If you are looking for a unique event to take a date on Sunday night in St. Petersburg, St. Catherine’s Roman Catholic Church is having a Christmas midnight mass. This is a first for the church as they have usually held the mass earlier in the evening to accommodate parish members who would usually have [...]

It has been determined that the two geese that died in the St. Petersburg Zoo last month did not have bird flu as had been reported. The birds were tested for avian influenza and the results were negative.
Local media in the St. Petersburg area had been speculating that the two geese and three others at [...]

A recent exhibition at the Elsium Gallery takes a look at how artists portrayed individual letters in the Russian alphabet from the Silver Age through the Russian Revolution.
There are thirty-three letters in the Russian alphabet and at least 10 of those letters are vowels. One way that children learn their ABCs is through the [...]

Royal Dutch Shell and Gazprom have made progress in recent negotiations in the $20 billion Saklain-2 project. The CEO of Shell, Jeroen van der Veer, has made three trips to Moscow in three weeks, possibly suggesting that a deal between the two companies is soon to come.
The original offer from Gazprom was a share of [...]

Russian Four-Man Bobsled Team Takes World Cup Lead
Russia’s four-man bobsled team is on top of the World Cup standings after a victory Sunday. Driver Yevgeny Popov led the team to victory at Mount Van Hoevenberg.
The Russian 1 team of Popov, Dmitry Stepushkin, Roman Orechnikov and Dmitry Trunenkov finished the race in 1 minute and [...]