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САНКТ-ПЕТЕРБУРГ-ТАЙМС
W E D N E SD AY, AUG UST 2 7 , 2014
W W W. S P T I M E S . R U
ANNA VOLKOVA
N O . 34 (1826)
LAST DAYS
A rainbow cuts through the city’s gray skies over the Lieutenant Schmidt Embankment on the weekend, providing some color to the recent dreary weather. Despite there still being
a few days left of summer, cooler, wetter weather has already set in, with the forecast predicting daily rain through to the weekend. Ah, farewell summer — we will miss you!
LOCAL NEWS
NATIONAL NEWS
Protesters
Clash Over
Ukraine
Convoys Spotted
Supporters confronted
during a rally on Ukraine’s
independence day. Page 2.
Accusations of Russia sending
weapons continues. Page 3.
ARTS & CULTURE
Celebrating 20
Years of Rock
Preparations are in full swing
for the legendary club’s big
birthday bash. Page 9.
LocalNews
www.sptimes.ru | Wednesday, August 27, 2014
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Attacks Disrupt Local Pro-Ukrainian Rally
By Sergey Chernov
A reporter received a concussion as
dozens of pro-Kremlin protesters wearing the black and orange St. George
ribbon were seen assaulting demonstrators at a rally in support of Ukraine
on Ukraine’s independence day in central St. Petersburg on Sunday.
Arseny Vesnin, a reporter with the
St. Petersburg branch of the liberal radio station Ekho Moskvy, was briefly
hospitalized after he was kicked by a
man at the protest — organized by the
Democratic St. Petersburg movement
— on the corner Malaya Sadovaya
Ulitsa and Nevsky Prospekt, St. Petersburg’s main throughway.
Speaking to The St. Petersburg
Times this week, Vesnin said that a
man — who earlier verbally assaulted
him and other people — kicked his tablet computer, which bounced and hit
him in the face. According to Vesnin,
he was hit as he was preparing to write
a post on Twitter. Later, Vesnin was
taken to a hospital, where he was diagnosed with a “closed head injury.”
The incident was also caught on a
video, showing the man kicking Vesnin,
knocking his computer, microphone
and spectacles on the ground, and then
immediately denying the attack as the
protesters appealed to the police. “Stop
lying,” the attacker said to Vesnin in
the video. “It’s their working tactic,” he
then said to the police.
The attacker, who was detained,
turned out to be Sergei Smirnov, a 49year-old activist with the National
Liberation Movement (NOD), a proPutin movement led by the State Duma’s United Russia deputy Yevgeny
Fyodorov.
In his explanatory notes to the police
published on the Ekho Moskvy website,
Smirnov wrote that Vesnin provoked
him and that he “brushed against” the
tablet by accident while trying to protect
himself from the reporter, who was allegedly sticking the microphone with
the Ekho Moskvy logo in his face.
Smirnov was charged with “disorderly
conduct,” a minor offense punishable
with a fine of up to 1,000 rubles ($28) or
a prison sentence for up to 15 days.
According to Vesnin, the police appeared reluctant to detain anti-Ukrainian
counter-protesters and reacted only to
actual beatings. “I think they were not
ANNA VOLKOVA
T H E S T. P E T E R S B U R G T I M E S
Pro-Ukraine protesters celebrated the country’s 23rd anniversary of its independence from the U.S.S.R. Sunday afternoon.
very eager even to detain Smirnov, and
did it only after I and everybody else
started shouting that a journalist got
kicked in the face,” he said.
During the protest, aggressive counter-demonstrators hurled insults at proUkrainian protesters, calling them
“fascists,” “traitors,” and the “fifth column,” pushing them as well as seizing
and tearing up placards. At least one
placard was burnt on the site.
“The people with St. George’s ribbons insulted people, shouted ‘Maidan
won’t pass’ and ‘Russia! Russia!’ effectively staging a public rally, but nobody
wanted to detain them,” Vesnin said.
“That’s why I went to the police: not
because I am mad that someone hit me
in the face, it’s something that I could
survive without making a fuss. But the
point is that I was attacked as a journalist, and a journalist with Ekho
Moskvy. If you don’t like the media
outlet where a journalist works, does it
really mean that you should hit him in
the face? It’s inadmissible.
“And the main thing is that I hope
to draw attention to the fact that these
people with St. George ribbons, these
activists, have become totally brazen;
they fight in full daylight on the city’s
main street and attack their ideological
opponents, who stand peacefully, and
they’re totally confident of their impunity as the [anti-Ukrainian] hysteria
gets stronger in the media. What happened [on Sunday] is the next stage of
the brutalization, the next stage of the
split in the society.”
The St. George ribbon was introduced in 2005 as an alleged public initiative to commemorate the feats of the
Russians in World War II, but it has also
been used as a sign of support for pro-
Russian insurgents fighting in eastern
Ukraine. The ribbon, consisting of a
black and orange pattern, is also used in
the logo and as the flag of the NOD
movement that most of the counter-demonstrators were reported to belong to.
“The NOD is the Kremlin’s organization, it’s headed by deputy Fyodorov,” Vesnin said.
“I think they receive certain instructions. It’s perfectly clear why they came
to Malaya Sadovaya. It’s not because
they wanted to stage their own rally, but
they obviously came to break up the
rally in support of Ukrainian unity.”
Organizer Natalya Tsymbalova, an
activist with the Democratic St. Petersburg movement, said that the attacks
were deliberately misrepresented in
the pro-Kremlin media as the reaction
of “ordinary St. Petersburg residents”
to a pro-Ukrainian event.
“I want to stress that it was not just
passing pedestrians who saw us and decided to oppose us, they were organized provocateurs,” Tsymbalova told
The St. Petersburg Times this week.
“The activists who stood with placards at a distance from Malaya Sadovaya said it was much quieter there.
I was even told that more people supported them than opposed them. I find
it hard to believe this though because
where I stood it was a complete hell.
However, we did have several people
break through this shouting crowd to
support and thank us.”
Zenit Wins Fifth Straight League Game
By Gus Peters
Zenit St. Petersburg maintained their
perfect start to the Russian Premier
League with an easy 2-0 win over Amkar
Perm on Aug. 23. First half goals from
Russian midfielder Oleg Shatov and Brazilian forward Hulk were enough as the
team stayed at the top of the league table
with five wins in their first five games.
Hulk set up the first goal in the 13th
minute after playing the ball through a
gap in Amkar’s defensive line, allowing
an onrushing Shatov to control it with
his chest and shoot it low from a tight
angle past Amkar’s goalkeeper.
The Brazilian added his name to the
score sheet in the 22nd minute after
running through the midfield, playing
and receiving a pass from Portuguese
midfielder Danny before smashing the
ball into the top of the net.
“I think that this was a great performance today,” Portuguese manager
Andre Villas-Boas told the club’s English-language website following the
win. “Amkar has been excellent on defense and so it wasn’t easy for us to find
space for the attack, but nonetheless
we were able to play our game.”
The win was the club’s second in
four days after they won 1-0 in Belgium
against Standard Liege in the first leg
of their UEFA Champions League
playoff on Aug. 20. Shatov was the
hero then too as his first half goal was
the deciding moment. The Aug. 23 win
was notable for several reasons asides
from continuing the club’s strong start
to the 2014-15 season. The game was the
first of the season to allow spectators to
watch in the stadium after the club was
punished for the behavior of unruly fans
at the end of last year with a two-match
ban on spectators attending. The Aug.
23 game also featured the premiere of
new signing Javi Garcia, a Spanish midfielder signed last week from Manchester City.
The virazh, Zenit’s largest fan section,
remained closed during the game and
will remain so for another two league
matches, both against rival clubs Dynamo Moscow and Spartak Moscow.
ALL ABOUT TOWN
Wednesday, Aug. 27
Ivan A. Boltenkov, First Deputy
Chairman of the St. Petersburg Committee on Tariffs, is the featured guest
at AmCham’s Manufacturing Committee Meeting this morning at 11 a.m.
The meeting will take place in AmCham’s office in the New St. Isaac Office Center on Ulitsa Yakubovicha.
Thursday, Aug. 28
Learn more about the city’s upcoming
municipal elections during the presentation of the project “Road Map for the
Municipal Elections” being presented
this evening in the conference hall on
the third floor of Biblioteka at 21
Nevsky Prospekt. Steve Kaddins, a coordinator for Beautiful St. Petersburg,
which gives residents an online forum to
lodge complaints about infrastructure
problems in the city, will be on hand to
answer any questions. The meeting
starts at 7 p.m. and is open to all.
Friday, Aug. 29
Park Pobedy will feature the sights
and sounds of the world outside of
Russia during the Open Art International Festival today. Taste foreign
cuisine, learn how to make tea like
the Chinese or relax in a hammock
during the free event. Although entrance is free, you must register beforehand if you wish to attend.
Saturday, Aug. 30
Break out the tweed and channel
your inner Englishman during the
English Hunt Picnic this afternoon
organized by the Bagmut stables from
Krasny Bor in the Leningrad Oblast.
Equestrian stunts, English archery
and classic hunting fashion will all be
available to visitors hoping to live like
the characters in “Downton Abbey”
if only for a day. Tickets for the event
cost 7,900 rubles ($219.40).
Bookworms will have their
chance to swap out well-read classics
for something new for their bookshelves at Knigovorot, a free book
exchange that will be held in the
Yusupov Garden on Sadovaya Ulitsa
today. Come for the chance to get a
new book or take the opportunity to
discuss the literary merits of your favorite authors with fellow fans.
Sunday, Aug. 31
The Neva Delta International Blues
Festival wraps up this afternoon on
Vasilevsky Island with a concert featuring not only some of Russia’s best
blues bands but international stars as
well. Admission is free for all three
days of the festival, which begins on
Aug. 29, and the shows starting at
5 p.m. each day.
Monday, Sept. 1
Today marks the beginning of Lermontov-Fest, a fall festival celebrating the life of one of Russia’s most
remarkable poets who, in a fate eerily similar to Pushkin’s, was killed in
a duel at the age of 26. Organized by
the Lermontov Library System, the
next several months will see art exhibitions, concerts and public lectures
focusing on the Lermontov’s short
yet prolific career. Check the Lermontov Library System’s website for
more details.
Tuesday, Sept. 2
Join expats and practice your Russian during the Russian Club’s
weekly meetings every Tuesday
night at 7:30 p.m. The club is free to
participate in although you need to
be a registered member of Couchsurfing.
NationalNews
B R I E F
Pay Raise
■ MOSCOW (SPT) — The average
salaries earned by federal officials
climbed nearly 33 percent in the first
half of the year, bringing the average
monthly wage up to 92,000 rubles
($2,500), according to the Federal State
Statistics Service.
In contrast, the average Russian
earned 31,500 rubles ($872) monthly
during the first half of the year, showing a 10 percent growth.
The presidential administration led in
terms of salary growth, with officials employed there enjoying an average
monthly wage of 231,117 rubles ($6,400).
The Emergency Situations Ministry
took first place among the government
ministries, with an average monthly
wage of 127,002 rubles ($3.516), followed by the Health Ministry with
116,000 rubles ($3,212) on average, according to the agency’s data.
Studying Abroad
■ MOSCOW (SPT) — Three of every
four Russian university students would
prefer to work abroad rather than in
Russia, Newsru.com reported Monday,
referencing a survey conducted by Career.ru.
The survey revealed that 77 percent
of Russian students found the prospect
of overseas employment more appealing than working at home. Those most
hopeful for overseas jobs were students
completing their degrees in marketing
and the humanities, the survey showed,
while those studying medical and pedagogical degrees were more inclined to
stay in Russia.
According to a Hays study from last
December, Russia will have the world’s
biggest labor deficit by 2030. The country will need an additional 17 million
specialists due to a brain drain.
Terrorism Worries
■ MOSCOW (SPT) — The Islamic
State, a radical militant group terrorizing Iraq and Syria, also poses a threat
to Russia, a Foreign Ministry official
warned in comments published by Interfax on Monday.
“At the moment, the threat to Russia is ideological, though it could be of
a different character as well,” Ilya
Rogachyov, head of the Foreign Ministry’s department on new and arising
threats, told Interfax.
Fighters affiliated with the Islamic
State could return home to Russia after
having fought alongside the group in
Syria, he said, a concern that has been
repeated by Western and Russian leaders alike since the conflict in Syria began in 2011.
Rogachyov described the group as a
“remake” of al-Qaeda, albeit one that
had proved more successful in seizing
territory. Al-Qaeda has distanced itself
from the Islamic State over the course
of hostilities in Syria.
Game Over
■ MOSCOW (SPT) — A 20-year-old
man from the Siberian city of Barnaul
suspected of killing his grandfather has
blamed a computer game character for
the crime, according to the Investigative Committee’s Altai branch.
Investigators say the suspect stabbed
his 79-year-old grandfather more than
10 times and his 83-year-old grandmother at least 20 times while visiting
them at their home on Aug. 23.
The grandfather died on the spot,
the grandmother was taken to a hospital, and the man himself returned home
before being detained by police.
The young man denies committing
the crime and blamed the killing on
one of the characters in a computer
game, the statement said.
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Weapons Convoys Seen in East Ukraine
By Mstyslav Chernov
T H E A S S O C I AT E D P R E S S
KRASNODON, Ukraine (AP) — For
several evenings this month, convoys of
military weaponry passed with clockwork-like regularity through Krasnodon,
a rebel-held town in eastern Ukraine
near the porous border with Russia.
The convoys were seen three times
last week by Associated Press reporters, and one of them carried about 30
units of weaponry and supplies. All
were coming from the direction of Russia and heading west to where proMoscow separatists were fighting
Ukrainian troops.
One rebel fighter described how
easy it was to cross into Ukraine
through a Russian-controlled frontier
post in a convoy that included a tank,
adding that the border officer appeared
unfazed at the deadly cargo.
