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Inspired by the popular crime novels by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, over 300 people took part in the city’s annual Tweed Run on Sept. 13, dressed in their best Sherlock Holmes HIGH SOCIETY outfits and riding a 10-kilometer route throughout the city, the longest in the event’s history, before being rewarded with a traditional English-style picnic at the end.

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Swedish rocker Jenny Wilson Nationwide elections steps up to front the annual overshadowed by scandals Russia’s leading magazine LGBT festival. Page 8. and violation reports. Page 3. celebrates 20 years. Page 5. LocalNews www.sptimes.ru | Wednesday, September 17, 2014 ❖ 2 Poltavchenko Win Marked by Controversy By Sergey Chernov gitimate — both by the way of selecting THE ST. PETERSBURG TIMES candidates and by the methods of voting Acting governor Georgy Poltavchenko and counting the votes,” the party said officially received a record-breaking 79.3 in a statement. percent of votes at in a controversial gu- Poltavchenko, who was appointed bernatorial election — the first since as the head of St. Petersburg by Presi- 2003 — in St. Petersburg on Sunday. dent Vladimir Putin in August 2011, Speaking on the city-sponsored De- stepped aside as governor to run in an mocracy Day outdoor pop concert on early gubernatorial election in June, Palace Square in the evening, Pol- but continued to perform his duties as tavchenko described the election as an acting governor. “example” of Russian democracy. Direct gubernatorial elections were “Whatever anybody says, especially our abolished by Putin in 2005 but were foes from abroad, both you and I know partly restored in 2012. The previous gu- that we live in the most democratic bernatorial election was held in St. Pe- country, in Russia,” he told the audience, tersburg in September and October 2003. local media reported. Under recent Russian legislation, gover- The gubernatorial election in St. Pe- nors are elected for a term of five years. tersburg fell under initial criticism when Poltavchenko’s strongest rival, Oksana Dmitriyeva, was prevented from taking part in July. Eventually, Mass Grave Poltavchenko faced little competition running against four obscure politicians from pro-Kremlin parties, described by Uncovered some media and opposition as “dummy candidates.”

Poltavchenko’s opponents received NIKOLAY SHESTAKOV between from 2.16 to 9.37 percent of Acting governor Georgy Poltavchenko, above, voting in the gubernatorial election on Sunday. Near St. Pete votes. Many violations were reported THE ST. PETERSBURG TIMES during the voting, including during the by appointed people. Officially, 9.56 Speaking on the Dozhd television cent of votes were thrown in due to the A World War II-era mass grave early voting period with state employ- percent of voters voted prior to the of- channel on Sunday, Dmitriyeva, a State low turnout for the election. has been unearthed in a village ees, housing workers and veteran orga- ficial election day, while the total per- Duma deputy and the chairwoman of On Monday, the Yabloko Demo- near St. Petersburg, LifeNews nizations were reportedly instructed to centage of voters who took part in the the local branch of the A Just Russia cratic Party refused to recognize Pol- reported Sept. 11. vote for Poltavchenko and taken to vot- election was given by the City Election party, dismissed the election as a “crimi- tavchenko’s victory. “We believed and The discovery was made by a ing stations in an organized way in buses Commission as 39.12 percent. nal fraud.” She said that about 50 per- still believe that this ‘election’ was ille- volunteer search party from the village of Vazhinsky in the Pod- porozhsky district of the Lenin- grad region. Local Peace March to Go Ahead Despite Ban The group, headed by Yury Shershnyov, is known for its fre- By Sergey Chernov suggested “No to Russia’s aggression in told it would be difficult to authorize, After a discussion on Monday, the quent expeditions to locate the THE ST. PETERSBURG TIMES Ukraine” as the main slogan of Peace but you can count on the Field of organizers are now urging the public to graves of World War II soldiers. The local organizers of Peace March, an March in St. Petersburg. Mars,” Democratic St. Petersburg’s gather at 2 p.m. on Sept. 21 near Gork- The group has already made all-Russian protest against the war in According to the organizers, they Vsevolod Nelayev told The St. Peters- ovskaya Metro and take a walk to Ka- several discoveries in the area. eastern Ukraine scheduled for Sept. 21, were told that the site will be occupied burg Times earlier this week. zan Cathedral on Nevsky Prospekt, On Sept. 9, a special ceremony said late on Monday that the St. Peters- by a bike race and a pro-Kremlin rally. “We agreed to holding the march where a “people’s assembly” is planned was held to bury the bodies of 16 burg rally will still be held despite not Instead, the Peace March organizers because we had to start informing to be held at 3 p.m. They proposed that Soviet troops discovered by receiving permission from city officials. were offered Polyustrovo Park, a re- people as soon as possible and wrote people wear clothes with yellow and Shershnyov’s group, Interfax re- Peace March was authorized last mote area in the north of the city, which an application, saying that we can re- blue — the colors of Ukrainian na- ported. Experts were unable to week in Moscow but City Hall has re- was understood by the organizers as a view the initial requirements and ask tional flag. determine the soldiers’ identi- fused to permit St. Petersburg residents rejection of their proposal since activ- for a site on the Field on Mars for Peace March was first held in Mos- ties, the report said. to rally even on the Field of Mars, an ists usually refuse to hold events there. holding a stationary rally as part of cow on March 15, during which time The Podporozhsky district area specifically designated by the local Earlier, City Hall refused to autho- Peace March. That was on Sept. 11, Crimea was in the process of being an- was the scene of fierce fighting authorities for such events. rize the original planned march from but on Sept. 12 they called us to say nexed by Russia. It drew an estimated between the Red Army and In the request for seeking permis- Gorkovskaya Metro to Ploshchad they won’t give us even the Field of 50,000 people. In St. Petersburg, Peace Finnish troops between 1941 and sion, the organizers, who include the Sakharova that the organizers applied Mars. According to them, the whole March was banned, but between 500 1942, with an estimated 15,000 coalition Democratic St. Petersburg as for as early as Sept. 5. area will be busy with other events and 600 people came to Kazan Cathe- soldiers having been killed well as the liberal opposition parties “During our negotiations with the and there will be no space for us at any dral to protest against Russia’s inter- there. RPR-Parnas and December 5 Parties, Committee on Law and Order, we were time on that day.” vention in Crimea.

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Wednesday, Sept. 17 featuring unique handmade objects Monday, Sept. 22 AmCham’s Investment and Legal of a significantly higher quality than Do you love puppetry? If so, then be Committee Meeting convenes this mass-produced items. The work of sure to go to BTK-Fest, a five-day fes- morning in their office in the New St. over 100 German manufacturers will tival that starts on Sept. 19 celebrating Isaac Office Center at 9 a.m. be displayed during the event, which the art. Contemporaries from France, Learn more about the science of opens today in the Lutheran Church Belgium, the U.K. and other coun- teaching English at today’s EFL of Saint Peter and Paul on Nevsky tries will join Russian artists to put on Seminar hosted by the British Book Prospekt and runs through Sept. 28. theatrical performances involving a Center. Revolving around the topic variety of themes, materials and eras. of learning styles, the workshop will Saturday, Sept. 20 Workshops and meetings are also help attendees better understand the Starting on Sept. 18 and ending to- scheduled for a chance to discuss the different effective learning methods morrow is the Extreme Fantasy artistic medium in further depth. that can be implemented to learn Wakeboarding Festival in Sunpark English more effectively. by Sredny Suzdalskoye lake in the Tuesday, Sept. 23 Ozerki region of the city. Marina Suhih, Director of the Exter- Thursday, Sept. 18 Those after something more laid nal Communications Department at Get your nerd on at Boomfest, St. back can instead head to Jazz and Rostelecom North-West, and Yana Petersburg’s answer to the United Wine night at TerraVino with leg- Donskaya, HR Director for Northern States’ popular ComicCon. Starting endary jazz guitarist Ildar Kazaha- Capital Gateway are just some of the today, this international festival of nov. 12/14 Admiralteyskaya Emb. confirmed participants of today’s comics will take over venues round table discussion on “Interac- throughout the city center and in- Sunday, Sept. 21 tion with Trade Unions” being hosted cludes exhibitions of comics and il- Learn more about African culture by SPIBA. Confirm your attendance lustrations, film screenings, competi- and get some exercise during today’s with SPIBA by Sept. 22. tions and the chance to meet the “Djembe and Vuvuzela,” a bike ride Kino Expo 2014, an international genre’s authors, artists and experts. starting in Palace Square that in- film industry convention, will be at cludes several stops where riders can LenExpo from today until Sept. 26. Friday, Sept. 19 listen to the music of Africa or watch The third largest exhibition of film SPIBA’s newest addition to their Cul- short films about the continent. The equipment in the world, the expo fo- tural Discoveries events is “Hand- riders plan to set off at 4 p.m. and all cuses on not only Russia but former made in Germany,” an exhibition you need to join is a set of wheels. Soviet republics as well. NationalNews www.sptimes.ru | Wednesday, September 17, 2014 ❖ 3 IN BRIEF United Russia Tops Local, Regional Polls Strelkov in Moscow By Alexey Eremenko Addressing Golos’ violation claims, ■ MOSCOW (SPT) — Igor Strelkov, THE ST. PETERSBURG TIMES Moscow’s chief electoral commission of- the former commander of pro-Russian The pro-Kremlin United Russia party ficer Vladimir Gorbunov said: “They’re separatists in eastern Ukraine, said on swept most of 6,024 local polls con- making it up out of thin air,” in com- Sept. 11 he was relocating to Moscow ducted nationwide on Sunday amid the ments carried by TASS. to protect President Vladimir Putin usual flurry of violation reports, and The Communists got creative in their from enemies and traitors. scandals over everything from dis- efforts to ward off violations, by bring- “The West and the ‘fifth column’ are counted vegetables to topless activists. ing out impersonators of Soviet leaders making no secret of their plans to over- United Russia won 28 of the 30 gu- Stalin and Vladimir Lenin to Moscow throw Putin. Their path is that of drag- bernatorial seats that were up for polling stations on Sunday, a move they ging out the war [in Ukraine] as long as grabs, including in the city of St. Pe- said aimed to ensure fair play. possible,” Strelkov was cited by Life- tersburg and the regions of Krasno- Authorities in Moscow also strug- News as saying at a news conference. yarsk, Primorye and Nizhny gled to boost voter turnout, which ended Strelkov, a 43-year-old Muscovite Novgorod, the Central Election Com- up at a dismal 21 percent, the lowest in also known by the surname Girkin, mission said Monday. 25 years of free elections in the capital. said he had no plans to return to east- The party of power did not field a Incentives for Muscovite voters in- ern Ukraine and would instead stay in candidate in the southern Oryol region, cluded discounted vegetables and sau- Moscow — the new battlefront, ac- paving the way to a Communist victory. sage sold next to polling stations, RBC cording to him. In the Kirov region, incumbent Nikita news website reported. “I support Putin and am against the Belykh, a Kremlin-endorsed liberal, The food offers have a political tinge

