... criminal police investigator was nominated by President Dmitry Medvedev Thursday to become the new chief of the St. Petersburg police. A former senior criminal police investigator was nominated by President Dmitry Medvedev Thursday to become...

... Saturday and June 26, opens the 20th International Stars of the White Nights festival, which runs through July 15. ST. PETERSBURG — Modest Mussorgsky's opera "Boris Godunov," which has arguably become the most popular operatic piece...

Direct train service between Tallinn and St. Petersburg resumed Sunday after an almost four-year break, the Go Rail transport company said in a statement. Go Rail's Tallinn-St...

A deputy officer at the Norweigan consulate in St. Petersburg was found dead in an apartment Monday morning. A deputy officer at the Norweigan consulate in St. Petersburg was...

... of Throbbing Gristle and Psychic TV fame — will headline SKIF, or the Sergei Kuryokhin International Festival, St. Petersburg's leading experimental and avant-garde music event. ST. PETERSBURG — Avant-garde musician Genesis P-Orridge...

A St. Petersburg court handed down its first conviction under the city's new anti-gay law on Friday, ordering a leading gay activist...

A plan for financing a high-speed rail link between Moscow and St. Petersburg indicates that government spending on tracks for the project could reach as much as $35 billion. A plan for financing...

There are still more than 104,000 communal apartments in St. Petersburg, with residents of 750 flats being relocated this year at a cost of 1 billion rubles ($33 million), the city's governor...

Vladimir Putin will deliver a speech as the new Kremlin leader at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum next month, and investors will have a chance to meet the new Cabinet, a presidential aide...

... move actively," he said Friday. Putin also said that a decision could be made during an international economic forum in St. Petersburg in June. Earlier Friday, sources said Royal Dutch Shell might join the project and Norway's Statoil may leave it. Statoil...

... Izvestia newspaper and the Ren-TV and Channel 5 television channels. Drozdenko also led Putin's recent presidential campaign in St. Petersburg. "These developments show that the authorities are afraid of the current situation and are trying to find a way...

... investment market by volume. Take into consideration that more than 80 percent of Russians live outside of larger Moscow and St. Petersburg agglomerations, and you can get 100 to 200 basis points higher running yield from regional investment. Thus we clearly...

... to defend their own citizens,” Sidelnikova said at the conference, which was held with participants in both Moscow and St. Petersburg joined via video link. Astakhov, who spoke from St. Petersburg, said what has stacked the deck against Russian parents...

... patterns — can be found in the old, yellowing pages of a fashion magazine published in Russia in the 1920s. ST. PETERSBURG — How can you make a fashionable coat when the only fabric available is a piece of coarse felt used to make military...

... he said. Today, the market for corporate programs is seeing sharp growth, said Dmitry Volkov, director of MBA programs at the St. Petersburg State University Higher School of Management. After the crisis, many large companies realized the necessity of raising...

... in custody over a February performance at the Christ the Savior Cathedral. One round-the-clock Occupy camp has been formed at St. Isaac’s Square in St. Petersburg, though with fewer people than in Moscow. Staff writer Alexandra Odynova contributed to this report. 418973 374873...

... Ilyushchenko said the Novosibirsk law was just a temporary measure until such a federal law was enacted. Novosibirsk joins the St. Petersburg, Ryazan, Kostroma and Arkhangelsk regions in banning homosexual propaganda to minors. 179742

... million rubles on the construction of infrastructure for public and domestic use. SU-155 investment in construction projects in St. Petersburg quadrupled from 10.65 million rubles in the first quarter of 2011 to 43.22 million rubles this year. With those funds...

... At current growth rates, they are likely to soon occupy first place. About 80 percent of Chinese visitors come to Moscow and St. Petersburg, while 15 percent are arriving as a result of cross-border traffic where the two countries meet on the Amur River....

.... Another Gazprom executive said the company expected an announcement of changes to its long-delayed Shtokman project at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum next month. The changes could affect the lineup of its partners, now France's Total and...