in Belarus, a country whose economy became “significantly closer” to Russia’s with the creation of the customs union.

“I hope you will be able to prepare a good contract for our cooperation,” Medvedev said.

Medvedev ordered — and Miller promised — that the gas trade contract should be signed by year-end, and not at the eleventh hour. The current contract was approved five years ago at 11:58 p.m. on New Year’s Eve. Miller made sure to stress that Ukraine could enjoy price benefits were it to follow in Belarus’ footsteps.

“Our cooperation could be built around the same model that we use to work with our Belarussian friends,” Miller said after the meeting, RIA-Novosti reported.

Ukraine’s Energy and Coal-Mining Industry Minister Yuri Boiko attended the meeting with Medvedev. There were no reports of his comments Monday afternoon.

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Russia Displays Air Power at International Show T H E A S S O C I AT E D P R E S S

ZHUKOVSKY — Lines of sleek combat jets and gleaming airliners filled an air base outside Moscow on Tuesday for Russia’s top air show, as the country aimed to burnish the image of its aviation industries and secure new export contracts.

Boeing, Airbus and other international aircraft makers have sent their latest products to Moscow’s International Aviation and Space Show at Zhukovsky air base, the Russian air force’s top flight test center since Soviet times.

Russia’s aircraft industries fell on hard times after the 1991 Soviet collapse when generous government military orders ground to a near halt. Top aircraft makers including Sukhoi and MiG have survived thanks to orders from China, India and other foreign customers.

But steady increases in government defense spending over the past few years have given new incentives to the nation’s aircraft industries.

Mikhail Pogosian, head of United Aircraft Building Corporation, a statecontrolled holding that incorporates top Russian aircraft-makers, told reporters Tuesday that Russian military orders will account for more than 50 percent of combat planes produced.

He said the Russian air force is expected to get about 20 new aircraft annually in the coming years.

Sukhoi has been working on Russia’s first stealth fighter, intended to match the latest U.S. design. The company’s T-50, which made its maiden flight in January 2010, is expected to make its public debut at the air show.

The twin-engined jet closely resembles the U.S. F-22 Raptor, which first flew about two decades ago and entered service in 2005. The T-50, however, still lacks new engines and stateof-the art equipment, and its serial production is only expected to begin in 2015 at the most optimistic forecast.

Pogosian said the T-50 development is proceeding as planned, but wouldn’t say when a new engine intended to

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A Be-200 firefighting aircraft drops water colored in the colors of the Russian national flag at Zhukovsky airfield as it takes part in MAKS-2011 on Tuesday. power the plane will be ready. He also said the new fighter will be developed in cooperation with India, helping secure a major export market.

The only other new aircraft designed and built after the Soviet collapse has been Sukhoi’s Superjet, a mid-range airliner developed in cooperation with Boeing and Italian and French companies. The plane made its first commercial flight in April, but its marketing prospects appear less favorable than initially expected.

Russia’s slow progress in building new planes has been blamed on corruption, aging equipment and broken links between subcontractors.

Sukhoi and MiG have continued to produce slightly refurbished versions of their Soviet-era designs, the Su-27 and the MiG-29. They have sold hundreds of them to China, India and other customers, but military analysts have warned that Russia risks losing its export markets in the future if it fails to develop new products.

In a sign of Russia losing its edge on what it considered its traditional turf, MiG recently lost an Indian tender for a new fighter contract worth nearly $10 billion to European aircraft makers.

The U.S Air Force also displayed a batch of planes, including a B-52 strategic bomber. A steady stream of visi-

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tors approached the planes, eager to take pictures and speak to their crews.

“We are very excited to be here to help to foster relations with the Russian and U.S governments and for us to meet our Russian counterparts in the air force and to see how everybody does business,” said Captain T. J. May, a B-52 radar navigator with the 5th Bomb Wing at Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota.

Organizers hope the show will help Russian aircraft makers sign billions of dollars’ worth of new deals, including contracts for Sukhoi’s Superjet.

Boeing Co. and Airbus used the show to display their latest designs —

Dreamliner and A380 — as they wrangle for new orders from Russia’s flagcarrier Aeroflot and other airlines.

Top Russian airlines have eliminated most of the Soviet-designed Tupolev and Ilyushin airliners in the fleets, opting for planes from Boeing and Airbus that are more fuel-efficient and that meet Western noise and emissions standards.

Sergei Kravchenko, Boeing’s president for Russia and other ex-Soviet countries, said Tuesday the company sees the region as a major market. Boeing sold 107 planes, worth a total of $11 billion, in the region in the past 12 months, he said.

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Once Made in the U.S.S.R., Now Made in China

By Khristina Narizhnaya T H E S T. P E T E R S B U R G T I M E S

MOSCOW — Twenty years ago, Moscow’s Izmailovsky Park was a place where artisans and antique collectors got together on weekends to mingle, have a drink and maybe sell something to interested foreigners.

Alexei, a nesting doll painter who now sells Soviet antiques, said profits from the sale of one doll, also known as a matryoshka, would feed him for a month back then.

Tourists were richer, looking for unique masterpieces. The vibe was laid back, bohemian, authentic.

Now it’s all about business. Most stalls are manned by merchants, not the artisans.

The tourists spend less. Cheaper souvenirs are in demand — and many are made in China.

“It was cool before, everyone was an artist. Now they’re businessmen,” said Alexei, who did not want his last name mentioned for fear that it may harm his business. “There is more competition, fakes.”

Each year, less expensive European antiques and folk items made in other countries spread to more and more stands, leaving less space for icons and pricier local pieces.

Chinese-made souvenirs, like flasks, lighters and key chains with Soviet or Russian symbols, even replaced those made domestically about five years ago.

Basic items are mass-produced in China very cheaply. Then a real Russian pin, or sometimes a Chinese knockoff, with a star, Lenin or a red flag, is glued or welded on.

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Many souvenirs that look like they came from the Soviet era, like this portrait of Lenin, are in fact made in China.

Not long ago, wood carver Oleg Avdeyev began selling Chinese-made trinkets with Communist stars and red

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A sign at Moscow’s Izmailovsky market says old souvenirs are wanted.

flags alongside wooden boxes and etchings he carves himself. “Space is expensive, I had to diversify,” Avdeyev said. For every two of his own wooden items sold, he sells one of the Chinese products.

Merchants report a greater interest in souvenirs with Soviet insignia. A lighter with a red star is more popular than a lighter with the double-headed eagle, the symbol of the Russian Federation.

“Americans don’t know what the Russian emblem looks like, but they know the Soviet Union,” said Denis, who has peddled cheap souvenirs at Izmailovsky Park for more than 15 years. He did not want his last name mentioned for the same reasons as Alexei. “Lenin would outsell Putin any day.”

Last week Denis, who makes about 30,000 rubles ($1,000) per month at his stall, sold his entire stock of 15 pins with the hammer and sickle, and only one with the double-headed eagle.

Chinese-made “Russian” items are not only sold in Izmailovsky Park. In

Skazka, a souvenir store on Arbat, the wide array of nesting dolls, jewelry and shawls overwhelm the small display of ubiquitous flasks and lighters with Lenin stars in the front of the store.

The cheaper items made in China sell for considerably less than the matryoshkas and jewelry, but they still contribute about 3,000 to 4,000 rubles a day to the store’s turnover, manager Natalya Semenkina said.

Many factories that used to make Soviet pins and other related trinkets shut down right after the breakup of the Soviet Union, leaving millions of products available from old stocks.

They were very popular souvenirs in the 1990s.

As more tourists buy Chinese-made “Russian” souvenirs that cost less than 300 rubles, vendors of genuine Soviet relics — like pins, army gear and antiques — are seeing sales decline. “Interest in the old country passed about five to seven years ago,” said Nikolai, who has been selling real pins at his stand in Izmailovsky Park for the last

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10 years. He also did not want his last name mentioned because it could harm his business.

Now Nikolai can bring in about 100,000 rubles in a good month, but he doesn’t see any perspective in the growth of the market. Nikolai’s customers are mostly local pin collectors.

They are growing old, and there is not enough interest from the younger generation.

Sergei, who sells Soviet military gear at Izmailovsky Park, said interest in his products fell sharply around 2005.

His wares include army hats that range in price from 700 to 6,000 rubles, 50-year-old belts worn by generals and officers that cost as much as 5,000 rubles, and Soviet banners and flags that run from 1,000 to 3,000 rubles. Sergei manages to sell about 150 items per month, working only weekends. But before it was much more.

His customers are dealers that buy items for their stores, nostalgic Russians and random foreigners.

A couple from Indonesia picked up a yellow metal belt that used to belong to a general. The young man held it up to his pants, but put it back once he was told the 5,000 ruble price.

Antiques vendor Andrei Malyshev said the last 15 years have seen less Russian and more European antiques on sale in Izmailovsky.

Fake Soviet memorabilia made in China includes busts of Lenin, Stalin and other prominent figures. They are usually lighter in weight and have misspellings, Malyshev said.

“You can pay $1,000 or $2,000 dollars for a huge order [of basic souvenirs] made in China,” said Pyotr Yenov, who has the only pin store in Izmailovsky Park and owns a pin factory in the Moscow region.

A few years ago several Chinese businessmen visited Yenov’s store and proposed a partnership. They offered to manufacture pins for Yenov for much cheaper than his factory. But Yenov declined. He said he is a patriot, and besides, he does not trust their quality.

Despite the influx of foreign-made products, there are still many original Russian items at Izmailovsky.

The Chinese have not yet mastered matryoshkas, jewelry boxes, jewelry and shawls, Alexei said.

Once a vendor tried to sell Grandfather Frost nesting dolls made in China.

“People noticed there was something not quite right,” Alexei said.

“The colors were dead, and the [faces of the] dolls looked Chinese.”

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Portobello

Gloss Cafe Restaurant

17 Nevsky Prospekt.

Tel: 315 2315.

Open from noon to 2 a.m.

Gloss cafe is the perfect place for those who appreciate fine food, a cozy atmosphere and good music.

At Gloss Cafe’s open kitchen, chefs work their magic to create Asian cuisine: sushi, rolls, temaki and phyto salads, while hot dishes are prepared in sizzling woks. Continental dishes include our excellent leg of lamb with rosemary, dorado fillet with herbs, or risotto with asparagus and parmesan. Guests can also choose from our extensive tea menu and wide range of wines and cocktails at democratic prices. Our culinary delights are complemented by free Wi-Fi, sets by top DJs and fantastic parties on Fridays and Saturdays.

On weekdays, a sushi buffet is available, priced at just 200 rubles.

INTERNATIONAL Beerstube Restaurant

12 Zagorodny Prospekt.

Vladimirskaya or Dostoyevskaya metro.

Tel.: 915 5501.

Open from noon to 11 p.m. weekdays (to 1 a.m. at weekends).

Italian restaurant, bar and grill from chef Luca Pellino. Enjoy classic Italian dishes served in innovative ways or try nuovo Italiano cuisine prepared in our chef’s inimitable style amid elegant Tuscan-style decor. Suitable for any occasion — lunch, drinks, dinner and romance.

The menu features homemade pasta, abundant fresh seafood dishes, high grade marble steaks and homemade ice cream and desserts. The wine menu boasts top wines from all over Italy and France to complement the dishes perfectly.

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57 Nevsky Prospect Corinthia Hotel St Petersburg Tel.: 380-20-01 E-mail: reservation@corinthia.ru Open daily, noon to midnight, first floor.

Join us for a glass of your favorite beer in our welcoming pub-style restaurant.

Great choice of drinks and snacks, and a brand new menu featuring German specialties. Business lunch buffet with a large choice of appetizers and hot dishes, Monday to Friday, 12 p.m. to 4 p.m.

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ITALIAN Restaurant Da Albertone

23 Millionnaya Ul. (100 m. from the Hermitage).

Open daily from 11 a.m. to the last customer.

To reserve a table call 315 8673.

Chef Luca Pellino prepares exquisite authentic Italian dishes in this restaurant located next to the Hermitage. The menu here is like no other, featuring a wide variety of fish and seafood dishes, pasta and charcoal grilled steaks and homemade desserts. Pizzas here are cooked using patented Italian technology.

The chef also offers weekly specials using the best seasonal products available. There is also an open kitchen and a spacious kids’ room.Delivery service to the surrounding area available.

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Makaronniki

5/29 Pereulok Grivtsova.

Metro: Sadovaya or Sennaya Square Tel.: 315 6420.

Open daily from 11 a.m. till 11 p.m.

Interested in experiencing Little Eataly in Russia? Look no further!

“Testo” is a perfect spot conveniently located in the heart of St. Petersburg, offering divine organic freshly made food at extremely reasonable prices.

Truly the best Italian food in the northern capital can be found here, from homemade pasta of your choice to filet mignon, all at prices that will pleasantly surprise you.

Testo is an absolute gem for any occasion, from a family brunch to a romantic dinner. The décor is cozy, and the layout is such that you can set your own mood. The wine list is diverse and has something for every taste and budget. The key words at cafe Testo are democratic prices, organic produce, a fantastic wine list and super location. A place that is not to be missed!

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INDIAN 16 Prospekt Dobrolyubova Metro: Sportivnaya.

Tel: (812) 677 6088.

Open daily from noon to 2 a.m.

A new Italian rooftop restaurant offering a panoramic view of the historic center of St. Petersburg. All the dishes on the menu are based on classic Italian recipes. Particular attention is paid to the quality and freshness of the ingredients. In addition to an excellent wine list, the restaurant boasts a range of original drinks, such as home-made lemonade, basil wine and Lisbon milkshake. A summer terrace has been open since June: the restaurant has a huge roof space adorned with gazebos, sun loungers and hammocks, with marrows and pumpkins growing right on the roof. There is also a children’s playhouse with toys and a pool.

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4 Pereulok Grivtsova.

Tel.: +7 (812) 448-22-77, 956-84-38.

Email: info@stroganoffsteakhouse.ru The Fish House menu has been developed by the head chef of Russian Vodka Room No. 1, Igor Dashkevich. The range of fish and seafood at the restaurant includes traditional fish house dishes, such as salmon and tuna steaks, seabass and lobster, prawns and scallops, as well as delicacies rarely found on the menus of other restaurants in St. Petersburg, including fish from Siberian rivers — Siberian white salmon and muksun whitefish. The Fish House wine menu offers selections from almost every region in the world at affordable prices.

