st. petersburg. once russia's capital, st. petersburg is located far to the north. its relative location to european economic markets and cultural centers provides clues to its unusual setting. this region continues to grapple with the challenges of new political and economic structures. as privatization forces cause housing problems for some residents, others, called new russians, find the future filled with opportunity. as you will see, the transition to a free-market economy has not always been a smooth ride for this russian city and its people. 1917: st. petersburg is where the russian revolution began. inflamed by leaders like vladimir lenin, the russian working class revolted against the czarissystem. this marked the beginning of 70 years of soviet communist government. under the czars, st. petersburg was russia's capital. it was an industrial city and a trading port, with strong links to western europe. for a city with such a significant role in both russia and the world, st. petersburg's location was, and still is, exceptional. it lies almost as far north as

has signed a deal to keep him at the stadium until twenty fifteen then use a real boost for the st petersburg side who are preparing to face benfica in the last sixteen of the champions league next week is the furthest the club ever got in the competition and continues the success bless he's had since joining from roma

st. petersburg.ve spent three years at the magavonan academy, a school that produced dancers like mikhail baryshnikov. >> their ultimate goal is to join marinski. if you don't, there's another russian company in st. petersburg. as an american, i mean, it's kind of unheard of. >> reporter: keenan's love of dance has humble roots. she began at the con sterv tory ballet here at the reston shopping center. from there she moved on to classes at the kennedy center. >> one of the greatest lessons i learned from her was just to always be honest, and sincere. and if you're sincere as a person, and honest in everything you do, it shines through in your dancing. >> reporter: it was the shine that caught the attention of leaders from the marinsesky ballet, when they saw her performing with her russian dance partner, a contract was offered. >> it's a pretty special place to be for ballet. that's where it all started. and just being over there, you really feel it. >> reporter: keenan will begin her dream ballet jo

has been screened many times he wrote it in st petersburg city where the institute of the human brain was opened some time later scientists there have developed methods of restoring functions of part of the brain after accidents or serious disease but so far they're unable to get the brain of an aging person to generate the sort of ideas they produced at a younger age twenty one mathematicians and physicists normally have a field day before their thirty fifth birthday or or thereabouts i can't recall a single significant piece of research done by anyone older than that the only exception is newton he published his famous optics when he was seventeen years old but in fact he wrote it forty years beforehand and i just shelved it until them. however today there are very few thirty year olds among scientists championing the idea of life extension or bridge a gray one of the principal ideologists of the theory will soon be fifty years old some time ago he singled out seven key elements of the aging process and formulated methods of remedying them he maintains that human life could be signi

mari people from all over have come here even those living in moscow and st petersburg. everywhere in russia trying to be here for this process of us. before nightfall the romans finally find what they set out for at the start of the expedition the depression. norma's pit in the very center of a field they hold their vehicles at a safe distance from it the people living in this village used to plough these fields and grow crops on it. but. they were awakened by loud noises. when they came here they were surprised to see a large crazy in the middle of a field with some water in the boat some. scientists have found a sub to raney and stream beneath the depression when it erodes the top layer of the soil the ground sinks. with slope is very slippery and very steep i get scared at times i might be buried by sliding rocks a prospect i don't particularly relish. ok i'm almost there now. well there is no water here local people prefer not to descend into the depression because this kind of cataclysm might happen at any time. but there is much to be learned from such expeditions

st. petersburg in russia. they are associated with a czar with the linkage that this czar is roughly the same time as lincoln. the russians wanted to create an exhibit that linked lincoln to their czar. >> so the great coat itself is in this larger box. however the condition the coat is in right now, the left sleeve is detached from it. the smaller box holds that sleeve. soon after the assassination, huh relic hunters and souvenir hunter who is wanted pieces of it. the people were trying to cutoff tiny speess of it and the owner alfonso dunn was cutting off pieces himself and giving them to people so when the park service received it in 1968, it was already in unfortunately very, very delicate condition. we found this approach helps so that we can preserve it. that's our priority. preserve it for present and future generations. at the same time we want to get to see it and enjoy it and having it up so the maximum amount of people can do that. >> we are checking for particulates. >> what do you mean by particul

