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Putin-Tronic Transferring What’s Turkish CENTRAL BANK RATE Electro-Pop Telecom Traffic For ‘El Torro?’ Austrian CD takes on Telecominvest subsidiary Camel wrestling is filling the Kremlin chief. Page 11. grabs mobile clients. Page 6. seats in Selcuk. Page 19. Mirilashvili Arrest Given Political Overtones Kokh By Masha Kaminskaya men who have fallen foul of prosecutors: Russkoye Video. Media-MOST’s acqui- denied that Mirilashvili’s arrest had STAFF WRITER Media-MOST’s Vladimir Gusinsky, and sition of a stake in Russkoye Video is at “anything to do with either Media- Since St. Petersburg prosecutors arrested businessman Dmitry Rozhdestvensky. the heart of the case against Gusinsky. MOST or [Mirilashvili’s] membership prominent Russian-Israeli businessman Gusinsky, the president of the Rus- In an interview with The St. Peters- of the Jewish Congress.” Mikhail Mirilashvili on Tuesday, specula- sian Jewish Congress, is under house ar- burg Times, Rozhdestvensky, whose trial “We have enough proof to suspect To Take tion has raged over the possible political rest in Spain awaiting a Madrid court de- is due to open Feb. 22, described Miri- [Mirilashvili] of organizing the kidnap- and business motives for the arrest. cision on a Russian extradition request. lashvili as “an old friend.” The two men ping of two St. Petersburg businessmen And while the prosecutors are stick- Mirilashvili is vice president of the Jewish have a long-standing business associa- last year,” said Sydoruk. “He will be offi- ing to their story — that Mirilashvili was Congress, one of the two main national tion, including partnership in the history cially charged within the week.” Charge arrested on suspicion of kidnapping as Jewish organizations in the country. of Russkoye Video. Sydoruk refused to give any details the result of a criminal investigation be- Rozhdestvensky, who has been on the names or age of the kidnapped. gun last September — Russian media charged with fraud and embezzlement, is KIDNAPPING CHARGES Immediately after news of the arrest and sources close to Mirilashvili are fo- head of the board of directors of the ad- At a press conference on Wednesday, broke, Yury Novolodsky, Mirilashvili’s cusing on his connection to two other vertising and film production company however, City Prosecutor Ivan Sydoruk See ARREST, Page 2 Of NTV By Andrei Zolotov Jr. STAFF WRITER MOSCOW — Gazprom-Media head Alfred Kokh announced Thursday that he is taking over control of NTV televi- sion and planning to install a new board that will not include NTV founder Vla- dimir Gusinsky. The announcement was a stunning turn in the months-long battle for the only national television station still in- dependent of the Kremlin. The stage was set earlier Thursday when court marshals seized the disputed 19 percent of NTV shares and forbade Media-MOST from voting with them. “This means that the number of vot- ing shares is 81 percent, and conse- quently Gazprom with 46 percent is the controlling shareholder,” Kokh said at a news conference. Gusinsky’s Media-MOST holding company said the court marshals had violated the court decision and pre- dicted the battle was not yet over. Kokh said he plans to call an emer- gency shareholders meeting within days and bring in new Gazprom representa- tives, including himself. Gusinsky and his closest associates, Igor Malashenko and Andrei Tsimailo, will be ousted. Management changes at NTV are also likely, Kokh said, but he promised to do his best to keep the existing team. Appearing later in the day in a dramatic duel with an NTV correspondent on the channel’s program “Geroi Dnya,” or Hero of the Day, Kokh said he is “satisfied” with Yevgeny Kiselyov as NTV’s general director. After insistent questions about the

ALEXANDER BELENKY/SPT Kremlin’s role in his takeover of NTV, Nadezhda Grebeshkova and Vera Bodrina, shown here singing songs at a get-together, are two of the 560,000 people who were left in the city in January 1944. Kokh said in both public appearances that on Jan. 14, President Vladimir Putin had summoned him to his country residence to discuss the future of NTV. Blockade Survivors Who Lived by Bread Alone According to Kokh, Putin demanded that Gazprom-Media should not influ- By Irina Titova that wastes nothing. She could even Leningrad to death until it gave in. to use their imaginations to come up ence the channel’s coverage. STAFF WRITER make glue and bean skins an appeal- But the city never surrendered. with more palatable cuisine — which “Shares, debts, finance is your pre- Lidiya Lifanova, a 77-year-old pen- ing dish. When the blockade ended, only today would look more at home on a rogrative,” Kokh quoted Putin as say- sioner, has not thrown away a piece of Far from being some modern super- 560,000 people remained in the city, carpenter’s bench: soup made from ing. “But don’t touch journalists and bread for 60 years. recycling effort, however, these are which in 1941 had a population of 3.2 joiner’s glue; leather belts; potato peels management, that is my prerogative. I “For me bread is priceless,” Li- habits the women developed during the million. Of those, 1.7 million were and tea from pine twigs for vitamins. am the guarantor of press freedom. Our fanova said. “All these left-over odds 900-day blockade of Leningrad during evacuated during the war while Others dug the sweet soil near the task is to preserve the management and and ends that we have in our family we which the city was surrounded by Nazi 600,000 joined the army. Starvation, bombed-out Badayevsky facility fol- editorial team as much as possible.” give to stray cats and dogs,” she said. troops. While the siege ended 57 years sickness and bombing raids took the lowing the German bombing, where Media-MOST said Thursday that Nadezhda Samsonenko, another ago this Saturday, more sombre cere- rest — more than 500,000. fire had melted sugar into the earth. Kokh had jumped the gun. Both in 77-year-old woman, puts seemingly monies will mark the 60th anniversary At that time, small rations of bread In more morbid circles, some peo- comments from the press service, and useless scrapings from plates in the of its beginning later this year. — which was often more saw-dust ple actually sold meat from corpses on NTV’s news program, the company fridge with which she magically pre- At the beginning of the siege on than flour — were available on a daily and tried to pass it off as pork. Ac- focused on the difference between the pares delicious meals. Sept. 8, 1941, the German army de- basis and distributed according to the cording to Nina Volodina, who was 10 document it had received from the Unappealing frozen fish, three- stroyed all railways into the city, blew following scheme: laborers — 250 years old in 1941, city radio broadcast Moscow Arbitration Court earlier this day-old boiled potatoes left by her up Badayevsky, the city center’s main grams; office workers — 200 and an almost constant warnings about canni- week and the one it got from the court young relatives, a desiccated carrot, food storage facility, shut off electric- additional 125 grams for each of these balistic practices. Once when Anton- marshals Thursday. left-over broth, and spices all combine ity, water and all possible routes of peoples’ dependents. ina Mirinova, now 75, went to take wa- According to Media-MOST, the in her pot to create a delicious soup nourishment and vowed to starve Given the spartan fare, people had See SURVIVORS, Page 2 court froze the 19 percent stake but re- See KOKH, Page 2 2 ❖ Friday, January 26, 2001 NEWS The St. Petersburg Times

humanism and culture. ARREST SURVIVORS Samsonenko, who worked in a Continued from page 1 Continued from page 1 school during the blockade, would read the poems of Alexander Pushkin to the lawyer, called a press conference and ter from the Neva river ice-hole she children to distract them from their declared his client innocent, demanding came across the severed head of a painful hunger. Later, in the evenings, his release on bail or on a guarantee that woman who had obviously been eaten. radio announcers would read those he would not leave St. Petersburg. “What was striking is that we were same verses to distract adults from their Novolodsky said that Mirilashvili was not shocked by the sight or the existence hunger as well. calm, if confused by the charges, which of cannibalism,” said Mironova. “We just Indeed, the city refused to give its the lawyer described as extremely vague. tried to fill our buckets, a difficult task culture up. People went to the sym- He also said that prosecutors were trying with the head constantly popping up.” phony, saw plays, visited museums, to frame Mirilashvili, who, he said, did So pervasive were the ugly signs of wrote and read. They visited the zoo as not know anything about the investiga- hunger that one became inured to them well, a storehouse of possible food that tion or what it might be linked to. in time. Samsonenko recalls walking no one ever dared to eat. “[Mirilashvili] came to see me in my down Ulitsa Nekrasova in December, Some people — including Alexan- office [Tuesday] evening and said he 1941 when a man in front her, struggling dra Pukhova, who smiles gently at the was afraid that there was a smear cam- to catch his balance, plopped down on a recollection — even managed to fall in paign being organized against him,” box at the side of the side walk. When love. The young sailor she met, she said Novolodsky on Wednesday. “Half Samsonenko reached him, she found he added, would always leave her extra ra- ALEXEI DANICHEV/FOR SPT an hour later, the police came and took Mirilashvili, who was arrested Tuesday, has many St. Petersburg business interests. was dead of exhaustion and starvation. tions of bread in her apartment him to the Prosecutor’s Office to be in- “Wherever we walked somewhere “It moved me so much that he didn’t terrogated.” Mikhail, and brother, Gabriel, who now In the first incident, two men and a we simply stepped over the corpses on just give it to me outright, so as not to reportedly live in Israel, Mirilashvili is woman described by prosecutors as well- in our path,” said Volodina. “We no embarrass me,” Pukhova said. A RANGE OF THEORIES said to control a wide range of St. Pe- known St. Petersburg mobsters of Geor- longer reacted to They married Despite the prosecutor’s statements to tersburg businesses, including real-es- gian nationality were shot dead in broad such sights.” on January 30, the contrary, the Gusinsky connection tate, pharmeceutical, trading, entertain- daylight in front of the Astoria hotel, Despite the Except for the very 1944, three days was still highly fa- ment and construc- where a conference on investment and thick skin one had after the blockade vored by commen- tion companies. business security was taking place, which to develop during young or very old, was over. On tators. Media- Mirilashvili Mirilashvili was chairing. the blockade years September 28, MOST’s offices in himself is said to At the time, some local reports hinted to survive, no one women dominated 1944, she gave Moscow were also control the Conti that Mirilashvili — who is said to have an had any illusions the city during the birth to a son. searched by police Group, which runs underworld-style nickname, Misha Ku- that they could After the harsh on Wednesday. a number of casi- taissky — was behind the shootings, in survive without Leningrad Blockade. winter of 1942, And although nos in the city, as revenge for his father’s abduction. help. In turn, spring brought

Rozhdestvensky ALEXANDER BELENKY/SPT well as having con- SERGEI GRACHEV/SPT Novolodsky called rumors of Miri- many thousands of the city residents some relief and people were able to cul- said to Interfax Yury Novolovsky nections to the lo- Ivan Sydoruk lashvili’s criminal ties absurd. “The were ready to give it. tivate modest gardens in local parks. Wednesday that “there is no connection cal branch of LUKoil, and being a ma- [shootings] may or may not be con- Volodina recalled that one mother Those who remained alive set about between the Russkoye Video case and jor shareholder in the Gostiny Dvor de- nected with the arrest. I have no com- of two in her communal apartment took cleaning up the city after the long winter. Mirilashvili’s arrest,” he said in an inter- partment store. ment,” he added. on the responsibility of two more young Pukhova said that there were many view that when he himself was arrested in Police on Tuesday and Wednesday Rozhdestvensky also rubbished the children after their mother died of star- places where the corpses of the deceased 1998, “Investigators asked me to give ev- searched Mirilashvili’s apartment on Ka- kidnapping and murder allegations. “I vation while their father was at the were piled, and in spring all of them idence against Gusinsky and Mirilashvili, mennoostrovsky Prospect, and LUKoil’s have never heard of a more absurd case,” front. He too was killed, and from the were buried at what is now Piskary- and made anti-Semitic remarks.” offices on Moscow’s Tverskaya Ulitsa. he said. “Mirilashvili is a peaceful man, blockade on, the neighbor treated the ovskoye memorial cemetery, in the “They couldn’t [successfully prose- According to both Dmitry Dolgov, incapable of committing any crime.” children as her own. North East of the city. Despite the dev- cute] me, so they’ve gone after Gusinsky spokesman for LUKoil, and Mikhail “It makes no sense for him to murder Indeed, except for the very young or astation of hunger and war, Leningrad and Mirilashvili.” Varganov, director of the company’s St. three people outside a business-security old, women dominated the city during miraculously never suffered any out- NTV television, part of Gusinsky’s Petersburg branch, police took away conference he himself was holding.” the blockade. When bombing set whole breaks of disease during the siege. Media-MOST, has been highly critical of audio and video tapes from the office Ruslan Linkov, head of the St. Peters- city blocks ablaze, it was women who ex- Those blockade survivors who are President Vladimir Putin’s government, but did not remove any documentation. burg branch of the Democratic Russia tinguished them in the fire brigades. still among the living are now, of course, and many commentators have said that Interfax quoted the two LUKoil party, called the charges “absolute non- Women also dug trenches for shelter and pensioners. In addition to the standard his case and other attacks on Media- representatives as saying that the search sense,” according to an Interfax report. stood in the watch towers, watching for 800-ruble state pension they receive an MOST are politically motivated. was “only vaguely connected” to “This is yet another demonstration of enemy planes on the horizon. It was they, additional 800 rubles. Sometimes, the “Law-enforcement agencies are being LUKoil. Mirilashvili has an office in the anti-semitic tendencies [...] on the part of too, who pulled survivors from under government also gives them discounts used more and more for political and same building, although it was not clear [the police and prosecutors],” Linkov, smoking rubble, or looked after the chil- on bread and sugar. economic goals,” said Novolodsky. if that had been searched as well. who has close ties to Rozhdestvensky, dren of the dead, whom they would find It can hardly be called luxury, but af- Tankred Golenpolsky, a leading “Mirilashvili has never been an offi- was quoted as saying. trying to wake their dead mothers. ter surviving the blockade, Lifanova — member of the Russian Jewish cial LUKoil representive in the North- In a way, it was not the Red Army who still hasn’t thrown a piece of bread Congress, said to Agence France Presse west, but we’ve heard that he has intro- Staff writer Vladimir Kovalyev also con- that saved Leningrad from the ruin of away in 58 years — is hardly inclined to that he did not believe the charges duced himself as such,” the two said ac- tributed to this report. the war, but the city’s own tradition of wastefulness. against Mirilashvili, whom he described cording to Interfax. as “a pleasant, cultured young man.” “We’ll have to wait and see what the CRIME CONNECTION In an attempt to prevent the sent, but pointed to his expertise in courts say before drawing conclusions,” However, Prosecutor Sydoruk also said KOKH takeover of NTV, Media-MOST an- managing NTV. Golenpolsky was quoted as saying. on Wednesday that Mirilashvili could Continued from page 1 nounced late last week that they were The prosecutor’s office on Thursday have been involved in a triple murder ready to sell Gusinsky’s shares in NTV called Malashenko, Gusinsky’s first BUSINESS INTERESTS that took place in the center of St. Pe- fused Gazprom-Media’s demand that and three other media companies to a deputy, and NTV anchor Tatyana Mirilashvili, 40, is a native of Georgia tersburg last September, perhaps in re- Media-MOST be barred from voting consortium of investors led by CNN Mitkova in for questioning on Friday who now holds dual Russian-Israeli cit- sponse to the kidnapping of Miri- with these shares. The court marshals, founder Ted Turner. The company chal- morning. Ostalsky said Malashenko izenship. Together with his father, lashvili’s father a few weeks before that. however, ordered the shares be ex- lenged President Putin to back the pur- was abroad and could not appear. cluded from voting. chase and guarantee that the state “Obviously, under pressure, the would not interfere in editorial matters. court marshals have violated the court’s The $300 million raised from the sale WEATHER decision and carried out a crime,” Me- would go to repay loans to Gazprom. FRIDAY 9:03 dia-MOST spokesman Dmitry Ostalsky Christopher Renaud, Media- SATURDAY 9:01 said. He said Media-MOST will dispute MOST’s head of finance and strategic SUNDAY 8:59 MONDAY 8:57 the court marshals’ decision in court. development, described the situation as TUESDAY 8:55 “Nobody other than the court can de- a race between Media-MOST trying to prive shareholders of their right to man- repay the loans first and Gazprom-Me- FRIDAY 16:57 age their property,” Ostalsky said. dia trying to take over the company be- SATURDAY 16:59 SUNDAY 17:01 “The procedure will take longer fore the loans had been paid. MONDAY 17:03 than Kokh would like,” he said. “Mr. Among the nine board members TUESDAY 17:05 Kokh is rushing.” Kokh plans to nominate, there are five Kokh said there is no contradiction Gazprom representatives. Media-MOST FRIDAY Snow between the two documents. “The form is to be represented by NTV’s Kiselyov, High -1, Low -7. of arrest is determined by the court TNT head Sergei Skvortsov and another marshals, not by the court,” he said. NTV official, Mikhail Shmushkovich. SATURDAY Snow The dispute over the 19 percent There is a ninth board member on High -1, Low -4. portfolio derives from an agreement Kokh’s list: chairman of the state-owned SUNDAY Media-MOST and Gazprom-Media RIA news agency, Vladimir Kulistikov. Snow signed on Nov. 17. Both sides accuse the Last October, Kulistikov left his post as High 0, Low -2. other of violating the agreement and NTV’s deputy director and joined RIA, suits have been filed in London, Gibral- which is part of the government-owned MONDAY Sunny tar and Moscow. The shares were television and radio conglomerate, High -2, Low -4. VGTRK. The conglomerate is headed frozen Thursday pending a decision by CIS HIGH LOW OUTLOOK the Moscow Arbitration Court, which is by another Media-MOST defector, for- Irkutsk -21 -34 p. cloudy scheduled to hear the case on Feb. 14. mer NTV president Oleg Dobrodeyev. Kiev 3 -2 showers “This is a blatant, rude attempt to Last week, the government-owned Krasnoyarsk -15 -20 cloudy disregard the court and simply take our newspaper Parlamentskaya Gazeta re- Moscow -3 -9 snow Vladivostok -2 -21 p. cloudy television company away from us,” ported that Media-MOST planned to Yekaterinburg -13 -15 snow Kiselyov said in dramatic comments replace Kiselyov with Kulistikov in an aired by NTV. “And the ruler will be attempt to smooth its relations with the THE WORLD HIGH LOW OUTLOOK not the Prosecutor General’s Office, not government. Media-MOST officials ve- Johannesburg 26 19 showers Kokh, but President Putin. The law is hemently denied the reports. London 7 1 showers New York 4 -2 p. cloudy on our side, I am convinced. We will de- Kokh blurred the answer to the Tokyo 10 5 rain fend our legal rights, and we will win.” question of whom Kulistikov will repre- Friday, January 26, 2001 NEWS The St.Petersburg Times ❖ 3 Vandals Targeting Latvian Consulate By Vladimir Kovalyev And last January, the consulate was consulate only on the days when its visa Communists Walk STAFF WRITER vandalized with black paint and eggs. section is working, the source said. In what has become a cycle of hostility, During the same month, the RNE He said the Lithuanian, Czech and the Latvian Consulate in St. Petersburg claimed responsibility for the action. Estonian consulates are in the same was vandalized early Tuesday morning The police arrested a young activist, situation. Out Over Land Bill by a group that smashed windows on Andrei Dmitriyev, who was charged Unconsoled, Audarins said there ap- the building’s first floor, thus touching with deliberate damage of property. He pears to be a method behind the vio- COMBINED REPORTS at $5 trillion. Supporters of the Land off a minor diplomatic furor. confessed, spent three days in jail, but lence, which appears to be driven by the With left-wing deputies staging a Code point out that if the govern- Glass on the front door and two win- then he was amnestied and released. tensions that have existed between walkout in protest, the State Duma ment were to levy a tax on privately dows on the first floor of the building — Also last May, police said, RNE Russia and the newly independent on Thursday gave a narrow tentative owned land — as is done in the West which is located on the 10th Line of St. members paid a beggar 250 rubles and Baltic state. approval to a bill enabling the pri- — the state coffers would bulge. Petersburg’s Vasilievsky Island — were two bottles of highly alcoholic cleaning Dmitriyev, who was arrested last vate buying and selling of non-agri- Land deals are currently regu- shattered with a metal rod and stones, fluid for the beggar to drink in ex- year, said he was protesting the impris- cultural land. lated by myriad laws approved by lo- consulate officials said. Latvian Embassy onment in Latvia of Vasily Kononov, The Duma voted 229 to 168 on cal legislatures, and the legal confu- officials accused the Russian authorities 77, a former Soviet officer accused of first reading to add a chapter to the sion has created a rich ground for of being lax for not posting 24-hour Members of the war crimes and sentenced to six years Civil Code regulating business corruption and fraud. The absence guards in front of the diplomatic mission. last January. deals involving land. of coherent legislation has spooked “The Russians are not providing extremist Russian RNE members were not available The proposal had been blocked foreign investors and helped stall safety for the consulate, which they for comment on the incident, but mem- by Communists who strongly op- economic development. should be doing according to the Vi- National Unity Party bers of the Russian Party, another local posed trading in land, most of The approval on first reading enna Convention [signed in 1963],” said have been linked to nationalist group in St. Petersburg with which remains in the hands of the Thursday will no doubt cheer those Latvian Consul General Yuris Au- anti-Baltic leanings, said it supported government and collective farms foreign investors who have for darins in an interview on Thursday. the attacks. the alleged actions of the RNE. left over from the Soviet era. years been urging the government The police and consulate officials “The Baltic states made the policy of The bill must go through two to cobble together a law that would say they think members of the national- change for his breaking the consulate’s apartheid legal,” said Russian Party more readings, pass the Federation clearly guarantee ownership rights ist Russian National Unity Party, or windows. He too was arrested and let leader Nikolai Bondarik, in reference Council and receive President to land. They say the lack of legisla- RNE, group — which has no connec- go shortly thereafter. to the citizenship difficulties that Rus- Vladimir Putin’s signature to be- tion has drastically slowed down tion to the Yedinstvo, or Unity, political After Tuesday’s attack, the Latvian sians have had in the Baltic states since come law. Second readings are usu- their investments into the country. faction — were involved in the vio- Ministry of Foreign Affairs sent a letter the disintegration of the Soviet Union. ally held within a month. But Vladimir Plotnikov, head of lence. In fact, a police source who re- of protest to the Russian Embassy in Latvia fell under Soviet rule as a re- Communists and their allies ar- the Duma’s agriculture committee, quested anonymity said that they had a Riga, demanding Russia organize 24- sult of the Molotov-Ribentropp pact gued unsuccessfully Thursday that said Thursday night that the bill suspect for the most recent attack under hour security for the St. Petersburg con- signed in 1939. Approximately 35 per- the rich or politically connected would probably face a drawn-out surveillance but had not arrested him sulate as well as apprehending the van- cent of Latvia’s native population was would gobble up the best land, push- fight to get through a second reading yet. The source declined to say why, but dals, Audarins said. The note added killed during World War II, deported to ing most of the population deeper because among the agricultural he did say that the suspect had been that Russia’s Embassy in Riga has Siberia, or fled. into poverty. lands banned from private owner- kicked out of RNE. round-the-clock protection from Lat- Since Latvia regained independence “Those who work and live on ship are dachas and gardens. Throughout the year, said Audarins, vian police. in 1991, Russia has been concerned land don’t have money and won’t “What we are doing by passing the consulate has suffered at least six Police at Vasilieostrovsky Police sta- about the Baltic nation’s ethnic Russian have any tomorrow,” said Nikolai this article now is actually forbidding hostile acts, including angry pickets, tion No. 16, however, say that they don’t population and the Kremlin has Kharitonov, the leader of the Com- people who have dachas and gardens telephone threats, and even a Molotov have the staff to provide that kind of protested the republic’s policy of prose- munist-allied Agrarian faction. “If from doing anything with them,” Plot- cocktail attack last July. service. Generally, police can cover the cuting suspected former Soviet officers. we pass this bill, we will become nikov, who is also a member of the slaves tomorrow.” Agrarian faction, said in a telephone He said it was “premature” to al- interview. “They can’t sell them, give low sales even of urban land. them away or mortgage them.” “Those who vote for this bill hate The Land Code bans the sale of Yeltsin Threatened With Immunity Limitation farmers,” echoed Communist Yury seven different kinds of agricultural By Vladimir Isachenkov day, and today’s vote on the third and fi- The bill’s approval follows last Nikiforov. land, and liberal deputies failed to THE ASSOCIATED PRESS nal reading came virtually without de- week’s arrest in New York of Yeltsin’s After the vote, Kharitonov led read the fine print in their rush to MOSCOW — Russian lawmakers on bate. To become law, the bill must be property chief and ally Pavel Borodin left-wing deputies out of the Duma get the code passed in first reading, Thursday gave final approval to a bill approved by the upper house and on a Swiss money-laundering warrant. hall in protest. he said. that limits former presidents’ immunity signed by President Vladimir Putin. Borodin is in a New York jail pending a Liberal and centrist supporters of President Vladimir Putin’s repre- from prosecution and may spell prob- The vote revived discussions about bail hearing scheduled for Thursday. the bill dismissed such protests as sentative to the Duma, Alexander lems for Boris Yeltsin, whose administra- allegations of Kremlin corruption while Swiss prosecutors say there is evi- pointless since the bill only refers to Kotenkov, strongly backed the bill. tion has been accused of corruption. Yeltsin was president, which have lan- dence Borodin received tens of millions non-agricultural land. The ban on “If we don’t enact the Civil Code The bill, which the lower house of guished since his abrupt resignation of dollars in kickbacks from the Swiss deals in farmland will remain in chapter, we will preserve the black parliament approved by a 280-130 vote, Dec. 31, 1999. construction company Mabetex for a place until a special Land Code is market in land,” he told lawmakers substantially weakened the original Putin signed a decree immediately contract to renovate the Kremlin. approved. before the vote. Kremlin-proposed version that would after Yeltsin’s departure guaranteeing Russia’s former prosecutor general, Pavel Krasheninnikov, the head The 1993 Constitution guaran- have offered former presidents unlim- total criminal immunity for former Yuri Skuratov, has said that documents of Duma’s legal affairs committee tees the right of citizens to own pri- ited immunity. The new version says presidents, fueling speculation that provided by Swiss prosecutors allege and member of the liberal Union of vate land. But legislation setting up that a former president can be stripped Yeltsin stepped down before the end of that Yeltsin and his daughters, Tatyana Right Forces faction, said the new procedures for buying and selling of immunity by a simple majority in his term out of fear of investigations Dyachenko and Yelena Okulova, used bill would provide long-needed legal land has been stalled for years in both houses of parliament if prosecu- into his corruption-tinged administra- credit cards provided by Mabetex, with guidelines. parliament. tors charge him with a serious crime. tion. The Kremlin then submitted a bill the company paying the bills. The The State Land Committee esti- Lawmakers in the State Duma to parliament in an effort to enshrine Kremlin has denied the allegations, and mates the value of the nation’s land — AP, SPT passed amendments to the bill Wednes- the decree in law. no charges have been filed. 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Accreditation N0 002 4 ❖ Friday, January 26, 2001 NEWS The St.Petersburg Times Bush: It’s Time To Talk to Rebels Seismic Data Supports By Barry Schweid tion’s plan to go ahead with a national Asked if the Bush administration THE ASSOCIATED PRESS missile defense system despite a ban agreed with the Clinton administration WASHINGTON — In a clear message contained in a 1972 treaty the two na- that Chechnya should remain part of Theory of Kursk Blast sent to Moscow in one of its first for- tions signed. Russia, Boucher said: “We have not eign-policy pronouncements, the presi- Talks on a political settlement in changed our view of the status of THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ing. Los Alamos National Laboratory dential administration of George W. Chechnya are the only way to bring Chechnya in any way.” ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico scientists Steve Taylor and Hans Bush is pushing negotiations with rebels peace and stability to the troubled re- In the meantime, a panel advising — Analysis of seismic waves sup- Hartse participated in the study. in Chechnya as the only way to end the gion, Boucher said. He also urged Rus- the Energy Department issued a re- ports conclusions that two onboard “The main shock is consistent 16-month conflict. sia to take steps to deal with port that urged Bush to appoint a explosions, not a collision, destroyed with the explosion of approximately The message was coupled Wednes- widespread social and economic prob- high-level official at the White House a Russian submarine in August, five tons equivalent TNT detonated day with open skepticism that Presi- lems in Chechnya. to oversee U.S. efforts to help safe- killing all 118 crew members. near, or on, the sea floor,” they dent Vladimir Putin’s announcement Russian troops moved into Chech- guard existing nuclear stockpiles in The first explosion was relatively wrote. That second blast was likely earlier this week of a reduction of nya in September 1999 following rebel Russia and to stem the spread of nu- small, consistent with a misfiring tor- caused by fire from the first blast set- Russian troops in Chechnya had any attacks on Dagestan and apartment clear technology. pedo aboard the ting off other tor- real meaning. bombings in Moscow and other Rus- “It is going to take someone who is Kursk, according pedo warheads or “We’ve seen announcements of sian cities that were blamed on the in- at a high level to make sure this issue is to a report by Ari- The first blast was propellant fuel, troop withdrawals from Chechnya be- surgents. not lost among other national security zona and New Wallace said Tues- fore, but frankly, Russia’s presence in This week, Putin signed a troop re- issues,” Lloyd Cutler, a former White Mexico re- followed about day by e-mail from Chechnya remains massive,” State duction plan and turned over com- House counsel who served on the searchers pub- Chile, where he Department spokesperson Richard mand of the war to Russia’s chief secu- panel, said at a news conference. lished Tuesday in two minutes later and Koper are do- Boucher said. “The fighting has con- rity agency, the FSB, saying a new strat- “The most urgent unmet national the geophysical by and explosion ing other research. tinued, and there are continuing cred- egy was needed to secure control of security threat to the United States to- journal Eos. That Divers who en- ible reports of humanitarian abuses Chechnya. day is the danger that weapons of blast was followed 250 times larger. tered the sub against the civilian population by Rus- Boucher said: “it remains to be seen mass destruction or weapons-usable about two minutes found two notes sian troops.” whether this announcement represents material in Russia could be stolen or later by an explosion 250 times larger written by sailors trapped in a rear Russia maintains that the conflict a change in Russian strategy that could sold to terrorists or hostile nation than the first, the researchers said. compartment after the explosions. in rebellious Chechnya is a domestic resolve the stalemate in Chechnya.” states and used against American Most investigators have said they One note described 23 crew mem- matter. The Kremlin also is likely to In any event, he said, “it doesn’t pre- troops abroad or citizens at home,” believed an explosion sank the sub bers as suffering from carbon be irritated by the Bush administra- clude the need for a political settlement.” the report found. in the Barents Sea on Aug. 12, but monoxide poisoning from a fire and Russian researchers have left open the other described how its author the possibility of a collision — possi- was writing by feel in the dark. bly with a ship shadowing the sub. Taylor said the research team is Guerrilla Strikes Kill 14 Soldiers in Chechnya The Eos authors, led by Keith not suggesting either blast was a nu- Koper and Terry Wallace of the Uni- clear explosion. The report refers By Yuri Bagrov instead of large-scale attacks. city of Gudermes, headquarters of the versity of Arizona, say their data were only to conventional explosives. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Putin did not say how many of Kremlin-backed Chechen administra- collected by a network of seismic sta- In December, an American diver NAZRAN, Russia — A day of rebel Russia’s 80,000 troops presently serv- tion, and in Shali, a town in southern tions used in part to monitor a Rus- who worked on the Kursk recovery ambushes and mine blasts killed 14 ing in Chechnya would ultimately be Chechnya. sian nuclear test site 805 kilometers team said damage he saw convinced Russian troops in breakaway Chech- withdrawn or provide a timetable for Russian troops moved into Chech- from the location of the Kursk sink- him the sub blew up. nya, officials said Wednesday as Rus- the plan. But on Wednesday, the nya in September 1999 following rebel sian artillery and paratrooper units re- ITAR-Tass and Interfax news agencies attacks on Dagestan and apartment portedly prepared to pull out of the quoted the Defense Ministry as saying bombings in Moscow and other Rus- IN BRIEF republic. that paratroop units and some artillery sian cities which were blamed on the Chechen rebels trapped a Russian equipment were preparing for a pull- rebels. The offensive followed a convoy leaving the eastern town of out next month. botched attempt to regain control over the village, some 50 kilometers from Vedeno, in the process killing one sol- Elsewhere on Wednesday, about Chechnya in a 1994-96 war. Shutov Case Finalized Vladivostok, and no demonstrator ac- dier, an official with the Russian- 2,000 civilians rallied to demand an The military’s massive air and ar- ■ ST. PETERSBURG (SPT) — Yury tually reached the track. backed Chechen administration said end to the Russian military offensive tillery bombardments have led to casu- Shutov, a local businessman and former “You should be ashamed of yourself, Wednesday. Five Russian servicemen and the full withdrawal of Russian alties among civilians and drawn broad aid to Gov. Vladimir Yakovlev, is soon to pushing old ladies into ditches,” one el- were killed in a gunfight in the village troops. The protesters gathered in the international criticism. stand trial on charges of organizing a derly woman was shown shouting on of Novogroznensky on Tuesday, five string of contract hits, prosecutors said at television as she struggled up an em- died in other rebel attacks and three a press conference on Wednesday. bankment toward the tracks. more were killed when their vehicles “We have finalized Shutov’s case The situation in Vladivostok has im- ran over mines in the capital, Grozny, Russian Jet Makes Emergency Landing consisting of 25 counts. His case will be proved since last week, with some parts the official said on condition of REUTERS undercarriage failed to retract after sent to court on January 26,” said City of the far eastern city now spared anonymity. NOVOSIBIRSK, Western Siberia — A takeoff. Prosecutor Ivan Sydoruk. power cuts while others lose heat and In Russia this week, President Vla- Russian jet with 89 people on board Shlumin said it is not clear why the Shutov, a former Legislative Assem- light for up to four hours daily. dimir Putin signed a troop reduction made a safe emergency landing in the undercarriage seized up. bly member, is charged with organizing plan and turned over command of the Siberian city of Novosibirsk after the The crew realized soon after take- and committing several grave felonies — 16-month-old Chechnya war to Rus- landing gear on its right side failed to off that there was a problem with the including murder, extortion, kidnapping Convoy Embarks sia’s chief security agency, saying a lock shut, an airport spokesman said plane’s undercarriage, a second air- and robbery, and arranging the contract ■ LONDON (AP) —Three Russian new strategy was needed to secure Wednesday. port spokesman, Gleb Osokin said, hits of prominent St. Petersburg lawmak- trucks left London on the third and fi- control of the republic. The federal Oleg Shulmin said a Sibir Tu-154 air- but they decided to fly to Novosibirsk ers and businessmen. He has been in pre- nal leg of a round-the-world expedition forces, who suffer daily casualties liner left from Irkutsk for Moscow to use up fuel because the Tu-154 is trial detention since Feb. 1999. If not for Tuesday, their crew hoping to become from hit-and-run rebel raids, say they early on Wednesday with 80 passengers equipped with a system for emptying the finalization of the case, Shutov would the first people to circumnavigate the will focus on small special operations and nine crew. But the right side of its its tanks in flight. have been released on Jan. 26. globe by truck. In late December, the assembly If the team arrives in Moscow in granted the City Prosecutor’s request February as planned, they will have Peter’s Children presents to withdraw Shutov’s deputy’s immu- driven 26,000 kilometers and crossed 11 nity from prosecution. If found guilty national borders. Five out of the seven of all charges, Shutov could face life in team members had never been outside prison. of Russia before the expedition. ST. VALENTINE’S Stefania Zini, the Italian-born cap- tain of the trucking team and the only Train Kills 2 female crew member, said she “kept CHARITY BALL ■ ST. PETERSBURG (SPT) — A dreaming about driving around the In aid of woman and her 5-year-old daughter world” three years ago while working at St. Petersburg's Street Children died Wednesday night in a train acci- a Moscow-based company importing dent, Interfax news agency reported. Italian furniture. Zini garnered dozens According to the press service of the of sponsors and selected her crew of Saturday, February 10, 2001 St. Petersburg and Leningrad Oblast mechanics, truck drivers and engineers At the Astoria Hotel Emergency Situations Ministry, the during the next few years. 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Tuleyev’s resignation, which would 325 7171 This space was donated by The St. Petersburg Times But a police spokesman said security cause gubernatorial elections to be held forces outnumbered the protesters at three months early. Friday, January 26, 2001 NEWS The St.Petersburg Times ❖ 5 Putin-Backed Bill Buys Governors More Time By Ana Uzelac after Oct. 16, 1999. As a result, Luzhkov has to be passed by the Russian parlia- seats in the Federation Council, strip “The Kremlin is counting on that STAFF WRITER can run again, while a governor like ment’s upper house, the Federation them of their immunity to criminal when the representatives get stronger, it MOSCOW — The State Duma passed Shaimiyev, who was re-elected to a sec- Council, and be signed by the presi- prosecution and give the president the will be completely irrelevant who is in a bill Thursday that will allow 69 of the ond term before that date, can run for dent, but neither step appeared in right to get rid of those who disregard power in the regions,” he said. “So men who now govern Russia’s 89 re- two more terms. Shaimiyev comes up doubt. federal law. With remarkably little ob- there’s no need for hostilities.” gions to seek a third or even a fourth for re-election in March. The bill means that all governors jection, the governors in the Federa- But the bill has caused another rift term in office. The revised bill was put forward who have not come up for re-election tion Council gave in and passed the between the Kremlin and SPS, its The legislation had the support of Wednesday by Georgy Boos of Father- since October 1999 are in effect not legislation. sometimes-loyal Duma partner. the Kremlin and was seen as President land, the party founded by the Moscow even serving their first term yet and will “The deal was simple: You lose The leader of the SPS Duma faction, Vladimir Putin’s biggest concession yet mayor. It passed Wednesday in second only be seeking it in the future. your federal influence in exchange for Boris Nemtsov, said the bill was “un- to the regional elite. reading, but took the more liberal fac- There are 17 such regional leaders, full control over your regions,” Mar- dermining the foundations of Russian Among the beneficiaries of the tions by complete surprise, said Vadim including Ruslan Aushev of In- kov said. statehood.” move is Moscow Mayor Yury gushetia, Murtaza Rakhimov of Bash- “Whole regions are practically being Luzhkov, who will be able to run again kortostan and Kirsan Ilyumzhinov of given away to the old regional elite, in 2003 and try to stay in office until The legislation was Kalmykia. The bill has caused a which will result in a rise in the level of 2007. Another is Tatarstan President The 52 others, who like Luzhkov corruption and make local bureaucra- Mintimer Shaimiyev, who now has the seen as Vladimir were re-elected after that date, can run rift between the cies unchangeable and unpunishable,” potential to rule his region for a total for one more term. They include he said. of 20 years. Putin’s biggest Alexander Lebed of Krasnoyarsk, Kremlin and SPS, its Yabloko went a step further, calling The move was hotly opposed by concession yet to the Yevgeny Nazdratenko of Primorye and sometimes-loyal the bill “a constitutional coup” and the liberal Yabloko and Union of Konstantin Titov of Samara. warning that it might be just the first Right Forces factions, which accused regional elite. The rest, who were elected for the Duma partner. step toward allowing the president to the president of backtracking on his first time in their political careers after extend his time in office as well. earlier promises to fight corruption in Bondar of the Union of Right Forces, Oct. 16, 1999, fall in the same category He said Thursday’s concessions Luzhkov has been mayor of the regions. or SPS. and can seek one more term. show that the Kremlin now has a re- Moscow since 1992, when he was ap- The bill was an amendment to the “It was clear that the Kremlin Sergei Markov, the director of the gional elite it thinks it can work to- pointed by then-President Boris Yeltsin. law on regional government, which would make concessions for a limited Center for Political Research and the gether with and wants to keep it that He was re-elected in June 1996 and De- took effect Oct. 16, 1999, and limited number of extra terms, but not for al- head of the foreign desk of the Krem- way. The Kremlin was able to rid itself cember 1999. the governors to two consecutive most everybody,” Bondar said Thurs- lin-connected Strana.ru Web site, said of some of the most objectionable Shaimiyev has ruled Tatarstan terms. day by telephone. that the concessions to the governors governors in regional elections held since 1989, when he became first sec- When passed in the first reading on The bill passed with the support of were greater than expected but not a last year. retary of the Communist Party’s re- Nov. 30, the bill defined a governor’s the pro-Kremlin Unity and People’s surprise. “I think the president’s revolution- gional committee. Yeltsin appointed first term as the one he was serving on Deputy factions, indicating that it had “These concessions were a part of a ary zeal for reforming relations be- him the republic’s president in 1991. Oct. 16, 1999. This would have limited Putin’s approval. deal that the Kremlin struck with the tween the federation and the regions He was elected for the first time in those eligible to seek a third term to Kommersant newspaper reported governors last spring, when it intro- has been overestimated,” Markov March 1996 and is still serving that about 40 and would have excluded that two members of the presidential duced the legislation that curbed their said. five-year term. Luzhkov, who was re-elected to a sec- administration — deputy head Vladi- federal powers,” he said in a telephone Andrei Ryabov, a political analyst at Rakhimov is another long-serving ond term in December 1999. mir Surkov and the head of its political interview Thursday. the Moscow Carnegie Center, said the leader. He became head of the The version that passed Thursday in department Andrei Popov — were pre- As soon as he was inaugurated in Kremlin is also counting on its repre- Supreme Soviet in Bashkortostan in the third and final reading defined a sent at Wednesday’s Duma session. May, Putin began pushing for legisla- sentatives in the seven new federal dis- 1990, was elected president in 1993 and governor’s first term as the one started For the bill to become law, it still tion to deprive the governors of their tricts to keep the regions in line. re-elected in 1998. Nuclear Waste Shipments Borodin Replacement Draws Belarus’ Ire