For true connoisseurs, a wine cellar is being created that will comprise exclusive wines from the Top 100 list of Wine Spectator magazine. The restaurant’s main room can seat 100, while the basement floor has been designed for hosting banquets and private events.

Business lunch daily from midday to 4 p.m. Guests can choose from a selection of salads, soups and hot dishes, as well as non-alcoholic drinks.

Summer offers: Moscow-style baked sturgeon — 990 rubles; gazpacho soup — 490 rubles; okroshka soup with white codfish — 390 rubles.

The restaurant is part of the SVG Management Group.

From noon to 4 p.m. Monday to Friday a business lunch (250 rubles) is available at the restaurant.

Every evening we have live music, and on Fridays and Saturdays there is a show program featuring the city’s best musicians and Latin American dancers.

We will be pleased to see you!

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RUSSIAN PALKIN restaurant

47 Nevsky Pr. Tel: (812) 703 5371. www.palkin.ru Open: noon to 11.30 p.m.

PALKIN restaurant is located in the very heart of St. Petersburg.

Our constant search for new flavors, painstaking work with old cookery books, and strict standards regarding the use of ingredients make Palkin one of the few places in the world where diners can enjoy the finest dishes of aristocratic Russian cuisine in the elegant atmosphere of an upscale establishment.

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Russian Kitsch Restaurant

25 Universitetskaya nab.

Tel.: 325 1122.

Russian Kitsch is a restaurant and party house. You can celebrate any event here 365 days a year! Every day is a celebration here, with parties dedicated to the most outrageous, madcap and frivolous excuses: Complex-Free Day, Geisha Day, Ukraine Armed Forces Day etc. And all this in unforgettable interiors: Soviet politics-themed Baroque-style paintings, leopard print chairs, ostrich feathers, Pioneer bugles and oriental sofas with embroidered cushions that would delight an Arab sheik.

As in any decent Russian restaurant, the menu includes Italian, French and Japanese dishes, as well of course as Russian classics like “herring in a fur coat,” Olivier salad, pelmeni, pickles, pies, pancakes and homemade moonshine.

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MEXICAN Tequila-Boom

57/127 Voznesensky Prospekt Tel: 310 1534 or 050.

We invite you to visit TEQUILA-BOOM restaurant — the finest Mexican restaurant in Russia!

Our head chef will prepare a delectable array of Mexican cuisine for you: Fajitas Mixto, Burrito, Gringa, flat cakes and steaks, while our barman will mix cocktails, such as Strawberry Margarita, Mexican flag, Mojito and Caipriina.

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back to the appearance of vodka culture in Russia and running right through to the present day. The restaurant also has a “rumochnaya” (a “standing-room-only” cafe) decorated in the 20th-century style where you can sample a variety of vodkas with traditional Russian “zakuski” snacks.

Business lunch menu from midday to 4 p.m.

The summer terrace is now open.

New offers: veal casserole and a new dessert — warm plum pie.

Postcards from the CARTOONBANK.RU series are now on sale at the Vodka Museum. The CARTOONBANK.RU project is a collection of images whose aim is to compile the best pieces of work by contemporary cartoonists and artists working in the sphere of ironic and humorous illustrations, art and collage, as well as to help to artists to keep creating by selling the copyright to their images.

The restaurant is part of the SVG Management Group.

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Victoria Restaurant

15 Nevsky / 59 Moika River Embankment Metro: Gostiny Dvor Tel.: 324 9911 Open: 7.30 a.m. – 11 p.m.

Breakfast: daily, 7.30 a.m. – 11.00 a.m.

Lunch: Mon-Fri, noon – 4 p.m., 750 Rub. Located on the 6th floor of the luxury Taleon Imperial Hotel, the Victoria restaurant is named after the Ancient Roman goddess of victory. The terrace offers a beautiful panorama of the famed roofs of St. Petersburg, the interior is in a grand style and the traditional Russian cuisine from chef Vyacheslav Vasilyev matches the concept of the restaurant perfectly.

Try delicious dishes from the new menu: tender salmon, flavored with juniper and vodka, amber sterlet soup with pie, mullet, baked in foil, lamb cutlets with white baked beans, “Mademoiselle” dessert with passion fruit, and enjoy the stunning views of the historic center of St. Petersburg: Kazan Cathedral, Nevsky Prospekt, Moika Embankment, Stroganov Palace.

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Russian Vodka Room No.1

$$$ 2 Voznesensky Pr., near St. Isaac’s Cathedral, opposite the Admiralty.

Tel: 312 3886, 312 5310.

Open daily from noon to 11 p.m.

Popular city restaurant. Experience the tantalizing flavor of Indian cuisine. From kebabs to curries, with a wide range of vegetarian selections at reasonable prices. Business lunch 450 rubles.

Choice of soup. Choice of curry: chicken, lamb, fish, lentil or vegetable with rice, salad and bread, plus mineral water.

Restaurant provides small to mediumsized outdoor catering services for parties and banquet functions.

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Open noon to 2:30 a.m.

Museum open from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.

Restaurant: 570 6420.

Russian Vodka Room No. 1 is the first place in St. Petersburg to present Russian cuisine from different historical periods.

Here, you can try pre-Petrine dishes such as oven-cooked buckwheat porridge with chicken hearts and porcini mushrooms, and dishes of the merchant and aristocratic classes such as pike perch rissole with mashed potato, as well as Soviet cuisine such as chicken Kiev or Russian salad. The restaurant’s premises comprise two spacious rooms with a capacity of 160. The neighboring rooms house the Museum of Russian Vodka, which presents fascinating exhibits dating

– Banquet hall; – Breakfast; – Children’s room; – Credit cards accepted; – Dancefloor; – Live music; – Home delivery; – Non-smoking area; Average price of a two-course meal with an alcoholic beverage: $ – 500 to 1,000 rubles; $$ – 1,000 to 1,500 rubles; $$$ – more than 1,500 rubles

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Why Liberal is Such a Bad Word

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he liberal opposition is often called upon to repent for the “sins” of the 1990s, a period strongly associated in the public mind with liberal reforms.

We are told that as soon as liberals and democrats repent for our mistakes, the public will believe us, vote for us and offer us various forms of support.

We are told that only our repentance will convince people that if the liberal opposition ever gets voted into the Kremlin, it will not simply replace one corrupt and ineffective power vertical for another.

At the same time, it is unfair to say the entire 1990s was a dismal failure. The decade’s reforms contributed a great deal to Russia’s development, including a free-market economy, freedom of the press and other democratic liberties.

But Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, thanks to his powerful propaganda machine, has convinced millions of Russians that liberal ideas and the liberal political movement are to blame for all the country’s current misfortunes. This is a cynical attempt to deflect attention away from the corruption, stagnation and erosion of democracy that have occurred over the past 11 years under Putin’s rule.

That being said, it is only fair to acknowledge that there were many mistakes made by the architects of liberal economic and political programs in the 1990s. It is important to learn from these mistakes, particularly if the liberal opposition is trying to position itself as a viable political and economic alternative to autocracy.

The main problem with Russia’s liberalism of the 1990s is that it was all too often half-hearted and misguided at best and distorted and corrupt at worst. The four main problems of the decade’s liberalism were: 1. Many influential reformers of the 1990s were not real democrats. What’s more, they were afraid of democracy and even the idea that political forces with differing values could come to power through free democratic elections. This explains why many liberals of the period praised Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet and believed that his model of development — modernizing through authoritarianism — would be particularly appropriate for Russia.

2. Far too many liberals in the 1990s neglected the importance of building effective democratic institutions. The very ideas of a strong parliamentary system, public control of government, federalism and an independent court system struck liberals of that period as harmful and absurd. They openly emphasized the need for strong presidential power and the bureaucratic vertical.

3. Liberal thinking was dominated at the time by an almost neoconservative belief that generous social programs and labor protection were irrelevant or even harmful. That is why it should come as no surprise that millions of Russians continue

to hate liberals who oppose building a social welfare state.

4. Finally, many of the highly placed liberal politicians were unable to resist the temptations of enriching themselves through corruption — above all, through inside deals with their favorite oligarchs and bankers and opaque privatization schemes. What’s worse, some of those same liberals now occupy senior government posts in Putin’s regime, further discrediting the word liberalism in Russians’ minds.

For the new Russian liberalism to succeed po-

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litically and to thereby help the country prosper, it will have to adopt programs to build strong guarantees of political and economic freedoms, increase competition and create a favorable business environment. It also will need to declare a new program to build up the state and to develop the country’s human capital.

The new liberals need to focus on building an effective democratic state and public institutions, including independent regional and municipal governments. Above all, to build faith and trust in the country’s government, liberals must be an ex-

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Primaries First Step to Political Modernization

By Nikolai Petrov

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he United Russia primaries held across the country for the last few weeks have almost ended, but, despite what skeptics say, the primaries are not a pro forma procedure or a superficial public relations campaign by the ruling party. They have become a serious and more public element of Russian politics.

Skeptics are also mistaken when they say there will be little change among United Russia governors and deputies. Even last time, before primaries had been introduced, about one-fourth of all United Russia incumbent governors and deputies did not participate. Primaries have only intensified the process of screening candidates and have made political competition within the party more public.

Indeed, there were several surprises, such as when incumbent deputies found themselves near the bottom of party lists as the result of political bargaining between regional and federal elites.

This happened in the Kurgan, Novosibirsk and Ulyanovsk regions, in Tatarstan and elsewhere.

For example, Duma Deputy Speaker Valery Yazev ranked 57th in the Sverdlovsk region and now plans to head the party list in Murmansk.

Three deputies from the Buryatia and Volgograd

ample of honesty and decency. To be sure, the temptation to embezzle funds is large in any government position, but liberals must prove to Russians that they have strong morals and can place the public good over personal gain. The battle against corruption must start from the top, and the country’s top leaders must adopt a zero-tolerance policy.

Vladimir Ryzhkov, a State Duma deputy from 1993 to 2007, hosts a political talk show on Ekho Moskvy radio and is a co-founder of the opposition Party of People’s Freedom.

regions pulled out of the primaries after the first round of voting.

Moreover, 20 relatively unpopular governors, and three not belonging to United Russia — Vladimir Governor N i k o l a i Vi n o g r a d o v, Kirov Governor Nikita Belikh and Perm GoverNikolai Petrov nor Oleg Chirkunov — did not participate in the primaries at all. Another three from the Murmansk, Irkutsk and Magadan regions were eliminated during the elections. The governors of Kamchatka, Leningrad and Samara took second place in the primaries, and those in Karelia and Zabaikalsky placed third. As the primaries neared the end, officials announced that two-fifths of all governors would not head their party lists.

In Moscow, there appears at first to be many changes. Of the 15 or so deputies linked to former Mayor Yury Luzhkov, only two — United Russia members Andrei Isayev and Nikolai Gonchar — are likely to retain their seats. But the party list is still headed by Mayor Sergei Sobyanin and Lyudmila Shvetsova, deputy mayor for social programs.

There was also no shortage of scandals. Disputes arose in Perm, Oryol, Omsk, Primorye, Kostroma, Ulyanovsk and Irkutsk, demonstrating that, at least for the losers, these primaries were no idle game. Because the primaries lasted a full three weeks, candidates could react to the shifting realities as the process unfolded. At this point, it is difficult to draw any conclusions regarding the effects of those scandals, except that a number of candidates who were prohibited from registering were later reinstated. Also, a special commission was created in Moscow to deal with the conflicts, and the results of its deliberations will probably be reflected in the final candidate lists.

These primaries have demonstrated that United Russia has an uphill battle ahead in many regions, and that the party leadership is preparing for that fight by stepping up internal party competition. Despite shifting to a purely proportional system of forming the Duma, the authorities are forced to give more voting power to regional political elites and party activists in the field. But most important, the primaries show that we are seeing some signs — albeit modest — that the country’s political institutes are becoming more liberal and modern.

Nikolai Petrov is a scholar in residence at the Carnegie Moscow Center.

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ARTS & CULTURE PAGE 15 Graffiti on Palace Bridge

A STILL FROM YI ZHAO’S ‘ON THE WATER,’ ONE OF THE ANIMATED FILMS BEING SHOWN AT THIS YEAR’S OPEN CINEMA FESTIVAL.

SEE PAGE 14.

PAGE 15 The Word’s Worth

PAGE 16 Eco-fest

PAGES 19-21 Museums and Galleries

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Open-air art house T H E S T. P E T E R S B U R G T I M E S

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Cedric Prevost’s 18-minute film ‘Catharsis’ is one of the films due to be shown at the festival. said Karamnova. “On Aug. 21, the Ocean animation program will run for five hours non-stop. For the first time we’ll host representatives from the Banjaluka International Festival of Animated Films in Bosnia and Herzegovina, who will bring the best recent ani-

mated works from Eastern Europe,” she said.

From Aug. 22, the festival will move to the Mirage movie theater on the Petrograd Side, to the Mikhail Shemyakin Foundation and to Avrora movie theater, which will host the festival and

Svetlana Zuyeva’s animated film ‘Tyotushka Krapiva’ (Auntie Nettle) will be shown at the festival.

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he annual art-house Open Cinema festival aims to promote independent films from around the world and to introduce Russian audiences to new names. The festival’s organizers claim it is the largest international short film forum in Russia, and the sole open-air film festival in St. Petersburg.

“Open Cinema is eager to attract creative people who appreciate independent, individual visions of contemporary film trends,” say the organizers.

“The festival’s main figure is the filmmaker. Since the short film format is usually how young filmmakers start out, they get an opportunity to express their own position and vision of filmmaking through this trend without facing pressure from producers or being under the influence of the mainstream cinema world.”

Starting on Saturday and running through to Sunday, Aug. 28, the festival will be a melting pot for the creative ideas of filmmakers working in Russia, Asia, Latin America and Europe, particularly in France. This year, more than 100 films selected from 800 shorts will participate in the competition. Some of them have already received prestigious festival awards in other countries.

“We were searching for films that are able to surprise, to dispute stereotypes, to stay in people’s minds; cinema that challenges and captivates the imagination,” say organizers. “This is cinema beyond the traditional genres, cinema that is not afraid to be an exemption, and cinema worth demonstrating on the big screen.”