out of the presidential election the move comes after tens of thousands protested in moscow and st petersburg. elections alleging the widespread vote rigging. next special report on the reset in u.s. russia relations and how it's being affected by america's controversial missile defense shield in europe. the most vital national security interests of the united states would be most effectively realized not true hostility to russia a true cooperation with it. i think russia and the united states can we just settlement of the establishment of a global missile defense system. this plan research is in jeopardy even the new strategic arms reduction treaty between moscow and washington has been unable to help. at a time of warmer bilateral relations needs whose top brass decided to deploy a missile defense system aimed at protecting europe but they were setting up too close to russia's borders and mosco didn't view it as a friendly gesture. we want to defend the whole europe not just some european countries with one or european allies and friends to join in on missile defense strategy. in the event

st. petersburg at the hermitage in russia with material from the fords theater associated with a czar who -- the linkage is that this czar is the czar that freed the serfs roughly the same time as lincoln freed the slaves, so the russians wanted to create an exhibit that linked lincoln to their czar. >> so, the great coat itself is in this larger box. however, the condition of the coat is in right now, the left sleeve is detached from it, and so the smaller box holds that sleeve. soon after the assassination you had relic hunters and souvenir hunters who immediately wanted pieces of it. people immediately were trying to cut off tiny pieces of it. its owner alfonzo dun was cn cu off pieces himself and giving it to people so when the park service received it in 1968 it was already in unfortunately very, very delicate condition. so, we've found this approach helped so we can preserve it. that's our priority, preserve it for the present and future generations. at the same time we do want to make sure that people actually get to see it and enjoy it by having it up during the spring we've made

quarter finals are already underway regular season runners are stars are currently taking on in st petersburg have just started the period eight three one to the house there. begin their campaign news need not go to games regular the latest. five three in favor of another most. have started their best of seven series against the nominees from the in the russian capital no girls have been called a yet while. our plans are up against sevastopol it's also. midway through this second period. it may not be the contest that the world of boxing is desperate to see anticipation is growing as floyd mayweather jr prepares to put his record on the line against. in may the pair will trade blows at the end jam grand in las vegas on the fifth of may with. a super what's on the line but at a press conference to promote the fight was on a possible bout between mayweather and manny pacquiao negotiations continue to start with insisting the filipino is refusing to accept drugs. as you simply want i think to split the purse it seems that negotiations have a long way to go. before. we want to fight floyd mayweat

st. petersburg. >> i only visited the photographs. >> they didn't want to show me the photographs and i persuaded them. >> why wouldn't they want to show you? >> they keep them locked up. they didn't want to show me too much of the house. but we did see it and it's a lovely woodwork and they showed us the butterflies. you know about the butterflies? >> butterflies are everywhere in nab bark cough's book. >> he caught butterflies. in one of his lectures he talks about the passion of the scientist and the precision of a poet. he says do i make a mistake is it the precision of the scientist and passion of the poet? he says no. i don't. books of great science and literature have to be precise and passionate. >> you are quite passionate in your obvious fascination with him and did you read ada? >> that was the first book i read. >> did you understand that book? >> you know, i like unlike anybody else, i read that book as a fairytale. i was very young when i read ada in the 70s and one of the first people i fell in love gave it to me. >> you think it's as difficult to understand as joyce you'll lille s

largest retailer wal-mart may buy russian hypermarket chain for two billion dollars newspaper in st petersburg cites wal-mart's top manager saying that the company may strike a deal in two weeks however the head of wal-mart in russia says no talks are being held although the company has recently said it could reenter the russian market within two years x. five the current owner of car sale has reportedly been considering selling the chains seventy seven stores due to weak sales. one finally if you fancy a promotion or a pay rise then you might be better off working for a russian company but if stability and good benefits are more of a priority than a multinational company could be a better choice according to a poll by staffing agency and russia the pluses of working for a russian company include more responsibility faster career growth better pay but the disadvantages include being paid off the books lack of benefits and a weak corporate culture. well that's it for this hour but don't go away we have headline news coming up for you right after the. resistance is not politics but our culture.