‘fifth column.’ Russian people need to won as an independent. / AP ALEXANDER POLEGENKO these days because of food sanctions completely reject any opposition activ- United Russia also clutched the ma- A man places a vote during Sunday’s parliamentary elections in Crimea. Russia imposed against Western produc- ity,” Strelkov was cited as saying in the jorities in all 14 regional parliaments ers over their support of Ukraine.The report. that were reelected on Sunday, includ- Communist candidates trounced Many of the violations pertained to growth of food prices in Russia reached ing in Tatarstan, Volgograd region, Mos- strong rivals from A Just Russia, the Golos itself. The watchdog faced un- double digits in August due to sanctions, cow and the newly annexed Crimean fiercely pro-Kremlin leftist party viewed precedented pressure from the state af- according to the State Statistics Service. Producer Attacked peninsula. widely as a spoiler for the Communists. ter reporting allegations of widespread Meanwhile, anti-Kremlin forces ■ MOSCOW (SPT) — The head Only United Russia and the pro- Serious opposition challengers were fraud during the federal elections in struck at a polling station on central Mos- producer of the Dozhd independent Kremlin national populists LDPR made weeded out of the nation-wide guberna- 2011 and 2012, which reinforced United cow’s Kotelnicheskaya Naberezhnaya, television channel has been hospital- it into the Crimean parliament. torial and Moscow City Duma races in Russia and President Vladimir Putin’s where three young women bared their ized with concussion and a facial frac- Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry the early procedural phases. grip on power, but at the cost of the big- breasts, which were painted in the blue ture after unidentified assailants at- slammed the Crimean vote, saying in a In total, 776 violations were reported gest street protests in two decades. and yellow tones of the Ukrainian flag. tacked her outside her home in cen- statement Sunday that the “so-called nationwide during the campaign, ac- Golos reported many instances of The women, who started shouting tral Moscow. elections... are illegitimate and their re- cording to independent election moni- its representatives being rejected from “Glory to Ukraine!,” were marched off Ksenia Batanova was hit in the face sults null and void.” tor Golos. polling stations on Sunday — despite within seconds, according to grainy sur- “more than 10 times” before losing Meanwhile in Moscow, five of 45 The figure stood at 747 during the having the requisite credentials — veillance camera footage uploaded to consciousness, after which her two at- seats in the City Duma went to the previous “unified election day” last Sep- based on complaints by the watchdog’s YouTube. tackers made off with her cell phone Communists, who only had two seats in tember, when almost 7,000 local elec- arch-nemesis, the Central Election They got off with fines of 500 rubles and earrings, Dozhd reported on its the previous term. tions took place. Commission. ($13) each, tabloid Lifenews.ru reported. website Sunday. Police are investigating the Sept. 12 attack, a spokesperson for the Moscow branch of the Interior Ministry told the TASS news agency. An unidentified Ukraine’s Threat to Go Nuclear Is ‘Hot Air’ law-enforcement official added that in- vestigators thought robbery was the By Ivan Nechepurenko at the time. One Verkhovna Rada law- duced on the territory of present-day himself under mounting political and most likely motive of the attack. THE ST. PETERSBURG TIMES maker, Sergei Kaplin, claimed that the Russia. public scrutiny following a series of de- Batanova, who was still in a hospital It would take years, hundreds of mil- state could produce a nuclear weapon “Ukraine has some scientific labo- feats suffered by the Ukrainian army on Sunday, said her attackers remained lions of dollars and a willingness to be- in two years at a cost of $3.4 billion. ratories in Kharkiv: It has the know- during fighting against pro-Russia insur- silent as they were beating her, Dozhd come a global outcast for Ukraine to A state can withdraw from the NPT how, but lacks the means” [factories], gents in the country’s east. reported. enact the possibility voiced Sunday by at three months’ notice in the event said Yesin. “Talking about nuclear arms is a its defense minister of becoming a nu- that “extraordinary events, related to Ukraine could theoretically create a classic PR ploy, he wants to shift atten- clear power again, military and politi- the subject matter of this treaty, have dirty bomb — a device combining radio- tion to a completely different and also Oldest Romanov Dies cal analysts said Monday. jeopardized the supreme interests of its active materials with conventional ex- essentially insignificant topic,” ■ MOSCOW (SPT) — Nikolai Ro- “If today we cannot defend country.” So far the only country that plosives — but that would make Ukraine Fesenko, head of the Penta Center for manov, the most senior member of the [Ukraine], if the world will not help us, has followed this path is North Korea. an irredeemable pariah, he added. Political Research think tank, told The Russian Empire’s Romanov dynasty, we will be forced to return to creating India, Pakistan, South Sudan and Israel St. Petersburg Times. passed away in Tuscany, Italy at the age this weapon, which will defend us are non-signatory states. POLITICAL EXPEDIENCY The idea of going nuclear is promul- of 91, TASS state news agency reported against Russia,” Valery Geletey told “If Ukraine makes such a decision, According to the Kiev-based political gated by certain politicians in Ukraine Monday. reporters at a news conference in Kiev. it will essentially mean that its current analyst Vladimir Fesenko, Ukraine’s every now and then, but so far there has The Romanovs, Russia’s last royal Geletey clarified, however, that political allies — the U.S., European Defense Minister Geletey has found been no real substance behind it, he said. family, were overthrown during the changing Ukraine’s nuclear status is Union and others — will have to aban- РЕКЛАМА October Revolution of 1917. not on the agenda right now. don Kiev,” Pyotr Topychkanov, coordi- According to the website, Nikolai Dmitry Rogozin, Russia’s outspo- nator of the Carnegie Moscow Center’s had formally presided over the family ken deputy prime minister in charge of nonproliferation program, told The St. since 1990. the state armaments program, reacted Petersburg Times. Nikolai’s brother Dmitry Romanov to the suggestion with sarcasm. “Nobody will support Ukraine, not reported the death to TASS, referring “I’ve heard the one about a monkey Europe or China. In practice it will be to it as “an enormous loss.” Funeral ar- and a hand grenade. But this is the first considered a rogue state, just like rangements have not yet been made, time I’ve heard of a monkey dreaming North Korea,” Topychkanov said in a according to the report. about a nuclear one,” Rogozin wrote phone interview. Nikolai Romanov, known among his on Twitter on Sunday night. family as Prince Nikolai Romanovich But is Ukraine’s nuclear ambition TECHNICAL HITCHES and born in France, first visited Russia even remotely realistic? Even if Ukraine went ahead and at- in 1992. Shortly thereafter, he founded tempted to develop its own nuclear the Romanov Fund for Russia, which DIPLOMATIC COST weapon, it would take years, if not de- provides financial assistance to Russian When Ukraine became independent in cades, and would deplete the country’s hospitals and kindergartens. 1991 following the collapse of the So- already scarce resources, analysts said. viet Union, it found itself in possession “Ukraine’s economic standing today of the third-largest nuclear stockpile in is such that it will be close to impossible Explosive Argument the world. By June 1996, it had trans- to create a nuclear bomb,” Colonel ■ MOSCOW (SPT) — A criminal in- ferred all its nuclear warheads to Rus- General Viktor Yesin, former chief of vestigation has been opened into an sia and acceded to the Treaty on the staff of the Russian Strategic Rocket incident from Sunday when a 60-year Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons Forces, told The St. Petersburg Times. Russian pensioner threw a grenade at (NPT) as a non-nuclear state. Ukraine currently makes Dnepr in- four men he disagreed with. The four Ukraine’s accession to the treaty tercontinental ballistic missiles — in- men, including the attacker, were hos- was contingent on security and territo- cluding for Russia — at its Yuzhmash pitalized as a result of the grenade blast rial integrity guarantees given to it by plant in Dnipropetrovsk. It also has re- while another was treated for shock, a Russia, the U.S. and Britain when they serves of uranium and missile silos. It police report said. signed the Budapest Memorandum in could use its 15 nuclear reactors, most The men became embroiled in a dis- 1994. of them Soviet-built, to enrich uranium, pute with the pensioner that resulted in Russia’s annexation of Crimea in instead of using centrifuges like Iran. him throwing a grenade-like explosive March rendered the Budapest Memo- It would cost up to $500 million to device their way, a spokesman for the randum null and void, and therefore do, according to nuclear analysts. Orenburg Investigative Committee was Ukraine can also relinquish its obliga- The most difficult task for Ukraine quoted as saying by the Interfax news tions under the NPT treaty, several would be to produce nuclear warheads, agency. Ukrainian parliament deputies argued which in Soviet times were only pro- Business www.sptimes.ru | Wednesday, September 17, 2014 ❖ 4

BUSINESS BRIEFS

Tourist Flow Declines improve the working conditions of their staff, the statement said. ■ SPT — Russian travel agencies say Under Russia’s Labor Code, com- 40 to 60 percent fewer European and panies must spend the equivalent of U.S. holidaymakers came to Russia in at least 0.2 percent of its production the first half of this year than in the costs on the health and safety of its same period of 2013, while three times employees, said Valery Korzh, head fewer Russian tourists went abroad, a of the ministry’s workplace safety trend they attribute to bad blood be- department. tween Russia and the West over the He said each company will be given Ukraine crisis, Kommersant reported its own tailor-made list of activities it last week. has to fund. Ninety percent fewer Spaniards year-on-year came to Russia between January and June, while the number of iPhone 6 Launch Italians fell 60 percent and Germans 40 percent, the newspaper quoted Alex- ■ SPT — Apple’s new iPhone 6 won’t ander Maklyarovsky, head of inbound hit Russian shelves until a week after tourism department at Russian tour its U.S. launch — on Sept. 26 — and agent KMPGroup, as saying. will be around $200 more expensive The overall flow of tourists into when it does. According to one of Rus- Russia could drop by another 60 per- sia’s largest smartphone retailers, it is cent in September, said Vladimir Kan- also a breathtaking record for a coun- torovich, first deputy head at the Rus- try used to huge delays and massive sian Tour Agents Association. mark-ups on Apples’ high end gear.

Sergei Tikhonov, spokesperson for PETER DEJONG / AP mobile retailer Svyaznoi, said the one- Amsterdam’s Dam Square ran red with tomato juice on Sunday as people protested Russia’s Tax Revenue Rises week gap is a record for Russia: “3 to 4 sanctions on fresh produce from the EU by throwing tomatoes at one another at an event to years ago…the official start of Apple Food Fight raise money for Dutch farmers, who sold $100 million worth of tomatoes to Russia last year. ■ SPT — Russia’s tax authorities sales in our country took place about boosted the revenues handed over to 4-5 months after the world premier [of the federal government for the year up a new iPhone]. Now… it is a little more to Sept. 1 by 18 percent, or about 600 than two weeks.” billion rubles ($16 billion), to 4.1 tril- The standard iPhone 6 will cost any- U.S., EU Sanctions Go Ahead lion rubles ($111 billion), compared to where from 32,000 rubles ($860) to the year before, the country’s top tax 42,000 rubles ($1,130), as compared to By Julie Pace and Jonathan Fahey If Russia and the separatists do fol- The energy sanctions aim to move official said last week. Rising inflation, the $650 to $850 price range in the THE ASSOCIATED PRESS low through on the accord, U.S. and beyond inflicting immediate economic more efficient tax collection and bigger U.S. WASHINGTON (AP) — Unsatisfied European officials say they could roll pain on Russia and instead focus on mineral extraction taxes are behind the The average monthly salary in Mos- with a fragile cease-fire in Ukraine, the back this current round of penalties. clouding its energy future. But there are rise, Mikhail Mishustin, head of the tax cow is about 57,000 rubles ($1,800) ru- United States and the European Union But officials said that because Russia also concerns that those penalties could service, said in a presentation to his bles per month. Nationwide, it is about levied new sanctions on Sept. 12 against moved troops and weaponry into ricochet and hurt Western businesses colleagues published online. half that. major Russian banks and defense com- Ukraine in recent weeks, it was neces- that are working with Russia on devel- Meanwhile, the total tax revenue For the larger-screened iPhone 6 panies, as well as penalties aimed at sary to levy penalties now rather than opment projects, including U.S.-based raised on behalf of all Russia’s state Plus, Russian consumers will have to curtailing Russia’s ability to develop oil wait to see what comes of the cease- Exxon Mobil and Britain’s BP. budgets, both local and national, by the pay anywhere from 37,000 rubles and gas projects. fire. Russia denies having a role in the Both Western companies have ties to taxman rose by just more than 1 trillion ($995) for the baseline model with 16 But the restrictions on Russia’s en- conflict. Rosneft, the Russian oil giant subjected rubles ($28 billion), or 14 percent, to gigabytes of storage and up to 47,000 ergy sector were carefully crafted to “Today’s actions demonstrate our to U.S. and European sanctions on Sept. 8.4 trillion rubles ($223 billion). rubles ($1,265) for the 128 gigabyte avoid impacting the country’s current determination to increase the costs on 12. BP owns nearly 20 percent of Ros- model. production of oil and gas, a move that Russia as long as it continues to violate neft. Exxon’s partnership with Rosneft is Pre-orders will be available at Rus- would raise global energy prices at a Ukraine’s territorial integrity and sov- for exploring for oil in the technically Subsidized Fitness Fee sian retailers on Sept. 19, the day the time of weak economic growth. Russia ereignty,” said David Cohen, Treasury difficult places that the sanctions target, new phones are released in the U.S. is the largest oil exporter outside of undersecretary for terrorism and finan- including deep offshore, the Arctic off- ■ SPT — The Labor Ministry will Despite Apple’s huge relative cost OPEC and the most important supplier cial intelligence. shore and shale deposits onshore. oblige Russian companies to pay for in Russia, the brand has risen fast. of natural gas to Europe. The West has levied multiple Under the terms of the U.S. sanctions, their employees to go to fitness clubs “Apple’s share of the smartphone mar- The Western sanctions came one rounds of sanctions on Russia, contrib- Exxon will likely have to remove its engi- and take part in other sporting activi- ket in Russia has been growing over week after Ukraine and Russian- uting to slower economic growth in the neers from those projects by a Sept. 26 ties starting in 2015, according to a the last two years,” said Tikhonov. backed separatists signed a cease-fire country. But the penalties have had deadline, which could slow or stop work statement published Sept. 11 on the “Apple devices have traditionally been aimed at ending the conflict. The agree- little impact on Russian President on the projects. Exxon spokesman Scott ministry’s website. in the top three devices we sell, not ment has been routinely violated, and Vladimir Putin’s policies and U.S. of- Silvestri said on Sept. 12 that the com- The ministry added the new re- only in the upper-price range segment, U.S. officials say they are yet to see ficials privately acknowledge there’s pany is “assessing the sanctions” and that quirement to the standard list of func- but in the smartphone market as a signs of Russia implementing the deal no guarantee more sanctions will get “it’s our policy to comply with all laws.” tions that companies must carry out to whole.” in good faith. him to stop his provocations. Exxon is struggling to find and de- velop enough new oil to replace what it produces every day. Russia represents a huge opportunity for Exxon because it is one of the few places in the world that has enormous reserves of oil and gas that are open to Western oil companies. Potential production, both for Rus- sia and Exxon, is still many years off even without the sanctions. For now, that means the financial impact on Rus- sia, Exxon and on oil prices is limited, according to Fadel Gheit, an analyst at Oppenheimer & Co. “This is a future play,” Gheit says of Exxon’s Russian exploration plan. “It’s like drafting a 16-year-old kid for the Yankees. You have no idea if he’s going to be a big league player.” The global price of oil fell slightly Sept. 12, reflecting little concern in the market that oil sup- plies would be disrupted. Exxon shares fell $1.25 on Sept. 12 to close at $95.78. Beyond the energy sanctions, the U.S. and Europe moved to tighten re- strictions on access to foreign capital for Russia’s top banks. For the first time, the U.S. targeted Russia’s largest financial institution, Sberbank of Russia. The U.S. also sanctioned Rostec, the Russian state-owned defense conglom- erate that manufactures weapons and military equipment. The EU levied a travel ban and asset freezes on the head of Rostec, Sergei Chemezov, who was hit with similar penalties by the U.S. ear- lier this year. BusinessFocus www.sptimes.ru | Wednesday, September 17, 2014 ❖ 5 Polina Sokhranova: Inspiring Russia’s Women