As in previous years, the main competition will comprise four categories: Fiction, animation, non-fiction and experimental short films. More than 150 participants will compete for the Open Cinema grand prix, which is a symbolic “Rule the time” hourglass.

“On the hourglass, the flow of sand can by controlled manually,” explains Natalya Karamnova, one of the festival’s organizers. “In this hourglass, the sand flows through in 15 minutes — this is the average length of a short film. This prize is our allegorical wish to the winning filmmaker: For time to stand still for every viewer of his or her film,” she said.

Open Cinema aims to combine movies with other forms of contemporary art such as music, drama, street performances, fashion shows, art exhibitions and video installations. “This is the synthesis through which filmmakers get new ideas for creating, and spectators get new angles for interpretation; it is an art fair,” say organizers.

In keeping with tradition, the festival will take place on the beach of the Peter and Paul Fortress. Open Cinema 2011 will kick off with the sounds of Aerokraft, a musical and optical performance by Nikolai Gusev (of the bands Strannye Igry, AVIA and NOM), Andrei Sizintsev (of the AKHE Russian Engineering Theater) and the filmmaker Andrei Gladkikh.

The project, which was designed for an open space, was created especially for the opening of the festival to warm up viewers for a five-hour program of feature, experimental and animated films from the competition and other special programs that comprise the festival.

On the second day, a record-setting non-stop screening of animated films for children and adults will be held after midnight, along with a musical and visual performance by Poema Theater titled “The Boundaries of Bathing.”

Entrance is free for children younger than 12 years old.

“The most intense competition is expected in the category of animation,”

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By Elmira Delorme

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Independent film comes to the beach of the Peter and Paul Fortress for the annual Open Cinema festival.

A still from Amal Kateb’s short film ‘On Ne Mourra Pas’ (We Won’t Die), in which a hunt for a corkscrew becomes a matter of life and death.

its closing ceremony for the first time.

The parallel competition of Open Cinema is no less intriguing than the festival’s main competition. Thematic nominations include “Other Lands” for films about distant shores, “No Anesthesia” for gritty, uncensored films, and “Great Expectations” for promising genre films. Films are selected for the parallel competition on the basis of their conceptual and artistic ideas. The prize is a small hourglass.

Both the main and parallel competitions are judged by an international jury comprising Russian and foreign film specialists.

The non-competition section of the festival includes five non-competition programs and five special programs including a complete retrospective of Daniel Mulloy, a British master of the short film genre and an international award-winning filmmaker.

Special screenings during Open Cinema 2011 will include an “Asian Tigers” section devoted to filmmakers from Thailand, South Korea and Singapore. Other screenings include selections from international festivals such as the IFVA Hong Kong Independent Short Film & Video Awards, DokLeipzig International Festival for Documentary and Animated Film (Germany) and River To River Florence Indian Film Festival (Italy).

Outside of the animated and nonfiction film categories, the homegrown short films presented at the festival are inconsiderable in number: There are only a few Russian films in the parallel competition. However, the organizers of the festival aim to support national filmmakers by screening a selection of Russian films in a separate, non-competitive program titled “Resident.ru.”

Since the founder of the Bereg art center selected an original open-air venue and set up a screen on the Peter and Paul Fortress, Open Cinema has found popularity among a wide audience.

“It is steadily attended by a large number of spectators whose number is estimated at up to 8,000 people on average,” say organizers. “The closed venues where the festival is also held annually accommodate an impressive number of visitors as well. The festival is annually attended by 9,000 to 15,000 spectators overall.”

The Open Cinema International Festival of Short and Animated Films runs from Aug. 20 through Aug. 28.

A full program is available at www.artbereg.ru.

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In celebration of graffiti A graffiti festival this week will culminate with the projection of street art onto Palace Bridge.

By Emma Rawcliffe T H E S T. P E T E R S B U R G T I M E S

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raffiti may not be the first thing that springs to mind in connection with imperialist St. Petersburg, but an innovative festival taking place this weekend may just change that perception.

Following on from the success of the Multivision Festival held in the city from 2007 to 2008, the International Petersburg Graffiti-2011 Art Forum (a.k.a. GraFFFest) aims to continue the theme of the fusion of graffiti with other forms of art such as photography, film, animation and digital material in a series of exclusive events. This is the first time a festival in this format and on such a large scale is being held in Russia.

As to be expected from a city as conservative as St. Petersburg, gaining permission to host the contemporary art festival, just as with Multivision three years ago, was no easy feat.

Festival organisers had to “solve a load of technical problems [and] get a stack of approvals,” Svetlana Petrova, creative director of GraFFFest, said in an interview.

In light of the outrage caused last year when the anarchic art group Voina sprayed a giant phallus on Liteiny Bridge directly opposite the FSB headquarters in St. Petersburg as a protest against heightened security in the city, one of the aims of GraFFFest is to dispel the belief that graffiti is vandalism. One of the festival’s events is “a performance [titled] ‘Street Art against vandalism’,” said Petrova.

The festival’s events are based at the Krasnoye Znamya (Red Banner) cultural center located at 24 Bolshaya Raznochinnaya Ulitsa, but will culminate with films and images being projected onto Palace Bridge on Friday night.

From 3 p.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 17, 14 graffiti artists from Russia and all over the world will create their vision of ideal world order under the title “A Picture of the New World” on a 120 meter-high fence at 53 Pionerskaya Ulitsa next to the Krasnoye Znamya center.

The Krasnoye Znamya center itself will host a master class on Wednesday afternoon followed by a lecture at 7 p.m. on Thursday, both given by the U.S. artist Evan Roth (a.k.a. Fi5e).

During his master class, Roth will coordinate participants in the creation of a music video, using animated im-

GraFFFest focuses on the fusion of graffiti with other art forms such as animation and photography. ages from the Animated GIF Mashup Studio. The results of the master class will be projected onto Palace Bridge on Friday night after the bridge is raised.

Roth’s lecture will explore video graffiti and the use of technology in his celebrated projects EyeWriter, Graffiti Analysis and Laser Tag. As a key figure in the movement against the commercialization of art and a speaker against taboo and suppression, the participation of this multi-award-winning artist promises to heighten the festival’s allure.

GraFFFest will culminate on Friday night with an event titled “Street Art Jam”: An impressive three-hour display of short films demonstrating the synthesis of street art and digital

art form, based on the topic “How can art change the urban environment?”

These films will include those displaying the projects of Roth, as well as the film due to be made during the artist’s master class on Wednesday.

“Street Art Jam” will also feature the winning entries from an open competition held last month to find the best animated film on the theme of graffiti and street art. The best films will be chosen by a jury comprising animation film directors and the Animation Master department of St. Petersburg University of Film and Television. The grand finale will take place from 1 a.m. to 4.30 a.m on Saturday, when the films will be projected onto the raised part of Palace Bridge. Images from this new genre of “video

graffiti” will also be projected onto the walls of nearby buildings, without causing any permanent alteration in their appearance.

The world premiere of the video instillation “1610” — a street-art version of a traditional Paris Opera production based on the music of Monteverdi — will also be on display, providing a more intellectual side to the festivities.

In addition to the visual spectacles taking place next to Palace Bridge, a concert will be held in the same location, featuring Russian hip-hop artists in support of street art, including Rapublic, Cberio, KREC, T9 and Iva Nova.

GraFFFest will appeal to anyone who is “creative, open-hearted and

selfless,” according to Petrova. It will demonstrate to the public “the different faces of contemporary street art,” she said, adding that she hopes people will appreciate “the creative and humanistic potential of this most democratic art form.”

Petrova said she hopes that the festival will inspire all kinds of people to experiment with this contemporary art form and “open new horizons for the development of street art in our country.”

In keeping with the open, liberal concept of the festival, entrance to all the festival’s events is open to everyone and free of charge.

For more information, see www.grafffest.ru.

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Shame on Naughty American Hooligans

By Michele A. Berdy Хулиганство: hooliganism (sort of)

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s the world watched the U.S. debt ceiling negotiations, Standard & Poor’s rating downgrade and the stomach-flipping volatile market, it seems like everyone and his brother (кому не лень) had something nasty and accusatory to say about the U.S. economy and political system. Can’t say I blame them. I myself was nasty and accusatory — that is, when I wasn’t frantically recasting my retirement to admit the possibility of subsistence farming.

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin couldn’t resist getting into the act. In his first foray, he said the United States

was behaving like “паразит мировой экономики” (a parasite on the world economy). I ignored this as linguistically boring and factually erroneous.

When one of Russia’s ruling tandem stops flashing his iPhone, I’ll entertain the notion of parasitism.

But Putin’s second foray provided more fodder for my linguistic interests.

This time, Putin accused the United States of хулиганство (hooliganism).

Now that’s a nice, juicy word. Хулиганство comes, of course, from English, where it first appeared in print in 1898. The meaning in English hasn’t changed much over the last century. It refers to violent, rowdy, or destructive behavior. But today, with the exception of the phrase sports hooliganism, the words hooligan and hooliganism are decidedly dated.

Hooliganism seems to have quickly jumped from Britain over to Russia, and by 1922 хулиганство wasn’t just a word in Soviet Russia, it was a crime.

And a crime it has remained to this day. The legal definition has changed a bit over the decades, but there is one element of it that has remained more or less the same: грубое нарушение общественного порядка, выражающее явное неуважение к обществу (flagrant violation of public order expressing clear disrespect for society).

The lack of clarity about what exactly constitutes хулиганство — who decides what public order is and what indicates clear disrespect? — has left a lot of wiggle room for judiciary discretion. In the Soviet period, this article was used not only to incarcerate drunks who bashed up metro cars but

also to jail folks for a wide variety of “anti-social” (read: anti-Soviet) activities. Today, the article is still used for jailing thugs as well as social activists defending forests and architectural treasures. But sometimes it’s used to help thugs avoid more serious charges.

So boys who bash foreigners are sometimes just хулиганы (hooligans).

In everyday speech, хулиганство, хулиган and хулиганить (to behave like a hooligan) are often much less dire crimes. When applied jokingly to children or loved ones, these words convey the sense of being naughty, mischievous or mildly lascivious.

When a mom finds a giggling kid’s bedroom a mess of tossed pillows, she might exclaim in mock horror: Кто тут нахулиганил? (Who got into mischief?) Or when an elderly gent kisses

his wife of 60 years, she might swat him away with a pleased: Хулиган!

(You devil!) And when I write a column that pokes fun at a sacred cow, I call it a хулиганская рубрика (a naughty column).

As for Mr. Putin, my guess is that he doesn’t think the U.S. leaders are being charmingly naughty. I’d guess he means they are showing clear disrespect for the world order and behaving like irresponsible teenagers. Fair enough. I just wonder what he’d have said if a U.S. leader had accused Russia of хулиганство when it defaulted in 1998.

Michele A. Berdy, a Moscow-based translator and interpreter, is author of “The Russian Word’s Worth” (Glas), a collection of her columns.

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The humble plastic bag features both in a film and in a dance performance being shown this weekend as part of the Art of Survival festival.

Green weekend A festival this weekend focuses on the environment via film, art and discussions.

By Olga Khrustaleva T H E S T. P E T E R S B U R G T I M E S

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hile the ecological situation may be getting worse, the only silver lining in the cloud of pollution is that the level of ecological awareness is rising. Following Europe’s example, activists in Russia’s big cities are trying their best to draw attention to the country’s environmental issues.

The Art of Survival festival scheduled to take place this weekend aims to

highlight pressing ecological problems via the medium of art. The festival will be held at a newly opened art space with the ecological name “Taiga” located on Palace Square.

“I think such festivals play a significant role in raising environmental awareness,” said Angelina Davydova, a representative of the Russian-German Ecological Information Bureau.

“On the one hand, we are trying to draw people’s attention to environmental problems, showing their causes and consequences, and on the other hand we are discussing ways of solving

them at different levels: From political measures to private initiatives.

“Also, as the festival is taking place in several cities across the world, it gives us a new opportunity to share experiences, skills and technologies,” she added.

A mixture of discussions, lectures, films and performances, the program is both serious and entertaining, as well as being diverse and inclusive: With the help of technology, it will attract participants from Berlin, New Delhi, Sao Paolo and Nairobi, as well as from St. Petersburg.

According to Davydova, the idea for the festival originated in Berlin, and the event was originally planned to have maximum geographical coverage.

“However, as all resources — including organizational — are exhaustible, it turned out that engaging five cities in the dialogue at the same time was difficult,” she said.

Due to the time differences between the cities, some lectures will be recorded. The topics of the discussions are both pressing and controversial.

“Decoupling growth from resources consumption,” “The end of capitalism

as we know it” and other discussions will bring together experts in political and environmental science from leading universities and research centers.

The organizers wanted to have the largest number of continents represented at the festival. “Another important factor was to have… countries with the largest natural potentials and the socalled emerging economies,” Davydova told The St. Petersburg Times. The path these countries will choose as a priority is important, she said: Whether they stick to “the path of mass consumption and economic growth by any means, or take the path of sustainable development, which takes into account environmental and social components… and ecological awareness.”

This year’s Ecocup film festival, which takes place on Friday at 7 p.m., will showcase two sets of films. “Be Water, My Friend” is a set of short films about the role of water in our lives. “Plastic and Glass” sends viewers the message that although these two elements take a long time to decompose, we still “owe something to the poor plastic bag,” the festival’s organizers say.

The Iguan dance theater has reexamined contemporary consumer society problems in a performance titled “Love in the Supermarket,” which the theater will present on Sunday, Aug. 21. The basis for the creative work was research into how contemporary capitalism in Russia influences romantic relationships. The young dancers use empty plastic bags as a key element in one of their shows, but raise sharp questions about the soul, love and relations between two people at the same time. “[It will] show the adverse effect of subconscious mass consumption on the ecological situation in the city, country and world, and on individual human development,” Davydova said.

The Art of Survival festival will present a number of eco-artworks, including pictures made of moss or grass by young artists and designers from the Taiga art space. The debates involving participants from India, Germany, Brazil and Kenya will also be interesting for those committed to keeping up with current affairs and playing their part in building a better future.

The Art of Survival festival takes place primarily at the Taiga art space, 20 Palace Square. Tel. +7 952 232 7893.

For a full program, see www.ueber-lebenskunst.org.