COMBINED REPORTS this week by returning to Minsk from Yevgeny Volk of the Heritage Foun- May Test Northern Route MOSCOW — The Russian govern- Moscow a day early, ostensibly to dation’s Moscow office also said that COMBINED REPORTS Shipping Co., but aside from ship- ment rejected accusations of high- meet Kyrgyzstan President Askar Borodin was too closely affiliated with Japanese power companies are con- ments by Norilsk Nickel, the route is handedness from Belarus on Thurs- Akayev. Lukashenko. “In my view, Russian au- sidering shipping radioactive waste largely unused. day after replacing Pavel Borodin, “Some insist that Lukashenko, hav- thorities have recently lost trust in from Europe to Japan through Rus- It also comes as the government who is under arrest in the United ing been offended by such treatment, Borodin because he has become an odi- sia’s northern seas, a Russian official is is in the process of pushing States, as head of the proposed union decided on his own to cut short his ous figure,” Volk said. said Wednesday. through legislation that would allow between the two states. Moscow trip. Others assert that the re- Ryabov and Volk both agreed that The international environmental Russia to import spent nuclear fuel The former Kremlin property man- quest came from the Kremlin,” Be- the Kremlin has yet to use all of the group Greenpeace says the project for storage. That plan has been met ager was due to attend a bail hearing in lorusskaya Delovaya Gazeta newspa- resources it has at its disposal to try to is a nightmare scenario: a Soviet-era with outrage from environmental- New York later Thursday linked to per said. contest Borodin’s arrest. “It would be nuclear icebreaker crashing through ists, who were no more pleased Swiss attempts to extradite him. He is Andrei Ryabov, political analyst inaccurate to say that the Kremlin the ice, followed by a ship carrying about the shipping plan. accused of taking multi-million dollar with the Moscow-based Carnegie En- gave Borodin up, but, for a number of radioactive materials through the Igor Forofontov, nuclear cam- kickbacks from Swiss construction dowment for International Peace, said reasons, it chose not to fight [for his fragile Arctic. paign coordinator for the Moscow companies. Thursday that the decision to replace freedom] too vigorously,” Ryabov Alexander Ushakov of the office of Greenpeace, said that the Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov Borodin is a “pretext to show Luka- said. Transport Ministry said plans for northern sea route was a particu- appointed Igor Selivanov, who is one shenko that he is losing the Kremlin’s such shipments have been under dis- larly dangerous way by which to of Borodin’s deputies, as acting secre- favor.” — Reuters, SPT cussion for a year. ship nuclear waste. tary of the Belarussian-Russian However, the Japanese consor- “The northern sea route is a Union, a nebulous body preparing the tium interested in the route denied it tough waterway, and sailors who planned economic merger of Belarus was involved in any negotiations but navigated it were always called and Russia. said it was working with a Russian heroes,” he said. The appointment brought an indig- concern on a feasibility study. The Japanese companies and nant reaction in Minsk. “Theoretically Shigeki Okada, spokesman for their European partners have been Kasyanov has the right to propose can- Japan’s Federation of Electric Power shipping the waste since 1995 as didates for council secretary,” an offi- Companies, refused to elaborate on part of a deal set up to reprocess cial in Minsk said on condition of the position. spent uranium and plutonium from anonymity. In an interview broadcast by the Japan at La Hague in France and “But it should be confirmed by the Norwegian state radio network Sellafield in Britain. The resulting Council of Ministers. Not just by the NRK, Vladimir Blinov of the Mur- mixed-oxide nuclear fuel and the Russian prime minister but by the Be- mansk Shipping Co. also said that high-level waste that is a by-prod- larussian too,” he said. “Kasyanov can- talks were under way. He said a test uct of the process are then shipped not give directions and orders for both run, which would not involve any back to Japan. governments.” waste on board, was planned for this So far, two routes have been tried Deputy Prime Minister Viktor summer, with shipping to begin in — through the Panama Canal and Khristenko said the Belarussian-Rus- 2002. around the tip of South America. sian Union needed an acting chief to NRK said he refused to discuss de- Both were met with protest by the prepare for a meeting scheduled for tails of the talks. “There are such ne- countries along the routes. Monday. gotiations, such positions, but nothing Caribbean states, Argentina, Vladimir Zhirinovsky led a parade more,” Blinov said in English. “In Uruguay, Chile, Brazil, Australia and by supporters of his nationalist-ori- principle, it is good business.” other South Pacific countries have ented Liberal Democratic Party to the News of the negotiations, which protested the shipments, forcing the Swiss Embassy in Moscow on Thurs- was first reported by Japan’s Kyodo Japanese to look for other routes. day, waving banners and placards back- news agency, comes as the govern- A shipment launched Jan. 19 and ing Borodin. “This is a form of war ment is seeking ways to increase ex- set to travel around South Africa is against Russia,” Zhirinovsky said. “It is ploitation of the northern sea route, also expected to meet with strong provocation.” which proponents say is the fastest opposition, said Tobias Muench- Belarussian President Alexander and cheapest route between Europe meyer, a nuclear campaigner at Lukashenko has vehemently criticized and Asia. Greenpeace International, speaking Borodin’s arrest and said he was “duty- Russia has the largest fleet of nu- by telephone from Berlin. bound” to support the head of the Be- clear-powered icebreakers, which larussian-Russian union. are operated by the Murmansk — AP, MT Media say Lukashenko signaled his fury at Russia’s inaction over Borodin The St. Petersburg Times ❖ 6

Business FRIDAY, JANUARY 26, 2001 Cell Cos. Jump to New System Central Bank Proposed as By Andrey Musatov provider Metrocom, and Sovintel, negotiations were initiated last fall,” STAFF WRITER which provides long-distance and other Ionov said. Paris Club Debt Solution St. Petersburg Telephone Network services, are also negotiating a shift to Industry analysts said the reduction (PTS), through its wholly owned Tele- the PTT network, he stressed that the in costs for the cellular carriers would be By Svetlana Kovalyova Club this year, nor cominvest subsidiary, has further cellular-related business was the most significant, but they said it was unlikely REUTERS does it allow the strengthened its position in the local mar- important factor for the new system. that these savings would make much of MOSCOW — A loan from the Central government to bor- ket in the last two weeks with the launch “The most lucrative part of PTT’s op- a difference in the rates cellular users Bank is the best way for the government row from the Cen- of St. Petersburg Transit Telecom (PTT). eration will be the provision of connect- would be charged for their service. to service its debt to the Paris Club of tral Bank. PTT immediately attracted big-name ing and numbering capacity to cellular “Although carrying costs are about creditor nations, senior deputies in the The budget clients to its $48.6 million ground-line operators,” Krel wrote. “PTT has taken half of what they were, this will hardly in- State Duma said Tuesday. states that if there capacity system with cellular providers this business away from Peterstar ... .” fluence the prices of St. Petersburg cell- Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov are additional rev- North-West GSM, Delta-Telecom and According to Aleksei Ionov, a press phone operators,” Anton Pogrebinsky, a said last week the government, facing enues up to 70 bil- SPT Fora Communications switching to the officer at North-West GSM, the PTT telecoms analyst at J’son & Partners, said tough talks with the club, would ask lion rubles ($2.47 Alexander Shokhin carrier for their ground-line traffic. plan was originally hatched with the in telephone interview Thursday. the lower house of parliament to re- billion), they are to be split in half be- The cellular providers had previously “North-West GSM, for instance, vise the 2001 budget so that a greater tween domestic needs and foreign debt. routed this traffic through the Peterstar which is the only operator in the area share of any extra incoming budget If extra revenues exceed 70 billion system. The transfer deals a serious blow working on the GSM standard, probably revenues could be allocated for for- rubles, 70 percent will go to foreign debt. to Peterstar as cellular traffic generated The transfer is a blow won’t lower their rates in the absence of eign debt servicing. The government, which hopes to re- about $19 million in revenues during to Peterstar as cellular a competitor, such as Telecom XXI.” But Duma banking committee head structure and partially write off the $38.7 2000 — about a third of total revenues — In late 1997 Russia’s Communica- Alexander Shokhin said the Duma billion of Soviet-era debt it owes to the United Financial Group (UFG) reports. traffic generated tions Ministry divided the country into would hardly support this proposal be- Paris Club, angered creditors earlier this Telecominvest holds a 29 percent about $19 millon in eight regions and then stipulated that cause deputies had agreed to pass a tight month by saying it would not pay in full stake in Peterstar, while it owns 100 per- two licenses to operate the GSM stan- 2001 budget in exchange for a fixed dis- $1.6 billion owed in the first quarter. cent of the newly created company. The revenues during 2000. dard were to be granted in each. Along tribution of additional revenues. Kasyanov has said funds are tight remaining 71 percent stake in Peterstar with North-West GSM, Telekom XXI Shokhin advised the government to and social spending would not be cut belongs to Metromedia Telecommunica- goal of rationalizing the city’s phone was granted a GSM license for the use the Central Bank’s burgeoning re- for the sake of paying foreign debt, but tions, an international holding company. traffic and easing the load on the exist- Northwest region in spring 1998, but has serves to pay debts to the Paris Club he has opposed borrowing from the According to a report authored by ing PTS network. But Ionov said that yet to begin operating a system here. falling due in the first quarter. The Central Bank, saying this would under- Ari Krel, a telecoms analyst with UFG, the system ultimately provided a num- Aside from the incentive provided by Duma, which has to approve such bor- mine macroeconomic stability. the PTT project was originally launched ber of advantages to cellular providers. lower charges, Pogrebinsky said corpo- rowing, would support the government, Central Bank gold and foreign ex- in January 2000 by PTS itself, but was “While a more suitable infrastruc- rate structure concerns may have also he said. change reserves are near post-Soviet later transferred to Telecominvest be- ture was one reason to switch,” Ionov played a role in the decision by North- “The easiest way is to borrow from highs at $27.8 billion. But the bank’s cause the parent firm lacked the funds said in a telephone interview on Thurs- West GSM and Delta to switch carriers. the Central Bank. The Duma will sup- first deputy head, Tatyana Paramonova, to complete it. day, “a big reason is that the cost for our “Telecominvest’s direct stake in port it. It always supports the govern- said the bank would lend money to the Telecominvest provided $21 million traffic on the system will be lower.” North-West GSM is 45 percent, but an- ment, even when it believes that the government only as a last resort. of the price tag for the new 320-kilometer Ionov would not comment on the fi- other 6 percent belongs to Kontakt-S government is not quite right,” Shokhin “Only if there are no other sources, fiber-optic network, with an additional nancial specifics of North-West GSM’s and Vest-Link, which are also associated told a news conference. then, under the law, such an option $10 million credit provided by Moskov- agreement with PTT, citing one condi- with Telecominvest,” he said. “Delta He said the government was likely could be used,” Paramonova told re- sky International Bank and the remain- tion of the agreement, but did say that Telecom is 25 percent owned by Tele- to present its proposals on Paris Club porters on the sidelines of a banking ing $17 million coming in the form of the negotiations with the new system cominvest and 32 percent owned by debt repayment to the Duma in mid- conference. credits from equipment suppliers. took place over a long period. PTS, a total of 57 percent, so the switch February. “If we have to pay in the first quar- While Krel reported that other “North-West GSM signed the agree- could just represent the integration of The 2001 budget doesn’t provide for ter, the cheapest way is to take a Cen- firms, such as payphone service ment with PTT just a few days ago, but daughter companies within a sector.” $3.8 billion for payments to the Paris tral Bank credit.” “What’s so special about these destinations?” Yukos Plan Targets Chinese Energy Market By Anna Raff vestment plans will radically change Mazalov, an oil analyst at Troika Dia- STAFF WRITER only in the event of a dramatic down- log. “Overall, the quantity of their in- MOSCOW — The nation’s No. 2 oil turn in the price of oil this year,” Kras- vestment is in line with what other major is stepping up its efforts to nov said. petroleum companies are doing this breach China’s energy market with Yukos executives don’t expect such year,” he said. plans to invest $1.5 billion into its an event to happen. In the past two At the beginning of this year, Yukos West Siberian subsidiary over the next years, Yukos focused on cost cutting, raised its stake in West Siberia from five years. and this gives it a cushion in case the 19.9 percent to 68 percent. The other “We aim to extract 7.5 million tons of price of oil slips. 32 percent belong to Mettalinvest, crude a year from its fields,” Yury Beilin, The $1.5 billion will go toward which, in turn, belongs to Rossiisky Yukos’ head of exploration and extrac- drilling, construction of 80 to 100 wells, Kredit bank. tion, said Wednesday at a conference. a gas-compressing station and a For 2001, Yukos intends to extract The West Siberia Oil Co. has the pipeline from the West Siberian fields 56.5 million to 57 million tons of oil, and “The prices.” permit for geological exploration of the that would join them to Transneft’s Beilin noted that this will, in part, de- Yurubshensky plot in the Evenkiisky network. pend on the company’s processing and Autonomous District. The total conces- Yukos wants to exploit the West retail capabilities. This is a 15 percent sion, which also includes several sur- Siberian fields as fast as possible be- increase from last year. Also, the oil rounding plots, has lain fallow since its cause they are a relatively new playing company has allocated $750 million in discovery in the 1980s. The concession card in Russia’s oil game, said Ivan total this year for its upstream activities. is estimated to hold more than 500 mil- lion tons of oil. The discovery was never exploited due to the economic slowdown during Baltic Pipeline Plan Clears Hurdle the twilight of the Soviet Union, and REUTERS many’s Ruhrgas and Wintershall KLM Specials until now, no one has put forward the HELSINKI — A plan to build a planned to create a consortium in substantial funds necessary to extract northern-tier pipeline to carry Rus- the next two months to build the oil from these fields. sian natural gas to Western Europe pipeline. China’s growing energy needs, and via Finland took a step forward on A northern line would rival Cen- an intergovernmental understanding Wednesday when the Finnish and tral European routes for Russian Bali $993 Budapest $311 Milan $311 that it would be an eager buyer of oil Russian governments signalled their gas, including one through Ukraine New York $421 Geneva $311 Munich $333 pumped from western Siberia, also support. and another, the Yamal line, through Barcelona $311 Innsbruck $333 London $333 acted as a catalyst for Yukos’ decision, Finnish Prime Minister Paavo Belarus and Poland. said Beilin, a dead ringer for former Lipponen told reporters in Moscow Fortum and Gazprom have Bologna $311 Mexico $585 Tenerife $350 presidential candidate and current pres- that Finland and Russia had agreed made feasibility studies on the idential envoy to the Volga region, in principle to support the concept of pipeline via their joint venture And more than 50 destinations at special rates! 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Profit figures for 2000 are not yet Finnish territorial waters under the tive, Rainer Moberg, said that if the Join KLM “Flying Dutchman” frequent flyers’ programme. available, but recent record-breaking Baltic Sea to continental Europe. project goes ahead, it would aim to Do it now and collect 2,500 bonus points! dividend handouts testify to the But one of the likely builders, start pumping gas by the end of the KLM office open from 9 a.m. till 7.30 p.m. amount of last year’s take, much of Finnish energy group Fortum, said it decade. 5 Zagorodny Prospect, tel. 325 8989, fax. 325 8786 which will finance Yukos’ investment, and Gazprom had not yet made any Moberg said the partners would or call your travel agent officials said. firm decision to invest in the esti- now proceed with further studies http://russia.klm.com Yukos spokesman Andrei Krasnov mated $3 billion pipeline, and would on a pipeline starting near the town said that the $1.5 billion investment first seek European partners. of Vyborg in Russia, passing figure was reached using a pessimistic Gazprom board member Yury through Finnish waters in the east- estimate of the price of oil traded on Komarov told reporters in Moscow ern Baltic Sea and emerging in international markets. Last year, that Gazprom, Fortum and Ger- northern Germany. Yukos invested $700 million. “Our in- Friday, January 26, 2001 BUSINESS The St.Petersburg Times ❖ 7 Sberbank Stock-Sale Plan Draws Flak Putin Visit to India By Peter Baker companies sometimes critical of govern- for a bank except in bankruptcy cases. and Susan B. Glasser ment policies. During a meeting on “The suspicion is that there’s some- THE WASHINGTON POST Wednesday, Putin emphasized to a thing going on — that these guys are MOSCOW — A plan by Russia’s group of the nation’s leading business going to issue the equity and a big Leads Way to Deals largest bank to sell millions of shares of moguls that he will not try to re-examine chunk will end up with somebody we stock at bargain-basement prices the sometimes questionable deals of the don’t know about,” said a neutral ana- By Mikhail Yenukov sell a share in Sakhalin to India. This threatens to undercut foreign investors past and that rumors of “the destruction lyst, Chris Weafer, research director at VEDOMOSTI is definitely a condition for selling and revive the long-simmering issue of of Russian business” were unfounded. the Troika Dialog brokerage firm, who MOSCOW — An Indian oil com- Russian aircraft to India,” said a shareholder rights in a country still try- “I am certain that those fears are al- downgraded Sberbank’s stock Wednes- pany is to receive a stake in the source close to the Energy Ministry. ing to lure Western businesses back af- ready behind us,” he said in televised day. “In Russia, when you don’t know, Sakhalin-1 offshore oil and gas pro- Putin’s visit to Delhi in October ter the financial crisis of 1998. remarks. “Nothing of the kind is hap- it’s always led to bad things.” ject in return for an order for Rus- initially appeared not to have The state-controlled Sberbank plans pening, as you see.” William F. Browder, managing direc- sian armaments in a deal that brings brought any significant results, and to raise $135 million by issuing new The Sberbank case carries particular tor of Hermitage Capital Management, a windfall to state-owned oil major Russia reduced the value of military shares. But American and other in- political sensitivities for Putin, both be- put together a coalition of enough for- Rosneft, sources said Tuesday. hardware it plans to sell to India. vestors whose holdings would be cause the Central Bank owns the major- eign investors to call for an extraordinary Under the deal, which arose after Now it seems that the reduction severely diluted are trying to block the ity of shares and because it is the one shareholders meeting to try to oust Sber- President Vladimir Putin visited the may have been made for a reason — sale and remove the head of the bank. bank most used by the Russian people. bank chief executive Andrei Kazmin. In subcontinent in October, Rosneft has it is almost equal to OVL’s costs in the The flare-up echoes similar disputes Sberbank holds nearly three-quarters of a letter to the Central Bank this week, agreed to pass on half of its 40 per- deal with Rosneft. During the visit, it at a variety of major Russian businesses Browder accused Sberbank of “misman- cent stake in Sakhalin-1 to India’s Oil was anticipated that contracts licens- recently and presents a fresh challenge agement” and said the proposed stock and Natural Gas Corp.’s international ing production of the new Su-30MKI for President Vladimir Putin, who has Foreign investors offering “is not a rational decision.” arm, ONGC-Videsh Ltd., or OVL. fighter and T-90C tanks in India promised to create an economic market Browder and others argue that other Under the deal, OVL will pay Ros- would be signed. India wasn’t excited with fair and predictable rules rather complain that selling options are available to raise the bank’s neft $200 million and cover the com- about the terms, however. According than one governed by backstage deal- capital funds, which hover near the 10 pany’s previous expenses of about $100 to unofficial sources, the tank con- making at the expense of minority own- shares at such a low percent minimum ratio required by million to $150 million, and also fund tract fell in price from $880 million to ers. Until now, Putin has done little to price would drop the Russian law. “One alternative might be Rosneft’s participation in Sakhalin-1 $520 million, while the price of the curb the Wild West business climate. short-term ‘subordinated debt,’” he until the project starts to make a profit. Su-30MKI deal signed in December Just Wednesday, however, the gov- value of their stock. said, perhaps from the Central Bank. The initial, loss-making stage of last year was slashed by $700 million. ernment finally stepped in on one Sberbank and Central Bank officials the project is to be completed by 2005, Initially it was proposed that India prominent case. The Federal Securities the deposits by private individuals in did not respond Wednesday. But a before which the participants are due would pay $4 billion for the license. Commission filed a lawsuit to stop a Russia, for the simple reason that it is the prominent Sberbank board member to invest $4 billion. Once Rosneft is This “political” deal between controversial restructuring by Norilsk only bank here with a commitment from who normally sides with minority in- left with a 20 percent share, it will be Russia and India could be extremely Nickel, one of the world’s largest pro- the government to back its accounts. vestors said he agreed with the ratio- required to invest $800 million. Now good news for Rosneft, which an- ducers of nickel and platinum. Minority Sberbank executives want to issue 5 nale for the stock sale. OVL will be picking up the bill. nounced in 1998 that it planned to shareholders had complained that they million shares to raise capital, taking Boris Fyodorov, a former finance OVL’s conditions will most likely sell off half of its Sakhalin share but would be ravaged by Norilsk, controlled advantage of authorization by share- minister, said he sympathizes with the force Rosneft’s old partners in failed to find a suitable buyer. by prominent tycoon Vladimir Potanin. holders given in 1997, but the stock “absolutely legitimate” complaints and Sakhalin-1 — U.S. giant ExxonMo- Rosneft is happy that everything The question of the state’s relation- price has fallen from a high of over $350 agrees that selling at such a low price “is bil and Japan’s Sodeco — to waive ended this way. “Sakhalin is a risky ship to business remains a touchy one in that year to around $28.75 now. not a very nice thing.” But, he said, their preferential option to purchase project — so far research has been a nation that has spent the past decade Foreign investors complain that sell- there was little choice and expressed the 20 percent stake, said a source carried out that has not given com- trying to create a market economy from ing new shares at such a low price confidence that the plan was not a close to the Property Ministry. plete information as to how profitable scratch, only to find a select handful of would diminish the value of their stock. scheme to sell to a hidden buyer waiting “OVL is offering an unjustifiably it actually is,” said Rosneft press sec- politically connected oligarchs like Critics calculated that the company’s in the wings. high amount [for the 20 percent retary Alexander Stepanenko. Potanin profiting by privatizing govern- book value, meaning the price based on “There’s no foul play in the sense stake],” the source said. “Most likely “Rosneft hopes that once we ment industries on favorable terms. the actual worth of the company, was that they want to ship the whole issue to this has all been resolved by political have sold our share we won’t lose the Putin came to power a year ago four times as high as the price on the some oligarch or friends or something,” and international relations.” money that we could have earned promising to rein in the oligarchs, but he open market. Analysts said selling stock he said. “We’ve got gentleman’s word “Putin promised that he would from implementing the project.” has targeted only two who owned media at such a price was virtually unheard of that nothing like this will be tried.” 8 ❖ Friday, January 26, 2001 OPINION The St.Petersburg Times

