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Valentina Kiseleva, 76, who remained in Leningrad during the blockade, walks past a wreath at the Piskaryovskoye Cemetery where most victims of the Siege of MEMORIAL Leningrad were buried during World War II. More than 1 million people died during the 872-day siege, which was finally lifted on Jan. 27, 1944.

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With less than ten days to go The Boris Eifman before they start, the Sochi troupe honors Olympics are still dividing Consumers caught up in battle veterans. Page 3. local opinion. Page 8. over e-commerce. Page 6. LocalNews www.sptimes.ru | Wednesday, January 29, 2014 ❖ 2 Local Activists Protest in Kiev VK Founder Durov By Sergey Chernov THE ST. PETERSBURG TIMES Sells Stake in Website St. Petersburg’s liberal and left-wing ac- tivists have offered their support to the RIA NOVOSTI said it was probably based on the protests currently taking place in Pavel Durov, the founder of company’s value of $3-4 billion. Ukraine with one-man rallies and pick- VKontakte, said on Jan. 24 that he Previous media reports said ets, a vigil and visits to Kiev. Pickets had sold his stake in the immensely that Durov and his VKontakte have been held near the Consulate Gen- popular social-networking website team were planning to quit and eral of Ukraine and on Nevsky Prospekt that has often been dubbed “Rus- engage in a new project, but his since mid-week while on Jan. 23 a group sia’s Facebook.” spokesman Georgy Lobushkin de- of St. Petersburg residents held an event Durov wrote on his VKontakte nied the reports. at the monument to Ukrainian poet page that he had sold 12 percent of VKontakte remains Russia’s Taras Shevchenko on Ploshchad the company to Ivan Tavrin, a mem- most popular social networking Shevchenko on the Petrograd Side to ber of the Mail.Ru Group Board of website. In January 2014, it was honor those who have died during the Directors and general director of visited by about 60 million users unrest. Russian telecom giant Megafon. daily, according to data provided Andrei Pivovarov, the chair of the He said that the deal would not by Durov. St Petersburg branch of the Russian affect VKontakte management The website, whose users can Republican Party — the People’s Free- and he, as a founder, would con- upload music and videos on their dom Party, RPR-Parnas — returned tinue to oversee its functioning. pages, has also been criticized for late Sunday from Kiev, where he had Russian business daily Vedomo- massive copyright violations. visited the protesters’ encampment on sti said earlier in the day, citing In a 2012 article on the popular Maidan Nezalezhnosti with two other sources close to VKontakte part- US-based news blog Gawker, activists to see the protests and convey ners and shareholders, that the deal VKontakte was described as a messages of solidarity from St. Peters- was signed in December 2013. “meat market” for American men burg activists. The contract value is unknown, seeking brides in Russia and other “It was very impressive. I’ve never but one of Vedomosti’s sources Eastern European nations. seen barricades in the center of the city or a complete city-within-a-city that lives by its own rules and is very well organized,” Pivovarov told The St. Pe- tersburg Times this week. Local Defense Ministry “Many people who probably did not known each other before have built a workable, functioning organization — a system within a system. Some people Center Under Scrutiny are in charge of collecting funds, some THE ST. PETERSBURG TIMES ple who held nominal positions as a

are responsible for arranging overnight SPT IGOR OBOLENTSEV / FOR Investigators have opened an embez- manager, secretary and nurse in the lodgings. There are security guards and St. Petersburg activists recently went to Kiev to support the ongoing protests. zlement case against former Defense company, but “did not perform their then there are the more radical ele- Minister Anatoly Serdyukov’s brother- work,” Markin said. ments who confront the police. There tacked and killed, and a raft of repres- Activists placed portraits of slain in-law, accusing him of funneling state Puzikov had previously been in- are people who cook food and medics; sive laws were passed by a parliament Ukrainian protesters Sergei Nigoyan, funds to friendly car dealers under fic- vestigated along with Serdyukov in it replicates the system of a state. loyal to Ukrainian President Viktor Yury Verbitsky and Mikhail Zhiznevsky titious contracts for renting luxury rides connection with the use of Defense According to Pivovarov he felt no Yanukovych, according to Pivovarov. on the monument. People brought flow- for ministry officials, the Investigative Ministry soldiers for construction of a danger within the protesters’ camp. “The protesters have changed their ers and lit candles. Speaking at the Committee said. luxury resort in the Volga delta, for “It’s really safe,” he said. original demands. They now seek the event, the Legislative Assembly’s Pavel Puzikov now stands accused of which Serdyukov has been charged “Sure, there are people walking resignation of Yanukovych, a change of Yabloko deputy Alexander Kobrinsky large-scale fraud and embezzlement with negligence. around with sticks and covered faces, government and early elections,” he expressed solidarity with the people of over his activities as head of the Defense The former defense minister’s rela- but it does not cause any fear. Even said. Ukraine and blamed the Ukrainian au- Ministry’s “Engineering and Technical tive is believed to have left Russia last when we witnessed the Ukrainian According to Pivovarov, his conver- thorities for the bloodshed. Center” in St. Petersburg, Investigative year to escape prosecution and his House [a congress center used by Ukrai- sations with the protesters revealed A number of people have partici- Committee spokesman Vladimir Mar- whereabouts remain unknown, an un- that people joined the cause for differ- pated in one-man events of solidarity kin said Jan.22, Interfax reported. identified official familiar with the case ent reasons, one being unhappy about over the past few days in the city, hold- The agency supposedly paid out 8 said. Investigators may issue a warrant the situation in education while an- ing placards reading “Ukraine, I am million rubles ($235,000) between 2010 for Puzikov’s arrest and may summon ‘It’s not a bunch of other, an activist from Odessa, went to proud of you” and “Kiev today, St. Pe- and 2013 to companies affiliated with Serdyukov for questioning, the uniden- Kiev because he had been harassed by tersburg tomorrow,” among others. Puzikov under fictitious contracts to tified official said. extremists fighting the police in his own city. The police checked the papers of some rent luxury cars for senior ministry of- President Vladimir Putin fired there but rather “Everybody has their own reason, and took down their names and ad- ficials which were rarely used. Serdyukov as defense minister in late but on the whole it gives a clear picture dresses but no detentions have been Another 4 million rubles was paid 2012 amid accusations of rampant cor- ordinary citizens of what people are unhappy about,” he reported. out in salaries and perks to several peo- ruption in the ministry. said. who want freedom.’ “The people are tired of the dullness forced upon them by Yanukovych’s team. ALL ABOUT TOWN nian police and special forces as their This frustration can lead to radicalism base of operations until its seizure by and a certain aggressiveness, but it does protesters at about 4 a.m. Sunday] being not cross the line. The Ukrainian House Wednesday, Jan. 29 where families can enjoy the dog Sunday, Feb. 2 stormed, people were polite and respect- was taken by storm before our very eyes, Practice your business English at days of summer. The meeting begins St. Petersburg is a city teeming with ful. If somebody pushed another by ac- but there were no extreme excesses [of SPIBA’s weekly English Club this at 9:30 a.m. and those wishing to at- English-language discussion clubs cident, they apologized. There was a violence]. The protesters formed a corri- evening. The conversation starts at 7 tend are asked to RSVP by Jan. 29. but what about ones for the romance joke going round that if a man in camou- dor and let the policemen who had been p.m. in their office at 21 Nevsky languages? Well, look no further flage carrying a stick enters a cafe in in the building leave. There is no looting Prospekt. Several native speakers Friday, Jan. 31 than the French Discussion Club Kiev, he is most likely to have two de- or crime on Maidan. There is a bank and will guide the discussion and all are Spend the last day of January playing meeting this evening at the Books grees and a good command of English.” café working on the site, and no one even welcome to join in. table-top games with fellow enthusi- and Coffee cafe at 20 Ulitsa Gagarin- Pivovarov said he was also im- thinks to loot the café or whatever. There They might not be Brodsky or asts at the British Book Center’s skaya at 7 p.m. pressed by how strongly motivated and is an understanding that this is a political Mayakovsky but if you’re interested in Board Game Evening. If you love politically conscious the people were. protest, and the people know what they contemporary Russian poetry, don’t such games as well as speaking Eng- Monday, Feb. 3 “I was surprised by the kinds of peo- are struggling for.” miss Bukvoed’s Green Wednesdays at lish, this is the event for you. If exporting goods is important in ple who were [at Maidan],” he said. In Kiev, Pivovarov and his fellow their location on Ploschad Vosstanya your line of work, then make sure “If our rallies draw mostly young visitors from St. Petersburg installed starting at 8 p.m. Hear some of the Saturday, Feb. 1 to attend SPIBA’s meeting at the people and pensioners [in St. Peters- the city flag on Maidan. city’s brightest young talents so that The accordion has always been a part Courtyard by Marriott hotel at burg], there are many people in their “When people asked us what the you hopefully can tell your friends in of traditional European music but its 166 Nab. Kanal Griboedova titled 40s and 50s. People live on Maidan, flag was and we replied that it was the the future that you once saw a Nobel popularity has faded in the 21st cen- “Exports of goods, including work for Maidan, and it has become flag of St. Petersburg, they said, ‘A laureate in a chain bookstore. tury. For purists and the nostalgic, the mutual trade in the Customs Union.” their life’s work. It’s very rare that such Russian city, great!’” he said. Accordion Music Festival in celebra- RSVP by Jan. 31 if you wish to people take to the street in Russia to “They stressed that they were not Thursday, Jan. 30 tion of the 90th anniversary of the birth attend. state their political position.” against Russia, they just did not like Meet and mingle with the travel- of Vladimir Dmitriev started yesterday Originally called Euromaidan, the Putin’s rule, but they treat the Russian minded at Bukvoed’s Travel Club and will run through tomorrow. Call Tuesday, Feb. 4 protests started after Ukrainian Presi- nationals well. There are many nation- meeting this evening at their location 542 0944 for more information. Stop by AmCham’s PR Committee dent Viktor Yanukovych pulled out of alists there but we did not have any on Ploschad Vosstanya. The theme Get out and about while shedding Meeting and learn more about what talks over a planned association agree- problem. It’s not a bunch of extremists for the event, starting at 7 p.m., is some of that winter weight by par- the organization does in St. Peters- ment with the European Union and fighting there but rather ordinary citi- “King Jordan.” ticipating in the nation-wide speed burg. Check out their website for made a surprise deal with Russian Presi- zens of Ukraine who want freedom.” Add your two cents to SPIBA’s skating and cross-country skiing more details. dent Vladimir Putin. The protests ceased On Jan. 23, St Petersburg residents Quality of Life committee meeting competitions that begin today in St. to be primarily about the country’s asso- honored those who died during the un- to discuss their future partnership Petersburg and continue until the To have your event included in All ciation with the EU after the Berkut riot rest in Kiev with a vigil near the with UpsalaAir to design a park end of the month. About Town, email [email protected] in which a number of protesters were at- Shevchenko monument. The St. Petersburg Times | www.sptimes.ru LOCAL NEWS Wednesday, January 29, 2014 ❖ 3 Siege Museum Planned By Irina Titova Poltavchenko did not specify a loca- THE ST. PETERSBURG TIMES tion for the museum or an opening St. Petersburg governor Georgy Pol- date. Preliminary information suggests tavchenko has announced that the city that a new building may be constructed is planning to open a new museum ded- to house the display. icated to the Defense and Siege of Len- Meanwhile, the State Archive of ingrad, Fontanka.ru reported last Social and Political History announced week. last week that it had received declassi- The city’s current Museum of the fied historical documents about the Defense of Leningrad occupies a por- Siege of Leningrad and the Great Pa- tion of a building located in Solyanoi triotic War that have only recently be- Pereulok. The display, which was once come available but that they have not much bigger, was closed in the 1950s been requested by the museum, Inter- during the infamous “Leningradskoye fax reported. delo” (Leningrad Affair) — a series of “Numerous historical documents fabricated criminal cases in the late are now available in the amount 1940s and early 1950s that accused a needed to form a clear picture of the number of prominent politicians and past. However, no one seems to be in- members of the Communist Party terested in them,” Andrei Sorokin, of treason. head of the organization said. The museum re-opened in 1989, by Sorokin said the state’s policy re- which time many of the items that had garding historical memory is problem-

been on display had been lost. atic. MIKHAIL KLIMENTYEV / AP The head of the city’s Culture Com- “The bias is towards seeing histori- President Vladimir Putin visited Piskaryovskoye cemetery to honor Leningraders killed during the siege. mittee Vasily Pankratov said the recon- cal events as having been complete vic- struction of the museum in its current tories where no mistakes were made. location was proving difficult as much This divides society and is also a re- of the property had been rented or proach to historians. We haven’t done Putin Commemorates Victims privatized. Currently, a new location enough to make the information [that for the museum that can accommodate can change this view] available,” So- By Matthew Bodner Nazi blockade by Soviet troops” — com- those who worked in the factories, a full-scale exhibition is being sought. rokin said. THE ST. PETERSBURG TIMES pletely neglects the role played by the without volunteers and units that were President Vladimir Putin paid trib- city’s people, Interfax reported. formed by the citizens of Leningrad, I ute to victims of the Siege of Leningrad know this from my own family history, on Monday in St. Petersburg and spoke without these people victory would to survivors who said that the name for have been impossible, this is obvious. the celebrations marking the end of the ‘Without the civilian And this name — it really dilutes some blockade should be changed. of this,” Putin said. Putin attended a ceremony at the population...we Putin, who was born in St. Peters- Piskaryovskoye cemetery in St. Peters- would hardly have burg, called for the city’s legislative as- burg, which was called Leningrad dur- sembly to rename the anniversary and, ing the Soviet era, on the 70th anniver- been able to achieve if necessary, to elevate the proposal to sary of the devastating World War II federal level. siege being lifted. this victory.’ On Sept. 8, 1941, the German army He laid a wreath at the Motherland cut Leningrad off from Russian lines. monument and also honored his older Putin agreed, saying that the Red The city’s residents struggled for al- brother, who died in childhood during Army “without a doubt made a deci- most 900 days as Adolf Hitler’s troops the siege and is interred in a mass grave sive contribution to the defense and attempted to starve them into submis- at the cemetery, the Kremlin said in a eventual liberation of Leningrad,” but sion. On Jan. 18, 1943, the first ray of statement. that “without the civilian population … hope appeared when the Red Army During a meeting with Putin on Mon- we would hardly have been able to established a single supply line to the day, siege survivors complained that the achieve this victory.” city. Still, the blockade was not fully name for the celebration — “the com- “Without those who worked on the lifted until Jan. 27, 1944, by which time plete liberation of Leningrad from the erection of the defensive lines, without about 750,000 civilians had died. Eifman Honors Blockade Survivors THE ST. PETERSBURG TIMES brings an unprotected youth into the The event, in addition to being ded- World War II veterans and survivors world, resurrects the ordeals of matu- icated to survivors of the siege, pro-