By Alexey Eremenko censorship in arts, media and the inter- that they can’t show men and women in A: I’m a newbie, I only joined last THE ST. PETERSBURG TIMES net, and affected perfectly apolitical for- how-to tutorials — you know what I February, poached from The Interview eign businesses such as McDonald’s, mean — and so they replaced humans magazine. Now I realize that back then, hen Cosmopolitan which saw a string of its Russian restau- in the pictures with toothbrushes. I had no idea what I was doing, but I magazine came to rants closed over sanitary technicalities In Russia, advertisers are also on the went down to [Cosmopolitan brand Russia in 1994, it had amid an ultrapatriotic backlash against fence about such stories, and people of- owner] Hearst Corp. headquarters [in its work cut out for it. Western values. ten complain loudly about those features the United States], and when I came Russia was a coun- Cosmo Russia — another household — though we suspect that while they back, my art editor told me, “you’ve got tryW with entrenched gender inequality name for Western culture — has every complain online, they nevertheless read a goal shining in your eyes.” The job’s and no beauty or fashion industry to chance of ending up in the line of fire of and learn in private. But we’ll go on talk- awfully scary, but incredibly fun, and we speak of, but it had a hunger for Western the alleged cultural war. ing about sex in Russia [laughs]. It’s the have a great team, all 25 staffers. Some- mass culture. But the magazine is sticking it out, signature of the brand. times I think, be careful what you wish Twenty years later, the domestic edi- Sokhranova said, continuing its mission Another thing is that we’ve got a lot for, you just might get it — but I still call tion of Cosmopolitan remains Russia’s to entertain while also doing its best to of people who started reading us in ‘94 up my friends every now and then and biggest glossy magazine, with a print run promote women’s rights in the country and never stopped — because it is a say: I have the best job on the planet. of 800,000 and a readership of 6 million, — and without getting into politics. habit, because they like it, and because Millions of girls would kill for this job. according to its own figures. And so far, the audience is sticking in some corners of our vast fatherland Any editor change is shock therapy, “The only ones to rival us on circula- with it, many remaining faithful readers there aren’t many alternatives. These and this time it came complete with a re- tion, to my mind, are television guides since 1994, said Sokhranova, a lively people have children by now, who also design and many marketing activities to and health and gardening magazines,” woman with contagious laughter and a read Cosmo. So like a hundred-dollar mark our 20th anniversary. But in a nut- says Polina Sokhranova, the editor-in- dress sense unshowy for the head of a bill, we’ve got to be liked by everyone. shell, despite all the celebratory effort, chief of Cosmopolitan Russia, which is publication so focused on fashion. at the end of the day it’s the usual ad published by Sanoma Independent Me- The St. Petersburg Times sat down Q: How hard is that? spreads that pay our bills [laughs]. dia, the owner of The St. Petersburg with Sokhranova ahead of Cosmopoli- A: Very. [Laughs] Coverage-wise, we are trying to Times. tan’s 20th anniversary — marked with a make the magazine more vibrant. We

Russia has changed a lot in the past Russia-wide roadshow which ended in FOR SPT Q: What are your and your audi- did a story about young girls with [neu- two decades. Its beauty industry, for ex- Moscow on Sept. 12 — to talk about vi- Editor-in-chief Polina Sokhranova. ence’s favorite sections of the maga- ral disease] multiple sclerosis, for ex- ample, was estimated by Forbes Russia tal Cosmo topics, including buttock ex- zine? ample, it was a smash hit on the web- a few years ago at $7 billion and is grow- ercises, the Cosmo sisterhood mission tion, even a war, we’ll still show how she A: That is two very different things. I site. The [glossy magazine] market in ing between 15 and 20 percent a year. and sex tips with toothbrushes. remains a woman and finds a way to positively adore the “Inside His Head” Russia has evolved so much from 2006, Gender equality remains elusive, make peace with the world. section — our men’s manual. How to de- when I was just starting, and I have a meanwhile: The country ranked an un- Q: Cosmo is the most popular magazine And lately we are investing much ef- code what he’s thinking, what he means, feeling you can’t get by just on celeb- impressive 61st of 133 countries in the in Russia. Why? fort in what the Americans call the what not to tell him and when to talk to rity coverage anymore. World Economic Forum’s 2013 Global A: I think it’s the same in Russia as “Cosmo sisterhood.” There is this ste- him about money. A real riot, this one. We are writing about evergreen top- Gender Gap Report. No less than 72 it is in America. We are a service maga- reotype that an all-female collective is Our focus groups show the readers ics like relationships, but what I really percent of the population believe women zine. Unlike most other glossies, we of- horrible, all intrigue and whatnot, but I are okay with this section, but it’s not want is to make it a magazine about should prioritize family over career, ac- fer reality, not a dream. It’s beautiful realized when I went to a meeting of edi- their top favorite. They are totally crazy people who live here and now. Take the cording to a poll by the state-run VT- clothes, beautiful cars, dream jobs, but tors of Cosmo’s more than 60 editions about psychology — anything about relationships thing, for example — on sIOM from March (which, oddly, gave what Cosmo means with it is “this can worldwide that there is a lot to be said quirks in their heads — as well as beauty the one hand, long-distance becomes no gender breakdown). be your life.” for the all-female community. and fashion. That’s the top three; after easier with Skype and all that, but on the Political and civil unrest — which be- Our models wear dresses available in We are really hooked on the sister- them, it’s the love and relationship sec- other, people are getting dumped by text gan with a sudden eruption of street pro- your region that cost, say, 3,000 rubles hood idea, because Russian women tion, and career. messages. My main job is to find the tests against alleged election-rigging in ($80). Or we show how to shape up with- never had it easy. Feminism is vilified right angle to reflect these things. late 2011 — has also spilled into the out going to expensive gyms — we look and misunderstood here. Everyone Q: You have a considerable male And I also want to show the heroines glossy magazine industry, at least on the up YouTube tutorials by Madonna’s per- thinks feminists are rude quasi-lesbi- readership. How come? of our time. They are many, and very dif- male side, with publications such as GQ, sonal trainer, for example, and mine ans with butch haircuts. Because of A: Studies show up to 20 or 30 per- ferent throughout the nation. But if I Esquire and Maxim dabbling in articles them for tips on how to sculpt a divine that, there is no platform for support, cent of our readers are men. On my were to describe her, describe a Cosmo throwing jabs at the ruling establishment butt without leaving the house. I’m in- communication, inspiration, even edu- first day here, I was riding to work in a reader — well, she is beautiful, she wants and even running the occasional inter- terested in those kind of stories myself, cation, even though we’re out of the taxi, talking on my phone, and the to go out and be in the know, she wants view with opposition figures. even though I could afford expensive Domostroi world, and we’re trying to driver overheard me and asked me sports and hobbies and cooking, but also Now, anti-Western and traditional- gyms or shoes. Everyone likes freebies. supply that. when I was done if I work in media. I an occupation beyond the family. ist sentiment is on the rise, fueled by We’re also more focused on the posi- [NOTE: The Domostroi is a 16-cen- said, “Cosmopolitan,” and he actually It may just be studying or even a li- jingoistic rhetoric over Russia’s stand- tive. Even when we tell a sad story, it has tury Russian household/ethics guide let go of the wheel and went all: brarian job, it makes no difference — off with Ukraine. a positive twist to it. If we write about promoting patriarchal values, a byword “Cool!” [Laughs]. I don’t think you get just something to call her own. Too many This, along with the Kremlin’s efforts being tired of your job, we’ll give tips on for radical traditionalism and gender in- it with any other women’s magazine. women in Russia think marriage is their to stunt the emergence of real political how to revive interest in what you do. If equality in Russia. — SPT] But basically: like we try to decode ticket to freedom. I think that is wrong, opposition, has already led to cultural we write about a woman in an ugly situa- men, they read us to decode women. and it will change. Q: You don’t cross into politics? A: No. We do social, not political ac- Q: What about the business side of This interview has been edited for length tivism. We could do a story about, say, a things, and your editorial input? and clarity.

Russian-Ukrainian family torn apart by ADVERTISING the two nations’ conflict, but even then it would be a personal not a political story. We have a story in the upcoming an- niversary issue about a woman working at a Ukrainian military base in Crimea who was stuck there for a month when Russian forces blocked the base [dur- ing Russia’s annexation of the Ukrai- nian peninsula in March]. But we don’t talk about her thoughts on [President Vladimir] Putin. We talk about how her kid’s waiting for her at home, and what she does to go see him. We don’t go into politics and it doesn’t come to us, either. But there are certain trends, such as the resurgence of family values, which are too big not to react to. We have, for example, progres- sive women in their 30s with established careers but little in the way of private life, and they are hooked on lectures about how to bring out their feminine side. Things like that come together in a major trend, and you can’t just ignore it.

Q: Is there anything special about the Russian edition of Cosmopolitan? A: Russia belongs to a conservative group of countries, like China or the Middle Eastern nations, where sex sto- ries, for example, often cause contro- versy. It is worse in the Middle East, where they have to package sex into sto-

FOR SPT FOR ries about relationships to get away with American actress Megan Fox graces Cosmopolitan’s October 2014 cover. it. In China, they realized at some point Opinion www.sptimes.ru | Wednesday, September 17, 2014 ❖ 6 Europe’s Political Divorces Are Often Messy By Pyotr Romanov

ivorce among couples rarely ends with- out scandal, and all the more so with divorce between states. Those splits inevitably involve political and eco- Dnomic hardships, mutual recriminations and a complex and painful division of property. And even once this nightmare is over, the very pres- ence of the other party causes interminable irrita- tion and anger. The only example that I can recall of a civilized “state divorce” in Europe was the peaceful divi- sion of Czechoslovakia into two parts — accom- plished thanks to the efforts of former Czechoslo- vakian President Vaclav Havel. To this day, the two “former spouses” maintain normal inter-state relations. Divorce and separation remains a very real problem for Europe. Scotland’s agitation to leave the U.K., Catalonia’s attempts to escape the cus- tody of Madrid and Novorossia’s bloody fight to break away from Ukraine are all ongoing issues.

While state divorces are messy, according to international law, those advocating them have every right to do so.

And although each case is very different, they share one aspect in common: London, Madrid and Kiev are exerting great efforts to prevent those disunions. However, a strict interpretation of international law indicates that, in all three cases, those advocating separatism have every right to at least advocate their cause. In 1945, the right to self-determination was in- problem is that nobody “respects” that right, those: the Ukrainian Donbass, Spain’s Basque re- paper. The problem is the egoism that drives the cluded in the United Nations Charter. Then, in much less “encourages” it. gion, Russia’s Chechnya and so on. world today. If not for this egoism, the Catalo- 1966, this right was enshrined in the International There are several reasons for political leaders’ The underlying problem with the current nians and Basques would create their own states Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural inability to honor their obligations, to greater or world order is that it has long outworn its original and live in peace alongside Madrid and as a part Rights and the International Covenant on Civil lesser degrees. set of clothing and just plods on wearing the same of the European Union. Scotland would settle and Political Rights. First, the UN Charter also contains the con- old, uncomfortable and increasingly tattered rags. down. Still later, this right was confirmed in docu- tradictory principle of “the inviolability of bor- A prime example of this is the fact that the victors And if Kiev and Moscow had enough sense, it ments of the Organization for Security and Coop- ders” because after World War II the leading in World War II continue to control the UN Secu- would avoid all this bloodshed by letting Nov- eration in Europe. What’s more, the concept of powers wanted to ensure stability by any means. rity Council, a completely inappropriate situation orossia go in whichever direction it wanted. Thus self-determination covers a wide range of possi- Consequently, for every argument for self-de- given the wealth and power of the world’s devel- freed from that heavy burden, Kiev could finally bilities and is defined as “The establishment of a termination, a persuasive counter-argument is oping nations. pursue meaningful integration with Europe. sovereign and independent state, the free associa- available. But unfortunately, the fear of making desper- However, Madrid will continue desperately tion with an independent state or the emergence The second reason is that the clause on self- ately needed repairs to the structure of the UN clinging to Barcelona, London to Scotland and into any other political status freely determined determination was introduced during the collapse has already led to numerous squabbles and threat- both Kiev and Moscow to the Donbass. Despite by a people.” of the colonial system when the authors had the ens to undermine the very foundation of the orga- considering itself the leader of civilization, Eu- In theory, the people living in the area affected African states in mind. At that time, few colonial nization. Perhaps humanity will simply have to rope has yet to learn how to formulate reasonable should resolve these disputes, without any outside powers wanted to keep their states, and so their wait for another world war, after which the win- and sound policies. interference. The UN Charter states that “all passage into freedom was relatively uncompli- ners will spell out the new rules of the game for If only someone would follow the example set states shall, in accordance with the provisions of cated. Nobody could have guessed that Scotland the few remaining survivors. by Vaclav Havel. the UN Charter, encourage the right to self-deter- and Catalonia would one day invoke the same No matter the international body, though, the mination, and shall respect that right.” The only principle. There are many more examples besides world’s issues are not just about rules written on Pyotr Romanov is a journalist and historian.