NATO and Ukraine have accused
Moscow of covertly shuttling heavy artillery and other weapons to the separatists — allegations that Russia routinely denies. NATO says since midAugust, those weapons have been fired
from both inside Ukraine and from
Russian territory.
A safe distance from the shelling
that has scarred other areas of the separatist Luhansk region, Krasnodon acts
as a hub to supply the rebels with weapons and for getting much-needed humanitarian supplies to residents.
The town of 40,000 people is only 15
kilometers from the border. Residents
venture out in the morning to buy groceries, but the streets are empty by evening. Only rebels sit and drink at the
few bars still open.
Alexander Zakharchenko, the
leader of the largest rebel-controlled
city, Donetsk, said earlier this month
that his forces were being bolstered by
1,200 fighters who underwent training
in Russia. He said the fighters have 150
armored vehicles, including 30 tanks,
and have gathered near a “corridor”
along the Russian border.
When asked about the military
hardware, Zakharchenko insisted it
was all taken from Ukrainian forces in
battle — a notion scoffed at by the
Ukrainian government.
On three evenings between Aug. 19
and Aug. 23, AP reporters saw large
convoys of military hardware pass
through Krasnodon from areas near the
Russian border and head north and
west, toward the fighting. They were
later seen returning empty of their
cargo. On other days during that period,
the reporters only heard the convoys.
Supplies heading west, toward the conflict zones, are frequently seen both during
the day and night near Krasnodon.
It was not the first time that AP
journalists had seen heavy weaponry in
eastern Ukraine.
On July 17, AP reporters in the town
of Snizhne saw a tracked launcher with
four SA-11 surface-to-air missiles parked
on a street. The bulky missile system is
also known as a Buk M-1. Three hours
later, people 10 kilometers west of Snizhne heard loud noises and then saw the
wreckage and bodies from Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 fall from the sky. All 298
people aboard were killed when the
plane was shot down.
Rebel fighters in Krasnodon freely
boast about their military equipment,
although they have refused to give their
full names, fearing repercussions if
their identities were disclosed.
One told the AP on Aug. 18 that he
had seen a major new arrival of equipment traveling toward the rebel-held
city of Luhansk, which is virtually surrounded by government troops and has
come under weeks of sustained shelling
that has cut off water, power and phone
service, and led to daily bread lines.
“We thought, at last! There were
tanks and Buks (missile launchers) —
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Pro-Russian rebels drive a tank through Krasnodon on Aug. 17, one of several dozen military vehicles seen during the day.
three battalions in all. My arm started
to hurt from all the waving,” he said,
identifying himself with only his nom
de guerre of “Vityaz.”
Some of the hardware in the separatists’ hands is indeed well-worn and
very old. Other items are clearly new,
such as the four Tigr SUVs — a Russian version of the Hummer — that
were seen by AP journalists Aug. 19 on
a country road away from the main
highway near Krasnodon.
A column of five trucks carrying fuel
and ammunition was seen on the morning of Aug. 20 by the AP. Although covered with tarps, some of the boxes of
ammunition were visible in the open
back of one of the trucks. The trucks
were later seen returning, empty.
In the Ukrainian villages along the
snaking Seversky Donets River that
forms part of the border with Russia,
rebels had an array of heavy armaments, including tanks, armored personnel carriers and rocket launchers.
Every day, usually in the evening,
the sound of artillery barrages can be
heard from the direction of Molodohvardiisk, 10 kilometers north of Krasnodon.
NATO spokeswoman Oana Lungescu
has said that since mid-August, NATO
has seen multiple reports that Russia is
transferring tanks and other heavy weapons to the separatists in Ukraine.
“Russian artillery support — both
cross-border and from within Ukraine
— is being employed against the Ukrainian armed forces,” she said in a statement on Aug. 22.
Previously, the West had accused
Russia of cross-border shelling only.
Ukrainian security services have also
produced what they say is satellite evidence showing equipment and fighters
crossing from Russia along country
routes.
With more than 100 kilometers of
the border in rebel hands, however,
fighters brag that making the trip from
Russia to Ukraine is simple.
One official crossing under rebel
control is near the Ukrainian town of
Izvaryne, 15 kilometers east of Krasnodon. That frontier post was used on
Aug. 22 by Russia to send hundreds of
trucks into rebel-held territory as part
of an aid convoy — a move that
Ukraine denounced as an invasion.
About a month ago, Ukrainian
forces were shelling the Izvaryne crossing regularly, but the way has been
wide open for days.
Rebel fighters from a mobile combat group led by a commander who
gave his nom de guerre as “Sniper” exchanged tales of their exploits last week
as they waited for a delivery of emergency food to be unloaded at an or-
phanage for disabled children in Krasnodon. The men spoke openly in the
presence of an AP reporter.
One fighter described the ease in
crossing the Russian-controlled border
with weapons visible.
“We go through the border in full
uniform, totally decked out, with weapons sticking out of the window, five
people in the car,” he said. “A border
guard comes up to us. He looks at us
for a long time. Looks at the weapons,
then back at us. And then he says:
‘Open the trunk?’”
Everyone in the group laughed at
the story.
Another fighter from Sniper’s group
joined in.
“So, I am going through the border
and a guard jumps out of the bushes and
shouts: ‘Stop! Who goes there? Do you
have any weapons?’” the man said.
When told yes, the guard then asked
to see them — not because he wanted
to confiscate them but because he was
curious as to what kind of weapons
they were, the man recounted.
“Turns out that they don’t get service weapons!” he told his colleagues,
to more laughter.
A third fighter described how his
column was crossing the border where a
guard was looking through binoculars.
“We almost ran him over with the tank!
He wasn’t expecting that,” he said.
The men in the group all spoke Russian with accents from many different
parts of Russia. Separatist leaders initially tried to cast their fighting force as
a purely local effort, but it has become
evident that many Russians, including
an unknown number from Chechnya,
are serving in the rebel ranks.
The Russian fighters generally have
better uniforms, powerful automatic
rifles and bulletproof vests.
Those fighters staying in Krasnodon’s main hotel freely admit they
don’t take orders from local Ukrainian
rebel commanders. They describe themselves as “volunteers” from Russia, only
to later deny it with a wink. They do not
say specifically who commands them.
A militiaman from the city of Angarsk in Russia’s Far East who went by
the name of “Angara” said their fighting spirit remains strong.
“All our food and supplies come
from Russia. Everything gets through,”
he said.
Angara added that civilians help by
cooking them meals like borscht and
bringing them water, while the fighters
share their medicine with them.
“There are no hungry fighters here,
thank God,” he said.
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Air Travel Costs to Rise After Fuel Price Hike
By Alexander Panin
A rise of up to 7 percent in the price of
aviation fuel at Russian airports since
May will push up costs for domestic carriers, making Russia’s already notoriously expensive air fares more costly
and damaging the competitiveness of
Russian airlines on the international
market, aviation watchdog Rosaviatsia
said Aug. 21.
Rosaviatsia monitored the cost of
aviation fuel in 30 Russian airports
over the last three months, finding av-
erage rises of 6 to 7 percent, the agency
said in a statement.
“This summer’s sudden increase in
the cost of aviation fuel was not expected by airlines and was not part of
their operational plans,” the statement
said. The result will be increased costs
for passengers, it added.
Oleg Panteleyev, head of aviation
news agency AviaPort, estimated that
100 rubles ($2.77) would be added to
the average standard air fare.
The share of the cost of aviation fuel
in the price of a ticket is around 30 to
40 percent, Andrei Sogrin, spokesman
for Russia’s flagship carrier Aeroflot,
told the newspaper RBC Daily.
grounded” and said they were “harmful
for domestic carriers and could lead to
increased ticket prices for passengers.”
Panteleyev blamed the rise in the
cost of fuel on seasonal factors: “July
and August are peak months for airlines, and the oil companies skim the
cream off carriers during this period,”
he said, adding that aviation fuel price
also tracks the price of technologically
similar diesel fuel, which is now being
bought up by the government for its
emergency winter reserves, creating
supply shortages.
Russia’s already
expensive air fares
look set to increase
and hurt the industry.
Russia’s second-largest airline Transaero branded the price hikes as “un-
Over the course of 2013, the price of
aviation fuel rose by almost 4 percent.
Dmitry Baranov, lead analyst at Finam Management investment company, said that the rise in prices was
exacerbated by relatively low competition in the Russian aviation industry.
“There are still monopolies in some
segments [of the industry]. In many airports there is still only one choice of
fuel depot, and an idea to create alternative fueling centers in airports previously voiced by the government did not
work out,” Baranov said.
Food Ban Predicted To
Cause Job Losses in Europe
DENIS ABRAMOV / VEDOMOSTI
According to Rosaviatsia, the last three months have seen an average rise in the cost of aviation fuel of 6 to 7 percent.
Russia’s food ban could eventually
cost Europe 6.7 billion euros ($8.9
billion) and result in 130,000 job
losses, analysts at Dutch bank ING
said Aug. 20, the Prime news agency
reported.
Earlier this month Russia imposed
a one-year embargo on meat products, fruit, vegetables and dairy products from the European Union, the
U.S., Australia, Canada and Norway
in response to Western sanctions
against Moscow over its role in the
Ukraine crisis.
The food import ban will be particularly painful for Poland, which
could lose about 23,000 jobs in agriculture, ING analysts said. Poland,
the EU’s second-largest apple pro-
ducer, used to sell 700,000 tons of fruit
to Russia annually. Last year Poland’s
overall food exports to Russia were
worth about $1.5 billion.
The Baltic states will also be hit
hard by the freeze on trade relations, according to ING, with Lithuania facing a possible loss of 0.4 percent of its GDP, Estonia — 0.35
percent and Latvia — 0.2 percent.
The blow comes at a bad time
for Europe, which is teetering on
the brink of a recession, figures released by the EU earlier this month
indicate.
Earlier this week, the EU said it
will provide its farmers with financial aid to the tune of 125 million
euros ($167 million) to offset the
ill-effects of the food ban.
РЕКЛАМА
Space Agency Requests
$6 Bln for Lunar Program
By Matthew Bodner
Forty-five years after the Soviet Union
lost the race to the Moon, Russia’s Federal Space Agency, Roscosmos, wants
to revive its plan to put Russian boots
on the lunar surface — a mission for
which it says it needs almost 230 billion
rubles ($6.3 billion) through 2025, Interfax reported Aug. 22.
Russia’s current national space
agenda envisions cosmonauts walking
on the lunar surface by 2030, but the
intention is more symbolic than genuine, as it allocates no money to realizing the idea.
Now, the agency
plans to spend 152
billion rubles ($4.2
billion) on the construction of launch
facilities for a new
super-heavy rocket
at the Vostochny
Cosmodrome, currently under construction in the Far East, Interfax said,
citing a leaked Roscosmos strategy
document currently being considered
by the government. The rocket is slated
to launch sometime after 2025.
An additional 60 billion ($1.6 billion)
will go to begin developing and testing
components for the rocket, which will
be capable of delivering a spacecraft
weighing 80 tons to low Earth orbit. The
rocket would have an upper stage – the
part of the rocket that pushes the ship to
the Moon – capable of delivering a 20
ton spaceship into lunar orbit.
The last rocket to lift such a tonnage
was the Saturn V rocket, built by
NASA in the 1960s to land astronauts
on the Moon as part of the Apollo pro-
gram. Still the most powerful rocket
ever built, the Saturn V could lift 130
tons to orbit.
This will be Russia’s third go at
building a large, heavy-lifting rocket.
In the 1960s, the Soviets developed the
massive N-1 rocket to rival the Saturn
V in the race to the Moon. But after exploding four consecutive times, the N-1
project was canceled. Another Soviet
heavy rocket was developed in the late
1980s, the Energia booster, but the
project was dropped after the collapse
of communism for lack of funds.
The long dearth of funding took its
toll on the space
sector. To remedy
this, Roscosmos
wants to spend 14
billion rubles
($387.6 million)
refurbishing industrial centers
that have decayed
since the fall of
the Soviet Union
to ensure that Russia has the manufacturing capability to construct a heavy
rocket once it has been developed.
Russia is tilting not only at landing
on the Moon but staying there. The
strategy document also proposes spending 2 billion rubles ($55 million) to develop a technical proposal for a manned
lunar base by 2022, with the preliminary
design being completed no later than
2024, Interfax said.
The Soviet Union’s old rival NASA
is currently building a brand-new heavy
rocket to send men on missions to asteroids and Mars. The project, known
as SLS, was initially estimated to cost
$15 billion, but critics have said the actual cost will be much higher.
Roscosmos wants
230 billion rubles to
revive its plan to put
Russian astronauts
on the moon by 2030.
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Russia’s History Is Incomplete
By Ivan Sukhov
A
ugust in Russia is a big
month for anniversaries.
Aug. 19, 1991, saw a
conservative military
coup in Moscow; its failure signaled the terminal phase of the
fall of the Soviet Union. On Aug. 23, it
will have been 75 years since Soviet
Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov
and German Foreign Minister Joachim
von Ribbentrop signed a non-aggression treaty in Moscow. Both these
events have almost been forgotten. But
studying them certainly wouldn’t be a
waste of time for anyone trying to understand modern Russia.
When I was a student in the mid’90s and interested in making some
spending money, a German foundation
gave me a job writing a bibliography of
the most interesting articles from the
Volga German Autonomous Region’s
biggest publication.
This region existed in Soviet Russia
from 1918 to 1941 and was populated
by the descendants of German colonist
farmers who had come to Russia as
early as the 18th century. The region
was abolished on Aug. 28, 1941 — yet
another forgotten August date — two
months after war broke out between
the Soviet Union and Germany. Most
ethnic Germans were subsequently deported from the Volga region.
