NO. 30 (1822) САНКТ-ПЕТЕРБУРГ-ТАЙМС WEDNESDAY, JULY 30, 2014 WWW.SPTIMES.RU ANNA VOLKOVA Marines from the Russian navy cool off by jumping into the fountain outside the Admiralty building on Sunday as part of the Navy Day celebrations in the city. President Putin praised the sea AHOY! fleets the same day, calling them the country’s ‘pride, strength and dignity’ while pledging that the ‘power and strength of the Russian navy will only grow.’ See story, page 4. LOCAL NEWS NATIONAL NEWS LGBT Protesters MH17 Crash Site ARTS & CULTURE Left in Peace Going With The Flow How Helsinki’s Flow Festival has become one of summer’s For the first time, local hottest music tickets. LGBT rally goes ahead with Surge in violence forces Page 7. minimal disruption. Page 2. investigators away. Page 3. LocalNews www.sptimes.ru | Wednesday, July 30, 2014 ❖ 2 Protesters Left in Peace at Annual LGBT Rally press his opinion elsewhere as he was “a free man in not a very free country.” “Personally, it’s not necessary to have some date and the Field of Mars to take to the street with a rainbow flag,” Kal- ugin told The St. Petersburg Times this week. “I am not going to be guided by the wishes of City Hall or anyone else when I plan a protest,” he said. “They’ve created this cell for us, and they don’t let us go anywhere else. I un- derstand the organizers, who want to hold a peaceful rally, but they should also understand me when I say that I am getting tired of walking like a flock into this paddock. There has been criticism that I demand respect, while not respect- ing the police, City Hall, the state, but I don’t find it necessary to show respect SERGEY CHERNOV / FOR SPT / FOR CHERNOV SERGEY for those people that don’t have any re- Protesters were forced to stay in a fenced-in area on the Field of Mars. spect for me and pass laws against me in my own country. By Sergey Chernov fenced site, with officers searching bags “If City Hall permits some rally, it THE ST. PETERSBURG TIMES and confiscating water and sharp objects means it sees it as safe and not scary, be- One activist and one photographer were as participants entered the site. cause it controls it. I don’t want the state arrested at the fifth annual St. Peters- In fact, last year, despite an agree- to get into my business and decide for burg LGBT Pride rally on Saturday, July ment with City Hall, the police shut me where I am allowed to stand and 26. Nevertheless, the one-hour rally down the rally and arrested more than where I am not.” against the discrimination of gay, lesbian, 60 activists, who had been earlier pelted Protester Yevgeny Prokopenko was bisexual and transgender people in Rus- with stones, eggs and smoke bombs by arrested this year after an exchange with sia went ahead more peacefully than some 200 anti-gay protesters. A number police officers, who claimed that his ever before in the rally’s history, neither of LGBT activists were assaulted and placard reading “Sodomy is sweeter being attacked by anti-gay crowds nor beaten during or after the rally. This than honey” violated the national law shut down by the police. It has also been year, however, only a handful of anti-gay prohibiting the “promotion of non-tradi- described as the lengthiest protest in the protesters showed up. tional sexual relations with minors.” SPT / FOR CHERNOV SERGEY history of the city’s LGBT movement. Despite this year’s event being seen Prokopenko explained that his placard Kirill Kalugin holds a rainbow flag that was torn during last year’s rally. About 100 people attended the rally, by many as an achievement, there were was a protest against the law and he was which was held in a small fenced site on still some at the rally protesting against then taken to a police vehicle after refus- crime, so that I had an opportunity to St. Petersburg Times, he said that a man the Field of Mars in central St. Peters- the authorities for only allowing the ing to put it away. confront the law in court because I don’t protested against him taking photo- burg. Under a recent law, the site was event to be held in a fenced site. Speak- “It was an anti-homophobic mes- agree with it.” Prokopenko was told he graphs of the minors without their par- designated by City Hall for holding small ing at the rally, activist Kirill Kalugin — sage,” said Prokopenko. “It implied that would be called when a hearing is ap- ents’ consent. According to Belozyorov, public assemblies. Dozens of police ve- who held a rainbow flag that had been ‘non-traditional sexual relations’ were pointed. the police held him on the pretext that he hicles and hundreds of the OMON