St Petersburg's struggling Metro system has not yet received a single kopeck allocated to it from state coffers this year, and the subway's management has drafted a letter of protest.
The wife of an expatriate businessman held in St
Petersburg's notorious Kresty Prison visited her husband last week for the
first time since he was detained January 17.
St Petersburg's incumbent Mayor Anatoly Sobchak holds a strong lead over his rivals in the mayoral election due on the same day as the presidential election June 16, a public opinion poll showed.
St Petersburg's literary circles are to stage a series of
events in memory of Joseph Brodsky, the Nobel Prize-winning poet who died last week in New York at the age of 55.
"All bureaucrats are the same, whether they're American or Russian -- they all try to hide information," Yuri Monakhov, a member of the Judicial Chamber For Information Matters, said.
The number of St Petersburg women dying during abortions has halved in the last four years, but the mortality rate in this area is still 73 times higher than in Great Britain.
St Petersburg hydrologists have suggested the city use a
cleaner, cheaper source of water for household use -- instead of the polluted
and arguably undrinkable River Neva.
A new hi-tech library in the Marble Palace will give
readers access to over 300 major American newspapers and magazines as well as
the joys of the World Wide Web.
The finals of the 800-kilometer (667-mile) Moscow-to-St Petersburg dog-sled race, Moscova, are to take place on the ice of the Finnish Gulf this Sunday.
