The main office of Sibneft will move to the northern capital. Alexey Miller, Chairman of the Board of OJSC Gazprom (which now owns the company), reported this as a settled matter. Valentina Matvienko believes that in this way she is fulfilling one of her election promises - to help attract large taxpayers to St. Petersburg, who would replenish the St. Petersburg budget. Since then, a branch of Lukoil and the company Mezhregiongaz have appeared in the city.

Despite the displeasure of the city authorities, who were already ready to take part in the ribbon-cutting ceremony on the eastern semi-ring of the bypass road around St. Petersburg (Ring Road), the delivery date was shifted. Instead of the planned November 15, the opening was postponed to December 27 this year. Moreover, instead of the section passing through Rzhevka, traffic will go along Industrial Avenue.

Producer Mark Rudinstein came to St. Petersburg to make everyone happy. Local film fans - a new international film festival. Governor Valentina Matvienko and Director of the Hermitage Mikhail Piotrovsky (personally!) - by setting up a festival town on Palace Square. And absolutely behind-the-scenes information: members of the St. Petersburg G8 summit (which will take place around the same time in the Constantine Palace) are pleased to see Max von Sydow, Sophia Loren and Catherine Deneuve.

And along with the bear, you will probably have to part with the income from the sale of polar bear cubs. Not to mention the fact that one of the most interesting and beloved exhibits of the menagerie will be seriously damaged. It looks like the Leningrad Zoo will have to part with the polar bear Uslada The fact is that on January 1, 2006, the contract between the Moscow and Leningrad zoos on transferring Uslada to us for breeding polar bears in St. Petersburg expires.

Former judge of the Charter Court Alexey Liverovsky was appointed first deputy head of the governor’s administration and Smolny’s representative in the Charter Court.

Yesterday, Russia celebrated Tolerance Day for the first time. That is, tolerance, understanding, human attitude towards each other. And a few days before, on Sunday evening, another demonstrative action of a completely opposite nature took place in the city on the Neva. The skinheads committed another murder. Moreover, in the very center of the city, at a busy time. And the victims of the St.

There is a first time for everything - and for the first time in its short history (it is not even two years old), the St. Petersburg jury has become disgraced. After, at the very end of the judicial investigation, due to unexpectedly revealing compromising circumstances, three members of the jury were removed, the jury itself also ceased to exist.

In today's film world, where there seems to be no shortage of festivals, there had to be a very compelling reason to announce the creation of another one. Organizers say they found him. The main goal of the festival, in their opinion, will be to support European cinema as an integral part of European culture. Which, in turn, will have a beneficial effect on trends in mutual understanding and integration between Russia and Greater Europe.

The quality of a person can be judged by the number of friends and students who see him off after leaving... Three hundred people, in uniform and without, gathered at the Serafimovskoye cemetery in St. Petersburg on November fifteenth. The life of Valery Romanovsky, a submarine commander, is now spoken of in the past tense. There's a lot to talk about. Extraordinary people have their own personal, dominant character trait. Pressure, let's say, determination.

In March 2000, the murder of the chairman of the board of directors of the Plastpolymer company, Sergei Krizhan, caused a lot of noise in St. Petersburg. Shortly before this, his former commercial partner Dmitry Varvarin, with whom they created the Orimi concern, was killed.