In Germany, the history of the Volga
Germans is remembered quite a bit
better than in Russia, and because of
that I spent some months immersed in
the periodical archives of several Moscow libraries. Flipping through yellowed pages full of hard-to-read Gothic
script, I got the chance to visit longgone eras; perhaps the most interesting
of them was the end of the 1930s.
The newspaper naturally covered
events outside of Russia, including
those tied to national socialism in Germany or, for example, the civil war in
Spain. Day in and day out, Hitler’s government in Germany was presented to
readers in the most caricatured fashion
possible, but at the same time was discussed as a threat and potential enemy.
Until suddenly in 1939 everything
changed. The anti-fascist caricatures
and rhetoric disappeared, and the tone
turned businesslike and proper. The
swastika flag, which had until then
been placed on maps to show readers
the looming threat to Europe from fascism, now appeared in official photo-
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graphs. Finally, on Aug. 24, 1939, the
paper published a celebratory article
on the signing in Moscow of a historic
agreement between the Soviet and
Nazi ministers of foreign affairs.
One of the most important moments of the perestroika era was when
the secret additional protocols of the
Molotov-Ribbentrop pact were made
public. These secret additions assigned
the Baltic states to the Soviet Union
T
Rosneft Should Extract
Russia’s Oil, Not Its Cash
By Konstantin Sonin
O
ne of the biggest economic
sensations earlier this
month was the news that
Rosneft, one of the largest
oil companies in the world, had appealed to the Russian government for
help. One of their requests, for example, was a soft loan of 1.5 trillion rubles
($40 billion).
Both the scale and the nature of this
request are a bit surprising. First of all,
the amount is greater than the federal
budget for public health and education
combined. And secondly, to an outside
observer, the very idea of a nationalized oil company looking for help from
the government seems odd.
After all, what was the point of nationalizing Yukos and handing its immense resources to Rosneft (if we don’t
get into a discussion about personal financial or political gain)?
History shows that the governments
of developing countries get more
money from nationalized companies
than through taxation of private corporations. Governments of developed
countries face this problem to a lesser
degree; they are more successful at collecting taxes.
But what is the point of nationalization — a difficult and costly process — if
as a result the government doesn’t have
the opportunity to access additional
funds from the company in times of
need (by lowering the salaries of managers and reducing investment programs, for example) and instead finds
itself in the role of a lending institution?
Aside from this specific problem,
there is a more general problem with a
government lending money to state
companies.
Imagine that BP or Exxon borrowed
money from the Russian government
and then was to repay the loan. The
lender would be able to get something
in return for its money: collateral (if
there was any) or part of the company’s
assets (shares, perhaps).The fact that
the lender will get part of the borrower’s
assets if the latter doesn’t repay the loan
is good motivation to do so.
But what will happen if Rosneft
doesn’t repay its loan to the government? What can the state take if this
happens? Nothing, because it already
owns the company almost completely.
So there is no motivating factor in this
case to repay the loan.
But even this “general difficulty”
isn’t the last or even biggest problem
with Rosneft’s call for help from the
state. The request itself is a sign of the
company’s effectiveness and stability,
and a bad one.
The sanctions causing Rosneft difficulties in managing its own debts are
simply part of the world that a large oil
company must operate in. For Exxon
and BP, dealing with political risks,
both within the countries where they
work and geopolitically as well, has
long been a main, if not the primary,
management task.
If Rosneft can’t handle its debt in
the changing political situation, it
means that the company is not optimally structured or appropriately prepared for operating in the market. It’s
not inconceivable that its size (“the
biggest oil company in the world”) is
excessive.
If so, we should expect proposals
from Rosneft as to which assets will be
sold off and which expenses will be reduced so that the company can continue to be what it should: an effective
and stable cash cow for our country.
Konstantin Sonin is a professor and vice
rector at the Higher School of Economics. The views expressed in this article
are his own.
and divided up Poland into German
and Soviet spheres of influence. These
protocols were a real shock to a country that had been proclaiming itself the
defeater of fascism since 1945.
That uncomfortable moment of
closeness between the Soviet leadership and the Nazis explained, for example, much about the way in which
the Baltic republics left the Soviet
Union. That is, it was an explanation
for those who wanted to understand,
but those people were and still are few
and far between in Russia.
Even today, the leaders of the ministries of culture and education are seriously discussing ridding the school curriculum of the paragraphs about the secret protocols. This part of history too
obviously contradicts the official propaganda on the war with Hitler, which, as
we know, is so significant in today’s manipulation of public opinion.
Since every other car in Moscow has
“To Berlin!” or “Thanks for the victory,
Grandpa!” scrawled on the window, it is
clearly awkward to remember when
swastika flags flew on Moscow streets,
or the joint Soviet-Nazi parades in Poland. Certain questions could arise that
many would rather avoid.
But if the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact
is expunged from official history it will
open a real Pandora’s box. After that,
will Stalin’s crimes be eliminated?
What about the horrors of food requisitioning during “war communism” or
the bloody details of the civil war?
This would be a true falsification of
Russia’s history. Those who actually
value the history of their country strive
to remember everything and attempt
to understand each step, each event in
the past.
Russians have a habit of mocking
Americans as a nation, with their paltry 238 years of history, as compared
with our 1,000-year roots.
But any Russian who has visited
Washington D.C. and simply walked
down the National Mall, let alone gone
to the museums and archives, understands that few peoples in the world
value their history as much as the
Americans do. There are also few so
willing to exhaustively examine the
most tragic episodes of their national
history, as the Americans do with, for
example, the Civil War of 1861-65 or
the wars in Korea and Vietnam.
Russians, with our desire to hide
away all the memories that make us
uncomfortable today, are much less familiar with our 1,000-year history. Russian history, after all, is full of bothersome contradictions that are easier to
forget than come to terms with.
Some of our history justifies the institution of monarchy, and some of it
exalts the people’s fight for liberation
from imperial oppression. Sometimes
it shows Stalin in a positive light, then
criticizes him, then again begins to consider him an “effective manager.”
Sometimes it seeks a balanced understanding through the complex ethnic makeup of modern Russia to describe the relationship between the
ancient Russian state and the Mongol
empire. And sometimes it practically
returns to a monarchic and imperial
model, a motivation for President
Vladimir Putin’s Crimean actions.
But we can’t forget anything. Our
memory should be detailed because
how history is taught determines much
about a state’s political discourse.
For instance, if we only discuss
Nazi Germany using garish caricatures
of Soviet heroics, it will be easier to
encourage popular hatred for whomever the Kremlin currently equates to
Hitler.
Moreover, people raised on these
primitive images never think about the
true root of Hitler’s national socialism.
By not understanding that, they risk
missing the moment when the embryo
of national socialism awakens in their
own body politic.
The situation is nearly the same as
with the putsch of 1991. Many would
prefer to forget it ever happened. But
the events of August 1991 were a turning point, without which the creation of
a modern Russia would have been impossible, not to mention the careers of
the country’s current leaders.
Of course, common opinion sees
the fall of the Soviet Union as a tragedy. If it was, then there’s nothing to
celebrate in particular about this anniversary. Better to forget it, and remember the things that make everyone
happy. Too bad that, in today’s world,
the list is so short.
Ivan Sukhov is a journalist who has
covered conflicts in Russia and the CIS
for the past 15 years.
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O
lesya asks if her glittery
hair clips are in place, if
her hot pink lipstick
needs reapplication.
It’s all she can do to
detract attention from the stump where
her arm used to be, the price she paid for
injecting drugs even after the site became gangrenous.
People walking past the pharmacy
where volunteers chat with Olesya — an
intravenous drug user with HIV — glare
at the young woman, quickening their
pace as they go. Others, many of them
also young women, stop to accept the
clean syringes, HIV tests and pregnancy
tests being handed out as part of an outreach program to do the things that
many specialists say authorities are not:
acknowledge the fact that a full-blown
HIV epidemic is becoming more and
more of a reality each day.
The same group running the outreach program, the Andrei Rylkov
Foundation, a grassroots organization in
Moscow that seeks to promote awareness of drug addiction and develop a humane drug policy, conducts periodic
cleanup operations in public places to
dispose of used syringes. These are often
the same parks where families take their
children to play, an alarming reminder of
how close the epidemic is to spreading to
non-drug users.
Olesya pulls up her pants to reveal
another festering injection wound.
“Maybe you should go to the hospital,” the volunteers tell her.
“Will they take me?”
“You’re officially registered as a
Moscow resident, right? Then they’ll
take you.”
“Last time they refused because of
my leg. They said gangrene is for drug
addicts.”
SEE NO EVIL
“It’s obvious that we need to work with
drug users; they have always been
around and always will be. For more
than 1,000 years there has been a culture
of drug use… Neither you nor I, nor
[former public health official Gennady]
Onishchenko, nor [Health Minister Veronika] Skvortsova, nor [President
Vladimir] Putin have a magic cure to
stop them being drug addicts. There isn’t
one,” says Ilya Lapin, an HIV activist
who works with patients on behalf of Esvero, a non-profit partnership that conducts preventative programs among
members of the population especially
vulnerable to HIV in more than 30 Russian cities.
Last year, there were an estimated
8.5 million drug users in the country, according to the Federal Drug Control
Service. That number had skyrocketed
from 2.5 million in 2010.
Activists have long warned authorities that the rise in HIV infections in recent years is a direct result of this spike
in the number of drug users, but many
say the problem is mostly being ignored.
“It’s always the same thing: We say
there is a problem, the government says
there is not,” Lapin said.
Pavel Aksyonov, the general director
of Esvero, said the government had conducted preventative measures across the
entire spectrum of the population except
for the one group that is most vulnerable
to HIV infection: drug users.
“Sure, it’s hard to supervise their
treatment, hard to catch them. They are
wrongdoers and all that, but they are not
martians, they are part of our society …
and as long as society ignores their problems, they won’t go away, they just go
underground,” Aksyonov told The St.
Petersburg Times.
TOO LITTLE, TOO LATE
Even the most zealous activists in Russia’s fight against the spread of HIV
agree that, compared to several years
ago, there has been progress — but not
enough to stave off the epidemic that
they say is undoubtedly coming if the
government does not take more drastic
measures to confront the problem.
Last year, the country’s health watchdog recorded nearly 78,000 new cases of
HIV infection, compared to 69,000 in
2012 and 62,000 in 2011.
As of Jan. 1 of this year, there were
798,122 Russians registered as HIV-positive, more than 7,500 of them children.
“Even if the Russian government
wakes up and finally begins to really actively fight the epidemic, the effect of
preventative measures will not begin to
show until two or three years later, and
by that time Russia will need to cure up
to 1 million HIV-positive people, which
requires huge resources: not only money,
but also infrastructure, doctors, etc.,”
Volunteers working with NGOs handing out syringes near a Moscow pharmacy.
said Vadim Pokrovsky, director of the
Federal AIDS Center.
Andrei Skvortsov, coordinator of the
grassroots organization Patients’ Watchdog, which monitors the government’s
treatment of HIV-positive people,
echoed that sentiment.
“If 18 billion rubles ($500 million) is
continued to be allocated each year for
the epidemic that keeps growing, rather
than the 40 billion called for in the state
program, a catastrophe awaits us…
Maybe the ministers will start to actually
think about these things when they begin to bury their own children, and not
just ours,” Skvortsov said.
Aksyonov of Esvero said that the
government had improved its efforts in
the fight against HIV in the past several
years — setting up a coordination council within the Health Ministry in February 2013 to handle HIV issues, and improving diagnostics and treatment — but
the situation has nonetheless deteriorated in the past couple of years, he said.
Both he and Lapin cited the government’s often hostile attitude to NGOs as
a factor.
“Unfortunately, in Russia, once again
this negative attitude to Western technology, to the Western understanding of
the problem is making a comeback. This
has a negative effect on both the epidemic and the treatment of patients,”
Lapin said.
“With everything we achieved with
the help of NGOs in Russia, unfortunately, right now we are moving backwards. Why? Because the government
does not support the programs implemented by NGOs that are recognized all
over the world: harm-reduction programs, safe-sex programs.”
Lapin said his group had once asked
the government for funds that had been
promised earlier only to be “told that we
are foreign agents, that we promote pedophilia, homosexuality and drug addiction. It all comes back to that.”
“That’s why, unfortunately, these
programs that are effective, are retreating if not to the underground, to the
shadows,” Lapin said.
FUNDING CRISIS
The warnings voiced by activists and
specialists come at a particularly critical
time in the country’s fight against the illness: Russia is now classified in the international effort as a donor country, not
a recipient, meaning it contributes funds
to help other countries fight the disease
and as such is not afforded the same
privileges from international organizations like the Global Fund to Fight
AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.
“The problem is that Russia helps
the Global Fund but does not increase
funds for the fight against HIV/AIDS
within the country,” Pokrovsky said.
Financing from the Global Fund,
which has provided the bulk of HIV/
AIDS funding to Russia for nearly a decade, is set to be drastically reduced by
2015 and phased out by 2017 in connection with Russia’s new classification.
motives for being against the drug,”
he said.
According to Anya Sarang, president
of the Andrei Rylkov Foundation, the
use of methadone in treating heroin users would solve more than just the problem of infection.
“You’re hooked on heroin: Switch to
methadone. Then you will not need to
steal from your grandmother or wife every day. You’ll get methadone for free.
Of course it will not solve the problem
of addiction, but it will solve a bunch of
other problems: crime, health and more.
But we don’t even have [this practice],
although in Iran, China and India — everywhere else they do this. But with us,
this simple solution just evokes idiotic
opposition from the government,” Sarang said in comments published on the
foundation’s website late last month.