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Elton John in St. Petersburg

By Anna Malpas

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ast week, Roman Abramovich’s teenage daughter reportedly moved into a starter home in London worth £4 million ($6.46 million), soon after calling off an engagement that had raised eyebrows in the British press.

Anna Abramovich’s new place in Belgravia is a mews cottage with three bedrooms, which is all you get for a few million pounds in such a chi-chi area. The house belongs jointly to Roman Abramovich and his ex-wife Irina, the London Evening Standard reported, with Anna describing it as “small and cozy.”

The same could not be said of Roman Abramovich’s own house. He must find football pitches too poky and claustrophobic because he is extending his mansion to 30,000 square meters, the newspaper reported.

The Daily Mail gasped in a biblical way that Anna Abramovich had shunned “her father’s many mansions” by moving into such a tight space.

Anna Abramovich had been living with her mother after splitting from her fiance, lawyer Nikolai Lazarev, it reported.

In a very unusual move for a British teenager, Abramovich got engaged to

Lazarev at 18, when she was still at school, the Daily Mail reported in October, citing Abramovich’s classmates.

It printed a rather unflattering picture of Lazarev, 27, cradling a tiny lapdog.

The Daily Mail described Lazarev

as a “Muscovite,” although it added that he was educated at a British public school and university. But in June, it reported that the couple had parted in a mutual decision, quoting Abramovich’s spokesman. It cited a “friend” say-

ing there had always been “something strange” about him, which apparently had been less evident when Lazarev stood to marry several billion.

Abramovich first became fodder for the British papers when her 16th birthday party reportedly cost more than $100,000. Reports said she wore a oneoff designer dress and spent most of the time in a roped-off VIP zone with her most beautiful friends.

Model Naomi Campbell and her boyfriend, property developer Vladislav Doronin, last week sparked yet more rumors that they are going to get married.

The couple had a lavish firework display in Greece, telling guests that they wanted to celebrate a “little secret,” the Daily Star reported, calling Doronin “the Russian Donald Trump.”

Although firework displays are not exactly rare events in the lives of rich Russians. More convincingly, it cited a guest as saying Campbell was wearing an “incredible ring.”

The wedding that got the most coverage in the Russian tabloids, though, was that of a couple who invited Elton John to sing at a palace outside St. Petersburg.

The couple marrying were a model who comes from Vladivostok, Yevgenia Slyusarenko, and Pierre Andurand,

a Frenchman who heads hedge fund BlueGold Capital Management, Komsomolskaya Pravda wrote. Last year Reuters called Andurand a “kickboxing oil trader.”

The “uptight Englishman was unusually democratic,” Lifenews.ru said of John, amazed that he flew in wearing an unflattering Adidas tracksuit and walked down from his private plane without any guards.

Guests arrived for the wedding in carriages and watched John perform, now wearing a rhinestone-studded tailcoat, in the throne room of the Catherine Palace in Pushkin, KP reported.

The warm-up act was Craig David.

Slyusarenko began her modeling career straight from school in Vladivostok but soon moved to Paris, KP reported, citing former catwalk colleagues from the FAST Model agency.

She used to do billboards for the local cell phone operator Primtelefon, Express Gazeta reported.

The agency’s web site still has cheesily styled photos of “Zhenya” from those days, when she was just breaking through. She had already done a shoot for Russian Vogue, but her portfolio has her in dubious silk robes and leather jackets, posing in front of a chilly looking Sea of Japan.

wednesday, august 17, 2011 17 HOW TO USE THE LISTINGS:

Dates and times are correct at the time of publication, but last-minute changes are not infrequent, so it’s best to check using the phone numbers at the end of each entry or consult local directories. Unless otherwise stated, stage events start at 7 p.m.

All stage shows and films are in Russian unless noted.

S TA G E S thursday, august 18 ballet Swan Lake Tchaikovsky’s romantic classic about the fate of a swan princess. Performed by the St. Petersburg Ballet Theater. Avrora concert hall, 5/2 Pirogovskaya Naberezhnaya, Hotel St. Petersburg. M. Ploshchad Lenina. Tel. 579 0226, 966 3776. www.balet-spb.ru, 8 p.m.

Swan Lake The Leonid Jacobson Ballet Theater performs Tchaikovsky’s signature ballet, choreographed by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov. Mikhailovsky Theater, 8 p.m.

Swan Lake The Theater of Russian Ballet performs Tchaikovsky’s romantic classic.

Hermitage Theater, 8 p.m.

opera Gala Concert St. Petersburg Opera soloists.

St. Petersburg Opera

concert Chamber Music Caccini, Cherubini, Bach, Gounod, Mascagni, Stradella, Rachmaninov, Chopin, Schubert, Schumann. St. Maria Evangelical-Lutheran Cathedral, 8a Bolshaya Konushennaya Ul. Tel. 314 7161 Viennese Waltz in the White Nights Vera Vasilyeva, Viktor Krivonos, Albert Pankov, Valery Matveyev, Tatyana Vasilyeva and others (all — vocal). Musical Comedy Theater, 13 Italianskaya Ul. Tel. 210 4316, 313 4316, 8 p.m.

friday, august 19 ballet Swan Lake Tchaikovsky’s romantic classic about the fate of a swan princess. Performed by the St. Petersburg Ballet Theater. Avrora concert hall, 5/2 Pirogovskaya Naberezhnaya, Hotel St. Petersburg. M. Ploshchad Lenina. Tel. 579 0226, 966 3776. www.balet-spb.ru, 8 p.m.

Spartak The Leonid Jacobson Ballet Theater performs a ballet set to the music of Aram Khachaturian about a revolt by slaves and gladiators in ancient Rome. Mikhailovsky Theater, 8 p.m.

concert Vladimir Radchenkov Clavecin Recital Galuppi. Vladimir Nabokov Apartment Museum, 47 Bolshaya Morskaya Ulitsa.

Tel. 315 4713, 717 4502

saturday, august 20 ballet Swan Lake The Leonid Jacobson Ballet Theater performs Tchaikovsky’s signature ballet, choreographed by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov. Mikhailovsky Theater, 8 p.m.

Swan Lake The Theater of Russian Ballet performs Tchaikovsky’s romantic classic.

Hermitage Theater, 8 p.m.

opera PREMIERE! Richard the Lionheart Natalia Kurichyeva stages Andre Gretry’s opera based on an episode in the life of the medieval King of England. Peterhof Park, Petrodvorets, tel. 450 6510

sunday, august 21 ballet Swan Lake Tchaikovsky’s romantic classic about the fate of a swan princess. Performed by the St. Petersburg Ballet Theater. Avrora concert hall, 5/2 Pirogovskaya Naberezhnaya, Hotel St. Petersburg. M. Ploshchad Lenina. Tel. 579 0226, 966 3776. www.balet-spb.ru, 8 p.m.

Giselle St. Petersburg’s most popular and oft-performed ballet, Adolphe Adam’s tale of a young peasant woman deceived in love by a young aristocrat. Performed by the State Classic Ballet. Karnaval, 39 Nevsky Prospekt, 8 p.m.

Swan Lake The Leonid Jacobson Ballet Theater performs Tchaikovsky’s signature ballet, choreographed by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov. Mikhailovsky Theater, 8 p.m.

Swan Lake Tchaikovsky’s romantic classic performed by the Vyacheslav Gordeyev Moscow State Theater of Russian Ballet.

Choreography by Marius Petipa.

Komissarzhevskaya Drama Theater, 8 p.m.

monday, august 22 ballet Swan Lake Tchaikovsky’s romantic classic about the fate of a swan princess. Performed by the St. Petersburg Ballet Theater. Avrora concert hall, 5/2 Pirogovskaya Naberezhnaya, Hotel St. Petersburg. M. Ploshchad Lenina. Tel. 579 0226, 966 3776. www.balet-spb.ru, 8 p.m.

Swan Lake The Leonid Jacobson Ballet

DUSCHE

Local alt-rock band Vragi will launch its long-awaited Internet-only album with a concert at Dusche on Friday, Aug.19.

Theater performs Tchaikovsky’s signature ballet, choreographed by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov. Mikhailovsky Theater, 8 p.m.

Swan Lake Tchaikovsky’s romantic classic, performed by the Vyacheslav Gordeyev Moscow State Theater of Russian Ballet.

Choreography by Marius Petipa.

Komissarzhevskaya Drama Theater, 8 p.m.

Swan Lake The Theater of Russian Ballet performs Tchaikovsky’s romantic classic.

Hermitage Theater, 8 p.m.

tuesday, august 23 ballet Swan Lake Tchaikovsky’s romantic classic about the fate of a swan princess. Performed by the St. Petersburg Ballet Theater. Avrora concert hall, 5/2 Pirogovskaya Naberezhnaya, Hotel St. Petersburg. M. Ploshchad Lenina.

Tel. 579 0226, 966 3776. www.balet-spb.ru, 8 p.m.

The Nutcracker The Leonid Jacobson Ballet Theater performs Tchaikovsky’s work, based on E. T. A. Hoffmann’s tale, about a girl’s dream that her nutcracker doll changes into a handsome prince and takes her on a magical journey. Mikhailovsky Theater, 8 p.m.

concert Viennese Waltz in the White Nights Vera Vasilyeva, Viktor Krivonos, Albert Pankov, Valery Matveyev, Tatyana Vasilyeva and others (all — vocal). Musical Comedy Theater, 13 Italianskaya Ul. Tel. 210 4316, 313 4316, 8 p.m.

wednesday, august 24 ballet Swan Lake Tchaikovsky’s romantic classic about the fate of a swan princess. Performed by the St. Petersburg Ballet Theater. Avrora concert hall, 5/2 Pirogovskaya Naberezhnaya, Hotel St. Petersburg. M. Ploshchad Lenina. Tel. 579 0226, 966 3776. www.balet-spb.ru, 8 p.m.

Swan Lake The Leonid Jacobson Ballet Theater performs Tchaikovsky’s signature ballet, choreographed by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov. Mikhailovsky Theater, 8 p.m.

opera Gala Concert St. Petersburg Opera soloists.

St. Petersburg Opera

concert Viennese Waltz in the White Nights Svetlana Lugova, Alexander Bairon, Anton Oleinikov, Alexander Murashko, Katazhina Matzkevich (Poland) and others (all — vocal).

Musical Comedy Theater, 13 Italianskaya Ul. Tel. 210 4316, 313 4316, 8 p.m.

GIGS wednesday, august 17

8/10 Kazanskaya Ulitsa Tel. 312 0540 Open daily noon till 11 p.m. (till 5 a.m. Friday and Saturday) Menu in Russian and English Dinner for two with alcohol 1,530 rubles ($53)

By Shura Collinson T H E S T. P E T E R S B U R G T I M E S

Odeyalo occupies the former premises of what once claimed to be the first Indonesian restaurant in Russia: Sukawati.

When the once popular Sukawati closed late last year, Odeyalo is what rose from its ashes, but there is little left of the restaurant’s upmarket, elegant predecessor. If Sukawati’s interior was an exercise in understatement, with its neutral tones and solid furniture, Odeyalo is dominated by lilac and orange, and closely resembles an IKEA showroom, from the three-sided cast iron single beds that serve as alternative seating, to the orange leather sofas, chairs and orange blankets that presumably give the restaurant its name (odeyalo means “blanket” in Russian).

Despite the restaurant’s name and the abundance of beds, pillows, cush-

was laconic in the extreme, barely registering our order and taking the risky approach of not writing it down. This, inevitably, resulted in him failing to bring some ikura sushi (80 rubles, $2.80) that we had ordered, though this was remedied by some gentle prompting from our side.

Yet another member of staff emerged to offer us a hookah pipe in an even less interested tone than his colleague had demonstrated, creating the impression that they might just all have been smoking something a little stronger than a hookah themselves.

Despite all of this, and the awful dance music being played (mercifully, not too loudly), the food at Odeyalo is not bad, especially in terms of its reasonable prices.

Odeyalo boasts two separate menus, titled European and Asian.

Finding little of excitement on the European menu, we chose to focus on the Asian side of things. Generally, the dishes ordered were perfectly satisfactory, if nothing exciting. Into this category fell rolls with avocado and salmon (priced 120 rubles, $4.20, and 170 rubles, $6, respectively) — dishes that are admittedly hard to either ruin or to make excel.

thursday, august 18 rock, etc.

Ole Lukoye / Ethnodelica Art rock, world music. Chinese Pilot Jao Da, 7 Ulitsa Pestelya.

Tel. 273 7487; +7 911 751 8339. 8 p.m.

Chyoknuty Propeller / The Big Blocks Punk, alternative. Dusche, 50 Ligovsky Prospekt, Korpus 6. M: Ligovsky Prospekt.

Tel. +7 (960) 246 4550. 8 p.m.

Saint Petersburg Depeche Mode Tribute Jagger, 2 Ploshchad Konstitutsii.

Tel. 923 1292. 8:30 p.m.

jazz & blues Alexei Cheremizov Trio Piano night. Jazz Philharmonic Hall (Ellington Hall), 27 Zagorodny Prospekt. Tel. 764 85 65, 764 9843. 8 p.m.

Jerry Kim Band Jazz rock. JFC Jazz Club, 33 Shpalernaya Ulitsa. Tel. 272 9850. 8 p.m.

friday, august 19 rock, etc.

Mama’s Bad Boys / 911 Band Blues, blues rock. Jagger, 2 Ploshchad Konstitutsii.

Tel. 923 1292. 8:30 p.m.

Vragi Punk, alternative. Dusche, 50 Ligovsky Prospekt, Korpus 6. M: Ligovsky Prospekt. Tel. +7 (960) 246 4550. 8 p.m.

Val Band Dance, covers. Jagger, 2 Ploshchad Konstitutsii. Tel. 923 1292. 8:30 p.m.

Poimanniye Muravyedy Punk, reggae, hip-hop, Latin. Mod (Open Terrace), 7 Naberezhnaya Kanala Griboyedova.

Tel. 712 0734. 8 p.m.

PTVP Punk, alternative. Zoccolo, 2/3 3-ya Sovetskaya Ulitsa. Tel. 274 9467. 8 p.m.

