A massive fire broke out late Tuesday at a facility owned by an industrial firm in Russia's second city of Saint Petersburg, Russian ...
ST PETERSBURG (Reuters) - Qualifier Sergiy Stakhovsky sent Marat Safin to the brink of retirement when he beat the former world number one ...
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi met his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on Wednesday on a private visit to Russia that has been ridiculed by the Italian left, officials said. Berlusconi met Putin in Russia's second city Saint Petersburg on "a private visit" ...
A woman makes her way over the snowy tracks left by pedestrians in St. Petersburg, Russia, Monday, Oct. 12, 2009. Snow fell Monday across St. Petersburg, while temperatures reached 1 Celsius (34 Fahrenheit). (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky) Copyright 2009 AP News
Around 3,000 Russians held an angry protest Saturday against a controversial plan by state-run energy giant Gazprom to build a huge skyscraper in the country's former imperial capital. Demonstrators held signs saying "Gazprom go home" and "History is worth more than money" ...
Thousands of Russians rally in St. Petersburg to protest planned skyscraper About 3,000 protesters rallied in Russia's former czarist capital on Saturday to protest a plan to build a hulking skyscraper for state energy giant Gazprom. The protesters urged Russian President Dmitry ...
FILE -- In this Nov. 2006 file photo, officials look at a model of the Gazprom's skyscraper at an exhibition in St. Petersburg, Russia. Governor of Russia's second city of St. Petersburg, Valentina Matviyenko, signed a decree Tuesday allowing the construction of ...
President Barack Obama points to the audience as he speaks in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Monday, Oct. 5, 2009. From left are, Dr. Mona Mangat of St. Petersburg, Fla.; Dr. Hershey Garner of Fayetteville, Ark.; the president; ...
President Barack Obama is applauded in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Monday, Oct. 5, 2009, during an address to doctors on the health care reform. From left are, Dr. Mona Mangat of St. Petersburg, Fla.; Dr. Hershey Garner ...
New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner, right, looks out from his suite during the third inning of a baseball game against the Tampa Bay Rays in St. Petersburg, Fla., Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2009. (AP Photo/Reinhold Matay) Copyright 2009 AP News
Tampa Bay Rays' B.J. Upton heads to first base after hitting a fifth-inning single off New York Yankees pitcher David Robertson during a baseball game Friday, Oct. 2, 2009 in St. Petersburg, Fla. Upton becomes the first player in team history to ...
Baltimore Orioles manager Dave Trembley looks on before a baseball game against the Tampa Bay Rays, Thursday, Oct. 1, 2009, in St. Petersburg, Fla. The Orioles have lost 13-straight games. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara) Copyright 2009 AP News