EDITORIAL INSIDE RUSSIA Putin Must The Complex Fight for Battle Against His Reforms Corruption HIS is a big step forward,” said By Yulia Latynina former Moscow City Court AVEL Borodin, secretary of the Russia-Be- “TJudge Vladimir Mironov after larus Union, is sitting in a New York jail, fac- President Vladimir Putin had introduced Ping possible extradition to Switzerland. With legislation that would finally bring the Crim- the notable exception of President Vladimir Putin inal Procedural Code in line with the Con- — who has the habit of maintaining silence about stitution. Human Rights Commissioner any arrests — the whole nation has reacted with Oleg Mironov said he “felt great satisfac- outrage to this event. One businessman I know tion” with Putin’s action. captured the mood perfectly when he told me, The Duma legislation committee was set “Well, they’ve found a fine person to arrest! Oth- to begin immediate consideration of the ers don’t do anything but steal, while Borodin at proposal, which was widely expected to sail least built something!” through with ease. The bill — which would It looks like they got Borodin just as he was hit- have mandated court-ordered arrest and ting his stride. The former Kremlin property chief search warrants — was set to become the continued to show a healthy interest in architec- next major step in legal reform, following ture. His latest project was the proposed federal December’s passage of a bill that reduced parliament complex in St. Petersburg, which car- the maximum period of pretrial detention The government’s new approach to the concept of press freedom. ries a projected price tag of $2 billion. from 18 to 12 months. Not so much, but it’s worth noting that this is Until, that is, Putin unceremoniously about two-thirds of the amount that Russia withdrew it on Monday, reportedly under presently is trying to avoid paying out to the pressure from police and prosecutors. Paris Club. Dmitry Kozak, the Kremlin’s deputy chief Ironically, the parliament complex was to be of staff, told journalists that although Putin The Next Crisis built not by the Swiss company Mabetex, but by still supports the bill, a number of legal, America’s Cushman & Wakefield. technical and organizational issues need to By David Ignatius mittee to Save the World,” because of their success This connection encourages speculation that be resolved. Supporters of the reform, RESIDENT George W. Bush appears set to in averting financial disasters. Borodin traveled to America not, as was reported, though, fear that the proposal will be make a potentially costly mistake by politi- The danger in Mexico, Asia and Russia was to attend the inauguration of President George W. worked to death behind closed doors. Pcizing his administration’s approach to spreading financial panic — a rush for the exits as Bush, but to tend to his own business. Otherwise, We can only hope that these fears prove global financial crises. He announced plans last investors tried to unload bad debts. The secret of it seems likely that someone would have told him unjustified and that the government quickly week to create a White House team to handle such success was to negotiate “workout” plans that kept that Bush’s inauguration would be held in Wash- returns with a bill that is substantively the economic problems — but it's one that could these economies functioning and stemmed the ington, not New York. same. Legal reform must remain a priority spend as much time in inter-agency bickering as in panic. The model was Wall Street rather than Nonetheless, I find myself sharing my compa- of the highest order, especially as the gov- crisis management. Pennsylvania Avenue. triots’ outrage. As Pushkin put it, “Of course I de- ernment is moving very quickly to This is one area where Bush would have been Let’s imagine that a major international bank spise my fatherland from head to toe, but it upsets strengthen the police and security organs. wise to learn from the Clinton administration, or foreign debtor should default over the next sev- me when foreigners share this sentiment.” Only a strong legal foundation based on which developed real expertise in handling in- eral months, threatening a cascade of similar fail- It isn’t right when foreigners decide which Rus- constitutional guarantees can prevent ternational financial crises, from the 1995 Mexi- ures by other financial institutions. Sadly, this is sians are corrupt and which aren’t. It is still worse Putin’s much-ballyhooed “dictatorship of can bailout to the ’97 Asian crisis to the ’98 Rus- not an entirely far-fetched scenario. How would when the person deciding is someone like Swiss in- law” from devolving into mere dictatorship. sian default. the Bush administration react? vestigating judge Daniel Devaud, a man of known The president’s primary obligation is to A president who loved to put his arms around First, it apparently hopes to have earlier leftist leanings. As Russian television commenta- ensure that all the provisions of the Consti- other policy problems learned to back off and warning of such crises, thanks to more-aggressive tor Mikhail Leontiev wryly observer, Devaud is tution are consistently and effectively en- leave these delicate matters to experts at the Trea- economic reporting by U.S. intelligence agen- sparing no effort in the struggle against Russian forced. By introducing this legislation, Putin sury Department and the Federal Reserve. They cies. That’s the initial fallacy. If the global capitalism. has shown that he takes this obligation seri- were able to handle crises quietly and calmly — bankers and financiers who have money at risk Devaud’s battle has found support in the global ously. Now he must show that he has the de- outside the political spotlight. don't see the crises coming, how will a junior an- financial community, which for some reason sus- termination to stay the course despite en- The Bush administration’s decision to dump alyst at the CIA? pects there is some direct connection between the trenched interests pursuing less noble ends. this successful Clinton approach is perplexing and The next thing Bush’s crisis managers will do huge profits Mabetex received and Russia’s refusal Serious reform is rarely easy. The resis- potentially dangerous. Instead of leaving it to the is to hold meetings. They’ll have to coordinate to pay its debts. tance that we are now seeing in regard to le- pros, Bush has chosen to all the Cabinet agencies that Of course, if foreigners think the arrest of two gal reform, we fear, is child’s play compared politicize global finance, by have their fingers in the pie. or three bribe-takers is going to put an end to cor- to what is to come when Putin moves seri- vesting power in the White With so many parties in- ruption in Russia, they are sadly mistaken. ously with the military reform that the Secu- House and its policy-making Bush has chosen to volved, there’s the added I imagine that if we took half of all our bu- rity Council approved last November. National Security Council. politicize global danger of leaks to the media reaucrats out tomorrow and shot them, the other However, Putin has no excuse for back- Bush told The New York — so maybe they'll have to half would just work twice as hard to take up the ing down. His popularity rating is astonish- Times last week that he finance, by vesting hold some press confer- slack. ingly high, and there is significant public would shift control of global power in the White ences, too. Incidentally, Devaud has no legal proof that support for this particular reform. The pres- economics to his national- Finally, the president him- Borodin is guilty of anything. Most likely this is ident has committed allies in the Duma, and security adviser, Con- House. self may jump in. Bush sig- indicative not of Borodin’s clean hands, but of the the necessary funds for implementing the doleezza Rice, and his chief naled his eagerness to be ineffectiveness of any prosecutor — even reform can surely be found. economic adviser, Lawrence Lindsey. They cheerleader-in-chief in early January, when he said: Switzerland’s. Yielding in this instance may under- would “share a desk,” Bush said — an amicable “I am pleased that the Fed has cut the interest Even the arrest order says that Borodin is be- mine all of the much-needed reforms that formula that in real-world Washington often rates.” Clinton made a rule of not commenting on ing detained not as a suspect, but as a witness. It Putin has pledged himself to. Now Putin presages a power struggle. Fed policy, and Bush later signaled his comment notes that he has repeatedly refused to appear must prove he is ready for the difficult The desk-sharers will have to coordinate with had been a mistake. and testify. fights to come. each other, as well as with Treasury, State, Com- Beyond the bureaucratic difficulties with the If you look at the case that has been prepared merce, the special trade representative and the Bush approach is a personnel problem. So far, so far, it is far from clear what crimes Devaud CIA — not to mention the television networks. the new administration doesn’t seem to have thinks Borodin may have committed. He needs “Globalization has altered the dynamics in the anyone with the expertise Rubin brought from Borodin to come and tell him what he should be White House, as well as between the White House his days as a trader at Goldman Sachs, or Sum- arrested for. and the Treasury,” Bush explained. He said he mers brought from his years as chief economist And judging from what I’ve heard, Russian Derk Sauer, CEO Stephan Grootenboer, Publisher wanted to “make sure the economic people don't at the World Bank. Rice’s expertise is in foreign prosecutors are using just the same approach in Sergey Podoinitsyn, Managing Director run off with foreign policy and vice versa.” policy, not economics. their questioning of employees and managers of Barnaby Thompson, Editor But why reinvent this particular wheel? Partly, And while Lindsey is a former member of the Media-MOST. Thomas Rymer, Deputy Editor the answer is bureaucratic politics. Global eco- Fed board, critics say he has little feel for the nu- Charles Digges, News Editor nomics is a hot issue, so Rice and Lindsey under- ances of international finance. Yulia Latynina is the creator and host of “The Ru- Simon Patterson, Arts Editor standably want to control it. Putting a White The Bush Treasury is also weak on global fi- ble Zone” on NTV television. Curtis Budden, Sports & Production Editor House stamp on the issue is a way of marking it nance. Secretary-designate Paul O’Neill may Molly Graves & Tom Masters, Copy Editors Dmitry Dervenjov, Designer “Important.” have been a fine CEO at Alcoa, but he lacks Ru- TO OUR READERS Mikhail Glusker, Webmaster The problems will come when a financial crisis bin’s knowledge of financial markets. That gap Tatiana Turikova, Advertising Director strikes. That's when the White House, operating led many to expect that O’Neill would recruit a The St. Petersburg Times welcomes letters Alla Kalinovskaya, Production Manager under the klieg lights, may be the wrong address Wall Street financier as his deputy. But the lead- to the editor. They should be signed and Founding company: OOO Neva Media for crisis management. The real tasks will involve ing candidate for the deputy's job is said to be bear the signatory’s address and telephone Publishing company: OOO Neva Media negotiating with banks, imposing harsh conditions Kenneth Dam, a law professor whose most im- number. The St. Petersburg Times reserves 4 St. Isaac’s Sq., St. Petersburg, Russia. on foreign countries and avoiding public state- portant government service was at the Reagan the right to edit letters. Remember, brevity Copyright © 2000 The St. Petersburg Times. All Rights ments that could send financial markets into a State Department. is the soul of wit. Reserved. 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A Time David Ignatius is a columnist for the Washington magazine cover dubbed these three “The Com- Post, for which he wrote this comment. opera music dish Champions Electronic Moving somewhat of Rus- music in further afield, this feb. 2 sian Russia is weekÕs review travels to opera, the no worse the hinterlands of Mariinsky theater, than anywhere else in Grazhdansky Prospekt jan. 26Ñ premiere a new produc- the world, as a new to discover some tion of Rimsky-Kor- compilation released in interesting approxi- sakovÕs ÔThe Invisible Austria aims to prove to mations of interna- City of KitezhÕ foreign listeners tional cuisine (page 10). (page 11). (page 13). Greek tragedy, French-style, comes to the BDT in chernov’s choice As old rockers prepare to see what re- mains of a bunch of once big names DityatkovskyÕs premiere of ÔPhaedra.Õ See page 10. from the 1970s such as Slade and T. Rex (i.e.: not much at all), there other bizarre and not so bizarre events hap- pening in the city over the next two weeks. Local hippies have come up with an idea to — as a press release proudly states — “prove once again that the hippie movement is alive” with the Hippie Festival, which will take place at the Valencia Gallery this weekend. The festival, which is co-promoted by the magazine Hippieland, will start with a show by hippie-minded local bands such as Zelyoniye Rukava and Laterna Magica as well as a photo exhi- bition called “From the life of St. Pe- tersburg’s Hippies.” The second day will concentrate on something called “Musical Poetic Performance.” According to the press release, the organizers expect the crowd to be “long-time and newly-converted hip- pies from St. Petersburg, Russia and even from abroad.” In their favor is that both events start some time in the afternoon, leav- ing you free at night to look for some- thing more exciting. Valencia Gallery, 5 Pr. Bakunina, 274-40-45. 3 p.m. on Sat., 4 p.m. on Sun. Local music critic and promoter An- drei Burlaka has conceived a new ALENA BELYAKOVA/FOR SPT rock festival, which is called Proryv Dates and times given in All About Town are impotence and makes fools out of everybody PREMIERE! Mother, or the Unrest of the (Breakthrough) with two purposes — correct at the time of publication. However, surrounding him in the process. Akimov Dead Venyamin Filshtinsky directs Karel theater to celebrate the breakthrough of the last-minute changes are not infrequent for live Comedy Theater Chapek’s 1938 philosophical play which was My Little Cherry Orchard Slapovsky’s Nazi blockade of Leningrad in 1943 performances. If you plan to attend an event, PREMIERE! Don Juan Gennady born of disputes with Maxim Gorky and nostalgic comedy set in contemporary times and to draw attention to those less verify dates and times using the telephone Trostyanetsky stages Molière’s play about the Bertholt Brecht. Priyut Komedianta Theater with amusing references to Chekhov’s classic known local club bands, which he numbers at the end of each entry or in the legendary seducer. Alexandrinsky Theater The Forest Grigory Kozlov’s production of the tale. Directed by Tatyana Kazakova. Akimov considers interesting. Thus, the name address list on page 12. Unless otherwise Milashka Pop star Dmitry Nagiyev stars in Alexander Ostrovsky play about a group of Comedy Theater listed, stage events start at 7 p.m. Last Lev Rakhlin’s production of a musical by Russian provincial actors. Theater on Liteiny PREMIERE! Cyrano de Bergerac Vladimir also hints at the “isolation of rock mu- admission to most museums is one hour Marina Gavrilova loosely based on Italian The Marriage Anatoly Morozov directs Tykke directs Edmond Rostand’s famous tale sic by the media,” Burlaka says. before closing. films. Baltiisky Dom Gogol’s grotesque farce about a man of the incorrigible duellist with a large nose Though the historical date came PREMIERE! Phaedra Grigory Dityatkovsky attempting to escape marriage. Vasilyevsky who writes love poems to his lady conveying on Jan. 27, the festival will take place stages Racine’s tragedy based on Greek myth Ostrov Theater of Satire, Small Stage them via his rival. Baltiisky Dom a couple of weeks later, as Burlaka about a princess whose forbidden love for her Zaklikukhi Svetlana Svirko directs her own Deceit On Long Legs Nikolai Pinigin says “the idea occurred to me too late “stepson” has catastrophic consequences play, which uses two different sets of actors, directs Italian actor-director Eduardo De to have time to organize everything.” Bolshoi Drama Theater young and mature, to tell a story based on Filippo’s comedy about family intrigues. The line-up as published by music stages Old Maid Boris Milgram directs folklore. Vasilyevsky Ostrov Theater of Satire, Staged in a black-and-white color scheme, press agencies is far from perfect, Nadezhda Ptyushkina’s story of a lonely Small Stage with elements of commedia dell’arte and about to spend the Christmas holidays alone music from early Italian neorealist films. however, as it mentions the band with her ailing mother when fate intervenes. for children Bolshoi Drama Theater Leningrad, which is not participat- Fri., Jan. 26 With Inna Churikova, Zinaida Sharko, The Christmas Mystery A fairy tale plot Old Maid See Jan. 26. Gorky Palace ing. Check next week’s gigs for the ballet Alexander Mikhailov and Larisa Savankova. based on E.T.A. Hoffman about the unhappy of Culture. 4 Ploshchad Stachek. full list. Swan Lake Tchaikovsky’s romantic classic, Gorky Palace of Culture. 4 Ploshchad Stachek. orphan Elza, turned out of the house on M: Narvskaya. Yubileiny Sports Palace (Small distinguished by the Mariinsky Theater’s M: Narvskaya. Christmas Eve by her vicious master and his The Tempest Elements of circus theater and Arena), Feb. 8. spectacular corps de ballet. Mariinsky Scandal at the Grand Opera, or Lend Me a mistress. A magician appears to Elza and tells modern comedy combine in this Fuzz Magazine, which will celebrate its Theater Tenor Alexander Isakov directs Ludwig’s her the story of the Christ child. To the music interpretation of Shakespeare’s exit play, with 10th anniversary later this year, will comedy about an opera singer’s romantic of Bach. Zazerkalye Children’s Theater. 11 a.m. direction and innovative stage design by stage its so far increasingly massive opera escapades. Komissarzhevskaya Drama Theater Bulgaria’s Alexander Morfov. Die Fledermaus Stanislav Gaudasinsky Caligula Yury Butusov directs Albert Camus’ Komissarzhevskaya Drama Theater Fuzz Awards. Though the three last directs Strauss’ operetta about a neglected famous story of the life of the Roman emperor. PREMIERE! Hellish Garden Andrei ceremonies were headlined by rela- wife’s clever plan to regain the attention of her Lensoviet Theater Sat., Jan. 27 Andreyev directs contemporary Italian tively new popular acts, this year’s philandering husband. Mussorgsky Theater A Fine Sunday for a Picnic Director Vladimir ballet dramatist Renato Mainardi’s black comedy headliner is Akvarium, with Zemfira Pazi stages Tennessee Williams’ character Jewels Ballet stars of the Mariinsky perform about an aristocratic family bursting at the appearing as a “special guest.” concert study of four women in what he describes as a three different divertissements by Tchaikovsky, seams with secrets, lies, treachery, betrayal, Yubileiny Sports Palace, Apr. 8. Vasily Ilisavsky Piano. Liszt, Schubert. Glinka “jazz quartet.” Lensoviet Theater, Small Stage. Fauré and Stravinsky representing emerald, intrigues and scandals. Lensoviet Theater Returning to the present, a show by Philharmonic 7:30 p.m. ruby, and diamond. Mariinsky Theater PREMIERE! Fro Up-and-coming young Pep-See, the local three girl-fronted Teodor Kerkezos Saxophone (Greece.) Running Wanderers Directed by Vladimir MANILA BALLET TOUR Erica Cruz, artistic director Irina Zubshitskaya stages a group responsible for “Parni, Muzyka, Peter Feranec (Slovakia) conducts the St. Tumanov, this contemporary piece is based director. The greatest ballet troupe of the production based on Andrei Platonov’s short Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra. Glazunov, on the reminiscences of a girl and her Philippines performs several signature pieces stories set in 1930s Russia. Lensoviet Theater, Narkotiki” — Rus- Piazzola, Respighi, Stravinsky. Shostakovich mother, with relevance to the lives of women set to the music of the Beatles, Frederic Small Stage. 7:30 p.m. sia’s answer to “Sex, Philharmonic today. Maly Drama Theater — Theater of Chopin, Herbie Hancock, David Grusin, Mumu Veniamin Filshtinsky stages Drugs and Rock Olga Bunder Soprano (Estonia.) Ballads and Europe Giuseppe Verdi, etc. Mussorgsky Theater Turgenev’s short story abut the tragic fate of and Roll” — is al- arias from various operas. Smolny Cathedral Restauranchik... Restauranchik... the serf Gerasim. Maly Drama Theater — ways good fun. Pep- St. Petersburg State Cappella Orchestra Cabaret Play Igor Konyayev directs a concert Theater of Europe See will play at Faculty on Friday. And Alexander Chernushenko, conductor. freestyle song-and-dance interpretation of Vladimir Viardo Piano. Peter Feranec PREMIERE! Miss Julie Igor Nikolayev, a if you don’t feel like vomiting when you Tchaikovsky. St. Petersburg State Cappella works by Chekhov, Zoshchneko, Averchenko (Slovakia) conducts the St. Petersburg regular on the MDT stage, directs a version of hear “Tula Lula,” go to see Chicherina and Mayakovsky. Maly Drama Theater — Philharmonic Orchestra. Dvorak, Duca, Ravel. Strindberg’s controversial classic play. Maly at the Lensoviet Palace of Culture on theater Theater of Europe, Chamber Stage. 7:30 p.m. Shostakovich Philharmonic Drama Theater — Theater of Europe, Chamber The Country Wife Tatyana Kazakova directs The Tricks of Scapin Vladimir Vetrogonov Stil Pyaty Folk Ensemble Music by Debussy, Stage Sunday. English playwright William Wycherly’s 1675 directs one of Molière’s less-acclaimed comic Mozart, Ramaud and Scarlatti is given the folk Ñ by Sergey Chernov satire where the hero, Horner, feigns farces. Molodyozhny Theater treatment. St. Petersburg State Cappella continued on page 13 10 Friday, January 26, 2001 THE ST. PETERSBURG TIMES kitezh at mariinsky: farewell to cliches by Galina Stolyarova The opera’s four acts are designed as Russian opera has always been a prior- four stylistically different fragments, ity for the Mariinsky Theater, and un- which are visually compelling, but give veiling its hidden treasures to the the piece as a whole a somewhat dis- world has been declared the company’s jointed impression. prime goal. The eclectic mixture of styles makes Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s “The for an interesting sight, though at times Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh what you see has little to do with what and Maid Fevronia” may be considered you hear. However, the production def- the composer’s best operatic creation, initely deserves attention, for the direc- but the piece is far from being a favorite tor has managed to get away from the in the opera world, and stagings often stereotypes and cliches which have fail to avoid stereotypes. dogged the opera for decades. Rimsky-Korsakov, whose Snow Musically, the production has a cer- Maiden, Kitezh, and The Maid Of tain folk element, with gusli and several Pskov, among others, had their world domras joining the orchestra during the premieres at the Mariinsky, is one of the wedding scene in Act 2, much to the idols of Mariinsky artistic director show’s advantage. Valery Gergiev. Chernyakov takes an independent, Gergiev has admitted to having an creative and imaginative approach, obsession with the spiritual magnetism but the spirituality with which the mu- and power of Kitezh, but was dissatis- sic is pierced is lacking throughout the fied with previous renditions of the entire first act. The stage is reminis- opera. cent of a contemporary design studio: It is often hard for opera directors to oversized white jugs and handwashing The Ôdesign studioÕ look from the first act of the opera. offer an original approach to operas tar- fixture, tall grass, and a floor so clean NATASHA RAZINA/FOR SPT geting historical subjects, such as Kitezh it shines. take off her dress, put her in a white Chernyakov seemed reluctant to exper- Kuterma, was lacking depth, power and which juxtaposes historical events and Act 2, when the Tartars ransack shroud and take her away on a iment with colors in the sets, lighting spark on the opening night, and failed 13th-century legend. Kitezh the Less, is set in a typical St. wooden toboggan. The scene takes designer Gleb Filshtinsky has done to make a duo for Olga Sergeyeva who Gergiev’s long-term goal is to eradi- Petersburg courtyard with beggars you directly back to film chronicles of some virtuoso, finely nuanced work. was convincing as the maid Fevronia. cate the sugary feel, or susalnost, a com- looking just like their counterparts the Leningrad blockade. Masterful lighting enables the sets to go Marusin’s Kuterma didn’t seem to suf- mon critcism levelled at a number of from Nevsky Prospect, and leading The production’s strong point is through many transformations, with the fer from the meanness of his nature as the theater’s previous productions of characters dressed in long dark coats or that it bridges centuries and genera- earthly world turning into a celestial much as thrive in it. Russian classics. sportswear and camouflage. The scene tions. Here the costume designer Olga paradise in an instant. Mockery rather than inner drama Trying to to get rid of traditional folk of the fight with the Tartars seems to Lukina is very much in line with the The production is stylistically a de- was the key to his peformance, which imagery, Gergiev invited young director have come straight out of Star Wars, director, as the cast is dressed eclecti- parture from the Mariinsky’s two most could well make the audience wish Dmitry Chernyakov, a 1993 graduate of with the Tartar commander arriving in cally, in certain scenes juxtaposing the recent operatic shows — David Free- tenor Vladimir Galuzin was back in St. Russian Academy for Theater Art in Kitezh the Less on a peculiar hybrid of fashions of different ages. man’s rendition of Strauss’ Salome Petersburg — it was in the Mariinsky’s Moscow, to offer a fresh look. The risky a horse and Barber of Siberia-type ma- Before every act Chernyakov and Marta Domingo’s take on Offen- 1994 production of Kitezh that Galuzin move paid off, and the new Kitezh, chine with blinding lights shining “quotes” Konstantin Korovin’s and bach’s Tales Of Hoffmann — which made a thrilling, mesmerizing duo with which premiered on Jan. 20, is a con- around the stage. Apollinary Vasnetsov’s sets for the both had illustrative tendencies, while soprano Galina Gorchakova. trast to the versions you may have seen Chernyakov approaches death 1907 premiere, which appear in the Salome was even naturalistic. previously. scenes with much attention to detail. form of a curtain that rises before the But just like in Salome and Tales Of The Legend of the Invisible City of No onion church domes frame the Fevronia’s passing has been turned singing starts. Hoffmann, the orchestra under Valery Kitezh and Maid Fevronia plays next on stage in Chernyakov’s production, and into a ceremony: birds of paradise — The show mixes the real and ethe- Gergiev’s baton was a head above the Feb. 2. female characters’ dresses are devoid of dressed up like normal Soviet pen- real, the historical and the fantastic, the singing and direction. any kokoshniki. sioners — wash her body, help her divine and the damned. While Yury Marusin, as drunkard Grishka theater racine’s masterpiece gets timeless production at bdt theater by Natasha Shirokova shown that even eloquent classical The premiere of Racine’s Phaedra by tragedy can be adopted for contempo- Grigory Dityatkovsky at the Bolshoy rary theater and take its place in the Drama Theater, which was shown for repertoire. the first time just before Christmas, Dityatkovsky sweeps the dust away was an important event despite having from the old story and displays this next to no publicity. Dityakovsky’s pro- tragedy, when people resist the will of fessional motto is to work only with the gods, in its all grandeur. excellent drama, and here he has Dityatkovsky, one of the most inter- esting directors in the city, easily recog- nizable by his intellectual, restrained, The and analytical style, began his career as one of Maly Drama Theater director National Hunt Lev Dodin’s actors. Disco-Bar He still appears in a minor role in Dodin’s production of The Devils Erotic dancing show based on Dostoevsky’s novel. At the starts daily at 11 p.m. European Cuisine Maly Drama Theater he also staged 30% discount before 7 p.m. the first production of his own, The Business lunch from noon to 7 p.m. Star Child, which is still in the reper- toire. Though he works a lot abroad, his first production at home brought Music: Eurodance, Disco him the Golden Sophit award, an in- terpretation of Joseph Brodsky’s Mar- ble, shown in the unusual atmosphere of Borey Art Gallery. His next production, August Strindberg’s The Father won him a Golden Mask award. Both produc- tions showed his main focus is on archetypal situations, and his interest Yelena Popova and Marina Ignatova daring to defy the gods. in philosophical generalizations. ALENA BELYAKOVA/FOR SPT There are several peculiarities distance between the present day whole stage in black, which helps us to deeds. Also worthy of mention is Ye- about the new production of Phaedra, mentality and that of the 17th century, concentrate on the action. The luxuri- lena Popova in the role of Oenona. which struck the audience at once, but when the tragedy was written. He uses ous costumes work also to accentuate The way Popova depicts her, strong at the same time are a part of the a different rhythm of action, which is the exclusiveness of the characters, as and devoted, ready to sacrifice herself, whole concept of the production. For accentuated by the old translation, members of the royal Athenian family, makes Oenone the second leading part example, he uses the traditional 19th- and different motivations. To watch but don’t emphasize a particular pe- in the production. These two women century translation of the play which this production you need to tune in to riod of time. understand the situation and the in- Free entrance for foreigners contains a great deal of obsolete vo- its elevated atmosphere. The most valuable thing about the evitability of divine punishment from cabulary. This lends the text a musical There is no reference to any histor- production, however, is the acting. Ma- the very beginning. Service for tourist groups quality, and is in line with the direc- ical time in the production. Tragedy, in rina Ignatova, who plays Phaedra, Phaedra thus stands aloof from all 11 Malaya Morskaya Ul. tor’s intention not to modernize the the opinion of the director, has no makes her character passionate, subtle current productions in St. Petersburg, Tel: 311-13-43. consciousness of his characters. He time. This idea is underlined by the and brave. She is burning with love, and is one of the most interesting the- Open daily from noon to 6 a.m. even underlines the difference and the sets of Marina Azizyan, who wraps the and this dominates all her words and ater events of the current season. Friday, January 26, 2001 THE ST. PETERSBURG TIMES 11 electronic music takes on putin’s government the political climate, they would probably side of Russia and our label has global by Sergey Chernov have Joerg Haider dressed as Mozart and distribution channels. The other reason A new CD compilation demonstrates eating Wiener schnitzel on the cover.” was to show Western listeners the very some of St. Petersburg’s most interest- “For me it was important to release high level of these Russian productions.” ing electronic acts, while simultaneously great Russian music along with a per- According to Jelinek, what is special taking a snipe at President Vladimir sonal statement and to communicate the about St. Petersburg’s electronic music Putin and his politics. feelings and worries of the young Rus- scene is “the specific sound. A lot of Released in Austria on the Subetage sian music scene about politics,” he said. jazz influences and a playful cynical label on Jan. 18, it is called “putINout. “PutINout” contains 12 tracks by lo- spectrum using sound collages and sam- Finest Tunes From Saint Petersburg,” cal acts such as PCP, EU, DJ Udjin and ples from old Soviet material.” while its cover shows a submarine sunk Igor Vdovin — the ex-Leningrad singer, Claiming that Russian electronic in a bottle of vodka, called — you who switched to electronic music after music can easily match what is pro- guessed it — “Putin.” leaving the band — culled from around duced in other countries, Jelinek out- Robert Jelinek, the director of Sube- 50 tracks chosen and sent by local DJ and lined the scene’s major problems. tage, a division of Sabotage promoter Misha Chak to “In Russia there’s no vinyl produc- Communications, ex- be mastered in Vienna. tion, which is very important for the plained that the title of the Styles range from hip-hop DJs playing their own records in clubs,” record — which is intended music and electro to he said. “There are just a few under- for distribution outside drum’n’bass and acid jazz. ground distributors for imported West- Russia — expresses the St. Petersburg The idea to release the record was ern records. But there is no distribution music scene’s feelings about the regime. cemented when Jelinek, who has been for Russian CDs or other material in “To protest against the Putin always interested in scenes around the the West.” regime’s most recent abuses of power, globe, came to St. Petersburg last March “The next problem is the mail costs. and in the face of the music scene’s po- to visit Chak, who fed Sabotage with lo- Most of the Russian artists can’t send litical powerlessness, the title and CD cal electronic music for years while dis- their material by normal mail, because it cover is designed, at least ironically, to tributing Sabotage’s vinyls in the city. gets lost. And sending stuff by courier is show up Russia’s present collective dis- “I met a lot of very good Russian too expensive for them, which makes content,” said Jelinek in an e-mail in- musicians and had the chance to see Also, they are the first St. Peters- West] unknown artists, and give them a communication with the West very diffi- terview with The St. Petersburg Times their studio situations and to enjoy the burg-based DJs whose tracks have been chance for a global response,” said Je- cult. So Russian artists can only send earlier this week. club scene,” he said. released on a foreign label — Chak says linek, as the album started getting posi- downloaded material from their local In- “Every country has a different cliché Chak claims the novelty of the com- 90 percent of the represented acts tive reviews from European specialized ternet cafes.” about others countries,” added Jelinek. pilation is that local DJs such as Udjin, haven’t released anything in the West. media. “If a Russian label made an Austrian Demidov and 108 have presented their “But the main reason for releasing “Most Russian productions have For more information and free MP3s compilation including an illustration of own music for the first time. the CD was to push young and [in the never had the chance to be heard out- check out www.sabotage.at.