COMMENT Russia Is Scared of the 21st Century — For Now By Alexey Eremenko spilling out into the open after Russia’s failed at- state-controlled print and television media, power of its system, at least not nearly as thoroughly as THE ST. PETERSBURG TIMES tempt to integrate with the West, and so it un- meant factories and tanks (and Buks), and dissent its former Warsaw Pact satellites or even ex-So- doubtedly is, to some extent. But there is also a was outlawed, not tolerated. And much of Rus- viet republics did. Soviet bureaucrats remained s the dust settles over eastern Ukraine, generational aspect to the story, which is that sia’s elite and general public shares this worldview the backbone of the ruling establishment — case the consensus is solidifying that the Russia, in a nutshell, is struggling to handle the because they also grew up with it. in point: Putin — and imperial ideology was conflict there was the first battle of an modern world. For too many Russians, the 21st century has never replaced by nationalism as elsewhere, in- attempted Cold War revival. A Cold The 21st century is a complex time in which to proved hard to handle, which is understandable, cluding Ukraine. AWar requires a Soviet Union, and the govern- live. Old economic templates have been rendered given the economic shock of trying to adjust to it. But the quest to rebuild the Soviet Union is a ment of President Vladimir Putin has finally em- null and void by the post-industrial economy, The GDP slump in Russia during the 1990s was rearguard, doomed battle. A lot of people in Rus- braced it as a role model, more than a decade into based on factors like social mobility and innova- worse than during World War II, according to sia have already moved on beyond the Soviet his reign. tion, and championed by unruly nerds promoting leading Russian economist Konstantin Sonin. dream: the 2011-2013 anti-Putin protesters were It is a strange Soviet Union: sans communism, crypto-currencies and using blimps to spread In- Little wonder that the nation hungered for stabil- essentially people who have adjusted to modern but with religion thrown into the mix. It owes as ternet access. State governance means sharing ity, certainty, familiarity — for historical safety. times. They remain a minority, but time and soci- much of its official ideology to the pre-revolu- power, cooperating with grassroots activists and This is why Russia has fallen back on the etal evolution are hard to stop, and not even Pu- tionary Russian Empire, with its state-dependent upholding the rights of minorities and majorities dream of a past Golden Age. It is easier to censor tin is eternal. Russians colonized Siberia and pio- capitalism and traditionalism. Added to bans on in a balancing act worthy of Cirque du Soleil. or ban the Internet than to cope with indepen- neered space exploration: There is no reason to political freedoms and grassroots activity, Inter- And that’s before even getting to soft power: elu- dent news websites and opposition bloggers. It is believe they are incapable of handling the mod- net censorship spreading like cancer and a crack- sive but arguably more powerful than tanks and easier to throw trillions at the military-industrial ern world, eventually. down on LGBT rights (admittedly mild, com- Buk missile systems. complex — just as the Soviets did for decades — The one real problem is that it will take a crisis pared to Soviet times), this is, in essence, a nanny Meanwhile, Putin does not use the Internet. than to foster innovation. It is easier to boost na- of gigantic proportions to snap Russia out of its state with an anti-West complex and an instinc- He was recently reported to be slowly over- tional self-esteem by piggybacking on old Soviet nostalgic imperial reverie. Everyone who does tive penchant for militant — if not caveman — coming his disdain for the World Wide Web, much achievements than to painstakingly attain new not subscribe to the Soviet revival is already brac- conservatism. flaunted through the 2000s. But no one would call feats worthy of global respect. ing for impact; for the rest, it is going to hurt. But The political scientist Samuel Huntington Putin, 61, a man of the Internet age: He is a child The Soviet revival was made easier by the fact this is the cost of finally leaving the past for the would argue that this is a clash of civilizations of a time when information was disseminated by that Russia never really got the Soviet Union out present. Arts&Culture www.sptimes.ru | Wednesday, September 17, 2014 ❖ 7 Translators Affected by Ukraine Crisis Russian literature translators sign a letter making clear their opposition to Russia’s role in the ongoing conflict.

By Nataliya Bokareva sian involvement in Ukraine — both THE ST. PETERSBURG TIMES military involvement and propaganda. “Some of our foreign colleagues have ranslators of Russian litera- already complained that publishers are ture were honored at an reluctant to talk about new translations award ceremony at Mos- from Russian: ‘please do not bring Rus- cow’s Pashkov House, sian for now,’” Boroditskaya said. where participants warned Schwartz observed that in the So- thatT international tensions over viet times, much was translated from Ukraine were having an effect on the Russian in the U.S. “Many of the trans- quiet work of translators too. lated contemporary books then had The Read Russia award ceremony some political element to them, which on Sept. 6 was hosted by former Cul- I did not appreciate at the time. And ture Minister Mikhail Shvydkoi and now I am also asking myself the ques- took place at the end of an interna- tion, ‘With these rising tensions, is this tional translation congress, which saw going to change the kind of literature dozens of participants sign a letter that is published in America?’” voicing their opposition to Russia’s ac- Boroditskaya also felt uncertainty tions in Ukraine. whether another congress will happen Pashkov House has a proud literary in the future, “given we are driven into heritage, with a starring role in Mikhail a ‘rogue state’ situation.” Bulgakov’s “Master and Margarita,” so Director of the Russian State Library it was fitting that one of the winners was of Foreign Literature Yekaterina Ge- Alexander Nitzberg for translating that nieva read the final communique of the very book into German. He won in the congress, which stressed the urgent need

category of “20th-century Russian lit- SPT / FOR STEPANENKO ANATOLY to promote humanitarian ties and sup- erature [works written before 1990].” A Chinese translator of Pushkin receives an award during the Read Russia award ceremony held in Moscow on Sept. 6. port translation as a means of mutual Read Russia prizes are awarded to a understanding and communication. translator or group of translators for out- lated the book on her own and then contemporary pieces. Two new “Anna who is not well-known abroad, was even “Today, with the rising international standing translations of prose and poetry found a publisher, “I don’t really have Karenina” translations will be published called ‘Dostoevsky.’ Works by play- tensions and stronger threats to peace works from Russian into a foreign lan- time for that but I liked it so much. this year. One, translated by Rosamund wright Leonid Andreyev were also very and human dignity provoked by the guage, published by a foreign publisher, [Yuzefovich] has got some wonderful Bartlett, was published by Oxford Uni- popular in Argentina in the 1970s.” battle of geopolitical interests, it is cru- during the previous two years. books and is one of the most overlooked versity Press in August, and another Natalya Solzhenitsyn, a member of cial to prevent an unwinding of human- In the contemporary Russian litera- authors in English translation.” one, translated by Schwartz, will appear the Read Russia’s board of trustees, itarian ties, knowledge and idea ex- ture category [works written after Russian contemporary literature is from Yale University Press. believes that current trends are natural. change, which facilitate deeper mutual 1990] the prize went to Marian printed in small print runs in the U.S., The situation with translations is “If we talk about the classic works, understanding between countries and Schwartz for her translation of Leonid Schwartz said, and virtually unknown. better in Argentina, said Alejandro they are ‘time-tested,’ and contempo- cultures. Writers’ word brought across Yuzefovich’s novel “Harlequin’s Cos- “I would say in America, every year, Ariel Gonzales, who won a prize for rary pieces are valuable and important languages with translators’ help often tume.” Schwartz is a prominent trans- only about 10 translated Russian books his translation of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s as ‘a mirror we can look in, they regis- proves more powerful than diplomatic lator of Russian books in the U.S. with are published,” Schwartz said. “Many novella “The Double.” ter the current moment.’ documents and gun fires.” more than 60 volumes of Russian clas- of those are small books, maybe po- “Argentina is a country of immi- “But great literature is never born sic and contemporary fiction, history, etry, available in small numbers.” grants, which has always been closely in turbulent times, but rather in more biography and criticism. “We have lost the tradition of even tied to Europe,” he said, “We can feel stagnant periods, when there is time to The detective novel set in St. Peters- paying lip service to high culture, to lit- the Russian literary influence in our na- look around, think it over and compre- burg in the second half of the 19th cen- erature, when they at least say, ‘litera- tive literature. The first published novel hend,” Solzhenitsyn said. tury is the first in a trilogy based on a real- ture is important’ — not that they read by [famous Argentinian novelist] Julio She emphasized that Read Russia’s life figure, Chief Inspector Ivan Putilin. it,” said Schwartz, “In America, it is a Cortazar, ‘The Winners (Los Premios),’ long list included 10 works by contem- “I thought it was so good and unlike big country but a small audience.” opens with an epigraph from Dosto- porary writers out of 32 titles compet- most Russian books people had in Classic Russian works are better evsky — a quote from ‘The Idiot.’ An- ing for the prize, a third of the total. America,” said Schwartz, who trans- served in the English language than other Argentinian author, Roberto Arlt, Nevertheless it was contemporary issues which were more on the minds of those at the ceremony. the word’s worth The current political situation is awful and unprecedented, said Marina Boroditskaya, Russian translator and poet. More than 100 congress partici-

The Zombies Are Coming pants and their colleagues in the industry SPT / FOR STEPANENKO ANATOLY signed a petition of protest against Rus- Solzhenitsyn speaking at the gala. Зомбирование is also used to de- pletely different understanding of the By Michele A. Berdy РЕКЛАМА scribe anyone who is out of it: После war in Ukraine. Западное общество Зомбирование: zombification сообщения о приостановке деятель- зомбировано своими «независимыми ности компании из кабинета выплыли СМИ» (Western society has been ere at The St. Petersburg два десятка зомби (After the an- turned into zombies by their so-called Times language desk we nouncement that the company was independent media). Идёт зомбирова- aim to keep our readers ceasing operations, two dozen people ние зрителей российским ТВ (Viewers informed about the most filed out of the office like zombies). are being turned into zombies by Rus- up-to-date Russian lan- But зомбирование is used in less ex- sian television). guageH trends. So imagine our dismay pected ways: Лжеправославными As one writer notes: Телевизор when we realized we hadn’t written старцами Оптиной пустыни были вполне справедливо называют зомбоя- about зомбирование (zombification), зомбированы Н.В. Гоголь, Ф.М. До- щиком (The television is called the zom- which is surely one of the top words of стоевский и другие русские интеллек- bie-box for very good reason). The rea- 2014. туалы (Nikolai Gogol, Fyodor Dosto- son is this: отупляющее действие теле- Зомбирование is the process of mak- evsky and other Russian intellectuals визионных программ, используемых ing зомби (zombie/zombies). One dic- were zombified by the pseudo Ortho- властями для промывания мозгов насе- tionary defines the process this way: dox spiritual fathers at the Optina лению в целях создания определённого, упрощение роли и функций души, духа в Monastery). And it can also be used in нужного им общественного мнения (the человеческой жизнедеятельности (re- more moving ways: Чеченская жен- stupefying effect of television programs ducing the role and function of the soul щина сегодня действительно зомби – used by the authorities to brainwash the and spirit in human vital activities). она зомбирована многолетним непре- population in order to create the specific Not surprisingly to anyone who has кращающимся горем (Today the public opinion that they need). worked in an office, зомбирование is women of Chechnya are truly zombies; Television as a brainwashing machine used to describe what happens in the they have been turned into zombies by is also called зомбификатор (zombifier) corporate workplace. Here’s a descrip- many years of unceasing grief). or зомбивизор (zombivision). And some tion of a place I think I once worked at: For a long time зомбирование has folks think the effect is catastrophic: Кол- Работники расползаются домой, ме- been used to describe the result of pro- лективному зомбированию подвержены неджеры ходят как зомби, с полуза- paganda. Take this quote from 2003: О 95 процентов населения. (Ninety five крытыми глазами, натыкаясь на том, что нас всех зомбируют пропа- percent of the population is subject to столы, охрана же при виде этих при- гандой, мы читаем и слышим вот уже collective zombification). видений сочувствующе улыбается второе десятилетие (We have been Time to get off the couch. (Employees crawl away home as the reading and hearing for more two de- managers move like zombies with half- cades that we are all being turned into Michele A. Berdy, a Moscow-based closed eyes, walking into desks, while zombies by propaganda). translator and interpreter, is the author the security guys smile sympathetically Today it is the standard word used of ‘The Russian Word’s Worth’ (Glas), at these apparitions). to describe why someone has a com- a collection of her columns. 8 ❖ Wednesday, September 17, 2014 ARTS & CULTURE www.sptimes.ru Swedish Rocker to Front Queerfest The annual LGBT event opens this week despite Russia’s anti-gay laws deterring some international guests.

