NO. 30 (1822) САНКТ-ПЕТЕРБУРГ-ТАЙМС WEDNESDAY, JULY 30, 2014 WWW.SPTIMES.RU ANNA VOLKOVA

Marines from the Russian navy cool off by jumping into the fountain outside the Admiralty building on Sunday as part of the Navy Day celebrations in the city. President Putin praised the sea AHOY! fleets the same day, calling them the country’s ‘pride, strength and dignity’ while pledging that the ‘power and strength of the Russian navy will only grow.’ See story, page 4.

LOCAL NEWS NATIONAL NEWS LGBT Protesters MH17 Crash Site ARTS & CULTURE Left in Peace Going With The Flow

How Helsinki’s Flow Festival has become one of summer’s For the first time, local hottest music tickets. LGBT rally goes ahead with Surge in violence forces Page 7. minimal disruption. Page 2. investigators away. Page 3. LocalNews www.sptimes.ru | Wednesday, July 30, 2014 ❖ 2 Protesters Left in Peace at Annual LGBT Rally press his opinion elsewhere as he was “a free man in not a very free country.” “Personally, it’s not necessary to have some date and the Field of Mars to take to the street with a rainbow flag,” Kal- ugin told The St. Petersburg Times this week. “I am not going to be guided by the wishes of City Hall or anyone else when I plan a protest,” he said. “They’ve created this cell for us, and they don’t let us go anywhere else. I un- derstand the organizers, who want to hold a peaceful rally, but they should also understand me when I say that I am getting tired of walking like a flock into this paddock. There has been criticism that I demand respect, while not respect- ing the police, City Hall, the state, but I don’t find it necessary to show respect

SERGEY CHERNOV / FOR SPT / FOR CHERNOV SERGEY for those people that don’t have any re- Protesters were forced to stay in a fenced-in area on the Field of Mars. spect for me and pass laws against me in my own country. By Sergey Chernov fenced site, with officers searching bags “If City Hall permits some rally, it THE ST. PETERSBURG TIMES and confiscating water and sharp objects means it sees it as safe and not scary, be- One activist and one photographer were as participants entered the site. cause it controls it. I don’t want the state arrested at the fifth annual St. Peters- In fact, last year, despite an agree- to get into my business and decide for burg LGBT Pride rally on Saturday, July ment with City Hall, the police shut me where I am allowed to stand and 26. Nevertheless, the one-hour rally down the rally and arrested more than where I am not.” against the discrimination of gay, lesbian, 60 activists, who had been earlier pelted Protester Yevgeny Prokopenko was bisexual and transgender people in Rus- with stones, eggs and smoke bombs by arrested this year after an exchange with sia went ahead more peacefully than some 200 anti-gay protesters. A number police officers, who claimed that his ever before in the rally’s history, neither of LGBT activists were assaulted and placard reading “Sodomy is sweeter being attacked by anti-gay crowds nor beaten during or after the rally. This than honey” violated the national law shut down by the police. It has also been year, however, only a handful of anti-gay prohibiting the “promotion of non-tradi-

described as the lengthiest protest in the protesters showed up. tional sexual relations with minors.” SPT / FOR CHERNOV SERGEY history of the city’s LGBT movement. Despite this year’s event being seen Prokopenko explained that his placard Kirill Kalugin holds a rainbow flag that was torn during last year’s rally. About 100 people attended the rally, by many as an achievement, there were was a protest against the law and he was which was held in a small fenced site on still some at the rally protesting against then taken to a police vehicle after refus- crime, so that I had an opportunity to St. Petersburg Times, he said that a man the Field of Mars in central St. Peters- the authorities for only allowing the ing to put it away. confront the law in court because I don’t protested against him taking photo- burg. Under a recent law, the site was event to be held in a fenced site. Speak- “It was an anti-homophobic mes- agree with it.” Prokopenko was told he graphs of the minors without their par- designated by City Hall for holding small ing at the rally, activist Kirill Kalugin — sage,” said Prokopenko. “It implied that would be called when a hearing is ap- ents’ consent. According to Belozyorov, public assemblies. Dozens of police ve- who held a rainbow flag that had been ‘non-traditional sexual relations’ were pointed. the police held him on the pretext that he hicles and hundreds of the OMON riot torn by anti-gay attackers at last year’s not bad but quite the opposite. I hoped a Photographer Alexei Belozyorov was had no identification and let him go three police were stationed at and near the protest — said he had the right to ex- little that I would be charged with this also detained. Speaking this week to the hours later without pressing charges. ALL ABOUT TOWN

Wednesday, July 30 Saturday, Aug. 2 SPIBA continues their series of Gatchina Palace Park Museum will Look@It tours, which focus on the host its second annual Night of Light, success stories of major brands in the an impressive audio-visual show St. Petersburg market. Today’s event across the night sky. Tickets are 600 will focus on the Gorky Golf Club rubles ($16). and will also be held there. For more If graphic design is more your details visit spiba.ru thing then check out Illustration Day, where you will be able to visit Thursday, July 31 an exhibition, attend lectures by pro- Develop your leadership abilities fessionals and even show experts during a lecture by famous Russian some of your own work. The event author and coach Radislav Ganda- starts at noon at Zona Deystvia, 73 pas. The event starts at 9 a.m. at 5 Ligovsky Prospekt. The entrance fee Lodeinopolskaya Ulitsa. The price is 350 rubles ($10). for entry is 20,500 rubles ($570). Relax and enjoy a Parisian atmo- Sunday, Aug. 3 sphere with some romantic and laid- History lovers shouldn’t miss the back jazz tunes during the Night of chance to see reenactments of World French Music at Lenny Jam Cafe, 63 War I battles in Pushkin at noon. Be- Ligovsky Prospekt. The entrance sides exciting war scenes, visitors can fee is 250 rubles ($7). enjoy live music, historical costumes, The Women’s Business Club is an equestrian show and a fancy-dress hosting a Beauty Brunch where par- parade starting from the Moscow ticipants are invited to discuss the gates. latest news in the beauty industry Garage Sale, the popular and and listen to lectures by professional growing flea market where nothing stylists in the business. is priced over 500 rubles ($14.11), starts today at noon in Loft-Project Friday, Aug. 1 Etagi, 74 Ligovsky Prospekt. Be sure Bikers from all around the world will to get in early to score a bargain. En- gather to take part in a parade, ex- try costs 50 rubles ($1.40) treme shows and rock concerts dur- ing the International Biker Festival Monday, Aug. 4 that revs its engines today and runs Continue the working week with a through Aug. 3 near Olgino Hotel, calm and steady mind with a free 4/2 Primorskogo Shosse. yoga lesson at 7 p.m. in the Bukvoed The Peter and Paul Fortress will store at 23A Vladimirsky Prospekt. be turned into an open-air cinema today and tomorrow as part of the Tuesday, Aug. 5 5th International Short and Anima- Visit The Romanov Dynasty doll ex- tion Film Festival. A huge screen hibition today, where more than fifty across the fortress walls will air short porcelain dolls depicting Russian films non-stop with board games, rulers, and made by Olina Ventzel, photo sessions and other activities will be on show. The exhibition con- also on offer for visitors. For more tinues through Aug. 31 in Shereme- 16+ information, visit www.opencinema- tyev Palace, 34 Fontanka Naberezh- fest.ru naya. NationalNews www.sptimes.ru | Wednesday, July 30, 2014 ❖ 3

IN BRIEF Cheese Inquiry Investigators Turn Back from MH17 Site THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ■ MOSCOW (SPT) — Hot on the Heavy fighting raged Monday around heels of accusations that McDonald’s the Malaysia Airlines debris field, once was misleading customers about the nu- again preventing an international police tritional value of its products, Russia’s team charged with securing the site food safety watchdog on Monday said it from even getting there. has opened an investigation into the Government troops have stepped up cheese used by the chain. their push to win back territory from pro- The Federal Veterinary and Phyto- Russian separatists in fighting that sanitary Control Service “has intensi- the United Nations said Monday has fied monitoring of residual amounts killed more than 1,100 people in four of tetracycline antibiotics in cheese sup- months. plied to Russia, including McDonald’s The international delegation of Aus- in Russia,” the agency’s head, Sergei tralian and Dutch police and forensic Dankvert, told Itar-Tass. experts stopped Monday in Shakhtarsk, Most of the cheese used by McDon- a town about 30 kilometers from the ald’s in Russia comes from German fields where the Boeing 777 was brought and Czech suppliers, he said. down. The investigation should take two Sounds of regular shelling could be to three weeks to complete, Dankvert heard from Shakhtarsk and residents said. were seen fleeing town in cars. The mandate of the police team is to secure the currently rebel-controlled Biryulyovo Trial area so that comprehensive investiga- tions can begin and any remaining bod- ■ MOSCOW (SPT) — A man sus- ies can be recovered. pected of having committed a murder The second canceled site visit over that launched a flurry of ethnic riots two days has strained tempers among in Moscow last fall was handed a guilty the observation team. DMITRY LOVETSKY / AP LOVETSKY DMITRY verdict and a 17-year prison sentence “There’s a job to be done,” said Alex- Self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic policemen guard a convoy carrying international forensic experts Monday. on Monday. ander Hug, the deputy head of a moni- The Moscow City Court convicted toring team from the Organization Separatist officials have staunchly by separatist militants overnight Sunday, at $750 million — money the govern- Azerbaijan national Orkhan Zeinalov for Security and Cooperation in Europe. denied responsibility for shooting down officials in the rebellion-wracked region ment would have to find by cutting so- of having killed Yegor Shcherbakov fol- “We are sick and tired of being inter- the airliner and killing all 298 people on- said. cial programs. lowing a verbal altercation on Oct. 10, rupted by gunfights, despite the fact that board. Authorities in Luhansk said that five The U.S. State Department on Sun- 2013, ITAR-Tass reported Monday. we have agreed that there should be A Ukrainian security spokesman said people were killed and 15 injured day released satellite images that it says Zeinalov had maintained his innocence a cease-fire.” Monday that data from the recovered by overnight artillery strikes. Three were back up its claims that rockets have been throughout the trial despite having ini- The Defense Ministry says Ukrainian flight recorders shows Malaysia Airlines killed in Donetsk as a result of clashes, fired from Russia into eastern Ukraine tially admitted his guilt in part. troops have entered Shakhtarsk, al- Flight MH17 crashed due to a massive, the city’s government said. and heavy artillery for separatists has Despite a request by prosecutors though checkpoints blocking the west- explosive loss of pressure after being Rebels accuse government troops also crossed the border. that Zeinalov receive an 18-year prison ern entrance into town remain under punctured multiple times by shrapnel. of deploying artillery against residential Russia’s Defense Ministry spokes- sentence, he was given a term of 17 rebel control. It also said fighting was Andrei Lysenko said the plane suffered areas. Authorities deny that charge, but man Igor Konashenkov on Monday dis- years in a high-security penal colony. taking place in Snizhne, which lies di- “massive explosive decompression” af- also complain of insurgents using apart- missed the images as fake. He said in a Shcherbakov’s death triggered a wave rectly south of the crash site, and in other ter it was hit by fragments he said came ment blocks as firing positions. statement carried by the Russian news of nationalist sentiment in Moscow’s towns in the east. from a missile. Meanwhile, a government-supported agencies that the satellite images re- southern Biryulyovo district last fall. The self-declared Donetsk People’s The data recorders were sent to ex- volunteer battalion said in a statement leased by the U.S. State Department Republic said on its official Twitter that perts in Britain for examination. Monday that it lost 23 soldiers during cannot serve as proof because they lack fighting was ongoing in the village In their campaign to wrest control fighting in a town called Lutuhyne, precise locations and their resolution is Man Eats Horse of Rozsypne, where some of the wreck- over more territory from separatist which is just south of Luhansk. too low. age still lays strewn and uncollected. forces, Ukraine’s army has deployed The UN said in its report that rebel A four-page document released ■ MOSCOW (SPT) — A man in Sibe- The head of the rebel’s military head- a growing amount of heavy weaponry. groups continue to “abduct, detain, tor- by the State Department appears ria elected to kill and eat his horse quarters, Igor Ivanov, told Russian state Rebels have also been able to secure ture and execute people kept as hostages to show blast marks from where rockets rather than let the animal fall into the news agency RIA-Novosti that the vil- large quantities of powerful weapons, in order to intimidate” the population were launched and craters where they clutches of local bailiffs. lage had fallen into government hands, much of which the U.S. and Ukraine in the east. It said rule of law had col- landed. Officials said the images, sourced Orlik the stallion was due to be im- but that information could not immedi- maintain is being supplied by Russia. lapsed in the rebel-held areas and that from the U.S. Director of National Intel- pounded over his owner’s debt of about ately be confirmed. Moscow dismisses those charges. 812 people have been abducted in the ligence, show heavy weapons fired be- 18,000 rubles ($500), the Novosibirsk re- Ukraine has accused rebels of tam- While Russia and Ukraine trade ac- Donetsk and Luhansk regions since tween July 21 and 26 — after the July 17 gion’s branch of the bailiffs service said. pering with evidence at the plane crash cusations, the death toll has been mount- mid-April. downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight But Orlik was nowhere to be found site and trying to cover up their alleged ing swiftly. It also reported heavy damage MH17. when they came to the man’s ranch role in bringing the Malaysia Airlines jet At least eight civilians were killed to electrical, water and sewage plants The images could not be indepen- in the region to collect the steed, the ser- down with an anti-aircraft missile. by fighting and shelling in two cities held and estimated the costs of rebuilding dently verified. vice said on its website. ADVERTISING A hasty investigation established that the debtor had butchered and eaten the horse. Though the owner — whose name U.S. Says Russia Violated Treaty was withheld — later paid off his debt, WASHINGTON (AP) — In an escala- tions before, but this is the first time he still faces up to two years in jail, tion of tensions, the Obama adminis- that the administration has formally the report said. tration accused Russia on Monday of accused Russia of violating the treaty. conducting tests in violation of a 1987 It comes in the wake of the downed nuclear missile treaty, calling the Malaysian airliner in Ukraine and as Geckos in Space breach “a very serious matter” and go- the U.S. and the European Union seek ing public with allegations that have to ramp up sanctions against Russia, ■ MOSCOW (SPT) — Russia’s Mis- simmered for some time. offering the administration a conve- sion Control has re-established contact The treaty confrontation comes at a nient time to release the report, which with a research satellite carrying five highly strained time between President had been due to come out in April. sexually active geckos into space. Barack Obama and Russian President Two officials said the U.S. is pre- “The connection has been restored, Vladimir Putin over Russia’s interven- pared to hold high-level discussions on the program has been checked. … We are tion in Ukraine and Putin’s grant of the issue immediately and want assur- looking into the reasons that gave rise asylum to National Security Agency ances that Russia will comply with the to the abnormal situation,” Oleg Ostap- leaker Edward Snowden. treaty requirements going forward. enko, the head of space agency Roscos- An administration official said The formal finding comes in the mos, said July 26 in an online statement. Obama notified Putin of the U.S. de- wake of congressional pressure on the The space agency said July 24 that it termination in a letter Monday. The White House to confront Russia over had lost contact with the Photon-M craft finding was included in a State Depart- the allegations of cheating on the less than a week after it was launched ment annual report that was released treaty. The treaty banned all U.S. and from the Baikonur Cosmodome as part Tuesday. Russian land-based ballistic and cruise of a research mission designed to test The U.S. says Russia tested a new missiles with ranges between 300 miles the effects of weightlessness on the ground-launched cruise missile, break- and 3,400 miles. geckos’ reproductive capabilities. ing the Intermediate-Range Nuclear The officials said the Obama ad- Also aboard the ship are fruit flies Forces Treaty that President Ronald ministration has informed Congress and some mushrooms, part of eight bio- Reagan signed with Soviet leader and U.S. allies of its decision to seek logical research programs scientists plan Mikhail Gorbachev. Russian officials Russian compliance. to conduct in space. say they have looked into the allega- Indeed Obama, who has made nu- The satellite, which is on a 60-day tions and consider the matter closed. clear disarmament a key foreign policy flight, is due to re-enter orbit in mid- The Obama administration has ex- aim, has little interest in having Russia September. pressed its concern over possible viola- pull out of the treaty altogether. Business www.sptimes.ru | Wednesday, July 30, 2014 ❖ 4 Court Orders Russia To Pay Yukos Shareholders By Alexander Panin “I was not among the sides in this THE ST. PETERSBURG TIMES process and will not claim any personal After almost a decade of consideration, financial gain from it,” he said on his of- The Hague’s arbitration court an- ficial website. nounced Monday that Russia must pay As the results of the ruling were out $50 billion in damages to the share- made public, Yukos shareholders also holders of the defunct oil giant Yukos. expressed their overall satisfaction with The court said in its ruling that Rus- the outcome. sia had violated international laws under “I am very pleased the international the Energy Charter Treaty, leading to tribunal in The Hague decided that Rus- Yukos going bankrupt. sia violated international laws and ille- Russia must meet its obligations be- gally expropriated Yukos,” Leonid Nev- fore Jan. 15, 2015 or face interest rate zlin, the biggest benefactor of the com- penalties on unpaid debt. pany’s assets said in an e-mailed state- “Yukos was the object of a series of ment, Reuters reported. politically motivated attacks by the Rus- Lawyers said Russia has no chance of sian authorities that eventually led to its even appealing the ruling and has lim- destruction,” the court ruling said. “The ited grounds for having it reviewed. primary objective of the Russian Feder- “A distinctive feature of an arbitra- ation was not to collect taxes but rather tion court ruling is that it does not pre-