WIKIMEDIA COMMONS from the Siege of Leningrad were rity, the wisdom and weakness of old vided local residents the opportunity to A recent survey asked whether Leningrad should have surrendered. among the first to be invited to preview age. How much viciousness, defama- remember and pay respect to the sacri- Boris Eifman’s ballet, Requiem, which tion, jealousy and violence my memory fices made by those who perished while premiered at the Alexandrinsky The- holds, how many never-fading touches defending the city. ater Monday night. of happiness, love… This is all inside Requiem will be performed again at Revisionism Under Fire Dedicated to the 70th anniversary of me, inside each of us.” the Alexandrinsky Theatre, Feb. 10-11. the final lifting of the Siege of Lenin- РЕКЛАМА grad, the performance was based on After Controversial Poll Anna Akhmatova’s poem “Requiem” set to music by Shostakovich and Mo- RIA NOVOSTI ing it “a mistake by the producer... zart. Supporting the modern contempo- Russian legislators have threatened and the social network editor.” rary ballet performance was the Mos- to criminalize World War II revi- A supposed screenshot of the cow Virtuosi chamber orchestra, led by sionism after being outraged by an poll available on Twitter showed renowned conductor Vladimir Spivakov online survey that asked if Lenin- that 54 percent supported the and joined by the chorus and soloists grad should have surrendered to the would-be surrender of Leningrad. from the Masters of Choral Singing. Nazis. The number of respondents was not President Vladimir Putin, who was The poll appeared on Sunday on specified. in the city Monday to pay tribute to the the website of the liberal online tele- Leningrad lost between 600,000 victims of the siege, also made a brief vision channel Dozhd (“Rain”). and 1.5 million of its 2.5 million pre- appearance, attending the first act along It was taken down within min- war population, by various esti- with former St. Petersburg Governor utes but still sparked a vehement mates, during the Nazi siege from and current Chairman of the Federation backlash. 1941 to 1944. Council Valentina Matviyenko. Current “Such actions should always be The city, since renamed St. Pe- St. Petersburg Governor Georgy Pol- treated as a crime of restoring Na- tersburg, celebrated the 70th anni- tavchenko was also in the audience zism,” ultraconservative lawmaker versary of the siege’s end on Mon- along with other city officials. Irina Yarovaya of the ruling United day. Performing to a full house, Eifman’s Russia party said Monday. Russia has attempted to regulate dramatic interpretation began with a The populist Liberal Democratic history before. A Kremlin commis- one minute silence before then being Party will draft a bill to criminalize sion against the “falsification of his- presented in two acts — each exploring “insulting and desecrating the mem- tory” existed in 2009-2012 and uni- the themes of loss, love and triumph ory of the Great Patriotic War,” fied guidelines for school history during the 872-day siege. True to form, party member Igor Lebedev said lessons were drafted last year on the the evening was a display of technical Monday, using the Russian name for direct order of President Vladimir bravura that drew on all the elements World War II. Putin. for which Eifman is celebrated — light- Lebedev, a deputy speaker of Three bills criminalizing “the ing, sets and costumes, all of which ex- parliament, did not give a time frame restoration of Nazism” have been plore psychological dimensions. or say what the proposed punish- filed with parliament since 2010, the “I have never been so sincere, so ment under the law would be. latest, from last year, drafted by spiritually naked as in Mozart’s Re- The TV channel apologized for Yarovaya. All remain in legislative quiem,” said Eifman. “It is my past, the poll on Twitter on Monday, call- limbo. present and future, whether you accept it or reject it. This is my memory, which NationalNews www.sptimes.ru | Wednesday, January 29, 2014 ❖ 4 Yukos Partner Lebedev Released Journalist By Natalya Krainova THE ST. PETERSBURG TIMES Case Gets 5 MOSCOW — Platon Lebedev, the one-time business partner of former Yukos owner Mikhail Khodorkovsky, walked free on Jan. 24 from a penal New Jurors colony in northwestern Russia, after serving more than ten years on eco- RIA NOVOSTI nomic charges that many viewed as po- MOSCOW — The Moscow City Court litically motivated. has removed five jurors from a new Lebedev’s release came roughly a jury panel in the Anna Politkovskaya month after the pardon of Khodork- murder case, the court’s spokeswoman ovsky, who also spent more than ten said Monday. years in prison, and is seen as part of Spokeswoman Ulyana Solopova President Vladimir Putin’s publicity said that the five jurors told the court campaign to ease foreign criticism of that they could not take part in the Russia’s human rights record ahead of hearing of the case. Alternate jurors the Winter Olympics in Sochi next will replace them, she said, RAPSI month. news agency reported. No explanation was given for the jurors’ inability to serve in the trial of five men accused of involvement in Lebedev, unlike killing the crusading investigative Khodorkovsky, will journalist. This is the second major jury change probably have to work in the Politkovskaya case. The court disbanded a previous jury on Nov. 14 for a living due to after three more jurors withdrew for amassed tax and various reasons, leaving the panel with less than the 12 people required by law. personal debts. Another juror was removed last fall when it emerged that he had a previous

Lebedev left the penal colony in the / SPT IGOR TABAKOV conviction for murder. town of Velsk in the Arkhangelsk region Khodorkovsky (l) and Lebedev (r) listen to proceedings during their trial in 2005. Lebedev spent nearly 11 years in prison. Five men were charged with the after the colony’s officials received the murder of Politkovskaya and acquit- original version of the Supreme Court Before his arrest in 2003, Lebedev and Lebedev jointly, making them both was freed, Lebedev said. “His voice ted in 2009. The Supreme Court ruling issued on Jan. 23, which reduced served in Yukos’ top management, and debtors to the state. was excited and trembling — he was overturned the verdict and ordered a his 11-year term by several months. His in the mid-90s he co-founded the bank Bailiffs are allowed to ban debtors not so much speaking but yelling,” he retrial. associates immediately drove him to his Menatep with Khodorkovsky. from going abroad and arrest them un- said. Politkovskaya, who worked for the home in the Moscow region by car. Unlike Khodorkovsky, who has said til their debts are paid. Khodorkovsky, Lebedev said he needed a trip prominent independent newspaper In his first interview after release, his financial standing will allow him not abroad for a medical examination as Novaya Gazeta, was shot dead in her which he gave to REN-TV television at to have a paying job, Lebedev said he well, since the years he spent in prison apartment building on October 7, his home on Jan. 25, Lebedev an- would probably have to work for a liv- had taken their toll. 2006. nounced plans to return to business but ing. Apart from a tax debt to Russian Although Lebedev Despite seemingly being full of Her murder has been linked by revealed few details. authorities, Lebedev said he has plans, Lebedev was cautious about some experts to her coverage of human “If my freedom of travel is not re- amassed debts to his friends and rela- hopes to travel outside whether all of them could be fulfilled. rights abuses in Chechnya which led to stricted…I will most likely do what I tives that he will have to pay back. Russia, his freedom “I would put it this way: For now we her publishing several books about her had been doing before,” Lebedev told He may have been referring to non- have been released from the colony. At investigations. Her efforts were recog- host Marianna Maximovskaya in a 10- financial debts as well — he mentioned could be restricted due the very least, from their point of view nized with a number of international minute video posted on the network’s that his younger daughter’s age almost to a recent Supreme of taking certain decisions in life, our awards. web site. A transcript of the video was equaled the number of years he spent hands are tied already,” Lebedev said The five suspects on trial are former posted on Khodorkovsky.ru. behind bars and that she had never seen Court decision. of himself and Khodorkovsky, without police officer Sergei Khadzhikurbanov, Asked by Maximovskaya whether him out of prison before Saturday. elaborating. brothers Rustam Makhmudov, Ibragim he meant business, Lebedev said, “Let’s Lebedev said he hoped to meet who traveled to Germany immediately Lebedev and Khodorkovsky were Makhmudov and Dzhabrail Makhmu- call it business,” adding that “in our Khodorkovsky outside Russia in Feb- after his release in a move orchestrated arrested in 2003 and sentenced in two dov, and their uncle Lom-Ali Gaitu- country, successful business is always ruary, but his freedom to travel could with the Kremlin, has cited that as a different trials in 2005 and 2010 to kayev. politics” but that he was “not interested be restricted after the Supreme Court reason for not returning to Russia for combined terms of 11 years in prison, Prosecutors believe that Rustam in politics per se.” on Jan. 23 upheld a lower court ruling the time being. which had been set to expire in Au- Makhmudov committed the murder “On the whole, I think I will sur- to levy 17 billion rubles ($491.2 million) Khodorkovsky was one of the first gust for Khodorkovsky and May for with the help of his brothers, their un- prise you after a certain time,” he said. in unpaid taxes from Khodorkovsky people to call Lebedev after the latter Lebedev. cle, and Khadzhikurbanov. РЕКЛАМА U.S. Reviews Russian Student’s Arrest By Joe Mandak the two met for several hours at the jail Police said Miftakhov at first told THE ASSOCIATED PRESS on Sunday. them “he was going to blow things up,” PITTSBURGH (AP) — The FBI and In an affidavit, Altoona police said but he didn’t specify what nor did po- US prosecutors were reviewing allega- they searched Miftakhov’s bedroom lice ask him to elaborate at that time, tions against a college student from after speaking with his landlord about according to the affidavit. Under later Russia who has been charged with pos- possible marijuana growing there. Dur- questioning, Miftakhov said he had ex- sessing bomb-making and marijuana- perimented with the devices in Califor- growing materials, though police ac- nia, but never in Pennsylvania, and he knowledge the suspect told them he had not planned on blowing anything wasn’t planning on “blowing anything ‘...his intent was to set up, the affidavit said. up.” “Miftakhov stated his intent was to No federal charges had been filed the devices off in a set the devices off in a remote field and against Vladislav Miftakhov by early remote field and did did not intend on ‘blowing anything Monday. The 18-year-old was ar- up,’” and that he was too afraid to det- raigned Saturday on state court charges not intend on ‘blowing onate one of the devices he made, the filed after Altoona police said they anything up.’ affidavit said. found bomb-making materials in his Miftakhov’s roommate, Andrew Leff, rented room near the Penn State-Al- told the newspaper Miftakhov was bored toona campus, about 137 kilometers ing the search, police found a suitcase and impulsive but not dangerous. east of Pittsburgh. On Monday, Miftak- holding two containers with exposed Miftakhov faces a preliminary hear- hov was in the Blair County Prison, un- fuses and other explosives-related ma- ing Feb. 5 on charges including pos- able to post $500,000 bond. terials, as well as a smaller “completed sessing or making a weapon of mass Miftakhov doesn’t have an attorney. device.” destruction, risking a catastrophe, reck- Hollidaysburg defense attorney Bob “Miftakhov stated he was making less endangerment and drug charges, Donaldson told The Altoona Mirror, ‘flash powder’ and was experimenting including manufacturing or possessing which first reported the charges, that with different mixtures and how they marijuana with the intent to deliver it. he expects to be appointed to the case. would blow up,” the affidavit said. He has been given an interim sus- The lawyer told the newspaper that Miftakhov told police he bought the pension by the Altoona school, accord- Miftakhov was “articulate, intelligent materials online about three weeks ago ing to campus spokeswoman Shari and focused on his education” when and assembled them in his room. Routch. The St. Petersburg Times | www.sptimes.ru NATIONAL NEWS Wednesday, January 29, 2014 ❖ 5 ‘Peace Ukraine Unrest Unlikely to Spread By Gabrielle Tétrault-Farber THE ST. PETERSBURG TIMES Doves’ MOSCOW — With violent clashes be- tween protesters and law enforcement in Ukraine showing few signs of dimin- ishing, pro-Kremlin commentators and lawmakers in Russia have issued dra- Attacked matic warnings about the possibility of unrest spreading across the border. THE ST. PETERSBURG TIMES Prominent journalist and television MOSCOW — Two doves — released personality Vladimir Solovyov said the by the Pope in a call for peace in clashes in Kiev could inspire terrorists Ukraine — were attacked by two who are “intoxicated by the smell of larger birds, in what many inter- blood and dream of perpetrating a preted as an ominous sign for the bloodbath in Russia.” The State Duma country. is using the turmoil in Ukraine as The doves were set free from a bal- grounds to consider harsher terms in a cony overlooking St. Peter’s Square on proposed bill on “foreign agents” in Sunday after the Pope had led morn- the media. ing prayers preaching “the spirit of But independent pundits say the peace and the search for common good seeds of such violent protests have not to prevail in the hearts of all,” and call- been laid in Russia, even while some ing for an end to the recent violence in high-profile anti-Kremlin activists have Ukraine. expressed sympathy with Ukraine’s However, the symbolic gesture soon Euromaidan movement, if not with its backfired as the peace birds were set destructive methods. upon by a seagull and a crow, which The pro-Kremlin pundits’ warnings repeatedly pecked and grabbed at the are similar to those made in the past smaller birds as thousands of people about the supposed potential for an watched. anti-government uprising in Russia. Social media users have been spec- Many opponents of President Vladimir