NO ACCESS TO MEDICATION
PASCAL DUMONT / FOR SPT
By Allison Quinn
PASCAL DUMONT / FOR SPT
Experts Believe Russia Not Ready to Fight HIV
The number of drug users in Russia
has skyrocketed since 2010.
Russia’s decision to become a donor
country was met with cautious optimism
by the international community, but activists say it is not ready.
“Russia has become a developed
country in the eyes of the World Bank,
and thus we can provide for ourselves,
and more than that we have become a
donor country for various international
organizations; we finance harm-reduction programs in other countries that we
forbid here at home,” Lapin said.
“That’s why when we appeal to international organizations, they say ‘Wait,
you yourselves are giving us money for
this.’ It’s a stupid situation. But the government is nevertheless closing its eyes
to that as well.”
NOT THE RUSSIAN WAY
Drug substitution therapies are financed
by Russia in other countries but outlawed domestically. The same is true for
clean needle programs and needle disposal programs.
Clean needle programs are conducted exclusively by nongovernmental
organizations like the Andrei Rylkov
Foundation, as the official line on such
programs is that they promote unhealthy
lifestyles and do nothing to curb the rate
of infection.
Maria Preobrazhenskaya, one of the
activists from the Andrei Rylkov Foundation who distributes syringes, HIV
and pregnancy tests and other medications to drug users each week, said police sometimes stop to scold her or other
volunteers for what they see as promoting drug use.
According to Pokrovsky of the Federal AIDS Center, the programs outlawed in Russia have proven to be effective in Europe, U.S. and Canada, and
they could work just as well here.
“The problem is that it has not
been analyzed in depth in Russia. The
bias against methadone in Russia is
based entirely on the opinions of certain experts who may have their own
Worst of all for Russia’s existing HIV
patients, the medication they desperately need to stave off their development
of their illness is not always available to
them.
Up until mid-2013, the Health Ministry had run a centralized system for
medicating HIV-positive people. But
last year, the ministry decided to hand
over responsibility for the procurement
of medications to regional authorities.
As a result, patients in regions including Moscow, Nizhny Novgorod, Ivanovo,
Perm, Krasnoyarsk, Novosibirsk, Kazan,
Kaliningrad, Murmansk and Rostov-onDon have complained about a lack of
access to life-sustaining medications
throughout much of 2014.
The website Pereboi.ru, which tracks
shortages of medications for HIV-positive patients, has been inundated with
warnings and complaints of deficits.
“For the third month in a row now, I
am unable to get my full set of medications,” wrote one patient from Murmansk in late July.
Activists say the decision to delegate
medications procurement to regional
authorities only muddied the waters in
an already overly bureaucratic system.
“They put all responsibility on the
regions. Now there is no one to make
demands to,” said Skvortsov of Patients’ Watchdog. “The ministry says
they are allocating the money to the
regions, and they in turn are supposed
to buy everything,” but then the regional bureaucrats respond by “citing
resolutions and decrees of the Health
Ministry or playing ping-pong with the
patients,” he said.
Skvortsov said that even if officials
wanted to help patients, the move created so much red tape that it made it virtually impossible.
Although the work of Skvortsov’s
group prompted prosecutors in Murmansk to look into these shortages and
ensured early supplies of medications in
some cities, he said it was a sad but undeniable truth that the patients who survive in today’s Russia are those who are
prepared to fight for the state medical
care to which they are entitled.
LACK OF POLITICAL WILL
The main method for receiving funding
from the Health Ministry for preventative
programs is tenders run by the ministry.
But according to Aksyonov of Esvero, there is no mechanism in place to
check the effectiveness of the projects
implemented by the tender winners:
Funding is being funneled into programs
that have not been properly vetted, and
nobody bothers to check whether these
programs have any result at all.
Lapin said such problems were symptomatic of an overall lack of political will
to fight the epidemic. “Nothing changes
[in the fight against HIV]…If there is no
political will, we probably won’t be able
to change anything,” he said.
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Assault Sees Opera Premiere Canceled
A violent attack on a local composer is the latest in a series of incidents targeting his most recent composition.
By Sergey Chernov
SERGEY CHERNOV / SPT
T
he premiere of a new modern opera was canceled in
St. Petersburg last week after both the refusal of yet
another venue to hold it and
an assault on the opera’s composer.
Called “New Jerusalem,” the opera
composed by award-winning local composer Ilya Demutsky with librettist Artyom Suslov will not premiere in the
city due to the worsening political and
cultural climate, Demutsky said in an
interview with The St. Petersburg
Times on Aug. 23.
With its main character a hunter for
pedophiles, the opera’s premiere had
already been canceled by the Lendoc
studios, where it was originally scheduled to be held on Apr. 4 and 5, following reported calls from the police and
authorities to the venue’s management.
However, a recent physical attack on
Demutsky himself came as a total surprise, he said.
According to Demutsky, he was invited via email for an interview allegedly
with the Moscow-based liberal television
channel Dozhd, but when he arrived to
meet a television crew outside the St. Petersburg State Conservatory at 3 p.m. on
Aug. 17, he was attacked by a man who
emerged from around the corner with a
scarf wrapped around his face.
Demutsky said he ran across the
square to the Mariinsky Theater to hide
inside while the attacker followed him
and repeatedly attempted to use a taser
on him. A clash between the two then
occurred outside the theater, with a
window being broken and Demutsky’s
wrist cut deeply by a glass shard. The
attacker then ran away after the Mariinsky Theater’s security guards ran out
of the building.
Following the attack, a note was
found on the site saying “Pedophile
Ilya. One more opera and you’ll be at
the graveyard. Leave for your motherland, for the U.S.”
After reporting the attack to the police, Demutsky received a series of
threats via email in which anonymous
people demanded that he revoke his report, Vitaly Cherkasov, Demutsky’s lawyer and part of the Agora human rights
group, told the media on Monday.
In an interview with The St. Petersburg Times, Demutsky said he suspected that certain officials were behind the attack rather than grassroots
Orthodox activists.
Demutsky, 31, became widely
known last year after being awarded
first prize in a European composition
competition, 2 Agosto, and a medal
from the president of Italy, Giorgio Napolitano, for musical work inspired by
an imprisoned member of the feminist
punk band Pussy Riot. “The Final
Statement of the Accused” is a tenminute piece for mezzo-soprano and
orchestra based on Pussy Riot member
Maria Alyokhina’s closing remarks at
the controversial Pussy Riot trial in
Moscow on Aug. 8, 2012.
According to Demutsky, his new
opera deals with a group of hunters for
pedophiles — not unlike the one led by
extreme nationalist Maxim Martsinkevich, also known as “Tesak”
(Hatchet or Hand Axe), who was sentenced to five years for inciting ethnic
hatred in Moscow on Aug. 18. Called
“Occupy Pedophilia,” Martsinkevich’s
group reportedly lured people via fake
accounts, set appointments and then
tortured and humiliated them on video.
The group was reported to also target
LGBT people as well.
“I did not study the subject and did
not watch the videos because they’re
Ilya Demutsky has been under attack for his new opera ‘New Jerusalem,’ about a group of hunters who search for pedophiles.
revolting and not interesting to me — I
only used a literary text, the libretto,”
Demutsky said.
“Tesak could probably be seen as the
prototype for the main character, but the
meaning of the opera is that a hunter for
pedophiles kills a pedophile during one
of his hunts, and then I raise philosophical, religious, moral and aesthetic issues.
Does he have the right to do this? Even
if we understand perfectly that pedophilia is a crime, that it is disgusting, does
he still have the right to kill a person in
the name of some higher purpose? That’s
what the opera is about.”
‘I am frequently
criticized for taking
on hot topics in my
work... But that’s the
essence of creative
work.’
According to Demutsky, the controversy and pressure was caused by the
phrase “hunters for pedophiles,” which
was used to describe the opera’s subject,
rather than the its actual content.
“There is almost no action. There is
a brief murder scene in the beginning
but without any flesh and blood,” he
said.
“A pedophile is being burnt at the
stake and dies singing, but what follows
is a dialogue between God and the
hunter, where God asks, ‘Did you have
the right to do this in My name? Who
do you think you are, a doctor or inquisitor?’ We try to deal with these
kind of questions.”
Demutsky said poet and theater producer Suslov wrote to him on a social
network and offered his libretto for a
possible opera in late August 2013 after
Demutsky had become known in the
media following the success of “The Final Statement of the Accused.”
“Having read the libretto, I understood that it might be interesting on
stage, especially because it was well
written and dealt with difficult subjects,
and I think such things have not yet
been done in the opera scene,” Demutsky said.
“I thought it would be something innovative, not from the point of view of
my work as a composer, but of the
themes dealt with in the opera. It’s in
classical form, written in the complex
Russian language, in verse, but it has an
absolutely contemporary plot. At the
same time, it touches on philosophical,
ethical and moral issues, and we embody it in music as an opera, with classical beautiful voices — in my style, with
nothing avant-garde. So I agreed.”
Having composed “New Jerusalem”
for three and a half months, Demutsky
then put together a low-budget, chamber production of the opera with Suslov
to premiere in St. Petersburg. Demutsky
said they used their own funds to pay
small fees to soloists and musicians, who
mostly agreed to take part because they
were interested in the work.
According to Demutsky, the controversy started partly due to a provocative promotional video made for the
original premiere by Suslov featuring a
teenage female model.
“Perhaps it was the video that
somewhat drew attention from some
officials because the next day, after we
had had the first rehearsal with an orchestra, several days ahead of the premiere, [Suslov] called me and said he
was told that the police were coming to
look into the content of the opera,”
Demutsky said.
“He was told [by the police] that
they were against the subject of pedophilia. They called both him, as the director of the production, and the management of Lendoc from whom we
rented the room.”
Demutsky said he canceled both
the rehearsal and premiere so as not to
cause problems for the soloists, who
included the Mariinsky Theater’s mezzo-soprano Lyubov Sokolova and singers from the Mariinsky Academy of
Young Opera Singers.
“I thought that we should not implicate them in it; it was our problem and
we will sort it out ourselves,” Demutsky said. “I did not want Lyubov
Sokolova to be questioned by the police about why she was taking part in
such a production.”
Demutsky said he also received
calls from people who did not introduce themselves but said they were
supporters and were connected with
the city’s Committee for Culture and
advised him to cancel the opera for the
sake of his future career.
“Once it was a male voice and once
it was a female voice,” he said.
“With the female voice, I had a
heated debate because I was really infuriated. I said, ‘Explain to me what your
claims are and what offices I should go
to in order to negotiate the content of
my opera. Maybe you will provide me
with the list of subjects that I can touch
on in my work?’ To this, I was told, ‘Well,
you have understood us,’ and that was
the end of the conversation.”
After the premiere at Lendoc was
canceled, it was then postponed to Oc-
tober, when it was to be held at the new
Contour Family art space where Suslov
was planning to open a theater studio,
Contour Opera.
Both the premiere and theater,
which was set to open with “New Jerusalem,” were abandoned altogether on
Aug. 18, the day after the attack on
Demutsky, when the venue’s management opposed the opera under the reported pressure of the Petrogradsky
District administration.
“Somehow or other, we were openly
told, ‘You won’t stage ‘New Jerusalem,’
and without ‘New Jerusalem’, [Suslov]
decided there was no sense opening a
theater,” Demutsky said.
“He also has a creative interest as the
librettist, and if for unclear reasons somebody tells us what to stage and what not
to stage in a country where supposedly
there is no censorship, it makes no sense
doing it. Even if I had already decided to
cancel it fearing for the safety of people
involved. Essentially, we had no choice, it
was decided for us.”
Both venues have since denied any
outside pressure, explaining to the media that they made the decision themselves.
With “New Jerusalem” now on
hold, Demutsky is currently working
on the ballet “A Hero of Our Time,”
with director Kirill Serebryannikov, to
be premiered at Bolshoi Theater in
Moscow in June 2015, and “The Tale of
Peter and Fevroniya of Murom,” his
collaboration with two other composers based on ancient Russian legends
that will be staged outdoors in St. Petersburg next summer. He described
the latter as featuring “beautiful music
in the spirit of Rimsky-Korsakov.”
“I am frequently criticized for taking on hot topics in my work but I’d like
to mention that I compose a great deal
of music that has nothing to do with
politics or contemporary life.
It just so happens that it’s the works
that deal with today’s reality that causes
a reaction,” Demutsky said.
“But that’s the essence of creative
work. As a composer, I believe that it
should be so. It makes people think. On
the other hand, you should not use physical violence. You can discuss it and even
slam it, but to produce a taser and attack
the creator, it’s of course a disgrace.”
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“
You know, there is a story
about [Leonid] Brezhnev and
jeans,” says local St. Petersburg tailor Nikita Borisov.
“As you know, jeans are very
strong…stiff, you need to wash them
before you wear them. Well apparently,
he wore them new once and they gave
him problems down there [gestures to
groin] and so he banned jeans in the
Soviet Union,” Borisov says laughing.
“No jeans for anyone! So we started
making our own jeans and selling them
with fake labels. It was illegal of course,
but it was better money. In fact, once,
we were inspected by the police and
after they examined our jeans, they declared them to be the real thing, that’s
how good we made them.”
For over 40 years, Borisov has been
working as a tailor in both the U.S.
and St. Petersburg and in that time has
developed a large clientele both locally and abroad. In 1991, he began
specializing in custom-made garments
for the Orthodox religion, with his
handiwork earning him a reputation
worldwide and he now receives orders
from as far as Australia, as remote as
Nigeria and even requests for film costume creations. Such is the high demand for his work that the talented
tailor has had to seek more space and
recently moved his workshop from the
cramped, tiny basement of an apartment building on Ulitsa Rubensteina
to a larger and holier area — a room
next to the majestic baroque-style
Nikolsky Cathedral, one of St. Petersburg’s most beautiful churches. “This
is very special for me as this was the
church I got baptized as Orthodox
when I was 22,” says Borisov.