conference quarterfinals are about to start regular season run example scar take on say scar in st petersburg another moscow side dinara start their best of seven series against means from belarus in the russian capital eight seats had taken their playoff campaign in the nation of good against it in our moscow region are up against sevastopol. now it may not be the contest that the world of boxing is desperate to say participation is growing as floyd mayweather jr prepares to put his on boats and record on the line against me in may the pair will trade blows at the m.g.m. grand in las vegas on the faith of may with w.b. a super welterweight crown on the line but i take press conference to promote the fight over the talk was on a possible buyout between mayweather and many parkour negotiations continue to stumble with bitter boy insisting the filipino is refusing to accept drugs tests back man says i simply want a fifty fiftieth's split of the prize it seems that negotiations have a long way to go. like i said before. if you really want to fight floyd mayweather mediocre it will be right here

brighter note hoa's remember keep your eyes on the road at all times a quiet night in russia's st petersburg brought this. interrupted by a blinding explosion of light the impressive display of pyrotechnics was in fact just a circuit overloaded an electrical substation no one was helped though the drivers involved probably won't forget that particular drive to work for a while. and a wrap up of our headlines is only a couple minutes away but first the business news with daniel stay with us. talking to business in a surprising move for the russian stock market. compensate minority shareholders for losses on their investment for mr putin says the bank will use its own profits to buy back shares from people who took part in its i.p.o. five years ago called price of each of the shares is roughly half of its initial listing the plans estimated to cost up to half a billion dollars while investors await the details to be reviewed richard haynesworth from rating agency restricting says there could be a more efficient way to solve this problem. if the shareholder is unhappy with the performance of th

saturday was a day of demonstrations across russia hundreds of thousands gathered in moscow st petersburg and elsewhere to voice their political views ahead of next month's presidential election two rallies took place in the capital both calling for their election one was in opposition to that kind of the see the other pro-government gathering protesters to orange revolution supporters of ukraine martin the corn an expert on russia in the west of london says the only hope the opposition has of winning like a single candidate. result of the election of course we're very very important because what these demonstrators want is if you like a clean election an absence of fraud and so on and it's up to the authorities to ensure that there would be cameras there and so on and therefore it's probably will be a very clearly election but what is important is that it seemed to be fair and that these people have no cause to claim that the election on the fourth of march whether president vladimir putin wins the first or are not that has to be seen to be fair and to be clean otherwise would be tremend

st. petersburg, i was giving pithy and thoughtful remarks, literally everyone in the office was looking down at their laps. i said, come on, give us a break. i'm kidding. the digital revolution has transformed how information is created, distributed, shared and displayed. in the past as we all know, particularly those of us in the older generation, we received our news from off line traditional stand alone media, radio, television, print sources, newspapers, magazines. today everyone, all of you in this room basically assemble your own media mix integrating traditional sources with e-mail alerts, websites, social networking feeds from facebook and twitter and other technology like the bloomberg terminal. it is, as we all know, a great time can be a consumer of news. the advent of these new technologies have opened the door to a plethora of news sources and tools for distributing the news. the way we gather news has changed, too. what kroused to take a film cre with large equipment can now be done by an iphone. as we look at the gentlemen in the back filming this activity, our head of news wa

in russia more than two hundred thousand people have taken to the streets of moscow st petersburg and other cities to express their political views on head of the march fourth presidential election our correspondent peter all over saw the gatherings first. well saturday was a day of demonstrations here in the russian capital we saw a march and a rally by opposition supporters a large group of them meeting in the center of the city and marching here to block my a square which bloodline has really become the central focus point for opposition protesters here in moscow this is the second time that opposition protesters have taken to the last night a square far fewer the this time than last but of course the the weather a big deciding factor in cripplingly low temperatures here in the russian capital in fact the organizers of the protest here sure. the events that were going to be happening just to make it more comfortable for people who had come out in the cold minus twenty times on saturday here in moscow. so they came out to try to voice their opinions you know didn't believe you were

st. petersburg or something, he loved the dome, i gave him a couple of bolts as soof nuvenire said we should have these, and the crowning touch came for my knowledge of what was happening with khrushchev and how he was the one who was responsible for this exhibition being there is when the soviets asked me to come to the ministry of foreign affairs. again, i think mcclellan was out of town, and they asked me to come at the end of the exhibition and i said okay, i'll bring my counterpart from the embassy and they said no way, because the embassy was tough and hated the american embassy. i went in alone, there was the entire american section, i never really revealed this publicly of the soviet union, the green felt tables, the first question they asked smiling was do you think this was a success? and they were sort of a little bit uptight and i wondered and i said are you kidding? i said it was 2,000% success. all your people coming in, people calling from the different. >> next picture. >> that is the kind of thing you had there. people just -- simultaneously said we were for it and made comm

that first football and a coach to china's plenty has signed a deal to stay at the st petersburg side until twenty fifteen the news is a boost for the russian champions who are preparing to host benfica in the last sixteen of the champions league next week well this is the furthest the club have ever reached in the competition and continues the successful lessons had since joining from roma back in two thousand and nine winning back to back russian premier league titles over the last two years so they are currently six points clear at the top of the table with the leaks set to resume i want to the third day all brings to an end speculation about the fifty two year old immediate future last month the italian media reported specky was interested in joining his hometown club appear in team but meanwhile fabio capello sensationally resigned as england manager over four years in charge the italian was due to leave the three lions at the european championships in june but stepped down after a meeting with the association football.