ulating what the unfortunate incident Putin call such statements overblown / AP VOJINOVIC DARKO may mean for Ukraine, with many and a tactic intended to build support A protester guards a barricade in Kiev. Some Russian lawmakers worry that the unrest in Ukraine will spread to Russia. people drawing parallels between the for repressive legislation. larger birds and the Ukrainian special The warnings seem to be based of the Carnegie Moscow Center’s soci- ning political power by running in the but on Friday he met with the perma- police, who go by the name “Berkut,” partly on Ukraine’s cultural and his- ety and regions program. “The former Moscow mayoral election, in which he nent members of Russia’s Security or “Eagle.” torical proximity to Russia and on the Soviet republics celebrate their inde- placed second. He has also expressed Council to discuss the standoff in Kiev. “It is symbolic. The dove of a free fact that the two countries have many pendence and circumscribe what de- presidential ambitions. In the Duma, pro-Kremlin deputy Ukraine in the clutches of the ‘Ber- links, including between anti-govern- fines them as a nation. But this is not Perhaps less comparable to Yevgeny Fyodorov accused the media kut,’’’ one user said in a comment on ment groups. But pundits also cite the the case in Russia.” Ukraine’s Euromaidan protests is the of “practically provoking a civil war” in radio station Ekho Moskvy’s website. presence in Russia of militant national- “We often get the sense that Russia anti-Kremlin insurgency in the North Ukraine and said the “situation was es- “Putin and Yanukovych?” another ist groups and active terrorist cells aim- ‘began’ in 1991. When we do not know Caucasus, although groups involved in sentially the same in Russia,” Itar-Tass user said, referring to the two preying ing to overthrow the current regime. where we came from, it is difficult to that movement have explicitly called reported. Fyodorov has proposed birds. Members of far-right organizations know where we are going,” Lipman for violence to overthrow the state. tightening restrictions on foreign In another comment, one user drew have been leading figures in the revolt said. Over the weekend, the militant money spent on media outlets. a parallel between the attack and Rus- in Kiev, and Russia has had recent ex- Alexei Navalny, Russia’s most-rec- group Vilayat Dagestan, which claimed “The U.S. has spent $5 billion on sian General Prosecutor Yury Chaika’s perience with nationalist violence. Late ognized opposition leader, espouses responsibility for the two suicide at- Ukraine for political reasons,” Fyodo- last name, which is Russian for last year, nationalists were involved in certain nationalist views and has ex- tacks in Volgograd that killed 34 people rov told The St. Petersburg Times. “We “seagull.” an anti-migrant riot in a Moscow sub- pressed sympathy with Euromaidan, in late December, urged Russians to want the amendments to the bill to “The seagull — as the Prosecutor urb, and in December 2010 football which aims to unseat Ukrainian Presi- mobilize against “Kremlin gang lead- protect Russia from civil war and other General’s last name — is the embodi- fans, whose ranks overlap with those of dent Viktor Yanukovych, currently a ers.” The group said that if Russians horrors that are driven from abroad.” ment of law in Russia and Ukraine to- nationalist groups, held a violent pro- strong ally of President Vladimir Putin. did not rebel against the government, Fellow Duma deputy Ilya Pono- day,” he said in a comment on Ekho test on Manezh Square next to the On Sunday, Navalny retweeted an they would “not see a quiet life.” maryov, who was one of the leaders of Moskvy. Kremlin. image from the Euromaidan Twitter Adding to the Kremlin’s anxiety the anti-Kremlin street protests along Last week, three people were killed The Russian government seems to account comparing the countries’ anti- over the violence in Ukraine is the ap- with Navalny in 2011 and 2012, dis- in clashes between police and protest- have recognized the potential danger government movements to a video proach of the Sochi Olympics, during missed the idea of unrest spreading to ers in Kiev, as anti-government pro- to its power that these groups pose, game. “If you were born in Ukraine or which Putin clearly hoped the world’s Russia, and said the “foreign agent” tests turned increasingly violent in the curbing their rise into the mainstream, Russia, then you chose the maximum attention would be squarely on Russia media bill was unjustified. Ukrainian capital. but some observers say the groups are level of difficulty. Only Russians are and the Games. Last week, the State “I think a certain group of deputies The Pope said he was close in his not unified enough to be a real threat still on level one, while we are already Duma called for worldwide observance are trying to please their bosses,” Pono- prayers to Ukraine, “in particular to to the Kremlin. killing the final boss.” of ceasefires in armed conflicts during maryov said by telephone. “I really those who have lost their lives, and “The evasive nature of Russia’s na- Navalny played a prominent role in the Olympics, a traditional practice. don’t see the connection between the their families,” and reiterated the need tional identity makes the mobilization street protests against Putin’s rule in Putin has not made extensive com- unrest in Ukraine and media that re- for dialogue between “the institutions we are now seeing in Ukraine virtually 2011 and 2012, but last year he took a ments on the situation in Ukraine since ceive foreign funding. The idea of a ‘for- and civil society.” impossible,” said Masha Lipman, head more conventional approach to win- protests intensified earlier this month, eign agent’ is absurd in the first place.” РЕКЛАМА Lavrov Expresses Support Government For Anti-Islamist Alliance Funds Robotic RIA NOVOSTI after moderates in the opposition MOSCOW — Moscow supports a clashed with Muslim radicals on the proposed alliance between the Syr- ground earlier this month. Avatar Program ian regime and moderate opposition The majority of radical Islamist THE ST. PETERSBURG TIMES against the Islamists, Foreign Minis- groups in Syria have rejected Ge- MOSCOW — The government will al- ter Sergei Lavrov has said. neva 2 and threatened violence locate 3 billion rubles ($87 million) this Prominent Syrian Islamist against participants. year to develop robotic avatars that groups such as the al-Qaida-affili- The conference is the first time closely mimic human movements, Dep- ated Jabhat al-Nusra and Islamic since the outbreak of civil strife in uty Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin told State of Iraq and the Levant “have Syria in 2011 that warring parties NTV television on Sunday. no place in negotiations,” Lavrov have engaged in negotiations. The robots — which would operate said on NTV television. UN and Arab League Envoy to based on a principle similar to the one “Our goal is to facilitate some Syria Lakhdar Brahimi said on Jan. featured in the James Cameron movie political agreement between the 25 that progress on the first day of “Avatar” — would allow their human [Syrian] government and sane, secu- the inter-Syrian talks was minimal. operators to control minuscule motions lar, patriotic opposition and parallel The sides have so far only dis- of the highly sensitive machines. to political reconciliation to help cussed humanitarian issues. An un- “This would essentially mean adapt- them unite to fight these terrorists,” identified source at the negotiations ing robotic technologies to the physics Lavrov said in the interview, broad- said on Jan. 25 that the matter of a of human behavior,” Rogozin said. cast Sunday. transitional government was not on The Advanced Research Founda- The Syrian opposition and the the agenda through Monday. tion, initiated by Rogozin, said last government of President Bashar As- The talks are tense in the ex- summer that it intended to develop ro- sad are currently locked in high-ten- treme: The delegations, though sit- botic avatars to replace humans on the sion talks at the Geneva 2 conference ting at the same table, only converse battlefield. in the Swiss city of Montreux. through Brahimi, while Syrian jour- Rogozin also told NTV that the Assad’s government has called nalists attack each other verbally foundation was working on the cre- for an anti-Islamist alliance shortly and physically behind the scenes. ation of “robotic underwater cities” for 16+ the exploration of the Arctic Shelf. Business www.sptimes.ru | Wednesday, January 29, 2014 ❖ 6 Consumers Lose Out In E-Commerce Battle By Delphine d’Amora which includes such major domestic THE ST. PETERSBURG TIMES players as M.Video and KupiVip, RBC Consumers and industry insiders are reported. blaming domestic e-commerce lobbyists The Society for Consumer Rights for the customs clampdown that pro- Protection called for a boycott on all voked several international shipping the association’s member companies companies to halt express deliveries to last week and on Friday announced private individuals in Russia last week. plans to hold a demonstration on Feb. DHL, DPD and FedEx have all 8 protesting the lowering of the duty- cancelled their express parcel delivery free threshold. services after learning that all ship- “According to the lobbyists, the ments, regardless of their value, would new measures will enable us to battle now have to be formally registered unregistered importers. However, it is with customs. obvious that the adopted means are Registry requires an array of addi- nothing more than a struggle with west- tional documentation, including a pur- ern Internet giants, to whom Russian chase receipt and the buyer’s passport online shops are losing market share,” number, Vedomosti reported. the society said in a statement. The change has led to a “substantial “It seems to me that all of these

DEPOSITPHOTOS.COM / FOR SPT / FOR DEPOSITPHOTOS.COM increase in formal customs entries, re- steps that are being taken, they are go- The percentage of women in senior roles rose from 21 percent in 2012 to 24 percent in 2013. sulting in a significant delay in the de- ing to the lobby for our Russian Inter- livery of packages to private individu- net shops,” agreed Yelena Berlizova, als in Russia,” Ivan Shatskikh, country marketing director of local online pay- manager for UPS Russia, said in an ment service Payture. Women Gain Ground, Respect emailed statement. The Russian e-commerce market is These heightened requirements are a juicy target, with yearly growth of be- By Olga Kalashnikova Goldman Sachs analysts proved mostly in commercial or financial posi- just the first of new customs policies set tween 25 and 30 percent, according to a THE ST. PETERSBURG TIMES that if women join the top posts of the tions or as the head of a company to tighten regulation and increase taxa- study published in November by the Although women occupy 31 percent of largest companies, the GDP of highly branch. In Sweden, the idea of gender tion of Russia’s burgeoning e-com- Higher School of Economics. managerial positions in Russian compa- developed countries could increase by equality is universal. Both women and merce market. Cross-border trade more than dou- nies, ranked 11th in the world according 9 to 15 percent. Diversity in manage- men are allowed to take parental leave. Customs authorities will soon begin bled in 2013, the Association of Online to Oxford’s Saïd Business School and ment can provide various approaches It is not common to give a woman your levying a 30 percent duty on all pur- Vendors has estimated, indicating that significantly higher than in the United to solving problems. seat or the right of way. A person’s gen- chases from foreign e-commerce com- foreign companies are picking up steam States or the United Kingdom, much “Male employees are often driven der is hardly noticed there.” panies valued at more than 150 euros in the race to capture the market. needs to be done to develop true diver- by impulse, causing potentially reckless “In Kazakhstan, women are able to ($200). The upcoming fall in the duty-free sity at management level. decisions, whereas women can bring a keep the conversation going but com- Previously, customs duties were threshold will likely have a much more “If you look at quantitative data, it’s different attitude to the table. Their panies in Kazakhstan are used to doing only applied to shipments worth more substantial impact on the market than actually quite clear that the situation for ability to listen and foster constructive business with men. Although there are than 1000 euros or weighing in at more the increased bureaucracy at the bor- women in senior positions in Russia is criticism allows them to assess what is more and more women among the than 31 kilograms. der, Berlizova said, adding that Russian relatively positive,” said Katleen de working and what needs to be adjusted company founders in Russia, there is The new limit was initiated by cus- consumers will nonetheless find a way Stobbeleir, a professor in HR Manage- more effectively,” said Peterson. still the habit to divide business area toms authorities in cooperation with to access the products they want at the ment and Leadership at Vlerick Busi- “The skill in deciding what needs to into those suitable for women and the Association of Online Vendors, price they can afford. ness School, speaking to The St. Peters- be changed and to administer this change those that are not,” she said. burg Times. “Certainly, Russia is ahead in a painless manner is more crucial than The issues Russia faces are no differ- of the U.S. and most of Europe in terms ever, and women have proven to be more ent than in the rest of the world. En- of women in senior positions.” effective at this than their male counter- trenched cultural barriers, a male-domi- “When I teach executive classes for parts,” said Peterson. nated corporate environment and im- Mobile Operators Seek To specific companies in Russia,” de Stob- Polish researchers back up this claim, practical working hours inhibit the ascent beleir continued, “I am always sur- asserting that a woman’s intuition, the of women up the corporate ladder in prised by the high proportion of women ability to sense lies and the emotions of most countries, Peterson believes. Maintain Growth, Profit in the classroom.” people with whom they work, is an ad- “When I teach the EMBA program, 2013 was a milestone year for ditional advantage in the boardroom. the issue of women in leadership posi- By Olga Kalashnikova the shop windows displaying smart- women in senior positions. “While some women successfully tions comes up often,” said Stobbeleir. THE ST. PETERSBURG TIMES phones and the location of furniture, “On a global scale, the percentage of use their femininity to their advantage “It is clear from the female students in Mobile TeleSystems, or MTS, whose the retailer can show as many products women in senior roles rose from 21 per- during negotiations, if a client’s appli- the class that they still feel it’s difficult retail chain is managed by Russian in a 40-60 square meter space as it cent in 2012 to 24 percent in 2013 while cation is acceptable and we are able to for them to make the jump from mid- Telephone Company, has announced could in a space twice the size,” re- Korea inaugurated its first female presi- fulfill their request, then what’s most dle management to senior manage- the reorganization of its business con- ported MTS. dent,” said Gayle Peterson, co-director important is asking the right questions ment. Even when they do so, it appears cept. The plans include retail outlets MTS has already reorganized ten of the newly launched Women Trans- and giving truthful answers, not accept- that they feel less secure in their job oriented more towards data-generat- stores in several Russian regions since forming Leadership Programme at Ox- ing tasks we can’t complete,” said Na- than men do — and they worry more ing devices and the accessories for late 2013. The results of the experiment ford’s Saïd Business School, speaking to talya Podgoretskaya, the head of the about their future prospects. They such gadgets. were a 10 to 30 percent growth in sales The St. Petersburg Times. Direct business communications don’t quite feel that they get the same By the end of 2013, RTC increased according to the company. Since the In 2013, the EU enacted a law requir- agency and co-owner and general di- opportunities or resources as men,” smartphone sales by 160 percent while beginning of 2014, the company has ing a specific number of women in execu- rector of Mailigen.ru email marketing “To help women raise their profile the sales of ordinary phones fell by 28 continued to open new stores and ren- tive positions in companies. Last year the agency. in the corporate world we must first percent, reported Vedomosti. The ovate existing ones. Fifty new stores European Commission began voting on “We work with companies in twelve recognize that diversity is good for company’s sale of tablet PCs grew 350 are expected to open in various regions a regulation that would require 40 per- different countries. Men are far more business and that women can bring a percent in 2013. Smartphone sales ac- of Russia by the end of this year, with cent of top posts in European Union common in this sphere. Even my part- different and diverse set of values that count for nearly half of the company’s several hundred stores due to be rede- companies to belong to women. In the ner Martin says that launching compa- have the potential to increase profit entire sales. A year ago, that figure was signed to match the new store model. U.K., women make up 47 percent of the nies in new markets is not the most fe- and improve the culture of an institu- only 30 percent. “The majority of mobile purchases financial elite, according to CCI-Inform, male-friendly kind of work,” said tion,” said Peterson. In addition to rethinking the range in the next few years will be made at the commercial and industrial journal of Podgoretskaya. “To change this, a cultural shift of products it offers, MTS is also due the provider’s stores, not from indepen- the Chamber of Commerce and Industry Despite the gains, stereotypes about needs to be accelerated in which to redesign the appearance of its dent companies on the market,” said of the Russian Federation. male and female occupations still exist. women can celebrate their skills, and shops to function as a showroom for Timur Nigmatullin, an analyst from In- Research has proved that women im- For example, companies working in the diversity is acknowledged for its bene- the operator’s online business. With vestcafe, an independent analysis firm. prove the efficiency of a company. A re- steel, logistics or construction indus- fits to companies.” the new strategy, the company has Independent companies, such as port from U.S. consultant firm McKinsey tries are traditionally male-dominated. “It’s obvious that although Russia embraced “showrooming,” a trend Euroset, however, are skeptical that and Co. recently revealed that gender- There are still no large companies man- affords more senior positions to that has frustrated many retailers in MTS’ innovations will allow them to balanced executive boards earn a 56 per- aged only by women. Moreover, most women than many other developed the past whereby consumers browse compete since operators’ stores are 30 cent higher operating profit compared to women have a man as a business part- economies, women still do not feel as bricks and mortar shops only to buy percent less efficient than, for example, companies with male-only committees. ner. Podgoretskaya claims that 95 per- though they are on a level playing later online, often at a significant dis- Euroset shops, Izvestia quoted a repre- “However, the same report shows cent of her negotiations are with men. field,” said Stobbeleir. count. In addition to the display area, sentative of the company as saying. that many senior managers across the The attitude towards women also As in many European countries, Rus- MTS says it will provide a range of Megafon, however, by combining e- world still do not see ‘gender diversity’ depends on the country since every na- sia has its own women’s business associa- financial services in its stores to help commerce with traditional retail, offers as a priority,” said Peterson. “Compa- tion has its own stereotypes regarding tion that unites women from many re- lock in business. their customers a blended shopping ex- nies that neglect the need to develop a the role of women. Many nations still gions of the country working in various Through its reorganization MTS perience whereby they can now order a more appropriate working environ- have a cultural bias that prevents any sectors. The purpose is to promote fe- hopes to reduce investments costs in product through their online shop and ment for women do so at their own real progress towards gender equality. male leadership in business while finding the opening of new stores by 10 percent collect it in person at one of the store risk. Backed by a growing amount of “In the Baltic countries, for example, solutions for economic and social prob- for shops of up to 60 square meters, locations. With such types of sales ac- research, a general consensus is emerg- I surprise many people with my initia- lems, and promoting the role of women and save 200 percent on larger stores of counting for 50 percent of all purchases ing that the increase of female repre- tive and by my calm negotiation style,” in the business world. The view of women up to 100 square meters. in December 2013 according to data sentation in workforces can signifi- said Podgoretskaya. “They are used to as capable colleagues to be taken seri- “By dividing the shops into differ- from RBK Daily, they may be on to cantly improve a company’s wealth,” seeing women in the business world but ously is still lacking in many areas. ent zones, emphasized by the light in something. BusinessFocus www.sptimes.ru | Wednesday, January 29, 2014 ❖ 7 Ilya Shtrom: Building Brand Loyalty By Olga Kalashnikova THE ST. PETERSBURG TIMES