Taxi — Bearing the full name of “Taxi Drive Club,” this is a tiny til last client leaves. Free entry, but strict face control. 12 Ad- great success. Now Metro comes with a full-functioning place (two rooms with 60 seats altogether), which specializes mirateiskaya Naberezhnaya. M: Nevsky Prospect. 312-39-44. third floor containing a relaxing saloon-bar and yet another in various blues styles and striptease. Live concerts start at 9 dance floor, enabling it to accomodate even more well-off p.m. (Wed.-Sat.) So-called “Sex Bomb Shows,” 10 p.m.-2 a.m. Jazz Philharmonic Hall — Staid jazz venue organized local teenagers. Open daily 10 p.m.-6 a.m. Mon.-Thurs., Sun., (Tues.-Sat.) Eurodance nights, 11 p.m.-6 a.m. (Tues.-Sat.) 10 by local patriarch Dave Goloshchokin, who fills most of 40-60 rub. Fri.-Sat., 60-80 rub. After midnight, 100 rubles. 174 p.m.-6 a.m. (Sun.-Mon.) Men 50 rub., women 30 rub. 4 Bron- the bill. Mostly respectable, well-dressed crowd. Main- Ligovsky Pr. 166-02-04. www.metroclub.ru nitskaya Ul. M: Tekhnologishesky Institut. 316-76-96. stream and Dixieland fills the auditorium. The Ellington Hall is the Jazz Philharmonic Hall’s more intimate venue PORT — Intended to blow the competition away when it Zoopark — Small club located in the city’s zoo specializing in upstairs. 7 p.m.-11 p.m., 20-50 rub. Tickets in advance at first opened, with great layout and loads of space. Needs live rock and folk music. Locally famous sexologist Lev box office, 2 p.m.-8 p.m. 27 Zagorodny Pr. M: to be full, otherwise its emptiness is overwhelming. Techno Shcheglov occasionally lectures there, too. Singers/songwrit- Vladimirskaya. 164-85-65. and pop, plus a billiards room. Daily 3 p.m.-6 a.m. Techno ers or “bards” perform on Thurs. Cheap beer, toilet outside. parties with resident DJs at 10 p.m. Fri.-Sat. For special Daily, 7 p.m. (7:30 p.m. Thurs.) 50-100 rub. 1 Alexandrovsky JFC Jazz Club — The most innovative and open-minded events see gigs. 40-300 rub. 2 Per. Antonenko. M: Sennaya Park. M: Gorkovskaya. 232-21-45. http://chz.da.ru jazz venue in town, where Russian and foreign celebrities Pl. 314-26-09. www.clubport.spb.ru usually play. Less formal venue, with all styles up to avant- pop/dance/floorshow garde and improv, classic and folk concerts occasionally. gay Money Honey — The city’s first and premier rockabilly bar Fiesta Latina — An old movie theater turned into a Latin Mostly jazz crowd and expats. Bar and snacks. Reserva- rock, etc. tions a must — it is tiny. Daily from 7 p.m., 60-100 rub. 33 Club 69 — The city’s No. 1 gay venue leaves the compe- — complete with a confederate flag and Elvis and Marilyn dance joint, although a recent visit showed no sign of the Art Spirit — New art venue launched early last November Shpalernaya Ul. M: Chernyshevskaya. Tel: 272-98-50. tition streets behind. The venues include a popular posters. Usually packed with a rowdy crowd of technical girls who were once on hand to show you your Latin ropes. restaurant, busy dance floor, two bars and a dark room. is located in the university hostel for foreigners and ori- students and leather-clad teddyboys. Coat check can only They’ve installed a TV next to the dance floor, which doesn’t Tues.-Sun., Tues., men only. 50-150 rub. (men), 100-250 ented primarily towards students. Stage, cheap bar and handle half the crowd. Bar open from 11 a.m. Shows daily Jimi Hendrix Blues Club — What was once the Armenian put this place on the “must-see” list. Security’s menacing, rub. (women). 6, 2-aya Krasnoarmeiskaya. M: Tekhno- small billiard room. Decent sound. Bar is open daily from 2 at 8 p.m. and 12:30 a.m., 40 rub. 14 Apraksin Dvor. M: cafe “Shagane” now offers live blues, rock and jazz concerts, so keep your tango clean. Fri.-Sun. 11 p.m.-6 a.m. 30-70 rub. logichesky Institut. 259-51-63. p.m. Live rock concerts start at 8 p.m. (Fri.-Sun.) and are Gostiny Dvor. 310-05-49. www.moneyhoney.org with videos of the likes of Eric Clapton and Blue Cheer in be- usually followed by dance parties with DJs. 50-100 rub., 13 Ul. Smolyachkova. M: Vyborgskaya. 542-11-94. tween. Open 24 hours. Concerts start at 7:30 p.m. every other when a band is playing. 20 Prospect Korablestroitelei. M: Planeta Internet — The official club of Internet provider day, adding shows at 12 a.m. Fri.-Sat. and at 3 p.m. Sat.-Sun. Greshniki — The decor suggests that Greshniki (“Sin- Primorskaya. 355-31-67. www.artspirit.nm.ru Gigant Hall — A venue for the new rich located in the 50 rub., Fri.-Sat., 70 rub. Daytime concerts are free. 33 Liteiny ners”) is more of an S&M joint, with chains hanging PeterLink is still having problems with art direction and building of the former Gigant cinema occupied by the repertoire, based around pop, rock and blues. Two bars, Pr., 279-88-13. across the spiral staircase and a curious medieval castle Chaplin Club — On the scene since April 1997, the club Conti Casino. Inconveniently located if you don’t have a interior, but it’s actually unpretentious and generally video screen and, of course, Internet cafe. Daily, 12 p.m.- car. Mostly pop shows, approximately three times a was formed by the clown group Litsedei, the remains of 11 p.m. (Fri.-Sat., 12 p.m.-5 a.m.) Live shows start at 9:30 Kvadrat — The latest location for the jazz club with a long friendly, with cheap beer and free Internet access. Daily, Slava Polunin’s once-famous collective. The clowns fill most month. See gigs for events and times. 100-600 rub. 44 history. Launched in 1964, it was the center of Russian 6 p.m-6 a.m., free-70 rub. (men), 100-200 rub. (women), p.m. 50 rub. when a band is playing (the price includes one Kondratevsky Prospect. M: Ploshchad Lenina. 540-13-55. of the schedule, but there are occasional jazz, rock and pop beer.) 3 Ul. Chapayeva. M: Gorkovskaya. 238-74-06. jazz for decades. Mostly mainstream jazz. Tues., Thurs., 8 29 Kanal Griboyedova. M: Gostiny Dvor. concerts. Daily 12 p.m.-11 p.m. 60-150 rub. cover when live www.planeta-internet.spb.ru/ p.m. 30 rub. 83 Bolshoi Prospect. M: Vasileostrovskaya. bands or clowns are performing. Seating capacity is limited to Hali-Gali — One of two places the Moscow tusovka want 315-90-46. Jungle — The city’s oldest surviving gay club aptly recalls to go when they deign to visit. Great place if you speak 48; reservations recommended. 59 Ul. Tchaikovskogo. M: Poligon — Heavier styles from hardcore punk to thrash metal Soviet-era deprivation in both heating, decor and service. Chernivshevskaya. 272-66-49. www.chaplin.spb.ru good Russian, but without it you’ll miss the point of the Neo Jazz Club — What the restaurant “Mukha Tsokotukha” What it lacks in sophistication it makes up for in friendli- with lots of teenagers in grubby leather until recently, but cabaret. Open daily. 300 rub. 15 Lanskoye Shosse, 246- now the direction seems to have changed in favor of more (opposite the Mukhina Art College) turns into at nights. Spe- ness and a sense of the bizarre . Fri.-Sat., 11 p.m.-6 a.m. 38-27. City Club — Located above the rockabilly bar Money mainstream rock sounds. Billiards. Concerts start at 6 p.m. cializes in mellow jazz styles, with duos and trios performing. Shows start at 2 a.m. Men, 50 rub., women, 80 rub. 8 Ul. Honey, and with a more mature crowd, the club specializes See Gigs for events. The Web site which contains tons of info Capacity: 35-40 seats. Armenian and European cuisine (150- Blokhina, M: Sportivnaya. Havana — Smart Cuban theme club with live bands and in pop/rock, blues, reggae and Latin. Hot meals, three bars, and audio files is much better than the real thing. 40-100 rub. 200 rub. a meal). Daily, 9 a.m.-12 a.m. Mon. — Thurs., Sun., 30 three dancefloors playing Latino, house and pop. Restau- pool and Russian billiards, plus real fireplaces. Music styles 65 Lesnoi Pr. M: Lesnaya. 245-27-20. http://polygon.cool.ru rub. Fri.-Sat., 50 rub. 14 Solyanoi Per. 273-38-30. are pop/rock, blues and occasionally Latin. Live shows rant, chill-out room, pool, and free popcorn for all. Daily un- til 6 a.m. 30-60 rub. Free on Wed. for “real Latinos” with Mon.-Sun. at 8.20 p.m. and on Fri.-Sat. also at 1 a.m., 40 rub. Psycho Pub — Small alternative — and chaotic — bar with house, techno etc. passports, 75 rub. Fri.-Sat. 21 Moskovsky Prospect, M: See gigs for events. 28-30 Sadovaya Ul., Apraksin Dvor, Ko- an unlikely downtown location. Psychobilly and punk con- Griboyedov — Located in a bomb shelter and operated by rpus 13. M: Gostiny Dvor. Entrance through Money Honey. certs. Cheap beer. Tattoo studio. Daily, 3 p.m.-5 a.m. Con- Tekhnologichesky Institut. 259-11-55. Dva Samaliota, this club is generally full and cool, with a 310-05-49. www.moneyhoney.org/cityclub/ certs usually start between 7 p.m. and 8 p.m. 20-50 rub. 23 good habit of booking alternative bands to mix with its ha- Nab. Fontanki. M: Gostinny Dvor. No telephone. bitual rave and techno. This is one of the best in the city. Dostoyevsky Art Bar — Long and narrow room with two jazz & blues Wednesday is disco night. Daily, 5 p.m.-6 a.m. 60-80 rub. lines of tables, bar and small stage. Mostly cover bands play- Saigon — Launched with much pomp as the city’s best Blues Billiard — Blues bar, billiards and gambling ma- Free between 5 p.m and 8 p.m. 2A Voronezhskaya Ul. M: ing rock, blues, and Latin, usually too loud to talk. Daily, 12 rock club in ’98, Saigon made a change of direction last chines. The repertoire is lovingly compiled by ex-Akvarium Ligovsky Pr. 164-43-55. www.mfiles.spb.ru/griboedov/ p.m.-1 a.m. (Thurs.-Sat., 12 p.m.-2 a.m.) 30-50 rub. from 7 p.m. June, and now holds striptease and comedy shows. The guitarist Alexander Lyapin (who can play his instrument (Thurs.-Sat. only) 15 Vladimirsky Prospect. M: Dos- people who go there have changed as well. Three levels, with his teeth), who often plays there himself. Daily, 10 Mama — Decadent house-party feel with an element of toeyevskaya/Vladimirskaya. 310-61-64. two bars, a video screen, and lots of shiny metal, plus an p.m.-7 a.m. Free entrance. Live blues concerts start at 9 p.m. personal danger. Best techno in St. Petersburg, accord- Internet cafe. 50-120 rub. 7/9 Nevsky Pr. 315-58-73. (Thurs.-Sun.) 48 Ulitsa Professora Popova. M: Petrograd- ing to one regular, but no chill-out room. Faculty — Designed to be the official club of the St. Pe- www.saygon.spb.ru skaya. 234-44-48. Drum’n’bass/jungle, visiting and resident DJs. Wasted tersburg State University, Faculty was launched last Russian student crowd with too much disposable in- November with a Markscheider Kunst concert, and offers SpartaK — Located in a 19th-century Lutheran church Decadence — Tucked away behind the Admiralty, this small come. Fri.-Sat., 11:50 p.m.-6 a.m., 60 rub. 3B Mal. Monet- performances from live club acts and DJs (vinyl only). Daily, which is also home to the cult movie theater with which night spot has lately become a haunt for the über-tusovka, naya Ul.. M: Gorkovskaya. 232-31-37. 6 p.m.-6 a.m. Live concerts start at 10 p.m. (Wed.-Sun.) 50- the rock club shares the space. The main hall holds be- and boy, does it know it. Entry is supposedly by club card 60 rub. (after 9 p.m.) University students get a 50 percent tween 600 and 700 fans. Two bars. Nasty security. 50-120 only, although being exceptionally beautiful will probably Metro — Someone has spent a great deal of money on discount at the door. Face control. 6 Prospect Dobrolyubova. rubles. 8 Kirochnaya Ul. M: Chernyshevskaya. 273-77-39. mollify the embittered face-controller. Open daily, 12 p.m. un- Metro and the results, while hardly intimate, have been a M: Sportivnaya/ Gorkovskaya. 233-06-72.

Fish Fabrique — Despite the spartan interiors and menu, this place is still a favorite for local rock musicians and al- CAFE−BAR Splendid cuisine, excellent whiskey, ternative artists, with the bonuses of table hockey and cult live music, interior of the Wild West foreign films. Daily 3 p.m. until the last person leaves. Live gigs start at 10:30 p.m. (See gigs.) 50 rub. 10 Pushkinskaya All-night disco, billiards, darts. Ul. (entrance through the arch at 53 Ligovsky Pr.). 164-48- THE IDIOT Host banquets, fourchettes, 57. www.fishfabrique.spb.ru " " presentations. Manhattan/Kotyol — Art club with bar, billiard room and Open daily 11 a.m. – 1 a.m. Various discounts very strangely organized toilets. Originally intended for the 82 Naberezhnaya Moiki, tel. 315−16−75 Relax and enjoy yourself formerly underground art elite, it has since changed man- at the “Rodeo Bar” from 10:00 a.m. agement and direction a number of times. The latest addi- tion is an Internet cafe. Shows start at 11 p.m. (no concert ● Great Russian and vegetarian food served all day to 5:30 a.m. at 2 Konyushennaya Pl. on Monday.) Open daily 2 p.m.-5 a.m., 60-100 rub. 90 Nab. Tel. 314-4973 ● Jazz, cappuccino, fresh juice, specialty teas Fontanki.113-19-45. www.kotel.spb.ru ● Happy hour from 6:30 to 7:30 Moloko — Probably the best underground rock club, where Tequilajazzz, Spitfire and Markscheider Kunst like to ● Weekend brunch perform. Thurs.-Sun. 7 p.m.-11 p.m. Latin dance school on ● Wed. 30-100 rub. 12 Perekupnoi Pereulok. M: Pl. Alexandra Used English−language books and magazines, plus an art gallery Nevskogo/Pl. Vosstaniya. 274-94-67. http:// moloko.piter.net Friday, January 26, 2001 THE ST. PETERSBURG TIMES