riot torn by anti-gay attackers at last year’s not bad but quite the opposite. I hoped a Photographer Alexei Belozyorov was had no identification and let him go three police were stationed at and near the protest — said he had the right to ex- little that I would be charged with this also detained. Speaking this week to the hours later without pressing charges. ALL ABOUT TOWN Wednesday, July 30 Saturday, Aug. 2 SPIBA continues their series of Gatchina Palace Park Museum will Look@It tours, which focus on the host its second annual Night of Light, success stories of major brands in the an impressive audio-visual show St. Petersburg market. Today’s event across the night sky. Tickets are 600 will focus on the Gorky Golf Club rubles ($16). and will also be held there. For more If graphic design is more your details visit spiba.ru thing then check out Illustration Day, where you will be able to visit Thursday, July 31 an exhibition, attend lectures by pro- Develop your leadership abilities fessionals and even show experts during a lecture by famous Russian some of your own work. The event author and coach Radislav Ganda- starts at noon at Zona Deystvia, 73 pas. The event starts at 9 a.m. at 5 Ligovsky Prospekt. The entrance fee Lodeinopolskaya Ulitsa. The price is 350 rubles ($10). for entry is 20,500 rubles ($570). Relax and enjoy a Parisian atmo- Sunday, Aug. 3 sphere with some romantic and laid- History lovers shouldn’t miss the back jazz tunes during the Night of chance to see reenactments of World French Music at Lenny Jam Cafe, 63 War I battles in Pushkin at noon. Be- Ligovsky Prospekt. The entrance sides exciting war scenes, visitors can fee is 250 rubles ($7). enjoy live music, historical costumes, The Women’s Business Club is an equestrian show and a fancy-dress hosting a Beauty Brunch where par- parade starting from the Moscow ticipants are invited to discuss the gates. latest news in the beauty industry Garage Sale, the popular and and listen to lectures by professional growing flea market where nothing stylists in the business. is priced over 500 rubles ($14.11), starts today at noon in Loft-Project Friday, Aug. 1 Etagi, 74 Ligovsky Prospekt. Be sure Bikers from all around the world will to get in early to score a bargain. En- gather to take part in a parade, ex- try costs 50 rubles ($1.40) treme shows and rock concerts dur- ing the International Biker Festival Monday, Aug. 4 that revs its engines today and runs Continue the working week with a through Aug. 3 near Olgino Hotel, calm and steady mind with a free 4/2 Primorskogo Shosse. yoga lesson at 7 p.m. in the Bukvoed The Peter and Paul Fortress will store at 23A Vladimirsky Prospekt. be turned into an open-air cinema today and tomorrow as part of the Tuesday, Aug. 5 5th International Short and Anima- Visit The Romanov Dynasty doll ex- tion Film Festival. A huge screen hibition today, where more than fifty across the fortress walls will air short porcelain dolls depicting Russian films non-stop with board games, rulers, and made by Olina Ventzel, photo sessions and other activities will be on show. The exhibition con- also on offer for visitors. For more tinues through Aug. 31 in Shereme- 16+ information, visit www.opencinema- tyev Palace, 34 Fontanka Naberezh- fest.ru naya. NationalNews www.sptimes.ru | Wednesday, July 30, 2014 ❖ 3 IN BRIEF Cheese Inquiry Investigators Turn Back from MH17 Site THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ■ MOSCOW (SPT) — Hot on the Heavy fighting raged Monday around heels of accusations that McDonald’s the Malaysia Airlines debris field, once was misleading customers about the nu- again preventing an international police tritional value of its products, Russia’s team charged with securing the site food safety watchdog on Monday said it from even getting there. has opened an investigation into the Government troops have stepped up cheese used by the chain. their push to win back territory from pro- The Federal Veterinary and Phyto- Russian separatists in fighting that sanitary Control Service “has intensi- the United Nations said Monday has fied monitoring of residual amounts killed more than 1,100 people in four of tetracycline antibiotics in cheese sup- months. plied to Russia, including McDonald’s The international delegation of Aus- in Russia,” the agency’s head, Sergei tralian and Dutch police and forensic Dankvert, told Itar-Tass. experts stopped Monday in Shakhtarsk, Most of the cheese used by McDon- a town about 30 kilometers from the ald’s in Russia comes from German fields where the Boeing 777 was brought and Czech suppliers, he said.