ince becoming involved in the local food retail business in the mid-1990s as a logistics di- rector for the Uniland food retail company, Ilya Shtrom hasS remained loyal to the industry and now manages the Land chain of premi- um-class supermarkets. Currently one of the largest, most rapidly developing markets in the world, Russia is attract- ing significant investment from Europe. In the 90s, however, the fast moving consumer goods market, or FMCG, was just beginning and the only sources of reliable information were foreign books on the subject, remembers Shtrom. But trial and error, he confessed, provided

‘Our success is the result of teamwork aimed at satisfying the demands and wishes of the consumer.’ him with practical experience that no amount of reading ever could. The first Land supermarket opened in 1998, when the field was still in its infancy. Sixteen years later, the com- pany operates ten outlets and offers online sales. Shtrom spoke to The St. Petersburg Times about local habits in food consumption and the concepts

underpinning the premium-class retail FOR SPT format, noting that such a format is a The key to Shtrom’s success is offering a range of products unavailable anywhere else in the city and focusing on customer service. specifically Russian phenomenon. ition and our own practical experience. I think we have something to surprise Q: Does the same format of food Q: When did the idea of launching We were not afraid to follow our own them with, as we offer interesting goods retail exist in the West? ILYA SHTROM a premium-class supermarket emerge? path and so we centralized the compa- brought in from foreign countries. We A: Premium boutiques are very A: With the inauguration of the ny’s own production. There was also not only stock recognized brands, but popular in the West, while the “pre- 2004-present: CEO, Land Land supermarket in Vladimirsky Pas- the difficulty of popularizing the con- also work with small family companies. mium supermarket” format is a rare supermarkets. sage, a decision was made to develop cept of “premium-class” in terms of So I am sure that some Italians may find thing. 1998-2004: Head of Sales, the premium-class sector. At that point food retail, which was virtually un- some Italian food they have never tried Megamart. in time, this niche was relatively un- known in St. Petersburg at the time. before. Many foreigners learn about Q: How much does the Russian 1995-1998: Logistics Director, populated and we became one of the We provided an alternative to other Russian food at the shops and can also food retail market differ from that in Uniland. first food retail companies to focus on food retail chains by offering our cus- find traditional local souvenirs to bring Europe? this area in St. Petersburg — a leading tomers added value. home as gifts. A: The approach to business is dif- Now reading: ‘Dark Tower’ by position we retain to this day. As a ferent in Russia and in Europe, includ- Stephen King. company, Land initially built shops and Q: How was this received? Q: Is there a lot of competition in ing the approach by the state. Russian supplied Italian refrigeration equip- A: We immediately had a loyal fol- the premium-class sector? customers trust the quality of Euro- Favorite film: ‘Groundhog Day,’ ment to the market. Since 1995, the lowing, despite the fact that the brand A: The volume of sales in the pre- pean goods mostly due to the state cer- ‘Heartbreak Ridge.’ company has been the official dealer of was not very well known. It took time mium FMCG segment is continually tification of natural products. In Fin- ARNEG, a leading global manufac- for customers to learn about us. Gradu- growing in St. Petersburg. In 2013, com- land, for example, customers want to Favorite place in St. Petersburg: turer of showcases for supermarkets ally, people from different neighbor- petition increased with new players know the origin of a product and its Alexandrovsky Park (Tsarskoe Selo, and comprehensive facilities for the re- hoods began visiting the shop to buy production history. They trust local Pushkin) tail sector. some special products, foreign novelties producers. Organic agriculture is well and exotic fruit and vegetables. The cus- established in many European coun- Q: Were there any similar super- tomers were impressed by the polite and ‘The culture of tries, while Russia lost its position in A: Our success is the result of team- markets in St. Petersburg when you professional service, the absence of agriculture with the break-up of the work aimed at satisfying the demands decided to develop the premium-class queues, the wide variety of goods, the consuming high- Soviet Union. and wishes of the consumer. It has also format? comfortable atmosphere, the quality of been important to deliver on promises, A: There was Super Siva on Ulitsa what we offered and how clean it was quality, organic Q: You cooperate closely with for- to be courageous enough to try some- Savushkina that was very popular and kept. People have now started to think food is a recent eign suppliers. Is there any difference thing new and to put your life into your Super Babylon on the Petrograd Side. more about their health and choose in working with them as compared to business. These supermarkets had a loyal clien- quality products for their families. De- development.’ Russian producers? tele but we were not afraid of the com- pending on the location, we offer be- A: We import goods from Italy, Q: What does the future hold for petition. The premium FMCG market tween 12,000 and 22,000 items, includ- emerging and the chains saw new Spain and Finland and plan to expand Land? was not yet saturated. We gambled on ing produce from the leading farms of growth. I would say the premium seg- our geographic coverage. Foreigners A: We plan to increase the amount exclusive items and a wide range of the Leningrad Oblast, our own branded ment is nearly saturated but there are are more careful when it comes to of supermarkets by 15 to 18 outlets products and started to supply goods merchandise, bio and organic food, pre- advantages in such a situation. Compe- choosing business partners. To build by the end of 2015. We also plan to that were impossible to find anywhere pared meals and exclusively imported tition is an excellent incentive for us to trusted relations, one has to work very continue developing our online shop; else in the city. We also provided the items from Italy, Spain and Finland. realize our most ambitious plans. This hard and demonstrate good results. in 2013, our online sales grew by 250 high-quality service that distinguishes year we opened three new supermar- For example, Finns value their repu- percent. We also plan to increase our premium supermarkets from other re- Q: Who is your customer? Is the kets and launched a franchise in Sochi. tation very much. One of our buyers presence on the market by develop- tail outlets. In 2004, the other players shop popular among foreigners? Ultimately, it is the customer who ben- traveled to Finland to build a relation- ing franchises in the regions. We are in the market just did not know how to A: Our target market are profession- efits from increased competition. ship with a supplier of fresh strawber- also looking at ways to develop new serve customers, so we explained to als who lead an active lifestyle, have a ries. We liked the natural taste and technologies in retail. We launched each of our shop assistants that cus- steady income and devote about 25 per- Q: Do most people here consume fragrance of the berries, but could not self-service checkouts and loyalty tomer satisfaction is paramount and cent of their budget to food. According high-quality products or do they prefer come to terms with the producer. The generators that create personalized that they had to do everything in their to our research, 68 percent of our cus- what the huge chains have to offer? Finnish farmer categorically refused offers for the customer based on past power to offer the customer an enjoy- tomers are employees, 18 percent are A: The culture of consuming high- to supply strawberries to Russia as he purchases. We are also planning to able experience. entrepreneurs and business people and quality, organic food is a recent devel- was unable to verify that the produce increase imports, to produce more the remaining 14 percent are house- opment. Agriculture is in decline and would reach the Russian market in an own-brand merchandise and to in- Q: What difficulties did you face wives and students. Luciano Spalletti, people miss the natural taste of prod- ideal state. crease the availability of farm-raised when you entered the market? Elena Vaenga, Mikhail Boyarsky, Igor ucts made without colorants, preserva- produce. A: Very few business processes were Korneluk and Sergey Shnurov all shop tives and flavor enhancers. Luckily, lo- Q: What qualities helped you in described anywhere in Russian litera- at our supermarkets. Foreigners usually cally farmed produce is gaining in pop- creating a chain of premium super- This interview has been edited for length ture. We relied a lot on our own intu- prefer the shop in Vladimirsky Passage. ularity now. markets? and clarity. Sochi 2014 www.sptimes.ru | Wednesday, Janyary 29, 2014 ❖ 8