MIKHAIL KLIMENTYEV / AP to bankrupt Yukos and appropriate its suppose that there will be an appeal. The President Putin watches a Northern Fleet nuclear submarine go by in Severomorsk during Sunday’s Navy Day celebrations. valuable assets.” decision is final and the sides now have Following the seizure of Yukos’ assets to abide by it,” said Elvira Abdullina, after its management had been convicted deputy head of an international branch of fraud in 2005, the company’s share- of AMR Consulting, a Moscow-based New Submarines Being Built holders turned to The Hague arbitration law consultancy. court, with claims that rose over time A review is possible, she said, but By Matthew Bodner the vessels were important tools in the will join the fleet by 2020, replacing the from an initial $28 billion to $114 billion. would be limited to procedural appeals, THE ST. PETERSBURG TIMES struggle against NATO encroachment aging Typhoon-class submarines and Having learned in advance about the such as claims that one of the sides had Russia started building its three new- on Russian sovereignty. the Delta-III and Delta-IV submarines, ruling via the media, Foreign Minister not been given a full opportunity to pres- est submarines on Sunday in the White “Today, when the U.S. and NATO which had been the mainstay of Soviet Sergei Lavrov said that Moscow would ent its case. Sea port of Severodvinsk, marking the countries are trying to impose their po- sea-based nuclear deterrence since the appeal if it was confirmed that the Yu- “But it is very unlikely that the halfway point in the country’s drive to litical agenda, when they are trying to 1970s. kos shareholders had triumphed. highly experienced arbitration and re-establish its place as a naval power. push other countries to their knees… The Boreis are five meters shorter After the decision was made public, professional staff of The Hague’s court Speaking aboard the Admiral Kuz- the factors of power become crucial,” than the 175-meter Typhoons — the the Finance Ministry said in a statement could have made such violations,” Ab- netsov aircraft carrier during Russia’s Rogozin was quoted as saying by Inter- largest submarines ever constructed — it would challenge the decision in the dullina said. Navy Day celebrations in Severo- fax. and will carry intercontinental ballistic Netherlands’ courts, labeling the ruling State-owned Rosneft became Rus- morsk near Murmansk, President “At this moment, Russia is a nation missiles. “politically biased.” sia’s No. 1 oil company after it acquired Vladimir Putin stressed the impor- that represents the axis of good, but As for the Yasen-class submarines, Although the ruling was only made Yukos’ assets following its breakup. tance of the navy to Russia’s security good can only be defended by force,” the lead boat — called the Severod- public on Monday, the decision was ac- Rosneft said Monday in a statement and identity. he added. vinsk — joined the Russian navy in tually made on July 18, the day after Ma- that it does not bear any responsibility in “The navy, for our country, is her The two submarine classes differ in June. The next two Yasen-class vessels, laysia Airlines Flight MH17 was downed the court dispute between Yukos share- pride, strength and dignity,” Putin said, terms of their capabilities. Borei-class the Kazan and the Novorossiisk, are in eastern Ukraine, an incident that holders and Russia, before going on to RIA Novosti reported. Putin also nuclear missile submarines are de- being built. Western leaders have blamed on pro- say that its receipt of Yukos’ assets was pledged that “the power and strength signed to strike cities while the Yasen Russian authorities hope that the Russian separatists using weaponry sup- fully justified and in strict accordance of the Russian navy will only grow.” submarines are suited to hunting other two new submarines will revive the plied by Russia. with the laws applicable at the time. The building of the submarines — submarines and surface vessels. Russian navy as a player on the high Emmanuel Gaillard, the claimants’ During the arbitration proceedings the Borei-class Knyaz Oleg, the Yasen- Russia has already deployed two seas, after it lost much of its naval representative in court, said the an- in The Hague, Russia’s representatives class Krasnoyarsk and the Khabarovsk, Borei submarines, the Yury Dolgoruky might to neglect and decay during the nouncement of the ruling was held back in court had argued that private oil com- which appears to be an updated Yasen and the Alexander Nevsky. The third turbulent 1990s. 10 days on Russia’s request, Interfax re- pany Surgutneftegaz, known for its ties — is part of a naval modernization pro- Borei, the Vladimir Monomakh, fin- There are currently 60 submarines ported. with the Kremlin, was the one to benefit gram initiated by Putin. ished its sea trials on Sunday and is serving in the Russian navy, RIA No- Yukos founder Mikhail Khodork- from the sale of Yukos’ assets, not Ros- A $700 billion military rearmament awaiting its official commission into the vosti reported. Ten of them are strate- ovsky, who was released last December neft. The assets still ended up with Ros- program is underway through 2020. Russian navy, while the Knyaz Vladi- gic nuclear missile submarines, while after spending 10 years in prison, said he neft, however, having been resold by Also in Severodvinsk, Deputy mir, the fourth vessel, is still under con- the rest are nuclear-powered attack was pleased with the ruling but added Surgutneftegaz at a discount price. Sur- Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin, who struction. submarines and diesel-electric subma- that he would not benefit from the deci- gutneftegaz did not comment on the oversees Russia’s defense industry, said Eight of the Borei-class submarines rines, such as the Kilo. sion. matter on Monday.

РЕКЛАМА ANNA VOLKOVA FC Zenit’s new Argentine defender Ezequiel Garay poses for pictures in the club’s official shop in St. Petersburg Monday. The team’s first competitive game of the season is Signed Up tonight against Cypriot club AEL Limassol in the lucrative UEFA Champions League. BusinessFocus www.sptimes.ru | Wednesday, July 30, 2014 ❖ 5 Ivan Blanarik: Experimenting with Success

By Anatoly Medetsky THE ST. PETERSBURG TIMES Education 2003 — MBA, The Johannes he Carpathian Mountains Gutenberg University of Mainz, and the Atlantic Ocean Germany have excited Ivan Bla- 1991 — Department of Pharmacy, narik’s admiration for na- Comenius University in Bratislava, ture. Slovak Republic TBlanarik, the general director of German pharmaceutical giant Boeh- Work experience ringer Ingelheim’s Russian division, 2009 — General director in was in awe during his mountainside Boehringer Ingelheim’s Russian hiking tours as a youth. A college stu- division. dent in Czechoslovakia at the time, he 2006 — Managing director in said the rough and ragged terrain com- Boehringer Ingelheim’s Finnish manded respect and caution. division. Later on, at a Boehringer posting in 2003 — Head of marketing and sales Portugal, Blanarik experienced similar in Boehringer Ingelheim’s Portugal feelings when sailing a boat in the often division. fierce winds of Guincho Beach and 1994 — Started work at Boehringer Cabo da Roca. Ingelheim as a trainee. Yet there is another side of nature that he is familiar with as a pharmacy Favorite book: “Knowledge and student. It is the inner workings of the Decisions,” a nonfiction book by U.S. human body, whose intricacy and per- economist Thomas Sowell. First fection he extols with the passion of a published 1980. BBC documentary maker. Blanarik sat down with The St. Pe- Reading now: “The Snowball: Warren tersburg Times to talk about his work Buffett and the Business of Life,” a as a postman, learning his way with one biography of the investor by Alice of the first personal computers in Brat- Schroeder. First published 2008.