By Sergey Chernov artists from Manifesta, a roving bien- According to Anisimova, Manifesta THE ST. PETERSBURG TIMES nale which has been hosted in St. Pe- founding director Hedwig Fijen will tersburg despite the protests of a num- come to St. Petersburg to take part in ueerfest, an annual cel- ber of international artists, who de- the discussion on Sept. 27. ebration of LGBT art manded that it be moved to another “The subject of the discussion, ‘Art and culture opening in country because of Russia’s recent anti- as a Political Statement,’ is very impor- St. Petersburg this week, gay legislation and, later, Russia’s an- tant for us,” she said. will return to the city nexation of Crimea. “We’ll be talking about artists’ civic centerQ after being forced last year to “Because Manifesta is held in St. activism; how important it is, why it is relocate to the city’s northeastern out- Petersburg this year, it was important important for artists and why it is of- skirts. Due to an increase in hostility for us to invite artists or curators from ten easier for artists to deliver a social toward the LGBT community in Rus- Manifesta,” Anisimova said. message, why this information is more sia last year, downtown venues refused “Queer projects constitute an im- accessible for the public and why it is to host the festival, citing reasons such portant part of Manifesta and it’s inter- important that artists are involved in as repair works, being booked or sim- esting to find out how fully the artists social criticism, and why these queer ply failing to answer requests. think they can address the subject in St. projects are so important in the lives But this year, Queerfest faced a dif- Petersburg and what difficulties they of discriminated groups.” ferent problem — getting an interna- came across. For instance, there is a se- This year’s Queerfest, whose venues tional artist to headline its music pro- ries of portraits now showing at the were kept secret until this week to save gram. That is until it contacted Jenny Hermitage. Originally it was called them from being pressured by the au- Wilson, the Swedish rock singer, who ‘Great Gay Men,’ but at the Hermitage thorities like in previous years, will be agreed to participate on the spot. it is being called ‘Great Men.’ The de- mostly held at Freedom, a new art space “It has never been so hard before,” scription has been censored as well. on 7 Kazanskaya Ulitsa, right behind

said organizer Anna Anisimova ahead SPT / FOR CHERNOV SERGEY “So people come, the exhibition is the Kazan Cathedral, with some events of the festival, speaking with The St. Jenny Wilson, r, is headlining the closing festival at Queerfest. shown, but it is not clear what it is scheduled to take place at the Loft Etagi Petersburg Times. about unless the viewer looks it up on exhibition space, the underground mu- “Many were prepared to support say. We can’t say to them with confi- sions and lectures involving artists and the Internet and reads what this proj- sic club Zoccolo 2.0 and the nightclub Queerfest with video or written mes- dence, ‘No, you won’t be accused of activists. The festival’s two main discus- ect is dedicated to. So these types of Tatyana Gordiyenko Fashion House. sages, but did not want to come and ‘propaganda.’” sions will be “Queer or What Is the Art projects have been shown in St. Pe- perform. They said they could support Wilson, who performed at St. Pe- of Being Yourself” on Sept. 19 and “Art tersburg, but how effectively and Queerfest will be held from Sept. 18 to us from Europe, but they were not pre- tersburg’s Stereoleto music festival in as a Political Statement” on Sept. 27. openly is debatable — it would be 28. See www.queerfest.ru for more de- pared to come to Russia and make a July, will headline the festival’s closing They will feature artists who took very interesting to talk about this with tails and updates. An English version is statement here. event, “St. Petersburg Without Ho- part in Queerfest’s program and some the artists themselves.” also available. “We don’t ask people to say any- mophobia,” on Sept. 28. thing from the stage — the very fact “Jenny Wilson is an activist in Swe- that a person participates in such a fes- den. She has performed a lot at human tival is a statement in itself. It is not a rights events and supported confer- simple performance, not a commercial ences, made statements in Sweden, but Avant-Garde Music Festival Returns concert. Consequently, 99 percent of not in Russia,” Anisimova said. those we contacted did not want to go “We met her when she came to Ste- By Sergey Chernov to Russia and perform at such an event reoleto and told her about the festival, THE ST. PETERSBURG TIMES at this point.” and it turned out that she already knew According to Anisimova, artists about it and told us that she would rthur Brown, Henry were scared off by the ambiguously- come and support the festival with Kaiser and Dror Feiler worded law forbidding the “propaganda great pleasure. She also agreed at once will perform at the Apo- of non-traditional sexual relations to to the conditions of a non-commercial sition avant-garde music minors” passed in Russia last year. concert, because we have no opportu- festival, which opens in “There is no clear understanding of nity to pay a fee and we intend to make ASt. Petersburg on Thursday. Held for what is seen as ‘gay propaganda’ in tickets affordable to everybody.” the 10th time, Aposition will feature Russia,” she said. The other music program will be musicians from different music genres “[The artists] are prepared to show held at the underground music club from across 10 different countries. support and express their point of Zoccolo 2.0 at 11 p.m. on Saturday, Brown is a British psychedelic rock view, but without violating the law. Sept. 20, and will feature Ukrainian legend whose band, The Crazy World Since they don’t understand what may band Lyudska Podoba, led by artist of Arthur Brown, topped the U.K. be seen as a violation, it’s easier for Anatoly Belov, the Moscow-based ag- charts with the single “Fire” in 1968 them not to come at all. However, as itpop band Arkady Kots, the local and he is regarded as having an enor- strong as their support may be, they project Techno Poeziya by poet Ro- mous influence on rock music. refuse to violate the law of the country man Osminkin and the project Kate in Henry Kaiser, who collaborated they are coming to. They don’t under- the Box formed by musicians from St. with the late local pianist Sergei stand what ‘gay propaganda’ is and Petersburg and Rostov-on-Don. Kuryokhin in 1989, is an American gui- how they may be accused of violating Now in its sixth installment, Queer- tarist and composer considered to be a the law. We don’t even know what to fest will also feature a number of discus- member of the “first generation” of American free improvisers. The other highlights include De- bashish Bhattacharya, an Indian classi- cal musician who plays the steel pedal guitar, Spanish-born, New York-based poet and performance artist Ernesto Estrella and the Catherine Jauniaux Trio, led by the Belgian avant-garde singer. Also on the list is Dror Feiler, an Israeli-born Swedish saxophonist and left-wing politician who first be- came known for his work with the jazz band Lokomotiv Konkret.

Aposition is a creative partnership APOSITION formed by Alexei Plyusnin in 2000 and British psychedelic rock legend Arthur Brown. its name refers to both the innovative U.S. jazz composer and musician Sun symposium” than a standard music fes- All concerts will be held at 7 p.m. at Ra’s Arkestra and Rock in Opposition tival. The events are free but tickets Manezh — Maly Zal, 103 Nab. Kanala (RIO), a movement of “progressive” should be ordered in advance at the Griboyedova. M: Sennaya Ploschad. Tel: bands launched by the British band festival’s website due to a limited num- 314 8248. Free tickets are available from Henry Cow in 1978. ber of seats. www.aposition.ru Plyusnin, who spent a stint as art- director at SKIF, or the Sergei Kuryokhin International Festival, St. PROGRAM Petersburg’s annual experimental mu- sic event held every spring, started Aposition Avant-Garde Music Sat., Sept. 20 Aposition as a means to express en- Festival 10 Peter Stampfel, Vlad Makarov, tirely different ideas. Arthur Brown and Byzantine “It’s the total opposite [of SKIF]. Thurs., Sept. 18 Art Punk Ensemble It’s anti-egalitarian, anti-hippie. It’s a Ernesto Estrella, Debashish Bhat- bold idea and a weapon of a different tacharya, Famoudou Don Moye Sun., Sept. 21 kind,” he said in an interview with The and Baba Sissoko Dror Feiler, Telesmatic Sound Box, St. Petersburg Times shortly before the Catherine Jauniaux Trio, APosition first event in October 2005. Fri., Sept. 19 Orchestra Plyusnin sees Aposition more as an Khorovod, Henry Kaiser, Novi Sad “unofficial competition, laboratory and www.sptimes.ru ARTS & CULTURE Wednesday, September 17, 2014 ❖ 9 city tales A Duel to the Death By Gus Peters up his talent, that, as John Bayley THE ST. PETERSBURG TIMES wrote in his review of one of the many Alexander Pushkin is a giant of Russian biography’s regarding Pushkin, “he was literature and considered the father of a spent force in literature.” His literary the modern Russian language. And just magazine had proven to be a dud and as his life remains the subject of numer- provided little income to the struggling ous myths, the circumstances of his death poet, and he was drowning in debt. have become similarly dramatized. To further Pushkin’s unease, he was The most essential facts are that in given the title of valet in the Russian February of 1837, after Pushkin chal- court, the lowest title available and one lenged George D’Anthes, the adopted that forced him to attend the court’s son of the Dutch ambassador, to a duel many balls and social events, where he for flirting with his wife, the two men then had to watch as even the tsar met at a secluded stretch along St. Pe- flirted with his wife. tersburg’s Chernaya Rechka where So it was at that moment in Push- Pushkin was shot, dying two days later kin’s life that he felt the most honor- from his wounds. able thing he could do was challenge This was not the first time Pushkin D’Anthes to a duel. On a cold, snowy had put his life on the line for the sake February day, Pushkin and D’Anthes of honor. He was a hotheaded man took their paces and, as was tradition,

who regularly fought or threatened du- traded shots rather than firing at the AP els when he felt slighted. He gambled, same time. D’Anthes shot first, hitting Hundreds of Muscovites line up outside the fi rst McDonald’s in the Soviet Union on its opening day in 1990. womanized and drank, not exactly ex- Pushkin in the stomach, a fatal wound ceptional traits in the aristocratic social that the poet succumbed to after two circles of the era, and once fell ill after days of agonizing pain. sitting in the rain outside of a prosti- News of his death brought a large tute’s door. While in exile, he chal- crowd to the poet’s house and in order What McDonald’s lenged a man to a duel when the man to avoid idolizing the fallen poet too was visibly surprised Pushkin hadn’t much, the tsar ordered police to pro- read a certain book. tect the home and kept secret the de- The beginning of the end came tails of his funeral, eventually burying Meant to the U.S.S.R. when Pushkin met George D’Anthes, him at a monastery in Svyatogorsk. a Frenchman and career officer in the In an indirect manner, Pushkin’s Tsar’s army, in 1834, and D’Anthes death led to the demise of the era’s other As Russian authorities continue to target the popular American took to publicly flirting with Pushkin’s great poet, Mikhail Lermontov. Push- wife. D’Anthes and her were often kin’s junior, Lermontov was exiled to fast-food chain, one writer remembers the excitement of its arrival. seen walking around St. Petersburg, the Caucasus after writing a poem in the leading to rumors that angered the aftermath of Pushkin’s death that By Mitya Kushelevich poet, the conscience and soul of Russian pyramids of dusty canned food as win- poet. To compound his anger, he re- blamed Russian society for his untimely THE ST. PETERSBURG TIMES culture, watching over as people crossed dow dressing. In our excitement, we ceived a series of letters in 1836 calling demise. While in the Caucasus, Ler- In Russia, we don’t panic easily. We get the line into another world. Together, ordered one of everything, super size, him a “cuckold” and insinuating that montov was challenged to a duel by an used to change fairly quickly. On the Ronald McDonald and Coca-Cola’s red like everyone around us. My mum his flirtatious wife was being far more old friend. Although it is reported that day of the self-imposed embargo of Santa represented a pair of freedom- probably spent our monthly savings on than just chatty. Lermontov deliberately missed his shot, Western food, my Facebook page was loving superheroes. Add the romantic it. I still remember how insanely huge Not only was Pushkin faced with ru- his friend was not so kind, killing Ler- flooded by jokes about delicious Be- poet across the road and you have the the milkshake looked and I didn’t mors of infidelity but sinister ones montov with his in 1841; “A dog’s death larusian mussels and toothsome Chi- holy trinity, symbolizing all that is im- know how to hold a Big Mac with my about his talent. By the time of his for the dog” in the words of Tsar Nicho- nese ham, some of them already in portant to Russians: eating, drinking tiny hands — I was nine years old at death, some believed that he had used las I, who was no fan of either poet. comic strip form. The reality is that and contemplating the Russian soul. the time — so it landed on the ground we’ll get the same food with a “Made Everybody wanted to try it, from the after the first bite. A tear rolled down in Belarus” sticker glued on. And a janitor to the professor. The queues were my cheek and my mum stormed off for new price, of course. Let those girls cry long, forming rings around the square a new burger. over the loss of mascarpone, we’ll still like a gargantuan python trying to Everything tasted more intense have our Scottish whiskey and Irish squeeze the life out of the trees and the than anything I’d ever tried before. I stout, those most sacred of items. fountains within. We didn’t know what ate and drank and chewed like it was But the closure of the first McDon- fast food was. We thought McDonald’s my last meal on earth. Around 10 min- ald’s on Aug. 25, 2014 — and the 11 was a proper restaurant serving Ameri- utes and 5,000 calories later, my body more than followed amid sanitation can cuisine; it probably tasted like free- alerted me to the fact that it wasn’t concerns — was different. People got dom and we wanted to sample it. quite able to digest all the fatty deli- long faces. Everything about this par- The summer came but the lines just ciousness and that it was probably a ticular branch of the American fast- kept growing, with people from other good time to check out how an Ameri- food giant was iconic for a person born cities swarming in just for a bite of a can toilet looked like from the inside. I in Soviet Russia. Just as St. Petersburg hamburger. Finally my mum decided wasn’t alone: the queues to the toilets, was once considered our “window to we should give it a try. We stood under especially the women’s, was almost as Europe,” this restaurant was our “win- the melting sun for around eight hours. long as the queues outside. dow to the world.” Opened on the last That wasn’t so much of a problem as Now, 23 years later, there are no ro- day of 1990, the last New Year’s Eve of we were used to standing in lines for mantic sentiments towards McDonald’s. the U.S.S.R.’s existence, for a symbolic days just to get our monthly ration of Still, the closing of the very first branch yearly rent of one ruble, McDonald’s sugar and tea. And that without the ex- is the writing on the wall for a lot of represented the change that we’d all pectation of any odd-looking yellow Russians. The message is clear and it’s been waiting for. clowns to serve us food. not aimed at Americans, it’s aimed at Directly above it was a Coca-Cola Once inside we were blown away by us: the window to the world is closing. sign — another first for the country — the number of young cashiers behind that would shine in the darkness, the huge counter, smiling, moving like This article first appeared in the online brighter than the red stars atop the bees, serving one meal after another. magazine The Calvert Journal,

