st. petersburg?of the answer is yes you should do it and if the answer is no you probably shouldn't do it even if every but he wants you to do it so you run through the filter and in our case that is the mission and we have five ways to get there. one is to make it safer and improve public safety. number two is improve your neighborhoods. number three is participate in improving your schools which was the radical idea when i ran for the city and i will tell you why in a second. member for is economic diplomat and economic development has to be across-the-board. number five is improving the city services and operations which it talked about when running the business of the city. those are the five components. identify the five strategies and i promise you every manager in our government can tell you those five principles at any time they were asked to read i promise you because of righetti understood that was our objective. as a public safety, we did a lot of things mayor goldsmith that mayor giuliani

st. petersburg or anywhere. we need to work on that. we need to work towards changing that and some people would buy into that and so i said there's a second reason too. and the second reason is it's better for you. because if right now we are pouring a disproportionate amount of money to public safety and social services into this part of our community and we're not getting any tax revenues from it. and so if we could flip it, we would have less services and we would give more revenues out so it will be better for you. and i'll tell you between those two points we had great unanimity of our city focusing in on that. the book talks at length of midtown to turn it around but i will tell you that i'm a conservative republican. i admit that. and i ran for re-election against the chairman of the democratic party of pinellas county when i ran in 2005. and we won 90% of the vote in the midtown community during that re-election. that will tell you that they believed we turned that part of the community in a different direction. it's important

there's also high speed train connection now between moscow and st petersburg so that makes it much easier and faster to get from one city to another and it's not the first time it's far from the first time for moscow to host the international hockey championship that was done both during the soviet times and after the collapse of the u.s.s.r. seemed petersburg held one such event before so there's already experience in that sense definitely is going to give a boost for peace or quarter in both cities and probably for the entire country as well and earlier prime minister vladimir putin personally came here too but i just love it you intended this ceremony and watched the big rush was the final presentation of the bid before the winner was announced or less listen to what he had to say on this. potential deserves to force through these championships not just to fill in memory though a glorious future humans and not just because we have not been his former indicates. but because of our great desire to feature greatly with him and for me for the ideas of the. chief sleepy's them we are

to us take part in a competition to pick some names from exotic jaguars was born of the st petersburg zero probably more at ardsley dot com. the decision to hand the national art award to a controversial piece of graffiti drawn in the center of st petersburg has sparked debate in russia many see the giant phallic symbol as obscene others say it's a sign of an emerging civil society artie's ever bet it looks at both sides. this is award winning art according to russia's ministry of culture the sixty five metre phallus whitewashed on a draw bridge in st petersburg has won the twenty thousand innovation fries for best visual artwork self-styled terrorists vyner meaning war in russian and the unpopular with. the arts i think it's essentially vandalism a breach is a cultural and historical monument and to paint anything on it has an act of vandalism and it should be punished not sure we're doing. here in the center of contemporary arts in see the other entries for the awards nothing is stimulating or shocking or as innovative as violence and according to the jury that's why they won purely

st. petersburg, florida. >> st. petersburg, they had, as you know segregated housing facilities and everything else when we went down there. the cardinals trained there. we couldn't stay with the team. so the cardinals finally were forced to get a hotel and they put all of us in the hotel and what happened there was that we all finally got to know each other. and this was about in 1962. and we ate together, the kids played together, the wives knew each other, and it made us a better teap. 1963, we came close, in 1964, we won. i think because we came close. the whites, the gibsons trk everybody were together in that period. tavis: why did bill white heed the broadcast move? >> i wanted to go about 20 years, i had about 18. and the head of the search group for the president of the national league called me, he offered me the job or offered me to come up and interview, i said, i've got a pretty good job, i work 60 days a year, i fish in the morning, go do the game, come back at night and go back and fish again. i don't

justice is facing a jury in st petersburg it's what's being discussed in spotlights next. hello again and welcome to spotlight the answer michelle in our take i'll get all bent very my guest in the studio is alex out of that come out of. the international just as far as kicking off at st petersburg itself for the first time but it's managed to sign big names to its list after this of the forum is blessed by the russian president a lawyer himself and is managed by the justice minister the conference comes just in time as making the bed of press is modernization of the country's judicial system so what ideas is the gathering going to generate here's the russian justice minister alexander come along that. doesn't think that it has set a goal to recruit the largely outdated russian justice system the young and energetic alexander kind of all it was sent to spearhead the justice ministry which has already introduced a range of softer penalties and a contemporary approach to crimes but some experts say further liberalizations of the justice system could cause an undesirable kick

the st petersburg economic forum which is well known around the world and its annual than it already for its national reputation you're holding yours for the first time at an economic forum is usually you are judged by the number of contracts signed during the storm so what will be the criteria of judging your for and the judicial for. it will be the cause of the discussion of the law or legal forum because of course we are not expecting sign agreements and contracts we are not economists but. did usury and war in general is a thing that should resign and in the life of a robot it constantly and that effect could become obvious years later so the cause of the discussion of the quality of the of the discussion and what's the the source of that quality the names here surely we tried to attract to this event top notch specials and different directions of practice and law. you need four months of his form be in health for the very first time and put his book is that we're trying to get together to go to the same place in the same time people of different legal professions not area advoca