islava and the spirit of open-minded- BOEHRINGER ness he picked up from his parents. Movie pick: “Hair,” a 1979 film Boehringer Ingelheim specializes in researching, developing and manufacturing high-quality pharmaceutical products. adaptation of a Broadway musical Q: Why did you come to Russia? about a Vietnam war draftee who A: I get a lot of energy and inspira- Another skill I am using today is if you wearing jeans and a sweater and work- A: I was interested because Russia learns from long-haired hippies on his tion from nature. I studied in the phar- do not know or see something, it does ing with chemicals in a lab. However is an important world player, not only way to the army induction center. macy department in college. I remem- not mean it does not exist. great your idea and the knowledge of in pharmaceuticals. Russia also kept Directed by Czech-American Jan ber the biochemistry course very well. I learned that you never say never. the subject matter is, a successful leader appearing on my radar in Helsinki, Tomas Forman, known as Milos We had a huge map of all the biochemi- You need to stay open-minded to has to understand people. where I had my previous posting. You Forman. cal processes, molecules, enzymes that whatever unusual things cross your could get a radio station from Russia go there or work here in the human way. I was raised in socialist Czecho- Q: Is there anything you cannot do — and in Russian — I think it was body. It all happens in microscopic cells slovakia, and when my father sent me but would like to learn? Mayak. So, I was hearing a lot about Russia. Coming from Finland, I con- that you cannot even see with your na- to a school where they studied English, A: Playing a musical instrument. I had Russia going around Helsinki in a car. cluded that these countries are the high ked eye and it all goes automatically. It I thought to myself, “How can that be two attempts and both failed. I bought Additionally, over weekends, the cen- and low of the hierarchy scale. Russia is amazing. With all the might that we helpful?” an old piano for $100 when I was in Kiev. ter of Helsinki had a lot of Russian visi- is a culture that is more hierarchical. have as humankind, with all the technol- Our family was one of the first in I started classes but it did not work. I tors from St. Petersburg. The boss decides everything. ogy, with all the energy we put into de- the country to have a personal com- took the piano with me when I moved to In Finland, it is very flat instead: veloping things, we still do not even get puter in the late 1980s. My father fig- Germany and still made no progress. I Q: What advice would you offer a “You are the boss. OK, so what?” In close, in many areas, to what nature ured out that it could be useful, and he took it to Portugal with the same result. I foreigner who wants to invest or ex- Russia, I had to tune myself. People ex- did. brought it in. It was worth a car at the then gave the piano to my assistant there, pand in Russia? pect orders. Also, as a college student I went to time. I thought, “What is that good who made better use of it. A: To learn, unlearn and relearn is I did not come completely unaware the Carpathian Mountains with friends, for?” My brother started programming Before, as a college student, I had a an important skill. If you stick to your of these things. I had some background where you are one-on-one with nature. and now has an IT company. I have a friend who played the guitar at the methods, which might have been suc- experience when I worked in Kiev in You learn to be humble because if you good command of technology. campfire during our outings to the cessful, they probably will give you some the 1990s. That was my introduction to ignore nature, you get punished. Un- The other source of changes in me mountains. I tried to learn as well, but mileage, but every market requires an the region. Many elements were the fortunately, a lot of people get hurt or is my wife Anna, who helped me to un- it proved too difficult. open mind. That applies even more to same or similar. die in the mountains because they derstand social skills. I grew up in a Russia, given its size and complexity. probably forget that. family of scientists and was probably a This interview has been edited for length I had to relearn plenty of things in Q: Who or what inspires you? By the same token, during our stay little weak on those. I was more used to and clarity.

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Q: Share some stories about signifi- cant events, meetings or problems that shaped who you are. A: I started work at a post office at 16 years of age when I still went to school. At 4 a.m., I would go to the post office and make my first round delivering newspapers. After school, I would deliver magazines. My re- sponsibility was several streets. Sometimes there was a large amount of various magazines in big packs, so it was physically demanding. My par- ents did it as a side job to support the family and I did it too. My father and mother were biolo- gists and their main jobs were teachers at Bratislava’s Comenius University. As scientists, they also taught me to ex-

BOEHRINGER plore things and find solutions. You go Ivan Blanarik credits his time in Ukraine for helping his transition to Russia. and kill yourself until you get it solved. Feature www.sptimes.ru | Wednesday, July 30, 2014 ❖ 6 Uncovering Hidden Beauty in Russian Suburbia By Anastasiia Fedorova urbs are more like the suburbs of Paris — you wouldn’t want to end up there very Russian has memo- after dark. These areas are rough and ries of the suburbs, and unfriendly, full of small green zones mine are quite straightfor- and wastelands that are pitch black at ward. I lived in a suburb in night and where, for sure, someone was south-east St. Petersburg once stabbed or raped. The suburb’s fromE the age of five till ten. I remem- most faithful inhabitant and its un- ber looking out of the kitchen window crowned king is the gopnik, the Rus- — on the 12th floor of a beige brick sian equivalent of a chav. The gopnik is high-rise — and staring at a square dressed in a tracksuit and can be found patch of grass, crossed by a diagonal squatting by the local shop with a can path, with two other absolutely identi- of Jaguar (an alcoholic energy drink), cal high rises on the right and on the sunflower seed skins scattered all left. Sometimes a barrel on wheels ar- around him. He is conservative, aggres- rived to sell milk or kvas (a drink made sive, homophobic, nationalist and rac- from fermented bread) and tiny peo- ist. He is the one who was throwing ple in tiny jackets, like beads on a watermelons around in the riot at the string, formed a queue. There was a grocery market in Biryulyovo which hill we used for sledding in the winter was allegedly operated by illegal work- and, as I later found out, it was made ing migrants from the south. He dis- of rubbish from a time when this dis- likes people who look different, and he tant part of the city only had waste- most likely dislikes you. lands and dumps. Behind the patch of The gopnik is the key figure in the grass there were rows of tin garages, work of young artist Petr Davydtch- and behind the garages was the dusty enko. He explores the behavioral pat- sky criss-crossed by wires. A couple of terns of lost Russian youth in his perfor- MASHA DEMIANOVA / THE CALVERT JOURNAL / THE CALVERT MASHA DEMIANOVA years ago they built a big highway that Russia’s suburbs, such as Zyablikovo outside of Moscow, have inspired a new generation of Russian photographers. mances, which have so far included stretched over the garages, connecting drinking a whole bottle of vodka while the edgeland of my childhood with ing 8 is exactly the same as building 14, the photos of Alexander Gronsky. It But, for the young generation, bring- burning things, and shaving a volun- some other edgeland. and its young inhabitants must perhaps could be a complete portrait of a dis- ing the suburbs into their creative prac- teer’s head while wearing a balaclava I also stayed in the suburbs a couple have the same preoccupation: to some- trict: personal by Egor Rogalev, archi- tice is also a way of embracing who they with the recognizable Adidas three- of times during trips to Moscow as an day acquire a similar cell in one of these tectural by Alexey Bogolepov, or sur- are. A good example is filmmaker Av- stripe. Davydtchenko grew up in Arza- adult. In summer, in Yugozapadnaya, purpose-built units around town. Can real by Alexander Bondar. It could be dotja Alexandrova’s project Holodno: mas, a small town in the heart of Euro- where the high-rises emerged from the creativity come from places like that? In pean Russia, but moved to Stockholm trees like abandoned Portuguese contemporary Russia, somehow, it as a teenager. “Growing up in Russia I churches in Goa, urban jungles under does. absorbed the gopnik subculture at a endless tropical rain. Then in winter, at The new generation of photogra- very close range,” he told me. “In order Petrovsko-Razumovskaya, an unbear- phers were the first to embrace the to deal with the subject I am adopting ably grim corner of the universe where I edgelands with their eyes wide open. To and transforming some of the gopnik had to ride a freezing trolleybus from fully explain the strength this requires rituals and habits, placing myself in con- the metro for 15 minutes passing a fac- from a visually aware person, it’s impor- texts that repulse me.” Davydtchenko’s tory that made crutches. Once I came tant to appreciate how ugly the suburbs interest in violence, burnout and ex- back from a party at about 7 a.m., my are. Not beautiful ugly like Brutalist tremity is reminiscent of French artist host was asleep, and I spent 40 minutes buildings but ugly in the most tacky way. Cyprien Gaillard, who used footage lost in the empty frozen nowhere look- The buildings are disproportional and from a fight in a Moscow suburb in an ing for the right door: all doors in all the the materials they are built with cheap. artwork. But as much as Gaillard’s work estates around were absolutely identi- The shop signs look like shroomy sea is from the outside, Davydtchenko’s cal, just like the estates themselves. punk visuals, and there’s always an comes from the inside. Russian suburbs are organized in obligatory old sofa or washing machine The growing presence of suburbs in mundane repetition. There is a school, abandoned in a little park, not to men- Russian contemporary, particularly vi- a couple of small shops, driveways with tion cigarette butts, empty cans and sual, culture shows that a new genera- huge holes, hopelessly thin young trees plastic bags — all details which don’t do tion of creatives are looking for a new and an elderly grey-haired lady con- any favors to a photographer. honesty. Surrounded by media lies day HOLODNO / THE CALVERT JOURNAL / THE CALVERT HOLODNO cierge sitting downstairs in a glass cu- Yet contemporary photographers The Holodno clothing brand embraces local suburbs in their creative practice. after day, they would like to tell the bicle filled with houseplants, powerless still choose to embrace the surroundings truth about themselves. You can take us to prevent the outbursts of violence, as they are, with all their dirty imperfec- part of an ambitious project of mapping the brand only produces one garment, a out of the suburbs, but you can’t take robberies and staircase drug consump- tions. Their work plays variations on a and exploring unseen Russia, like Max sweater with the word holodno on it the suburbs out of us. We, like our peers tion. theme. It could be a study of an urban Sher. Overcoming pictorial ugliness and (“cold” in Russian). In one of the pho- in New York, wear tracksuit bottoms, Large estates are like fractals, or a landscape carried out with the help of boredom is rewarding: the resultant im- tos beautiful young people are standing but partly to kill the inner fear of the go- space created by facing mirrors. Build- 18th-century pastoral compositions, like age is the snapshot of how Russia really on a balcony, with white high-rises be- pnik. The suburbs are the best reflection

ADVERTISING looks and has looked all these years un- hind them. It’s a way of proclaiming, of Russian life — vast and meaningless, seen. yes, it’s cold in Russia, and, yes, we are ugly and violent, littered with scrap In recent years, the Russian suburbs Russian although we didn’t choose to metal and plastic bags. But also full of have achieved some international ex- be, and this is where we belong. Not in a melancholy beauty during a radiant posure as the backdrop for a new un- nationalist way, but to say that not only chemical pink sunset. This is our ugly, derground fashion scene. Internation- the poorest and the most hopeless come mean and elusive Arcadia — impossible ally celebrated menswear designer from the suburbs: we all do. to find and impossible to leave. Gosha Rubchinskiy was the first guide There is perhaps one important into this bleak and savage world, re- point that I’ve missed. Unlike the sub- This article first appeared in the online cruiting boys from the street — the urbs of Scandinavia, resting in perfect magazine The Calvert Journal, a guide young post-Soviet generation — as his stillness, or the family-oriented subur- to a creative Russia at models. He exposed the world he lived ban universe of the UK, Russian sub- www.calvertjournal.com in — ugly high-rises, mean streets, car- pets on the walls, echoing sport halls — to the world outside Russia, and it smelled of the rough underground spirit of film director Larry Clark and early issues of British, rebel style bibles The Face and i-D. Rubchinskiy has inspired some suc- cessors: independent brands Forget Me Not and Standard Deviation have cho- sen the weirdly beautiful parallel world of the suburbs to showcase their mini- mal avant-garde pieces. The choice was a rough antidote to the glamour of glitzy Moscow, but it was also, quite simply, the place where they actually lived. Masha Demianova, a photographer ac- tively bringing cinematic narratives and the female gaze into Russian fashion imagery, found unexpected inspiration in the suburb of Zyablikovo in Moscow after coming back from New York, as it was a completely unexplored territory JOURNAL / THE CALVERT EGOR ROGALEV for her. St. Petersburg’s Primorsky District, pictured here, is home to 500,000 people. Arts&Culture www.sptimes.ru | Wednesday, July 30, 2014 ❖ 7 Going With the Flow in Helsinki Flow Festival, one of Finland’s premiere music festivals, will play host to over 100 bands from around the world.

