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Top news from St.Petersburg
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January 17, 2001
Federal center to fund construction of the ring road circling St. Petersburg
President Vladimir Putin has raised the status of St. Petersburg's project to build the ring road circling the city to the level of Russia's most prominent construction plans. At a recent meeting with top government officials and St. Petersburg governor Yakovlev President Putin confirmed his commitment to allocate federal funding to speed up the building of the circular highway system to divert traffic around St. Petersburg and announced he was taking the project under his personal control.
January 17, 2001
The festival of belarus culture opens in Moscow
President of the former Soviet Republic of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko and Russian President Vladimir Putin attended yesterday the ceremony of the opening of the festival of Belarus Culture in Moscow's Bolshoi Theatre, the large-scale cultural action aimed at highlighting the common cultural and historic heritage of the two Slavic countries. During his brief visit to Moscow President Lukashenko also met with top Russian government officials to discuss the process of the integration of Russia and Belarus into one state.
January 17, 2001
St. Petersburg is a city with a low infant mortality rate
Mortality rate among newborn in St. Petersburg is two times lower then an average infant mortality rate in Russia. No more than eight of every thousand babies born in St. Petersburg die in infancy, according to the City Hall's Health Committee. St. Petersburg health officials attribute the low infant mortality rate to the fact that local administration regards the program of the protection of mothers and newborn babies as one of its priorities.
January 17, 2001
Exhibition of folk art objects made by women- convicts opens in St. Petersburg
A folk art exhibition-fair has opened at the Dostoyevsky Memorial Museum in St. Petersburg. The exhibition features ceramic plates, wooden dolls, embroidery , tapestries and various adornments created by inmates of the women's prison in the town of Sablino, near St. Petersburg. The exhibition has been arranged by the Center of Women's Initiatives, a charitable organization which two years ago set up a program of training women-convicts in folk crafts. Funds collected at the exhibition will be used for buying food and medications for the inmates of the women's prison.
January 17, 2001
Russian polar researches prepared for the new expedition
The procession of caterpillar tractors which delivered fuel, equipment and food supplies to researchers working at the Russia's Vostok station in Antarctica, left the station yesterday. The tractors are expected to cover the 1,500 kilometers across the polar region from the Vostok station to Russia's Mirny Observatory located on the ocean shore area in 25 days. Participants of the new 46th Russian Antarctic Expedition are scheduled to leave St. Petersburg on board the Academic Fyodorov boat on March 5.
January 15, 2001
Russia's prosecutor general is concerned with corruption in high echelons of state power
Russia's Prosecutor General Vladimir Ustinov is concerned with the large scale of corruption in high echelons of state power in Russia. "Practically all over the country federal and regional elite maintains close ties with financial-industrial groups and criminal gangs" the Prosecutor General was quoted as telling a recent meeting of state prosecutors in Moscow. Mr. Ustinov also noted that about 50 percent of Russian economy "stays in the shadow" (i.e. operates illegally, without paying taxes).
January 15, 2001
St. Petersburg deepens ties with helsinki
St. Petersburg governor Vladimir Yakovlev and Helsinki Mayor Eva-Riita Siitonen signed the protocol on cooperation between St. Petersburg and Helsinki for the period of 2001 through 2003. Among the priorities in the relationship of the two cities is protection of the environment, electrical energy, transport, culture and exchange of experience in the area of city administration. The capital city of Finland is planning to take part in preparations to the 300th anniversary of St. Petersburg to be celebrated in 2003.
January 15, 2001
Maestro gergiev receives a german order for merit
Eminent Russian conductor and artistic director of St. Petersburg's Mariinsky Opera and Ballet Theatre Valery Gergiev has been awarded the First Degree Cross of the Order for Merit by the Federal Republic of Germany for his contribution in the development of Russian-German relations. Valery Gergiev has been actively popularizing music by German composers in Russia, he has renewed the pre-Bolshevik Revolution tradition of performing Wagner in the Mariinsky Theatre and is planning to stage all of Wagner's operas in St. Petersburg.
January 15, 2001
St. Petersburg's musical comedy theatre goes on tour to Russian north
Stars of St. Petersburg's Musical Comedy Theatre went on a two-week tour to Russian northern city of Murmansk (located behind the polar circle). In the program of the tour are classical operettas as well as American musicals and theatre's recent premiere of "Hallo, We Are From Odessa", a production dedicated to the 100th birth anniversary of famous Soviet composer Isaac Dunayevsky. Musical Comedy Theatre's artistic director Alexander Belinsky began his career 50 years ago in Murmansk as an actor in a local theatre.
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