However, despite being baptized in
Russia, it was not until the tailor was
living and working in the U.S. that he
began creating Orthodox garments.
While working at a tailor shop in Sea
Cliff, New York, a member from the
Lomonosov family approached him
about making a cassock, a full-length
garment worn by members of the
church. “Within a week of arriving in
the U.S., I was working for an Italian
man, making custom-made suits and
alterations. I said that I have never
made a cassock before but if you show
me one, I can replicate it. So he gave
me one, I opened it all up and copied
it,” he said. “I did a good job, word
spread and after one year I was able
to open my own tailor shop in New
York, specializing in Orthodox and religious garments.”
Being self-taught is nothing unusual
for Borisov — it was this exact curiosity and determination that got him interested in the profession in the first
place. “I started making alterations
when I was 12 or 13 years old because
there wasn’t anything good in the Soviet Union back then. My mother
would order me pants and they were
always too big, so I would take them in
myself. Pants, shirts, shorts…I would
open up old clothes, see how they were
sewn and then make the alterations on
my own clothes,” he said.
After finishing music school at 14,
with the violin as his instrument, Borisov’s mother had high hopes he would
continue down this path but instead he
insisted on going to tailoring school.
“She was upset, of course. She said,
‘You have just spent seven years studying music, you need to continue,’ but I
told her that I need to become a tailor
— that it was my passion.”
Back in the Soviet era, tailors working in a factory would earn three rubles
per garment. As a student, Borisov
made 33 kopecks per garment with a
target set of earning 28 rubles per
month. Therefore, once he finished his
studies, Borisov was quick to set up he
own home business, earning a much
better average of 15 rubles per garment
and 25 rubles for jeans.
“Back then you could not buy anything in the stores. People would bring
clothes and fabric from other countries
and would get them altered. After Gorbachev became leader, we were able to
sell and produce everything more freely
and I was able to open my own store. I
received customers from all around
Russia. But by 1990 I could see how the
country was changing and being destroyed. The city was ruled by the mafia
and it was dangerous,” he said. Having
known a friend who immigrated to the
U.S. in the 1970s, Borisov asked for his
help to get a visa and soon after, in 1990,
the tailor arrived in Boston before settling in New York working as a tailor. It
wouldn’t be for another 17 years, until
2007, that he returned to Russia inspired
by the insistence of a friend that the
country had changed.
“Within 10 minutes of just being
back in Russia, I knew this was home.
For over 40 years, Borisov has been working as a tailor with his custom-made garments in demand across the world.
It immediately felt right. When I left
Russia, you could not buy anything in
stores, you needed stamps to purchase
basic food. But now, I saw that the
country has changed, you could buy
things and so six months later, I moved
back here to St. Petersburg.”
With the city now already full of tailors, Borisov decided to continue focusing on Orthodox garments and both local and international business continues
to grow. “This is my life — I love it. Most
days I work between 10 to 12 hours a day
and I wouldn’t change it,” he says.
“I was very lucky to be able to continue my profession when I moved to
the U.S. as many people have to change
jobs when they move countries. I still
go back every six months to the U.S.
because my daughters live here. I felt
good living in the U.S., but St. Petersburg is my home. You know, I see Russia as my mother and the U.S. as my
mother-in-law — sometimes the mother-in-law is better…sometimes not,” he
adds laughing.
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Local tailor Nikita Borisov has earned himself a name dressing the holy men of the Orthodox religion.
Borisov’s colorful Greek-style vestments, worn by Orthodox priests.
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Orthodox Philanthropists Planning to Finance
Russian-Themed Blockbusters in Hollywood
By Nadia Beard
A
group of Russian religious philanthropists
have announced plans
to finance a number of
big budget Hollywood
feature films focused on Russia. Andrei Poklonsky, chairman of the Russian Club of Orthodox Philanthropists,
told Izvestia that one of the first projects to be funded will be the story from
the life of 14th-century Turko-Mongol
conqueror Timur, also known as Tamerlane the Great. Australian actor
Hugh Jackman is said to be being considered for the lead role.
Poklonsky told Izvestia that the
script for the film, which is currently
being written, “combines an exciting
plot, strong characters and no-nonsense drama”. The story follows the
life of the famous Central Asian conqueror, reaching its climax when
Timur’s attempt to invade Russian
land is foiled when he sees the Virgin
Mary in a dream telling him to retreat.
“Long before the discovery of
America, we had a great civilization.
At the end of the 14th century this was
under threat,” Poklonsky told Izvestia.
“Tamerlane’s invincible army of
200,000 soldiers was set to plough
through our lands of only 35,000 fighters. There was seemingly no chance
for us, but after the whole country
prayed for deliverance, the Mother of
God told Tamerlane in a dream to retreat. Faith saved our country.”
Hollywood producer Ralph Winter,
known for his work on X-Men, Fantastic Four and Star Trek, is said to have
already expressed interest in the project, although a director for the upcoming flick has yet to be found.
The entire budget for the film will
be covered by private funding from
the Orthodox organization and from
Hollywood studios, and will not be financially supported by Russia’s Ministry of Culture or the Russian Cinema
Fund.
Formed in 2003, the Russian Club
of Orthodox Philanthropists brings
together Orthodox entrepreneurs
from a variety of business spheres in
Russia, using private donations to restore Orthodox churches, provide assistance to the poor, orphanages and
asylums, Izvestia reported. “Our club
has an exclusively missionary purpose
— to strengthen and spread the Orthodox faith has expanded and
strengthened, so that our country can
live as a united whole. All our projects are designed to alleviate social
tensions and to assert life’s true values,” Poklonsky said.
The Russian organization is also
considering investment of around
100m roubles ($2.75m) for the filming
of a biopic about Vladimir Svyatoslavich, prince of Novgorod and ruler
of the Kievan Rus (considered by
many as the forerunner of the Russian state) from 980 to 1015.
This article first appeared in the online
magazine The Calvert Journal, a guide
to a creative Russia.
www.calvertjournal.com
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F
ish Fabrique — which describes itself as the oldest
surviving club in St. Petersburg — will celebrate its
20th anniversary with a
weeklong series of concerts starting on
Monday, Sept. 1. The club, which claims
to have hosted five generations of music
fans since its opening, has greatly influenced the local music scene and has become part of its history, alongside such
venues as Griboyedov and the now-defunct TaMtAm and Moloko.
The underground club, which takes
its name from the nickname of one of its
founders and the Berlin venue Fabrique,
opened on Sept. 2, 1994, in the infamous
musician and artist hovel at 10 Pushkinskaya Ulitsa. The founders, Oleg “Fish”
Labetsky and Pavel Zaporozhtsev, had
been hanging out in Germany after the
fall of the Soviet Union when they came
up with the idea for the club.
Tequilajazzz, the city’s seminal alternative-rock band formed by bassist
Yevgeny Fyodorov one year earlier, was
called upon to inaugurate the new venue
and Fish Fabrique became the second
alternative music club — after TaMtAm
— to hold regular concerts in the city.
Located on the fifth floor with no elevator, Fish Fabrique was designed by its
owners and friends, who once had to lift
water in canisters for the club’s bar and
toilet when the pipes exploded in the
basement during the club’s first winter.
According to Zaporozhtsev, the
founders and their friends created the
club for kicks and had no desire to get
rich from it.
“We were a group of friends, we
had a lot of German friends and did everything together: plastering and painting walls all together,” Zaporozhtsev
told The St. Petersburg Times in 2012.
“The monetization of the country
has happened since then, and you really have to work hard to survive. I
wouldn’t say it’s a good thing or a bad
thing, that’s just how it is.”
For the following several years, Fish
Fabrique was among the very few music
clubs in the city, supporting the then burgeoning underground rock music scene,
with such bands as Tequilajazzz, Kolibri,
Pep-See, Spitfire, Leningrad and NOM.
Fish Fabrique immediately became
a favorite with expats because the city
had no other place remotely similar to
a western alternative music bar.
In 1998, however, the club had to
close in its old premises when repair
works started in that part of the building but it reopened later that same year
on the other side, with an entrance
from 53 Ligovsky Prospekt. The new
venue was smaller but in February
2010 it added a more spacious room
across the courtyard.
Club favorites Prepinaki will perform specially for the celebrations.
Included in the weeklong line-up is a performance by Sansara.
Vnutrenneye Sgoraniye will kick off the birthday festivities on Sept. 1.
Fish Fabrique is also part of the
Pushkinskaya 10 Art Center, which
also includes art galleries, rehearsal
rooms and studios.
Unfortunately, the club had to abolish its long-time tradition of celebrating its anniversary with friends-only
parties featuring a performance by Tequilajazzz when the band split in 2010.
Fish Fabrique’s 20th anniversary
festival will continue for seven days
and will feature bands that used to perform at Fish Fabrique during its two
decades. The music styles will range
from indie pop to avant-garde and alternative rock.
One of the club’s favorites, Prepinaki,
a local band that blends pop music, disco,
Soviet pop and Latin music, will perform
specially for the occasion.
Fish Fabrique’s 20th anniversary festival
— featuring Vnutrenneye Sgoraniye
(Sept. 1),Polyusa and DJ Zhenich Lazarenko (Sept. 2), Volkovtrio (Sept. 3),
Skadandr, Son Sekvoii and Duo Zeit
(Sept. 4), Tres Muchachos y Companeros (Sept. 5), Prepinaki (Sept. 6) and
Sansara (Sept. 7) — will take place at
Fish Fabrique, located at 53 Ligovsky
Prospekt. M: Ploschad Vosstaniya.
Tel: 764 4857. Concerts start at 9 p.m.
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At this point, the shipyard was no longer
of any practical use and the Admiralty
was put under the administration of the
Russian Navy. In 1870, the Navy had
filled in or decommissioned most of the
Admiralty’s internal docks and canals.
This newly formed land was then occupied by a number of administrative
buildings, private mansions and palaces
that remain to this day. The Admiralty
continued to house the Ministry of the
Navy and the Naval Museum up to the
eve of the Bolshevik Revolution, when
the former shipyard served as a final rallying point for Tsarist forces.
The iconic spire adorning the originally wooden gate was built in 1711 by
architect Ivan Korobov, after the tower
had been added to the center of the foremost façade. The Admiralty building itself was rebuilt between 1806 and 1823
during the reign of Alexander I, in the
style of “High Classicism.” Andreyan
Zakharov, one of St. Petersburg’s most
accomplished architects and a professor
at the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts,
was responsible for the design of the reconstruction. Some of Zakharov’s work
remains today, including the depiction of
Neptune, the Roman god of the sea,
handing his trident of power to Peter the
Great. Unfortunately, the intricacies of
this and other depictions were ruthlessly
destroyed in 1860 under the rule of Alexander II, when the clergy began attempts to purge the northern capital of
all things pagan.
The Admiralty of today, home to the
Naval College and boasting an enormous 400-meter-long façade, anchoring
the complex within the heavily wooded
Alexandrovsky Garden, remains one of
the most iconic and historically significant buildings in St. Petersburg.
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ne of St. Petersburg most
oldest and, arguably, most
historically important
buildings, the Admiralty
building serves as the focal point of Nevsky Prospekt, Gorokhovaya Ulitsa, and Voznesenskiy Prospekt. While its location at the convergence of some of St. Petersburg’s most
epochal streets embodied Peter’s emphasis and, some would say, obsession with
the importance of northern capital’s maritime might, it served a far more important and realistic purpose during St. Petersburg’s early years. Those familiar with
their Russian military history will remember that during the Great Northern War
against a Swedish empire under the
young Charles XII, the Admiralty shipyards served as the backbone of the Russian Navy, cementing Russia’s expansion
north and, more importantly, its access to
the Baltic Sea.
The original yards themselves were
built within range of the cannons fortifying the Peter and Paul Fortress, so as to
allow the yards to be assaulted should
they fall into enemy hands. The oldest
construction in St. Petersburg, the Admiralty was initially a heavily fortified
shipyard surrounded by a moat and four
tower bastions at the corners of each
fortification. The first commissioned
warship built by the Admiralty yard was
lowered into the Neva in 1706. It is said
that Peter, a master shipbuilder himself,
was often seen toiling in the yards along
with thousands of tradesmen, workers
and merchants.
By the 1840s, most of St. Petersburg
shipbuilding had moved downstream.
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Havana’s new Nazdarovie restaurant gives nod to nostalgia for the island’s Soviet ties during the Cold War.
By Peter Orso
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Guests enjoying a pre-launch dress rehearsal on Aug. 23, with Soviet propaganda posters providing a fitting backdrop.
Occupying the third story of a historic building on the seafront Malecon
boulevard, Nazdarovie is an homage to
the old country.
Behind the bar, Russian nesting
dolls and a bust of Lenin perch next to
bottles of high-end vodka. Reproductions of Soviet propaganda posters line
one wall in an attempt to spark conversation among customers sitting at a
long communal table. About the only
sign of the tropics is the million-dollar
terrace view of Havana’s skyline and
the Straits of Florida.
At a pre-launch dress rehearsal,
smartly dressed young waiters set steaming bowls of solyanka, a meaty Russian
soup, before about 20 invited guests.
The evening’s menu also included
pelmeni, dumplings filled with meat,
sour cream and dill; golubtsy, stuffed cabbage rolls slow-cooked in a tomato sauce;
pork Stroganoff (beef is often scarce in
Cuba); and for dessert, savory-sweet
blintzes, called “blinchiki” in Russian.
Biniowsky said most of the ingredients can be found on the island, with
some exceptions such as flour for black
bread, and caviar, for which they’ll rely
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AVANA (AP) — There’s
no rice, beans or fried
plantains at Havana’s
newest private restaurant.
You can order a minty
mojito, but it’ll come mixed with vodka
instead of the traditional white rum.
