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The first “Weeks of Finnish Cinema” was accompanied by sceptic remarks and condescending grins of the public. Time has proven that there is no place for any jokes about about cinema from the land of Suomi. People have come to respect Finnish cinema in Petersburg, having realized that not only Aki Kaurismiaki makes great interesting movies there, but also “our very own” Ville Haapasalo is popular in his homeland.

This feast of Russian contemporary art celebrates the fifteen year anniversary of the prominent Moscow gallery run by collector Marat Guelman, and stands testament to its beneficial collaboration with the Contemporary Art Department of the Russian Museum.

A young and aspiring English musician studying orchestral conducting with St. Petersburg’s Philharmonic Society aims to bring English classical music to the city with a new festival this year.

The biggest doll gallery in Europe is celebrating its fourth anniversary in an amusing way. Two years ago at the first “Magniloquence” exhibition Petersburg doll artists already tried to study the etymology of some Russian swear words, and also tired to personify “swear characters”.