IN BRIEF Games Bring Best Russian Record ■ RIA Novosti — A record number of athletes will represent Russia at next And Worst to Light month’s Olympic Games in Sochi, the country’s sports minister Vitaly Mutko By Nataliya Vasilyeva Sochi officials have tried to teach said Jan. 23. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS locals some English, but two weeks be- The Russian team will be repre- SOCHI, Russia (AP) — If you are fly- fore the games there were few signs sented by 223 athletes across 15 sports, ing to Sochi for the Winter Games, that was working. The city offered lan- 46 more than at the last Winter Olym- book a window seat on the right side of guage classes for taxi drivers, but none pics in Vancouver in 2010. The previ- the plane. That way you’ll get a bird’s- of the ones an AP reporter approached ous Russian record team was 190 at eye view of how Russia spent $51 bil- spoke any English. Turin 2006. lion on gleaming new sports arenas and Beliye Nochi, a legendary Sochi res- “Overall, we can say that the team a cobweb of highways for this southern taurant best known for its khinkali, or has been formed and it is a very inter- city on the Black Sea. Caucasian dumplings, offers an Eng- esting team,” Mutko said. “Sixty-three That’s the Russia that President lish-language menu with pictures, but percent are rookies who have never Vladimir Putin wants you to see. the restaurant’s staff members ac- taken part in the Olympic Games be- Russia’s bid to host the 2014 Games, knowledged they are not very fluent. fore. There will be 223 athletes, so the which was championed and overseen in Manager Svetlana Dzhanayeva said team was mostly renewed.” the smallest detail by its powerful leader, she and several waitresses had attended Julia Lipnitskaia, the 15-year-old fig- is supposed to show Russia as a resur- English classes but lamented that they ure skater who won European gold ear- gent economy, capable of turning a were too brief. lier this month, will be the youngest semi-obscure seaside resort filled with “What can a person learn in three member of the Russian team. At the cheesy bars into an international vaca- days?” she said. other end of the spectrum is Turin 2006 tion magnet. Vyacheslav Yakubovsky, a waiter at luge silver medalist Albert Demtschenko, All Sochi needs now is some visi- the nearby Grill&Coffee, said his who will participate in his seventh Win- tors. burger shop was more popular with ter Games at the age of 42. All the indoor venues for the Win- foreigners, attracting about 30 a day. ter Games are tucked into a compact He went to employer-provided English Olympic park next to the Black Sea. classes and was confident of his lan- Gay Denial The outdoor venues in the mountains guage skills. are about 45 minutes away on a brand Back in 2007, Sochi residents may ■ SPT — Anatoly Pakhomov, the new squeaky-clean train. Athletes, have greeted the news of the upcoming mayor of Sochi has said that there are Olympic delegations, journalists and Olympics with jubilation. Years of endur- no gays in the city during an interview spectators on the day of the event all ing Russia’s biggest construction project, with BBC’s Panorama program which have free train tickets. however, have made them weary. aired Monday, Reuters reported. Visitors to test events that Sochi The billions of Olympic-related ru- “We just say that it is your business, it’s hosted last year were pleasantly sur- bles poured into Sochi meant huge AP your life,” said Pakhomov. “But it’s not prised by the army of young volunteers construction trucks have rattled across A bactrian camel carried both the Olympic torch and accepted here in the Caucasus where we who spoke good English and were ea- its streets around the clock for years, HUMP DAY bearer Dmitry Slaschev through Astrakhan Sunday. live. We do not have them in our city.” ger to help. Expect to see them inside caking mud all over the place. The city Pakhomov seems to have taken a the Olympic bubble as well as at Sochi’s is slowly recovering, but its residents page from the book of former Iranian upgraded airport and train stations. still face plenty of challenges. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Olympic Games these days all have Yelena Yaroslavskaya, a young who skirted questions about his coun- stringent security checks and Sochi mother walking with her baby in a cen- Medvedev Takes to CNN try’s treatment of homosexuals by say- even more so since an Islamic insur- tral park, said her apartment block has ing in New York in 2007 that there were gency is raging just a few hundred kilo- been hit by recurrent power shortages no gays in Iran. meters away. Railway stations are cir- ever since preparations for the games Ahmadinejad’s spokesman later cled by temporary fencing and all visi- began. To Reassure Sochi Fears claimed his boss had been misrepre- tors reach venues through a security “We still get power shortages all the sented by Western media, and simply zone where they face an airport-like time,” Yaroslavskaya said. “It’s particu- By Anna Dolgov ings for Americans to avoid the Games meant that there were not as many gays body search and an examination of larly tough when you have a kid and THE ST. PETERSBURG TIMES due to safety concerns, Medvedev said in Iran as there are in the United States. their bags. Trains are patrolled by po- live on the 14th floor. We’re tired of the Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev took “the threats during the Sochi Games Western governments and gay rights licemen who walk down the aisles Olympics already.” to a major U.S. television network to re- are no greater than at any Olympics in activists around the world have criti- throughout the journey. Russian officials insist that electric- assure the world that the upcoming Sochi other places.” cized Russia for adopting a law last The Olympic venues are all built — ity cuts across Sochi are just part of Winter Olympics will be safe, while a “It’s a global world…and we know summer that criminalizes the dissemi- some have been operational for a year maintenance work as a new grid is be- U.S. Olympic speed-skater underscored about other deplorable developments nation of “gay propaganda” to minors. — but workers are still busy with finish- ing put into operation. Two power sta- security concerns by telling his family to in other countries, including the U.S. President Vladimir Putin said in ing touches such as landscaping and road tions and dozens of sub-stations have stay home during the Games. during sports events,” he said. “So to October that gays would be welcome at paving. Some of their recent work ap- been commissioned in the past year, In an interview with CNN’s Chris- say that all the threats are accumulat- the Black Sea resort for the Games and pears makeshift and hasty: palm trees in but things are not getting easier for tiane Amanpour which aired the night ing in Sochi would not be right.” that there is no discrimination of ho- the middle of a traffic roundabout were Sochi residents just yet. of Jan. 22, Medvedev said that “on pub- Russia’s security measures include mosexuals in Russia. However, a num- clearly withering away with no grass Other residents were more optimis- lic events, there are always some “the mobilization buildup of police ber of celebrities, including Lady Gaga around them, just fake pine needles. tic, saying the city’s massive infrastruc- threats,” but insisted that Russian secu- forces, and…a huge number of police- and gay British actor Stephen Fry, have Despite the last-minute labors, Sochi ture upgrade will be the Winter Games’ rity forces are working to ensure that men will watch the process of the called for a boycott of the Games to organizing committee head Dmitry best legacy. the Games go smoothly despite the Games,” he said, adding “some other protest the law. Chernyshenko said Jan. 24 that all ven- “I feel better about it now,” said Irina backdrop of recent suicide bombings in forces will be involved, and we will ues have been tested and are ready to go, Kulyabina as she headed off to a manage- a nearby region, the threats of more at- control and will recite the facilities and according to the R-Sport news agency. ment class. “The highways, the fly-overs tacks and the reported penetration of venues.” Low Expectations Outside the Olympic bubble, many — they are gorgeous. You just whizz by.” Sochi’s security zone by a suspected sui- About 40,000 police officers and streets in downtown Sochi are still pot- Kulyabina said she just had a “bout cide bomber. troops will be patrolling Sochi during ■ RIA Novosti — Russia’s Sports Min- holed and muddy. A central boardwalk of enthusiasm” about the games that Threats accom- the Games. Russian ister Vitaly Mutko seemed to prepare that had almost perfect paving in early will run from Feb. 7-23. pany major events officials have said the host nation for failure at the Winter December is all dug up — and it seems “I bought the tickets yesterday. My “not only in this they have activated Olympics in Sochi, saying on Jan. 23 workers were removing paving stones daughter and I are going to see the country but also in ‘...the threats during a space-based moni- that “any result” would be acceptable. to put used slabs back in. hockey!” she said. others,” Medvedev toring system and Following the disappointment of said. “Definitely we the Sochi Games the Federal Security coming 11th in the medals table at the are aware of that, are no greater than Service has installed last Winter Olympics in Vancouver, and we will take that equipment to moni- Russia’s team is under pressure to im- Skater Seen as Calculated Risk into account during at any Olympics in tor online and prove. Senior officials have backed RIA NOVOSTI European championships and 18-year- the Olympics.” phone communica- away from earlier predictions of fin- Moscow Russian Sports Minister Vitaly old Maxim Kovtun being seen as the In the latest sign other places.’ tions in the city. ishing among the leaders in Sochi, Mutko on Sunday acknowledged that country’s next great hope. that many foreign Medvedev also however. sending figure skater Yevgeny Plush- “It is only pragmatism. I personally fans are staying away from the Games, praised the joint efforts “in coordina- “It’s important to support any result enko to the Sochi Olympics is a risk, but asked Yevgeny to prepare for the Olym- U.S. Olympic speed-skater Tucker Fre- tion with our partners” to ensure a safe that the team displays,” Mutko told a with a potentially golden payoff. pics two years ago,” Mutko said. “Then, dricks told his parents — who attended Olympics. news conference. The Turin Olympic champion and Maxim Kovtun started to grow and did the 2006 Games in Turin, Italy, and the General Martin Dempsey, U.S. Mutko’s ministry set a target of fin- two-time silver medalist was given the enormous work to get to the Grand Prix 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, ishing in the top three in the medal ta- team’s only spot in the individual compe- [Finals]. But what is better? Just to go Canada — to root for him from home said last week that the U.S. would share ble in a document published in June, tition earlier this week despite not com- and give a worthy performance or to risk this time instead of coming to Sochi, with Russia its sophisticated electronic which Mutko has previously said would peting at elite events for over a year and it and taste the champagne? So Yevgeny CBS reported Jan. 22. equipment, developed to disrupt sig- be an “outstanding” achievement. being beset by back and knee injuries. Plushenko is going to the Olympics.” “Tucker said he doesn’t want to nals that terrorists use to set off bombs Russian Olympic Committee presi- Plushenko needed a behind-closed- Plushenko will also feature at the worry about us or about security,” his from a distance. dent Alexander Zhukov said in 2012 doors performance in front of Russian team event that starts a day before the father, Dan Fredricks, told The Janes- Russian Chief of Staff General Val- that “we have a task to come first,” but selectors to convince them he was still opening ceremony, with the medal-de- ville Gazette. ery Gerasimov had expressed an inter- has softened his line since then, declin- the strongest candidate, despite Sergei ciding individual free program set for Asked by the CNN program’s host est in this technology during a meeting ing to set a formal medal target for the Voronov winning silver last week at the February 14. whether he was worried about warn- with Dempsey in Brussels. host team. Arts&Culture www.sptimes.ru | Wednesday, January 29, 2014 ❖ 9 Seminal Club Sets Sights on New Venue A year and a half after it closed for renovation, one of the city’s most influential clubs looks to reopen this year.

By Sergey Chernov saved us from large losses due to the “We definitely provoked very serious THE ST. PETERSBURG TIMES imminent re-closure. movement in the market and took the “The fact is that the club is located [St. Petersburg] club scene to a funda- lavclub, which revolu- next to a residential building whose in- mentally different level,” Tonkikh said. tionized the local club habitants have filed a complaint over “I think we were the first to have scene as the city’s largest the noise levels at the venue. Because such artists as Nightwish or Korn per- venue by playing host to such old premises with a complex in- form in a club setting.’” many popular Russian ternal geometry are impossible to Despite Tonkikh’s refusal to pigeon- Gand international artists after it opened soundproof properly, we have to start hole the venue, describing Glavclub as in 2008, will return to the city accord- looking for a new base of operations.” “simply a venue” without a philosophy ing to its founder Igor Tonkikh. The concerts scheduled at Glavclub open to all styles of music, some of the The Moscow-based Tonkikh — now for 2013 were either moved or cancelled. city’s best concerts took place there. busy running a newly opened Glavclub Speaking last week, Tonkikh said According to Tonkikh, the closing of in Moscow — said he is looking for a that the main reason behind the closing Glavclub has had a negative impact on new location for the St. Petersburg ex- was a delay in investment, rather than the St. Petersburg music scene. tension of the project, which had origi- the complaint. “I think the artists in the middle were nally been conceived as a network of “In summer 2013, we moved to a taken by Kosmonavt, which has a capac-

concert venues across Russia. seasonal stage in a tent on Krestovsky / SPT CHERNOV SERGEY ity of up to 1,500 people, while fewer Speaking to The St. Petersburg Times Ostrov in order to renovate and up- An enthusiastic audience at a Bad Religion concert at the original Glavclub. large-scale concerts have probably been at Pulkovo Airport during his brief visit grade our permanent venue, but the organized,” he said. to the city on Thursday, Tonkikh said investments we had been expecting At one point ahead before the con- we have the opportunity, we will take “A2 is quite a large venue with a that St. Petersburg’s new Glavclub — failed to come through for a number of cert, a senior police official demanded it.” weak management team, while Kosmo- whose name means “Main Club” — is reasons,” he said. that the organizer move to another According to Tonkikh, Glavclub St. navt has strong management but is not likely to be launched later in 2014. “Because the investments did not venue due to the proximity of the Alex- Petersburg may open either at an en- big enough. That’s why I think that the “Glavclub will reopen in St. Peters- materialize, we worked for another six ander Nevsky monastery, located about tirely new location or in an already ex- mid- and top-level categories suffered burg and it’s very likely that it’ll hap- months and, having decided that work- 1 kilometer away, while a large number isting venue. first.” pen before the end of the year,” ing in a highly competitive field with- of police officers were deployed near “There are [a number of] suitable Tonkikh cited the concert by Korn, Tonkikh said. out upgrading the venue had no future, the venue during the event. A few fans places in the city, so we are prepared which played at Glavclub in August The venue, which had been operat- closed the project. were detained after the show for alleged for different scenarios,” he said. “This 2012, as perhaps the venue’s most im- ing in the city for four years, closed for “Everything comes down to timing. jaywalking. is how any business develops; it is ei- portant. renovation following the Dec. 9, 2012 In business, you have to hold the wave, Despite the closure, Glavclub has ther built from scratch, or an existing “This year, Korn is planning to hold concert by the Canadian Christian-rock just as in surfing. If you fail, you’ll never maintained a presence in the city, business is bought.” its concerts in arenas; they are a stadium band Thousand Foot Krutch. It was ex- be the first person to cross the finish bringing some of the acts that play at Four people who were part of the band,” he said. “In our case, they per- pected to reopen in March 2013. line.” the Moscow club to other venues in St. venue’s local team now work for Glav- formed at a club.” He also cited Iggy The renovation plans included re- He admitted that there were com- Petersburg. The most recent such event club Moscow via the Internet. The Pop, Slash and Interpol as Glavclub’s placing the club’s sound and lighting plaints about the venue from local was a concert by Babyshambles at the sound equipment will be rented from a other most successful concerts. systems and the installation of climate residents, but said it was not the main local venue A2 in November 2013. production company, as was the case in “They were all sold-out concerts and control. The VIP area was to be re- reason. “We also keep coming [to St. Pe- the past, he said. there were no venues other than Glav- placed with a VIP balcony with ex- “In every house, in every doorway, tersburg] because we are offered loca- The old Glavclub opened in St. Pe- club and sports arenas that could accom- panded service. there is always a person who complains tions for the new club regularly and tersburg with a bang on Nov. 7, 2008. modate them at the time.” Four months passed after which the about anything,” he said. hope that we will open it before the The day chosen for the opening was Tonkikh said he chose St. Petersburg club finally made a sudden announce- Tonkikh also dismissed as a “con- end of the year. We are prepared to the Soviet main holiday, October Rev- by chance, when a defunct industrial fa- ment that it would not reopen. jecture” the speculation that the real make a quick start,” Tonkikh said. olution Day, while the act selected to cility happened to be available in St. Pe- “Dear former and future guests of reason was revenge on the part of the “The situation is very simple. The St. launch the club was one of the city’s tersburg, rather than in Moscow. Six Glavclub, There are two sides to every authorities for the Pussy Riot Fest, a Petersburg club closed in late 2012, we most popular bands, Leningrad. years later, Tonkikh is set to return. medal,” said a notice on the venue’s charity concert for the two imprisoned then opened a venue in Moscow in Sep- With a capacity of 2,500, the venue “I believe that we will re-emerge in website on Apr. 10, 2013. members of the feminist punk band tember 2013, and we have been operat- hosted some of the most popular Rus- St. Petersburg later this year, no doubt. “We have been worrying a lot about Pussy Riot held at Glavclub in Septem- ing as Glavclub Moscow for the past sian and international rock acts, while Our presence will grow from one-shot the protracted beginning of the total ber 2012 and featuring the Russian sta- four months. We are still interested in remaining open to more innovative events at different venues into the open- renovation of the club, but this is what dium rockers DDT. working in St. Petersburg and as soon as British and American indie rock bands. ing of our own venue,” he said. Education & JobOpportunities advertising section Wednesday, January 29, 2014 10 ❖ Wednesday, January 29, 2014 ARTS & CULTURE www.sptimes.ru Cirque du Soleil’s Multiculti Universe World-famous circus’ elaborate production makes its Russian debut in St. Petersburg.

