St Petersburg

Wednesday 15th December

St Petersburg's tower vertical defeated. For now...

Mikhail Zakharov, 15 December 2010

The Okhta Centre protestors have achieved the relocation of the project to another part of St Petersburg. But it will be built, as will the much protested motorway through Khimki Forest, maintains Mikhail Zakharov. Protest movements are facing the serious possibility of running out of steam.

Thursday 8th July

Poetry in pictures: a film about Joseph Brodsky

Natalia Rulyova, 8 July 2010

Andrei Khrzhanovskii’s recent Russian film about the poet Joseph Brodsky evokes elements of his childhood, internal exile and emigration with history and stunning footage of St Petersburg. But above all, it is an homage, a cinematic celebration of his poetry

Tuesday 9th February

France approves sale of high-tech warship to Russia

Dries Belet, 9 February 2010

International concern about sale of French amphibious warship to Russia. US aims for new sanctions on Iran “within weeks”. 197 people indicted for murder over Philippine massacre. Sir Lankan opposition leader treated “like an animal”. All this and much more in today’s security briefing.

Thursday 3rd December

Moscow calling! St Petersburg loses its TV

Dmitri Travin, 3 December 2009

Control of St.Petersburg’s television station, once free-thinking and vibrant, has been handed to producers from Moscow. Considered by Russians to be the country’s cultural capital, it will once more become the provincial city it was in Soviet times, says Dmitry Travin.