WIKIMEDIA COMMONS Kremlin towers. On the opposite side of Nothing like our fat old ladies in white a guide to a creative Russia at The city’s most prominent statue of Alexander Pushkin stands in Arts Square. the street stood a bronze of Pushkin, the gowns sitting in front of empty shelves, www.calvertjournal.com. Education & JobOpportunities advertising section Wednesday, September 17, 2014 Food&Drink www.sptimes.ru | Wednesday, September 17, 2014 ❖ 10

INFUSED VODKA RECIPE The Layman’s Guide to Caviar How caviar transformed from a common meal to a signature dish in Russian cuisine. Caviar is not all the Caviar Bar and Restaurant offers at the Bel- mond Grand Hotel Europe. By Lana Matafonov ing to around 200 kilograms of usable Over 50 varieties of vodka are THE ST. PETERSBURG TIMES caviar. also available to try, with vodka Blini, vodka and black caviar: No real “Beluga can live up to 100 years and sommelier and caviar expert Al- Russian feast is complete without this can start producing eggs as early as 16 exander Dmitriev on hand to tasty troika, which has become synony- years old, but only once every two help guests pair the two together mous with Russian culture. years,” says Dmitriev. “But unfortu- for the perfect indulgence, Rus- “Even during the time of the tsars, nately the beluga is becoming quite rare; sian-style. there was no dinner without caviar, es- only 120 or less are caught annually. In Guests can also try a number pecially in the Romanov era,” says Al- fact all beluga in Russia are now under of homemade infused vodkas, exander Dmitriev, a caviar specialist protection and kept in protected areas.” which Dmitriev and his team and vodka sommelier at Belmond The Caviar Bar and Restaurant of- create using old traditional Rus- Grand Hotel Europe’s Caviar Bar and fers the most extensive range of black sian recipes, as infusing one’s Restaurant. “It [caviar] was an abso- caviar in St. Petersburg — 12 varieties own vodka has been and contin- lute luxury. When vodka was first in- in fact. It is also the only place in the ues to be popular in Russian vented at the end of the 19th century city that offers a taste of the rare gold culture. by Dmitry Mendeleev, it was very, very caviar from the albino sterlet, a pale One of the most unique fla- expensive. And the tsars, who pre- yellow-colored caviar. With the hotel vors on offer so far is horserad- ferred to pair their luxury products to- consuming almost 100 kilograms of ish vodka — an old recipe that gether, paired vodka with caviar.” Dmitriev’s team recently found, This pairing continues today as and they insist that the taste will vodka is known to help bring out the win you over. flavor of the caviar. In addition, bland Once a peasant food, For those that dare to try, foods are also now commonly served caviar only became a here is the recipe to try at home. to help complement the caviar’s salty Na Zdorovye! taste. “Traditionally, caviar is served delicacy when Ivan with boiled egg, in particular egg white, HORSERADISH VODKA and sour cream because this helps re- the Terrible acquired 1. For every liter of vodka, move some of the saltiness. This com- a taste for it. use 100-150 grams of fresh bination is then served on top of, or horseradish. inside, plain blini and is the most tradi- caviar a year, it makes every effort to 2. Peel then grate the horse- tional way… and has been so through- buy only from licensed suppliers and radish and mix with honey to out Russia’s history,” says Dmitriev. supports the country’s conservation taste. References to caviar date back to as programs. “Russians have actually in- 3. Mix with the vodka and far as the Persian Empire. However, it vented many different methods of cav- stir. hasn’t always been regarded as the iar production to help protect the fish,” 4. Cover the bottle or jug and luxury item it is today. Russian fisher- says Dmitriev. “For example, farmers leave in the fridge for two weeks. men learned to farm caviar as early as use a special method called a ‘c-sec- However, be sure to stir the the 12th century and for centuries it tion,’ which means milking the fish for vodka mixture every day for a was considered nothing more than eggs without killing them. Currently, few minutes. cheap peasant food, served with por- only Russia is using this method.” 5. After two weeks, strain the ridge and eaten by the bowlful. How- Dmitriev also urges consumers to vodka and enjoy this old tradi- ever, once Ivan the Terrible got a taste make an effort to buy from licensed tional flavor with some salty for it, its status changed and it has re- suppliers as well to avoid fakes. “You Russian cucumbers! mained a delicacy since. must buy from reliable suppliers be-

Caviar are eggs, or roe, extracted cause many simply dye caviar black. WIKIMEDIA COMMONS from several types of sturgeon fish and You also don’t know the conditions un- Caviar Bar offers the most extensive collection of black caviar in St. Petersburg. then cured in salt brine. The most tra- der which the caviar has been har- ditional and famous Russian black vested and you can be poisoned. stead, when conducting a tasting session, open up the flavor. With all my guests, I caviar comes from the beluga. “A common way to sell fake black he prefers to use a special technique bor- recommend trying this method so that “The beluga is the oldest fish in the caviar is to use the black eggs from a rowed from caviar production specialists. they can truly experience the flavors and world. It’s a prehistoric fish and dates Japanese fish. It looks the same but has “Using a small mother-of-pearl spoon, subtle differences… and I have yet to back to over 250 million years ago and a different flavor. If you have experi- they put some caviar on the back of the meet a person who has not enjoyed the hasn’t changed over that time,” says enced the taste of real black caviar, hand because the skin doesn’t have any Russian black caviar we have on offer Dmitriev. even just once, you will immediately be flavor, making it the best for tasting. here,” he adds with a smile. As the largest in the sturgeon fam- able to detect if you are eating fake,” While caviar is served on fresh ice, it is ily, the beluga averages four meters in says Dmitriev. best eaten a little warm, which is warmed For more information on the caviar and length, weighing 1,000 kilograms and When it comes to serving caviar, by your hand. Then simply wait five to 20 vodka tasting sessions at Belmond Grand producing approximately 20 to 25 per- Dmitriev advises against the use of sil- seconds, eat the caviar and finish with a Hotel Europe, visit: www.belmond.com/ cent of its body weight in eggs, equat- verware because it alters the flavor. In- little bit of vodka because vodka helps grand-hotel-europe-st-petersburg

THE DISH ë‡ÌÍÚ-èÂÚÂ·Û„ í‡ÈÏÒ The St. Petersburg Times is a part of Sanoma Independent Media CEO: Jean-Emmanuel de Witt Board of Directors: Tatiana Shalygina, Tatyana Shishkova, Mikhail Doubik, Alexander Gukasov, Elena Razumova Chairman of the Supervisory Board: Derk Sauer Publisher: OOO “Neva Media” Namaste: Currying Favor General Director: Tatyana Turikova Acting editor: Lana Matafonov Advertising: Ksenia Chiritsa, Ylia Yanchuk Namaste zine, featuring various articles about down the spice to suit local tastes, we bles, $6.30) with lentils, mustard Subscription: Viktoria Borovkova Production: Alla Kalinovskaya 5 Malaya Konyushennaya Street India — “the land of contrasts.”etc. were keen to see if the dishes billed as seeds and cashew nuts, and helpings IT Department: Sergei Karasev Tel. 570 68 86 While this approach may sound tacky, “very hot” really lived up to their rep- of naan bread stuffed with garlic (120 OOO Neva Media ì˜‰ËÚÂθ Ë ËÁ‰‡ÚÂθ – ééé “ç‚‡ å‰ˇ” Open every day from noon to 11 p.m. it comes across as being more endear- utation. If anything, they surpassed rubles, $3.15) and lamb (170 rubles, Copyright © 2005 The St. Petersburg Times. All Rights Reserved. Mass media registration certificate number èà ‹ îë2-8918 of Meal for two with alcohol: 2,330 rubles ($62) ingly eccentric than anything else, our expectations. The Karachi chicken $4.50). We were also given a selection November 30, 2007, issued by the Directorate of the Federal with advertisements to buy statuettes (710 rubles, $18.70), in tomato and on- of sauces, the highlight of which was Service for the monitoring of compliance with legislation in the sphere of mass communications and the preservation of cultural By Simon Patterson of Shiva, Ganesha and Co: “Don’t ion gravy with an abundance of green the pureed coriander and mint com- heritage of the North-West Federal District. ë‚ˉ ÚÂθ ÒÚ ‚Ó Ó Â- THE ST. PETERSBURG TIMES you want to keep strange gods on chilies was as hot as the most ardent ing as a welcome relief after the fiery „ËÒÚ ‡ ˆËË Ò‰ÒÚ ‚‡ χÒÒÓ ‚ÓÈ ËÌÙÓ χ ˆËË èà ‹ îë2-8918 On an evening when half the city your shelf?” But of course we do. curry-head could desire, while the mains. ÓÚ 30 ÌÓfl · fl 2007 „Ó‰‡, ‚˚‰‡ ÌÓ ìÔ‡ ‚ ΠÌË ÂÏ î‰ ‡Î¸ ÌÓÈ ÒÎÛÊ·˚ ÔÓ Ì‡‰ÁÓ Û Á‡ Òӷβ ‰Â- seemed to have decided to take a walk But here the quirkiness ends. The lamb madras curry (730 rubles, $19.20) We would have gladly explored ÌËÂÏ Á‡ÍÓ ÌÓ ‰‡ ÚÂθ ÒÚ ‚‡ ‚ ÒÙÂ χÒÒÓ ‚˚ı ÍÓÏÏÛ ÌË Í‡ ˆËÈ Ë down Nevsky Prospekt, it was a relief restaurant is spacious and tastefully also measured up. It was washed down the menu further, especially some- Óı‡ Ì ÍÛθÚÛ ÌÓ „Ó Ì‡ÒΠ‰Ëfl ÔÓ ë‚ Ó-ᇠԇ‰ ÌÓ ÏÛ Ù‰ ‡Î¸ ÌÓ ÏÛ ÓÍÛ „Û. to duck into Namaste on Malaya designed with the walls painted in with two draft Baltika beers (180 ru- thing from the vegetarian menu, but Издание предназначено для аудитории старше 16 лет. Konyushennaya, which opened at the subtle gray shades and adorned with bles, $4.75), as we felt anything more the portions were so generous (also a Отпечатано в ОАО «Первая Образцовая типография» beginning of this month. Obviously bas-reliefs of temple scenes. Al- distinguished would be wasted on our pleasant change from past dining ex- филиал «СПб газетный комплекс». 198216, СПб, Ленинский пр., 139. Заказ № 1364. word about the restaurant has not got though we were the only customers, bruised taste buds, although there is periences), that we resigned ourselves Подписано в печать: по графику в 1.00, out yet, as the place was completely we were made to feel comfortable an extensive wine list and a wide range to trying them on our next visit. фактически в 1.00. Тираж 20000 экз. Распространяется бесплатно. The St. Petersburg deserted when we arrived. Quite un- and relaxed with our friendly and of spirits and intriguing cocktails, such In short, Namaste certainly does Times is a free publication. justly, as we were soon to discover. helpful waiter guiding us through the as the “Mumbai Martini” consisting of provide a contrast — the excellent ser- With various Indian statues dis- intricacies of the extensive menu. vodka, lemon ginger ale and curry vice, generous portions and refusal to Address: 190000, Russia, St. Petersburg, 4 Konnogvardeisky boulevard, Entrance 7, 3rd floor. played by the entrance, Namaste also Based on our experience with In- leaves. make concessions to bland tastes Telephone/Fax: (7-812) 325-60-80. contains a souvenir shop, while the dian cuisine in this city in the past, We accompanied the mains with a make it quite exceptional among the ĉÂÒ ‰‡ÍˆËË: 190000, Конногвардейский бульвар, where restaurants often like to tone soothing dish of lemon rice (240 ru- city’s restaurants. д. 4, лит. А, подъезд 7, этаж 3 menu itself doubles as a travel maga- Internet: http://www.sptimes.ru www.sptimes.ru LISTINGS Wednesday, September 17, 2014 ❖ 11