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Excellent cuisine combined with 45 Bolshaya Morskaya, 39 Bolshaya Morskaya Ul., bars Catering for banquets, fourchettes All credit cards accepted. Nightclub. impeccable service and a wide range Dom Kompozitorov Astoria Hotel. and cocktail parties at any address in Casino. Billiards. Gambling of exceptional wines. Live music from 8 Tel. 315-0319 Tel./Fax 315-0339 ALL-STAR CAFE St.Petersburg and the region. Outdoor machines. p.m. KALINKA activities, BBQ. Original scenarios for 46 Nevsky Prospect. Open 7 days a week from 12 p.m. to 12 ROSSI’S Traditional Russian cuisine in a festivities, interior design. Tel. 325-72-73. a.m. Regional Italian and Mediterranean traditional Russian environment. Live Entertainment programs, musical specialties served in a refined Russian folk songs, balalaika and accompaniment, decoration, atmosphere. Freshly prepared gypsy music every night. Small fireworks. Restaurant pasta, superb antipasti and banquet facility. A new sports bar in St. Petersburg. Call Mon. – Fri. 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. THE NOBLE NEST desserts. Ideal choice for supper or 9 Syezdovskaya Linia, January 29 at 2 a.m. – SUPER E-mail: [email protected] business lunch. Vasilievsky Ostrov BOWL LIVE on a giant screen. New Tel. 294-02-52, 296-12-01. $$-$$$ Open daily from noon to 11 p.m. In the Tel. 328-28-66, 323-37-18 . York Giants vs. Baltimore Ravens. Grand Hotel Europe. 329-60-00. $$$ $$ Russian and American cuisine. Darts & POTEL & CHABOT karaoke. Business lunch from noon to From small corporate receptions and PREMIER RESTAURANT-CLUB 5 p.m. private dinners to the largest gala or Open daily noon to 5 a.m. high-profile events, Potel & Chabot japanese 33 Zhukovskogo Ul. Tel. 279-90-17 offers full catering and event co- ordination in St. Petersburg and Russian-European cuisine. Cozy ASTORIA HOTEL BARS Moscow for a unique experience with SHOGUN interior, friendly atmosphere. Live Rotonda Bar in the Astoria, offering savoir faire. music, casino, gambling. English a comprehensive cocktail list and Tel. 294-44-64, 294-54-81. $$$ spoken. refreshing draft beer, is the ideal Daily. 24 hours. place to relax and meet friends. Sheraton Catering 21 UL. DEKABRISTOV 47 Nevsky Prospect. Open from 9 a.m. until 12 p.m. Service 315-78-93, ext. 050. TEL.: 312-32-05, Tel. 210-5837. $$ Give your next event a touch of The well-known Japanese restaurant $$ Lobby Lounge of the Astoria hotel excellence with our five-star catering 312-09-11 “Shogun” invites you all to the opening offers continental breakfast from 7 a.m. services. Banquets, buffets and full of the eponymous SUSHI BAR at 11 RESTORAN till 10 a.m. and Russian tea time from 3 event planning. Reservations recommended. Gorokhovaya Ulitsa. In your presence, Russian cuisine. Open from noon to p.m. until 6 p.m every day. Sheraton Nevskij Palace. JAMES COOK PUB & CAFE Call 312-32-05 or 312-09-11 to the skilful chef prepares SUSHI, midnight. Tel. 210-58-15, Tel. 275-20-01 (ext.135). $$$ reserve. 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PETERSBURG TIMES 13 continued from page 9 theater Cries from Odessa Semyon Spivak directs The Lovers Tatyana Kazakova brings another his students from the Academy of Theater Goldoni comedy to the Akimov, about how Arts in this adaptation of Isaac Babel’s play love can be a fearsome weapon in the battle world cuisine at world’s end “Sunset.” Molodyozhny Theater of the sexes. Akimov Comedy Theater PREMIERE! Mother, or the Unrest of the Three Sisters Rostislav Goryayev directs by Kirill Galetski These along with the Seafood Cock- The vegetable sides that came Dead See Jan. 26. Priyut Komedianta Theater Chekhov’s study of the Russian provincial The intersection of Grazhdansky tail (45 rubles) served as appetizers, with the Acapulco were perplexing The Night of the Iguana Vladimir Tumanov’s intelligentsia. Alexandrinsky Theater Prospect and Prospect Nauki is one of while the Texas Steak (112 rubles) — one was a cabbage, apple and feta production of Tennessee Williams’ play of Milashka See Jan. 26. Baltiisky Dom the most heavily traveled crossroads and the Rose Dream Salmon (72 cheese concoction which in my mind loneliness and love, a triangle drama involving The Pickwick Papers Gyorgy Tovstonogov’s rubles) provided a filling representa- has no business being anywhere a two women and a former priest. Theater on stage adaptation of Dickens’ novel, about a in the city. With a metro station (albeit on the part of the metro line that col- tive sample of the Liner’s fare, along Mexican combo plate, and the spiced, Liteiny gentleman of an English club who finds with side dishes, which although not beet-marinated cabbage is a case of The Last Sacrifice Modest Abramov stages himself embroiled in scandal. Bolshoi Drama lapsed in 1995 and has yet to be re- Ostrovsky’s play about a woman who finds Theater. 11 a.m. paired) and a market, it is an area of authentically ethnic were quite re- confusion as to which border to be herself a commodity among men and Art Written by French playwright commercial possibilities that deserves sourceful from the point of view of south of — in this case it’s the Russia- struggles to defend her honor. Vasilyevsky Yasmina Reza, and directed by Nikolai Pinigin, a decent eatery. the Russian economy’s food market. Georgia border! Ostrov Theater of Satire this contemporary play deals with the wedge The Liner Cafe, located nearby, Take for example the noodles with The steak was palatable and came Tanya-Tanya Vladimir Tumanov directs an abstract painting drives between three barely fits the bill. While the decor is bouillon and seaweed served with the with French fries. It was thankfully Olga Mukhina’s romantic comedy about six friends. Bolshoi Drama Theater “ultra-modern,” the theme at Liner is Shanghai — if taken on ethnic value, it easy to cut with a knife, but had none men and women as they fall in and out of love. Little Doves Vyacheslav Dolgachev stages is a rather poor attempt at making a of the grilled taste promised by the Vasilyevsky Ostrov Theater of Satire, Small Paula Vogil’s thoroughly American play international, with a series of inexpen- sive combo dishes (59 rubles each) Chinese-style soup. However, it is an menu, looking and tasting like the Stage. 7:30 p.m. Russian-style, with Olga Antonova, Svetlana kind of amorphous blob you get Kryuchkova, Zinaida Sharko, Nina Usatova. named after various cities of the world, intriguing and rather tasty mix of in- when you order steak and eggs at a for children Gorky Palace of Culture. 4 Ploshchad Stachek. allegedly offering foreign cuisine. gredients which are readily available Emil’s Escapades The play by Astrid M: Narvskaya. “My most recent trip abroad con- — flat noodles, Far East salad (sea- really cheap diner in the U.S. Lindgren in its first-ever staging in Russia. PREMIERE! Death of a Salesman Vlad vinced me that I needed to introduce weed), and presumably bouillon cubes. The salmon, also garnished with Director Vladimir Vorobyev promises bright Furman of the Mironov Theater directs Russians to foreign cuisine at a price The chef’s press release also fries, was the best - a light, flaky stage settings and the music of Abba. Akimov Arthur Miller’s play about a man whose they can afford,” declares the chef in claims that the Acapulco’s burrito breaded filet with a pleasant enough Comedy Theater. 12 p.m. view of the American Dream does not quite his English-language press release went through a painstaking process. taste and consistency, albeit with a Snow White and the Seven Dwarves match reality. Komissarzhevskaya Drama This claim does whet the appetite, slight smack of cafeteria food. At Vladimir Tykke directs the famous children’s Theater about the establishment. Well, at least they got the prices but the actual result, while being least the service was fast and the beer tale from a play by Oleg Tabakov and Leonid King, Queen, Knave Vladislav Pazi directs an was low-priced, from 17 to 22 rubles Ustinov. Baltiisky Dom. 12 p.m. adaptation of Nabokov’s 1928 novel about a right. My wife and I pored over the quite edible, is also quite under- The Story of the Nightingale, the Emperor love triangle. Lensoviet Theater menu, which is currently available whelming. The tortilla bears no dif- for a half liter. and Death Composer Alexander Nikiforov PREMIERE! Fro See Jan. 27. Lensoviet only in Russian. I opted for the Aca- ference from the thin lavash you can turns Hans Christian Andersen’s tale “The Theater, Small Stage. 7:30 p.m. pulco, which includes Salad with fresh get from every other bakery in town, Dinner for two with alcohol, 583 Nightingale” into an elliptical taoist fable with Mumu See Jan. 27. Maly Drama Theater vegetables, rice and feta cheese, a and the burrito filling tastes akin to rubles. ($21) No credit cards. 14A Mikhail Ogorodov and Sergei Gasanov. — Theater of Europe. 1:30 p.m. and 7 p.m. Burrito, boiled Rice, beet-marinated something I produced in my kitchen Prospect Nauki. M: Akademich- Zazerkalye Children’s Theater. 6 p.m. PREMIERE! Miss Julie See Jan. 27. Maly cabbage. My wife ordered the Shang- once when experimenting with Mexi- eskaya. Tel.: 533-24-02. Drama Theater — Theater of Europe, Chamber Stage hai, which comes with Korean carrot can food — in other words, nothing The Swallow Alexei Tolstoy’s play about three salad, noodles in bouillon with sea- special — just kidney beans in tomato Sun., Jan. 28 individuals who flee tumultuous 1916 St. weed, breaded chicken fillet stuffed sauce with a hint of spicy red pepper ballet Petersburg to find solace in a peasant village... with pineapple, rice and carrots. powder. the dish Swan Lake See Jan. 26. Mariinsky Theater until the Revolution catches up with them. Directed by Semyon Spivak. Molodyozhny opera Theater contemporary tale for all ages. Priyut PREMIERE! The Disappearance Yury The Marriage of Figaro Yury Alexandrov, Brilliant Commotion (Actor’s Tricks, or Komedianta Theater. 12 p.m. Kordonsky adapts Shamay Golan’s story about theater director of The St. Petersburg Opera, stages Dinner Is Served) A “fantasy-improvisation” contemporary Israeli society to the stage. Maly PREMIERE! I Want to Be in Pictures Mozart’s classic four-act comic opera based in two acts loosely based on 19th-century Drama Theater — Theater of Europe Tatyana Kazakova directs Neil Simon’s comedy on Beaumarchais’ witty novel. Sung in Italian vaudevilles by Nikolai Khmelitsky and Nikolai She Throws Down a Challenge Viktor about a playwright trying to win back his and conducted by Gianandrea Noseda. Nekrasov. Authored by Alexei Arefeyev and Mon., Jan. 29 Minkov directs Marell’s depiction of the final estranged girlfriend by writing a play for her. Mariinsky Theater. 12 p.m. directed by Yury Tomoshevsky. Priyut concert period in the life of the 19th-century Parisian Akimov Comedy Theater Otello Verdi’s opera based on Shakespeare’s Komedianta Theater Vladimir Kotov, Mikhail Yakovlev and actress Sarah Bernhardt. Priyut Komedianta Taras Bulba The title character is nowhere to play about the tragic love affair of Othello and The Night of the Iguana See Jan. 27. Theater Rostislav Yakovlev Flute, violin, contra bass. Theater be found in this contemporary amalgam of Desdemona. Mussorgsky Theater on Liteiny Bottezini, Klind, Schumann, Sperger. Glinka Nikolai Gogol’s plays, staged by controversial Trojans Viktor Kramer stages Hector Berlioz’s The Ghosts Akhmat Bayramkulov Philharmonic director Andrzej Zoldak-Tobilevic IV, in which a opera based on Virgil’s interpretation of the directs Henrik Ibsen’s turn-of-the-century Three Orchestras Saulus Sondeckus harsh and bloody world becomes the Trojan War. Sergei Stadler conducts. Rimsky- chronicle of family guilt. Vasilyevsky Ostrov conducts the Lithuainian Chamber Orchesta, Tues., Jan. 30 centerpiece of “Heaven on Earth.” Baltiisky Dom Korsakov Conservatory Theater. 5 p.m. Theater of Satire the St. Petersburg Camera and the State ballet FORMAL THEATER: School for Fools The Route Adrian Rostovsky directs a Hermitage Orchestra. Tchaikovsky. One-Act Ballets Roland Pety Andrei Moguchy stages his version of concert contemporary social comedy by Stanislav Shostakovich Philharmonic choreographs and Farukh Ruzimatov dnaces Alexander Sokolov’s story of a boy suffering An Evening with Valery Gavrilin Oksana Stratiyev about the extreme situations Mikhail Fokine’s ballet adaptions of Rimsky- from a split personality. Baltiisky Dom, Formal Shved, soprano; Yelena Spist, piano. The which arise among people trapped on a theater Korsakov’s “Scheherzade,” Bizet’s “Carmen,” Theater Skomorokhi Folk Ensemble; Viktor Akulovich, runaway bus. Vasilyevsky Ostrov Theater of I’m Not Ashamed of You, Years of My and Maurice Béjart’s “Le Jeune homme et la Arcadia Estonian director Elmo artistic director. Gavrilin. Glinka Philharmonic Satire Youth Svetlana Milyayeva directs Nikolai mort,” set to the music of Bach. Mariinsky Nüganen directs an award-winning The Ball in the Gathering of the Nobility Marton and Inessa Prosalovskaya in a Theater production of Tom Stoppard’s 1993 play, a Arkady Steinlucht conducts the Zazerkalye for children theatrical concert of poems and ballads by witty and erudite work concerning Lord Orchestra and soloists in a program of 18th- The Prince and the Pauper Vladimir Tykke Russian writers and composers. Alexandrinsky concert Byron’s mysterious disappearance from Britain century dance music. Shostakovich directs Nikolai Denisov’s stage adaption of Theater Mozart Requiem Performed by the Congress in 1809. Bolshoi Drama Theater. 6 p.m. Philharmonic. 3 p.m. Mark Twain’s famous story about trading In a Lively Place Vladimir Vetrogonov’s Orchestra. Mussorgsky Theater The Lover Pinter’s drama about the symbiosis Divertissement Ensemble Ilya Ioff, artistic places. Baltiisky Dom. 12 p.m. production of Ostrovsky’s play. Lensoviet Theater of love and enmity in relations between the director and soloist. Bernstein, Rota, The Crocodile Anatoly Praudin stages Korney The Winter’s Tale British Director opera sexes. Directed by Vladislav Pazi. Lensoviet Tchaikovsky. Shostakovich Philharmonic Chukosvky’s famous children’s tale. Baltiisky Declan Donnellan directs Shakespeare’s One-Act Operas The comic opera “The Theater Anastasia Sidelnikova Organ. Bach, Brahms, Dom. 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. tragicomedy which examines the power of Falcon” by Bortnyansky and Donizetti’s “The PREMIERE! The Eternal Husband Director Mendelssohn, Schumann. St. Petersburg State PREMIERE! Made of Tin, Wood and Glass jealousy. 1999 Golden Mask Winner. Maly Night Bell,” both staged by Yury Alexandrov. Pyotr Shereshevsky stages a progressive Cappella Sergei Kargin stages Viktor Olshansky Drama Theater — Theater of Europe St. Petersburg Opera, Yusupov Palace adaption of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s title short