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the national art award to a controversial piece of graffiti drawn in the historical center of st petersburg has sparked a debate in russia many see the giant phallic symbol as obscene others say it's the sign of an emerging civil society looks at both sides. this is award winning out according to russia's ministry of culture a sixty five metre phallus want washed on a drawbridge in st petersburg as one the twenty thousand innovation prize for best visual arts work self-styled aren't terrorists by now meaning war in russian are the unpopular with us. i think it's essentially vandalism a bridge is a cultural and historical monument and anything on it is an act of vandalism and it should be punished not rewarded. here in the center of contemporary art in see the other entries for the award nothing is stimulating or is shocking or as innovative as vine us and according to the jury that's why they won purely on artistic merits but now some as simple as that. the same symbol the ministry rewarded is now being brandished in mocking protest this russian youth group is angry four hundred thousand ro

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zinni st petersburg missed their chance go so patrick see one's feet at selham you get hysterical with a powerful header after thirty six minutes of this joy was short lived however within four minutes they cut a fison and have that along past aleksey on off and disappointed the home crowd with an equaliser bud's needs goalie had even more room in the second half but just love but if they failed to collect the ball after a scrappy four and five abortion was the quickest of the rebound it's on their biggest victory so far this season. elsewhere three second have goals so rosoff rash on current home server romana example getting a somewhat surprising opener the strikers had it with the world but it did get in alexander got scotland and double disc world with a pinpoint strike and the route out of reach for the third must be comical ski dragon black yak seal the deal for ross solved make it three nothing and handing them their third base rate in ten games. and did not a moscow one fifth with a one nil when at home to bolton seeded. yes and that's a given karanka might it be on the line pi

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st. petersburg times is ahead of a curve that way. >> he mentioned these changes in technology. what does that mean for independent bookstores. how do they keep up? >> some of them are incorporating some of this. they are figuring out that they have to go with it and there is going to be in the future books on demand, people are going to come in and a book produced on the spot. it has already happened. the book industry is very old fashioned. when the paperback case of how people said that was it. no one is going to read any more because the first paperbacks were really these trashy novels and it was the end of reading. paperbacks were the beginning of a mass democratic distribution of books. all this alarm is some is misplaced but you understand it is a very old-fashioned industry. someone once said that it is a nineteenth century industry living in a twenty-second century world. it is schizophrenic. some are adapting better than others. i am happy to see a huge warehouse space filled with books and people coming, it is a tourist destination. and in tampa, another model which i

to st petersburg and to russia you were talking about international affairs as it was. i wanted to ask you if you want to become a magician. because you know recently we waited. three and. it was you know only difficult to even use the daughter of that runs sending their medals to the kremlin. oh. about how they want to go to the us and ask president obama for shelter maybe our country shouldn't. be disgraced in front of the veterans and perhaps they should be provided with decent house saying. at least one car each. no one would be able to take away. to trade on it because some people do that and i had leads veterans out of the street. so i wanted to ask you maybe it is possible to give every veteran. habited he deserves because he can do that your presentation you all should be. ok thing here thing of course i can work miracles and try to make the decisions that people expect me to me and since this is something we are most you should push it through you know a little over three years ago. maybe a seventh of. seven. but what if the cream of the convention every world

st. petersburg and the ethnic background? did you have any corruption issues and did you run for re-election or are you term limited? >> the third one, ran for re-election. i served my first term because we change the charter. it was long long-term sir for years and nine months. my second term was for years and i was limited to two terms so i served to complete almost nine years. my term ended last year in and 2010. the corruption issue, if you tell the internal governmental corruption, we had minor employee issues that never, no significant issues when i took office. now i think i was going to say the newspaper thinks everybody is corrupt but in general they did not have corruption issues within the city. and what was the third question? 250,000. ethnic? it is about 20% african-american. it has got under 8% let's say eastern european. also another maybe three, 45% but a good-sized southeast asian population and hispanic population as well. it is pretty mixed. >> another round of applause for our author. [applause] >> thank y