HOW TO USE THE LISTINGS: clever plan to regain the attention of her tuesday, september 23 philandering husband. St. Petersburg Opera. Dates and times are correct at the Eugene Onegin Tchaikovsky’s opera based ballet time of publication, but last-min- on Pushkin’s novel in verse. Conductor Pavel Don Quixote The classic ballet based on Smelkov Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory Cervantes’ novel, set to a Spanish-flavored ute changes are not infrequent, score by Ludwig Minkus. so it’s best to check by contacting theater Mikhailovsky Theater, 7.30 p.m. PREMIERE! Hollywood Diva Musical comedy Cinderella Sergey Prokofiev’s 1945 score the venue. COMPLETE LISTINGS can by Austrian Ralph Benatzky set in early 20th based on the timeless children’s tale by be found at www.sptimes.ru. century Hollywood. Staged by Cornelius Baltus Charles Perrault. Rimsky-Korsakov Unless otherwise stated, stage (Holland). Musical Comedy Theater Conservatory, 7.30 p.m. events start at 7 p.m. All stage concert concert Vocal Music Arias from Neapolitan Baroque Chamber Music Music for mandolin by shows and films are in Russian operas. Pino De Vittorio and La Cappella Vivaldi, de Sarasate, Drigo. Vladimir unless noted. Musicale della Pieta de’Turchini (Italy). Part of Vodyannikov. Kochneva House, 41 Nab. Reki the Early Music Festival. Capella Fontanki, M: Gostiny Dvor. Tel. 710 4002 theater STAGES saturday, september 20 Broadway Hits Ivan Ozhogon and others perform hits from Broadway musicals. ballet Musical Comedy Theater DAILY SHOW! Folk Show Ballet Gala Soloists from Mariinsky and Feel Yourself Russian! Two hours of traditional Mikhailovsky theaters perform extracts from Russian songs and dance. Nikolayevsky ballets by Tchaikovsky, Minkus and Palace, 7 p.m. and 9 p.m. www.folkshow.ru Khachaturyan. Hermitage Theater, 7.30 p.m. GIGS concert wednesday, september 17 Chamber Music Mozart: Sacred and wednesday, september 17 Profane. Conductor Igor Tomashevsky. ballet Mikhailovsky Theater, 4 p.m. rock, etc. Swan Lake The Russian Ballet Theater Vocal Music Most popular romances with ShipaBand Nu-jazz, abstract hip-hop, funk. performs Tchaikovsky’s popular three-act ballet lyrics by Pushkin, Block, Alexey Tolstoy and Griboyedov Hill, 2A Voronezhskaya Ul. about love and deception. St. Petersburg Hotel Tsvetayeva. St. Petersburg Opera Tel. 764 4355, 973 7273. 10 p.m. Concert Hall, 5 Pirogovskaya Nab., Trio Super Heroes Covers. Jagger, M: Ploschad Lenina. Tel. 380 1917. 8 p.m. theater 2 Ploschad Konstitutsii. Tel. 923 1292. PREMIERE! Hollywood Diva Musical comedy 8:30 p.m. opera by Austrian Ralph Benatzky set in early 20th Serial Killers Hip-hop. Kosmonavt, Pagliacci Ruggero Leoncavallo’s tragic opera century Hollywood. Staged by Cornelius Baltus 24 Bronnitskaya Ul.. Tel. 922 1300. 8 p.m. about a jealous husband in a troupe of (Holland). Musical Comedy Theater K6 Crew Open Season Any Problem, 6.6.7, Bonaparte, a Berlin-based electronic rock band led by Swiss musician and itinerant actors. St. Petersburg Opera Mi6. Mod, 7 Nab. Kanala Griboyedova. singer Tobias Jundt, will perform at A2 on Saturday, Sept. 20.

Tel. 712 0734. 7 p.m. MELISSA HOSTETLER concert sunday, september 21 Vocal Music Countertenor Franco Fagioli jazz & blues friday, september 19 So Parent Latin, reggae. Zoccolo 2.0, (Italy) sings arias from Nicola Porpora’s opreas. ballet Valley of the Blessed Gennady Golshtein, 50 korpus 3 Ligovsky Prospekt. 8 p.m. Part of the Early Music Festival. Capella Don Quixote The classic ballet based on David Goloshchyokin, Vladimir Lytkin, rock, etc. Cervantes’ novel, set to a Spanish-flavored St. Petersburg’s Saxophones, et al. Jazz Aposition Avant-Garde Music jazz & blues theater score by Ludwig Minkus. Mikhailovsky Theater, Philharmonic Hall, 27 Zagorodny Prospekt. Festival Khorovod, Henry Kaiser, Novi_sad. Leningrad Dixieland Band Jazz dancing. PREMIERE! Hollywood Diva Musical comedy 7.30 p.m. Tel. 764 8565, 764 9843. 7 p.m. Manezh – Maly Zal, 103 Nab. Kanala Jazz Philharmonic Hall, 27 Zagorodny by Austrian Ralph Benatzky set in early 20th Dmitry Semyonov Quintet Jazz, fusion, Griboyedova. M: Sennaya Ploschad. Prospekt. Tel. 764 8565, 764 9843. 7 p.m. century Hollywood. Staged by Cornelius Baltus opera funk. JFC Jazz Club, 33 Shpalernaya Ul. Tel: 314 8248. 7 p.m. Yevgeny Sokolov and Kirill Bubyakin (Holland). Musical Comedy Theater Tosca A revisionist version of Puccini’s Tel. 272 9850. 8 p.m. Orkestr Dykhatelnoi Perspektivy Smena Quintet Bebop. JFC Jazz Club, 33 passion-filled opera. Director Yury Alexandrov. Brass pop music. Fish Fabrique Nouvelle, Shpalernaya Ul.. Tel. 272 9850. 8 p.m. St. Petersburg Opera 53 Ligovsky Prospekt. Tel. 764 4857. 9 p.m. thursday, september 18 thursday, september 18 DMX Hip-hop. Glavclub, LDM, concert 47 Ul. Professora Popova. 10 p.m. sunday, september 21 ballet Vocal Music Vasily Gerello sings Neapolitan, rock, etc. Madera Urban folk. Griboyedov Hill, The Sleeping Beauty Nacho Duato’s staging Russian and Ukrainian romances. Aposition Avant-Garde Music 2A Voronezhskaya Ul.. Tel. 764 4355, rock, etc. of Tchaikovsky’s much-loved ballet. Starring Shostakovich Philharmonic, Small Hall Festival Ernesto Estrella, Debashish 973 7273. 9 p.m. Aposition Avant-Garde Music Angelina Vorontsova. Mikhailovsky Theater. Bhattacharya, Famoudou Don Moye and Baba Non Jazz at Griboyedov Magical Unicellular Festival Dror Feiler, Telesmatic Sound Box, theater Sissoko. Manezh – Maly Zal, 103 Nab. Kanala Music, Gramm, Dead Frank, Arriere GuardeN. Catherine Jauniaux Trio, APosition Orchestra. concert PREMIERE! Hollywood Diva Musical comedy Griboyedova. M: Sennaya Ploschad. Griboyedov, 2A Voronezhskaya Ul.. Manezh – Maly Zal, 103 Nab. Kanala Organ Music Bach, Liszt, Schumann, Dianov. by Austrian Ralph Benatzky set in early 20th Tel: 314 8248. 7 p.m. Tel. 764 4355, 973 7273. 9 p.m. Griboyedova. M: Sennaya Ploschad. Julia Glazkova. Smolny Cathedral century Hollywood. Staged by Cornelius Baltus Chervy / Atstskiye Uskoriteli / Kveks / Leningrad Ska punk. XXXX Baltika Brew, Tel. 314 8248. 7 p.m. (Holland). Musical Comedy Theater, 1 p.m, Au’sweis / Uksus / My Drink Punk, 11A Kamennoostrovsky Prospekt. Three Days Grace Hard rock, alternative theater 7 p.m. alternative rock. Dada, 47 Gorokhovaya Ul. M: Gorkovskaya. Tel: 644 4446. 8 p.m. metal, post-grunge. A2, 3 Prospekt Medikov. PREMIERE! Hollywood Diva Musical comedy Tel. 983 7050. 7 p.m. Chekhonte Pop rock. Yashchik Club, Tel. 309 9922. 8 p.m. by Austrian Ralph Benatzky set in early 20th DeNoize, Suicide Sun, Laufderzeit. Money 50 korp. 13 Ligovsky Prospekt. Busdriver Hip-hop. Dada, 47 Gorokhovaya century Hollywood. Staged by Cornelius Baltus monday, september 22 Honey, 28 Sadovaya Ul. Tel. 310 0549. Tel. 964 9637. 8 p.m. Ul.. Tel. 983 7050. 7 p.m. (Holland). Musical Comedy Theater 7 p.m. Kypck Doom metal. Zal Ozhidaniya, Troum / 1000schoen / L.A.D.O. Avant-rock. ballet Musty Luxury Indie folk. Zoccolo 2.0, 118 Nab. Obvodnogo Kanala. Dada, 47 Gorokhovaya Ul.. friday, september 19 Swan Lake Tchaikovsky’s magical three-act 50 korpus 3 Ligovsky Prospekt. 8 p.m. Tel. 333 1069. 8 p.m. Tel. 983 7050. 7 p.m. ballet about love and deception. Corroded Realms / Stubborn / Zansky Indie folk. Fish Fabrique Nouvelle, ballet Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory, 8 p.m. jazz & blues Spaceking Metal. Zoccolo 2.0, 50 korpus 3 53 Ligovsky Prospekt. Tel. 764 4857. 9 p.m. The Sleeping Beauty Nacho Duato’s staging Tatyana Bubelnikova and Nikolai Sizov Ligovsky Prospekt. 8 p.m. Arthur Brown Psychedelic rock, of Tchaikovsky’s much-loved ballet. Starring concert Vocal jazz night. Jazz Philharmonic Hall progressive rock. Jagger, 2 Ploschad Irina Perren. Mikhailovsky Theater, 7.30 p.m. Chamber Music Russian and European (Ellington Hall), 27 Zagorodny Prospekt. jazz & blues Konstitutsii. Tel. 923 1292. 8:30 p.m. chamber music performed by Soloists of the Tel. 764 8565, 764 9843. 8 p.m. David Goloshchyokin and His Band Jazz opera St. Petersburg Ensemble. Kochneva House, PuttinBeatles Rock and roll. violin and organ night. Jazz Philharmonic Hall, jazz & blues Die Fledermaus Yury Alexandrov directs 41 Nab. Reki Fontanki, M: Gostiny Dvor. JFC Jazz Club, 33 Shpalernaya Ul. 27 Zagorodny Prospekt. Tel. 764 8565, Calypso Blues Band Jazz dancing. Jazz Strauss’ operetta about a neglected wife’s Tel. 710 4002 Tel. 272 9850. 8 p.m. 764 9843. 7 p.m. Philharmonic Hall, 27 Zagorodny Prospekt. All Fine Soul funk. JFC Jazz Club, 33 Tel. 764 8565, 764 9843. 7 p.m. Shpalernaya Ul.. Tel. 272 9850. 8 p.m. Suvorov’s Blues Band Blues. JFC Jazz Club, 33 Shpalernaya Ul.. Tel. 272 9850. 8 p.m. saturday, september 20 monday, september 22 rock, etc. Aposition Avant-Garde Music rock, etc. Festival Peter Stampfel, Vlad Makarov, Arthur Harley Davidson Classic rock. Jagger, Brown and Byzantine Art Punk Ensemble. 2 Ploschad Konstitutsii. Tel. 923 1292. Manezh – Maly Zal, 103 Nab. Kanala 8:30 p.m. Griboyedova. M: Sennaya Ploschad. Tel: 314 8248. 7 p.m. jazz & blues Bonaparte Dance-punk, electronic Olesya Yalunina and Alexei Degusarov rock, indie rock. A2, 3 Prospekt Medikov. Vocal jazz. JFC Jazz Club, 33 Shpalernaya Ul.. Tel. 309 9922. 8 p.m. Tel. 272 9850. 8 p.m. Ionosfear Festival Chufella Marzufella, Stas Baretsky, Barto, Anime Morte, et al. Dada, tuesday, september 23 47 Gorokhovaya Ul.. Tel. 983 7050. 7 p.m. Tusovka Festival Talmud Beach, rock, etc. Batiskaf 14. Fish Fabrique Nouvelle, Kvadrat Jazz Club Jam session. Griboyedov 53 Ligovsky Prospekt. Tel. 764 4857. 8 p.m. Hill, 2A Voronezhskaya Ul.. Tel. 764 4355, Arkady Kots Agitpop. Griboyedov, 973 7273. 10 p.m. 2A Voronezhskaya Ul.. Tel. 764 4355, Mify Rock. Jagger, 2 Ploschad Konstitutsii. 973 7273. 9 p.m. Tel. 923 1292. 8:30 p.m. Rock in Girls Dance. Jagger, 2 Ploschad Jazz Jam Acts t.b.c. Manhattan, 90 Nab. Reki Konstitutsii. Tel. 923 1292. 8:30 p.m. Fontanki. Tel. 713 1945. 7 p.m. Mod’s Eighth Anniversary More & Da.Nk Birthday Concert Urban Pinochet, Relsy, Nikita Kozlov, Yellow Pillow, Top-Display, Tokarny Paralich, Siam, Pulemet. Zoccolo 2.0, Rollercoaster, Stereoman, Clones Project, 50 korpus 3 Ligovsky Prospekt. 8 p.m. Goldship. Mod Roof, 7 Nab. Kanala Local indie-rock band More & Relsy will perform unplugged as part of Mod’s eighth anniversary concert, to be held on the Griboyedova. Tel. 712 0734. 7 p.m. jazz & blues venue’s outdoor terrace on Saturday, Sept. 20. Nikita Kozlov of the pop-rock band Segodnya Nochyu, Yellow Pillow, Top- Negative Approach Hardcore punk. Alexei Popov and Four & More Funk, Display, Rollercoaster, Stereoman, Clones Project and Goldship will also take part. Mod, 7 Nab. Kanala Griboyedova. electric jazz. JFC Jazz Club, 33 Shpalernaya