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Sunday services in Russian with English transla- ❑ Lutheran (Evangelical) — Services at the Church a play based on contemporary Israeli Temur Chkheidze. Bolshoi Drama Theater service in English with translation into Russian. Karl Marx tion at 11 a.m. of St. Mary at 8 Bolshaya Konyushennaya Ul. on Sun- ❑ playwright Hanoch Levin’s “The Rubber Console My Sorrows Sergei Buranov stages House of Culture, 114 Obvodniy Canal Embankment. Sun- Christian Science Society — Services on Sundays at days at 10:30 a.m. in Finnish and at 1:30 p.m. in Russian Merchants,” a tragicomic tale of a love Georgy Korolchuk’s lyrical comedy about days 11 a.m., Thursdays 7 p.m. 5542 3794 11 a.m. and Wednesdays at 7:30 p.m. 20 Basseinaya Ul., and on the first and third Sunday of the month at 3 p.m. ❑ 2nd floor, room #205. 323-47-52. ❑ Lutheran (Evangelical) — The Russian Evangelical triangle. Theater on Liteiny knowing one’s roots, as seen through a family Anglican/Episcopal — 24 Nab. Reki Fontanki, apt. 22. Through the arch, turn left. Sundays, 11 a.m.. 964-52-57. ❑ The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints Lutheran Ministry in St. Petersburg has services in En- Mad Day, or The Marriage of Figaro Polish whose generations are scattered across the ❑ Apostolic — New Apostolic Church holds services (Mormons) — Meetings in Russian at 6 Aerodromnia at glish Sundays at 9:30 a.m. at St. Michael’s Lutheran director Andrzej Bubenj directs a revisionist globe. Komissarzhevskaya Drama Theater Sundays at 11 a.m. at 113 Leninsky Pr. 153-37-01. 10 a.m. English meetings Sundays at 2 p.m. at 56 Nab. Church, 18 Sredny Pr. 218-04-77. version of Beaumarchais’ oft-staged 18th- Caligula See Jan. 26. Lensoviet Theater ❑ Armenian — Church of St. Catherine holds services Reki Fontanki. 346-75-67. ❑ Lutheran (Swedish) — Swedish-Russian services at century comedy. Vasilyevsky Ostrov Theater of The Winter’s Tale See Jan. 29. Maly Saturdays at 6 p.m. at 40 Nevsky Pr. ❑ Evangelical — Services on Wednesdays at 6:30 p.m., St. Catherine’s Church at 1 Mal. Konyushennaya on the Satire Drama Theater — Theater of Europe ❑ Armenian Apostolic Orthodox Church — Church of Sundays at 11 a.m. and 4 p.m. and Mondays at 5 p.m. 52 second and fourth Sunday of the month at 5 p.m. St. Resurrection has services Sundays at 12 p.m. at 29 Borovaya Ulitsa. 166-44-19. ❑ Moslem — Daily 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Mosque is at 7 Kro- PREMIERE! The Disappearance See Jan. ❑ 29. Maly Drama Theater — Theater of Europe Smolenka Nab. 350-53-01. Hindu — The Hare Krishna Temple meets every day at nversky Prospect. 233-98-19. for children ❑ 7 p.m., with Sunday programs at 4 p.m., at 17 Bumazh- ❑ Russian Orthodox — Spaso-Preobrazhensky Cathe- Kashtanka’s Passion A sad but PREMIERE! The Venetian Woman Mikhail Baptist — International Baptist Church, 47 Novocher- kassky Pr., corpus 1, stairwell 12. Services on Sundays at naya Ul. Call 186-72-59 or e-mail [email protected]. dral holds services daily at 10 a.m. and 6 p.m. at 1 Preo- endearing cooperative production by the Gruzdov stages a 16th-century erotic dram by 11 a.m. and Wednesdays at 7:30 p.m. 442-01-07. ❑ Jehovah’s Witness — English-language meetings brazhenskaya Pl. 272-36-62. Zazerkalye Theater and the Terem Quartet an unknown author. Priyut Komedianta Theater ❑ Baptist — The Immanuel Baptist International Church Wednesday at 7 p.m. and every other Saturday at 5:30 ❑ Salvationist — Russian-English services on Sundays musical ensemble based on the much- Catherine the Great Gennady Trostyanetsky has English-language services at 11:15 a.m., Bible study p.m. Russian-language meetings Tuesday to Friday at 7 at 3:30 p.m. at 44b Liteiny Prospect. 327-36-83. adapted Chekov story “Kashtanka.” Zazerkalye directs the truly “great” Olga Samoshina in 10:10 a.m., on Sundays at the Mayakovskaya Library, 46 p.m., Saturday at 5:30 p.m. and Sunday at 10:30 a.m. 21 ❑ Salvationist — Salvation Army services at 19 Bol. Children’s Theater Shaw’s short comedy about the life of the Nab. Fontanki. Call David Pettis at 232-24-43. Kolomyazhsky Prospect, 394-53-81. More Russian-lan- Monetnaya Ul., 11 a.m. Sundays. 310-44-70. ❑ Russian empress. Theater on Liteiny ❑ Buddhist — Daily services at 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. at the guage meetings: Tuesday to Friday at 7 p.m., Saturday Seventh-Day Adventist — Services usually in Rus- Kuntsechoinei Datsan Temple, 91 Primorsky Pr. 239-03-41. from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Sunday from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. sian only on Saturdays at 10 a.m. and Fridays at 7 p.m., at ❑ Catholic — Services on Sundays at 1:30 p.m. in the 71. Ul. Chernyahovskogo, 164-25-29. Tuesday, Friday 85 Morisa Toreza. 553-94-33. Wed., Jan. 31 Church of the Assumption at 11 1-aya Krasnoar- and Saturday at 5 p.m., Sunday at 11 a.m. 6a Ul. Fuchika, ❑ StreetCry Christian Fellowship — Meetings every day. Fri., Feb. 2 meiskaya Ul. 174-76-29. Live rock worship, 3:30 p.m. Sundays. Healing ministry to ballet ❑ Catholic — St. Catherine Roman Catholic Church ❑ Jewish — Daily prayers at 9 a.m. and 7:45 p.m. in the drug addicts, Bible school, prayer meetings, street evange- La Bayadère Petipa’s choreography set to ballet holds masses at 32-34 Nevsky Pr. Sundays at 9:30 a.m. in small synagogue, sung Sabbath service at 10 a.m. in the lism. DK Bolshevichka, 9 Ul. Tyushina, 3rd fl. 164-58-35. Minkus’ score based on Pushkin’s poem tells a Swan Lake The Askold Makarov Theater of English, 10:30 a.m. in Russian, 12 p.m. in Russian, 1:30 Great Synagogue. 2 Lermontovsky Pr. 114-11-53. tragic love story of a Bayadera, or professional Classical Ballet performs the famous romantic p.m. in Polish and 7 p.m. in Russian. Weekday services at ❑ Lutheran (German-Russian) — Bilingual services at Submit items to Simon Patterson by Wednesday. dancer in India, punished for her love of a classic. Mussorgsky Theater 8 a.m. and 6:30 p.m. in Russian. 311-71-70. St. Peter and Paul Cathedral on Sundays at 10:30 a.m.; E-mail [email protected]. warrior destined to marry the king’s daughter. Mariinsky Theater opera Ira Zubareva and Jazz Trio Jazz standards Mikhail Kostyushkin and His Band PREMIERE! The Tale of the Invisible City concert and other songs. Neo Jazz Club. 8 p.m. Saxophone Night. Jazz Philharmonic Hall. 7 p.m. opera of Kitezh and the Maid Fevronia Rimsky- Russian Orthodox Church Music Anastasia The Way Blues. Jazz’n’Phrenia. 9 p.m. Prince Igor Stanislav Gaudasinky directs Korsakov’s fanciful opera about the lost city of Sorokina conducts the St. John Choir. Sacred party mix Ritmo Caliente Latin. JFC Jazz Club Borodin’s opera about Prince Igor and his son Kitezh, which sinks under the ocean rather music by Bortnyansky, Rimsky-Korsakov and DJs Sahaj and Nose House, big beat. Faculty. Gasan Bagirov Trio Jazz. Jimi Hendrix Blues Vladimir who are held as prisoners during the than surrender to invaders, has become a full- Chesnokov. Glinka Philharmonic 10 p.m. Club. 3 p.m. war with the Polovtsians. Mussorgsky Theater fledged production, staged by Dmitry Boris Shtokolov Guitar. Artistic director DJs Udjin, Chikatilo and Compass Vrubel Ritmo Caliente Latin. Jimi Hendrix Blues Club. Chernyakov, with artistic direction and Vladimir Popov conducts the Russian Griboyedov. 12 a.m. 7:30 p.m. concert conducting by Valery Gergiev. Mariinsky Chamber Orchestra. Early Russian Ballads. The Way Blues. Neo Jazz Club. 8 p.m. The Court Music of Maria Fyodorovna and Theater Shostakovich Philharmonic Grand Duke Alexander Petrovich The Play- Queen of Spades Yury Alexandrov’s fluid, St. Petersburg State Cappella Orchestra party mix el Trio: Sergei Filchenko; Yury Martynov, piano; contemporary production of Tchaikovsky’s Alexander Sladkovsky, conductor. Mahler, Sat., Jan. 27 DJ Alex Breakbeat. Faculty. 11:30 p.m. Dmitry Sokolov, cello. Music by Russian and opera based on the Pushkin poem about the Verdi. St. Petersburg State Cappella rock, etc. Sqatter Diction Jungle Party for Youth European composers. Glinka Philharmonic ill-fated passions of gambling nut German. Solnechny Udar Pop/rock. Art Spirit. 9 p.m. Griboyedov. 5 p.m. Dmitry Yeryomin Cello. Yun-Sun Chang Conducted by Vadim Afanasiev. St. Petersburg theater Scary B.O.O.M. Psychobilly. City Club. 8:20 p.m. DJs Chak, Keet and guests Acid jazz, soul- (South Korea) conducts the St. Petersburg Opera, Hermitage Theater The Country Wife See Jan. 26. Akimov PORT 812 Pop/rock. City Club. 1 a.m. funk, hip-hop. Griboyedov. 12 a.m. Philharmonic Orchestra. Dvorak, Franck, Comedy Theater N.O.M. Rock. Faculty. 10 p.m. Wagner. Shostakovich Philharmonic A Comedy from Our Life Vladimir Golub Begemot Pop/rock. Fish Fabrique. 10:30 p.m. In Memory of Lyubov Brook Andrei community directs Nadezhda Ptushkina’s contemporary Netslov Ethnic dub electronica. Griboyedov. Alexeyev conducts the St. Petersburg State play about an “old maid” who finds love with a 10 p.m. Mon., Jan. 29 University String Orchestra and the bulletin board New Russian. Alexandrinsky Theater Solaris Pop/rock. Manhattan. 11 p.m. rock, etc. Rostrapovich Children’s Art School Orchestra. ❑ Al-Anon, a self-support group for friends and At the Same Time Yevgeny Zelany Rashoho Acid jazz. Moloko Experimental GEZ-21 (Experimental Sound Music by Russian and foreign composers. St. relatives of alcohol and drug addicted people, Grishkovets’ new(er) one-man show. Baltiisky Big Livers Rockabilly. Money Honey. 8 p.m. Gallery), 10 Pushkinskaya Ul. (entrance from 53 Petersburg State Cappella meets Saturdays and Thursdays. Call 327-36-83. Dom Hot Wheels Rockabilly. Money Honey. Ligovsky Pr.), 7th floor, room 702. 7:30 p.m. ❑ The American Women’s Monthly Information Boris Godunov Temur Chkheidze directs 12:30 a.m. Barbulators Rockabilly. Money Honey. 8 p.m. theater Exchange invites all Americans to share information Pushkin’s 1825 play about guilt and power in Magic Bus Rock. Planeta Internet. 9:30 p.m. Katyusha Rock. SpartaK (Garkundel). 9:30 p.m. PREMIERE! Ladies and Hussars Zazerkalye about upcoming events. Call 275-17-01 ext. 330. 16th-century Russia. Bolshoi Drama Theater The Krysha/Amatory/Psychea Alternative. ❑ The Caring Hands Children’s Orphanage Theater director Alexander Petrov directs welcomes volunteers to help with children aged 7- Gold Roman Kozak stages Joseph Bar- Poligon. 6 p.m. jazz & blues Alexandre Fredreau’s Romantic-era comedy as 21. Call 155-67-39. Joseph’s Jewish comedy with Alexander Malako/Sad Kamnei Zoopark Skip Parente and Friends Jazz classics. a musical. A group of officers who try to do ❑ Assertiveness training courses and free legal Feklistov, Valery Garkalin, Larisa Kuznetsova Jazz’n’Phrenia. 9 p.m. without the company of women; consultations are available to women at the St. and Tatyana Vasilyeva. Gorky Palace of Culture. jazz & blues Sweet Little 60s Rock and roll. JFC Jazz Club unsuccessfully, of course. Music by Igor Petersburg Center for Gender Issues. Call 275- 4 Ploshchad Stachek. M: Narvskaya. Leningrad Dixieland Band Jazz Dancing. Anna Guzikova and VIP Band Jazz classics. Rogalev. Akimov Comedy Theater 87-22, 275-37-53. The Hoaxer Alexander Isakov directs a Jazz Philharmonic Hall Jimi Hendrix Blues Club. 7:30 p.m. ❑ Cap and Bells Vladimir Vorobyov directs a Center RNO, or Center for the Development of whimsical comedy about the paranormal by Gasan Bagirov Trio Jazz Philharmonic Hall Alexei Cheremizov Trio/Jam Session drama set in a small Sicilian village involving a Non-governmental Organizations, provides free Inga Garuchava and Pyotr Khotyanovsky. (Ellington Hall). 8 p.m. Mainstream. Kvadrat. 8 p.m. consulting services for NGOs. English and German beautiful wife and her deceitful husband. speakers are available. Call 325-8913/14. Komissarzhevskaya Drama Theater Alexei Kanunnikov Jazz Band Vocal jazz Leonid Sendersky Quartet Jazz standards. Alexandrinsky Theater ❑ Eldophone is a free, 24-hour telephone directory Love Till Your Dying Day Igor Vladimirov group. Jazz’n’Phrenia. 9 p.m. Neo Jazz Club. 8 p.m. Lies Marina Gavrilova directs her own service that gives updated cultural and practical directs Nikolai’s ironic comedy about the Nikonov — Degusarov Band “From Swing to detective story chronicling the adventures of information in English and Russian. Call 326-96-96. meaning of love. Lensoviet Theater Funk.” JFC Jazz Club party mix Russian emigrants in 1930s Paris. ❑ The International Women’s Club will hold its next The Winter’s Tale See Jan. 29. Maly Skip Parente Jazz classics. Jimi Hendrix Blues X-Dance City Club. 8:20 p.m. Alexandrinsky Theater, Small Stage meeting on Jan. 30 at the Lomonosov Porcelain Drama Theater — Theater of Europe Club. 3 p.m. Ground Level DJs Maxim Kislovsky, Sputnik Taras Bulba See Jan. 30. Baltiisky Dom Factory, 151 Obukhovsky Oborony Pr. at 7 p.m. Nearest PREMIERE! The Disappearance See Jan. Skip Parente Jazz classics. Jimi Hendrix Blues and guests. Griboyedov. 10 p.m. FORMAL THEATER: School for Fools See Metro: Lomonosovskaya. Call Denise, 314-90-70, or 29. Maly Drama Theater — Theater of Europe Club. 7:30 p.m. Emmi, 279-33-64, for times and details. Jan. 30. Baltiisky Dom, Formal Theater ❑ Anyone wishing to become a member of the PREMIERE! The Venetian Woman See Feb. El Coyotas Latin. Jimi Hendrix Blues Club. California Suite Neil Simon’s famous romantic Friends of the Hermitage Museum should call 1. Priyut Komedianta Theater 12 a.m. Tues., Jan. 30 comedy revolves around a trio of vacationing the Development Department and Friends’ Office The Peasant Mistress (Barishnya Tanya Tolstova and Jazz Comfort Neo Jazz couples staying at the same hotel. Directed by at 110-90-05. Krestyanka) Alexander Petrov directs a Club. 8 p.m. rock, etc. Nikolai Pinigin. Bolshoi Drama Theater ❑ The city’s Jewish Community Center is at 3 musical version of Pushkin’s short story. Kotovsky Bros. Funk. City Club. 8:20 p.m. The Imaginary Invalid Whizz-bang light Rubenshteina, apartment 50. Call 113-38-89. Theater on Liteiny On Moi Rock. Fish Fabrique. 10:30 p.m. ❑ party mix effects and other special surprises spice up The Leningrad Association of Homeopathy P.C.P. Party Live acts Yolochniye Igrushki, Bliznetsy Pop/rock. Manhattan. 11 p.m. Molière’s last play, directed by Gennady unites physicians, pharmacists and scientists to Ruff Engine, Zhutky Lazer, DJs Slon and Big Livers Rockabilly. Money Honey. 8 p.m. compare notes. Investigations of difficult illnesses are Trostyanetsky. Lensoviet Theater held on Thursdays at 5 p.m. Call 560-00-12, 560-00-77. Kisloid. Faculty. 11:30 p.m. The Other Culture Presents St. The Winter’s Tale See Jan. 29. Maly ❑ Rotary International Club St. Petersburg Do Re Mix Presents DJs Tengiz, Vissardi and Petersburg’s Experimental Art Erzatshuman Drama Theater — Theater of Europe “Neva” welcomes Rotarians to its meetings on Tim. Griboyedov. 12 a.m. (primitive minimal rhythm). SpartaK PREMIERE! The Disappearance See Jan. Thursdays. Call 273-69-12 or e-mail at gigs DJ Tsvetkov Live mix. Titski-Boomerang DJ (Garkundel). 9:45 p.m. 29. Maly Drama Theater — Theater of Europe [email protected]. Team, Gnom, Slava Vinyl, Igrunov. PORT. 11 p.m. Kirill Miller Presents Improvized music. Lost in the Stars See Jan. 30. Theater on ❑ Rotary Russia (RR) invites Rotarians to its Energetika “Progressive” dance party. DJs Zoopark Liteiny meetings on Thursdays at 6:30 p.m. RR is based on Optimus Ell (trance), Struker (garage), Magnet the first Rotary club constitution of 1906. It is not a Fri., Jan. 26 Freak (progressive house, house), jazz & blues member of Rotary International. Contact Vadim Panov at 172-54-51 or e-mail [email protected]. rock, etc. Nazhiklidabulu (trans), Rain Flash (techno) Dmitry Nazarychev Band with Viktoria Thurs., Feb. 1 ❑ The Salvation Army is calling all volunteers El Coyotas Latin. Art Spirit. 8 p.m. and Turbo (hardcore). SpartaK (Garkundel). Urusova on vocals Jazz Philharmonic Hall willing to assist in an all-night program that will Solaris Pop/rock. City Club. 8:20 p.m. 11:59 p.m. (Ellington Hall). 8 p.m. opera provide food and activities for the city’s numerous Kartel Funk. City Club. 1 a.m. Yellow Pillow Big beat, rock. Jazz’n’Phrenia. Orpheus and Eurydice A concert homeless. Call Joseph Smith at 327-36-83 or or e- Pep-See Pop/rock. Faculty. 10 p.m. 9 p.m. performance of the opera by Gluck based on mail [email protected] for further information. Avrora (Moscow). Fish Fabrique. 10:30 p.m. Mainstream Kings Jazz classics. JFC Jazz ❑ ancient Greek legends. Mariinsky Theater The St. Petersburg Center of the International Natasha Pivovarova and SOUS Pop grunge. Sun., Jan. 28 Club AIDS Charity offers information on AIDS in Russia. Griboyedov. 10 p.m. Ines & S.B.A. Blues. Jimi Hendrix Blues Club. Call 233-73-36. rock, etc. concert ❑ The St. Petersburg Gay and Lesbian Nastya Poleva Pop/rock. Manhattan. 11 p.m. Sasha I Natasha Pop/rock. Art Spirit. 9 p.m. 7:30 p.m. Miroslav Kultyshev and Yekaterina Murina Association KRILIJA, offers help, information and Spasm/Vegetative/Psychea Grunge, Mad Lori Pop/rock. Followed by X-Dance all- El Coyotas Latin. Neo Jazz Club. 8 p.m. Piano. Vladimir Verbitsky conducts the St. accommodation. Call 312-31-80 or e-mail hardcore, industrial. Moloko night party. City Club. 8:20 p.m. Petersburg Academic Philharmonic Orchestra. [email protected]. English spoken. Hot Wheels Rockabilly. Money Honey. 8 p.m. Skafandr Alternative. Faculty. 10 p.m. party mix Beethoven, Rakhmaninov. Shostakovich ❑ The St. Petersburg Hash House Harriers is a Propellers Rockabilly. Money Honey. Project 11 Blues. Griboyedov. 10 p.m. DJs Danya and Lovesky Griboyedov. 10 p.m. Philharmonic running organization for expats and Russians that 12:30 p.m. Chicherina Pop/rock. Lensoviet Palace of meets every other Sunday at 1:00 p.m. on the Crazy Alice Planeta Internet. 9:30 p.m. Culture, 42 Kamennoostrovsky Pr., 346-04-38. Square of Arts near the Grand Hotel Europe. Call Protozoa/Dve Sashi/Tire Bons/MiDzhi Palma Break Disco funk. Manhattan. 11 p.m. theater 110-07-29, 320-79-29. Wed., Jan. 31 The Shadow Schwarz’s satirical fable about a ❑ The St. Petersburg International Business Alternative. Poligon. 6 p.m. Mad Lori/Chekultura Pop/rock. Moloko man’s relationship with his shadow, directed Association holds monthly meetings for Rattlesnakes Rockabilly. Money Honey. 8 p.m. rock, etc. by the late Nikolai Akimov, founder of the foreigners who are doing business in St. jazz & blues Doggy Doggy Rockabilly. Money Honey. ReggiStan Reggae. Followed by X-Dance all- Comedy Theater. Akimov Comedy Theater Petersburg. Call 325-90-91. Bossa Nova Night Pyotr Kornev Band with 11:45 p.m. night party. City Club. 8:20 p.m. The Tale of Tsar Peter and his Murdered ❑ The Student Choir of St. Petersburg State Elvira Trafova on vocals. Jazz Philharmonic Hall Metallurgiya Heavy metal. Poligon. 6 p.m. Tu-Tu 134 Pop/rock. Griboyedov. 10 p.m. Son, Alexei Alexander Galibin directs the University is open to everyone who can read music. Doggy Doggy Rock and roll, blues. Propellers Rockabilly. SpartaK (Garkundel). 500 Potseluyev New wave, disco. Manhattan. Call Alla Borisovna at 218-96-70. Alexandrinsky’s version of Friedrich ❑ Jazz’n’Phrenia. 9 p.m. 10 p.m. 11 p.m. Gorenstein’s play, a polemic against Peter’s Everyone is welcome to catch Ultimate Frisbee Dmitry Bratukhin Band Original Vladimir Vysotsky Night Vitaly Katsabashvili Rattlesnakes Rockabilly. Money Honey. action on Sundays at 3 p.m. Call 552-40-37 or e-mail conception of history, which resulted in the [email protected]. compositions. JFC Jazz Club (Moscow). Zoopark 8 p.m. murder of his son. Alexandrinsky Theater Yana Radion and Braziliera Latin. Jimi Lone Star Riders New country. Money Honey. How I Ate a Dog Yevgeny Grishkovets’ Submit items to Simon Patterson by Wednesday. Hendrix Blues Club. 7:30 p.m. jazz & blues 11:45 p.m. acclaimed, award-winning one-man show. E-mail [email protected] or phone 325-60-80. Magic Bus Rock. Jimi Hendrix Blues Club. Jazz for Children Leningrad Dixieland Band. Barocco Flash Art rock. SpartaK (Garkundel). Baltiisky Dom 12 a.m. Jazz Philharmonic Hall& 12 a.m. 9:30 p.m. Friday, January 26, 2001 THE ST. PETERSBURG TIMES 15 jazz & blues Borey Art Gallery 58 Liteiny Pr., 273-36-93. 17th to the early 19th centuries culled from Photomarathon 2000: Goodbye 20th theater Center of Photographic Arts 3B Malaya Monetnaya Ul., the Japanese inventory. Paintings, decorative Century, Hello to the New Century The Way Blues. Jazz Philharmonic Hall Akimov Comedy Theater 56 Nevsky Pr., 312-4555. 232-31-37. and applied art, and some very sharp Photographs. El Coyotas Latin. Jazz’n’Phrenia. 9 p.m. Alexandrinsky Theater 2 Pl. Ostrovskogo, 110-4103. Central Naval Museum 4 Birzhevaya Pl., 218-25-02. weapons! Los Sabrosos Band Latin. JFC Jazz Club Baltiisky Dom 4 Alexandrovsky Park, 232-6244. Engineer’s (Mikhailovsky) Castle 2 Sadovaya Ul., The Sword and the Book: The Culture Museum of the Political History of Russia Alexei Kanunnikov Jazz Band Jazz classics. Bolshoi Drama Theater 65 Nab. Fontanki, 310-0401. 210-41-73. of Islam Art and artifacts from various middle Annex Daily 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Closed Jimi Hendrix Blues Club. 7:30 p.m. Hermitage Theater 34 Dvortsovaya Nab., 311-9025. Ethnographic Museum 4/1 Inzhenernaya Ul., 210-47-15. eastern countries. Thursdays. 2 Gorokhovaya Ul., M: Nevsky Pr., Free Arts Foundation at Pushkinskaya 10 Located Anna Guzikova and VIP Band Jazz classics. Komissarzhevskaya Drama Theater 19 Italianskaya Toys of the World A collection of toys 312-27-42. Ul., 315-5355. at 10 Pushkinskaya Ul., enter from 53 Ligovsky Pr., Neo Jazz Club. 8 p.m. Lensoviet Theater 12 Vladimirsky Pr., 113-2191. 164-53-71. from around the world, including some really The History of the Secret Police All of your Maly Drama Theater 18 Ul. Rubinshteina, 113-2028. Hermitage Museum 34 Dvortsovaya Nab., 311-34-65. weird playthings. favorite state spooks, with uniforms. party mix Mariinsky Theater 1 Teatralnaya Pl., 114-4344. Kunstkamera 3 Universitetskaya Nab., 328-14-12. DJs Kon and Yarik 1970s disco. Griboyedov. Molodyozhny Theater 114 Nab. Fontanki, 316-6870. Manezh Central Exhibition Hall 1 St. Isaac’s Sq., Manezh Central Exhibition Hall Daily 11 Museum of Theater and Musical Arts Open 12 a.m. Mussorgsky Theater 1 Pl. Isskustv, 219-1978. 314-88-59. a.m. to 6 p.m. Daily 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., Wednesdays 1 p.m. to 7 Priyut Komedianta Theater 27 Sadovaya Ul., 311-3314. Masters’ Guild Gallery 82 Nevsky Pr., 279-09-79. Petersburg 2000 An enormous annual p.m. Closed on Tuesdays. Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory Theater 3 Teatral- Marble Palace 5/1 Millionnaya Ul., 312-91-96. exhibit of new art from new and old figures Permanent Collection This unique Mitki-Vkhutemas Gallery 16 Ul. Pravdy, apt. 20. naya Pl., 312-25-19. running the entire gamut of the St. Petersburg collection includes various sketches of Thurs., Feb. 1 St. Petersburg Opera 33 Galernaya Ul., 315-6769. Museum of the History of St. Petersburg Peter and Theater Dozhdei 130 Nab. Fontanki. Paul Fortress, 3 Petropavlovskaya Krepost, 238-45-40. art scene. Features works completed from scenery, decorations, music, photographs and rock, etc. Theater on Liteiny 51 Liteiny Pr., 273-5335. Museum of the Political History of Russia 2/4 Ul. 1999-2000. Through Jan. 28. the personal belongings of great Russian El Coyotas Latin. Followed by X-Dance all- Vasilievsky Ostrov Theater of Satire 48 Sredny Pr., Kyubysheva, 233-70-52. actors. night party. City Club. 8:20 p.m. 213-6683. Museum of Theatrical and Musical Arts 6 Pl. Ostro- Masters’ Guild Gallery Daily 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Stars of St. Petersburg Ballet The exhibit Lizzie Borden Rock, blues, Tarantino hits. Yusupovsky Palace 92 Nab. Moiki, 314-9883, 315-6769. vskogo, 310-19-39. NEW! Little Winter Game Bright, loud oil covers the history of Russian ballet since the Fish Fabrique. 10:30 p.m. Zazerkalye Theater 13 Rubinshteina Ul., 164-1895. Pushkin Apartment Museum 12 Nab. Moiki, 312-19-62. paintings by Idish Shaimardinov. beginning of the 19th century. Zachem Rock. Manhattan. 11 p.m. Rumyantsev Mansion 44 Angliiskaya Nab., 311-75-44. Russian Museum 4 Inzhenernaya Ul., 219-16-08. Kirpichi Hiphop. Moloko halls Smolny Cathedral Exhibition Hall 3/1 Ploshchad Ras- Mitki-VKhUTEMAS Gallery Saturdays only, 4 Nabokov Apartment Museum Daily 11 a.m. Barbulators Rockabilly. Money Honey. 8 p.m. Children’s Philharmonic Hall 1/3 Dumskaya Ul., trelli. 311-36-90. p.m. to 8 p.m. to 5 p.m. Closed Mondays and Tuesdays. 47 Buoyant Band Rockabilly. Money Honey. 219-41-75. SPAS 93 Moika Embankment, 311-42-60. Marina Alexeyeva: Watercolors Around 30 Bolshaya Morskaya Ul., M: Nevsky Prospect or 11:45 p.m. Glinka Philharmonic 30 Nevsky Pr., 312-45-85. Stroganov Palace 17 Nevsky Pr., 311-23-60. watercolors of the avant-garde artist’s garden Sennaya Ploshchad. 315-47-13. Thursday at Zoo Singers/songwriters. Shostakovich Philharmonic 2 Mikhailovskaya Ul., St. Petersburg Center for Modern Art 60 Nevsky Pr., in Shuvalovo. Permanent Collection The childhood home Zoopark. 7:30 p.m. 311-73-33. 219-47-37. that features prominently in Vladimir St. Petersburg State Cappella 20 Nab. Moiki, 314-10-58. Museum of the History of St. Petersburg Nabokov’s autobiography “Speak, Memory” jazz & blues cinemas Daily 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. returns to life. Up-and-Coming Stars of St. Petersburg museums Avrora 60 Nevsky Pr., 315-52-54. Permanent Collection The history of the city Jazz Autumn Marathon Competition. Jazz Academy of Arts Museum 17 University Embankment., Barrikada 15 Nevsky Pr., 315-40-28. from its founding in 1703 to the middle of the National Center Gallery Daily 11 a.m. to 7 Philharmonic Hall 213-64-96. Crystal Palace 72 Nevsky Pr., 272-23-82. 19th century. p.m. Closed Mondays. 166 Nevsky Pr., M: Alexei Kozhevnikov Piano Jazz Night. Anna Akhmatova Museum at the Fontanka House Dom Kino 12 Karavannaya Ul., 314-80-36. Christmas Section St. Petersburg Christmas Ploshchad Aleksandra Nevskogo. 277-12-16. Kvadrat. 8 p.m. 34 Nab. Fontanki, 272-22-11. Khudozhestveny 67 Nevsky Pr., 314-00-45. traditions. The Doll and the Batik Holiday-themed art Artists’ Union of Russia Exhibition Center 38 Bol- Kolizei 100 Nevsky Pr., 272-87-75. Decembrist Relics: The 175th Anniversary by local artists. shaya Morskaya Ul., 314-30-60. Leningrad 4 Potemkinskaya Ul., 272-65-13. Art Collegium Gallery 64 Ligovsky Pr., 164-95-64. Molodyozhny 12 Sadovaya Ul., 311-00-45. of the Uprising on Senate Square Fri., Feb. 2 Association of Free Artists Gallery at Nevsky 20 20 Parisiana 80 Nevsky Pr., 273-48-13. Documents, accouterments, drawings and Printing Museum Daily 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. 32/2 Nevsky Pr., 311-77-77. Spartak 8 Kirochnaya Ul. (former Ul. Saltykova-Shched- graphics detailing the 1825 Decembrist Moika Embankment. 311-02-70. rock, etc. Bread Museum 73 Ligovsky Pr., 164-11-10. rina), 272-78-97. revolution. Musical Salon A 19th-century St. Petersburg Kafe Rock. Art Spirit. 8 p.m. The Museum of Old Petersburg Pieces music lover’s apartment, replete with all Expansive Dance Pop/rock. Fish Fabrique. dating back to the museum’s opening in 1907, manner of gramophones, records and other 10:30 p.m. applied art for theater and cinema by new The Ethnographic Museum Daily 10 a.m. to including paintings and architectural artifacts paraphernalia. The “singing nightingale” is of Mungo Jerry Good-time rock. Gigant Hall. union members, who joined up in 2000. 6 p.m. Closed Mondays. from the Peter and Paul Fortress. particular interest. 10 p.m. Through Jan. 31. Permanent Collection Artifacts and Francisco Bartolomeo Rastrelli: 300th Duran Duran Greatest hits from the Boris Sergeyev and Company Paintings, anthropological bric-a-brac from every corner Birthday Rastrelli’s original drawings and Pushkin Apartment Museum Daily 11 a.m. 1980s hearthrobs. Ice Palace, 1 Pr. Pyatiletok, graphics and sculpture by Lidia Kuznetsova- of the former Soviet Union. blueprints, detailing his various architectural to 6 p.m. Closed Tuesdays. 118-63-13, 118-63-18. Sergeyeva, Olga Pankratova, Boris Sergeyev, Petersburg Time at the Turn of the Century projects and achievements in and around St. Permanent Collection Pushkin Doo Bop Sound Acid jazz, funk. Manhattan. Ksenia Sergeyeva, Boris Stepanov, Nikolai An exhibit dedicated to the 300th anniversary Petersburg. paraphernalia, located in the apartment where 11 p.m. Tsvetkov and Natalya Yurkina. Through of Peter the Great’s time reforms. Features all The Memory of the Body: The History of he died. Hot Wheels Rockabilly. Money Honey. 8 p.m. Jan. 28. manner of clocks and watches within Undergarments Undergarments from the Dialogues With Lovers of Russian Propellers Rockabilly. Money Honey. 12:30 p.m. The Pearl of Kazan Artists from Kazan historical context. museum collection and private collections as Literature and Arzamas An exhibit about Jan Coo Grunge. Poligon. 6 p.m. present their work. Through Jan. 28. Christianity in the Everyday Life and well. Around 100 graphics and photos, as well the literary circles of Pushkin’s era, some of Nochniye Snaipery Rock. Zoopark Culture of the Peoples of Russia from the as rare advertising posters, cotemporary art which he had participated in himself. Association of Free Artists Gallery at 19th to the 20th Century A multifaceted and an underwear-themed video. Through Paintings, graphics, letters and other jazz & blues Nevsky 20 Daily 12 p.m. to 8 p.m. exhibit details the variety and variation of Jan. 31. documents. Golden Era of Jazz’s Popular Melodies My City Photographs of Petersburg by Andrey Christian customs throughout Russia. The Price of Freedom Nikolai Pyotr Kornev Band with Elvira Trafova on Marsanov. Museum of the Political History of Domashenko’s illustrations to works by vocals. Jazz Philharmonic Hall Vladimir Alexandrov Association member Free Arts Foundation at Pushkinskaya 10 Russia Daily 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Closed Decembrist poets. Alexandrov astounds with his realist Museum of Nonconformist Art and Art Polygon Thursdays. Free Word A chronicle of samizdat, Petersburg landscape paintings. are open Tuesdays through Saturdays, 3 - 7 Permanent Collection Exhibits such as featuring photographs, manuscripts and p.m.; the New Academy Museum, Saturdays, 4 “Memories of the Future: Russia from 1917 to underground and gulag pressings of works Borey Art Gallery Daily 12 p.m. to 8 p.m. - 7 p.m.; Navicula Artis, daily 5 - 7 p.m. the the 1990s,” “Business Russia,” and an exhibit by Akmatova, Tsvetayeva, Vysotsky. Through Closed Sundays and Mondays. Gallery 21 Techno-Art Center, Tuesdays through on the history of 20th-century Jan. 27. exhibits NEW! 00:00 - The Effect of Memory Six Saturdays, 3 - 8 p.m. parliamentarianism. years’ worth of work from photographer NEW! Art Polygon: A Woman For Every Alexander Kostyuchenko: Melodies of Rumyantsev Mansion Open Daily 11 a.m. to Academy of Arts Museum Wednesdays Alexander Lyashko, in his first exclusive Soldier An open workshop by the Star-Perts White Russia Soft, lyrical, realistic landscapes 5 p.m., Tuesdays to 4 p.m. Closed on through Sundays, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. exhibit. Through Feb. 3. arts collective. Starts Feb. 2. and genre painting done in a neoclassical Wednesdays and on last Tuesday of each Permanent Collection Works from members NEW! The Gospel According to the NEW! ENGLISH TRANSLATION! Fish style. Through Jan. 31. month. of the Academy’s faculty, including many Unicorn Decorative and applied art as well as Fabrique: Russian Drama Theater Who Killed Nicholas II? An exhibition Acquired Russia 20th-century Russian items from the Pushkin-themed exhibit held leather works by Alexander Shuysky. Presents A showing of Joseph Cheifetz’s devoted to the assassination of the last masterpieces of poster Art. last year, with works from Mikhail Anikushin, 1960 film “The Lady With a Dog,” based on the Russian tsar. The Light of Valaam Photos of Valaam, an Yevsey Moisenko, Boris Ugarov and Bread Museum Tuesdays through Saturdays short story by Anton Chekhov. English Sergei Witte - Financier, Politician, island on Lake Ladoga. Through Jan 28. Vyacheslav Zadonik. Paintings, graphics and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Translation through headphones. Diplomat Documents, photographs and sculpture. Permanent Collection The rise of bread in NEW! Gallery 21 Techno-Art Center: personal effects belonging to one of Russia’s Samoylov Dynasty Apartment Museum NEW! From Harmony to the Truth Over 70 St. Petersburg. Bourgeoisie A new art club holds its most illustrious politicians from the turn of the Daily 12 p.m. to 6 p.m. Closed Mondays and displays of sketches, studies, mosaics, Christmas Bread An exhibit of yuletide meetings every Friday at 6 p.m. century. Tuesdays. 8 Stremyannaya Ul. 164-11-30. ceramics - diploma works by students, loaves from around the world. Gallery 103: City of Color Paintings by Yulia dedicated to the 2000th anniversary of Christ’s Tretyakova. Through Feb. 4. birth. Central Naval Museum Daily 10:30 a.m. to 8 NEW! City of Color II Clothing by Yulia NEW! Alexei Parkhomov: 100 Years Well- p.m. Closed Mondays and Tuesdays. Tretyakova, accompanied by music from the known Blockade-themed graphic works by Permanent Collection More than 650,000 band Delta Nevy. Sat., Jan. 27, 5 p.m. this famous book illustrator, plus sketches of historical objects and art works on the navy, A joint U.S.-Russian exhibit of computer his monumental art. Starts Jan. 31. plus about 2,000 models of Russian and art. foreign ships. New Academy Museum: Darya Fursey - Alexander Blok Apartment Museum On the Trail of Ayvazovsky Works Frozen World Paintings, graphics and 57 Ul. Dekabristov. M: Sennaya Ploshchad. from the turn of the 19th to the 20th century glasswork. Through Feb. 1. 113-86-33. by the artists from Russia’s naval Permanent Collection Blok’s material legacy, departments, including Ivan Ayvazovsky, Kirov Apartment Museum Daily 11 a.m. to 6 located in the apartment where he spent the Alexander Beggrov, Leonid Blinov and Alexei p.m. 26/28 Kamenoostrovsky Pr. Call 346-02-17 last years of his life. Bogolyubov. for info. The Road to Peterhof More than 50 Permanent Collection Sergei Kirov’s old Anna Akhmatova Museum at the photographic works from Oranienbaum residence with mementos. Fontanka House Daily 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Reservation Museum employee Nikolai To Our Happy Childhood An exhibit which Closed Mondays and the last Wednesday of Karmazin. details the life of a typical child in pre-World every month. War II times. Permanent Collection Mementos of the Chaliapin Apartment Museum Daily 12 p.m. beloved Russian poet. to 6 p.m. Closed Mondays, Tuesdays and the Kunstkammer Museum Daily 11 a.m. to 6 The Gifts of the Magi The Anna Akhmatova last Friday of every month. 2B Ul. Graftio. M: p.m. Closed Thursdays. Museum’s fifth Christmas exhibit, with Petrogradskaya. 234-10-56. Permanent Collection The Kunstkammer paintings, graphics, installations and objets Permanent Collection Fyodor Chaliapin’s Collection, the oldest museum in Russia, d’art. Of particular interest are Christmas toys pad from 1914 till his emigration from Russia featuring sundry items belonging to Peter the made by art students from the St. Petersburg in 1922. Great, the Lomonosov Science Museum, Theater Arts Academy. meeting place of the Academy of Sciences, Dostoevsky Museum Daily 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Asian and Native North American Art City Gallery Daily 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. 27 6th Closed Mondays. 5 Kuznechny Per., M: ethnographic exhibits. Line Vasilyevsky Island. M: Vasilyostrovskaya. Vladimirskaya/Dostoevskaya. 311-40-31. Anatomical Rarities Freaks floating in jars, Filipp and Maria Kazak: Painting, Batik, Permanent Collection Dostoevsky’s digs brought back by Peter I from Holland. Not for Painting On Cloth Bright colors reign from 1878 till his death in 1881. the fainthearted! supreme in the simple yet romantic canvas The Langsdorf Expedition The exhibit details and cloth visions of the Kazaks, two students Engineer’s (Mikhailovsky) Castle Daily 10 Georgy Langsdorf’s expedition into the from the Mukhinsky School. a.m. to 6 p.m. Closed Tuesdays. Amazon jungle from 1822 to 1828. Of Permanent Collection Portraiture from the particular interest is documentation of the Artists’ Union of Russia Exhibition Center end of the 17th century to the early 20th region’s namesake, the female-dominated Daily 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. century. tribes. NEW! Year 2000 Members Paintings, Vasily Sadovnikov Drawings and paintings, Restored Items from the Japanese

Design and Lay-outs of AAT Section by Dmitry Dervenjov/SPT graphics, sculpture, ceramics, decorative and including watercolors. Collection 30 regenerated items from the late 16 Friday, January 26, 2001 THE ST. PETERSBURG TIMES

