NEWS

MUSIC HALL TO FIGHT FINE FOR ‘NORD-OST’

The St. Petersburg Music Hall says it will appeal against a Moscow Arbitration Court ruling that said it must pay the producers of musical “Nord-Ost” about 10 million rubles ($350,000), the theater’s director, Alexander Platunov, said Monday.

The award ...

ROSES PLANTED AT PETERHOF

German Baroness Clotilde von Rintelen, great greatgranddaughter of Russia’s national poet Alexander Pushkin, on Monday brought 300 rose bushes to be planted ...

RUSSIAN MUSEUM MAY CLOSE

The State Russian Museum is facing imminent temporary closure because it is operating without its charter having been ratified.

Museum director Vladimir Gusev said last week that because the organization hasn’t registered a charter, its bank accounts ...

SEVERSTAL PURCHASE GIVES STATE CONTROL OF REN-TV STATION

MOSCOW — The liberal-minded owners of Ren-TV, the last national television channel that offers critical news coverage, have sold a controlling stake to ...

IN BRIEF

Governor’s Rating Up

ST. PETERSBURG (SPT) — St. Petersburgers’ trust in Governor Valentina Matviyenko grew 6 percentage points in June, Interfax reported Friday, quoting a survey by the Agency of Social Information last month.

Forty-six percent of respondents ...

BEREZOVSKY RELEASES SALE PRICE OF HOLDINGS

LONDON — Boris Berezovsky has for the first time disclosed how much he earned from selling his vast Russian holdings, as the self-exiled oligarch prepares ...

MN SOLD TO UKRAINIAN MEDIA HOLDING

MOSCOW — Media International Group, a holding owned by Ukrainian businessman Vadim Rabinovich, said Sunday that it had purchased 100 percent of the Moskovskiye Novosti newspaper from Yukos investor Leonid Nevzlin, Interfax-Ukraine reported.

Moskovskiye ...

POLICEMAN JAILED FOR PLANE BOMBS

MOSCOW — A Moscow region court on Thursday found airport police Captain Mikhail Artamonov guilty of negligence in the deaths of 90 people in the suicide ...

VISA-FREE KIEV

MOSCOW — Since Friday, U.S. citizens no longer need visas for visits of up to 90 days to Ukraine, Interfax reported, citing the Ukrainian presidential office.

The July 1 change takes effect exactly two months after Ukraine lifted visa requirements for ...

BROTHER SITS EXAM FOR HIS SISTER

MOSCOW — Moscow State University rejected the application of a young woman after her brother, masquerading as a woman, was caught trying to take an entrance ...

Chechen Rock Show Canceled

MOSCOW — Some concerts get canceled due to slow ticket sales, bad weather or stars crying off sick, but a planned rock concert in Chechnya was called off a day before it was due to take place because of security concerns.

Chechen Prime Minister Sergei Abramov said Monday in Grozny that the “Phoenix: ...