st. petersburg times, and they invited her to write a regular column. she wrote from age 86 to 93 when she died. and i wrote, i mean, i put together a collection of her work, and i published it under amazon. and it sold better than the book i published, my own published book because people really related to the topic. and i sold it in very odd venues. i went to art galleries, i went to a, there's a nearby gulfport they have an art walk, you know, every month, and i sat in front of a used bookstore, and i sold $100 worth of this book because people stopped by, and they were, they were drawn by this story of this woman who had had success, creative success late in life. so it's the topic now that draws people, and with the internet you don't have to, you don't have to rely on publishers. if you can figure out ways to -- and i'm not clever enough to do this, but to create a video that touts your book, to get on all the social networking to tell people about your book, people are bipassing the traditional publisher. so in other words, stories are still bein

st. petersburg times and they invited her to write a regular column. she road from age 86 to 93 when she died. i put together a collection of her works and published it under amazon. it sold better than the book i've published because people related to the topic and i sold it in very odd venues. i went to art galleries and nearby gulf port, every month i sat in front of a used book store and i sold $100 worth of this book because people stopped by and they were drawn by this story of this woman who had success. it is the topic that draws people and with the internet you don't have -- you have to rely on publishers. if you figure out ways -- i am not clear enough to do this to create a video that helps your book to get on social network thing to tell people about your book, people are bypassing the traditional publisher. .fleet in.. >> good afternoon. hi, everybody. thank you for coming out this afternoon. i'm gwen ifill. this is my best friend, meschelle norris. >> i'm meschelle norris. [applause] >> i feel like i should say and you're listening to. >>

ministerial schedule clinton still finds time to trade and preside over a judo club called bar and in st petersburg and of course he's expected to appear at the moscow grand slam. you can see putin's technique right away any professional would know instantly that he's done some serious training it's in his posture oh movements and destabilization techniques it does help us that he's the prime minister and we sometimes even brag about it but it was his personal request to ensure that our athletes win a limited gold and b provide all the conditions were chief that. grand slam will be the first step for many competitors on the way to reach and the olympic summit in london is taking place across the weekend in the russian capital arts he will be there to let you know how turns out the remark author of artsy moscow. that's all this post. by fire. from. the.

storable an architectural monument because you see in eighty ninety eight by the billion imagine from st petersburg greatly you see if you can the saw in nineteen zero one it became the most to lose your a space of future being at a time when among many other core expense truffles and were on sale. no one's going around the clock more than a century on the beach was still still attracts many customers and fascinated tourists. the street is packed full of interesting facts and figures for centuries it was the fish to root for the sauce which session official visits to muster nine hundred thirty s. it was renamed off the rights of next i'm going to go to the streets and sell and have the road significantly widens. diffuse the streets has fundamentally changed over the centuries from a narrow medieval wooden surface straight to today's slightly overwhelming eight lanes highway. congestion is a major problem but mixed together with grand juries buildings the airy boulevards that cross the street green spaces meandering tourists and local people enjoying outdoor space it all seems to work together rathe

at the choosing airfield outside of st petersburg the pilots to carefully study the flight plan for a vehicle to m.i.a. choppers a lightweight motor glider and found sauces midsized are to haiti east with a smaller russian companies going south down shortly thereafter as in normal civil aviation aircraft each flight a different designated altitude he's. found solid however on the same plane the plane calls for a point of intersection on the southern side of space with a drone flying eastwards head on it the other. system should help the drone operators. also avoiding a catastrophic collision with the main. aircraft occupying higher altitude layers with their missions laid out in plain russian and pilots were left to suit up and strategize additional intrigue was added to the mix by an uninvited guest a stiff wind blowing north to south. of the ball because you're going to feel so close and if the mystical think what. the other shows up at. once the last of the germans had overcome the minor meteorological obstacle we had five birds not just in the sky but on everybody's flight monitor

but chose to withdraw just hours before the ice hockey federation ballots in slovakia moscow and st petersburg cities which will stage the showpiece events russia also hosted the top tournament in two thousand and two thousand and seven and is fast becoming a true small. stronghold the country will also see the football world cup such a winter olympics university games and the country's first ever forty one grand prix all within seven years. i mean while russia pulled off another memorable i saw it translate accura on thursday night the red machine came from a goal down to beat on trials candidates who want to win their world championship quarterfinal and that victory sets up a sunday final with finland later this evening these were the scenes outside the stadium in bratislava russian fans ecstatic at the team's passage into the last four canada had taken the lead to jason spezza lets a lot of levels in despite russian being a minute down and just three minutes off the bat india couple took all the way down and those joyous scenes where it can be said here in the russian capital many things wa

champions in each can also keep up the pressure on the leading teams they take on spartak moscow and st petersburgare cousins are wealthy and in a moscow autumn cycle yet will look to see ms off the bottom of plaster the so it's a beaten me table last health. and it's now rafael nadal has remains on course to retain his french open title and the world's top ranking the king of clay cruised past antonio very much in round three the spaniard drops just four games on reach two eight six one six three six one pick the racial qualifier that's nadar needs to defend his title needs to stay on top of the game from the rankings it's all in. a few things much better going to. happen for the have to. produce. i think. solid match almost all about well meanwhile novak djokovic wrapped up his darkness delayed match against one martin del potro in four sets it was the serbians fortieth consecutive win this season and forty second overall which also keeps him on track of the coveted well number one sports talk of which needs to make the finals of the throne adar all rely on the spanish to relinquish his paris ex