Boris Godunov On the Stage An mintings and medals from the era of Peter the who has to put up with the very suspicious Brother 2 (Brat 2) (2000, Russia) Director Wed., Jan. 31, 8:30 p.m. exhibit commemorating the 175th anniversary Great and rare 19-century medals are of dad (Robert DeNiro) of his girlfriend. Directed Alexei Balabanov’s follow-up to his hit film Arsenic and Old Lace (1944, U.S.) Cary of the writing of Pushkin’s play and the 130th particular interest. by Jay Roach. Fri., Jan. 26 - Fri., Feb. 2 about a young Chechen War vet-turned- Grant stars as a man who learns a siginficant anniversary of its first staging. Mementos of How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000, hitman, played by Sergei Bodrov, Jr. This time part of his older relatves are killers in this various drama theater and opera productions, State Russian Museum Daily 10 a.m. to 6 U.S.) Jim Carrey applies on pounds of make- the action takes place in Moscow and famous black comedy directed by Frank including Chaliapin’s costumes and p.m. Closed Tuesdays. up in this big-budget update of the half-hour Chicago. With Viktor Sukhorukov and Sergei Capra. Wed., Jan. 31, 2 p.m. production sketches. Permanent Collection Russian art from animated Holiday Season chesnut. Directed by Makovetsky. Fri., Jan. 26 - Fri., Feb. 2 The Damned (La Caduta degli dei) (1969, 16th-century icon-painters to the latest Ron Howard. Sat., Jan. 27 - Sun., Jan. 28 Italy-West Germany) Dirk Bogarde stars in Sheremetyev Palace Wednesdays through movements in modern art. leningrad director Luchino Visconti’s brutal and tragic Fridays, 12 p.m. to 6 p.m.; Saturdays and Jesus Christ in the Christian Culture barrikada Shub-Baba Lyuba (2001, Russia) Larisa film about the downfall of a wealthy family of Sundays, 12 p.m. to 4 p.m. 34 Fontanka and Art of the 14th to the 20th Centuries Charlie’s Angels (2000, U.S.) A cinematic Udovichenko and Pyotr Ulyanov star in a industrialists in Nazi Germany. Sun., Jan. 28, 8 Embankment. Tel.: 272-44-41. Icons, paintings, graphics tracing the evolution version of the popular ’70s TV show, in which lyrical romantic comedy. Directed by Maxim p.m.; Wed., Jan. 31, 6 p.m. Permanent Collection The suites of the of the image of Christ in Russian art, with the three supervixens, played by Drew Voronov. Starts Mon., Jan. 29. Every Man For Himself, and God Against Sheremetyev Palace, which house the oldest items dating from the 14th century. Barrymore, Cameron Diaz and Lucy Liu, My Dear Little Star (Zvyozdochka Moya All (The Mystery of Kaspar Hauser) (1974, Museum of Theater and Musical Arts Annex, Kazimir Malevich in the Russian retrieve stolen voice recognition software Nenaglyadnaya) (2000, Russia) Hunky West Germany) A man who has been kept are open following a restoration. Museum Over 100 works by Malevich from with the aid of beauty and brains, Yevgeny Sidikhin stars in this sudser about prisoner for most of his life (Bruno S.) is Blue Hall: Vladimir Pesikov The dean of the the museum’s collection. Many of these are surreptitiously supervised by their boss Bill love, the war in Chechnya and male suddenly released in 19th-century Academy of Arts presents his work from the now correctly annotated with dates. Spans Murray. Directed by Joseph McGinty Nichol. friendship. Directed by Sergei Mikelyan. Sun., Nuremberg. Directed by Werner Herzog. Mon., last few years - portraits and panoramic Malevich’s entire oeuvre, from grandiose Fri., Jan. 26 - Fri., Feb. 2 Jan. 25, 6 p.m. Jan. 29, 8 p.m. landscapes done in a Realist style. Paintings canvases such as “Sportsmen” and “The Red Bedazzled See Barrikada enty. Fri., Jan. 26 - The Exterminating Angel ( El Ángel and graphics. Cavalry” to obscure Futurist booklets. crystal palace Fri., Feb. 2 exterminador) (1962, Mexico) Director Luis The Fountain House in Blueprints, Ivan Ayvazovsky Over 100 works by the The Cell (2000, U.S.) Jennifer Lopez plays a His Wife’s Diary (2000, Russia) Buñuel’s surreal high-society satire in which Watercolors and Photographs. An exhibit well-known 19th-century Russian maritime psychiatrist who journeys into the mind of a Director Alexei Uchitel’s biopic of Nobel wealthy diners find themselves somehow commemorating the 250th anniversary of the artist, culled from the collections of the comatose serial killer in order to find his latest Prize-winning writer Ivan Bunin seen from unable to leave a dinner party. Wed., Jan. 31, building of the Sheremetyev Palace. Russian Museum, the Central Naval Museum victim, who may still be alive. Directed by the point of view of his wife. Nominated for 4 p.m. and the museums of Peterhof. Through Jan. 29. Tarsem Singh. Starts Feb. 1. the Best Foreign Film Oscar. Fri., Jan. 26 - Grand Hotel (1932, U.S.) Star-studded Berlin Smolny Cathedral Exhibition Hall Daily 11 Marble Palace: In Malevich’s Circle Charlie’s Angels See Barrikada entry. Fri., Sun., Jan. 28 hotel drama featuring John Barrymore, Lionel a.m. to 6 p.m. Paintings, easel and regular graphics, book Jan. 26 - Fri., Feb. 2 Barrymore, Joan Crawford and Greta Garbo. Rastrelli and Yelizaveta An exhibit illustrations and porcelain by Kazimir Bedazzled (2000, U.S.) Average comedy molodyozhny Directed by Edmund Goulding. Mon., Jan. 29, commemorating the 300th anniversary of Malevich’s students and artists who were stars Brendan Fraser as a hapless twit The Envy of the Gods (2000, Russia) Vera 2 p.m. Rastrelli’s birth and Yelizaveta Petrovna’s influenced by him. Through Jan. 29. tempted by the devil, played by Elizabeth Alyontova stars as a middle-aged Russian Heart of Glass (Herz aus Glas) (1976, reign. Paraphernalia from their era, including: Hurley. Directed by Harold Ramis. Fri., Jan. 26 woman falling in love with a French reporter West Germany) A glassmaker dies, taking furniture, household items, weapons, St. Petersburg Center for Modern Art - Fri., Feb. 2 during the tumultous events surrounding the the secret of his village’s fabled glassmaking porcelain, the architect’s sketches, models, Mondays through Fridays, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Unbreakable (2000, U.S.) Bruce Willis Korean Air disaster in 1983. Gérard Depardieu with him, after which the entire town goes etc. NEW! Yevgeny Yufit Minimalistic, grainy and Samuel L. Jackson square off in this receives top billing, but his role is in fact very off the deep end. Director Herzog hypnotized black and white body and landscape psychodrama with unusual twists on comic small. Starts Feb. 1. almost the entire cast in order to achieve the SPAS Daily 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Closed Sundays. photography by Necrorealist Yufit. Through book themes. Directed by M. Night The Alchemists (Alkhimiki) (2000, Russia) ultimate weirdness. He succeeded! Tues., NEW! Province Paintings and graphics by Feb. 2. Shyamalan. Fri., Jan. 26 - Wed., Jan. 31 Yury Stoyanov and Ilya Aleynikov star in Jan. 30, 4 p.m. Vyacheslav Shrag. Dmitry Astrakhan’s medieval comedy. Fri., Jan. The Gold Rush (1925, U.S.) Charlie Chaplin dom kino 26 - Wed., Jan. 31 directs and stars in this classic comedy about State Hermitage Museum Daily 10:30 a.m. The Actors (Les Acteurs) (2000, France) Russian Revolt (Russky Bunt) (2000, The Tramp’s adventure to the Klondike in to 6 p.m., Sundays 10:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. Closed Veteran director Betrand Blier’s questionable Russia) Vladimir Mashkov and Sergei search of gold. Fri., Jan. 26, 4 p.m.; Sun., Jan. Mondays. take on thespians, a series of vignettes which Makovetsky star in an accurate but unsubtle 28, 6 p.m.; Mon., Jan. 29, 4 p.m. Permanent Collection One of the great screens don’t quite hang together, with many notable adaption of Pushkin’s “The Captain’s In Love and War (1996, U.S.) While bravely museums of the world, featuring over three French stars such as Belmondo, Delon, Daughter.” Directed by Alexander Proshkin. risking his life in the line of duty in World War million works of art from ancient times until avrora Dépardieu, Piccoli playing themselves. Fri., Jan. Fri., Jan. 26 - Tues., Jan. 30 I, Ernest Hemingway (Chris O’Donnell) falls in the present day. Come Look At Me (Prikhodi Na 26 - Fri., Feb. 2 love with his nurse (Sandra Bullock.) Directed The Birth of Christ: 15th-18th Menya Posmotret’) (2001, Russia) Oleg Farewell, Home Sweet Home! (Adieu, parisiana by Richard Attenborough. Sun., Jan. 28, 2 p.m.; Century Icons from the State Hermitage Yankovsky directs and stars in this plancher des vaches!) (1999, France-Italy- My Dear Little Star (Zvyozdochka Moya Tues., Jan. 30, 8 p.m. Collection The greatest hits of icon painting contemporary Christmas-themed story co- Switzerland) Georgian-born director Otar Nenaglyadnaya) See Leningrad entry. Starts It Happened One Night (1934, U.S.) A spanning four centuries. starring Irina Kupchenko and Yekaterina Ioseliani helms this film about a family of non- Sun., Jan. 28. spoiled heiress meets a newshound in this Calendar: The Keeper of Time An exhibit of Vasilyeva. Fri., Jan. 26 - Fri., Feb. 2 conformists who sometimes go to extremes to Japanese Film Festival This year’s showcase love story starring Ellie Andrews and Clark calendars from ancient times until the present Cast Away (2000, U.S.) A Federal Express make their occasionally dull lives exciting. Fri., is expanded as it features not only Gable. Directed by Frank Capra. Sun., Jan. 28, time. employee played Tom Hanks gets stranded on Jan. 26 - Fri., Feb. 2 contemporary Japanese cinema, but an 4 p.m.; Tues., Jan. 30, 6 p.m. The Christ Child in Western European a desert island, but that’s only the beginning. animated film program. Call 275-58-26 for Orchestra Wives (1942, U.S.) Glenn Miller Engraving from the 15th to the 18th Directed by Robert Zemeckis. Fri., Jan. 26 - Fri., khudozhestveny more info. Fri., Jan. 26 - Sun., Jan. 28 stars in this gentle swingers’ movie. Directed Century The title says it all. Feb. 2 Beowulf (1999, U.S.) Christopher Lambert by Archie Mayo. Fri., Jan. 26, 2 p.m. For Service and Valor The Medal of St. Taxi 2 (2000, France) A taxi driver and cop stars as Beowulf in this futuristic sci-fi horror spartak Stroszek (1977, West Germany) A German George is on display. from Marseilles become embroiled in a plot re-working of the Anglo-Saxon epic poem. An Andalusian Dog / The Golden Age immigrant (Bruno S.) flounders in the U.S. in For the Common Good: Commemorating to kidnap a Japanese politician. As with the Good for a few unintentional laughs. (Un Chien Andalou / L’Age d’Or) (1929 / this tragic film by Werner Herzog Mon., Jan. the 300th Anniversary of the Monetary original, the script was penned by Luc Directed by Graham Baker. Fri., Jan. 26 - Fri., 1930 France-Spain) Two experimental films 29, 6 p.m. Reforms of Peter the Great Over 500 Besson and directed by someone else — Feb. 2 helmed by Luis Buñuel and co-scripted with Woyzeck (1978, West Germany) Klaus Kinski displays from the collection of the Mint Gérard Krawczyk. Fri., Jan. 26 - Fri., Feb. 2 Komodo (1999, U.S.) Grade-Z horror flick Salvador Dalí. The former is a surrealist stars as a soldier who goes mad in director Museum: coins, Russian, European and Asian Meeting the Parents (2000, U.S.) Ben about killer lizards. Directed by Michael classic and the latter, in which Buñuel Werner Herzog’s cinematic adaptation of Georg medals from several centuries. The test Stillers stars as a guy named Greg Focker Lantieri. Fri., Jan. 26 - Fri., Feb. 2 departed from Dalí’s original ideas, is a dud. Buchner’s tragic play. Tues., Jan. 30, 2 p.m.

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Dear Editor, I would like to register my disagree- ment with the reader who criticized Mailbox Chris Floyd’s “Global Eye.” It’s true the column is strong meat, but I Dear Editor, don’t think it can be called unbal- I read the study mentioned in your anced, unfair or irresponsible. The article ["New Book Casts Some mainstream media has done a very Light on Local 'Shadow Economy,'" poor job of reporting the facts of the Jan. 16] and found it useful for bet- Bush family empire and its political What Other Papers Are Saying ter understanding this vital problem. agenda. This one little column, cry- Having worked with a variety of ing in the wilderness, as it were, is a The big story this week was the fate of by Ali Nassor dangers ahead, saying: “It’s possible that businesses here, I can confirm the very small counterweight to the Pavel Borodin, who flew to the United Zanzibar could tomorrow issue an arrest trend noted by the authors. All busi- mass media’s silence on these mat- States to attend George W. Bush’s inau- World in Union warrant [for a Russian] accused of steal- nesses (especially small- and ters. Floyd’s characterizations are in- guration, only to be arrested on arrival ing the tail of a kangaroo.” medium-size ones) feel uncomfort- deed partisan, and often scathing, in New York and faces the possibility of Indeed, says the paper, Borodin’s arrest “You could end up in jail for 60 days able and unsafe conducting even but his facts are correct. extradition to Switzerland. At home, a is a reflection of how the international awaiting extradition to Zanzibar,” he re- part of their operations in the "gray Millions of Americans strenu- largely indifferent public has ignored a community regards the union, suggest- portedly added. economy." (Many analysts divide ously opposed Bush and the very nar- campaign launched by a handful of ing that giving it a parliament and com- For its part, Komsomolskaya Prav- the "shadow economy" into "black" row special-interest agenda he repre- Borodin sympathizers calling for his im- mon currency are considered as so da defends Borodin, who in his own and "gray," the former being crimi- sents. Millions of Americans do be- mediate release from jail. much nonsense in the eyes of the world. words is “a simple civil servant living nal activities such as drugs and ille- lieve that he was placed in office Even a document signed by Belarus solely on his wages,” but now in a gal weapon sales, prostitution, rack- through an unjust process. Millions of President Alexander Lukashenko ap- Brooklyn jail without even enough cash eteering, money laundering, etc.) It Americans do believe that his elec- Change of Plan proving Borodin’s “official trip” to at- left for a phone call home. Both federal goes without saying that the "black tion represents a very severe blow to Former Kremlin property supremo and tend the inauguration reflected nothing authorities and the public seem reluc- economy" is to be suppressed, but the American ideal of a constitu- current Russia-Belarus Union Secre- more than their joint ignorance on the tant to chip in, however, says the paper. much effort and patience are needed tional republic based on the elec- tary Pavel Borodin found himself be- status of the union, says the paper. to make "gray" economy "white." torally expressed will of the people. hind bars last week instead of the more However, says the paper, Borodin has First, taxation must be "business- I hope that you will continue to civilized White House — his intended few friends left in Russian politics. Some Street Charity friendly." It must be clear and ap- run this entertaining and necessary destination, where he was to salute the politicians have gone as far as calling him The paper’s reporters, who took to the plied uniformly to everyone. It must column in your newspaper. new American president. a mere businessman who is only inter- streets for a “Free Borodin” fund-rais- allow the deduction of all legitimate Arthur Kobel As he set foot on U.S. soil, Borodin ested in a deal if it involves more than ing campaign, found little sympathy. costs of doing business. Moreover, Moscow discovered how serious prosecutors in $100 million. To prove it, one only has to One man suggested the campaigners the business registration and ac- Switzerland really were when they had look at his project to build a half-billion- “look for fools elsewhere.” counting systems must be simplified TO OUR READERS put out an international warrant on dollar Russia-Belarus parliamentary They took their campaign to the as soon as possible. him, sticking tenaciously to their belief complex in St. Petersburg, the paper says. State Duma, only to be told “Borodin Second, employees must be The St. Petersburg Times welcom- that he received huge kick-backs from But Kommersant says Borodin still has more money than Mabetex.” given incentives to receive all their es letters to the editor. They should Swiss contractors Mabetex and Mercata has some leading cultural activists on his But even if Borodin had enough wages "in white." The flat 13 per- be signed and bear the signatory’s in return for lucrative Kremlin con- side, all of whom are blaming the Rus- money to call Moscow, Argumenty i cent personal income tax rate must address and telephone number. tracts, says Komsomolskaya Pravda. sian press for not securing his release. Fakty suggests, there would be no one be made stable for at least 10 years. The St. Petersburg Times reserves While Russian and Belarussian au- to call, as President Vladimir Putin has Finally, I would mention that the the right to edit letters. Remember, thorities immediately protested, saying Kangeroo Court finally found an excuse to get rid of one large "gray" economy is one of the brevity is the soul of wit. that Borodin enjoyed diplomatic immu- of Boris Yeltsin’s “family” members basic causes of the stagnation of Letters to the editor should be nity owing to his status as secretary of But Leonid Yakubovich, host of ORT’s and leave his conscience untroubled. Russia's banking system. It means sent by fax to (7-812) 325-60-80 the Russia-Belarus Union, interna- “Polye Chudes” game-show program, He can’t even rely on Lukashenko, that banks are not earning what they or mailed or delivered to The St. tional lawyers rubbished the claim, say- was more forthright in pronouncing the says Izvestia, since a) Lukashenko has might in the form of commissions on Petersburg Times, 2nd floor, 4 St. ing the union itself was virtually non-ex- state guilty over Borodin, saying it has become an irritant to the Kremlin, in- transactions. Isaac’s Sq., or by electronic mail istent and Borodin’s post therefore bo- always failed to protect its own citizens. terrupting Putin’s work, and b) Andrei Sedin, to [email protected] gus, according to Moskovsky Komso- He was quoted by Kommersant as Borodin’s replacement for the Russian- Moscow molets v Pitere. warning other Russian nationals of the Belarus Union has already been found.