By Sergey Chernov music scene at the moment. I mean our THE ST. PETERSBURG TIMES point of view has been quite interna- tional from the beginning, so we are low Festival, one of the most not very much concerned about what is significant summer festivals really popular in Finland. Instead we of music and art in Finland try to create a combination on the and northern Europe, opens whole of what would make sense, I’d in Helsinki next month. say, in every part of the world. HeldF in historic Suvilahti, a former power plant area, from Aug. 8 to 10, it Q: What kind of people come to will feature 120 music acts from around Flow? the world performing on Flow’s eight A: The audiences is mostly urban- stages. This year’s highlights include ites from Helsinki and surrounding ar- Manic Street Preachers, a veteran eas with the rest of the audience from Welsh alternative rock band, which re- other parts of Finland and other coun- leased its 12th studio album, “Futurol- tries. The average age is a bit under 30, ogy,” on July 7, and Slowdive, an Eng- older than those who go to traditional lish band that reunited earlier this year rock festivals in Finland, where I guess to perform at a number of summer fes- the average age is 20 or something. tivals. They are usually pretty curious to see Flow Festival — or simply Flow, as new things so we try to offer something it is commonly referred to — was es- surprising and new each year. That’s tablished by electronic musician and what makes the festival so great. music producer Tuomas Kallio and other members of the Helsinki-based Q: Does the name “Flow” have music collective Nuspirit Helsinki in anything to do with the ideas of the 2004, when it was first held at a now- festival? defunct warehouse-turned-club. Now A: Well, it’s just something we came

working as Flow’s art director, Kallio up with in the beginning when we were JUSSI HELLSTEN spoke to The St. Petersburg Times starting this. But as the years passed, it This year’s Flow Festival will feature 120 different acts spread out across eight stages during the three-day festival. ahead of the event. has proven to be a good choice because of the meaning and all the connota- Q: The festival is known to be eco- Q: When starting Flow, you were a tions that can be attached to the word friendly. Why do you do this? musician rather than a promoter. Did “flow.” We are making a big effort to A: Yes, we spend quite a lot of time it help? What influence has it had on make [the festival] a big experience on trying to improve this aspect each year. the festival? the whole, also outside of the music. For example, we calculate the carbon A: Probably a lot. The festival is Whether it is the festival area, the dec- dioxide emissions each year and then based on the music itself, on the con- orations, the design or the art process, we try to see in what areas we could tent. We’re not coming from the music everything has to be like one big expe- lower it. We don’t invite people to use promotion business and we are still rience so I think the word “flow” is cars either. We don’t even have parking more concerned about the music. We pretty good way to describe this. space for cars in the festival area, try to create a good environment each whereas we have a huge parking space year for the festival, try to provide as Q: Can it be compared to other in- for bicycles. It’s an important value for interesting and as topical a selection of ternational festivals in other coun- the festival — it has always been im- music and other art as possible, and tries? Did you have any in mind when portant for us to make it as sustainable then we hope it also sells tickets. So it’s you were starting Flow? as possible. not coming from the kind of idea that A: Well, in a way we did not, because we are chasing bands and acts that we started out in a very small set up, Q: Who would you like to see per- would sell more tickets. In that sense, only like a 2,000-person capacity, more sonally this year? it’s pretty different to most of the festi- like a nightclub event, and then it just A: It’s hard to pick, because so many vals concerned with the lineup and who started growing organically. We didn’t acts are playing — 120. There’s a lot of is on the bill instead of on the music have a certain festival we were looking really interesting electronic music that that is played. In our case, it’s the other up to, like “Okay, we want to do some- I really recommend seeing. Many of way around: first and foremost, we thing like this.” them are actually playing here for the think about the actual music, the actual Of course, there are similarities to very first time, for example Jamie xx, bands that play and whether or not it’s some festivals, but I am not so sure Paul Kalkbrenner and Jon Hopkins. a good combination. what this one is really similar to, al- Our latest addition is Skrillex, which is though we do believe it’s pretty unique. causing a lot of controversy. Obviously, Q: So is it pretty much about how One big difference between Flow and the big thing for us is Outkast — they the bands combine with the setting of many of the bigger festivals in Europe have their 20th anniversary comeback the festival? is, first of all, the size. Flow is kind of a tour this summer, that’s something to A: Yes, something like that, and to boutique festival because it’s not as big look forward to. kind of offer our audience a topical as many of the festivals in central Eu- Then, of course, my own personal view on what in our opinion is impor- rope or the U.K. or Spain. We have a favorite — the Balloon 360° Stage, tant and worth checking out these days. capacity of 20,000, and that’s the kind FLOW which is like a 360-degree stage de- So it’s a certain kind of a window to the of the level that you can really keep up Tuomas Kallio founded Flow with members of the music collective Nuspirit Helsinki. signed, commissioned and built by us. It’s kind of a huge balloon that works with the services at that area, like food as a roof and audiences surround the and drinks and the toilets. And musi- circle-shaped stage, so it’s really inti- cally also, we have never been tied to a mate and nice. There are a bunch of certain genre, while festivals like Sonar interesting African acts too; for ex- in Spain or Primavera have a certain ample, Tinariwen, a band from Mali, genre they represent. and Jeri-Jeri from Senegal. Also we have somewhat smaller stages at the Q: Flow is held in the area of a for- festival, including one called The mer power station. How did you find Other Side, which is more like experi- the location and what did you like mental music, that’s something that I about it? enjoy. A: Yeah, I think it’s one of the first power plants in Helsinki from the early Q: What Finnish acts would you 20th century, like maybe 1910 or some- recommend? thing like that. There are still a lot of nice A: We have a bunch of great Finn- looking structures, nice looking architec- ish acts. For instance, one playing at ture from that period that we like. Of the Balloon 360° Stage is Mirel Wag- course, it’s a bit rough because it’s an ex- ner, who has just signed with the leg- industrial area, but it’s also a very inter- endary SubPop label in the U.S., which esting and nice surrounding for what we was the record label for Nirvana. It’s do. There are, for example, two huge gas dark folk stuff that she is doing, very cylinders still in place with a 50-meter interesting. Sin Cos Tan is one very in- diameter — really big. There are also teresting band — they are releasing a lots of smaller buildings so we have these new album next week. nice alleys and small streets around the

FLOW place, which makes the festival site very For more information, ticket prices and Manic Street Preachers, a Welsh alternative rock band and one of Flow’s headliners, released their 12th album earlier this year. interesting, very unique. program, visit www.flowfestival.com 8 ❖ Wednesday, July 30, 2014 ARTS & CULTURE www.sptimes.ru

the word’s worth Talking Smack About Ukrainians and Russians

By Michele A. Berdy bearded Russians. But other sources assert that it came from the Turkic Рашка и Хохландия: Russia and word кассаб or касап, which origi- Ukraine, derogatory slang nally meant a butcher. It was most famously used by Nikolai Gogol: ere at The St. Peters- Проклятые кацапы … едят даже щи burg Times language с тараканами (Damned northern- desk, I’ve been trawl- ers… they even eat cabbage soup ing the interwebs, with cockroaches). looking for new Rus- Today Ukrainians might call the sianH words and phrases. My latest invading Russians колорады (Colora- haul comes largely from the com- dos). This is a reference to the striped ments sections of online media St. George ribbons that Russian pa- where folks “discuss” the Ukrainian triots wear, which are reminiscent of and Russian conflict by flinging in- the destructive striped Colorado bee- sults at each other. I got interested tles. Очень жаль, что образ Матери in the insults. Божьей осквернён руками колорадов. Chauvinistic Russians call Ukraine (It’s such a shame that the image of

Хохландия, which comes from хохол, the Mother of God was defiled by the IGOR TALOV the topknot of hair traditionally worn hands of Colorados). Olga Smerdova’s urban gardening initiative has gained followers among both the elderly and the social media-savvy. by Ukrainian men and a slang word The military men with no identify- for Ukrainians. This is literally the ing insignias who appeared in Crimea Land of Topknots, which would and elsewhere are called зелёные че- sound rather lyrical if it wasn’t appall- ловечки (little green men) by Ukrai- ingly derogatory. In one “discussion” nians and вежливые люди (polite Horti-Cultural Capital of who shot down MH17, someone people) by many Russians. This term writes: Хохляндия не заграница — она comes from their description by the By Carolina Starin ested in the ecological trend. They find services, vines for “green walls” and всегда была частью России. (Top- Russian leadership, for example Pres- THE ST. PETERSBURG TIMES it hip and righteous, so it has become plenty of flowers for color and style. knotland is not a foreign country — it ident Vladimir Putin’s spokesperson fashionable to be involved,” said Smer- Smerdova said that in her experi- was always a part of Russia). Dmitry Peskov:…безопасность ре- reath-taking buildings in dova in an interview with The St. Pe- ence she has learned that not all gar- Other insulting names include ферендума обеспечивали специаль- pastel hues and elabo- tersburg Times. dens end up looking like Japanese zen Укропия (Dill-land), from укропы ные люди. Вежливые люди. (…the rately decorated facades The initiative now focuses mostly or English country gardens, and admits (Dills). Here is a comment on the referendum was secured by special are the hallmarks of the on the generation active on social me- that sometimes gardeners don’t have Ukrainian orphans taken into Rus- people. Polite people). extraordinary city that is dia and tends to target platforms like the resources to bring to life the gar- sia: Укропия вопит. Укропы хотят Ukrainians also sneeringly call BSt. Petersburg. But despite the visual Vkontakte, small contemporary art dens of their dreams. Also needing своих сирот обратно. (Dill-land is Russians ватники (literally “quilted feast of architectural wonders, one can- museums, and hip cafes and bars where consideration are neighbors having making a ruckus. The Dills want jackets”), but this term was coined not help but feel a certain spiritual fa- the young and stylish hang out. How- very different tastes and the conse- their orphans back). in Russia. Ватники are dim-witted, tigue from the pronounced lack of ever, there are many outside this niche quences from that. One gardener may Ukrainians are also called the hard-drinking, unquestioning patri- greenery found here. that are also active urban gardeners, love the swan they molded out of used insulting укры and their country — ots, unshaven and stereotypically However, an urban gardening initia- said Smerdova. tires perched among their tulips, while УкРуины (a play on Ukraine and heavy-set — квадратные (square) tive efflorescing in the city hopes to When asked about her personal mo- another may find it tacky. But Smer- ruins.) УкРуины? Так это не — men. They are blindly obedient improve the patches of mostly dirt and tivation for the initiative, Smerdova ex- dova said neighborly conflicts are mini- страна, а выдуманная большеви- citizens of Рашка (Rusha), a term dull plants commonly found outside plained, “I want to find a compromise mal and advises that constructing a ками территория, находящаяся как used to disparage the country’s cur- most apartment buildings with the vi- between either being forced out of the small fence to mark one’s garden, and раковая опухоль, в терминальной rent regime and population. In this brant colors of flowers. Olga Smer- city to provide [my future children] with hanging a polite sign asking dog own- стадии разложения (Ukruins? world, people who hate Russia are dova, the leader of the Dacha v Gorode a healthy living environment, or raising ers to keep pets away, are usually re- Come on, it’s not a country. It’s a рашкафобы (Rusha-phobes) and project, is helping ordinary citizens im- them in a toxic industrialized area. Im- spected by fellow residents. territory invented by the Bolsheviks people who love the country are prove the ecology of their outdoor liv- proving the ecological situation by The initiative plans to stay active that is like a cancer in its terminal рашкафилы (Rusha-philes). Ват- ing spaces by restoring it with some- bringing more of the dacha to the city is through the fall by hosting more than stage of decomposition). ники call Russia Россиюшка (some- thing blooming and beautiful. the only way to reach a compromise.” 30 lectures and encourages all inter- Ukrainians might call Russians thing like “sweet Russia”). According to Smerdova, the initia- Smerdova said there are currently ested parties to join their group. Dacha the derogatory term москали, which My recommendation? Call them tive started out targeting the older gen- very few legal regulations governing the v Gorode also provides members with originally meant Muscovites, or ка- Россия and Украина. eration because they often have more land plots beside most large apartment garden plans, invitations to plant ex- цапы, a word with an interesting and free time and enjoy having projects buildings and that a simple request to changes, entrance into urban garden somewhat ambiguous history. Many Michele A. Berdy, a Moscow-based outside their homes that don’t require the managing entity is likely to result in competitions and help negotiating dis- sources say it comes from “как цап” translator and interpreter, is the au- long commutes. However, she said, the official permission and a structured map counts at participating retailers. (like a goat) and was used by clean- thor of ‘The Russian Word’s Worth’ initiative quickly gained the interest of for recreational gardening. However, However, according to Smerdova, the shaven Ukrainians to refer to the (Glas), a collection of her columns. young urbanites instead. “The younger don’t expect a vacant lot to provide a true momentum of the initiative comes generation is usually the most inter- crunchy salad as an end result. Accord- mostly through awareness, noting that if ing to Smerdova, ecologists warn against they encourage 100 people to plant gar- ADVERTISING planting edible gardens in the city be- dens in their courtyards, then envious cause the soil may not be clean and neighbors are likely to follow suit and could pose health risks. plant their own gardens, which leads to WIN DINNER Dacha v Gorode also encourages another 100 gardens and so forth. resident gardeners to carefully plan and So if urban gardening is done prop- design gardens and to look far and wide erly, the initiative, and the garden, will FOR TWO for inspiration. The team also suggest us- begin to blossom on their own. 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city tales The Russian JFK By Gus Peters Kirov received. Some party members THE ST. PETERSBURG TIMES even went as far as to ask Kirov to stand against Stalin for his position. Some Western historians compare Kirov to John F. Kennedy in trying to both explain the kind of leader he was as well as his death’s impact on the na- tion. Whatever ambitions Kirov may have had will never be known. On Dec. 1, 1934, Kirov was working in Smolny Institute, the former school for girls that acted as headquarters for the Leningrad Communist Party. He passed a young man, Leonid Nikolaev, who then turned and followed Kirov before shooting him in the back of the neck. Within hours, Kirov was dead. There is much speculation but little evidence that Stalin personally or- dered the assassination of his young 13243546A / WIKIMEDIA COMMONS 13243546A The Kirov statue near Narvskaya. rival. Rumors abounded that Kirov was having an affair with Nikolaev’s few minutes’ walk from wife. Nikolaev would be executed be-