to persuade us to return to the club but he spent eleven years before his move to england the st petersburg side are still in the champions league and currently top the russian premier league although any deal would have to be done by friday when the russian transfer window closes. we're talking of stars of russian football the country's beach football team won the european cup in moscow at the weekend and continue to dominate the sport after being crowned world champions last year it has been a rapid rise to the top for a nation hardly renowned for its beaches so what is the secret which one portrayed and been finding at. despite being under a blanket of snow for around six months of the year russia has a beach soccer team which the envy of the world countries like brazil portugal and spain of all year round access to the beach it's the russians who are leading the world culminating in be able cup win and usually last year i move we resilin incredibly strong side five or so years ago but over the last couple of years in russia a lot of indoor beach soccer stadiums have been built and we ha

know meanwhile here in russia isn't it john as for that he has signed a deal to stay at the st petersburg side until twenty fifteen the news is a boost for the russian champions who are preparing to face benfica in the last sixteen of the champions league next week this is the furthest the club have ever reached in the competition and continues the successful at least not since joining from roma back in two thousand and nine winning the domestic title in his second year in charge and it's a county six points clear at the top of the table with the league is set to resume on march the. then staying with football and the africa cup of nations final will be between favorites ivory coast and surprise package zambia also will strike at any other school of the ivory coast where on the stroke of half time as the elephants beat mali one nil while asked about a guy who missed the eight minute penalty for gone out and samir than the one nil emmanuel my yuko with the striker behind his teammates the training final. this is the best thing you know as it popped into play and if i don't think for the pl

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has signed a deal to keep him at the stadium until twenty fifteen then use a real boost for the st petersburg side who are preparing to face benfica in the last sixteen of the champions league next week is the furthest the club ever got in the competition and continues the success bless he's had since joining from roma back in two thousand and nine over the last two years he's won back to back russian premier league titles and his side are currently six points clear at the top of the deal bring to an end speculation about the fifty nine year old immediate future last month italian media reported he was interested in joining his hometown club if you don't team that in florence meanwhile fabio capello has sensationally resigned as a england manager he was jew to lead them to the european championships in june but stepped down after falling out with the english football association the italian resigned after a meeting with his employees in london his decision coming after the f.a. publicly undermined him last week they failed to consult capello before taking the captain's armband from john terry

st. petersburg we flew the long way across country. one of his assignments from the air force was to take pictures of anything he saw that would look militarily out of the wind window. so these airplanes had like clothes hangers and you hang a newspaper up. that's how you read them. kgb stayed up in the front of the airplane with the vice president and with their key people that were with him and so i'm back there with the doctor. and so when he had's see something he wanted to take a picture of, i'd stand in the aisle and see where the kgb was an see if they were in the front so he could take pictures. he got a lot of photos out of that, right behind the kgb. >> i want to ask you, you raised some questions about rosemary wilson. give me some examples. >> in 1960, she -- we'd have a scheduling committee which include don hughes, bob finch, rosemary wood and myself. and she was very key figure in all that. she also -- she didn't try to come up with new policy but she could influence nixon's view on it because she was always very frank w

thousand cars a year and the models will be based on quite brand new plants will be built and st petersburg and the course will be assembled with the help of russian truck makers zille and russia hope lenders burbank will be providing the financing and the plans take a stake of up to twenty now let's move on and talk about some energy use gas from is thinking about taking part in the privatization of energy assets in greece the gas giant has made greek top officials to discuss the sale of gas companies and great operator. and we do know that last year gas from showed interest in these companies but we don't have any more information relating to this possible deal. but even on our russian telecoms giants istana is considering a lawsuit against the indian government now why is this happening that's because the country's supreme court has cancelled its telecoms licenses that were issued in the auction in c. thousand and eight as a semi has twenty one of those licenses and of course it's invested billions of dollars into the projects there and even though it's hopeful that there will come up wi