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Tuesday and last Friday of every month. RACHMANINOV GARDEN Tel. 310 1029. www.theatremuseum.ru/en 5 Kazanskaya Ul. Tel. 312 9558. Tuesday SCREENS Juarez Machado: Jazz Dance. The first Saturday 12 p.m. to 8 p.m. St. Petersburg solo exhibition by the Brazilian www.fotorachmaninov.ru NEW! Cold in July (2014, U.S.-France) Jim painter and stage designer negotiates the NEW! Time in the Rhythms of Light and Mickle’s crime drama starring Michael C. Hall, relationship between dance and Art Deco. Shadow. The first personal exhibition in St. Don Johnson and Sam Shepard. Angleterre (in Through Oct. 6 Petersburg by photographer Boris Emelyanov, English with Russian subtitles), Mirage Petersburg-Montmartre. Graphics. The who is known for his black and white still life Cinema. creativity of the residents of shots. Sept. 16 through Oct. 25 Kamennoostrovsky Prospekt is compared to NEW! The Dark Valley (Das finstere Tal) the famed quarter of the French capital. ROSPHOTO STATE CENTER OF (2014, Austria-Germany) Andreas Prochaska’s Through Sept. 28 PHOTOGRAPHY western starring Sam Riley, Tobias Moretti and 35 Bolshaya Morskaya Ul. Tel. 314 6184. Daily Erwin Steinhauer. Dom Kino. Starts 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. www.rosfoto.org Sept. 18. NEW! War and Mercy. This exhibition GALLERIES dedicated to World War I displays French Women (Sous les jupes des filles) photographs showing the activities of the (2014, France) Audrey Dana’s comedy-drama AL GALLERY communities of the sisters of mercy and starring Isabelle Adjani, Laetitia Casta and 3-5 Bolshaya Morskaya Ul. Tel. 315 9999. military medics, including surgical operations Audrey Dana. Avrora, Dom Kino, Mirage 12 p.m. to 8 p.m. Closed Monday. in the field, treatment of the seriously Cinema. www.album-gallery.ru wounded and recovering patients. Through Oct. 12 The Grand Seduction (2013, Canada) Don ANNA NOVA From Both Sides. This unusual exhibition McKellar’s comedy starring Taylor Kitsch, 28 Ul. Zhukovskogo. Tel. 275 9762. Tuesday features rare images taken from World War I Brendan Gleeson and Liane Balaban. through Saturday 12 p.m. to 7 p.m. photo albums to show the conflict from the Angleterre (in English), Dom Kino. Photographer Timur Novikov’s exhibition at Pushkinskaya 10 Art Center’s New www.annanova-gallery.ru points of view of Russian and German officers. Academy of Fine Arts Museum features rare works from the 1980s and 90s. Vlad Kulkov and Marya Dmitrieva: Zoas September 5 through October 12. In the Courtyard (Dans la cour) (2014, Records. Installation. Kulkov and Dmitrieva Through Oct. 12 France) Pierre Salvadori’s comedy-drama present their observations from a visit to Death The Minsk School of Photography: starring Catherine Deneuve, Gustave de Wednesday through Sunday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Valley in the U.S. in the form of poetry, 1960s–2000s. This exhibition presents Kervern and Pio Marmai. Angleterre (in MUSEUMS Closed last Friday of each month. drawings, audio and video recordings. more than 150 woks from the ROSPHOTO French with Russian subtitles), Dom Kino. Small Tragedy – Fatal Passion. Personal Through Oct. 10 collection, which explores the key trends in ACADEMY OF ARTS MUSEUM items, posters. Dedicated to the 170th the history of Belarusian photography of the NEW! Jimi: All Is by My Side (2013, U.K.- 17 Universitetskaya Nab. Tel. 323 6496, anniversary of the birth of the famed Russian ERARTA MUSEUM second part of the 20th century. Through Ireland-U.S.) John Ridley’s Jimi Hendrix biopic 323 3578 M: Vasileostrovskaya. Wednesday composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. Through 2, 29th Line, V.O. M: Vasileostrovskaya. Sept. 28. starring Andre Benjamin, Imogen Poots and through Sunday, 12 p.m. to 7 p.m. Oct. 5 Tel. 324 0809. 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Closed Hayley Atwell. Dom Kino, Mirage Cinema. NEW! Retrospective: 1965–2014. More Tuesday. www.erarta.com TAIGA GALLERY Starts Sept. 18. than 100 mosaic works both large and tiny by STATE HERMITAGE MUSEUM NEW! Interspace. A selection of Russian and 20 Dvortsovaya Nab. M: Nevsky Prospekt. the Italian artists Marco Bravura, Marco De 1 Palace Square. M: Nevsky Prospekt. British artists present their reflections on the Tel. +7 (921) 837 1820. www.space-taiga.org NEW! On the Edge (Lev staekt) (2014, Luca and Verdiano Marzi show the intense Tel. 571 3420, 571 3465. Daily, 10.30 a.m. to concept of perception in context, including NEW! Blick. A selection of photographs by Denmark-Sweden) Christian E. Christiansen’s beauty of this rarefied artform. Sept. 17 6 p.m. (9 p.m. Wednesday). Closed Monday. Claire Wardman, Gemma Copp, Sax Impey, students from the Folkwang University of the drama starring Cyron Melville, Jakob Oftebro through Oct. 13. www.hermitagemuseum.org Maria Godovannaya, Alexander Podobed, Julia Arts in Essen, Germany. Through Sept. 23 and Danica Curcic. Dom Kino. Manifesta 10. With work by more than 50 Ivashkina, Alexandra Paperno, Denis Patrakeev, HISTORY OF RELIGION MUSEUM contemporary artists and various associated Nadezhda Anfalova and others. 14/5 Pochtamtskaya Ul.. M: Nevsky Prospekt arts and education programs scheduled Through Oct. 13 / Sennaya Ploschad, Sadovaya. throughout its run, Manifesta is one of the Engineers of the Arts. Dedicated to the Tel. 571 0495, 314 5838. Daily 11 a.m. to most significant contemporary art exhibitions artists belonging to the Engineers of the Arts 6 p.m. Closed Wednesday. ever to be mounted in St. Petersburg. Through school that was part of Leningrad Ethiopia. Religious objects including crosses, Oct. 1 underground epoch of 1980s–1990s, the sistrums, vestments, church utensils, icons Monologue in Praise of the Seashell. exhibition features works from the 1990s by and items related to Cushitic cults are on view Blue Bedroom. Through 11 June, 2015 Inal Savchenkov, Franz Rodwalt, Gregory from one of the Christianity’s oldest outposts. At the Court of the Russian Emperors. Strelnikov and Sergey Enkov, and Through Sept. 22 Costume. A display of imperial clothing from contemporary work by new members of the World War I. Photographs, paintings, posters, the museum’s vast archives. Through Sept. 21 school: Agatha Savchenkova, Alexey Kuksov leaflets and objects from the museum Servants of the Russian Imperial Court. and others. Through Oct. 13 archives connected with WWI sit alongside Costume. See what the servants wore while at Kirchen, Kuchen, Kinder. Painting. This church utensils used in religious services held the court of the last Tsar. Through Sept. 21 group show features paintings by 11 women on the battlefield. Through Sept. 21 artists from St. Petersburg and focuses on STATE RUSSIAN MUSEUM women’s role in society as defined by the HISTORY OF ST. PETERSBURG MUSEUM 2 Inzhenernaya Ul. M: Nevsky Prospekt. German kaiser William II at the turn of the Peter and Paul Fortress. M: Gorkovskaya. Tel. 314 3448, 595 4248. Open 10 a.m. to 20th century. Through Sept. 24 Tel. 230 6431. Daily, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. (6 p.m. 6 p.m. (5 p.m. Monday). 1 p.m. to 9 p.m. on NEW! Neophobia. This large-scale exhibition Tuesday). Closed Wednesday. www. Thursdays. Closed Tuesday. of melancholic paintings by St. Petersburg spbmuseum.ru. www.rusmuseum.ru/eng artists Alexey Semichov and Andrey Kuzmin NEW! The November Man (2014, U.S.) Roger Donaldson’s spy thriller starring Pierce Nikolay Evgrafov. The first exhibition of NEW! Gregory Pototzky. This solo exhibition refers to a pathological fear of change, where Brosnan and Olga Kurylenko. Avrora, Mirage Cinema, Velikan Park. Starts Sept. 18.

Evgrafov’s work since 1941 is dedicated to by contemporary Russian sculptor Gregory phantasmagorical portraits of meek and sad MEDIA RELATIVITY 110th anniversary of the renowned Russian Pototsky, whose works show a passion for creatures are contrasted with compositions painter and features paintings and graphics expressive modeling and the intensification of featuring numerous subjects to reveal the from the museum collection. Through Nov. 9 textures, combine traditions of Russian dichotomy between inner life and the Romanovs in St. Petersburg. Decorative academic art, Impressionism and the artistic aggressive hysteria of society at large. art, photo, painting, graphics, installation. inventions of Antoine Bourdelle. Sept. 17 Sept. 19 through Oct. 27 Through Oct. 8 through Oct. 20. Valentin Sidorov: My Calm Homeland. The LOFT-PROJECT ETAGI MATYUSHIN MUSEUM OF THE exhibition brings together about 90 of the 74 Ligovsky Prospekt. Tel. 458 5005. Daily ST. PETERSBURG AVANT-GARDE artist’s works from the 1950-2000s, including 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. The First World War and the Avant-Garde. paintings and sketches from the artist’s studio NEW! Tim Mantoani: Photographs. 100 Posters, lithographs and illustrated books by and from the collection of the Russian Museum, portraits of legendary photographers with futurist artists from first two years of WWI The Institute of Russian Realism (Moscow) and their masterpieces. Through Dec. 14 including Burliuk, Malevich, Lentulov, private collections. Through Nov. 3 Solus and Guests. Video. The Irish film Mayakovsky and Goncharova. Family Portrait. Two hundred paintings, collective Solus presents a selection of recent, Through Mar. 2 2015 graphics and sculptural works from the avant-garde video shorts from Ireland. museum collection sit alongside snapshots Through Oct. 2 MILITARY MEDICINE MUSEUM from local families to reveal the different facets The Austere Style of GG. Group show. 2 Lazaretny Pereulok. M: Pushkinskaya. of Russian family life with its traditions, habits Taking legendary Petersburg artist Georgy Tel. 315 5358, 315 7287. Daily, 11 a.m. to and everyday concerns. Through Oct. 13 Guryanov as its subject, this exhibition 6 p.m., (10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Friday). Closed presents more than a hundred works by Sunday. STATE RUSSIAN MUSEUM: MARBLE PALACE Guryanov’s peers and includes paintings, Soldiers of a Forgotten War: World War I 5/1 Millionnaya Ul. M: Nevsky Prospekt. photographs, music, video and archival Medicine. Exhibition. Medical achievements Tel. 312 9196. Open 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. (5 p.m. documents. Through Sept. 30 NEW! The Rover (2014, Australia-U.S.) David Michod’s drama starring Robert Pattinson, Guy from 1914-1918. Through Dec. 31 Monday). 1 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Thursdays. NEW! Ksenia Diodorova: Out in the Cold. Pearce and Scoot McNairy. Angleterre (in English with Russian subtitles), Mirage Cinema.

Closed Tuesday. An exhibition of documentary photographs FILMS ROADSHOW POLITICAL HISTORY OF RUSSIA MUSEUM Film Posters from the Collection. This examines the theme of migration by following 2/4 Ul. Kuibysheva. M: Gorkovskaya. unusual exhibition presents more than 100 24 families of migrant workers, both in Tel. 233 7052. Daily, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Closed cinema posters from Russia’s silent film era Russia and at home in the Pamir mountains Thursday and the last Monday of the month. from the classic to the avant-garde. Through of Tajikistan. Sept. 18 through Nov. 18 www.polithistory.ru Oct. 31 BAM – The Rails of Time. Photos, MOKHOVAYA 18 GALLERY documents. An exhibition celebrating the STATE RUSSIAN MUSEUM: 18 Mokhovaya Ul. M: Chernyshevskaya. Daily construction of the Baikal-Amur railroad. MIKHAILOVSKY (ENGINEERS’) CASTLE 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Closed Sunday, Monday. Through Dec. 26 2 Sadovaya Ul.. M: Nevsky Prospekt. Tel. 275 3383. www.gm18.ru Tel. 313 4112. Open 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. (5 p.m. Roman Lyapin. Italian landscapes by the PUSHKIN HOUSE RUSSIAN LITERATURE Monday). 1 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Thursdays. artist who lived, worked and taught in Italy INSTITUTE Closed Tuesday. for many years, and received numerous 4 Nab. Makarova, M: Vasileostrovskaya. NEW! Andrei Martynov: 1768–1826. With awards there including the Grand Prix at Tel 328 1901. Weekdays 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. about a hundred works by the prominent Altipiane d’Arcinazzo in 1996. Closed Saturday and Sunday. Russian painter, draughtsman, watercolorist Through Oct. 2 www.pushkinskijdom.ru and engraver on view, this exhibition features Treasures from the Lermontov Collection views of St. Petersburg and its outskirts PUSHKINSKAYA 10 ART CENTER at the Pushkin House. Memorabilia, alongside images of Moscow and other 53 Ligovsky Prospekt. Tel. 764 5371. Open antique books, autographs and documents important Russian towns and cities. Sept. 22 Wed to Sun, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. www.p-10.ru connected with the life of Russia’s greatest through Nov. 10 New Academy of Fine Arts Museum. poet. Through Oct. 24 NEW! Timur Novikov. The exhibition ST. PETERSBURG STATE MUSEUM OF presents a selection of rare photographs from RIMSKY-KORSAKOV APARTMENT THEATER AND MUSIC the archives of the renowned Russian artist MUSEUM 2 Ul. Rossi (entrance from Ploschad made in the 1980s and 90s. Room 405. NEW! Lucy (2014, France) Luc Besson’s sci-fi action starring Scarlett Johansson, Morgan 28 Zagorodny Prospekt, Courtyard. Ostrovskogo). M: Gostiny Dvor. Daily 11 a.m to Tel. 272 8222. Saturday 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. Freeman and Choi Min_sik. Angleterre (in English with Russian subtitles), Avrora.

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