Petrozavodsk ,Russia

By jessicaott

  • day of your town

    On June 25th Petrozavodsk had 'day of your town' . There was band of bards in the main square of Petrozavodsk. It was the main celebrateshon in summer.

  • Russia and Poland: overcoming 20 years of distrust

    Earlier this week, the Polish government gave its approval to an agreement with Russia on increasing Russian natural gas supply to Poland.Such cooperation was unthinkable before. However, it seems the foes have finally turned into friends and are ready to forget each others’ past mistakes for the sake of good and constructive relations.

  • Foreigners visite lyceum

    Foreigners visited lyceum. students got the chains to communicate with them, it was for them practice the languages they are studying.

  • Russia's President Fires Moscow's Mayor

    Mr. Medvedev ousted a heavyweight political rival, Moscow’s longtime mayor, who had tried in recent weeks to cast Mr. Medvedev as a weakling unfit to run the Kremlin.

  • The Space Station Race

    Russia and the U.S. are once again locked in a battle to reach space--but this time, the goal isn't the moon. It's the world's first commercial space station.

  • Court halts public transport strike

    The strike was called for by the public sector union AbvaKabo in protest at the cabinet’s plan to increase the state pension age from 65 to 67. A court in Amsterdam has banned the public transport strike.

  • Russia overtakes China in gymnastics qualifying

    "A brilliant all-around performance by Aliya Mustafina led Russia past China and into the provisional lead of the women's team qualifying at the world gymnastics championships."

  • Russia's hungry bears dig up graves for food

    Famished bears in northern Russia have resorted to digging up graves in cemeteries - and reportedly eating at least one body - after a scorching summer destroyed their natural food sources of forest berries and mushrooms.

  • Russia and US hail joint Afghan drug raid

    Russian and US agents destroyed four drug labs and nearly 1 tonne of heroin in a joint raid in Afghanistan

  • The leaders of Russia and Japan will meet on the sidelines of a regional summit

    They will discuss the Russian-Japanese relationship. talks certain to be dominated by their latest flare up over islands both claim.

  • Two-day post strike begins

    Postal delivery staff have begun a two-day strike in protest at the company’s plans to sack 3,100 workers.

  • Governments Commit to Save Tigers

    The International Tiger Summit held this week in St. Petersburg approved a wide-ranging program with the goal of doubling the world’s tiger population in the wild by 2022, backed by governments of the 13 countries that still have tiger populations

  • Russia lands the 2018 World Cup

    Fans waved flags and screamed “Russia! Russia!” on Thursday after the country was awarded the 2018 World Cup

  • Four day postal strike looms ahead of Christmas

    Tonight’s strike will be the seventh by unions protesting at TNT’s plans to sack 2,800 delivery workers. the chance is growing of a four-day strike next week, according to news agency reports.

  • Russia: Terror attack kills 35 at Moscow airport

    35 people have been killed by an explosion in its international arrivals hall.

  • 'Caucasus bomber' went after foreigners: Russia

    the bommer turnd out to be a 20 year old suicide bomber from the North Caucasus who tried to kill as many foreigners as he could.

  • Russia loses military satellite

    MOSCOW - RUSSIA'S top military and space official launched a search on Tuesday for a missing military satellite that apparently was put into the wrong orbit shortly after its launch.

  • Moscow Drops Plan to Deport Thousands of Dogs

    animal rights activists say the city has dropped a plan to round the dogs up and ship them to a camp far outside of town.
    Moscow has spent some 1.3 billion rubles ($45 million) on dog shelters, sterilization, and other programs to deal with the city's stray population between 2008 and 2009, but critics say much of the money has gone unaccounted for.

  • Public transport strike

    strike action in protest at government plans to force the big cities to put their public transport services out to tender.

  • Animal cops to start by year end

    The ‘animal cops’ will be ordinary police officers who have been trained to deal with animal welfare issues

  • More households apply for financial help

    80,000 households applied for help from local authority-run credit organisations last year. An increasing number of people applying for help are said to be under the age of 25

  • Cabinet agrees on new cuts to save €3.5bn

    overspending has reached €2.3bn, up to €2bn of which is thought to be due to healthcare. no details have been given about what will be cut.

  • Farmers investment firm on verge of going bust

    hundreds of farmers and other investors have put €51m into Investment fund Phanos wich is on the verge of collapsing. only €8m of their investment remain.

  • personal health budgets

    curently people who get personal health budgets have to show officials what they spent their money on.
    On friday, a government committee looking at reducing red tape said that people who get special payments because they have chronic health problems should no longer have to justify how they spend the money,

  • The ‘as quickly as possible’ approach

    the new head of the public prosecution service Herman Bolhaar says "It is essential that the likes of bike thieves and vandals pay for their crimes within a few days of being caught and are ‘visible’ to others"
    his plan is ‘Punishments will be speeded up, victims will be able to make damages claims more quickly and graffiti can be cleaned off a wall,’
    this is now being tryed out in the big cities

  • parliament dosn't want to keep the museum plans approved by parliament in 2006

    plans made and approved by parliament in 2006 are now being revoked. Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum argues there is no need for a separate historical museum.