Narvskaya metro sta- fore the end of the year and his wife ANNA VOLKOVA and 85-year-old mother would soon tion on the city’s red A new 18,000-kilogram bell for the Trinity Cathedral at the Alexander Nevsky Monastery arrived on line stands a towering follow. Kirov’s bodyguard, who was Chiming Monday and celebrated with an Orthodox service. It will remain outside until it is hung in October. statue reminiscent of unable to prevent the fatal shot, died theA grander one of Vladimir Lenin in in a mysterious car accident the day the square in front of Finland Station. after Kirov’s death while in the cus- The statue near Narvskaya is of tody of the secret police. Sergey Kirov, one of the most impor- Although the assassination of a tant figures in 20th-century St. Peters- high-ranking official is resonant UK-Russia Year to Go On burg and one whose death poses one enough, it was what followed that de- of the greatest “what if?” questions of fined both Stalin and the party’s thirst By Nadia Beard A spokeswoman for the Scottish rally concerned about the situation in all time. for blood. While most evidence is cir- Government said: “The Scottish Gov- Ukraine and the current political ten- Born in 1886 in a small town to the cumstantial, Western historians often K ministers have with- ernment is no longer actively support- sions. When political or diplomatic re- north of Kazan, Kirov joined the Bol- attribute the death of Kirov as a cata- drawn support for this ing the UK-Russia Year of Culture lations become difficult we believe that sheviks in 1904 and was most active lyst for the ensuing Great Terror that year’s UK-Russia Year 2014 and Ms Hyslop [Cabinet Secre- cultural exchange helps to maintain before the 1917 revolutions in swept the Soviet Union. By the begin- of Culture, announcing tary for Culture and External Affairs] open dialogue between people and in- Vladikavkaz, a city in the foothills of ning of World War II, millions would plans to boycott the pro- is not attending any planned Russian stitutions.” the Caucasus Mountains. During the be imprisoned, exiled and executed Ugram’s events because of Russia’s an- events taking place in Scotland under It was announced at the beginning ensuing civil war, Kirov remained in for disloyalty. nexation of Crimea in March this this initiative.” of last year that the program for 2014 the region and he was named the First So all of this raises the question: year, The Herald Scotland has re- By contrast, the British Council, would feature the largest number of Secretary of the Communist Party in what would have happened if Kirov ported. which organizes the events program in UK cultural projects ever seen in Rus- Azerbaijan in 1921. In March of 1922, had lived? Would there have been the The article added that the worsening the UK, has reaffirmed its commitment sia. he helped organize the Transcaucasian same terrible bloodshed as the party diplomatic tensions between Russia and This is not the first time the UK- Soviet Federated Socialist Republic, cannibalized itself in order to get rid the UK, which deepened this month af- Russia Year of Culture has suffered. In which would become a part of the So- of suspected enemies? If Kirov were ter a Malaysia Airlines passenger plane June, two major events — a show by viet Union by the end of that same to have somehow become the leader was shot down in eastern Ukraine, are British Council, the Russian art group AES+F at London’s year. of the Soviet Union, would he have also thought to play a role. event’s organizers, Royal Academy of Arts and a retro- A rising star in the party, Kirov was been victim to the same terrible para- A spokesperson for the Foreign & spective of Young British Artists in named the First Secretary of the Len- noia that afflicted Stalin? To speculate Commonwealth Office said: “In light plan to go ahead as Moscow — were cancelled due to fund- ingrad party in 1926 after his prede- even further, would World War II have of the illegal annexation of Crimea by ing issues. cessor, Grigory Zinoviev, was ousted been as terrible for the Soviet Union Russia, Her Majesty’s Government has scheduled despite the A third exhibition, a retrospective out of the position for his allegiances if Kirov was in charge? The purges of withdrawn all ministerial and senior of- controversy. of graffiti artist Banksy in Moscow, was to Leon Trotsky. By 1930, Kirov was the 1930s decimated the Red Army’s ficial involvement in the Year of Cul- cancelled with a vaguely-worded state- on the Politburo, the Soviet Union’s officer corps, leaving few experienced ture. We review all engagement with to the Year of Culture despite the con- ment from organizers blaming British centralized leadership body, and was soldiers left at the beginning of the Russia on an event by event basis.” troversy linked to supporting events art collectors for “abandoning their considered by some as a potential suc- war, a fact made all the more fatal by Separately, Scottish ministers have connected to Russia. participation in the project, making it cessor to Stalin. A powerful and char- Stalin’s ignorance to the threat of Nazi distanced themselves from Russia, an In an official statement, a spokes- impossible to continue working.” ismatic speaker with a strong follow- Germany and one of the reasons why attempt, according to The Herald, to man from the British Council said: “We Polish ministers have also shown ing in Leningrad, his popularity was the German army was able to advance make up for comments by Scottish Na- completely understand and respect the their frustration with Russia’s involve- well known to an increasingly para- as far as they did in the first months of tional Party leader Alex Salmond in decision of anyone who chooses not to ment in Ukraine and Crimea, with the noid Stalin. the 1941 invasion. support of President Vladimir Putin. In participate. However, as the British government cancelling the Polish-Rus- The popularity of Kirov was all the Of course, in the end, such thoughts April, Salmond was lambasted after Council is a non-political organization sian Year of Culture scheduled for next more evident during the 17th Party remain what they can only be: specu- claiming that Putin’s patriotism was committed to people-to-people en- year. Congress held in Moscow in 1934. In lation. All we can be sure of is that “entirely reasonable.” gagement, we hope that, wherever pos- electing the Central Committee, Sta- Kirov’s untimely death was quickly Salmond added that he admired sible, exhibitions, shows and perfor- This article first appeared in the online lin received anywhere from 100 to 300 followed by a series of events, the im- “certain aspects” of Putin’s politics and mances in Russia will go ahead as magazine The Calvert Journal, a guide negative votes, depending on ac- pact of which would be felt for years his restoration “of a substantial part of planned.” to a creative Russia at counts, compared to the mere three to come. Russian pride.” The statement added: “We’re natu- www.calvertjournal.com Education & JobOpportunities advertising section Wednesday, July 30, 2014

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RESUME Alexander +7 (953) 352 61 33, Individual classes – or [email protected] e-mail: [email protected] 1500 rubles/a.h. Address: 39 Vosnesensky Pr. Food&Drink www.sptimes.ru | Wednesday, July 30, 2014 ❖ 10 TABLE TALK Modern Cuisine With a Conscious CAVIAR CRAVING As the city’s largest buyer of Cafe Ukrop is changing the way locals think about their food with its vegetarian menu. black caviar, Belmond Grand Hotel Europe’s Caviar Bar and Restaurant has now expanded its By Wabke Waaijer rants will be run mainly by idealistic caviar selection to include six THE ST. PETERSBURG TIMES people with the right values but after- new varieties, including Beluga wards it will become big business.” caviar — one of the rarest and lthough Lev Tolstoy, one Gamayunov made the decision to be- most expensive. of Russia’s most famous come vegetarian when he realized that On hand helping guests un- writers, was a known the meat he ate was from animals that derstand and appreciate the dif- vegetarian in the 19th were raised in order to be killed. He ferent caviar offerings is vodka century, not eating meat found it difficult to believe that the meat sommelier Alexander Dmitriev. isA still uncommon to many Russians. could then provide essential vitamins Conducting regular tastings, he However, eating vegetarian food is and minerals. “A vegetarian diet makes teaches guests about the differ- slowly becoming more and more com- people feel better inside, at least in their ent kinds of caviar as well as how mon in Russia and its rising popularity head. I see people who are used to eating to best complement the flavor is especially evident in St. Petersburg, meat come in here and then leave the with vodka, including a history where a number of vegetarian cafes restaurant with a good feeling. However, lesson in Russia’s popular spirit. such as Cafe Ukrop spoil their visitors we are not missionaries!” he said. For more information, visit www. with their handmade, fresh and origi- The argument that not eating meat is belmond.com nal vegetarian, vegan and raw dishes. unhealthy is not true either, says Gam- With its casual, modern interior and ayunov. According to him, Cafe Ukrop’s TRAVEL SATISFIED a young, energetic staff, Cafe Ukrop is menu offers enough to satisfy any appe- Restaurant Priyanosti & Radosti one of the hippest places in the city. tite, with a wide range of soups and sal- at 191 Moskovsky Prospekt is of- Aleksander Gamayunov is the co- ads made using delicious ingredients, and fering traveling guests a special owner and co-founder of Ukrop, which interesting main courses that include offer. Guests are being offered a opened its first cafe on Ulitsa Marata pastas, pizza, falafel, quinoa and other 20-percent discount on their final in 2012 with a partner and a second one unique dishes. meal bill if they decide to dine at last November at Malaya Konyushen- Although Gamayunov idealizes the restaurant on the day of their naya Ulitsa. pre-revolutionary Russia, he remains flight. “At that time I had been vegetarian positive about the country’s future. Included in the deal is a free already for five years,” Gamayunov “We find ourselves in an interesting business-class shuttle service to said, speaking to The St. Petersburg period because we can only grow from the airport for up to four people. Times. “There were only a few places in here.” However, he does worry about Guests simply have to show their the city where you could eat vegetarian the development of tourism in Russia. ticket to get the offer. The ser- food which was not inspired by Asian “I was very happy when I read that the vice is available daily from 11 cuisine, and I wanted to offer a menu Church of the Savior on Spilled Blood a.m. to 11 p.m. For more infor- that was familiar to me,” he said. As a has been rated among the top 10 best mation, visit ginza.ru/spb result, the restaurant’s menu offers not tourist attractions in the world,” he only meatless dishes but also raw and said. “But, at the same time, I would LABEL DOUBTS dairy-free meals, even with its desserts. like to see Russia become famous for Since the start of the 21st cen- “It is quite unique that we offer so something not made in the past. We tury, Russians have been eating a called ‘raw desserts,’ which means that should be creating new things that we lot more than they did in the they only entail fresh, unprocessed in- can be proud of. The only new building

past, according to a survey pub- gredients,” Gamayunov said. Among UKROP I am proud of is Erarta, the Museum of lished mid-July by federal statis- the other various dishes made of vege- Aleksander Gamayunov hopes to open more Ukrop restaurants in the city. Contemporary Art.” tics service Rosstat. tables, herbs, grains, lentils and differ- Now, two years after they opened, At the same time, the survey ent kinds of cheese, there are also typi- However, at the beginning, the proj- common in Russia before 1917 because Cafe Ukrop has become popular not revealed that a majority of the cal Russian dishes, such as Russian ect was not easy to set up. “At the start people talked more about this kind of only among tourists but also among population is not aware of their salads, mushroom soup and “varenki,” we didn’t make a profit and we had to diet in those days.” Russians. While most visitors are young, food’s nutritional value. Ukrainian pastries. work very hard. However, I always During the Soviet Union, the ab- pensioners also stop by the restaurant According to Rosstat, 52.5 According to Gamayunov, his aim asked myself what I would do if I wasn’t sence of meat became a symbol of pov- during Lent when they aren’t allowed to percent of Russians do not con- was to establish a new type of business. dependent on money and I knew I erty and vegetarianism was secretly eat meat. “We are looking for places on sult labels when purchasing food “We are not merely motivated by would do the same,” said Gamayunov. condemned as a western tendency. Now Vasilievsky Island and on the Petrograd products. Another 16 percent of profit, as our main goal is to create a Although more Russians have since be- the market for vegetarian foods is still side to open two more restaurants, so Russians said they do not believe place with an intimate atmosphere come more interested in a vegetarian developing in Russia and not yet widely business is going well,” he said. in the information provided on where people may try something new lifestyle, it is still not as accepted here as commercialized, which, according to food labels. and where the employees believe in it is in Europe, Gamayunov believes. Gamayunov, has its advantages. “Over For more information, visit: their work and feel at home,” he said. “Being vegetarian was probably more the next three years, vegetarian restau- www.cafe-ukrop.ru

