18:22 France will take an active part in celebration of the 300-year anniversary of St. Petersburg.
France's President Jeacques Chirac announced this on Tuesday in Paris, at a common press-conference with Russia's President Vladimir Putin.

18:21 Internet is the favourite friend and teacher.
The four-day “Internet-Festival of Young Teachers” has opened in the Youth Creativity Centre.

18:20 Athena Pallada and Genius of Glory are back again.
The sculpture group “Athena Pallada and Genius of Glory” have occupied their place above the main entrance of the Russian Ethnographic Museum.

18:11 A conference of prison Christian pastors has been held in St. Petersburg.
The speaker of the conference is Reyo Loykkanen – a famous Finnish pastor, who had been sentenced to all-life imprisonment and spent about 30 years in Finnish prisons.