Wet Blanket ions and blankets (mostly orange), the atmosphere is not really conducive to snuggling into bed while waiting for one’s food to arrive, although it is certainly more welcoming on the inside than suggested by the dubious neon sign on the street. This and the outdoor menu-in-a-lightbox, which boasts of a business lunch deal and hookah pipes, are more suggestive of the ubiquitous Eastern-style buffets a la Al Sharq than of a restaurant, though Odeyalo classes itself as the latter.

Whether due to this slightly unappealing exterior or not, Odeyalo was deserted on a recent Sunday evening, with a table of three men and then one solitary female diner comprising the only other guests. Despite the resulting generous ratio of wait staff to diners, the service was hardly exemplary. There was no one on hand to greet us upon arrival, and it was a full few minutes before anyone actually emerged and noticed our presence. In fact, both servers eventually appeared at the same time, having presumably returned from their cigarette break or from playing cards in the back. Our waiter — wearing a T-shirt with the name of another café on it (perhaps this explained his earlier absence? —

Ilya Lushtak and His Band Jazz guitar night. Jazz Philharmonic Hall (Ellington Hall), 27 Zagorodny Prospekt. Tel. 764 85 65, 764 9843. 8 p.m.

Four & More Mainstream. JFC Jazz Club, 33 Shpalernaya Ulitsa. Tel. 272 9850. 8 p.m.

rock, etc.

THE DISH Odeyalo

jazz & blues

A standout dish was the spicy kimchi soup (120 rubles), a piping hot broth with plenty of egg, leek and mushroom that surprisingly, really was spicy — almost certainly too spicy for the average tastebuds but rated highly in our party.

The rest of the dishes were united by the presence of one ingredient guaranteed to elicit groans from anyone who did not grow up in Russia and was not, therefore, raised on the stuff from infancy: Dill. Should crispy shrimp and pork dim sum (220 rubles, $7.65) really be served on a thick mattress of dill? At Odeyalo, they are.

Dill had also managed to infest vegetable fried rice (160 rubles, $5.60) and udon noodles with pork (230 rubles, $8), which could both have been served hotter, but were otherwise unremarkable — except of course for the addition of the dill, which did shed some light on the nationality of Odeyalo’s chef, if nothing else.

Odeyalo, then, can hardly be described as a gourmet dining experience, and is perhaps best visited by those on a budget for its reasonably priced rolls, sushi and soup — or by those in need of an afternoon nap.

jazz & blues Elvira Trafova and Pyotr Kornev Band Songs from films, shows and musicals. Jazz Philharmonic Hall (Ellington Hall), 27 Zagorodny Prospekt. Tel. 764 85 65, 764 9843. 8 p.m.

Easy Winners Ragtime Band Ragtime, cakewalk, early traditional jazz. JFC Jazz Club, 33 Shpalernaya Ulitsa. Tel. 272 9850. 8 p.m.

saturday, august 20 rock, etc.

Mooncake Postrock, experimental rock.

Dusche, 50 Ligovsky Prospekt, Korpus 6. M: Ligovsky Prospekt. Tel. +7 (960) 246 4550.

8 p.m.

Mira Indie rock. Fish Fabrique (Nouvelle), 53 Ligovsky Prospekt. Tel. 764 4857. 8 p.m.

PTVP Punk, alternative. Griboyedov, 2A Voronezhskaya Ulitsa. Tel. 764 4355, 973 7273. 8 p.m.

Rock ‘n’ Girls Rock, covers. Jagger, 2 Ploshchad Konstitutsii. Tel. 923 1292.

8:30 p.m.

Zimavsegda Acoustic. Mod, 7 Naberezhnaya Kanala Griboyedova. Tel. 712 0734. 9 p.m.

Aero Plan Pop rock. Zoccolo, 2/3 3-ya Sovetskaya Ulitsa. Tel. 274 9467. 8 p.m.

jazz & blues Western Swing Four Jazz Philharmonic Hall (Ellington Hall), 27 Zagorodny Prospekt. Tel. 764 85 65, 764 9843. 8 p.m.

Mama’s Bad Boys Blues. JFC Jazz Club, 33 Shpalernaya Ulitsa. Tel. 272 9850. 8 p.m.

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rock, etc.

Punk Congress #9 Dismay, Degradation, Lobkovy Irokez, Doktor Barmental, Mat’!

Makarony Tashchi! Dusche, 50 Ligovsky Prospekt, Korpus 6. M: Ligovsky Prospekt.

Tel. +7 (960) 246 4550. 8 p.m.

jazz & blues Mikhail Kostyushkin and His Band Saxophone night. Jazz Philharmonic Hall (Ellington Hall), 27 Zagorodny Prospekt.

Tel. 764 85 65, 764 9843. 8 p.m.

Swing Couture Gypsy jazz. JFC Jazz Club, 33 Shpalernaya Ulitsa. Tel. 272 9850. 8 p.m.

monday, august 22 jazz & blues Terminator Trio Funk, jazz rock. JFC Jazz Club, 33 Shpalernaya Ulitsa. Tel. 272 9850.

8 p.m.

tuesday, august 23 rock, etc.

Medic! Medic! / Sostoyaniye Ptsits / Oxy Hardcore. Dusche, 50 Ligovsky Prospekt, Korpus 6. M: Ligovsky Prospekt.

Tel. +7 (960) 246 4550. 8 p.m.

Kvadat Jazz Club: Jam Session Mainstream. Griboyedov Hill, 2A Voronezhskaya Ulitsa. Tel. 764 4355, 973 7273. 9:30 p.m.

jazz & blues Ars Nova Brazilian music. Jazz Philharmonic Hall (Ellington Hall), 27 Zagorodny Prospekt.

Tel. 764 85 65, 764 9843. 8 p.m.

Volkovtrio Art rock. JFC Jazz Club, 33 Shpalernaya Ulitsa. Tel. 272 9850. 8 p.m.

wednesday, august 24

Ka-tung. Dom Kino.

Come Undone (Cosa voglio di piu) (2010, Italy-Switzerland) Silvio Soldini’s drama starring Alba Rohrwacher, Pierfrancesco Favino and Teresa Saponangelo. Dom Kino.

NEW! Conan the Barbarian (2011, U.S.) Marcus Nispel’s fantasy adventure film starring Jason Momoa, Ron Perlman and Rose McGowan. Crystal Palace, Mirage Cinema.

NEW! Cowboys & Aliens (2011, U.S.) Jon Favreau’s sci-fi thriller starring Daniel Craig, Harrison Ford and Olivia Wilde. Crystal Palace, Jam Hall, Mirage Cinema, Pik. NEW! The Devil’s Double (2011, Belgium) Lee Tamahori’s bio drama film starring Dominic Cooper, Ludivine Sagnier and Raad Raw. Crystal Palace, Mirage Cinema.

Friends with Benefits (2011, U.S.) Will Gluck’s romantic comedy starring Mila Kunis, Justin Timberlake and Patricia Clarkson.

Avrora, Crystal Palace, Jam Hall, Khudozhestvenny, Mirage Cinema, Neva, Pik. A Greek Summer (Nicostratos le pelican) (2011, France-Greece) Olivier Horlait’s comedy-drama starring Emir Kusturica, Thibault Le Guellec and Francois-Xavier Demaison. Khudozhestvenny, Pik. Gromozeka (2011, Russia) Vladimir Kott’s drama Nikolay Dobrynin, Boris Kamorzin and Leonid Gromov. Dom Kino.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011, U.K.-U.S.) David Yates’ epic fantasy film starring Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint and Emma Watson. Avrora, Crystal Palace, Khudozhestvenny, Mirage Cinema, Neva, Pik. Hoodwinked Too! Hood VS. Evil (2011, U.S.) Mike Disa’s animated film. Crystal Palace, Mirage Cinema.

rock, etc.

Mlad I Star Funk. Dusche, 50 Ligovsky Prospekt, Korpus 6. M: Ligovsky Prospekt.

Tel. +7 (960) 246 4550. 8 p.m.

Top Gun Rock, covers. Jagger, 2 Ploshchad Konstitutsii. Tel. 923 1292. 8:30 p.m.

The Same But 100 Time Better Post-rock.

Zoccolo, 2/3 3-ya Sovetskaya Ulitsa.

Tel. 274 9467. 8 p.m.

Horrible Bosses (2011, U.S.) Seth Gordon’s criminal comedy starring Jason Bateman, Charlie Day and Jason Sudeikis. Avrora, Crystal Palace, Mirage Cinema, Neva.

The Housemaid (Hanyo) (2010, South Korea) Im Sang-soo’s thriller starring Eun-yi Jeon Do-youn, Hoon Lee Jung-jae and Hae-ra Seo Woo. Dom Kino.

jazz & blues Konstantin Maminov and His Quartet Saxophone night. Jazz Philharmonic Hall (Ellington Hall), 27 Zagorodny Prospekt.

Tel. 764 85 65, 764 9843. 8 p.m.

Black and White Jazz songs. JFC Jazz Club, 33 Shpalernaya Ulitsa. Tel. 272 9850. 8 p.m.

SCREENS 3 (2011, Germany) Tom Tykwer’s comedydrama starring Sophie Rois, Sebastian Schipper and Devid Striesow. Dom Kino.

After (2009, Spain) Alberto Rodriguez’s drama starring Valeria Alonso, Pablo Baena and Ricardo de Barreiro. Dom Kino.

Larry Crowne (2011, U.S.) Tom Hanks’ comedy-drama starring Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts, Sarah Mahoney and Roxana Ortega.

Khudozhestvenny, Mirage Cinema, Pik. The Last Flight (Le dernier vol) (2009, France) Karim Dridi’s drama starring Marion Cotillard, Guillaume Canet and Guillaume Marquet. Dom Kino.

Lucky Luke (2009, France-Argentina) James Huth’s Western comedy film starring Jean Dujardin, Michael Youn and Sylvie Testud.

Mirage Cinema, Pik. NEW! Magic Paris 3 A collection of French short films. Dom Kino.

FOR SPT

sunday, august 21

Paintings by the artist Vadim Smirnov (1925-1990) are now showing at an exhibition titled ‘A Very Big Master’ at the Dostoevsky Museum.

Mammoth (Mammuth) (2010, France) Gustave de Kervern and Benoit Delepine’s starring Gerard Depardieu, Yolande Moreau and Isabelle Adjani. Rodina.

Manual of Love 3 (Manuale d’am3re) (2011, Italy) Giovanni Veronesi’s romantic comedy starring Robert De Niro, Monica Bellucci and Riccardo Scamarcio. Rodina.

Melancholia (2011, Denmark-SwedenFrance-Germany) Lars von Trier’s drama starring Kirsten Dunst, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Kiefer Sutherland and Charlotte Rampling.

Mirage Cinema.

Mr. Popper’s Penguins (2011, U.S.) Mark Waters’ family comedy starring Jim Carrey, Carla Gugino, Angela Lansbury and Ophelia Lovibond. Khudozhestvenny.

NEW! One Day (2011, U.S.) Lone Scherfig’s love drama film starring Anne Hathaway, Jim Sturgess and Patricia Clarkson. Avrora, Crystal Palace, Mirage Cinema. Starts Aug. 18.

Pina (2011, Germany-France-U.K.) Wim Wenders’ music documentary starring Regina Advento, Malou Airaudo, Ruth Amarante and Pina Bausch. Avrora.

Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011, U.S.) Rob Marshall’s adventure film starring Johnny Depp, Penelope Cruz and Geoffrey Rush. Mirage Cinema.

Quartier Lointain (2010, BelgiumLuxembourg-France-Germany) Sam Garbarski’s fantasy drama film starring Pascal Greggory, Jonathan Zaccai and Alexandra Maria Lara. Rodina.

Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011, U.S.) Rupert Wyatt’s sci-fi film starring James Franco, Andy Serkis and Freida Pinto. Crystal Palace, Jam Hall, Mirage Cinema, Neva, Pik. The Round Up (La Rafle) (2010, France, Germany, Hungary) Rose Bosch’s war drama starring Jean Reno, Melanie Laurent and Gad Elmaleh. Dom Kino.

The Tempest (2010, U.S.) Julie Taymor’s comedy-drama starring Helen Mirren, Felicity Jones and Djimon Hounsou. Rodina.

Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011, U.S.) Michael Bay’s sci-fi adventure movie starring Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Shia LaBeouf and Hugo Weaving. Crystal Palace, Mirage Cinema.

The Tree of Life (2011, U.S.) Terrence Malick’s drama starring Brad Pitt, Sean Penn and Jessica Chastain. Dom Kino.

Second Chance (La chance de ma vie) (2010, France-Belgium) Nicolas Cuche’s romantic comedy starring Virginie Efira, Francois-Xavier Demaison and Armelle Deutsch. Crystal Palace, Khudozhestvenny, Pik.

What Love May Bring (Ces amours-la) (2010, France) Claude Lelouch’s drama starring Audrey Dana, Dominique Pinon, Raphael and Samuel Labarthe.

Dom Kino.

NEW! The Smurfs (2011, U.S.) Raja Gosnell’s family comedy starring Hank Azaria, Katy Perry and Jonathan Winter. Crystal Palace, Mirage Cinema, Pik.

Zookeeper (2011, U.S.) Frank Coraci’s family comedy starring Kevin James, Rosario Dawson and Leslie Bibb. Khudozhestvenny, Pik.

NEW! Spy Kids: All the Time in the World in 4D (2011, U.S.) Robert Rodriguez’s family comedy starring Jessica Alba, Jeremy Piven and Joel McHale. Crystal Palace, Mirage Cinema, Pik. Target (Mishen) (2011, Russia) Alexander Zeldovich’s drama starring Maxim Sukhanov,

MUSEUMS ACADEMY OF ARTS MUSEUM 17 Universitetskaya Nab. Tel. 323 6496, 323 3578 M: Vasileostrovskaya.

Wednesday through Sunday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.

ANNA AKHMATOVA MUSEUM AT THE FOUNTAIN HOUSE 34 Fontanka River, entrance from 53 Liteiny Pr. M: Gostiny Dvor, Mayakovskaya.

Tel. 272 2211. Daily, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. (1 p.m. to 8 p.m. Wednesday). Closed Monday and the last Wednesday of every month. www.akhmatova.spb.ru The Collection of Valentin and Leonid Noskin. Painting, graphics, sculpture. July 27 through August 21 Strayed Tram. Installation. April 28 through September 30

Anna Karenina (2009, Russia) Sergei Solovyov’s drama starring Tatyana Drubich, Oleg Yankovsky and Yaroslav Boiko. Avrora.