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 Cafe Pita’s: Street Smart Publisher: OOO “Neva Media” General Director: Tatyana Turikova Acting editor: Lana Matafonov Cafe Pita’s the layout is simplistic. A roof of white not arrive at the same time. For exam- mint and lingonberry, a combo that Advertising: Ksenia Chiritsa, Ylia Yanchuk 32 Gorokhovaya Ul. brick arches over a small area with sev- ple, when my Russian companion and seems contradictory in a meat dish, but Subscription: Viktoria Borovkova Production: Alla Kalinovskaya Tel. 959 3351 eral tables, a counter underneath the I arrived, my side of steak fries came the flavors blend together so well that IT Department: Sergei Karasev Open Sunday through Thursday, 11 a.m. to 11 front window and a wooden counter at with the dessert, courtesy of the one it makes this experimental variation a OOO Neva Media ì˜‰ËÚÂθ Ë ËÁ‰‡ÚÂθ – ééé “ç‚‡ å‰ˇ” p.m., and Friday and Saturday from 11 a.m. the front where food is ordered. overwhelmed woman tasked with do- fast food item superior to anything you Copyright © 2005 The St. Petersburg Times. All Rights Reserved. until the last customer. Like the décor, the menu keeps it ing everything except cook. can find around St. Petersburg. Mass media registration certificate number èà ‹ îë2-8918 of Meal for two without alcohol: 830 rubles easy. Diners can choose from one of The El Diablo burrito (290 rubles, Even the desserts stick to the res- November 30, 2007, issued by the Directorate of the Federal ($23.70) several different types of falafel, shav- $8.30) is sliced beef mixed with a heap- taurant’s focus on shaverma. The des- Service for the monitoring of compliance with legislation in the erma and burritos and there are some ing amount of spicy peppers and pep- sert shaverma with ice cream (150 sphere of mass communications and the preservation of cultural heritage of the North-West Federal District. ë‚ˉ ÚÂθ ÒÚ ‚Ó Ó Â- By Gus Peters soups and salads for those desiring per paste. While people used to eating rubles, $4.25) is a square of lavash- „ËÒÚ ‡ ˆËË Ò‰ÒÚ ‚‡ χÒÒÓ ‚ÓÈ ËÌÙÓ χ ˆËË èà ‹ îë2-8918 THE ST. PETERSBURG TIMES something a little more upscale. The spicy food shouldn’t struggle too wrapped sugary goodness. The ÓÚ 30 ÌÓfl · fl 2007 „Ó‰‡, ‚˚‰‡ ÌÓ The St. Petersburg culinary scene has drinks are limited but the ginger lem- much, it is spicy enough that the tat- pressed flat bread surrounds bananas ìÔ‡ ‚ ΠÌË ÂÏ î‰ ‡Î¸ ÌÓÈ ÒÎÛÊ·˚ ÔÓ Ì‡‰ÁÓ Û Á‡ Òӷβ ‰Â- been the site of a recent renaissance, onade (100 rubles, $2.85) is refreshing tooed woman at the counter will prob- swimming in a caramel sauce that is ÌËÂÏ Á‡ÍÓ ÌÓ ‰‡ ÚÂθ ÒÚ ‚‡ ‚ ÒÙÂ χÒÒÓ ‚˚ı ÍÓÏÏÛ ÌË Í‡ ˆËÈ Ë Óı‡ Ì ÍÛθÚÛ ÌÓ „Ó Ì‡ÒΠ‰Ëfl or maybe it would be more accurate during the warm summer days and of- ably make sure that you actually want complimented by the vanilla ice ÔÓ ë‚ Ó-ᇠԇ‰ ÌÓ ÏÛ Ù‰ ‡Î¸ ÌÓ ÏÛ ÓÍÛ „Û. to call it a resurrection, of the popu- fers a kick to it with the spicy ginger. to eat it. Considering that past experi- cream on the far side of the plate. Издание предназначено для аудитории старше 16 лет. larity of shaverma. The ubiquitous The main courses come in two dif- ences with Mexican food in Russia Pita’s is a convenient place for a Отпечатано в ОАО «Первая Образцовая типография» street food staple that can be found in ferent sizes and for those with an ap- have not always been successful (dill is quick bite to eat and superior in taste филиал «СПб газетный комплекс». 198216, СПб, Ленинский пр., 139. Заказ № 1364. almost any bistro or café in the city is petite, there are two combo options. and never will be a Mexican spice), it to any of its competitors. Sure, any Подписано в печать: по графику в 1.00, making its way onto the menus of es- As the most expensive shaverma, was a tasty and tender alternative to place by the metro station is cheaper фактически в 1.00. tablishments more high-end than the falafels and burritos alone are 290 ru- the usual Russian shaverma. but Pita’s allows for the small comfort Тираж 20000 экз. Распространяется бесплатно. The St. Petersburg meat wrap’s usual locales. bles ($8.30), the combo lets you add a My Russian companion’s choice, of knowing exactly what kind of meat Times is a free publication.

Pita’s, a recently opened fast food soda and a side for another 100 rubles shaverma with lingonberry sauce and you’re getting in your shaverma rather Address: 190000, Russia, St. Petersburg, place on Gorokhovaya Ulitsa in the ($2.85). The only concern for diners mint (190 rubles, $5.40), on the other than the Russian roulette that eating 4 Konnogvardeisky boulevard, Entrance 7, 3rd floor. heart of the city, is one such place tak- will be that, considering Pita’s is a new hand, was deemed “perfect,” a compli- at a sidewalk stall can be. As a word to Telephone/Fax: (7-812) 325-60-80. ing advantage of the current trend. place and they’re still ironing out the ment not used lightly by her. Rather the wise, spend the extra rubles for the ĉÂÒ ‰‡ÍˆËË: 190000, Конногвардейский бульвар, kinks, your side and main course may than the traditional sauce, it combines quality and taste Pita’s offers. д. 4, лит. А, подъезд 7, этаж 3 More hole-in-the-wall than restaurant, Internet: http://www.sptimes.ru www.sptimes.ru LISTINGS Wednesday, July 30, 2014 ❖ 11

HOW TO USE THE LISTINGS: friday, august 1 music by Ravel, Saint-Saens and Massenet. Alexandrinsky Theater, 8 p.m. Dates and times are correct at the ballet Swan Lake Tchaikovsky’s evergreen classic time of publication, but last-min- Giselle Adolphe Adam’s ballet about the ballet about the fate of a swan princess, consequences of a young peasant’s love for a choreographed by Marius Petipa. ute changes are not infrequent, member of the aristocracy. Starring Veronika Mikhailovsky Theater, 8 p.m. so it’s best to check by contacting Part. Mariinsky Theater, 7.30 p.m. COMPLETE LISTINGS Swan Lake Tchaikovsky’s classic ballet about opera the venue. can the fate of a swan princess, choreographed by Madama Butterfly Puccini’s tragic opera be found at www.sptimes.ru. Marius Petipa. Rimsky-Korsakov about an American soldier who leaves his Conservatory, 8 p.m. Japanese wife. Mariinsky Theater. Unless otherwise stated, stage Swan Lake The Yacobson Ballet Theater events start at 7 p.m. All stage performs Tchaikovsky’s evergreen classic. shows and films are in Russian Alexandrinsky Theater, 8 p.m. unless noted. opera GIGS La Traviata Verdi’s classic about a courtesan and her lover. Starring Vasily Gerello as wednesday, july 30 Giorgio Germont. Mariinsky II. STAGES rock, etc. Lackband Nu-jazz, abstract hip-hop, funk. saturday, august 2 Griboyedov Hill, 2A Voronezhskaya Ul.. DAILY SHOW! Folk Show Tel. 764 4355, 973 7273. 10 p.m. Feel Yourself Russian! Two hours of traditional ballet Simply the Best Covers. Jagger, 2 Ploshchad Russian songs and dance. The show starts at Giselle Adolphe Adam’s ballet about the Konstitutsii. Tel. 923 1292. 8:30 p.m. 19:00 p.m. Nikolayevsky Palace, 7 p.m. and consequences of a young peasant’s love for a Svoye Radio Yamaisky and Ostrovityane, 9 p.m. www.folkshow.ru member of the aristocracy. Mariinsky Theater, et al. Manhattan, 90 Naberezhnaya Reki 7.30 p.m. Fontanki. Tel. 713 1945. 7 p.m. Swan Lake The Yacobson Ballet Theater wednesday, july 30 performs Tchaikovsky’s evergreen classic. jazz & blues Alexandrinsky Theater, 8 p.m. Leningrad Dixieland Band Jazz dancing. ballet Jazz Philharmonic Hall, 27 Zagorodny Don Quixote Alexander Gorsky’s version of opera Prospekt. Tel. 764 8565, 764 9843. 7 p.m. Formerly of Yekaterinburg post-punk band Agata Kristi, singer-guitarist Gleb the ballet based on Cervantes’ novel, set to a Lohengrin Ricard Wagner’s romantic opera Ivan Vasilyev Band Jazz classics. JFC Jazz Samoilov will perform with his current ‘neo-post-gothic’ band, The Matrixx, at Zal Spanish-flavored score by Ludwig Minkus. in three acts featuring the ‘Bridal Chorus,’ Club, 33 Shpalernaya Ul.. Tel. 272 9850. Ozhidaniya on Tuesday, Aug. 5.