The waiters speak Russian and patrons are expected to order in that language if they want to get served. But
don’t worry, the menus at this retroSoviet restaurant come with translations and pronunciation guides for the
non-initiated.
Nazdarovie, which is named for the
popular Russian toast and opened
Aug. 22, is all about Slavic fare like
bowls of blood-red borscht and stuffed
Ukrainian varenyky dumplings, handrolled in the back by “babushkas” who
were born in the former Soviet Union
but have long called Cuba home.
It’s a nod to nostalgia for the island’s
Soviet ties during the Cold War, a time
when Moscow was Havana’s main
source of trade and aid and hundreds
of thousands of Cubans traveled to the
Soviet bloc as diplomats, artists and
students.
“For most of them it was the first
time they ever left this island. They have
nostalgia about their time there, about
the flavors they experienced for the first
time,” said Gregory Biniowsky, a 45year-old Canadian of Ukrainian descent
who dreamed up Nazdarovie and
launched it with three Cuban partners.
“The idea with Nazdarovie is really
to celebrate a unique social and cultural link that existed and to a certain
degree still exists today between Cuba
of 2014 and what was once the Soviet
Union,” said Biniowsky, a lawyer and
consultant who has lived in Havana for
two decades.
The collapse of the Soviet bloc
largely ended the Havana-Moscow
connection and sent Cuba into an economic tailspin. However, Russian President Vladimir Putin has talked recently of renewing the relationship. He
made a state visit last month, Russian
navy ships periodically dock in Havana’s harbor and Cuba has backed
Russia in its dispute over Ukraine.
An appetizer of cooked vegetables being presented at the dinner.
on tins imported in the personal luggage
of friends and family. It will go for about
$15 an ounce, with fancier and pricier
varieties available for special occasions.
In the air-conditioned kitchen, Irina
Butorina stirred gobs of mayonnaise
with potatoes, eggs, ham and peas to
create an olivier salad, a popular dish
in former Soviet states that, according
to legend, was invented by a Belgianor French-Russian chef named Lucien
Olivier.
Butorina, 56, fell in love with a Cuban student she met at university in her
native Kyrgyz Soviet Socialist Republic,
now Kyrgyzstan, and moved here in
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Brixton: On Trend
Brixton
33 Zhukovskogo Ulitsa
Tel. 812 930 89 87
Open daily: Noon to 1 a.m.
Meal for two with alcohol: 2,282 rubles
($63.18)
English menu available
By Lana Matafonov
It was not so long ago that spotting a
unicorn on Nevsky Prospekt was
more likely than being able to order a
satisfying, delicious burger in town.
The popular fallback meal for many
occasions was not one of the city’s
strong points. Times, however, are
now (thankfully) changing with a
number of new smaller venues across
town turning their attention away
from the overdone sushi and more
towards the art of burger-making,
1984. She said the taste of her mother’s
recipes faded as she adapted to Cuba.
“At first I used to cook a lot of Russian food here, but then a lot of things
disappeared from the market — cabbage, for example...so then I make Cuban food,” she said. “But these people
here have started this restaurant. It was
their dream...and our dream as well.”
Experts say Butorina’s story is typical of the Soviet diaspora here: Of the
estimated 3,000-4,000 islanders who
were born in the Soviet Union or descended from them, most are cases of
Soviet women who married Cuban university students and moved to the Caribbean nation.
Some were divorced or widowed
but remain in Cuba decades later with
little or no tie to their homelands.
“I think for many it was a truly traumatic experience because there are
many of our women who have not traveled, who have not returned to visit
their countries after the Soviet Union
disintegrated,” said Dmitri PrietoSamsonov, an anthropologist who studies the Soviet diaspora in Cuba.
At Nazdarovie, one poster in particular stands out amid the current crisis between Moscow and Kiev. Created
under Nikita Khrushchev to commemorate the 300th anniversary of the reunification of Russia and Ukraine, it
shows two runners representing the
Soviet republics simultaneously breaking the tape at a finish line. “To the indestructible friendship and to new successes in sports,” the slogan reads.
“That poster could seem like a joke,
almost black humor,” said Prieto-Samsonov, who was born to a Russian
mother and a Cuban father and spent
his first 13 years in Russia.
“I wish (the conflict) weren’t happening between our countries,” he added.
“We have great desires for peace.”
Biniowsky said Nazdarovie seeks to
transcend politics and build community:
People of Russian and Ukrainian descent and others working, cooking and
eating side by side, united by the shared
memory of a vanished nation-state rather
than divided by current animosities.
“Not in the kind of naive utopian
sense, but sometimes breaking bread
and getting drunk on vodka is key to
peace.”
serving locals not only decent but at
times almost gourmet offerings.
Brixton, located on the popular
restaurant strip, Zhukovskogo Ulitsa,
is exactly one of these welcomed new
venues. Embracing the quality over
quantity mantra with its succinct Italian-influenced menu, the small,
trendy venue is minimal yet stylish
inside, with natural light streaming
through the large front windows, creating the effect of a much bigger
space.
Ordering a Pago juice (120 rubles,
$3.32) and an Italian Melini Chianti
red wine to start (190 rubles per glass,
$5.25), we skipped the cheese, meat
and pate platters and instead began
our meal with a simple tomato and
basil bruschetta (190 rubles, $5.25)
and tuna nicoise (390 rubles, $10.79)
to share. Served on thick, toasty,
white bread, the bruschetta was a
generous serve of freshly diced tomatoes mixed with a subtle hint of basil.
Meanwhile the tuna nicoise, presented in a gorgeous wood-carved
bowl, was a delightfully colorful and
equally tasty display of salad, hardboiled quail eggs and tuna slices,
seared to pink perfection.
With beef, lamb, chicken, fish and
falafel all on offer as burger fillings, all
preferences are catered for on the
burger menu. Settling on a lamb
burger (420 rubles, $11.62), we decided to also sample the pasta/risotto
options with a creamy white mushroom risotto (430 rubles, $11.90). Delivered on a wooden board, with a side
of coleslaw, the burger bun resembled
a small softball, round, plump and perfectly encasing the thick, juicy, homemade lamb patty nestled inside. Despite looking smaller than your average burger, the fillings, including pick-
les, cheese and the kitchen’s special
sauce, are not — leaving you happily
satisfied without being overly full. The
risotto, on the other hand, was nice
enough and delivered on the menu
description (creamy and mushroomy),
but looked and tasted particularly average when compared to the burger.
A creamy mango dessert (250 rubles, $6.92) with a side of sorbet (160
rubles, $4.43) and espressos (130 rubles, $3.70) were then ordered to finish up the meal and satisfy the sweet
tooth after such a savory meal. Delivered in a classic glass bowl, it was a
nice surprise to discover the fruity
custard hiding a sweet mango sponge
cake underneath. When combined
with the tangy sorbet, the dessert
proved to be the perfect finale for
what was a truly enjoyable dining experience and hopefully one that will
be repeated.
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STAGES
DAILY SHOW! Folk Show
Feel Yourself Russian! Two hours of traditional
Russian songs and dance. Nikolayevsky
Palace, 7 p.m. and 9 p.m. www.folkshow.ru
wednesday, august 27
ballet
Swan Lake Tchaikovsky’s classic ballet about
the fate of a swan princess, choreographed by
Marius Petipa. Mikhailovsky Theater, 8 p.m.
Swan Lake Tchaikovsky’s evergreen classic
about the fate of a swan princess,
choreographed by Marius Petipa.
Hermitage Theater, 8 p.m.
Swan Lake The Russian Ballet Theater
performs Tchaikovsky’s magical three-act ballet
about love and deception. St. Petersburg Hotel
Concert Hall, 5 Pirogovskaya Nab.,
M: Ploschad Lenina. Tel. 380 1917
concert
Chamber Music Vivaldi’s ‘The Four Seasons.’
Camerata Ensemble. Sandra Shinder.
Smolny Cathedral, 7.30 p.m.
Violin Music Beethoven, Brahms, Prokofiev.
Pavel Milyukov. St. Petersburg Music House,
122A Nab. Reki Moiki, M: Sennaya Ploschad.
Tel. 702 60 96.
thursday, august 28
ballet
Swan Lake Tchaikovsky’s classic ballet about
the fate of a swan princess, choreographed by
Marius Petipa. Mikhailovsky Theater, 8 p.m.
performs Tchaikovsky’s magical three-act
ballet about love and deception. St.
Petersburg Hotel Concert Hall, 5 Pirogovskaya
Nab., M: Ploshcad Lenina. Tel. 380 1917
concert
Organ Music Bach, Handel, Mozart and
others. Yevgeny Avramenko. The Evangelical
Lutheran Church of St. Mary, 8A Bolshaya
Konyushennnaya Ul., M. Nevsky Prospekt.
Tel. 314 4447.
Organ Music Bach, Vivaldi, Bozza, Sejourne.
Irina Rozanova and Andrey Kolomiytsev.
Smolny Cathedral, 8 p.m.
friday, august 29
ballet
ballet about love and deception.
St. Petersburg Hotel Concert Hall,
5 Pirogovskaya Nab., M. Ploschad Lenina.
Tel. 380 1917
saturday, august 30
ballet
Swan Lake Tchaikovsky’s magical three-act
Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory, 8 p.m.
performs Tchaikovsky’s magical three-act ballet
about love and deception. St. Petersburg Hotel
Concert Hall, 5 Pirogovskaya Nab.,
M: Ploschad Lenina. Tel. 380 1917
sunday, august 31
ballet
5 Pirogovskaya Nab., M: Ploschad Lenina.
Tel. 380 1917
monday, september 1
ballet
5 Pirogovskaya Nab., M: Ploschad Lenina.
Tel. 380 1917
tuesday, september 2
ballet
Musical Comedy Theater, 8 p.m.
GIGS
wednesday, august 27
rock, etc.
7rasa Alternative rock. Backstage,
113 Ligovsky Prospekt. Tel: 958 3888.
7 p.m.
Mira Dance rock. Dada, 47 Gorokhovaya Ul.,
Tel. 983 7050. 8 p.m.
Lackband Nu-jazz, abstract hip-hop, funk.
Griboyedov Hill, 2A Voronezhskaya Ul..
Tel. 764 4355, 973 7273. 10 p.m.
Summer End Music Festival SiBeFor,
Morning Tea With Constables, Chubby Cheeks,
Pony Rush. Zal Ozhidaniya, 118 Nab.
Obvodnogo Kanala.
Tel. 333 1069. 8 p.m.
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Summer Never Ends Airlessline, Jellyfish
Inn, Music Am. Zoccolo 2.0, 50 korpus 3
Ligovsky Prospekt. 8 p.m.
jazz & blues
Ars Nova Unknown Brazil. Jazz Philharmonic
Hall (Ellington Hall), 27 Zagorodny Prospekt.
Tel. 764 8565, 764 9843. 8 p.m.
Natalya Rodina and ShoobeDoobe Jazz
Swing. JFC Jazz Club, 33 Shpalernaya Ul.
Tel. 272 9850. 8 p.m.
thursday, august 28
rock, etc.
Lyapis Trubetskoy Sold out. A2,
3 Prospekt Medikov. Tel. 309 9922. 8 p.m.
Sasha Shipovskaya Indie rock. Dada,
47 Gorokhovaya Ul., Tel. 983 7050. 8 p.m.
Anya Chaikovskaya Pop jazz. Erarta,
2 29-ya Liniya, Vasilyevsky Ostrov.
Tel. 324 08 09. 8 p.m.
Sexores / Shortparis / InVerse Indie rock,
alternative rock. Zoccolo 2.0, 50 korpus 3
jazz & blues
Empathy Jazz Mainstream.
Jazz Philharmonic Hall (Ellington Hall),
27 Zagorodny Prospekt. Tel. 764 8565,
764 9843. 8 p.m.
Andrei Kondakov Electric Project Fusion,
jazz rock. JFC Jazz Club, 33 Shpalernaya Ul.
Tel. 272 9850. 8 p.m.
friday, august 29
MIMICRY RECORDS
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rock, etc.
Red Samara Automobile Club Indie rock.
Dada, 47 Gorokhovaya Ul.. Tel. 983 7050. 8 p.m.
Dizzy Jazz Jazz rock. Fish Fabrique Nouvelle,
53 Ligovsky Prospekt. Tel. 764 4857. 9 p.m.
Russian Symphonism Night Vtoriye Bryuki,
Kazuskoma, Shokalsky Revenge, Anime
Morte, Aphelion Caldera. Griboyedov,
2A Voronezhskaya Ul., Tel. 764 4355,
973 7273. 7 p.m.
Tutti Frutti Rock and roll. Jagger, 2 Ploschad
Konstitutsii. Tel. 923 1292. 8:30 p.m.
Zimavsegda Pop rock. Yashchik Club,
50 korp. 13 Ligovsky Prospekt.
Tel. 964 9637. 8 p.m.
The Meantraitors / Beerocephals
Psychobilly, punk. Zoccolo 2.0, 50 korpus 3
Secret Chiefs 3, an American instrumental avant-rock band led by guitarist and
composer Trey Spruance, formerly of Mr. Bungle and Faith No More, will
perform at Dada on Monday, Sept. 1.
Dark Punk Fest Electrozombie, Nikogo Net
Doma, Cemetery, Lesopolosa. Griboyedov,
2A Voronezhskaya Ul.. Tel. 764 4355,
973 7273. 8 p.m.
Mikhail Bashakov Singer/songwriter.
Yashchik Club, 50 korp. 13 Ligovsky
Prospekt. Tel. 964 9637. 7 p.m.
Kirpichi Hip-hop, alternative rock.
Zal Ozhidaniya, 118 Nab.Obvodnogo Kanala.
