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Blog from St. Petersburg: Fantasy Island
Ayano Hodouchi
Friday night parties at the St. Pete economic forum can be heavenly, if you’re a VIP and the sun is shining. But if you’re not, and it’s chucking it down, it can be your very own circle of hell.
Local
Moscow Zoo’s baby boom
Nathan Toohey
The warm weather has seen the zoo’s spring arrivals come out to play
News
Kidnapping of Rosneft executive’s son a mystery
Anna Arutunyan
The kidnapping of Mikhail Stavsky, Jnr., the son of Rosneft vice president Mikhail Stavsky, remains shrouded in mystery seven weeks after the student, whose age has been variously identified as 17, 18 and 19, was abducted by unidentified assailants in Moscow in broad daylight.
News
Picking up Pikalyovo
Anna Arutunyan
Vladimir Putin visits the small town after protests and chews out company officials over unpaid wages
Business
Russian rescue operation for crashing car market
Ayano Hodouchi
The Sberbank-backed Opel deal should boost the ailing Russian auto industry while bailing out the European arm of bankrupt General Motors
Comment
Doing the right thing
Tim Wall
The residents' protests in the small Leningrad region town of Pikalyovo, against the economic destruction of their town in a few short months, have achieved three quite remarkable things.
Comment
Arms on the agenda
Irina Aervitz
Advocates of gun legalisation argue it would provide forbetter control
Comment
Ditching Big Brother
Sergei Balashov
Belarus’ authoritarian president has criticised Russia before, over gas and subsidies. But this time, in harshly targeting Vladimir Putin, perhaps Alexander Lukashenko really has crossed the line
News
The week in review - South Ossetia elections denounced by West
Business
Sochi games go private
Ayano Hodouchi
The organisers of the Sochi 2014 Olympic Games have announced that they can get by with private funding until 2011, and said they have raised $500 million in sponsorship in the first five months of the year.
Business
Exchanges bargain bin or oversold
Ed Bentley
After one of the most volatile trading weeks to date, not even the analysts can agree which way the Russian markets are facing.
Business
Pushing the rouble
Ed Bentley
One of the president’s favourite policies, to make the Russian currency a key regional currency, will be given another airing at the BRIC summit this month
Arts & Entertainment
Nightlife calendar 5–11 June
Nightlife
The joy of sax
Sports
A close Finnish
Ed Bentley
The Russian national football team travels to Finland on June 10 in a must-win fixture to keep their hopes of qualifying for South Africa 2010 alive.
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