Mariinsky Theater. better known as ‘Here Comes the Bride.’ 8 p.m. ZAL OZHIDANIYA The Nutcracker Tchaikovsky’s classic ballet Mariinsky II, 6 p.m. about the fate of a swan princess, rock, etc. Girls in Rock Dance. Jagger, 2 Ploshchad choreographed by Marius Petipa. Kirma Indie rock. Fish Fabrique Nouvelle, Konstitutsii. Tel. 923 1292. 8:30 p.m. MUSEUMS Alexandrinsky Theatre, 8 p.m. sunday, august 3 53 Ligovsky Prospekt. Tel. 764 4857. 9 p.m. Opa! Disco, klezmer. Mod, Rat Bat Blue Acoustic. Jagger, 2 Ploshchad 7 Naberezhnaya Kanala Griboyedova. opera ballet Konstitutsii. Tel. 923 1292. 8:30 p.m. Tel. 712 0734. 8 p.m. ACADEMY OF ARTS MUSEUM Madama Butterfly Puccini’s tragic opera Le Corsaire Classic ballet based on Byron’s Homage to the Misfits Electrozombie. 17 Universitetskaya Nab. Tel. 323 6496, about an American soldier who leaves his poem. Choreography Marius Petipa and Pyotr Mod, 7 Naberezhnaya Kanala Griboyedova. jazz & blues 323 3578 M: Vasileostrovskaya. Wednesday Japanese wife. Mariinsky II, 7.30 p.m. Gusev. Conductor Alexei Repnikov. Tel. 712 0734. 7:30 p.m. Viktoria Urusova and Pyotr Kornev Band through Sunday, 12 p.m. to 7 p.m. Mariinsky II, 7.30 p.m. Swing. Jazz Philharmonic Hall, NEW! Francesca Leone: Myth and concert Swan Lake Tchaikovsky’s classic ballet about 27 Zagorodny Prospekt. Tel. 764 8565, Metamorphosis. Painting. Italian artist Symphony Music Tchaikovsky. Lokshin. the fate of a swan princess, choreographed by thursday, july 31 764 9843. 7 p.m. Francesca Leone harmoniously blends Behzod Abduraimov (piano) and the Mariinsky Marius Petipa. Rimsky-Korsakov Big Blues Revival Blues. JFC Jazz Club, elements of contemporary art and classicism. soloists, chorus and orchestra. Conductor Conservatory, 8 p.m. rock, etc. 33 Shpalernaya Ul.. Tel. 272 9850. 8 p.m. July 31 through Sept. 7 Valery Gergiev. Mariinsky Concert Hall. Swan Lake The Yacobson Ballet Theater The Pauki Punk rock. Dada, 47 Gorokhovaya Chamber Music Vivaldi’s ‘The Four Seasons’. performs Tchaikovsky’s evergreen classic. Ul.. Tel. 983 7050. 8 p.m. ANNA AKHMATOVA MUSEUM AT THE Camerata ensemble and Sandra Shinder. Alexandrinsky Theater, 8 p.m. Disen Gage / Flynotes Progressive rock, saturday, august 2 FOUNTAIN HOUSE Smolny Cathedral, 7.30 p.m. fusion, instrumental. Fish Fabrique Nouvelle, 34 Fontanka River, entrance from 53 Liteiny opera 53 Ligovsky Prospekt. Tel. 764 4857. 9 p.m. rock, etc. Pr. M: Gostiny Dvor, Mayakovskaya. Madama Butterfly Puccini’s tragic opera San Remo Party Italian pop covers. Jagger, Shocking Red Dance. Jagger, 2 Ploshchad Tel. 272 2211. Daily, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Closed thursday, july 31 about an American soldier who leaves his 2 Ploshchad Konstitutsii. Tel. 923 1292. Konstitutsii. Tel. 923 1292. 8:30 p.m. Monday; 1 p.m. to 8 p.m. on the last Japanese wife. Mariinsky Theater. 8:30 p.m. Wednesday of every month. ballet Kukryniksy Pop rock. Kosmonavt, 24 jazz & blues www.akhmatova.spb.ru Carmen Suite. Le Carnaval Two one-act Bronnitskaya Ul.. Tel. 922 1300. 8 p.m. Leningrad Dixieland Band Jazz dancing. NEW! He is Not Here: 7 Steps Towards ballets set to a score composed by Georges monday, august 4 Jazz Philharmonic Hall, 27 Zagorodny the Light. Mixed media. Artist Katya Margolis Bizet, Rodion Shchedrin and Robert jazz & blues Prospekt. Tel. 764 8565, 764 9843. 7 p.m. presents videos, paintings, lithographs, photos Schumann. Starring Anastasia Kolegova. ballet David Goloshchyokin and His Band Jazz Dmitry Bayevsky Quartet Bebop, hard bop. and a light installation exploring author Joseph Mariinsky II, 7.30 p.m. Rodin Boris Eifman stages a ballet based on violin and organ. Jazz Philharmonic Hall, JFC Jazz Club, 33 Shpalernaya Ul.. Brodsky’s time spent living in Venice. Aug. 1 Swan Lake The Yacobson Ballet Theater the life of French sculptor Auguste Rodin set to 27 Zagorodny Prospekt. Tel. 764 8565, Tel. 272 9850. 8 p.m. Through Sept. 15 performs Tchaikovsky’s evergreen classic. music by Ravel, Saint-Saens and Massenet. 764 9843. 7 p.m. Alexandrinsky Theater, 8 p.m. Alexandrinsky Theater, 8 p.m. Andrei Svetlov Project Jazz rock. JFC Jazz SIGMUND FREUD MUSEUM OF DREAMS Club, 33 Shpalernaya Ul.. Tel. 272 9850. sunday, august 3 18a Bolshoi Prospekt, Petrograd Side. opera 8 p.m. M: Sportivnaya. Tel. 456 2290. Tuesday and Der Fliegende Holländer Richard Wagner’s tuesday, august 5 rock, etc. Sunday, 12 p.m. to 5 p.m. www.freud.ru opera staged by Ian Judge (U.K.). Starring Iwrestledabearonce / Texas in July Ivan Razumov: Drawn Dreams of a Mlada Khudoley. Conductor Valery Gergiev. ballet friday, august 1 Metalcore. Zal Ozhidaniya, 118 Naberezhnaya Soulful Machine. Graphics. This exhibition Mariinsky Theater. The Little Humpbacked Horse Rodion Obvodnogo Kanala. Tel. 333 1069. 8 p.m. includes drawings that were never intended Shchedrin’s fairy tale ballet choreographed by rock, etc. for display in the form of spontaneous concert Alexei Ratmansky. Mariinsky II, 7.30 p.m. Solnechny Udar Pop rock. Griboyedov Hill, jazz & blues sketches from the notebooks of the celebrated Organ Music Bach, Handel and others. Daria Rodin Boris Eifman stages a ballet based on 2A Voronezhskaya Ul.. Tel. 764 4355, Gasan Bagirov and His Band Jazz guitar painter and book illustrator. Meerkova. Smolny Cathedral, 8 p.m. the life of French sculptor Auguste Rodin set to 973 7273. 9 p.m. night. Jazz Philharmonic Hall, 27 Zagorodny Through Sept. 5 Prospekt. Tel. 764 8565, 764 9843. 7 p.m. Chizhik Jazz Quartet Crossover jazz. JFC ADVERTISING Jazz Club, 33 Shpalernaya Ul.. Tel. 272 9850. 8 p.m.

monday, august 4 rock, etc. Sportloto Dance. Jagger, 2 Ploshchad Konstitutsii. Tel. 923 1292. 8:30 p.m. jazz & blues Ruslan Khain Band Jazz classics. JFC Jazz Club, 33 Shpalernaya Ul.. Tel. 272 9850. 8 p.m.

tuesday, august 5 rock, etc. Slayer Thrash metal. A2, 3 Prospekt Medikov. Tel. 309 9922. 8 p.m. Kvadrat Jazz Club Jam session. Griboyedov Hill, 2A Voronezhskaya Ul.. Tel. 764 4355, 973 7273. 10 p.m. Music Battle Kusto vs. Trip Fish. Jagger, 2 Ploshchad Konstitutsii. Tel. 923 1292. 8:30 p.m. Leftover Crack / One Eyed Snake / The Poseurs Punk rock. Mod, 7 Naberezhnaya Kanala Griboyedova. Tel. 712 0734. 7 p.m. Gleb Samoilov and the Matrixx Postpunk, alternative rock. Zal Ozhidaniya, 118 Naberezhnaya Obvodnogo Kanala. Tel. 333 1069. 8 p.m.

American veteran thrash metal band Slayer, a mainstay in the American heavy metal music scene and widely considered jazz & blues to be one of the most influential bands in the genre’s history, will perform at A2 on Tuesday, Aug. 5. Suvorov’s Blues Band Blues. JFC Jazz Club,

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Art as a Profession: The Bekkerman painter and monumentalist Igor Burmistrov Collection. 48 paintings and sculptures from displays the artist’s virtuosity and SCREENS the celebrated Bekkerman collection featuring understanding of color theory across several work by leading Russian artists from the late- series of works. July 31 through Aug. 17 And So It Goes (2014, U.S.) Rob Reiner’s 19th to the early-20th century. Through comedy-drama starring Michael Douglas, Aug. 11 MOSKOVSKY DISTRICT EXHIBITION HALL Diane Keaton and Sterling Jerins. Avrora, Dom 6 Pl. Chernyshevskogo, M: Park Pobedy. Kino, Mirage Cinema, Velikan Park. STATE RUSSIAN MUSEUM: STROGANOV Tel. 388 3984. Tuesday – Friday, 11 a.m. to PALACE 7 p.m., Saturday 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Closed Begin Again (2013, U.S.) John Carney’s 17 Nevsky Prospekt. Tel. 571 2360. Open Sunday, Monday. comedy starring Keira Knightley, Adam Levine 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. (5 p.m. Monday). 1 p.m. to Felix Smirnov: The DNA of Destiny. and Mark Ruffalo. Angleterre (in English with 9 p.m on Thursdays. Closed Tuesday. A branch Painting. Avant-garde artist Felix Smirnov Russian subtitles), Avrora. of the State Russian Museum. displays a selection of abstract paintings Kocherov Collection. This exhibition made during the past decade. Through Aug. 1 Calvary (2014, Ireland-U.K.) John Michael presents works of European and Russian Yekaterina Pavlova. Painting. The artists McDonagh’s black comedy starring Brendan religious art from the collection of Maxim captures wildlife in Russia and abroad with Gleeson and Chris O’Dowd. Dom Kino. Kocherov, a well-known bibliophile and her plein-air watercolors that also include collector from Moscow, including a number of several explorations of the technique used in Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014, rare, ancient Russia icons. Through Aug. 25 the frescos at the Palace of Knossos in Crete. U.S.) Matt Reeves’s sci-fi action film starring Through Aug. 1 Andy Serkis, Gary Oldman and Jason Clarke. ST. 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Hercules (2014, U.S.) Brett Ratner’s The Romanovs get the royal treatment at the History of St. Petersburg Museum’s artists, writers, publishers, poets, musicians island of Chios over a two-year period that adventure film starring Dwayne Johnson, John new exhibit ‘Imperial Postcards,’ featuring images of the last tsar and his family. living in architectural masterpieces, is capture Aegean folk culture and reveal the Hurt, Ian McShane and Joseph Fiennes. compared to the famed artists’ quarter of the hidden world of these medieval villages. Avrora, Mirage Cinema, Velikan Park. French capital. Through Sept. 28 Through Aug. 31 HISTORY OF RELIGION MUSEUM For Loyalty: D.A. Bystroletov. Exhibition. Boris Tishchenko: The Fight Against John R. Pepper: Evaporations. Photo. Maleficent (2014, U.S.) Robert Stromberg’s 14/5 Pochtamtskaya Ul.. M: Nevsky Prospekt The life and work of a sleeper agent who Time. Painting, sculpture, graphics, Italian photographer John R. 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Two internationally-acclaimed U.S.) Seth MacFarlane’s comedy western the interplay between traditional Chinese art PUSHKIN HOUSE RUSSIAN LITERATURE The famous bard’s works are examined documentary photographers show their work starring Seth MacFarlane, Charlize Theron and and Western medieval and contemporary art, INSTITUTE through their interpretations by Soviet actors. together for the first time. Through Aug. 3 Amanda Seyfried. Velikan Park. referencing stained-glass windows, primitivism, 4 Nab. Makarova, M: Vasileostrovskaya. Through Aug. 10 cubism and expressionism. Through Sept. 7 Tel 328 1901. Weekdays 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. TAIGA GALLERY NEW! Sex Tape (2014, U.S.) Jake Kasdan’s World War I. Photographs, paintings, posters, Closed Saturday and Sunday. 20 Dvortsovaya Nab. M: Nevsky Prospekt. comedy starring Jason Segel, Cameron Diaz leaflets and objects from the museum archives www.pushkinskijdom.ru Tel. +7 (921) 837 1820. www.space-taiga.org and Rob Corddry. Mirage Cinema, Velikan connected with World War I sit alongside Treasures from the Lermontov Collection GALLERIES Anastasia Potemkina: A Few Words Park. church materials used in religious services held at the Pushkin House. Memorabilia, about Politeness. Painting, graphic, on the battlefield. Through Sept. 21 antique books, autographs and documents ANNA NOVA sculpture, multimedia. Moscow-based NEW! Wish I Was Here (2014, U.S.) Zach connected with the life of Russia’s greatest 28 Ul. Zhukovskogo. Tel. 275 9762. Tuesday Potemkina uses a collage of art mediums to Braff’s comedy-drama starring Zach Braff, HISTORY OF ST. PETERSBURG MUSEUM poet. Through Oct. 24 through Saturday 12 p.m. to 7 p.m. attack patriarchal values, overcome bigotry Joey King and Pierce Gagnon. Angleterre (in Peter and Paul Fortress. M: Gorkovskaya. www.annanova-gallery.ru and expose humanity’s deepest fears. English with Russian subtitles), Avrora (in Tel. 230 6431. 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Soldiers of a Forgotten War: World War I Thursdays. Closed Tuesday. Painting. Painting. A retrospective of the STUDIOS MARVEL Medicine. Exhibition. Medical achievements www.rusmuseum.ru/eng painter’s figurative work he has worked on for from 1914-1918. Through Dec. 31 Paper Sculpture. Sculpture. Over 100 the past 20 years that aims to capture the sculptural works created out of paper by diversity of the human experience. POLITICAL HISTORY OF RUSSIA MUSEUM artists from St. Petersburg and Moscow. Through Aug. 31 2/4 Ul. Kuibysheva. M: Gorkovskaya. Though Aug. 18 Tel. 233 7052. Daily, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Closed First World War. 1914-1918. Painting, LOFT-PROJECT ETAGI Thursday and the last Monday of the month. graphics. This exhibition brings together about 74 Ligovsky Prospekt. Tel. 458 5005. Daily www.polithistory.ru 250 works from the museum collection of the 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. NEW! Two Worlds, One War. This exhibition Russian Museum to honor the memory of Solus and Guests. Video. The Irish film devoted to the 100th anniversary of World participants and victims of the WWI. Through collective Solus presents a selection of recent, War I brings together Russian and French Aug. 11 avant-garde video shorts from Ireland. posters, postcards, a book of George Gross Zurab Tsereteli: Possible Worlds. Through Oct. 2 lithographs and “War Chronicles,” a journal Painting, drawing, sculpture. The Georgian The Austere Style of GG. Group show. that documented the entire history of the monumentalist responsible for the Peter the Taking legendary Petersburg artist Georgy conflict as it unfolded. July 30 through Great sculpture in the Moscow River will Guryanov as its subject, this exhibition Sept. 15 present about a hundred works from different presents more than a hundred works by BAM – The Rails of Time. Photos, series created between 1990 and 2000. Guryanov’s peers and includes paintings, documents. An exhibition celebrating the Through Aug. 11 photographs, music, video and archival construction of the Baikal-Amur railroad. documents. Through Sept. 30 Through Dec. 26 STATE RUSSIAN MUSEUM: MIKHAILOVSKY (ENGINEERS’) CASTLE MANEZH CENTRAL EXHIBITION HALL POLITICAL POLICE MUSEUM 2 Sadovaya Ul.. M: Nevsky Prospekt. 1 St. Isaac’s Square. Tel. 314 8859. Daily 6 Admiralteisky Prospekt. M: Gostiny Dvor, Tel. 313 4112. Open 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. (5 p.m. 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. www.manege.spb.ru NEW! Serial (Bad) Weddings (Qu’est-ce qu’on a fait au Bon Dieu?) (2014, France) Nevsky Prospekt. Tel. 312 2742. Monday Monday). 1 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Thursdays. NEW! Igor Burmistrov: Invisible City. Angleterre (in French with Russian subtitles), Avrora, Mirage Cinema.

