17:09 Multiplex For Petersburg
Moscow-based Cinema Park is due to open what will be St. Petersburg’s largest cinema, a nine-screen $13 million multiplex, the company said Thursday. Located in the Grand Canyon shopping center, the cinema will show its first film December 14.

16:55 St. Petersburg Governor on visit
Governor Valentina Matviyenko of St. Petersburg has been visiting Vietnam in an effort to further tighten friendship and co-operative relations in many fields with the country.

16:41 Environmentalists Picket Major Fur Auction
Environmentalists have called for Russia to ban fur sales and the use of animal traps at a protest outside the only surviving annual fur event in the country.Members of the Alliance for the Protection of Animal Rights gathered on Wednesday.