Tel. 333 1069. 8 p.m.
jazz & blues
Vyacheslav Ipatov Saxophone night.
764 9843. 8 p.m.
The Blues Gang Blues. JFC Jazz Club,
33 Shpalernaya Ul.. Tel. 272 9850. 8 p.m.
jazz & blues
Big Blues Revival Jazz dancing.
764 9843. 8 p.m.
Lenny Sendersky Trio and String Quartet
Gershwin, Brubeck, Jackson, Sendersky.
JFC Jazz Club, 33 Shpalernaya Ul.
Tel. 272 9850. 8 p.m.
sunday, august 31
rock, etc.
Metal Season Opening Sacrament,
Solerrain, D-Ozz, Undeon.Truth That Kills,
Hatecrime. Backstage, 113 Ligovsky
Prospekt. Tel: 958 3888. 5 p.m.
Hopes & Dreams Fest Wolf Down,
Partybreaker, Rooftops, Double Crossed, Guts
Out, Jinx, Stumbling Block, Apache. Dada,
47 Gorokhovaya Ul.. Tel. 983 7050. 6 p.m.
Jane Air Alternative rock. Mod Roof,
7 Nab. Kanala Griboyedova.
Tel. 712 0734. 8 p.m.
Zakhar May Rock, reggae, alternative.
Mod Roof, 7 Naberezhnaya Kanala
Griboyedova. Tel. 712 0734. 8 p.m.
Samosad Bend / Translippers Alternative.
Zoccolo 2.0, 50 korpus 3 Ligovsky Prospekt.
8 p.m.
saturday, august 30
rock, etc.
Love Metal Night Viena, Dusty Road.
Backstage, 113 Ligovsky Prospekt.
Tel. 958 3888. 11:30 p.m.
Back to Zero Dead Billy B., To the Surface,
Insane Vision, And Sex in the Mini Country,
Silence Tends to Destroy, Valen’TIME, Fall of
the Gods, Ex Ante. Dada, 47 Gorokhovaya Ul.
Tel. 983 7050. 5 p.m.
Live Sound Gallery Losos Mudrosti, Naitiye.
Griboyedov Hill, 2A Voronezhskaya Ul.
Tel. 764 4355, 973 7273. 8 p.m.
jazz & blues
Easy Winners Ragtime Band Early
traditional jazz. JFC Jazz Club, 33 Shpalernaya
Ul.. Tel. 272 9850. 8 p.m.
monday, september 1
tuesday, september 2
rock, etc.
Fish Fabrique’s 20th Anniversary
Festival Polyusa, DJ Zhenich Lazarenko.
Fish Fabrique Nouvelle, 53 Ligovsky Prospekt.
Tel. 764 4857. 8 p.m.
Music Battle PuttinBeatles vs Red Nails.
Jagger, 2 Ploschad Konstitutsii.
Tel. 923 1292. 8:30 p.m.
Nizhe Nulya Rock, punk, ska. Manhattan,
90 Nab. Reki Fontanki.
Tel. 713 1945. 8 p.m.
Branimir Singer/songwriter. Money Honey,
28 Sadovaya Ul.. Tel. 310 0549. 8 p.m.
jazz & blues
Lera Gehner Original compositions. JFC Jazz
Club, 33 Shpalernaya Ul.. Tel. 272 9850.
8 p.m.
MUSEUMS
ACADEMY OF ARTS MUSEUM
17 Universitetskaya Nab. Tel. 323 6496,
323 3578 M: Vasileostrovskaya. Wednesday
through Sunday, 12 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Francesca Leone: Myth and
Metamorphosis. Painting. Italian artist
Francesca Leone harmoniously blends
elements of contemporary art and classicism.
Through Sept. 7
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.
Closed Monday; 1 p.m. to 8 p.m. on the last
Wednesday of every month.
www.akhmatova.spb.ru
He is Not Here: 7 Steps Towards the
Light. Mixed media. Artist Katya Margolis
presents videos, paintings, lithographs, photos
and a light installation exploring author Joseph
Brodsky’s time spent living in Venice. Through
Sept. 15
rock, etc.
Local indie rock band PetHole will perform its favorite covers at Cover Party at Kosmonavt on Monday, Sept. 1. Olga
Bravina, Shamrai, Vougal, Dunayevsky Orchestra and Kopengagen will also take part. Entrance is free.
ALEXANDRA PEROVA
Secret Chiefs 3 Avant-garde rock,
instrumental. Dada, 47 Gorokhovaya Ul.
Tel. 983 7050. 8 p.m.
Fish Fabrique’s 20th Anniversary
Festival Vnutrenneye Sgoraniye.
Fish Fabrique Nouvelle, 53 Ligovsky Prospekt.
Tel. 764 4857. 8 p.m.
Sportloto Dance. Jagger, 2 Ploschad
Konstitutsii. Tel. 923 1292. 8:30 p.m.
Cover Party Olga Bravina, Shamrai,
Vougal, Dunayevsky Orchestra, Kopengagen,
Pethole. Free entrance.
Kosmonavt, 24 Bronnitskaya Ul.,
Tel. 922 1300. 8 p.m.
First Zvoncore Ten Tonn Hammer, Aborigen,
Death Behind Us, Tenera, Madeline, Silence
Tends to Destroy. Mod Roof,
7 Nab. Kanala Griboyedova.
Tel. 712 0734. 6 p.m.
jazz & blues
Terminator Trio Funk, jazz rock. JFC Jazz
Club, 33 Shpalernaya Ul., Tel. 272 9850.
8 p.m.
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. www.freud.ru
Ivan Razumov: Drawn Dreams of a
Soulful Machine. Graphics. This exhibition
includes drawings that were never intended
for display in the form of spontaneous
sketches from the notebooks of the
celebrated painter and book illustrator.
Through Sept. 5
HISTORY OF RELIGION MUSEUM
14/5 Pochtamtskaya Ul.. M: Nevsky Prospekt
/ Sennaya Ploschad, Sadovaya.
Tel. 571 0495, 314 5838. Daily 11 a.m. to
6 p.m. Closed Wednesday.
NEW! Ethiopia. Religious objects including
crosses, sistrums, vestments, church utensils,
icons and items related to Cushitic cults are
on view from one of Christianity’s oldest
outposts. Sept. 2 through Sept. 22
He Qi. Painting. Christian-themed art
exploring the interplay between traditional
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NOVY MUSEUM GALLERY
29, 6th Line, V.O. Tel. 323 5090.
M: Vasileostrovskaya. Wednesday – Sunday
12 p.m. to 7 p.m. www.novymuseum.ru
The Remarkable Life of Monroe. Painting,
graphics, photo. This retrospective exhibition of
work by the late Vladislav Mamysheva Monroe
presents the wide variety of styles and subjects
encompased by one of St. Petersburg’s most
celebrated artists. Through Aug. 31
ST. PETERSBURG STATE MUSEUM OF
THEATER AND MUSIC
8 Stremyannaya Ul. Tel. 764 1130. Daily
12 a.m. to 6 p.m. Closed Monday, Tuesday
and last Friday of the month.
Petersburg-Montmartre. Graphics. The
creativity of the residents of Kamennoostrovsky
Prospekt, with its historical association with
artists, writers, publishers, poets and
musicians living in architectural masterpieces,
is compared to the famed quarter of the French
capital. Through Sept. 28
Boris Tishchenko: The Fight Against Time.
Painting, sculpture, graphics, documents. An
exhibition in celebration of the 75th birthday of
the composer, who was a student of Dmitry
Shostakovich. Through Aug. 31
PUSHKINSKAYA 10 ART CENTER
53 Ligovsky Prospekt. Tel. 764 5371. Open
Wed to Sun, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. www.p-10.ru
Navicula Artis Gallery. Liza Morozova:
Apotheosis of the Scream. Photography,
video. Moscow-based artist Liza Morozova’s
performance art-based examination of the
modern world’s obsession with simulation in
an effort to return meaning to Munch’s iconic
painting of ‘The Scream.’ Through Aug. 30
GALLERIES
HISTORY OF ST. PETERSBURG MUSEUM:
RUMYANTSEV MANSION
44 Angliiskaya Nab. M: Vasileostrovskaya,
Nevsky Prospekt. Tel. 571 7544.
Daily, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. (5 p.m. Tuesday).
Closed Wednesday and the last Tuesday of
each month. www.spbmuseum.ru
Portraits from the 19th Century. Painting.
The artistic styles of the era are reflected in
the depictions of famous figures. Through Feb.
10, 2015
MILITARY MEDICINE MUSEUM
2 Lazaretny Pereulok. M: Pushkinskaya.
Tel. 315 5358, 315 7287. Daily, 11 a.m. to
6 p.m., (10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Friday). Closed
Sunday.
Soldiers of a Forgotten War: World War I
Medicine. Exhibition. Medical achievements
from 1914-1918. Through Dec. 31
POLITICAL HISTORY OF RUSSIA MUSEUM
2/4 Ul. Kuibysheva. M: Gorkovskaya.
Tel. 233 7052. Daily, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Closed
Thursday and the last Monday of the month.
www.polithistory.ru
Two Worlds, One War. This exhibition
devoted to the 100th anniversary of WW1
brings together Russian and French posters,
postcards, a book of George Gross lithographs
and “War Chronicles,” a journal that
documented the entire history of the conflict
as it unfolded. Through Sept. 15
BAM – The Rails of Time. Photos,
documents. An exhibition celebrating the
construction of the Baikal-Amur railroad.
Through Dec. 26
POLITICAL POLICE MUSEUM
6 Admiralteisky Prospekt. M: Gostiny Dvor,
Nevsky Prospekt. Tel. 312 2742. Monday
through Friday, 10 a.m. to 5.30 p.m.
For Loyalty: D.A. Bystroletov. Exhibition.
The life and work of a sleeper agent who
spent years abroad recruiting agents for the
Soviet Union before being imprisoned.
Through Dec. 31
RIMSKY-KORSAKOV APARTMENT
MUSEUM
28 Zagorodny Prospekt, Courtyard.
M: Dostoyevskaya. Tel. 713 3208, 315 3975.
Wednesday through Sunday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Closed last Friday of each month.
Small Tragedy – Fatal Passion. Personal
items, posters. Dedicated to the 170th
anniversary of the birth of the famed Russian
composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov.
Through Oct. 5
NIKOLAI ROERICH APARTMENT MUSEUM
1 Line 18, V.O. Wednesday through Sunday,
11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tel. 325 4413.
www.roerich.spb.ru
Karma Gadri Tangka: Marian van der
Horst. Painting. Traditional images of deities,
relics, symbols and ritual ceremonies by
Marianne van der Horst, the most renowned
European master of tangka painting, and her
apprentices. Through Sept. 7
STATE HERMITAGE MUSEUM
1 Palace Square. M: Nevsky Prospekt.
Tel. 571 3420, 571 3465. Daily, 10.30 a.m. to
6 p.m. (9 p.m. Wednesday). Closed Monday.
www.hermitagemuseum.org
Monologue in Praise of the Seashell.
Decorative Art. Featuring more than 150
objects dating from 4000 BC to the present
day, this exhibition from the museum
collection examines how shells have been
turned into works of art by skilled craftsmen
throughout history. Through Jan. 11, 2015
At the Court of the Russian Emperors.
Costume. A display of imperial clothing from
the museum’s vast archives. Through Sept.
21
Servants of the Russian Imperial Court.
Costume. See what the servants wore while
at the court of the last Tsar. Through Sept. 21
Claude Monet. Painting. Switzerland’s
Beyler Foundation loans three of the French
Impressionist’s paintings to the Hermitage for
the summer. Through Sept. 13
STATE RUSSIAN MUSEUM
2 Inzhenernaya Ul. M: Nevsky Prospekt.
Tel. 314 3448, 595 4248. Open 10 a.m. to
6 p.m. (5 p.m. Monday). 1 p.m. to 9 p.m on
Thursdays. Closed Tuesday.
www.rusmuseum.ru/eng
Family Portrait. Two hundred paintings,
graphics and sculptural works from the
museum collection sit alongside snapshots
from local families to reveal the different
facets of Russian family life with its
traditions, habits and everyday concerns.
Through Oct. 13
STATE RUSSIAN MUSEUM: MARBLE
PALACE
5/1 Millionnaya Ul. M: Nevsky Prospekt.
Tel. 312 9196. Open 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
(5 p.m. Monday). 1 p.m. to 9 p.m. on
Thursdays. Closed Tuesday.
Latif Kazbekov: Watercolors.
Painting. The exhibition presents the work of
contemporary St. Petersburg artist Latif
Kazbekov, who combines the grotesque with
lyricism and photo-realistic precision that
approaches abstraction.
Through Sept. 15
ART RE.FLEX
5 Ul. Bakunina. Tel. 332 3343. 12 p.m. to
7 p.m. Closed Sunday and Monday.
www.artreflex.ru
Alexandr Morozov: What Do You See?
Painting. Mobile phone photographs and film
stills painted in egg tempera on gesso.
Through Sept. 1
ERARTA MUSEUM
2, 29th Line, V.O. M: Vasileostrovskaya.
Tel. 324 0809. 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Closed
Tuesday. www.erarta.com
Brain Fashion. Oleg Shobin, Alexei Shlyk
and Maxim Makarevich give form the wellknown proverb ‘Put yourself in someone
else’s shoes.’; Through abstracted blackand-white photos of shabby shoes and
patinated bronze objects, the viewer is
presented with an allegory of human life.
Through Sept. 15
Kirchen, Kuchen, Kinder. Painting. This
group show features paintings by 11 women
artists from St. Petersburg and focuses on
women’s role in society as defined by the
German kaiser William II at the turn of the
20th century. Through Sept. 24
Perceiving the Other. Group Show.