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schedule put in still finds time to trade in preside over a judo club called your bar and your bar in st petersburgand of course he's expected to appear at the must have grand slam. you can see putin's technique right away any professional would know instantly that he's done some serious training it's in his posture on movements and destabilization techniques and does help us that he's the prime minister and we sometimes even brag about it but it was his personal request to ensure that our athletes win a limpid gold and that we provide all the conditions were achieved a. grand slam will be the first step for many competitors on the way to reaching the olympic summit in london it's taking place across the weekend in the russian capital parts he will be there to let you know how turns out the amount cost for a party. and finally englishman luke donald is keeping up the pressure on compact for it lee westwood for golf's number one ranking i don't know who is the world number two is in a three way tie for the lead at the b.m.w. p.g.a. championship he granted to shock club sleeve math yemen is zero and

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national team head because of a countable pocket seven million year old this year his replacement in st petersburg the channel split he makes a cool four million. dollars of this was due to million this year but was recently sags the navajos of parents gullit and. the scars live on each loop skew value of the top five with one point five in one point she will you speak to compare all that to the top only use in other sports boxing great nearly perfect you know in these ball star alex rodriguez both at the sun twenty one point five million random but with no salary cap or current legal dispute the bill looks good only grazed and still losing with all the money i. bonds i see. there was one figure skating gold at the world championships in moscow want to prove to be an emotional win for the japanese native as the event was still taking place in her home country but had to be moved to russia because of last month's earthquake and tsunami under came into the final say trailing a limbic champion. career by martha points you have to win the world championship for the second time in her career to put on

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it's going he wore it someone would be francisco arena ward and cisco arenas strolled around st petersburg you know sgrena died welsh hundred and fifty years before the city was even founded because what do we call a man who says such statements would says. the former president. well of course life will be better off the record shows being said stay with us we'll be back here in this room at the left i wanted. to get. more than a month. in one of the most extreme environments on the planet this is antarctica and people have to be aware that they're far away from civilization sean thomas discovers what makes on charters so special and attractive for many of the wildlife in antarctica is a bonus if you live and friends on. the expedition to the bottom of the earth are to. if. the mission would be soon which bryson infusing moon about song from finest impressions. means for instance on t.v. dot com. let's see. welcome back with what light i'm going off in just a reminder that my guests here on the show today is. the former leader the first president of the republic of belarus. mr cisco bitch

setting up to attract investments the ten billion dollar entity will be formally launched at the st petersburg economic forum this june meanwhile t.v. would need to see if the newly appointed head of the funds management reveals some of that back. unfortunately we can't get that comment we will try to bring it back a bit later a second look at the oil prices that we've got right now was trading about one hundred dollars per barrel a gathering place on the u.s. the reporting unchanged crude inventories contrary to expectations of an increase. all right let's move now to asian stock markets if we can make a loses ground after japan reporter busy d.p. contract by almost two percent in the first quarter of the result showed far greater drop than forecast and making here in the a contraction of three point seven percent they are saying this says are out there on commodity prices with the property and financial stocks also being pushed to the point on week for us dollar here in russia trading will begin in the around one hour's time on both the r.t.s. a nice expose in the black on wednesday they wil

champions anita can also keep up the pressure on the leading teams they take on spartak moscow and st petersburg because of our wealth and in a moscow bottom side clearly it will look to see ms off the bottom of plaster the side needs to be to table rascoff. tennis now rafael nadal has remains on course to retain his french open title as the world's top ranking but king of clay cruz passed antonio of eighteen ran three hispania drops just four games on reach to a six one six three six zero victory over the coalition qualifier but it's not our needs to defend his title needs to stay on top of the game from the rankings cultivates or it's. going to be a few things much better than the various days. before they have to. produce. i think. solid match almost all about well meanwhile novak djokovic is wrapped up his darkness delayed match against our team del potro in four sets it was the serbians fortieth consecutive win this season and forty second overall which also keeps him on track for the coveted world number one sports talk of each needs to make the finals of the throne at all or rely on the s