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World FRIDAY, JANUARY 26, 2001 Faithful Bathe at Hindu Festival WORLD WATCH people, doused in gasoline, set fire to By Pamela Constable Iraq Draws UN Praise themselves on Lunar New Year’s Eve. THE WASHINGTON POST ■ BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) — UN nu- The attempted group suicide killed one ALLAHABAD, India — Vivek Anand clear experts praised Iraq for cooperat- and marked an ominous shift in Falun Shastri, a teacher and devout Hindu ing with an inspection completed Gong’s sustained campaign of civil dis- from Bombay, shivered violently as he Wednesday, but refused to say whether obedience against the government’s ban. stripped off his soggy clothes on the they had found any evidence Iraq was sandy bank of the Ganges and Yamuna restarting banned weapons programs. river delta. But his face was beaming, The visit came as Iraq prepared to sit Swiss Security Set and he insisted he did not feel the cold. down with the United Nations to deter- ■ CHUR, Switzerland (Reuters) — “What I feel right now is just bliss,” mine whether broader monitoring of its Swiss police urged even peaceful said Shastri, 28, moments after emerg- weapons programs could resume, and as protesters to stay away from the annual ing from the frigid waters just after the new U.S. administration made clear World Economic Forum summit in dawn. “Daily life tires the soul as well as it will take a hard line on Iraq. Davos this week for fear they could fuel the body. This one day, this one bath, is Iraq is under sanctions that can only violent anti-globalization clashes. like a new birth for my soul.” be lifted once UN inspectors confirm it Hundreds of activists opposed to the Crammed onto the beach around has ended its programs to develop chem- increasing integration of global com- him, thousands of other Hindu pilgrims ical, biological and nuclear weapons. merce have vowed to be on hand on Sat- shivered and laughed as they changed urday to demonstrate against the WEF their wet clothing after the spiritual ex- annual meeting, which brings together perience of a lifetime: a ritual dip at In- Manila Minister Quits the world’s business and political elite. ■ dia’s most sacred river site, on the peak JAYATA SHAW/REUTERS MANILA (Reuters) — The Philip- Swiss officials are mounting a mas- holy day of the largest reported reli- A Hindu holy man blessing onlookers on his way to bathe Wednesday in Allahabad. pine defense minister abruptly resigned sive security operation to protect heads gious gathering in history. of saffron-bedecked chariots, trailed by night huddled on sandy fields, wrapped Thursday, deliver- of state and business executive among More than 25 million people, ac- barefoot disciples and guarded by in blankets around smoking campfires ing a jolt to Presi- the 3,200 participants. cording to official estimates, converged mounted police, as trumpets blared and and waiting for the chance to bathe dur- dent Gloria Maca- Wednesday at the height of the Maha drums pounded. ing Mauni Amawas. pagal Arroyo’s Kumbh Mela, a 41-day Hindu festival The most exotic sight was the pranc- “It gets very cold, but we don’t mind five-day-old gov- NATO Downplays Risk whose Hindi name means Great Pot of ing, naked army of several thousand the hardship. We pass the night singing ernment which is ■ BRUSSELS (Reuters) — A commit- Nectar. By the time the festival ends on naga sadhus, a sect of reclusive and songs in praise of our mother Ganges,” already beset with tee of 50 nations hastily set up by NATO Feb. 21, a total of 70 million pilgrims primitive mystics who smear their bodies said Ramavati, 50, a villager from Uttar economic woes two weeks ago has are expected to have taken the plunge, with ash, wear only string around their Pradesh state who was camped in a and rumors of REUTERS found no evidence known as a snan, which they believe loins and carry swords and tridents. field Tuesday night. She and her friends coup plots. Orlando Mercado so far to support cleanses their souls of sin. As they marched back from the had cooked rice and lentils over a cow- Defense Secretary Orlando Mer- claims that depleted For days, Hindus from all walks of beach, the nagas leaped in mock sword- dung fire. “When we get home, people cado said he did not agree with the ap- uranium (DU) mu- life have been streaming in trucks, fights and tossed flowers at the crowds will touch our feet because we will be pointment of a retired general as na- nitions can cause buses and tractors toward a 600-hectare sacred now.” tional security adviser, whom he had in- cancer, NATO says. riverside campground on the outskirts Kumbha Melas are a traditional part vestigated in the past for discrepancies Soldiers serving of Allahabad, 530 kilometers southeast of Hindu religion, which is shared by 85 in pension funds. as peacekeepers in REUTERS of New Delhi. The surge has built Kumbha Melas are a percent of Indians, and they are held The move appears to underscore di- the NATO-led mis- Daniel Speckhard steadily toward Wednesday, an espe- traditional part of every six years at different spots on the visions in the new government, which is sions in Bosnia and Kosovo — where cially holy day known as Mauni Ganges. But this one is considered the already struggling with a depleted trea- U.S. aircraft fired some 40,000 DU shells Amawas, when snans are believed to be Hindu religion, which most sacred in 157 years because of a sury, woefully slow economic growth — were no sicker than those who had particularly purifying. is shared by 85 unique planetary alignment, and it is and rumors that ousted President Joseph not, committee chairman Daniel Speck- By Tuesday, roads were so clogged taking place at an especially holy site Estrada may be seeking a comeback. hard told a news conference. that officials banned all traffic, and peo- percent of Indians. where Hindu myth says the ancient NATO spokesperson Mark Laity said ple walked the last few kilometers, gods spilled drops of nectar. Thus, this Wednesday that it was “quite possible” many barefoot and carrying bundles of that watched, awestruck, from behind year’s event is a Maha, or Great, Fashion Crime that tiny traces of highly radioactive plu- bedding on their heads. Well before carefully guarded fences. Some posed Kumbha Mela. ■ KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The tonium and uranium 236 would turn up dawn, the beachside crowds were so teasingly for the phalanx of news pho- The festival has been a major logisti- Taleban religious police have jailed 22 in Balkans soil samples now being taken dense that the human mass simply tographers trying to slip past the police, cal feat for police and civilian authori- hairdressers accused of propagating a or analyzed by international experts. flowed toward the river and waded as but others angrily threw stones. ties. More than 10,000 police have been Western-style haircut referred to one into the knee-deep water. Once the parade was past, the beach stationed here to control the swirling among young men in Kabul as “the Ti- But for much of the morning, the immediately filled again with hundreds crowds and shoo bathers in and out of tanic,” residents said Thursday. The Serbs Decry Tribunal scene was dominated by tens of thou- of thousands of pilgrims. The lucky the water. The Uttar Pradesh state gov- hairstyle mimics that of actor Leonardo ■ BELGRADE (Reuters) — Yu- sands of sadhus, or Hindu holy men, ones had slept on straw mats inside ernment erected thousands of street DiCaprio and the cut is named for the goslavia told visiting UN war crimes who put on a spectacular show as they ashrams, tent shelters operated by reli- lights, toilets and a dozen pontoon foot movie in which he starred. prosecutor Carla del Ponte on Wednes- paraded toward the water in a caravan gious groups, but most had spent the bridges across the Ganges. Religious police deployed by the day that any trial of former president Ministry of Vice and Virtue say the Slobodan Milosevic should take place hairstyle is offensive, according to Mo- in his homeland and not at the interna- hammed Arif, a barber in Kabul. The tional tribunal in The Hague. hairstyle allows hair on the forehead, A day after absorbing stinging criti- Tanker-Spill Captain, Crew Detained which the Taleban say could interfere cism in a meeting with President Vojislav with a person’s ability to say his prayers. Kostunica, del Ponte also saw further ev- THE ASSOCIATED PRESS One environmental worker said that manded that Ecuador take greater idence of local opposition to her tribunal PUERTO BAQUERIZO, Galapagos the spill was under control. steps to protect the Galapagos. as Serb protesters blocked a road out- Islands — Authorities detained the cap- “We were very worried at first, but Ecuadorean Environment Minister Leading by Example side the Foreign Ministry in Belgrade. tain of a crippled tanker who took the what has happened is not so grave,” Rodolfo Rendon said new legislation is ■ NEW DELHI, India (AP) — All Demonstrators denounced the tri- blame for the accident that spilled at said Carlos Valle, the Galapagos coor- being written to require special permis- government ministers in a Western In- bunal as anti-Serb and chanted their op- least 185,000 gallons of fuel in the Gala- dinator for the World Wildlife Fund. sion and insurance for all vessels enter- dian state have agreed to rear a cow at position to del Ponte’s demand that Milo- pagos Islands. Hundreds of volunteers, park ing the Galapagos with more than 38 home to emphasize the need to care for sevic, the ousted Yugoslav president, be Capt. Tarquino Arevalo, who appar- rangers and environmentalists combed liters of fuel aboard. cattle during a widespread drought, a handed over to face charges that his ently mistook a signal buoy for a light- the shores of San Cristobal and Santa Shipping authorities have con- newspaper reported Thursday. forces committed atrocities in Kosovo. house, and 13 crewmen from the tanker Fe Island for wildlife affected by the firmed that the Jessica was not insured Rains have been scarce in Gujarat, Jessica were confined to a military base spill. Four sea lion cubs were cleaned for environmental contamination, he where a large majority of people are on San Cristobal island pending formal and released Wednesday, said park di- said. International shipping rules re- farmers. An estimated 12,000 villages Corpses Dumped charges, Merchant Marines Vice Admi- rector Eliecer Cruz. quire such insurance for vessels carry- are affected by the drought and about 10 ■ SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador ral Gonzalo Vega said Wednesday. Some conservationists fear the fuel ing 2,000 tons of fuel, while the Jessica million cows, buffaloes, goats and camels (Reuters) — San Salvador slum- Arevalo and the tanker’s owners will sink to the ocean floor, destroying had only 300 tons aboard, Galapagos are suffering from the lack of water. dwellers complained this week that the could face two to four years in prison if algae vital to the food chain and threat- park officials said. Cows are considered sacred animals government is dumping the decompos- convicted of negligence or crimes ening marine iguanas, sharks, birds that “We are writing up the regulations by Hindus, who are the religious major- ing human remains of earthquake vic- against the environment. feed off fish and other species. to establish what fuels can enter the ity in India. tims from a middle-class suburb into The Jessica ran aground nine days Officials blamed human error for Galapagos, and moreover, that the min- their backyard. ago off San Cristobal Island, one of the the spill — an allegation Arevalo ad- imum amount possible is used,” Ren- More than 700 people died in an Galapagos chain, spilling diesel fuel mitted to in an interview with the don said. Falun Gong Thwarted earthquake on Jan. 13. About half the into an ecosystem populated by rare British Broadcasting Corp. He said he The 28-year-old tanker Jessica is ■ BEIJING (AP) — China scored a victims were buried when the quake species that inspired Charles Darwin’s confused two landmarks, leading to the owned by the Ecuadorean company victory Wednesday in its 18-month-old triggered a landslide in the middle-class theory of evolution. accident. Acotramar. It regularly transported standoff with the Falun Gong spiritual Las Colinas suburb outside the capital But the spill appeared less serious “I know what’s happened but what diesel and bunker, a heavy fuel used movement, thwarting protests by the of San Salvador. than it could have been, although the can I do now?” he said in the interview by tour boats, from the mainland into banned sect at the cost of the heaviest To stop the spread of disease, au- long-term environmental damage to the aired Wednesday and posted on the the Galapagos, Ecuador’s main tourist security in central Beijing in years. thorities began carting off the mixture islands 1,000 kilometers off the main- BBC Web site. attraction. Checkpoints ringed Tiananmen of soil, debris and unidentified human land remained unclear. Arevalo said he has not slept since It was carrying a cargo of some Square, marring the beginning of the remains that covered hundreds of Only one pelican and two seagulls the accident and knows the islanders 234,000 gallons of fuel when it hit bot- lunar new year, the most auspicious houses. It was taken to government are known to have died. But dozens of blame him. “If they want to kill, kill me, tom 500 meters off San Cristobal, the date in the Chinese calendar. Police in- dump sites, but when those reached other birds and marine animals — sea but I need a little peace,” he said. easternmost island in the archipelago. spected identification papers, bags, their limit, the government asked pri- lions, seagulls, blue-footed boobies and Efforts to reach Arevalo for further- Tens of thousands of liters were pockets and coat sleeves to ferret out vate landowners for permission to be- albatrosses — have been affected, comment were unsuccessful. safely removed from the tanker after it suspected Falun Gong followers. gin dumping on wasteland — some of it Galapagos park officials said. Conservationists worldwide de- hit, but much more spilled into the water. The intrusive security came after five in slum areas like Montecristo. Friday, January 26, 2001 WORLD The St.Petersburg Times ❖ 19 Hip Monks Wrestling Camels Enliven Turkish Winter By Harmonie Toros Shaking THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SELCUK, Turkey — It was the battle of the giants: Cobra versus Thunder, furry neck to furry neck, using every Orthodox trick in the book to wrestle the other to the ground. Cobra tried to lock Thunder in a scis- sor move, while Thunder countered by Traditions tying his neck around Cobra. It took 20 sturdy Turks to divide the two as a crowd By Deborah Kyvrikosaios of more than 10,000 cheered on a fa- REUTERS vorite winter pastime: camel wrestling. TRIKORFO, Greece — A group of The judges ruled Sunday’s competi- Greek Orthodox monks, whose rock tion a draw between the two nearly music has stormed the Greek charts, one-ton animals. are ruffling the feathers of Greece’s For more than 100 years, camel conservative Holy Synod. wrestling has drawn crowds in western The 15 monks of the Saints Augus- Turkey during the winter months — tine and Serafeim Sarof monastery high camel mating season and a time when in the hills of central Greece say mod- farmers have little to do on their fields. ern times call for modern methods. “I learned to love this from my fa- Last year the monks, who call them- ther, and now I bring my son,” Ibrahim selves the “Free People”, released a CD Soysal said at Sunday’s match, oblivious called “I Learned to Live Free.” In con- to the large white stains of camel saliva trast to Byzantine chant it was rock and on his jacket. roll accompanied by revolutionary lyrics Male camels naturally fight for their that struck out at big power, globalisa- females during mating season — their tion, drugs, conformity and the new readiness to do battle visible in the world order. white froth coming from their mouths, The CD was a huge hit, going plat- the tension in their hind legs and their MURAD SEZER/AP inum after selling some 60,000 copies tails whipping at their backs. Two male camels trying to trip each other up before an enthusiastic crowd at the annual camel-wrestling event on Sunday. on the Greek market. And despite the “Crazy Camel” from Umurlu won’t by an opponent, or fall to the ground. maintain a camel. A good wrestling panied by traditional music and entire Greek church’s warnings about “scan- fight without his scantily clad beloved, Most matches end in ties because camel costs $20,000 on average, with families set up barbecues on the hills dalous” behaviour, the young monks Emine, prodding him on. Emine wears their owners fear their prized camels camels from Iran especially valued. overlooking the arena, feasting on beef, are doing it again. just a carpet covering her hump — in could be harmed. During matches, the But owning a good fighter is a sign chicken and camel sausage washed down Their new CD is called “SOS-Save sharp contrast to the male wresters, be- camels’ mouths are tied to keep them of power, and many village leaders buy by raki, Turkey’s strong anisette alcohol. Our Souls” and is full of bold lyrics decked in huge bead-embroidered sad- from biting each other. them to emphasize their positions. “This is the best kind of entertain- about issues such as money, power, drug dles, veil-draped headdresses and fluo- Sunday’s gathering in Selcuk, the “He won!” exclaimed Ahmet Uza, ment,” said Selami Onder, who grows abuse, and human exploitation by mod- rescent pompoms swaying on the sides. largest camel-wrestling festival in standing by his camel “Master of the apples and peaches in the village of ern technology. But, for all the glory, wrestling Turkey, gathered 96 fighting camels. Universe.” Yapildak. An accompanying video shows a camels never consummate their lust Smaller festivals are organized across “It’s important for the family and the Residents hope that camel man implanted with a microchip, his during their fighting careers; sexual ac- the Aegean from December to March. village to win,” added Uza, wearing the wrestling will increase winter tourism movements monitored by a “Big tivity would diminish their determina- Winners at Sunday’s competition re- eight-cornered flat cap, leather boots to the region and officials in Selcuk, a Brother.” Throughout the video, one of tion to fight. ceived a machine-made carpet and all and jacket, and tweed trousers tradi- small Aegean town just a few miles the monks watches over the scene, an For a winner to be declared, one of participants were given about $30 for tionally worn by camel owners. from the ancient Greek city of Eph- apparent symbol of the church observing the camels has to run out of the arena, cry transportation — nowhere near the It’s also sheer fun, say camel owners esus, hope to attract thousands of how man is enslaved by technology and out of frustration after being dominated minimum $1,500 per year it costs to and spectators. The matches are accom- tourists in the coming years. is coming to save him. “I am a little chip so small, that will drive you to slavery, buy whatever you desire in this world, as long as you live without God,” goes the song. Sydney Harbor Teems With Fear of Return of the Sharks Father Pandeleimon, Free People’s By Michael Christie slightly lesser extent, to the harbor itself in the harbor was “fairly unusual.” Strip out the “charismatic stuff” like 28-year-old lead singer, says the intention REUTERS and anecdotal evidence of an increase But to say cleaner water meant seals, birds and big fish and you find is to bring youth closer to the church. SYDNEY — Sharks, one of nature’s in fish and marine life was “incontro- more fish and therefore more sharks that many lifeforms in the sea thrive in “Life goes forward, and according to most fearsome killers, are coming in in- vertible.” was a hypothesis that might not stand a crisis — such as contamination — as the needs and demands of the times, we creasing numbers to feed in Sydney “It’s only anecdotal but it seems con- up to scrutiny. they madly reproduce to stabilise their as clerics of the church have to do things Harbor, where every weekend hun- sistent. No one can doubt the harbor “The thing is, sharks are always numbers, said Tony Underwood, a pro- to adjust to those demands of society, and dreds of sailing boats dot the water and water is getting better and that’s having there. I’d think you’d be in for quite a fessor and invertebrate biologist at Syd- to transform the language of God into thousands of bathers frolic in the coves. a beneficial impact on wildlife, more surprise if they drained the harbour and ney University. the language of modern society.” he said. Or are they? fish, more sharks,” said John Dengate you found out exactly how many are “Mostly, water quality has bugger all The monks say the idea came from Battle lines have been drawn be- of the EPA. swimming about in there,” he said. to do with anything,” Underwood said. an article they read in a computer mag- tween newspapers and some scientists Australia has always had its sharks. Marine biologists question the thesis “With the sharks in Sydney you have to azine about chip implants. Despite their who claim the cleanest Sydney Harbor Much maligned, they strike fear in most that clean water is simply good for ask: Is it because now we can see them? warnings against the evils of technology waters in many years have boosted fish hearts but have actually killed far fewer ocean critters. They’re no longer hidden by sewage?” they are planning to design a Web site populations and the predators that feed people since European settlement than, —www.freemonks.gr — where the lyrics off them, and sceptics who deride it all for example, bee stings. of the songs will be written in English so as “shark-ploitation.” Nevertheless, the government is us- they can be read in other countries. The catch in mid-January of a three- ing their menacing presence off Aus- They are even toying with the idea meter Bull shark way up the Parra- tralia’s shores to try and deter illegal im- of opening their own Internet cafes. matta River which snakes from the har- migrants. This is a lime. Their ideas have angered members bor through Sydney suburbia was seen Frequent shark sightings that fol- of the Holy Synod and some bishops by some experts as unusual. lowed two fatal attacks last September have condemned the monks, calling The Parramatta catch, headlined by suspected Great Whites off South their actions “unseemly.” They plan a “Monster in our Midst” by the tabloid Australia, and two highly publicised at- trip to the monastery to investigate. Daily Telegraph, made many locals tacks in Western Australia, have per- “[The Holy Synod] feels the need to wonder if a decades-long truce was end- suaded South Australia authorities to state its distress over this kind of action, ing between Sydneysiders and sharks. reinstitute aerial patrols. which is not consistent with a long or- The last fatal shark attack in the har- Last Sunday, Mark Ellington of a thodox monastic tradition nor in line bour was in 1963. cancer fundraising campaign called This is a lemon. with the modesty and distinction that Some professional divers, who Kayaking for Kemo Kids said he was characterises the orthodox monastic spend most of their days swimming in flung into the sea when what might ideal and causes in many instances the supposedly shark-infested waters of have been a Mako shark rammed his problems and scandal to the God-lov- Sydney harbor and the surrounding kayak as he paddled down to Sydney ing congregation of the church,” reads a coastline, think the local media is get- from Queensland. statement issued by Synod members. ting caught up in a shark headline As for Sydney harbour, Dave Crass The head of the Greek Orthodox frenzy after a number of attacks and of Manly Oceanworld said on Wednes- Church, Archbishop Christodoulos, sightings around the country. day that shark numbers were miniscule whom the monks idolise, initially em- “They’re not after humans anyway. in comparison with 150 years ago, when braced their schemes but now appears For the most part, if they take a bite out hundreds would have been swimming Do you know what makes to have distanced himself. of you they’ll realise you’re not a fish in the water. 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We are offering www.sptimes.ru/jobs To advertise, new advertising options Check it out now! call 325−6080 Sports FRIDAY, JANUARY 26, 2001 PAGE 24 Capriati To Meet Hingis in Aussie Open Final By Phil Brown THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MELBOURNE, Australia — Martina Hingis finally beat both Williams sisters in the same tournament, and handed Venus her worst loss ever in the process. Playing with a new “wave of confi- dence,” former troubled teenager Jen- TENNIS nifer Capriati reached her first Grand- Slam final. The matchup for the Australian Open championship was set after Hingis beat Venus Williams 6-1, 6-1 Thursday, and Capriati knocked out defending champion Lindsay Davenport 6-3, 6-4. Capriati, the No. 12 seed, reacted by putting her hand behind her head in a gesture of disbelief. Both losers suffered from a rash of errors as Williams missed a chance to collect a fourth consecutive big title af- ter the Wimbledon, U.S. Open and Olympic championships. Capriati, who rates the 1992 Olympic gold medal as the greatest feat of her career, beat Steffi Graf in that fi- nal at age 16. That was before her mid- 1990s hiatus from tennis with drug and personal problems. Hingis is seeking her fourth title in the last five Australian Opens. Williams, who beat Hingis on her way to the Wimbledon and U.S. Open titles, held service only once, commit- ted 38 errors and yielded her second service break of the second set by serv- ing three double faults. WILL BURGESS/REUTERS She gave Hingis match point by No. 2 seed and defending champion Davenport, left, congratulating fellow American and No. 12 seed Capriati on her semifinal victory at the Australian Open Thursday. slamming a volley far out, and then “It’s a sad thing not to go home with beaten one Williams sister and then lost “In all the semifinals I’ve ever Not this time. missed a backhand long. the title,” Williams said. to the other, including the 1999 U.S. played, this was probably the most dis- “Just in this tournament, from the “Things happen all the time for no Hingis also was responsible for one Open, won by Serena. appointing in the way that I showed up beginning, all of a sudden this confi- apparent reason,” Williams said. of Williams’ worst previous losses, 6-2, She became the third player to beat to play,” Davenport said. dence came over me, like this wave of She said Hingis played her normal 6-1 in 1997 — “when I was like a baby,” both sisters in the same tournament. Davenport said she was sending confidence,” said Capriati, who beat consistent, counterpunching game. the 20-year-old Williams said. Arantxa Sanchez-Vicario did it in balls long because the 34-degree heat No. 4 Monica Seles in the quarterfinals. “A lot of times I’d be in there and Before rallying from 1-4 in the final 1998 and Steffi Graf in ’99. made the balls lighter and harder to “I had to really jump on top of her I’d just miss a shot, just giving it back to set to beat Serena Williams on Wednes- Davenport hung her head or banged control. early, especially on her serve,” Capriati her,” a subdued Williams said. “That’s day, Hingis watched Venus’ slow start her racket on the court after some of “Her balls were coming extremely said of Davenport. “Maybe I thought something you can’t do, especially in a against Coetzer. the 43 errors that accounted for a ma- hard, so then it’s hard to do what you she was taking me a little bit lightly Grand-Slam semifinal.” “[It] was the same thing today,” jority of Capriati’s 78 points. want with the ball,” she added. there. So I got the early break [in the Williams, however, had been strug- Hingis said. Trying to stay in the match with Capriati said she was stronger and second game]. I think that helped a lot.” gling throughout the tournament, need- “I am fitter now and taking the ball Capriati serving at 5-4 in the second set, more aggressive than when she lost to In 1990-91, Capriati also reached ing three sets in three of her first five earlier, and I think that helps me when Davenport missed two serve returns, Davenport in last year’s semifinals here. three Grand Slam tournament semifi- matches. She had to rally from 3-5 in I play the power players like the netted a backhand and finally dumped “Maybe I was kind of intimidated nals, but lost each time. the final set to beat Amanda Coetzer in Williamses,” Hingis said. a forehand into the net while chasing a by her and the whole moment,” “I was happy just playing and even Wednesday’s quarterfinals. In three previous events, Hingis had wide shot by Capriati. Capriati said. See TENNIS, Page 23 Russian Duo Reclaims Figure-Skating Crown SKA Looks to Foreigners By Colleen Barry they pretend to falter at a musical stop. ished easily at the top of her group. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Chaplinesque humor van- The round counts for 20 percent of BRATISLAVA, Slovakia — Russians quished their one error: Berezhnaya the final score — but neither Slutskaya, For Much-Needed Boost Yelena Berezhnaya and Anton Sikharu- touched down during the side-by-side seeking her fourth European title, nor lidze overcame an early mistake Wednes- double axel, forcing them to pass on a teammate Maria Butyrskaya, looking By Christopher Hamilton ko, 34-year-old Vladimir Kochin, and day to reclaim the European Figure- planned combination. for her third, displayed more than a SPECIAL TO THE ST. PETERSBURG TIMES 37-year-old Mikhail Kravets who Skating title stripped from them last year. The performance held off an ad- glimmer of their true mastery. St. Petersburg hockey team SKA played center despite playing most of The error — a missed combination vance by Totmyanina and Marinin, Slutskaya even wore her reserve spelled out their recipe for survival his career at right wing. — came during a charming long pro- who made no mistakes and were the costume, saving the elegant black and Wednesday night enlisting foreign play- “We are short of centers and I chose only pair to complete two side-by-side Bordeaux red dress designed by Bol- ers as they opened the professional Kravets to fill the gap,” said SKA head FIGURE SKATING triple jumps. shoi ballet’s own costume designer for hockey Superliga’s second stage with a coach Rafail Ishmatov who added that gram drawing on Charlie Chaplin’s Still, Berezhnaya and Sikharulidze the final free skate on Saturday. 3-0 loss to Dinamo Moscow. he hoped to move him back to his regu- goofy grace. The victory was redemp- edged them technically, with marks Slutskaya is the only woman who has SKA changed their team formula lar position soon. tion for last year, when they were dis- ranging from 5.7 to 5.9s, to their compa- hit the difficult triple lutz-triple loop, and from a young team by signing a number Likely to ease this problem is Swe- qualified after Berezhnaya tested posi- triots’ 5.6s to 5.8s. her long program can feature up to seven dish center Peter Nylander who failed to tive for a banned substance. Abitbol and Bernadis, third at least triple jumps. Yet in qualifying she hit just ICE HOCKEY debut because his luggage, including all Skating with equal musical acuity, the year’s world’s, defended their European five triples. It was for lack of trying. of experienced players including 34- his hockey equipment, hasn’t arrived yet. until-now-overlooked No. 3 Russian pair bronze with a routine to an edgy, some- Both Butyrskaya, 28, and Slutskaya, year-old Canadian defenseman Bob The fourth and final foreigner is of Tatyana Totmyanina and Maxim times industrial version of Tristan and 21, will be taking aim at Kwan at the Halkadis, who played 11 seasons in the Ukrainian forward Yevgeny Mynchen- Marinin vaulted to second with a snappy, Isolde arranged specially for them. worlds in Vancouver, British Columbia, NHL before being sent to the minors in ko who didn’t get much ice time in his error-free program to West Side Story Abitbol touched down on a throw triple in March. Both Russians have beaten 1997, and 32-year-old defenseman Vla- opening match. selections. Sarah Abitbol and Stephane loop, but it was a small error. her in the past, Slutskaya three times in dimir Tarasov. Russian hockey veterans Igor Bernadis of France finished third. Defending European champion 2000. Butyrskaya, European champion Tarasov debuted on Petersburgs’s Belyaevsky and Konstantin Bytsenko Berezhnaya and Sikharulidze earned Irina Slutskaya’s pursuit of technical dif- in 1998 and 1999, beat Kwan at the 1999 top line paired with Alexei Danilov were also listed on the SKA roster, but a perfect 6.0 for presentation — in a field ficulty has raised the bar for American World Championship. while Halkadis teamed up with Russian have yet to arrive in St. Petersburg. where 5.9s were common — after a pro- champ Michelle Kwan, who has been The Russians are on track to win national junior team defenseman Fyo- Despite the sprinkling of seasoned gram that won over the audience with its seeking consistency in her triple-triple both the women’s and men’s titles, with dor Tyutin. veterans into SKA’s lineup, the young of- comical poses. At one point, Sikharulidze combination. Yet that competitive drive Yevgeny Plushchenko, Alexei Yagudin The army team’s second offensive fensive line of Alexander Shinkar, Alexei stuck out his belly and scratched his be- was notably absent from Slutskaya’s and Alexander Abt locked in the top line was made up entirely from scratch Tsvetkov, and Yury Trubochev was the hind, and there were pleasing pauses as qualifying Wednesday, where she fin- three spots going into Thursday’s final. with Ukranian winger Bogdan Saven- See SKA, Page 23

Рег. ПИ № 2-4636, выдан Северо-Западным региональным управлением Роскомпечати 01.07.2000. Отпечатано в ГУП “СПб Государственный газетный комплекс”. 198216, СПб, Ленинский пр., 139. Заказ № 234. Тираж 20000 экз. Friday, January 26, 2001 SPORTS The St.Petersburg Times ❖ 23 There’s No Pens Win as Mario Continues To Amaze REUTERS Lemieux completed his hat trick 87 Place Like VANCOUVER — Markus Naslund be- seconds into the third period. Lemieux came the National Hockey League’s first has 14 goals and 12 assists in 13 games 30-goal scorer this season and the Van- since moving from the owner’s box to couver Canucks used their special teams the ice. He has a point in every game The Road to cool off the Phoenix Coyotes, 6-2. except a win over Anaheim on Jan. 15. Vancouver scored three power-play Eric Chouinard scored his first NHL goals and a short-handed tally to snap a goal on the power play with 2:12 to go to break up Garth Snow’s bid for a sec- For Sixers ICE HOCKEY ond straight shutout. REUTERS four-game losing streak while prevent- HOUSTON, Texas — Tyrone Hill re- ing Phoenix from recording a season- New Jersey 4, Dallas 1. In Dallas, the bounded Allen Iverson’s second con- high sixth straight win. New Jersey Devils scored three goals secutive missed free throw and put in a After Josh Holden scored his first on as many shots in a 71-second span of lay-up in the final minute that lifted the goal of the season 5:52 into the game the first period and coasted to a 4-1 vic- Philadelphia 76ers to their franchise- Wednesday night, Naslund doubled the tory over the Dallas Stars. record 12th straight road victory, an 85- Canucks’ lead with a power-play goal Scott Niedermayer, Petr Sykora and 84 overtime triumph over the Houston just before the midway point. Alexander Mogilny did the damage, Rockets. Vancouver put away the game with chasing rookie goaltender Marty Turco. Hill pulled down a season-high 19 three goals in the second period. Trent Martin Brodeur made 32 saves for rebounds but none bigger than his grab Klatt and Harold Druken scored 93 sec- the Devils. onds apart early in the session before BASKETBALL rookie Jarkko Ruutu got his first NHL Detroit 4, Nashville 3. In Detroit, Mar- with 56 seconds to go. goal while killing a penalty at 7:05. tin Lapointe and Aaron Ward scored Iverson scored 32 points and won his Former Canuck Brad May and Tka- second-period goals on a historic night duel with Steve Francis, who had 24. chuk provided the offense for Phoenix. at Joe Louis Arena as the Detroit Red Wings held on for a 4-3 victory over the Cleveland 94, Chicago 86. Elton Pittsburgh 3, Montreal 1. In Pittsburgh, Nashville Predators. Brand’s short jumper gave the Chicago Mario Lemieux’s improbable comeback Defenseman Larry Murphy helped JASON COHN/REUTERS Bulls an 82-81 lead with 4:53 to play be- continued as the Hall of Famer set up Lapointe’s tally as he became Lemieux celebrating his second goal in a 3-1 win over Montreal on Wednesday. fore the Cleveland Cavaliers awoke recorded a hat trick to lift the Pitts- only the second player in NHL history Carolina 3, New York Rangers 2. In New Wallin forged a 1-1 tie 5:53 into the from their slumber to win 94-86. burgh Penguins to a 3-1 victory over the to appear in 1,600 games. Long-time York, defensemen Niclas Wallin and second with his second NHL goal. Andre Miller hit two free throws, La- injury-riddled Montreal Canadiens. Red Wings captain Steve Yzerman had David Tanabe scored 29 seconds apart to Tanabe put Carolina ahead for good mond Murray followed a missed lay-up Lemieux’s 40th career hat trick a pair of assists to tie Phil Esposito for spark a three-goal second period as the at 6:22 with his first goal since Nov. 12. by Miller with a dunk and Jim Jackson ranks second all-time behind Wayne sixth place on the league’s all-time scor- Carolina Hurricanes held on for a 3-2 Martin Gelinas stretched the lead to 3- drilled a three-pointer as Cleveland took Gretzky’s 50. ing list with 1,590 points. victory over the New York Rangers. 1 with 5:47 left in the period. an 88-84 lead with 3:46 remaining. Murray hit two free throws Wednes- day night, Gatling knocked down a mid-range jump shot and Murray fed Clarence Weatherspoon for a dunk that Giants, Ravens Claim Super Bowl Victory Lies in the Trenches made it 94-86 with 54 seconds left, se- By Barry Wilner been their best defensive player. Or “You’ve got your stars at other posi- defense, the leader and the guy you curing the Cavs’ first consecutive victo- THE ASSOCIATED PRESS perhaps it was end Michael Strahan. tions, but the game is always won in the look to. He’s got to take the coaches’ ries since Dec. 15-16. TAMPA, Florida — They don’t mind Baltimore, of course, has Adams and trenches,” said Stone, who wore a T- personality out on the field and relay it Miller had 13 points, nine assists and getting down and dirty, so the New Tony Siragusa inside, nearly 320 kilo- shirt with “Overworked and Underap- to the guys in the huddle.” seven rebounds and Jackson and York Giants and Baltimore Ravens al- grams of practically immovable beef. On preciated” emblazoned on it. That rugged personality isn’t confined Weatherspoon added 12 points each for most relish the idea of deciding the Su- the outside, the Ravens have sackmas- “They’ve got two athletic guys who to the Ravens in this game, of course. Cleveland. per Bowl in the trenches. ters Rob Burnett and Michael McCrary. are very big and take up so much space Nor is it limited to the defensive fronts. And most of them insist that’s ex- “Burnett and McCrary penetrate a and they get into the blocks and you Jon Ogden, Baltimore’s All-Pro of- Charlotte 81, New York 67. In Char- actly where the outcome of Sunday’s lot, they are very quick,” said Giants of- can’t get to Ray.” fensive tackle, is big enough, strong lotte, North Carolina, Jamal Mash- NFL title game will be determined. fensive line coach Jim McNally. “Then That would be Ray Lewis, the NFL enough and mobile enough to dominate burn had 31 points, 13 rebounds and you have those two in the middle. defensive player of the year. The mid- at the line. But so is Hamilton, who, de- fueled a decisive run to close the first AMERICAN FOOTBALL “A big part of the game is fought in dle linebacker knows how to dig ditches spite being just an NFC alternate for the half as the Charlotte Hornets snapped “We both have the same style of the trenches, and their defense obvi- as well as anyone, although the idea is Pro Bowl, has been as good as any de- a five-game losing streak with an 81-67 play, blue-collar and physically aggres- ously has been a stone wall.” for Adams and Siragusa — and, to a fensive tackle for the last two months. triumph over the slumping New York sive defenses,” said Pro Bowl defensive Which means New York’s revamped lesser extent, Burnett and McCrary — “We get too much exposure for Knicks. tackle Sam Adams, a key contributor to offensive line, led by Pro Bowl guard to keep the blockers away from Lewis. things like holding, not enough for David Wesley — the only other Baltimore’s record-setting defense. Ron Stone, must act like a wrecking ball. Then Lewis is free to make tackles, helping win games,” Ogden said. Charlotte player to score in double fig- “That’s how we both win and got here.” Stone believes the unit, bolstered by something nobody does better. “What I like is I’m going to have my ures — had 18 points as the Hornets won Neither team is at a defensive disad- the offseason addition of veterans Lo- Unoffically, Lewis has led the league guy right here, in front of me, and I’m for the first time since an 86-85 triumph vantage at the line of scrimmage. While mas Brown at tackle, Glenn Parker at in tackles three of the last five years. going to have to move him,” he said. at NBA-worst Chicago on Jan. 12. the Ravens allowed the fewest points in guard and Dusty Zeigler at center, can “The guy in that position has been “And I plan to move him,” Hamilton Latrell Sprewell scored 22 points for a 16-game season — and still are six handle the destructive assignment — the quarterback on defense,” defensive added. the Knicks. points below the old mark — the Giants even if right tackle Luke Pettigout is coordinator Marvin Lewis said. “So ev- Whichever team wins in the have been nearly as staunch up front. hampered by a left ankle injury sus- erything starts with him and centers trenches will have a huge edge consid- Phoenix 106, Detroit 73. In Auburn Tackle Keith Hamilton might have tained in Wednesday’s practice. around him. He’s the focal point of your ering points may be at a premium. Hills, Michigan, Cliff Robinson scored 12 of his 27 points in the first quarter and Shawn Marion added 18 and 16 re- Rafter had begun strongly, sending tal for the match to 19, before taking bounds as the Phoenix Suns snapped a TENNIS down four aces in his first service game, the tiebreak. three-game losing streak by pasting the Continued from page 24 but the Agassi took the opening set Rafter beat Agassi in a thrilling five- Detroit Pistons, 106-73. when he claimed the first break of serve setter in last year’s Wimbledon semifinals Robinson had the final four points in having a good couple wins here and in the 11th game after Rafter pushed a but it quickly became clear that he was in a game-opening 8-0 run and the Suns there, getting my ranking up,” Capriati backhand long. trouble this time as he struggled to run. never looked back. said, referring to her matches early in Rafter, a dual U.S. Open champion, With Rafter unable to move freely, Jerry Stackhouse, the NBA’s leading her comeback. “But now my expecta- fought back to take the second set 6-2. Agassi had no problems holding serve scorer who missed the last game with tions are going to be higher.” He got the first break in the fourth game and broke twice to win the fourth set the flu, was held to 19 points. when Agassi double-faulted then again and once more in the fifth to reach his ❑ in the eighth game when he lunged to 12th grand slam final. Miami 103, Toronto 83. In Miami, An- Defending champion Andre Agassi send a forehand winner cross court. Agassi won the Australian Open in Live broadcast thony Mason scored 21 points to lead a beat an injured Pat Rafter in five sets The Australian serve-and-volleyer 1995 and again last year. of sports balanced attack as the Heat beat the Thursday to reach the Australian Open blasted three aces past Agassi in the Toronto Raptors 103-83. final for the third time. 11th game of the third set, taking his to- — Reuters competitions! Eddie Jones scored 18 points and Agassi sealed a 7-5, 2-6, 6-7, 6-2, 6-3 Brian Grant added 17 for the Heat (26- victory in just over three hours after the Place Your Bets! 18), who have won 12 of their last 16 Australian’s legs cramped up so badly SKA finished at the bottom of the games. that he could hardly run. SKA league’s first stage with a 2-0-0-2-30 (W- Breakfasts Vince Carter scored 21 points for Rafter had led by two sets to one Continued from page 24 OTW-T-OTL-L) record. the Raptors. even though his legs had started to seize For the second stage, which started Business Lunches up early in the third set, but won just most aggressive with chances to put the Wednesday, the league has been di- Golden State 109, New Jersey 87. In four more games as his muscles tight- home team on the board early in the first. vided into three separate groups of six The Best European Oakland, Antawn Jamison scored 28 ened more in the last two. Visiting goalie Mikhail Shtalenkov was teams each. The top six are guaranteed points and grabbed 12 rebounds as the Rafter, bidding to become the first invincible and held on for a shutout. spots in the play-offs and will play to Cuisine Golden State Warriors used a big third local player since Pat Cash in 1998 to Muscovite Alexander Kuvalenko improve their standings. The middle six quarter to defeat the New Jersey Nets, make the men’s singles final, needed opened the scoring at 16:03 of the first. will compete for the last two play-off Billiards 109-87. treatment after the fourth set but Even though SKA showed rare spots, while the bottom six fight to Former Net Mookie Blaylock bravely played on even though he was spirit in the second Dinamo ran away avoid relegation to the first division. Live music scored 20 points and rookie Marc Jack- in obvious discomfort. with the game after scoring a power- Joining SKA in the relegation group son had 17 and 13 rebounds. The sixth-seeded Agassi will play the play goal at 38:41 and went ahead 3-0 at are capital teams Dinamo and CSKA, Stephon Marbury suffered through winner of Friday’s second semifinal be- 1:44 in the third. Dinamo stifled the Pe- Moscow Region team Viyatz, Molot- 12 Sadovaya Ul. three-of-14 shooting and scored just 11 tween Frenchmen Arnaud Clement and tersburgers with tight defense and ex- Prikamye from Perm and Yekaterin- Tel. 314-9334 points for New Jersey. Sebastien Grosjean in Sunday’s final. cellent goaltending in the third. burg’s Dinamo-Energia.