Bad Teacher (2011, U.S.) Jake Kasdan’s comedy starring Cameron Diaz, Lucy Punch and Jason Segel. Crystal Palace, Khudozhestvenny, Mirage Cinema.

NEW! Beastly (2011, U.S.) Daniel Barnz’s fantasy drama film starring Alex Pettyfer, Vanessa Hudgens and Mary-Kate Olsen.

Crystal Palace, Mirage Cinema.

ARTILLERY MUSEUM (Military Historical Museum of Artillery and Engineers) 7 Alexandrovsky Park, M: Gorkovskaya, tel. 232 0296, 610 3301, Wednesday through Sunday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Closed last Thursday of each month.

The Beaver (2011, U.S.) Jodie Foster’s drama starring Mel Gibson, Jodie Foster and Anton Yelchin. Avrora, Khudozhestvenny, Pik, Rodina.

A Better Life (2011, U.S.) Chris Weitz’s drama starring Demian Bichir, Jose Julian and Eddie “Piolin” Sotelo. Khudozhestvenny.

ALEXANDER BLOK APARTMENT MUSEUM 57 Ul. Dekabristov Ul., M: Sadovaya, Sennaya.

Tel. 713 8631. Daily 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Closed Wednesday.

Captain America: The First Avenger (2011, U.S.) Joe Johnston’s adventure film starring Chris Evans, Hugo Weaving and Natalie Dormer. Crystal Palace, Jam Hall, Khudozhestvenny, Mirage Cinema, Neva, Pik.

FOR SPT

One of the works by Korean artists on display for three days only — from Aug. 16 to 18 — at the Mokhovaya 18 gallery as part of an exhibition titled ‘The Wanderers.’

FOR SPT

BOTANIC MUSEUM 2 Professora Popova Ul. Tel. 234-0673.

Daily 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Ticket office to 4 p.m.

Closed Friday, Monday.

Currently closed until September.

Cars 2 (2011, U.S.) A computer-animated film produced by Pixar Animation Studios, the sequel to the 2006 film, “Cars.” Mirage Cinema.

The Child’s Eye (2010, Hong Kong) Danny Pang Fat and Oxide Pang Chun’s horror film starring Rainie Yang, Elanne Kwong and Lam

Justine Waddell and Vitaly Kishchenko.

Rodina.

BRICK MUSEUM 55 Yuzhnoye Shosse, Ceramic factory.

M: Lomonosovskaya. Tel. 327 9612.

Daily 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. Closed weekends.

By appointment only. www.pobedalsr.ru/muzey

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CHALIAPIN MANSION AND MUSEUM OF RUSSIAN OPERA 26 Ulitsa Graftio, M: Petrogradskaya.

Tel. 234 1056. Open Wednesday to Sunday, 12 p.m. to 6 p.m.

Marina – Chaliapin’s Daughter. From the collection of the State Museum of Culture (Moscow). Portraits, furniture, toys.

April 13 through September 29 CITY SCULPTURE MUSEUM New Exhibition Hall, 179/2a Nevsky Prospekt.

Entrance through Chernoretskogo Pereulok.

Tel. 274 2635, 274 2579, 274 3860. Daily, 9.30 a.m. to 6 p.m. Closed Thursday, Friday.

NEW! Stanko Abadzic (Croatia). Photo.

August 22 through September 25 DECORATIVE AND APPLIED ARTS MUSEUM 13 Solyanoi Pereulok. M: Nevsky Prospekt, Chernyshevskaya. Tel. 273 3258 Daily 11 a.m. to 4.30 p.m. Closed Sunday and Monday.

DERZHAVIN MUSEUM 118 Nab. Reki Fontanki. M. Tekhnologichesky Institut / Sennaya Ploshchad, Sadovaya.

Tel. 713 0717, 570 6511 My House is Everywhere Where There Is a Celestial Arch: Gennady Salkov.

Painting. July 8 through August 25 DOLL MUSEUM 8 Kamskaya Ulitsa, M: Vasileostrovskaya.

Tel. 327 7224. Daily, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Master classes in making dolls are held on Saturdays at 10 a.m.

Honor and Glory of the Motherland.

Objects, decorative art. February 22 through December 31 DOSTOEVSKY APARTMENT MUSEUM 5/2 Kuznechny Pereulok, M: Vladimirskaya.

Tel. 571 4031. Daily, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Closed Monday and last Wednesday of each month.

NEW! The World is Beautiful: Sergei Menshikov. Painting. August 10 through August 30 SIGMUND FREUD MUSEUM OF DREAMS 18a Bolshoi Prospekt, Petrograd Side. M: Sportivnaya. Tel. 456 2290. Tuesday and Sunday 12 p.m. to 5 p.m.

Hidden Spaces: Elis Kampinsky. Photo.

July 17 through August 19 NEW! Assonances: Lada Tazetdinova.

Photo. August 21 through September 30 HEROIC DEFENDERS OF LENINGRAD MUSEUM MONUMENT Ploshchad Pobedy. M: Moskovskaya. Tel. 371 2951, 373 6563. Open 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

(5 p.m. on Tuesday and Friday). Closed Wednesday and the last Tuesday of every month.

HISTORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY MUSEUM 23 Professora Popova Ul. Tel. 346 1850.

Daily 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Closed Sunday, Monday.

Closed until September.

HISTORY OF RELIGION MUSEUM 14/5 Pochtamtskaya Ulitsa. M: Nevsky Prospekt, Sennaya, Sadovaya. Tel. 571 0495, 314 5838. Daily 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Closed Wednesday.

HISTORY OF ST. PETERSBURG MUSEUM PETER & PAUL FORTRESS M: Gorkovskaya. Tel. 230 6431. Daily, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. (6 p.m. Tuesday). Closed Wednesday.

Permanent Collection The St. Peter and Paul Cathedral, housing the graves of most of the Romanov dynasty; History of the Mint; Museum of Old Petersburg; and more. Exhibits are housed in various locations in the Peter and Paul Fortress.

The History of the Trubetsky Bastion Prison 1872-1921: The Peter and Paul Fortress was Imperial St. Petersburg’s main jail and this exhibition tells the story of the famous revolutionaries and opponents of the Tsar who were imprisoned there.

The Peter and Paul Cathedral and the Great Princely Necropolis of the House of Romanov: The story of the last resting place of the Romanov Dynasty from Peter the Great to Nicholas II, who was finally reinterred here in 1998.

NEW! Pavel Shilllingovsky: Known and Unknown. Dedicated to the 130th anniversary of the artist’s birth. Graphics.

August 18 through October 4 NEW! East – West. Face to Face: Tatyana Feodorova. Photo. August 11 through September 6 Fates in World War II: Letters, Diaries, Reminiscences of Jewish soldiers in the Red Army. Objects, audio installations, photo, video art. From April 28. Closing date to be confirmed.

HISTORY OF ST. PETERSBURG MUSEUM: ST. PETERSBURG AVANT-GARDE MUSEUM (Mikhail Matyushin Apartment) 10 Professora Popova Ul. M: Petrogradskaya. Daily 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., Tuesday 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.

Closed Wednesday Mikhail Karasik: The Archaeology of the Avant-Garde. Objects. May 19 through September 19 Lyudmila Kutsenko Painting, graphics, collage. May 28 through August 28 HISTORY OF ST. PETERSBURG MUSEUM: RUMYANTSEV MANSION 44 Angliiskaya Naberezhnaya.

M: Vasileostrovskaya, Nevsky Prospekt.

Tel. 571 7544. Daily, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Tuesday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Closed Wednesday and the last Tuesday of each month.

KIROV APARTMENT MUSEUM 26/28 Kamennoostrovsky Prospekt.

M: Gorkovskaya, Petrogradskaya.

Tel. 346 0217. Daily 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Closed Wednesday.

KONSTANTINOVSKY PALACE 3 Beryozovaya Alleya, korp. 1, Strelna.

Tel. 438 5360. Daily, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Closed Wednesday.

ANASTASIA TSAIDER

ISAAK BRODSKY APARTMENT MUSEUM 3 Pl. Iskusstv. M: Nevsky Prospekt. Tel 314 3658. Daily 11 p.m. to 7 p.m. Closed Monday and Tuesday.

Images taken by young Russian photographers are on show through Sept. 2 at the Arts and Music Center located at 20 Nevsky Prospekt, marking the end of the first stage of this year’s program to develop young photographers. The exhibition is titled ‘Young Photography 2011. 1/2/ Margin.’

Between Life and Death. Interactive exhibition. Prolonged to September 1

The Dialogue: Sergei Filkin and Yelena Tkachenko. Sculpture, decorative art, objects. July 29 through August 25

MUSIC MUSEUM AT THE SHEREMETYEV PALACE 34 Nab. Reki Fontanki. Tel. 272 4441. Open Wednesday to Sunday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.

KUNSTKAMERA 3 Universitetskaya Nab. Tel. 328 1412. Daily, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Closed Monday and the last Thursday of each month. www.kunstkamera.ru MILITARY MEDICINE MUSEUM 2 Lazaretny Pereulok. M: Pushkinskaya.

Tel. 315 5358, 315 7287. Daily 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., Friday 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Closed Sunday.

Medicine of Height. Equipment for physiological research into animals and humans during space flights, prototypes of the first space life support systems, documents, photo.

April 12 through October 1

VLADIMIR NABOKOV APARTMENT MUSEUM 47 Bolshaya Morskaya. Tel. 315 4713, 717 4502. Daily 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Weekend 12 p.m. to 5 p.m. Closed Monday. www. nabokovmuseum.org The Warm: Sergei Rozhnov. Painting.

August 5 through August 28 NAVAL MUSEUM 2 Naberezhnaya Kryukova Kanala. The museum has not yet officially opened and does not yet have a telephone number or fixed opening hours. M. Sennaya Ploshchad.

POLITICAL HISTORY OF RUSSIA MUSEUM 2/4 Ulitsa Kuibysheva. M: Gorkovskaya. Tel: 233 7052. Daily, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Closed Thursday and the last Monday of the month.

NEW! August 1991. Photo, objects. August 20 through December 31 The Longest Day. June 22, 1941. Objects, installation. June 17 through December 31 June 22, 1941: At Dawn. Objects, photo.

June 17 through December 31 POLITICAL POLICE MUSEUM. 6 Admiralteisky Prospekt. M: Gostiny Dvor, Nevsky Prospekt. Tel. 312 2742. Daily 10 a.m. to 5.30 p.m. Closed Saturday, Sunday.

Intelligence and Counter-Intelligence in the U.S.S.R. from the 1940s to the 1990s. Objects, photo, documents. February 28 through August 31

ANNA BELOVA

POPOV CENTRAL MUSEUM OF COMMUNICATIONS 3 Pochtamtsky Pereulok. Tel. 323 9718. Daily 10.30 a.m. to 6 p.m. Closed Sunday, Monday and the last Thursday of each month. www.rustelecom-museum.ru The History of the Postal Service in Russia. Permanent exposition.

The Amsterdam-based international blues-rock band Mama’s Bad Boys will perform at Jagger on Wednesday, Aug. 17 and at JFC Jazz Club on Saturday, Aug. 20.

PUSHKIN APARTMENT MUSEUM 12 Nab. Reki Moika. Tel: 571 3801.

Daily 11 a.m. to 5.30 p.m. Closed Tuesday. www.peterlink.ru/spb/pushkin/ Alexander Pushkin. The Last Months of His Life. Installation. July 21 through January 20 2012.

RIMSKY-KORSAKOV APARTMENT MUSEUM 28 Zagorodny Prospekt, Courtyard.

M: Dostoyevskaya. Tel. 713 3208, 315 3975.

Daily 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Closed Monday, Tuesday and last Friday of each month.

NIKOLAI ROERICH APARTMENT MUSEUM 1 Line 18, V.O. Daily 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Closed Monday, Tuesday. Tel. 325 4413. www.roerich.spb.ru Nikolai Roerich and Ukraine. Objects.

June 3 through September 12 RUSSIAN ETHNOGRAPHIC MUSEUM 4/1 Inzhenernaya Ul. M: Nevsky Prospekt.

Tel. 313 4421. Daily, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Closed Monday and the last Friday of each month.

SMOLNY CATHEDRAL EXHIBITION HALL 3 Ploshchad Rastrelli. Tel: 710 3159.

Daily, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Closed Wednesday.

STATE HERMITAGE MUSEUM 34 Dvortsovaya Naberezhnaya. M: Nevsky Prospekt. Tel. 571 3420, 571 3465. Daily, 10.30 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday, 10.30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Closed Monday. www.hermitagemuseum.org/html_En/index. html Permanent Collection Three million items in six buildings along the Neva and around Palace Square. Unless otherwise stated, temporary exhibitions are displayed in the Winter Palace, the museum’s main building.

Dialogues. Baroque Art from the Museums of Andalusia. Photo, paintings.

June 25 through September 25.

Painting and Sculpture in Rome in the Second Half of the 18th Century. Painting, sculpture. June 25 through October 2.

Arabian Ways. Archaeological Treasures of Saudi Arabia. Installation. May 17 through September 5 Russian Lacquer Art in the 18th-20th centuries. Installation. May 13 through September 4 Surrealism in State Service: Henry Moore (U.K.) Graphics, sculpture. May 7 through September 4 STATE HERMITAGE MUSEUM: MENSHIKOV PALACE 15 Universitetskaya Nab. M: Vasileostrovskaya. Tel. 323 1112. Daily, 10.30 a.m. to 6 p.m. (5 p.m. Sunday). Closed Monday. A branch of the State Hermitage Museum.

STATE RUSSIAN MUSEUM 2 Inzhenernaya Ul. M: Nevsky Prospekt.

Tel. 314 3448, 595 4248. Monday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Wednesday through Sunday 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Closed Tuesday. www.rusmuseum.ru/eng

wednesday, august 17, 2011 21 tel. 314 80 81. www.nevsky8.com All of The Lights: Alexander Hollander.

Prints of old engravings by the Swiss master Matthews Marian using the light- diffractive technique. August 6 through September 5

Permanent Collection The world’s finest and most extensive collection of works by Russian artists, from 12th-century icons to some of the latest movements in contemporary art exhibited in the Mikhailovsky Palace and in associated buildings listed below.

