12:57 G8 Summit: Russia prepares for constructive dialogue
Participants in the July G8 summit will come to St. Petersburg with different goals in mind, and this is natural, because industrialized countries have always had different goals.

12:49 St. Petersburg shipyard launches new corvette for Russian Navy-1
St. Petersburg's Severnaya Verf shipyard Tuesday launched a new surface ship for the Russian Navy.The Steregushchy corvette is the first in the Project 20380 series designed by the Almaz Central Marine Design Bureau and being built at the shipyard.

12:40 Island of freedom
Fidel, the new bar that musician Anton Belyankin is opening this week, is likely to repeat the extraordinary success of Datscha, the local favorite with expats, the artsy crowd and students that he co-founded two years earlier.