Contemporaries and friends of the legendary
Sergei Kuryokhin from different generations
and local subcultures share their artistic
memories of the composer, who often turned
to the arts as inspiration for his dynamic
works. Through Sept. 1
THE WEINSTEIN COMPANY
HISTORY OF ST. PETERSBURG
MUSEUM
Peter and Paul Fortress. M: Gorkovskaya.
Tel. 230 6431. Daily, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.
(6 p.m. Tuesday). Closed Wednesday.
www.spbmuseum.ru.
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.
Imperial Postcards. Graphics. An exhibition
of graphics from the early-20th century from
the museum collection depicting the Russian
royal family. Through Aug. 31
Romanovs in St. Petersburg. Decorative
art, photo, painting, graphics, installation.
Through Oct. 8
From Feather to Computer. Installation,
new media. Through Sept. 7
PUSHKIN HOUSE RUSSIAN LITERATURE
INSTITUTE
4 Nab. Makarova, M: Vasileostrovskaya.
Tel 328 1901. Weekdays 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Closed Saturday and Sunday.
www.pushkinskijdom.ru
Treasures from the Lermontov Collection
at the Pushkin House. Memorabilia,
antique books, autographs and documents
connected with the life of Russia’s greatest
poet. Through Oct. 24
SCREENS
NEW! Deliver Us from Evil (2014, U.S.)
Scott Derrickson’s crime-horror starring Eric
Bana, Olivia Munn and Edgar Ramirez. Velikan
Park. Starts Aug. 28.
Drift (2013, Australia) Morgan O’Neill
and Ben Nott’s sports drama starring Sam
Worthington, Xavier Samuel and Myles
Pollard. Angleterre (in English with Russian
subtitles).
Into the Storm (2014, U.S.) Steven Quale’s
action thriller starring Sarah Wayne Callies,
Richard Armitage and Jeremy Sumpter.
Velikan Park.
Quantum Love (Une rencontre) (2014,
France) Lisa Azuelos’ drama starring Sophie
Marceau, Lisa Azuelos and Francois Cluzet.
Avrora.
Sin City: A Dame to Kill For (2014, U.S.)
Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller’s action
thriller starring Jessica Alba, Nancy Callahan
and Mickey Rourke. Angleterre (in English),
Avrora, Mirage Cinema, Velikan Park.
NEW! Winter Sleep (Kis uykusu) (2014,
Turkey-Germany-France) Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s
drama starring Haluk Bilginer and Demet
Akbag. Angleterre (jn Turkish with Russian
subtitles).
NEW! Wolves (2014, France) David Hayter’s
horror film starring Jason Momoa, Lucas Till
and John Pyper-Ferguson. Velikan Park.
Starts Aug. 28.
NEW! The Giver (2014, U.S.) Phillip Noyce’s sci-fi drama starring Jeff Bridges, Brenton
Thwaites and Meryl Streep. Avrora, Mirage Cinema, Velikan Park.
MARINA GISICH GALLERY
121 Nab. Reki Fontanki. Tel. 314 4380.
11 a.m. to 7 p.m., Saturday 12 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Closed Sunday. www.gisich.com.
Kerim Ragimov: Human Project.
Painting. Painting. A retrospective of the
painter’s figurative work that aims to capture
the diversity of the human experience and
which he has worked on for the past 20 years.
Through Aug. 31
LOFT-PROJECT ETAGI
74 Ligovsky Prospekt. Tel. 458 5005. Daily
10 a.m. to 10 p.m.
Solus and Guests. Video. The Irish film
collective Solus presents a selection of recent,
avant-garde video shorts from Ireland.
Through Oct. 2
The Austere Style of GG. Group show.
Taking legendary Petersburg artist Georgy
Guryanov as its subject, this exhibition
presents more than a hundred works by
Guryanov’s peers and includes paintings,
photographs, music, video and archival
documents. Through Sept. 30
MAX FILM PRODUCTIONS
Chinese art and Western medieval and
contemporary art, referencing stained-glass
windows, primitivism, cubism and
expressionism. Through Sept. 7
World War I. Photographs, paintings,
posters, leaflets and objects from the
museum archives connected with WWI sit
alongside church utensils used in religious
services held on the battlefield.
Through Sept. 21
NEW! The Grand Seduction (2013, Canada) Don McKellar’s comedy starring Taylor
Kitsch, Brendan Gleeson and Liane Balaban. Angleterre (in English).
MANEZH CENTRAL EXHIBITION HALL
1 St. Isaac’s Square. Tel. 314 8859. Daily
11 a.m. to 8 p.m. www.manege.spb.ru
Manifesto: Pulse 1. This project brings
together young artists from St. Petersburg,
Belarus and Norway to display objects, video,
dynamic light painting, sound installations,
photographic abstraction and street art.
Through Sept. 7
MOSKOVSKY DISTRICT EXHIBITION HALL
6 Pl. Chernyshevskogo, M: Park Pobedy.
Tel. 388 3984. Tuesday – Friday, 11 a.m. to
7 p.m., Saturday 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Closed
Sunday, Monday.
NEW! Yuri Osenchakov: Melodies of
Color St. Petersburg painter Yuri Osenchakov
shows his latest work, which experiments with
color theory. Aug. 26 through Sept. 12
NEW! Zinaida Mikhailova. The exhibition by
renowned St. Petersburg artist and pedagogue
includes textiles, batik and sketches for
theater curtains. Aug. 26 through Sept. 12
MGM
Local artist Yuri Osenchakov is now showing his latest work, which experiments
with color theory, at the Moskovsky District Exhibition Hall through Sept. 12.
ROSPHOTO STATE CENTER OF
PHOTOGRAPHY
35 Bolshaya Morskaya Ul. Tel. 314 6184. Daily
11 a.m. to 7 p.m. www.rosfoto.org
The Minsk School of Photography:
1960s–2000s. This exhibition presents
more than 150 works from the ROSPHOTO
collection, which explores the key trends in
the history of Belarusian photography of the
second part of the 20th century.
Through Sept. 28.
Stratis Vogiatzis: Inner World. Greek
photographer Stratis Vogiatzis exhibits 40
photographs taken in the mastic villages on
the island of Chios over a two-year period that
capture Aegean folk culture and reveal the
hidden world of these medieval villages.
Through Aug. 31
ANNA NOVA
28 Ul. Zhukovskogo. Tel. 275 9762. Tuesday
through Saturday 12 p.m. to 7 p.m.
www.annanova-gallery.ru
Vlad Kulkov and Marya Dmitrieva: Zoas
Records. Installation. Kulkov and Dmitrieva
present their observations from a visit to Death
Valley in the U.S. in the form of poetry,
drawings, audio and video recordings.
Through Oct. 10
www.sptimes.ru
NEW! If I Stay (2014, U.S.) R.J. Cutler’s drama starring Chloe Grace Moretz, Mireille Enos
and Jamie Blackley. Avrora. Starts Aug. 28.
DiningGuide
CAUCASIAN
Mindal Cafe
26 Angliskaya Naberezhnaya
Tel. 312 3238, 954 1039
5 Prospekt Chernyshevskogo
Tel. 929 1592, 275 2779
Two stylish restaurants in the city
center serve a harmonious
combination of local cuisines:
Caucasian and Russian, as well as
European. A warm, intimate
atmosphere and a lavishly-set
table await each guest. Open from
noon until the last guest leaves.
$
ITALIAN
Restaurant Da Albertone
23 Millionnaya Ul.
Tel: (812) 315-86-73, 962-08-29.
A popular Italian restaurant,
located close to the Hermitage and
with a summer terrace. Its open
kitchen, run by head chef Luca
Pellino and sous-chef Tiziano
Valente, offers homemade pasta,
sausages, desserts and ice-cream.
A supervised kids’ playroom and
kids menu is also avaliable.
Japanese dishes can be ordered
from the adjacent “Sushi Lounge.”
Open Sun-Thurs 11 a.m. – 11 p.m.,
Fri-Sat until 1 a.m. Delivery service
available.
making it convenient for informal
celebrations, including birthday
parties and corporate events.
Tony’s Kitchen has all the amenties
for an enjoyable family outing as it
has a spacious children’s room
with a nanny, coloring books and a
children’s menu. Sunday is also
officially family day at Tony’s, where
creative workshops and
competitions for children are held.
$$
Romeo’s Bar & Kitchen
Tel: (812) 572-54-48
43 Ul. Rimskogo Korsakova
www.romeosbarandkitchen.ru
The restaurant is a walking
distance from the Mariinsky
Theater and has three spaces
inside — restaurant, cafe and bar.
It offers customers: Breakfast;
business lunch (from 210 rubles),
freshly baked pizza, as well as
desserts from our own
confectionery.
Romeo’s Bar & Kitchen will also
help you organize birthdays,
weddings, parties and any other
special event.
$$$
EUROPEAN / RUSSIAN
Yelagin –
A restaurant on the water
$$
TONY’s Kitchen
88 Maly Prospekt V.O.
Tel: (812) 988-80-20
Tony’s Kitchen is a relaxed
restaurant that is equally perfect
for a business meeting or a
romantic dinner. The meals on
offer take into account any and all
preferences. Italian, Pan-Asian and
Japanese cuisine are all available
along with a wide selection of
wines, found displayed on shelves
in the dining room. The restaurant
is located across two floors, which
Nab. Martynova, opposite bld. 40
Tel: (812) 9471544
Yelagin is a new project by ITALY
GROUP and is located at the front of
the main entrance of Central
Recreational Park (ЦПКиО).
Situated on the water, it has a large
sun terrace on the upper decks and
a stylish restaurant inside. The
restaurant itself has no
geographical boundaries, offering
Italian, Japanese and Russian
cuisine. As well as the divine
cuisine, guests are also treated to
an extensive entertainment
program. Yelagin – a restaurant on
the water that is perfect for brunch,
advertising section
a business lunch or dinner, a simply
a place to get-together with friends.
KARAOKE BAR
Jelsomino
$$
INTERNATIONAL
Café Vienna
Corinthia Hotel St Petersburg
57 Nevsky Prospekt
Café Vienna is a daily dining
restaurant with international
specialty dishes and offers wine
from around the world. Also
available is a wide selection of tea
blends and coffees along with
speciality cakes from the hotel’s
pastry chef. Open daily from 10
a.m. to midnight.
MEDITERRANEAN
5/29 Poltavskaya Ulitsa.
Tel: 703 5796
VIP reservations: 999 96 96
Open from 11 p.m. to 6 a.m.
Amazing sound, modern visuals,
karaoke menu and professional
vocal equipment. A fancy place to
party for the famous and beautiful.
Appearances by Russian stars and
others in show business.
Everything here is in good taste,
fun and beautiful. New menu! New
interior, the latest technology and a
statement in fashion.
Shokoladnitsa
RUSSIAN
Palkin
$$
$$
$$$
Côté Jardin
Hotel Novotel St. Petersburg Centre
3a Ulitsa Mayakovskogo
Tel: (812) 335-11-88,
fax: 335-11-80
www.accorhotels.com/5679
Novotel opens its Summer Terrace
until the end of summer.
Comfortable atmosphere, Summer
flowers, relaxed seating, attentive
and friendly service, special
summer dishes from our Kitchen
Chef will help to enjoy the warm
days. Welcome to our new cozy
Novotel Cafe where you can have
a quick and tasty snack. The café
offers a comprehensive and
balanced cuisine at reasonable
price. Novotel Café is perfect for
both spending free time and
holding business meeting in
informal setting.
At our lobby bar Intermezzo
guests find an extensive vodka list,
beers, wines, cocktails, alcohol
collection from all around the
world. Mouthwatering homemade
tempting cakes and pastries at our
La Brioche Deli-Counter.
Take away service. Open daily for à
la carte from 06:30—23:00,
breakfast 06:30—10:00, buffet
business lunch 12:00—16:00.
Major credit cards are accepted.
cuisine. The menu includes
unusual dishes as bortsch 3.0, a
Soviet tourist’s breakfast, ice
cream with halva and semolina
porridge. All menus feature fresh,
locally grown produce based on
their seasonal availability. The
restaurant’s bar places an
emphasis on serving strong alcohol
of the highest quality and house
made drinks — soft drinks, fruit
juices and kisel can all be enjoyed
in the restaurant or as a takeaway.
Mon-Thu, Sun, 12 p.m. to 12 a.m.
Fri-Sat, 12 p.m. till the last visitor.
47 Nevsky Prospekt.
Tel: (812) 703-53-71,
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, by painstakingly
researching through old cook
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. An extensive
wine collection is also on offer.
The opulent interiors include
an open fireplace. Smoking
area available.
$$$
Hotline: (800) 100-33-60.
www.shoko.ru
Shokoladnitsa — more than just
coffee.
With over 30 unique cafes in
St. Petersburg, the large coffee
chain with a sweet name has been
operating in Russia and across the
CIS for many years. Each cafe is
designed with a relaxing interior
and offers the same welcoming
hospitality as well as the
company’s excellent coffee,
desserts and hot dishes from both
European and Russian cuisines.
The aroma of roasted coffee beans,
along with a classic cappuccino
topped with soft foam
accompanied by a slice of gourmet
Napoleon cake will set a romantic
mood on any given day. A toasted
club sandwich with chicken, Felino
salami, Maasdam cheese and
traditional rabbit-filled dumplings
will also please guests with a
hearty appetite. Every day
Shokoladnitsa invites you to enjoy
a coffee date across the northern
capital.
We look forward to serving you!
КоКоКо
$
8 Nekrasova Ulitsa
Tel: 579 0016. www.kokoko.spb.ru
At Russia’s first farm-to-table
restaurant, chef Igor Grishechkin
offers a new take on Russian
– Banquet hall;
– Breakfast;
– Children’s room;
– Credit cards accepted;
– Dancefloor;
– Live music;
– Home delivery;
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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