NEW! Russian Art from 1950-2000. A new part of the permanent exposition.

Painting, graphics, sculpture. August 20 through December 31 NEW! Konstantin Korovin. Painting. August 10 through November 6 Outstanding Collectors of Folk Art. Objects, decorative art. July 21 through August 28

NEW HOLLAND ISLAND 2 Nab. Admiralteiskogo Kanala, M. Sennaya Pl., Sadovaya. Tel. 971 0510. Monday Wednesday 11 a.m. to 10 p.m., Thursday — Sunday 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. www.newhollandsp.ru NEW! Kite Weekend. Festival of kites and installations. August 20 through August 21 NEW MUSEUM GALLERY 29 6th Line of Vasilyevsky Island.

Tel. 323 5090. Daily 12 p.m. to 7 p.m. Closed Monday and Tuesday. M: Vasileostrovskaya. www.novymuseum.ru Moscow – Leningrad. Nonconformist Art from the 1950s to the 1970s. Painting, collage, graphics. July 16 through September 25

STATE RUSSIAN MUSEUM: MIKHAILOVSKY (ENGINEERS’) CASTLE 2 Sadovaya Ulitsa. M: Nevsky Prospekt.

Tel. 313 4112. Daily, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Monday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Closed Tuesday. A branch of the State Russian Museum.

NEW! Monotype. Graphics from the collection of the Russian Museum. August 24 through October 2 Ana Tzarev (U.S.) Painting. July 14 through October 2 STATE RUSSIAN MUSEUM: STROGANOV PALACE 17 Nevsky Prospekt. Tel. 571 2360. Daily, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Closed Tuesday. A branch of the State Russian Museum.

Birgit Freybe Bateman: Mindful Vision (Canada). Installation, photo. June 1 through August 29 THEATRICAL AND MUSICAL ART MUSEUM 6 Ostrovskogo Pl. Tel. 315 5243. Daily 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Wednesday 1 p.m. to 7 p.m.

Closed Tuesday.

Movement That Never Lies. Dedicated to 15 years of ballerina Diana Vishneva’s work.

Photo, objects. June 22 through August 28 TOY MUSEUM 32 Nab. Reki Karpovki. Entrance from Vsevolod Vishnevsky Ul. M: Petrogradskaya, Chkalovskaya. Tel. 234 4312. Daily, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Closed Monday and last Tuesday of the month.

The Toy For Me Is... Objects, decorative art, painting, sculpture, graphics. May 19 through September 11

GALLERIES AL GALLERY 3-5 Bolshaya Morskaya Ulitsa. Tel. 315 9999.

12 p.m. to 8 p.m. Closed Mondays. info@album-gallery.org; www.album-gallery.ru ANNA NOVA 28 Ulitsa Zhukovskogo, tel: 275 9762.

Tuesday-Saturday 12 a.m. to 7 p.m

KRISTINA MOSKVINA

STATE RUSSIAN MUSEUM: MARBLE PALACE 5/1 Millionnaya Ul. M: Nevsky Prospekt.

Tel. 312 9196. Daily, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. (5 p.m.

Monday). Closed Tuesday.

A branch of the State Russian Museum.

NEW! Hunting for Wolves: Grigory Dembovsky. Painting. August 11 through September 12 Trace of the Meteor. Art of the Northern peoples, 1920 to 1930. Sculpture, graphics, decorative art, photo. July 13 through October 2

Punk band PTVP, also known as Posledniye Tanki v Parizhe (Last Tanks in Paris), will perform at Zoccolo on Friday, Aug. 19 and Griboyedov on Saturday, Aug. 20. p.m. to 7 p.m. Closed Sunday and Monday. www.artreflex.ru ART SPB 33/8 Kuibysheva Ul., M. Gorkovskaya, tel. 237 1835. Daily, 11 a.m. to 8 p.m.

Closed Sunday.

Vivid Space. Alexei Smolovik, Vladimir Zagorov, Irina Annina, Julia Sopina.

Painting. May 19 through September 15 ARTISTS UNION OF RUSSIA EXHIBITION CENTER 38 Bolshaya Morskaya Ulitsa. Tel: 314 3060.

Daily, 1 p.m. to 7 p.m.

Samarskaya Luka. Painting, graphics.

August 3 through August 21 NEW! 30 Years of the Old City group.

Painting, graphics. August 23 through September 6 NEW! Oranienbaum Through the Perspective of Time. Painting, graphics.

August 23 through August 31 NEW! Mankind and Nature: Boris Khotin.

Caricature. August 15 through August 21 To 100 Years of Anatoly Yar-Kravchenko.

Painting, graphics. August 2 through August 21 BALTIC MEDIA CENTER 67 Kamennoostrovsky Prospekt. M: Petrogradskaya. Tel. 644 5019, 644 5020, www.baltinfo.ru BLUE HALL 38 Bolshaya Morskaya Ulitsa. Daily 12 p.m. to 7 p.m. Closed Monday. Tel. 315 7414, 994 2204.

BOOK AND GRAPHICS CENTER 55 Liteiny Prospekt. M: Mayakovskaya.

Tel. 273 5452. Daily 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.

Salvador Dali and Pablo Picasso.

Graphics and sculpture from Alexander Shardin’s collection. July 25 through September 25

ART RE.FLEX 5 Ulitsa Bakunina. Tel: 332 3343. Daily 12

KARL BULLA PHOTOSALON 54 Nevsky Prospekt, 3 floor, tel. 314 3301.

Daily 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.

BULTHAUP DESIGN GALLERY 2 Bolshaya Konyushennaya Ulitsa. Monday to Friday 11 a.m. to 8 p.m., Saturday to Sunday 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Tel. 336 3003. www.designgallery.ru/ Art Goes Outdoors: Anatoly Belkin.

Objects. June 15 through September 25 D-137 GALLERY 12 Zvenigorodskaya Ulitsa, 3rd floor.

M: Pushkinskaya. Tel. +7 981 687 6051.

Thursday — Saturday 3 p.m. to 8 p.m. www.d137.ru DIDI ART GALLERY 62 Bolshoi Prospekt of V.O., M: Vasileostrovskaya. Tel. 320 7357. Daily 12 p.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday, Sunday 12 p.m. to 7 p.m. http://didigallery.com ERARTA MUSEUM 2, 29th Line of Vasilyevsky Island, lit. A. M: Vasileostrovskaya. Tel. 324 0809.

Daily 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Closed Tuesday. www.erarta.com Fashion from the 1980s. Dresses, accessories and photos from the collection of Alexander Vasiliev. July 12 through August 28 NEW! Samara Landing. Frol Vesely, ChZhNS art group, Yevgeny Chertoplyasov, Alisa Nikolayeva and others. Painting, objects, installation, videoart, performance. August 19 through September 25 GUILD OF MASTERS 82 Nevsky Prospekt. M: Gostiny Dvor.

Tel. 579 0979. Daily 12 p.m. to 8 p.m.

NEW! Alexander Volkov. Objects. August 16 through September 15

ARKA 6 Bolshaya Morskaya Ulitsa, M: Nevsky Prospekt. Tel. 312 4012. Daily 12 p.m. to 9 p.m.

ART CENTER PUSHKINSKAYA 10 Galleries open from 3 p.m. through 7 p.m.

Closed Mondays and Tuesdays. Entrance at 53 Ligovsky Prospekt. Tel: 764 5371 http://en.p-10.ru/ Art-Bureau Gallery Art-Liga Gallery GEZ-21 Outbuilding B, 3 Floor. Tel. 764 5258, Daily 3 p.m. to midnight.

Kino-FOT-703 Office 703. Tel. 764 5353.

Navicula Artis gallery. Tel. 764 5371, Wednesday-Sunday, 3 p.m. to 7 p.m.

New Academy of Fine Arts Museum.

Room 405. Tel. 272 8222. Saturday 6 p.m. to 7 p.m.

Nonconformist Art Museum. Floor 4.

Tel. 764 5371. Wednesday through Sunday 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. www.nonmuseum.ru/ PHOTOImage Office 1. Tel. 764 5371.

Saturday 4 p.m. to 7 p.m.

St. Petersburg Archive and Library of Independent Art Tel. 272 8222. Monday and Saturday 3 p.m. to 6 p.m.

BOREY 58 Liteiny Prospekt. M: Vladimirskaya, Mayakovskaya. Tel. 273 3693. Tuesday Saturday 12 p.m. to 8 p.m. www.borey.ru NEW! Armor Bo: Murad GaukhmanSverdlov. Painting. August 9 through August 20

IFA EXHIBITION HALL 60 Nevsky Prospekt, tel. 571 0315.

Daily 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. Closed Sunday, Monday JAM HALL GALLERY AT PETROGRADSKAYA 42 Kamennoostrovsky Prospekt, M: Petrogradskaya, tel. 703 7414

Works by the Croatian photographer Stanko Abadzic are on display at the City Sculpture Museum from Aug. 22 through Sept. 25.

KRASNOYE ZNAMYA (RED BANNER) FACTORY 24 Bolshaya Raznochinnaya Ul. M. Chkalovskaya. Daily 3 p.m. to 9 p.m.

NEW! A Picture of the New World. Part of the Petersburg Graffiti-2011 festival.

Installation. Igor Yanovsky, Stas Bags, Stas Jimer, Zhenya Pacer, Pasha Roof, Sasha Trun, Maxim Ima and others. Graffiti. August 15 through August 18 NEW! Evan Root (U.S.) Master-class.

Performances. Part of the Petersburg Graffiti-2011 festival. August 17. Time: 3 p.m. to 10 p.m.

KREMLIN GALLERY 3 Telezhny boulevard. M: Ploshchad

Vosstaniya, Ploshchad Alexandra Nevskogo.

Tel. 640 2401, 640 6829. Open Monday to Saturday, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. www.kremlingallery.ru KVADRAT 28 Ulitsa Kuibysheva, M. Gorkovskaya.

Tel. 232 1238. Wednesday through Saturday 2 p.m. to 7 p.m.

SERGEI KURYOKHIN CONTEMPORARY ART CENTER 93 Sredny Prospekt, V.O. Tel. 322 4223.

Daily 12 p.m. to 12 a.m. www.kuryokhin.ru LAZAREV GALLERY 6 Line of Vasilyevsky Island, 5/5.

Tel. 328 2222. M: Vasileostrovskaya. www.ivan-slavinsky.com. Daily 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Closed Monday. Free entrance.

LOFT-PROJECT ETAZHI 74 Ligovsky Prospekt. Tel. 339 9836.

Daily 12 a.m. to 10 p.m.

Comme des Garcons. Clothing. July 26 through August 21 FORMULA GALLERY. Tel. 458 5005 FOTOWALL GALLERY. NEW! Brittle Truths: Misha Burlatsky. Photo. Daily 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. Tel. 611 0166. August 23 through September 23 MANEZH CENTRAL EXHIBITION HALL 1 Isaakievskaya Pl. M: Nevsky Prospekt.

Tel. 314 8859. Daily, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.

Closed Thursday MANEZH CENTRAL EXHIBITION HALL, SMALL HALL 103 Nab. Canala Griboyedova. Tel. 312 2243.

Daily, 1 p.m. to 8 p.m.

MANSARD OF ARTISTS 7 Bolshaya Pushkarskaya Ul. Tel. 988 7788.

Daily 12 a.m. to 8 p.m. www.art-mx.ru NEW! Rough Petersburg: Anatoly Sivkov.

Painting. August 10 through September 10 MART GALLERY 35 Ul. Marata. Tel. 710 8835, 315 2738. M: Vladimirskaya, Dostoyevskaya. Daily 12 a.m. to 7 p.m. Closed Sunday, Monday MAYAKOVSKY LIBRARY 46 Nab. Reki Fontanki. Entrance through the courtyard. Tel. 571 0856 Young Photo. ½ 2011. Photo. July 29 through August 29 MOKHOVAYA 18 GALLERY 18 Mokhovaya Ul. M: Chernyshevskaya.

Daily 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Closed Sunday, Monday. Tel. 275 3383. www.gm18.ru NEW! Peredvizhniki. Painting. August 16 through August 18 MOSKOVSKY DISTRICT EXHIBITION HALL 6 Pl. Chernyshevskogo, M. Park Pobedy. Tel. 388 3984. Tuesday through Friday, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Weekend 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Closed Monday.

NEW! Nina Chumachenko. Decorative art, installation. August 10 through August 27 NEW! Elvira Melikyan. Painting. August 10 through August 27 NEVSKY 8 EXHIBITION HALL 8 Nevsky Prospekt. Daily 11 a.m. to 9 p.m.,

PHOTODEPARTMENT GALLERY 32 Nevsky Prospekt. Tel. 314 5925, +7 901 301 7994. M: Gostiny Dvor. www.fotodepartament.ru.

Closed Wednesday and Sunday.

PROTVOR 14/16 Italianskaya Ulitsa, 6th floor, apartment 40. Tel. +7 911 784 9082. Thursday to Saturday, 3 p.m. to 8 p.m. by advance appointment.

Gora Mugak! Igor “Dizebi” Rezola.

Graffiti. July 1 through September 24 RAKHMANINOV ART WAY 5 Kazanskaya Ulitsa, Second Courtyard, tel.

571 7618. Daily 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.

RAKHMANINOV HOTEL 5 Kazanskaya Ul. Tel. 327 7466. www.kazansky5.com RIZZORDI ART FOUNDATION 49a Kurlyandskaya Ulitsa. M: Baltiiskaya.

Tel. 702 9062. www.rizzordi.org ROSPHOTO STATE CENTER OF PHOTOGRAPHY 35 Bolshaya Morskaya Ulitsa. Tel. 314 6184, 314 1214. Daily, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. www.rosfoto.org Languages of Contemporary Photo Printing. Italian photographs printed using new technologies. July 8 through September 7 Spanish Cinema. Photo. July 28 through September 4 DMITRY SEMENOV GALLERY 63 Ligovsky Prospekt, apartment 19.

Daily 12 a.m. to 8 p.m. Closed Sunday, Monday. Tel. 575 8323, +7 911 998 6673.

SMOLNY CATHEDRAL EXHIBITION HALL 3 Ploshchad Rastrelli. Tel: 314 2168.

Daily, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.