By Chris Gordon Drawing inspiration from Eastern THE ST. PETERSBURG TIMES philosophy and the quest for harmony between man and nature, “Dralion” irque du Soleil is back in gives human form to the four elements St. Petersburg with an – Air, Water, Fire and Earth – each of arena show titled “Dral- which are identified with a different part ion.” Opening on Jan. 22, of the globe. Each act is overseen by the extravagant show has one of the “elements” whose origin is Cproven popular with local audiences, revealed through costume and music. easily filling the Ice Palace arena, “The music is really from all over which has become the troupe’s home the world. There are influences of Ara- when visiting the city. bic music, Spanish music – we do a lot The title of the show is a portmanteau of world music blends. Certainly there of the two emblematic creatures whose is a big element of Asia and particu- images run throughout the performance: larly Chinese traditions, but it really The dragon, symbolizing the East, and blends together,” said Shaub.

the lion, symbolizing the West. A slightly Directed by Guy Caron, who was FOR SPT promiscuous blend of influences, “Dral- Cirque du Soleil’s first artistic director Dancing on the runway is just one of the many images celebrating the golden age of Air France and KLM airlines. ion” combines the 3,000-year old tradi- when the company was created in 1984, tion of Chinese acrobatic arts with the the show has been seen by more than 7 multidisciplinary approach of Cirque du million people worldwide since it pre- Soleil but nonetheless offers enough miered in 1999. The St. Peterburg run Erarta Exalts High Society thematically-linked elements to bring the is the Russian premiere of the show, various influences together. which will be followed by performances “When ‘Dralion’ was created almost in Chelyabinsk, Kazan and Moscow A new photo exhibition captures the glamour of an era when 15 years ago, Cirque du Soleil had wanted before heading to Minsk. to find a way of combining ancient Chi- The show features 50 international air travel was more of a social event than a travel necessity. nese circus traditions with their contem- acrobats, gymnasts, musicians and sing- porary approach and ‘Dralion’ was the ers, several of whom are Russian, in- By Lana Matafonov showcasing its famous passengers over The pride felt from working onboard is result of that,” Mark Shaub, the show’s cluding a St. Petersburg native. THE ST. PETERSBURG TIMES the years. Launched in 1933 as a con- clearly evident on their perfectly artistic director, told the St. Petersburg While parts of the “Dralion” mythol- solidation of the biggest airlines of the made-up faces. Times. “When you see the entire show ogy feel somewhat dated, it is nonethe- s you walk into Erarta’s time (Air Orient, Air Union, SGTA, Not to be outdone, the men work- there are a lot of other acts – the clowns less a spectacular display of prowess on new exhibition, “Air CIDNA and Aeropostale), Air France ing onboard are just as chic, as the are definitely not Chinese – so it’s a real the part of the performers – one that is France and KLM: The quickly expanded and by 1938 was fly- KLM photographs in the next room melding of the different influences.” often as breathtaking in the quieter mo- History of the World ing to over 85 destinations with some of prove. Dated 1938, one particular pho- As with almost all Cirque productions, ments as it is during the big production Airlines,” the first thing film’s biggest stars onboard. Walking tograph shows a group of stewards the evening begins long before most of numbers. With the Russian love and Ayou are reminded of is that once upon a along, you encounter photographs of dressed in flashy three-piece suits, the audience have found their seats with a knowledge of circus traditions, Cirque time, traveling by air was a fabulous timeless beauties such as Audrey Hep- complete with a captain’s hat and bow trio of roving clowns causing general may- seems to have managed to create quite event —something to be celebrated and burn, Sophia Loren, Elizabeth Taylor tie as their standard uniform. hem, drawing audience members into the a few converts to its worldview. to dress up for. It’s a far cry from the air and Jane Birkin, each effortlessly pos- Despite a less star-studded affair on world of the performers. Daily performances of ‘Dralion’ run travel we know today where the glitz ing as though they were on movie set the runway, the KLM archived photo- The show proper starts when a through Feb. 2, with matinees on the and glamor of boarding a plane has rather than on an airline staircase. The graphs, released from the Maria Aus- character known as Little Buddha, weekend, at the Ice Palace, 1a Prospekt been replaced with lines, delays and men from Hollywood are equally as tria Institute in Amsterdam, are no less who acts as a timekeeper, sets the first Pyatiletok. M. Prospekt Bolshevikov. tracksuits — especially onboard a bud- young and attractive and include a dap- impressive, ranging from vintage act in motion. Tel. 718 6620. get airline. per Sean Connery, a handsome Marlon planes to well-dressed passengers and Through a series of rare black and Brando and a charming Frank Sinatra, even parties held on runways. white photographs from both Air all dressed to impress as they grin at the Photographs of a (horrifyingly) ba- France and KLM archives, visitors are camera before boarding the plane. sic-looking cockpit from the 1930s and instantly transported as far back as 1920 While the star power alone in these an even more sparse-looking cabin from when civil aviation was just beginning series of photographs is impressive the 1920s, however, make you wonder and proceeds to showcase vintage im- enough, what makes them truly enjoy- how anyone had the nerve to board the ages up until 1970. able is the close-up, personal nature of plane. It then makes you wonder if With Air France having celebrated them. Yet, despite their Hollywood when people in the future look back on 60 years up in the air last year and KLM smiles, it is actually the photographs of how we travel by air today, will it be celebrating 95 years this year, making it the perfectly groomed airline crew that more with horror or nostalgia? the oldest European airline operating outshine the celebrities hanging on the under its original name, the exhibition wall. With past uniforms designed by Air France and KLM: The History of was brought together as a way to recog- Christian Dior, Cristobal Balenciaga the World Airlines is on view until Feb. nize these landmark anniversaries. and Christian Lacroix, the steward- 10 at Erarta Museum, 2, 29th Line, V.O.

FOR SPT Split into two rooms, the first gallery esses at Air France are nothing short of Tel. 324 0809. For more information, ‘Dralion’ features an international cast, including a St. Petersburg native. is dedicated to Air France, mostly stylish, graceful and fashion forward. visit: www.erarta.com THE DISH Percorso: Glittering Perfection Percorso atmosphere, and yes, the food. Percorso included perfectly cooked Keeping to the seafood theme, a with fruit and basil (450 rubles, $13) Four Seasons Lion Palace Hotel The Percorso experience starts whole scallops alongside shrimp and slab of rare, grilled tuna atop a puddle that seemed like the least decadent 1 Voznesensky Prospekt with the appearance of a basket full of vegetables. Light, tender and sublimely of bean puree (1100 rubles, $31.80) dessert on offer. A long white cigar- Tel. 339 8000 artisanal bread accompanied by home- crunchy, the nibbles were served in a studded with citrus was a riot of fla- shaped roll covered in flaked, toasted Open daily from 4 p.m. to midnight made butter, two types of salt and jaunty brown paper bag with a tart vors in which each ingredient played coconut, it was an upscale take on a Menu in English small dishes of a fruity, peppery olive lemon jam and a lightly smoky pump- its role and sang out in perfect har- marshmallow that was deceptively Reservations recommended oil for dipping — all of which are ex- kin gazpacho. A trio of steamed shrimp mony. Putting in an appearance to complex in both favor and execution. Dinner for two with alcohol: 6,510 rubles plained by the server. It proved hard atop a bed of barley (590 rubles, $17) ground things, a rack of impeccably Followed by a pair of expertly drawn ($188) to stop from filling up on the delecta- was another take on seafood which was grilled lamb chops (1250 rubles, espressos (250 rubles, $7.23), it was ble bread once we got going, wishing no less satisfying with its tangle of basil $36.14) leaning against a slice of veg- the ideal end to a flawless meal. By Chris Gordon to try all the different varieties, and so and tomato studded barley and squares etable terrine was complimented by a Stepping back out into the cold THE ST. PETERSBURG TIMES it was a mild relief when the waitress of roasted pumpkin in an agrodolce garlic and almond sauce that added a with the miniature bags filled with An evening spent at Percorso is noth- moved it out of reach to place the stun- sauce supplying surprising and deli- softening element to an otherwise chocolates that each diner receives on ing less than an event. From the drama ning looking, and tasting, appetizers cious bursts of brightness. very masculine presentation. A small leaving the restaurant in hand, it was of the crystal chandeliers to the tufted on the oversized table. After a decent pause that allowed cast-iron pot of roasted potatoes (180 clear that we had experienced a very furniture, dark woods and roaring fire, First out of chef Andrea Accordi’s us time to luxuriate in the surroundings rubles, $5.20) provided an extra hit of special event. One that was defined everything oozes a certain refined the- kitchen was a Cartoccio (850 rubles, and enjoy sipping our glasses of Primi- starch and salt that was particularly by quality — in the decor, the service, atricality that is a perfect antidote to $24.57), the chef’s gourmet take on a tivo (350 rubles, $10) and Pinot Grigio good with the tender meat. and every single ingredient from the gray, snowy weather outside. fritto misto, that indulgent seaside fa- (470 rubles, $13.59), the mains arrived With little room left for dessert which each dish was composed. Plan- All this glamour comes at a price vorite of deep-fried seafood and vege- with a flurry of activity as three servers but our gluttonous urges now fully in ning our return, we headed off into — but it’s well worth it for the service, tables. The elevated version served at brought the dishes to the table. control, we ordered a coconut bar the snowy night. WWW.SPTIMES.RU LISTINGS Wednesday, January 29, 2014 ❖ 11