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READ THE LATEST NEWS AND SHARE YOUR OPINION www.sp mes.ru Opinion www.sptimes.ru | Wednesday, July 30, 2014 ❖ 16 Why Hopes of Putin’s Surrender are Futile By Simon Saradzhyan cially if he is cornered by Western actions into thinking a full-blown Cold War and Kiev’s inte- ith over a week past the tragic crash- gration into the West are inevitable. “Sanctions ing of a Malaysia Airlines passenger lead to greater control by Putin over the econ- jet over eastern Ukraine, it is be- omy… and reinforce Putin’s political power,” ac- coming clear that whatever initial cording to Gaddy and Ickes of Brookings. Whopes Western leaders might have had — that Russia’s Vladimir Putin can be shamed or coerced PEACEFUL TALKS ARE THE ONLY into unconditionally throwing the pro-Russian rebels under the bus — are futile. There is hope, WAY TO RESOLVE THE CONFLICT however, that both the conflicting sides and their But I hope such a scenario will not materialize. It supporters will sit down to negotiate a sustainable would do considerable damage to Russia, Ukraine resolution to the conflict, which threatens the and their allies. Moreover, I am betting that Putin foundations of Europe’s already fragile system of will eventually force the separatists to settle with collective security. Kiev. But that won’t happen until Ukraine agrees to some sort of a deal that would accommodate at least some of Russia’s wishes vis-a-vis Ukraine, PUTIN WON’T BE EITHER SHAMED which include the codification of its neutrality and Even before the July 17th tragedy, some of the decentralization, as formulated by the Russian more eloquent of Western-based Russia watchers government in March. claimed that Putin had ditched the pro-Russian Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko is dead rebels in eastern Ukraine. “As I wrote back in wrong if he thinks that the international outrage May, now that he’s sown chaos in Ukraine — but over the MH17 tragedy gives him carte blanche to uneager to participate in someone else’s civil war try to wipe the insurgency in eastern Ukraine out — President Vladimir Putin has thrown the rebels with sheer force. Urban warfare tends to be nasty, under the bus,” Julia Ioffe assured readers of The bloody and ugly even for well-prepared and New Republic on July 9th. armed troops, of which Ukraine has few as it con- The crash of MH17, which Ukrainian and sev- templates the taking of Donetsk by force. eral Western governments claimed was brought Russian forces were more numerous and they down by a surface-to-air missile fired from terri- had greater fire support during the storming of tory controlled by rebels in eastern Ukraine, in- Grozny, but they still lost thousands and spent creased the number of Western pundits who hold ings put together by Vox. As the Vox timeline foes of the West with weaponry systems that months trying to take that city, which had both a this view exponentially. shows, none of the complicit states, which include would significantly increase the costs of hypothet- smaller population and total area than Donetsk For instance, respected and experienced Rus- Ukraine, by the way, suffered from any serious ical strikes by the U.S. and its allies. (although the rebels in Donetsk are less numer- sia hand Mark Galeotti prophesized in the imme- punitive measures as long as they admitted com- This list also includes longer, revenge-is-sweet- ous than the Chechens that defended Grozny and diate aftermath of the crash: “When the histories plicity and paid compensations. when-served-cold measures, such as entering a enjoy less support among the city’s residents). are written, this will be deemed the day the insur- While Putin cannot be shamed into ditching military-political alliance with China. It would be Ukrainian armed forces are already suffering gency lost” because “the Kremlin will, for all its the rebels in Eastern Ukraine, is there any hope delusional to expect Russia to maintain a common casualties at a rate that, if sustained, would sur- immediate and instinctive bluster and spin, have that he can be coerced into doing so? I’d say: not front with the West on Iran sanctions if it were sub- pass 1,560 per year. That would be more than to definitively and overtly withdraw from arming much, if any. jected to the same kind of sanctions itself by the what the Russian army acknowledged losing in and protecting the rebels.” To have a tangible impact on Putin’s cost-ben- West. Speaking of the Iran sanctions, I would note the deadliest year of the second Chechen war. Another pundit has even gone as far as to im- efit analysis vis-à-vis Ukraine, the United States the West has spent over a decade, escalating those Moreover, even if attainable at an acceptable ply that the Russian leadership will somehow ac- and European Union would have to jointly im- before they began to significantly impact Tehran’s cost, any military victory over pro-Russian forces quiesce to Western and Ukrainian air forces pose broad crippling sanctions to hobble entire willingness to negotiate in earnest. in eastern Ukraine won’t heal the country’s ethnic jointly bombing the rebels into oblivion. “Without sectors of the Russian economy. The U.S. is ready And still Tehran is nowhere near “surrender- and political wounds and therefore won’t be final. Russian support, the separatists will be quickly be for such a collective move. After all, Russia is not ing” to the West’s demands despite crippling sanc- The losing side will not accept defeat and will wait defeated. The tragic shooting-down of MH17 pro- even among the top 10 U.S. trading partners, with tions. Escalating sanctions on Russia to the same for the next chance to challenge the outcome. vides Ukraine and the west with an opportunity the total trade volume between the two countries level as on Iran would be even more difficult. Both Poroshenko and his foes should there- to rid Donbass of its separatists by using superior under $40 billion in 2013. Moreover, it would hurt Western economies and fore aim for a peaceful resolution to the conflict, air power, no longer fearing Russian surface-to- In comparison, the EU’s trade with Russia is the global economy more, given that Russia ex- hopefully with strong encouragement from key air missiles,” according to Taras Kuzio of the Uni- 10 times larger, exceeding $450 billion in 2012 and ports much more oil and gas than Iran and those external players, including Russia, the U.S. and versity of Alberta. making Russia the EU’s third largest trading part- exports cannot be easily replaced. the EU. The EU even has an additional incentive I’d say anyone who seriously contemplates a ner. That very same economic relationship be- At the same time such sanctions won’t have the to push for a resolution to the conflict, as Russian- scenario in which NATO planes will bomb rebels tween Old Europe and Russia also explains why same impact on Russia as they did on Iran, given Ukrainian animosities threaten to leave the EU out of Donetsk must be as divorced from reality any hope of full-blown military containment of the greater size, resilience and diversity of the Rus- this winter without billions of cubic feet of Rus- as conspiracy theorists who believe some of the Russia in a new Cold War, which a number of US sian economy and its economic ties. “The only kind sian gas that transit through Ukraine. MH17 passengers could have been dead days be- legislators and pundits have called for, would be of sanctions that might have a deep enough impact A successful peace plan would include decen- fore the ill-fated flight. futile. to force Russia to abandon its strategic objectives tralization (including the election of governors I too think that the long-term damage Putin’s It is highly unlikely that European countries are ones that we would never implement,” econo- and taxation powers for Ukraine’s regions), legal Ukraine policy has done to Russia’s standing on and NATO members such as Germany, France or mists Clifford Gaddy and Barry Ickes wrote in guarantees of the rights of all ethic minorities, re- the international scene in general, and its rela- Italy would agree to contain Russia indefinitely, their recent treatise of futility of Western efforts to affirmation of Ukraine’s non-bloc status, an ar- tions with the West in particular, will be signifi- no matter how many some of the alliance’s top of- coerce Putin through sanctions. rangement that would prevent Ukraine from re- cant, even though it might not be felt in the Krem- ficials say Russia should be treated as adversary. exporting EU goods to Russia and Russian com- lin immediately. And I strongly hope those guilty After all, the economic interdependence between PUTIN CANNOT AFFORD LOSING modities to the EU, and, of course a cease-fire, of such a horrendous crime as the downing of a these countries and Russia has become so strong followed by amnesty. passenger plane (if it was, indeed, brought down that it would take an extraordinary and sustained FACE In fact, Poroshenko’s own peace plan — which by a missile), must be identified and prosecuted effort on the part of Russia to antagonize Old Eu- I am not saying, however, that there can’t be a no- his aides circulated back in June — addresses regardless of whether they have mistaken it for a rope into sacrificing its economic interests in the table escalation of joint EU-U.S. punitive mea- most of Russians’ and pro-Russians’ reasonable warplane or not. long term to join the U.S. in containing Russia. sures against Russia. wishes, and, therefore, constitutes a good starting But I find the belief that Putin can be some- Of course, the U.S. can always impose sectoral Such measures would impact Putin’s cost-ben- point for the parties in the conflict to reach a rea- how either shamed into accepting the complete sanctions unilaterally. Some of these punitive efit analysis as well as his decision-making, no sonable compromise with the participation of destruction or unconditional surrender of the pro- measures, such as exclusion from the dollar pay- doubt making him more amenable to a compro- Russia, the EU and U.S., perhaps under the aegis Russian militias in eastern Ukraine to be wishful ment system, would hurt Russia tremendously mise. But it would still be a compromise, not un- of the OSCE, of which they are all members. thinking, no matter how many more times West- while damage to the U.S. would be disproportion- conditional surrender. Even if sanctions hurt, Pu- Hopefully the U.S. and EU will encourage Po- ern editorials brand the Russian leader a “pariah” ately smaller. But such unilateral moves would tin still cannot afford to lose face at home. If he roshenko to remember his own peace plan and or “outlaw” and condemn Russia as being a eventually give European, Chinese and other cuts the separatists lose without reaching a deal pursue it. Neither the West nor Russia can afford “rogue state.” companies an advantage over US companies, with Kiev granting at least some of Russia and the winning and keeping Ukraine, whose inefficient which is something that American businesses bit- separatists’ wishes, then he would lose both the economy needs billions of dollars in loans just to terly oppose. main source of his legitimacy and popular support get by this year and which will ultimately collapse OR COERCED at home. if Russia, which is Ukraine’s largest single eco- If anyone had any illusions that a guilty con- Not even the Kremlin’s highly effective propa- nomic partner by far, curtails trade across their science alone might prompt Putin to reconsider RUSSIA’S POTENTIAL AS A SPOILER ganda machine would be able to explain such a border. his policies, they should recall his reaction to re- In addition to firing back economically, Western reversal to Putin’s core conservative constituency, If as a result of these collective efforts, there cent, well-grounded accusations that Russia, by sanctions can antagonize Russia and turn it into who have so enthusiastically cheered on Putin’s emerges a Ukraine outside of any military alli- annexing Crimea, had violated its commitments an international spoiler, undermining Western taking of Crimea, references to a new greater ances, capable of sustaining itself economically to respect Ukraine’s territorial integrity under the countries’ vital national security interests rather Russia and vows to protect ethnic Russians every- and headed toward ethnic and political reconcili- 1999 Budapest Memorandum. than coercing Moscow into surrendering on where. ation, that could be an outcome that not only Kiev Nor does the history of accidental downing of Ukraine. Those who think Putin’s rule is so iron that it and Donetsk — but also Luhansk and Lviv, Mos- passenger planes contain any precedents of a When I tasked myself back in March with list- can just present a reversal of policy to common cow, Brussels and Washington — can probably complicit state reversing its foreign policy in the ing things that Russia can do to retaliate, if an- Russians as a fait accompli, without plausible ex- live with. At least that was the hope I formulated aftermath. Washington didn’t reverse its stance on tagonized by Western sanctions, I came up with planation, should recall the protests that followed back in February, and I continue to cling to it. Tehran after acknowledging that the US military quite a long itinerary of asymmetric responses. his September 2011 speech that he would be take accidentally shot Iran Air Flight 655 in 1988. Those could include such short-term measures as the Kremlin seat back from Dmitry Medvedev. Simon Saradzhyan is Assistant Director of the In fact, then U.S. President George H.W. Bush blocking NATO’s Afghan transit across Eurasia, In fact, rather than lose face, Putin might as U.S.-Russia Initiative to Prevent Nuclear Terror- didn’t even offer a full and formal apology, ac- undermining sanctions imposed on Tehran over well grant the wishes of the conservative core of ism at Harvard University’s Belfer Center for Sci- cording to a timeline of such accidental shoot- its nuclear program and arming Tehran and other his supporters and annex eastern Ukraine, espe- ence and International Affairs. Учредитель и издатель – ООО «Нева Медиа». Главный редактор – Татьяна Турикова. Адрес: 190000, СПб, Конногвардейский бульвар, 4, 7 подъезд, 3-й этаж. 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