NEW! The Curiosity of Elephants: Igor Zharkov. Painting. August 12 through September 10 MIKHAIL SHEMYAKIN FOUNDATION 11 Sadovaya Ul. M: Gostiny Dvor.

Tel. 310 2514. Tuesday — Thursday 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Monsters. Mythological Characters.

Graphics, objects, sculpture. May 3 through August 28 ST.ART ACADEMY GALLERY 1 Ulitsa Lomonosova. M: Nevsky Prospekt, Gostiny Dvor. Tel. 314 2627, 314 9787. Daily 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. www.startacademy.ru ST. PETERSBURG ARTISTS’ MUSEUMEXHIBITION CENTER 1 Ulitsa Glinki. Tel. 314 0609. Daily 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Closed Monday, Tuesday. www.piter-art.com STARAYA KOLOMNA LIBRARY-MUSEUM 168 Naberezhnaya Kanala Griboedova.

M: Sennaya, Sadovaya. Tel. 714 7486. Daily 12 a.m. to 7 p.m., Saturday 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. www.starayakolomna.narod.ru/INDEX.htm TOLSTOY SQUARE COMPLEX 9 Ulitsa Lva Tolstogo. M: Petrogradskaya.

Tel. +7 (921) 928 9619.

Daily 11 a.m. to 8 p.m.

The Human Body: The Dead Teach the Living. Pathology. Through September 30 TRETYAKOV GALLERY 2 Pionerskaya Ul., M: Sportivnaya.

Tel. 233 1007. Open Tuesday to Friday, 12 p.m. to 7.30 p.m., 1 p.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday.

ZOOM CAFE-CLUB 22 Gorokhovaya Ul., tel. 448 5001. Daily, 9 a.m. to 12 a.m. Sunday 1 p.m. to 10 p.m.

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Russian Fishing. Yuzhnaya Doroga, 15 Saint-Petersburg. Nab. Kanala Griboedova, 5 Sbarro. Nevsky Pr., 42 Seventh Sky Bar. Nevsky Pr., 44 Shamrock. Ul. Dekabristov, 27 Sharlotcafe. Kazanskaya Ul., 2 Shater. Italyanskaya Ul., 2 Sherlok Pub. Ul. Marata, 47 Shogun. Ul. Vosstaniya, 26 Shvabsky domik. Novocherkassky Pr., 19 Staraya Tamozhnya. Tamozhenny Per., 1 Stroganoff. Konnogvardeisky Bul., 4 Subway. Ul. Tchaikovskogo, 63 Sushi Planet. Nevsky Pr., 94 Taleon Nab. Reki Moiki, 59 Tandoor. Voznesensky Pr., 2 Teplo. Bolshaya Morskaya Ul., 45 Tequila-Boom. Voznesensky Pr., 57/127 Terrassa. Kazanskaya Ul., 3 Testo. Kazanskaya Ul., 21 The Office. Ul. Kazanskaya, 5 The Other Side Gastro Bar. Bolshaya Konyushennaya Ul., 1 Tinkoff. Kazanskaya Ul., 7 Tranzit Bar. Nevsky Pr., 85A Walhall. Nevsky Pr., 22/24 Zoom. Gorokhovaya Ul., 22 BUSINESS CENTERS Europa House. Artilleryskaya Ul., 1 Goldex. Ul. Shpalernaya, 36 Gustaf. Sredny Pr., 38 ICDS. Pl. Proletarskoy Dictatury, 6 Magnus. 9 liniya V.O., 34 Moskovsky. Moskovsky Pr., 212 Neptun. Nab. Obvodnogo Kanala, 93A Nevsky, 30. Nevsky Pr., 30 Nevsky, 32/34. Nevsky Pr., 32/34 Nevsky, 38. Nevsky Pr., 38 Northern Capital. Nab. Reki Moiki, 36 NRK. Kaluzhsky Per., 3 Oscar. Nab. Reri Fontanki, 13 Pulkovo Sky. Vnukovskaya Ul., 2 Purneco Limited. Ul. Zhukovskogo, 63 Regus. Pirogovskaya Nab., 9 Renaissance House. 2 Sovetskaya Ul., 17

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Preobrazhenskaya Pl., 4 General Consulate of France. Nab. Reki Moiki, 15 General Consulate of Germany. Furshtatskaya Ul., 39 General Consulate of Great Britain.

Pl. Proletarskoy Dictatury, 5 General Consulate of Greece.

Pr. Chernyshevskogo, 17 General Consulate of India. Ul. Ryleeva, 35 General Consulate of Italy. Teatralnaya Pl., 10 General Consulate of Netherlands. Nab. Reki Moiki, 11 General Consulate of Norway. Nevsky Pr., 25 General Consulate of Republic of Korea.

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Obama Fences, Parries on Midwest Tour European T H E A S S O C I AT E D P R E S S

DECORAH, Iowa — President Barack Obama’s Midwestern tour is offering a mix of offense and defense that signals both his governing approach for the remainder of his term and the evolution of a campaign message for his re-election bid.

Obama is determined to use the reach of his office to build public pressure on Republicans to move his way on economic and fiscal policies, to counterpunch against the GOP presidential field, and to argue for his presidency with independent voters and rekindle enthusiasm among Democrats.

On Tuesday, the second day of a three-day bus tour, he was spending the day promoting rural economic policies, among the series of remedies he is pushing to fire up anemic job growth.

But the measures are targeted, such as making it easier for rural businesses to get access to capital, and far more modest than the ambitious $821 billion stimulus package he pushed through Congress in 2009 when unemployment was rising but still below the current 9.1 percent level.

The president began with an early morning workout at a Decorah gym and later chatted with a few locals outside his hotel before getting on the bus to his next event, a White House Rural Economic Forum at Northeast Iowa Community College in Peosta.

“Welcome to the 50s,” one man told Obama, who hit the half-century mark with his birthday this month. Obama pointed to the man’s gray hair and said: “I’m catching up to you.”

The president’s agenda of the day was proposals to help farm regions, including some ideas that are already under way and do not require additional government spending.

More broadly, his economic message illustrates his current dilemma.

Republicans control the House and believe that addressing the nation’s long-term debt will have a positive effect on the economy; they have no appetite for major spending initiatives aimed at spurring a recovery.

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Barack Obama speaks during a Rural Economic Forum on Tuesday in Peosta, Iowa, during his three-day bus tour.

Embracing that demand for fiscal discipline, Obama has called for both spending cuts and increases in revenue, but he found few takers for that formula during the contentious debate this summer over raising the nation’s debt ceiling.

With echoes of Harry Truman’s 1948 campaign against a “do-nothing” Congress, Obama encouraged audiences at town hall meetings Monday in Minnesota and Iowa to rise up against congressional inaction.

“If your voices are heard, then sooner or later these guys have to start paying attention,” he said. “And if they don’t start paying attention then they’re not going to be in office and we will have a new Congress in there that will start paying attention to what is going on all across America.”

The proposals include targeting

Small Business Administration loans to rural small businesses, expanding job training to Agriculture Department field offices and recruiting more doctors for small rural hospitals.

Though classified by the White House as an official presidential trip, the tour’s first day had the distinct feel of a campaign excursion. The president’s motorcade, at times numbering nearly 30 vehicles, rumbled over 160 miles through small towns and cornfields in southern Minnesota and northern Iowa. Its most prominent feature was the president’s bus — not the colorful transports of campaigns, but a dark, imposing vehicle recently purchased for $1.1 million by the Secret Service.

Obama’s rhetoric had a campaign pulse as well.

He attacked the Republican presi-

dential field, recalling a moment in last week’s GOP presidential debate when all eight of the candidates said they would refuse to support a budget deal with tax increases, even if tax revenues were outweighed 10-to-1 by spending cuts.

“That’s just not common sense,” Obama told the crowd at a town hallstyle meeting in Cannon Falls, Minn.

He took a shot at GOP front-runner, Mitt Romney, though not by name, over the health care system he instituted while governor of Massachusetts that is similar to the Obama-backed federal law that Republicans now oppose.

“You’ve got a governor who’s running for president right now who instituted the exact same thing in Massachusetts,” the president said. “It’s like they got amnesia.”

Police Charge Teenager With London Riots Murder T H E A S S O C I AT E D P R E S S

LONDON — A 16-year-old boy was ordered Tuesday to stand trial for the murder of a retiree attacked when he confronted rioters in London, as British judges and prosecutors used tough punishment and name-and-shame tactics against hundreds of alleged participants in the mayhem.

The government said police would get better training and stronger powers to deal with a new and unpredictable era of street disturbances.

“We will make sure police have the powers they need,” said Home Secretary Theresa May — including, she suggested, the power to impose blanket curfews in troubled areas.

A teenager, who has not been named because of his age, appeared in court Tuesday accused of killing 68year-old Richard Bowes, who was found lying in a street during violence in Ealing, west London, on Aug. 8.

CCTV footage captured Bowes being punched and falling to the pavement after he tried to stamp out a fire set by rioters. He died of head injuries three days later.

The suspect, dressed in a black shirt and with his arms crossed, was charged with murder, violent disorder and the burglary of a bookmakers, a supermarket, a video store and a restaurant.

He did not enter a plea and was ordered detained as he awaits trial at the Central Criminal Court.

The boy’s 31-year-old mother has been charged with obstructing the police investigation. She was also denied bail.

Police have arrested more than 3,000 people over riots that erupted Aug. 6 in north London and flared for four nights across the capital and other English cities.

And about 1,400 have been charged with riot-related offenses. More than 1,200 have appeared in court — often in chaotic, round-the clock-sessions dispensing justice that is swifter, and harsher, than usual.

Although public opinion favors stern punishment for rioters, a few cases have made headlines and sparked debate. A London man received six months in jail for stealing a case of water worth 3.50 pounds ($5) from a looted supermarket. A Manchester mother of two who did not take part in the riots was sentenced to five months for wearing a pair of looted shorts her roommate had brought home.

Most of the convicted suspects have been sent for sentencing to higher courts which have the power to impose longer terms of imprisonment. Twothirds of the accused have not been granted bail. The usual rate for the magistrates’ courts hearing their cases is 10 percent.

Although Prime Minister David Cameron said last week that those who participated in the riots should go to

prison, the government denied trying to influence the judiciary.

The courts service said “sentencing is a matter for the independent judiciary,” though it acknowledged that magistrates in London were being told by their legal advisers “to consider whether their powers of punishment are sufficient in dealing with some cases arising from the recent disorder.”

May, the home secretary, said she had pressed prosecutors to lift anonymity from underage defendants convicted of riot-related offenses. Defendants under 18 are customarily offered anonymity by law, even if they are convicted.

Five people died during the unrest, including three men hit by a car in Birmingham, central England as they protected local shops from looters. Two men and a teenage boy have been charged with murdering Haroon Jahan, 20, and brothers Shazad Ali, 30, and Abdul Musavir, 31.

Several suspects have also been questioned about the death of a man who was shot in the head during rioting in south London.

The Association of British Insurers has estimated the cost from wrecked and stolen property at 200 million pounds ($326 million) but expects the total to rise.

Police were criticized for responding too slowly, particularly in London, but eventually deployed huge numbers

of officers at riot zones to quell the mayhem.

May said Britain had entered a “faster moving and more unpredictable” era of public order policing, and promised forces would get new instructions about training riot officers and responding to trouble, as well as new powers.

“Under existing laws, there is no power to impose a general curfew in a particular area,” May said, adding that a change to that policy would be considered.

Civil liberties groups condemned the idea. Isabella Sankey, director of policy for the rights group Liberty, said curfews would be of little use during riots.

“Someone who thinks it is fine to commit violence, theft and criminal damage is hardly going to take notice of a police request to kindly leave the area,” she said.

The government has already floated a raft of new powers, including allowing police to order anyone suspected of being a thug to remove their mask or hood, evicting troublemakers from subsidized housing and temporarily disabling cell phone instant messaging services.

Cameron has said he will consult former Los Angeles, New York and Boston Police Chief William Bratton on gang-fighting techniques.

PARIS — The leaders of Germany and France met Tuesday to discuss Europe’s debt crisis as new figures show their economies stalled even before the latest bout of turmoil struck financial markets.

The meeting between Angela Merkel and Nicolas Sarkozy in Paris comes after a week of huge turbulence in financial markets, largely blamed on Europe’s sprawling government debts and worries that European leaders aren’t doing enough to address them.

Economic growth in the 17 countries that use the euro sagged to a lackluster quarterly rate of 0.2 percent in the second quarter, as a previously robust expansion in Germany and France almost ground to a halt, according to figures from Eurostat, the EU’s statistics office.

Europe’s sagging growth prospects complicate the debt crisis, because slower growth makes it even harder for governments to shrink debt. Less growth in Germany and France — the two economic heavyweights of the eurozone — makes it harder for those countries to serve as creditors and back increased bailouts, while a slower economy also shrinks potential export markets for countries, like Greece, mired in recession.

“The longer the sovereign debt market remains stressed, the greater will be the damage to the wider economy,” said Lloyd Barton, senior economic advisor to Ernst & Young. “A further deterioration in financial conditions could severely damage the outlook for the whole of the eurozone.”

The downbeat growth news weighed on markets, and provided yet more evidence that the global economy is slowing down sharply, following disappointing second-quarter growth figures from the United States.

Financial markets have been hugely volatile of late, partly over fears that Italy and Spain, the eurozone’s third and fourth largest economies, may find it too expensive to service their debts.

Those concerns triggered last week’s intervention in the bond markets from the ECB, which has increasingly stepped in as Europe scrambles.

France and Germany, which together account for almost half of the eurozone’s economic output, are taking the lead in pushing for reforms. But, speculation that the two leaders would consider proposals for the eurozone to issue jointly guaranteed government debt appear to have been dashed, with officials for both sides indicating that would not be on the agenda.

Germany has remained firm in its stance that other EU countries must exert more fiscal discipline.

Though officials for both Merkel and Sarkozy have said eurobonds would not be on the agenda, analysts think Tuesday’s meeting could set the stage for future political decisions about the euro and European integration.

“Markets have high hopes and few expectations,” said Marc Ostwald, a strategist with Monument Securities.

“They hope that there’s something that will reassure and show decisive leadership.”

That something, he suggested, could be a step toward creating a watchdog that would eventually oversee the implementation of eurobonds.

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