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Tel. 764 8565, 764 9843. 7 p.m. museum’s and private collections. Artists: Sladkovsky. Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory opera Real Jazz Quartet Mainstream. Vasily Kaluzhnin, Konstantin Kordobovsky, Theater. 6:30 p.m. Le Nozze di Figaro Yury Alexandrov directs rock, etc. Jazz Philharmonic Hall (Elligton Hall), Grigory Katsnelson. Through Feb. 23 Mozart’s classic four-act comic opera based 65daysofstatic Post-rock. A2, 27 Zagorodny Prospekt. Tel. 764 8565, Discovering Brodsky. Illustrations by concert on Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais’ witty 3 Prospekt Medikov. Tel. 309 9922. 8 p.m. 764 9843. 8 p.m. children of the Brodsky poem “The Choral Music Palestrina, de Victoria, von play about the tangled events leading up to Mara Rock. Avrora Concert Hall, Easy Winners Ragtime Band Early Ballad of a Little Tugboat.” Painting. Bingen, Guerrero, Gabrieli, Willaert, the planned marriage of Figaro and Susanna. St. Petersburg Hotel, 5/2 Pirogovskaya Nab. traditional jazz. JFC Jazz Club, Through Feb. 9 Monteverdi, Mendelssohn, Brahms. Mariinsky Concert Hall Tel. 907 1917. 8 p.m. 33 Shpalernaya Ulitsa. Tel. 272 9850. 8 p.m. Mariinsky Concert Hall Mazepa Yury Alexandrov’s production of Polyusa Pop rock. Dada, DERZHAVIN MUSEUM Folk Music Valery Gavrilin. Dedicated to the Tchaikovsky’s opera, based on Pushkin’s 47 Gorokhovaya Ulitsa. Tel. 983 7050. 8 p.m. 118 Nab. Reki Fontanki. M: Tekhnologichesky composer’s 75th anniversary. historical poem “Poltava.” Mariinsky Theater Pony Pop rock. Fish Fabrique Nouvelle, sunday, february 2 Institut, Sennaya Ploshchad. Tel. 713 0717. Shostakovich Philharmonic, Small Hall 53 Ligovsky Prospekt. Tel. 764 4857. 9 p.m. Tuesday to Sunday, 10.30 a.m. to 6 p.m. concert Vinyl Disco Retro, covers. Jagger, rock, etc. NEW! The 70th Anniversary of the Piano Recital Haydn, Schumann, Rachmaninoff, 2 Ploshchad Konstitutsii. Tel. 923 1292. Undeon / Untrace / Vy Pole Post-rock, Leningrad Blockade. A collection of friday, january 31 Tchaikovsky. Denis Matsuev. Mariinsky II 8:30 p.m. post-metal, metalcore. Dada, memorabilia from the Pushkin Apartment Subcultura Fest Bez B, et al. Zal Ozhidaniya, 47 Gorokhovaya Ulitsa. Tel. 983 7050. 7 p.m. Museum, State Russian Museum and Siege ballet 118 Naberezhnaya Obvodnogo Kanala. The Spootniks Rockabilly. Griboyedov (Hill), and Defense of Leningrad Museum. Sleeping Beauty Nacho Duato stages a Tel. 333 1069. 4 p.m. 2A Voronezhskaya Ulitsa. Tel. 764 4355, Open Feb. 3 through Mar. 15 brand new production of Tchaikovsky’s classic GIGS On Yun / Vy Soglashayetes Hip-hop. 973 7273. 9 p.m. Folk Pictures. Lubok from the Pushkin based on the tale by Charles Perrault. Zoccolo, 2/3 3-ya Sovetskaya Ulitsa. Bzik / Bez B Punk, alternative rock. Museum. Through Feb. 28 Mikhailovsky Theater Tel. 274 9467. 8 p.m. Griboyedov, 2A Voronezhskaya Ulitsa. wednesday, january 29 Tanator / Dr. Barmental / Sudden Raze / Tel. 764 4355, 973 7273. 8 p.m. DOSTOEVSKY APARTMENT MUSEUM opera Hate Stereotypes / Cemetery / Dnishche Trio Super Heroes Covers. Jagger, 5/2 Kuznechny Pereulok, M: Vladimirskaya. Don Quixote Yannis Kokkos stages rock, etc. Metal. Zoccolo, 2/3 3-ya Sovetskaya Ulitsa. 2 Ploshchad Konstitutsii. Tel. 923 1292. Tel. 571 4031. Tuesday to Sunday, 11 a.m. Massenet’s opera based on Cervantes’s novel. Lackband Nu-jazz, hip-hop, funk. Tel. 274 9467. 11 p.m. 8:30 p.m. to 6 p.m. www.md.spb.ru. Mariinsky Theater Griboyedov (Hill), 2A Voronezhskaya Ulitsa. Tel. 764 4355, 973 7273. 10 p.m. jazz & blues concert Strife / Evergreen Terrace Hardcore, Elvira Trafova and Pyotr Kornev Band Symphony Music Beethoven. Cappella metalcore. Mod, 7 Nab. Kanala Griboyedova. Music by George Gershwin, Cole Porter and Symphony Orchestra. Cappella Tel. 712 0734. 7 p.m. Jerome Kern. Jazz Philharmonic Hall, Symphony Music Borodin, Glinka, Vladimir Vysotsky Memorial Concert 27 Zagorodny Prospekt. Tel. 764 8565, Dargomyzhsky, Musorgsky, Prokofiev, Various artists. Oktyabrsky Concert Hall, 764 9843. 7 p.m. Rimsky-Korsakov, Tchaikovsky, Bellini, Bizet, 6 Ligovsky Pr. Tel. 275 1300. 7 p.m. Old Fashioned B.P. & Elizabeth Allai Verdi, Wagner, Leoncavallo, Mozart, Puccini, Blues. JFC Jazz Club, 33 Shpalernaya Ulitsa. Saint-Sains. Mariinsky Concert Hall jazz & blues Tel. 272 9850. 8 p.m. Symphony Music Liszt. Philharmonic Valley of the Blessed Gennady Golshtein, Symphony Orchestra. Conductor Vladmir Vladimir Lytkin, Stanislav Streltsov, Yana Altschuler. . Shostakovich Philharmonic, Radion and St Petersburg’s Saxophones. Jazz saturday, february 1 Main Hall Philharmonic Hall, 27 Zagorodny Prospekt. Tel. 764 8565, 764 9843. 7 p.m. rock, etc. Lothar Kraft Quintet Mainstream, hard bop. OneRepublic Pop rock. 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PUSHKINSKAYA 10 ART CENTER GALLERIES 53 Ligovsky Prospekt. Tel. 764 5371. SCREENS Open Wed to Sun, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. www.p-10.ru ARTIST’S UNION OF RUSSIA Nonconformism Art Museum. Realities 12 Years a Slave (2013, U.S.-U.K.) Steve 38 Bolshaya Morskaya Ul. Tel. 314 3060. of Existence: Yury Medvedev. Floor 4. McQueen’s epic historical drama film starring 12 p.m. to 7 p.m. Closed Monday. Through Feb. 9 Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael K. Williams and www.spb-uniart.ru Nonconformism Art Museum. Any Time Michael Fassbender. Angleterre (in English NEW! New Admissions: Artists Union. of Activity: Vasily Golubev. Painting. with Russian subtitles). Decorative art, painting, graphics, sculpture. Through Feb. 9 Works from new members of the Artist’s NEW! All Is Lost (2013, U.S.) J.C. Chandor’s Union. Open Feb. 4 through Feb. 9 RACHMANINOV GARDEN action drama film starring Robert Redford. Yury Lavrukhin. Painting. Through Feb. 2 5 Kazanskaya Ul. Tel. 312 9558. Tuesday – Angleterre (in English with Russian subtitles), Saturday 12 p.m. to 8 p.m. Avrora, Formula Kino Galereya, Jam Hall, BOOK AND GRAPHICS CENTER www.fotorachmaninov.ru Rodina, Velikan Park. 55 Liteiny Prospekt. M: Mayakovskaya. Mobile Phone Photography Photo. Through Tel. 273 5452. Daily 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Feb. 22 NEW! Best Night Ever (2014, U.S.) Jason www.naiv-art.ru Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer’s comedy film Front – City – Front. Graphics. Photos, ROSPHOTO STATE CENTER OF starring Desiree Hall, Samantha Colburn and newspapers and posters from 1941-44, taken PHOTOGRAPHY Eddie Ritchard. Formula Kino Galereya. from the Kornilov-Kharshakov family archive. 35 Bolshaya Morskaya Ul. Tel. 314 6184. Through Feb. 2 Daily 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. www.rosfoto.org NEW! Champions (Chempiony) (2014, Landscapes: Svetlana Timofeyeva. Photo. Russia) A sports drama directed by Dmitry ERARTA MUSEUM Through Feb. 9 Dyuzhev, Artyom Aksenenko, Alexei Vakulov 2, 29th Line, V.O. M: Vasileostrovskaya. and Emil Nikogosyan. Alexei Chadov, Svetlana ‘Interpretation of Nature: Charles March’ at the Russian Museum’s Marble Palace Tel. 324 0809. 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Closed SPAS GALLERY Khodchenkova and Mark Bogatyryov star. offers a glimpse of the landscape at one of England’s great country estates. Tuesday. www.erarta.com 93 Nab.Reki Moiki. M: Gostiny Dvor, Sennaya, Formula Kino Galereya, Khudozhestvenny, Air France and KLM: A History of World Sadovaya. Tel. 571 4260. Daily, 12 a.m. to Mirage Cinema, Pik, Velikan Park. Airlines. Photo. Vintage black and white 7 p.m., Saturday 12 p.m. to 6 p.m. Closed on Celebrating Dostoevsky’s Heroes. Heroic Leningrad. An exhibition devoted to photography taken from 1930-60 showing Sunday. www.spasgal.ru Inside Llewyn Davis (2013, U.S.-France) Installation. Through Feb. 11 the military and civilian communication the airlines’ first flight attendants and pilots, The Color of Love: Vyacheslav Shraga. Ethan Coen and Joel Coen’s music drama film workers who made a significant contribution airplanes as well as the celebrities on board Painting. Through Feb. 15 starring Oscar Isaac, Carey Mulligan and John HEROIC DEFENDERS OF LENINGRAD to the liberation of the city. Through Feb. 7 such as Maria Callas, Audrey Hepburn and Goodman. Angleterre (in English with Russian MUSEUM MONUMENT Catherine Deneuve. Through Feb. 10 ULTRAMARIN GALLERY subtitles), Avrora, Dom Kino, Formula Kino Ploshchad Pobedy. M: Moskovskaya. NIKOLAI ROERICH APARTMENT MUSEUM Earthy and Celestial. The gallery’s first 12 Zvenigorodskaya Ul. Tel. 404 6831. Galereya, Khudozhestvenny, Pik. Tel. 371 2951, 373 6563. Open 10 a.m. to 1 Line 18, V.O. Wednesday through Sunday, exhibition dedicated to Christianty, addressing Thursday through Saturday 3 p.m. to 8 p.m. 6 p.m. (5 p.m. on Tuesday and Friday). Closed 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tel. 325 4413. Biblical subjects or connected with Christian www.ultramarinegallery.com/ru NEW! Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (2014, Wednesday and the last Tuesday of every www.roerich.spb.ru ideology. Through Feb. 3 NEW! Leningrad: Andrei Rudiev. U.S.-Russia) Kenneth Branagh’s action thriller month. Roerich School of Contemporary Art. IgRai, ne Noi: Arthur Molev. Painting. A collection of artwork exhibiting the past and film starring Chris Pine, Kevin Costner and Keira Painting. Through Mar. 30 Through Feb.10 future of Leningrad from the artist’s point of Knightley. Formula Kino Galereya, Neva, Pik, HISTORY OF RELIGION MUSEUM Terrestrial and Celestial. Painting, view. Open Feb. 1 through Mar. 8 Khudozhestvenny, Mirage Cinema, Velikan Park. 14/5 Pochtamtskaya Ulitsa. M: Nevsky SIEGE AND DEFENSE OF LENINGRAD graphics, installation. Through Feb. 27 Prospekt / Sennaya Ploshchad, Sadovaya. MUSEUM Tel. 571 0495, 314 5838. Daily 11 a.m. to 8 Solyanoi Pereulok. Tel. 275 7208. Daily MARINA GISICH GALLERY 6 p.m. Closed Wednesday. 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. (3 p.m. Tuesday). Closed 121 Nab. Reki Fontanki. Tel. 314 4380. 16th- 18th- Century Religion and Art in Wednesday and the last Thursday of every 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., Saturday 12 p.m. to 5 p.m. the Netherlands. Painting, graphics, month. Closed Sunday. www.gisich.com. installation. Through Feb. 26 Terracotta Warriors: Dmitry Gretsky and STATE HERMITAGE MUSEUM Yevgenia Katz. Painting. An exhibition of HISTORY OF ST. PETERSBURG MUSEUM 1 Palace Square. M: Nevsky Prospekt. 7-meter-tall oil paintings of schoolchildren Peter and Paul Fortress. M: Gorkovskaya. Tel. 571 3420, 571 3465. Daily, 10.30 a.m. to wearing serious looks by the St. Petersburg Tel. 230 6431. Daily, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. (6 p.m. 6 p.m. (9 p.m. Wednesday). Closed Monday. artist. Through Feb. 22 Tuesday). Closed Wednesday. www.hermitagemuseum.org www.spbmuseum.ru. Edgar Degas: Figure in Motion. Painting. HISTORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY MUSEUM Museum Collection: 2008-2013. Photo, Through Feb. 16 23 Professora Popova Ul. Tel. 346 1850. installation. Through Feb. 4 British Silver from the Victorian Age. Tuesday through Saturday, 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. The Romanovs in St. Petersburg. Decorative art, installation. Through Mar. 16 www.photohismus.spb.ru Decorative art, photo, painting, graphics, Mono-no Aware: The Beauty of Things. Simple: A Zorka Art-Group Project installation. Through Oct. 8 Contemporary Japanese Art. Video, photo, (Poland). Photo. Through Jan. 28 From Feather to Computer. Installation, sculpture, installation. Through Feb. 9 new media. Through Sept. 7 LOFT-PROJECT ETAGI STATE RUSSIAN MUSEUM 74 Ligovsky Prospekt. Tel. 458 5005. Daily HISTORY OF ST. PETERSBURG MUSEUM: 2 Inzhenernaya Ul. M: Nevsky Prospekt. 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. RUMYANTSEV MANSION Tel. 314 3448, 595 4248. Open 10 a.m. to 365 Days: Jonas Mekas. Video. Through NEW! The Book Thief (2013, U.S.-Germany) Brian Percival’s war drama starring Sophie 44 Angliiskaya Nab. M: Vasileostrovskaya, 6 p.m. (5 p.m. Monday). 1 p.m. to 9 p.m on Feb. 25 Nelisse, Geoffrey Rush and Emily Watson. Avrora, Jam Hall, Formula Kino Galereya, Nevsky Prospekt. Tel. 571 7544. Daily, 11 a.m. Thursdays. Closed Tuesday. Animation, Covered With Snow. Khudozhestvenny, Mirage Cinema, Pik, Rodina, Velikan Park. to 6 p.m. (5 p.m. Tuesday). Closed Wednesday www.rusmuseum.ru/eng Animation, installation, video, installation, and the last Tuesday of each month. Kazimir Malevich. Before and After the performance. Through Feb. 20 www.spbmuseum.ru Black Square. Painting, graphics, Kingdom of Flora. 17th-Century Dutch installation. Through Feb. 2 MART GALLERY and Flemish Still Lifes. Painting. Dinner is Served. The Russian Museum 35 Ul. Marata. M: Vladimirskaya, Through Mar. 8 Culinary Companion. Decorative art, Dostoyevskaya. Tel. 710 8835. 12 p.m. to Leningrad Inhabitants. Painting. painting, graphics, installation. Through Feb. 2 7 p.m., Saturday 12 p.m. – 6 p.m. Closed Through Mar. 15 Sunday and Monday. www.martgallery.ru STATE RUSSIAN MUSEUM: MARBLE Greis Darko (Ukraine). Photo, installation. MATYUSHIN MUSEUM OF THE ST. PALACE Artwork that represents the phantoms, ghosts PETERSBURG AVANT-GARDE 5/1 Millionnaya Ul. M: Nevsky Prospekt. and shadows that surround the artist’s life. 10 Ul. Professora Popova. M: Petrogradskaya. Tel. 312 9196. Open 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. (5 p.m. Through Feb. 22 Daily, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. (5 p.m. Tuesday). Monday). 1 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Thursdays. Closed Wednesday. www.spbmuseum.ru Closed Tuesday. MOKHOVAYA 18 GALLERY Victory Over the Sun. Decorative art, photo, Interpretation of Nature: Charles March 18 Mokhovaya Ul. M: Chernyshevskaya. Daily graphics, installation. Through Apr. 3 Photography. Charles Gordon Lennox (Lord 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Closed Sunday, Monday. March) began his career as a professional Tel. 275 3383. www.gm18.ru POLITICAL HISTORY OF RUSSIA MUSEUM photographer while working on the set of The Body: From Olympus to Olympiad. 2/4 Ulitsa Kuibysheva. M: Gorkovskaya. Stanley Kubrik’s Barry Lyndon. The exhibition Painting. Through Feb. 13 Tel. 233 7052. Daily, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Closed showcases up to 50 photographs, Thursday and the last Monday of the month. implementing a movement technique, taken MOSKOVSKY DISTRICT EXHIBITION HALL www.polithistory.ru from his property during 2008-12. Through 6 Pl. Chernyshevskogo, M: Park Pobedy. NEW! The Broken Circle Breakdown (2012, Belgium-Netherlands) Felix Van Groeningen’s Leningrad-44. Posters from WWII and during Feb. 17 Tel. 388 3984. Tuesday – Friday, 11 a.m. to drama starring Veerle Baetens, Johan Heldenbergh and Nell Cattrysse. Angleterre (in Flemish the Blockade. Through Feb. 15 7 p.m., Saturday 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Closed and English with Russian subtitles), Dom Kino. STATE RUSSIAN MUSEUM: Sunday, Monday. POPOV CENTRAL MUSEUM OF MIKHAILOVSKY (ENGINEERS’) CASTLE 70 Peaceful Years. Dedicated to the COMMUNICATIONS 2 Sadovaya Ulitsa. M: Nevsky Prospekt. final lifting of the Leningrad Blockade. 3 Pochtamtsky Pereulok. Tel. 323 9718. Tel.313 4112. Open 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. (5 p.m. Decorative art, painting, graphics, sculpture. Tuesday through Saturday, 10.30 a.m. to Monday). 1 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Thursdays. Through Feb. 2 6 p.m. Closed the last Thursday of each Closed Tuesday. Stopping Time with the Brush: Sergei month. www.rustelecom-museum.ru Yury Kryakvin. Painting. A retrospective Silchenko. Painting, graphics. ADVERTISING exhibition showcasing 90 paintings and Through Feb. 2 graphics by the contemporary St. Petersburg artist. Influenced by Russian and foreign avant- NAME GALLERY garde, especially cubo-futurism, his artwork 33 Nab. Kanala Griboyedova. Tel. 571 5517. captures everyday life. Through Feb. 24 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Closed Sunday, Monday. www.namegallery.ru ST. PETERSBURG STATE MUSEUM OF NEW! Lyubasha and the Wolf: Viktor THEATER AND MUSIC Kuznetsov. Also known as Gipper Puper, the 8 Stremyannaya Ul. Tel. 764 1130. Daily artist’s work incorporates artwork from 1988- 12 a.m. to 6 p.m. Closed Monday, Tuesday 2013 which is then combined with his own and last Friday of the month. technique and color over the top. Open Jan. Theatrical Dynasties: Komissarzhevskya. 30 through Feb. 28 Personal items, letters, costumes, posters, photo, decorations. Through Apr. 12 NEW MUSEUM GALLERY 29, 6th Line, V.O. Tel. 323 5090. YUSUPOVSKY PALACE M: Vasileostrovskaya. Wednesday – Sunday 94 Nab. Reki Moiki, M: Sennaya. 12 p.m. to 7 p.m. www.novymuseum.ru NEW! August: Osage County (2013, U.S.) John Wells’ black comedy starring Meryl Streep, Tel. 314 9883. 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– Banquet hall; – Breakfast; – Children’s room; – Credit cards accepted; – Dancefloor; – Live music; – Home delivery; – Non-smoking area; – Parking; – Wi-Fi zone. 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 Opinion www.sptimes.ru | Wednesday, January 29, 2014 ❖ 16 Why Russia Is No. 1 in Anti-Americanism By Michael Bohm Foundation found that 56 percent of Russians sup- ported a ban on all U.S. child adoptions. The poll remlin propagandists have good reason followed a massive Kremlin propaganda campaign to be happy with the results of a re- that told Russians that the overwhelming majority cently released annual Win/Gallup In- of U.S. parents interested in adopting Russian chil- ternational poll in which more than dren are pedophiles, sadists and child abusers. 67,000K residents in 65 countries were asked, “Who To be sure, anti-Americanism is a worldwide is the greatest threat to world peace?” Given Rus- phenomenon. France and Germany, for example, sia’s results, it is clear that the Kremlin’s anti-U.S. have their share of anti-Americanism. But in these propaganda campaign is paying off handsomely. countries, crude anti-U.S. conspiracy theories are The survey indicated that 24 percent of re- limited to fringe elements on Internet forums. In spondents worldwide consider the U.S. the largest Russia, however, they have become largely main- threat in the world, which is not a surprise and has stream thanks to state-controlled television. been consistent with results over the past decade, On the flip side, only 2 percent of Americans in but a much larger 54 percent of Russians felt the the Gallup poll think Russia is a threat to global same way. This means that Russia exceeded the peace, which is consistent with the global average. global average by more than two times. Russian analysts are split over whether this 2 Surprisingly, the Russians handily outdid the percent rating is good or bad. Some think that the Iranians, of whom only 16 percent see the U.S. as figure confirms Russia’s positive role as a peace- the top threat — even though “Death to Amer- maker, such as when the Kremlin brokered peace ica!” remains a popular political slogan, rivaled plans in Syria and Iran last year. only by “Death to Israel!” But others say Russia’s low result, which is on Even more surprising, twice as many Russians the same “fear level” as Australia, is disheartening, than Iraqis and Afghans see the U.S. as a threat, if not degrading. They support the Soviet-era no- despite the fact that the U.S. led the invasions of tion that “If you are feared, you are respected,” and both of these countries in the past decade. Thus, recall nostalgically how the U.S. and other countries while one could argue that the U.S. threat to Iraq feared the Soviet Union during the Cold War. and Afghanistan is real, the U.S. threat to Russia A “better year” for Russia was 2008, after the remains largely Kremlin-manufactured. Kremlin sent troops into South Ossetia and Abk- To be sure, anti-Americanism has always been hazia in the Russia-Georgia war. That year, a high in post-Soviet Russia, given the lingering legacy more respectable 6 percent of those polled con- of the Cold War. But it has never been this high. sidered Russia a global threat. Kremlin propagandists can rejoice as they reap This explains why so many conservative Rus- the dividends from their anti-U.S. campaign that has sians were delighted to hear U.S. presidential can- relied heavily on state-controlled television. In re- didate Mitt Romney call Russia the United States’ cent years, Russian viewers have been bombarded “No. 1 foe” during his 2011 campaign. (Unfortu- with agitprop news reports and primitive pseudo- nately for them, Romney quickly realized his mis- documentaries with titles like “Who Rules the • The U.S. is propagandizing and spreading U.S. presidents, determining the price of oil and take and clarified his remarks within days, saying World?” and “Who Wants to Carve Up Russia?” homosexuality in Russia to destroy the country’s controlling the amount of dollars that are released Iran was a much larger threat than Russia.) Here are some of the more ridiculous view- traditional, Orthodox foundation, to turn a large in the global economy.” One of the Bilderberg The WIN/Gallup International poll asked an- points promoted by these broadcasts: percentage of the country’s heterosexuals into ho- Club’s chief goals is to turn oil-rich Russia into the other question: “If there were no barriers to liv- • The U.S. financially supports Russian’s home- mosexuals and to increase the level of HIV infec- West’s subservient vassal. ing in any country of the world, which country grown fascist and ultranationalist groups to help tion among Russians. • The U.S. is responsible for most of Russia’s would you like to live in?” While the U.S. was the them gain control of the Kremlin. This will then • The U.S. is undermining Russia’s strategic misfortunes, including: the Chernobyl accident in most-desired destination among all respondents give the U.S. a pretext to send troops into Russia, nuclear deterrence by deploying its Europe-based 1986; the Soviet collapse in 1991; the Kursk subma- polled, Russian respondents placed the U.S. in overthrow the fascists in the name of global peace, missile defense system. rine tragedy in 2000; Georgia’s Rose Revolution in the fourth spot tied with Canada – between Ger- and install a pro-U.S. puppet government. • The U.S. is funding opposition groups and lead- 2003; Ukraine’s Orange Revolution in 2004 and the many in the third spot and Britain in the fifth. • The U.S. is using military transport planes to ers to implement an “Orange”-style revolution in current protests in Kiev; the Krymsk flood in 2012; Once again, Russia went against the global send tons of heroin into Russia from Afghanistan Russia. Opposition leader Alexei Navalny was re- the crash of a SuperJet demonstration flight in In- grain. But at least you can give it credit for being to increase the number of Russian drug users and cruited by the CIA in 2010 when he participated in donesia in 2012; and the meteorite “sent by consistent in its anti-Americanism. increase the spread of HIV through infected in- Yale University’s World Fellows Program. He agreed NASA” that fell near Chelyabinsk last year. travenous needles. to work as a secret U.S. agent and to head the oppo- Under normal circumstances, these conspiracy Michael Bohm is the opinion page editor of The • The U.S. actively supports terrorist groups sition movement to carry out a U.S. government plot theories would evoke laughter from outsiders. Moscow Times. from the North Caucasus with the ultimate goal to unseat Putin and install a pro-U.S. government. But when it results in Russia leading the world in of breaking up Russia into several parts. • U.S. bankers, financiers, industrialists, politi- terms of anti-Americanism, it shows how danger- • U.S. pharmaceutical companies, working on the cians and media moguls dominate the elite Bilder- ously effective the Kremlin has become at ma- CORRECTION: CIA’s behalf, have sent deadly vaccines and other berg Club, a favorite target of Russia’s conspiracy nipulating public opinion. Last week we mistakenly stated that the Catherine medicines to cripple and kill Russians. Hundreds of theorists. According to a recent program on And this is not the only example. A December Palace is in Pavlovsk. It is not, it is in Pushkin. Russians have already fallen victim to this plot. REN-TV, the club “rules the world by appointing 2012 poll by the Kremlin-friendly Public Opinion the word’s worth

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sian language. One of my favorite problems язык (bureaucratese, business Russian). Sometimes this is figurative: Понимая ваше положе- OOO Neva Media ì˜‰ËÚÂθ Ë ËÁ‰‡ÚÂθ – ééé “ç‚‡ å‰ˇ” is the question of слитно (written together Using it makes me feel like Miss Murchison ние, мы готовы пойти вам навстречу (We under- Copyright © 2005 The St. Petersburg Times. All Rights Reserved. Iin one word) or раздельно (written separately as typing away in a Dorothy Sayers novel: Ввиду мо- stand your situation and are willing to meet you Mass media registration certificate number èà ‹ îë2-8918 of November 30, 2007, two words). There are entire books devoted to this розов школы закрывают (In light of the cold tem- halfway). Or sometimes literal: Если пойдём на- issued by the Directorate of the Federal Service for the monitoring of compliance with topic, which is worth mastering, since the meaning peratures, schools are closed). Производство по встречу друг другу, то мы встретимся в парке. (If legislation in the sphere of mass communications and the preservation of cultural heritage of the words depends on how you write them. делу об административном правонарушении пре- we walk toward each other, we’ll meet in the park). of the North-West Federal District. ë‚ˉ ÚÂθ ÒÚ ‚Ó Ó Â„Ë ÒÚ ‡ ˆËË Ò‰ÒÚ ‚‡ χÒÒÓ ‚ÓÈ Sometimes the distinction is quite dramatic. кратили ввиду отсутствия состава правонаруше- But на встречу means “to a meeting” and re- ËÌÙÓ χ ˆËË èà ‹ îë2-8918 ÓÚ 30 ÌÓfl · fl 2007 „Ó‰‡, ‚˚‰‡ ÌÓ ìÔ‡ ‚ ΠÌË ÂÏ î‰Â- ‡Î¸ÌÓÈ ÒÎÛÊ·˚ ÔÓ Ì‡‰ÁÓ Û Á‡ Òӷβ ‰Â ÌË ÂÏ Á‡ÍÓ ÌÓ ‰‡ ÚÂθ ÒÚ ‚‡ ‚ ÒÙÂ χÒÒÓ ‚˚ı Take the word купе (compartment, as in a train). ния (The investigation of an administrative viola- fers to a specific get-together. Её пригласили на ÍÓÏÏÛ ÌË Í‡ ˆËÈ Ë Óı‡ Ì ÍÛθÚÛ ÌÓ „Ó Ì‡ÒΠ‰Ëfl ÔÓ ë‚ Ó-ᇠԇ‰ ÌÓ ÏÛ Ù‰ ‡Î¸ ÌÓ ÏÛ Мы поместили вещи в купе и вышли из вагона поку- tion was closed due to the absence of violation). встречу со студентами (She was invited to meet ÓÍÛ „Û. Издание предназначено для аудитории старше 18 лет. рить (We put our things in our compartment and Well, maybe Kafka is a better comparison here, with students). Отпечатано в ОАО «Первая Образцовая типография» филиал «СПб газетный then got off the train to smoke). but you get the idea. And both навстречу and на встречу are differ- комплекс». 198216, СПб, Ленинский пр., 139. Заказ № 1364. В купе (in the compartment) is different from In any case, ввиду is distinct from в виду, a ent from встречка, a slang word that means either Подписано в печать: по графику в 1.00, фактически в 1.00. Тираж 20000 экз. the less colloquial вкупе, an adverb that means to- phrase that combines the preposition “в” with the the oncoming lane of traffic or the illegal zipping Распространяется бесплатно. The St. Petersburg Times is a free publication. gether, in harmony, in coordination with: В иност- noun вид (view) in the locative case, and means “in into that lane. So if your Russian friend suggests ранных языках и в словарях слово “интеллигенция” viewing distance of, close to.” It’s not used too that you двигаться ему навстречу in order to go Address: 190000, Russia, St. Petersburg, переводится, как правило, не само по себе, а вкупе much in this way: Корабль плыл в виду берега. (The на встречу, don’t try to do it по встречке. 4 Konnogvardeisky boulevard, Entrance 7, 3rd floor. с прилагательным “русская” (In foreign languages ship sailed close to the shore, literally within view- Telephone/Fax: (7-812) 325-60-80. and dictionaries the word “intelligentsia” is usu- ing distance of the shore). But it is used very fre- Michele A. Berdy, a Moscow-based translator and ĉÂÒ ‰‡ÍˆËË: 190000, Конногвардейский бульвар, ally not translated by itself but in conjunction quently in a standard expression, иметь в виду (to interpreter, is the author of “The Russian Word’s д. 4, лит. А, подъезд 7, этаж 3 Internet: http://www.sptimes.ru with the adjective “Russian”). You might also see have in mind; literally to have in view). This is what Worth” (Glas), a collection of her columns.

Учредитель и издатель – ООО «Нева Медиа». Главный редактор – Крис Гордон. Адрес: 190000, СПб, Конногвардейский бульвар, 4, 7 подъезд, 3-й этаж. Свидетельство о регистрации средства массовой информации ПИ № ФС2-8918 от 30 ноября 2007 года, выдано Управлением Федеральной службы по надзору за соблюдением законодательства в сфере массовых коммуникаций и охране культурного наследия по Саверо-Западному федеральному округу. Издание предназначено для аудитории старше 18 лет. Отпечатано в ОАО «Первая Образцовая типография» филиал «СПб газетный комплекс». 198216, СПб, Ленинский пр., 139. Заказ № 1364. Подписано в печать: по графику в 1.00, фактически в 1.00. Тираж 20000 экз.