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Photo websites on and about St. Petersburg, Northwestern Russia and surrounding regions:
Nevsky Prospekt
Nevsky Prospekt - the "main
entrance"
The South
Side - the south side of Nevsky Prospekt
The North
Side - the north side of Nevsky Prospekt
InternetÕs most informative and comprehensive English language site about Nevsky
Prospekt (Nevski, Newski, Nevskij; Prospect, Avenue), maintained by Neil Harvey
from the UK.ÊNeil is a talented photographer,Êknowledgeable authority on history
of St. Petersburg and Russia, and a real computer guru.Ê
A site of one of relatives of Franz San Galli, the legendary St. Petersburg industrialist. Russian and English versions are coming soon.
Images of
St. Petersburg
Historic post cards. English language portal to the much larger Russian site
hosted by the National Library of Russia in St. Petersburg.
Northern
Fortresses
Alexei (Alexey) Goss's fantastic photo site on castles, forts and fortresses
of northwestern Russia and Finland.
37 views of St.Petersburg by Tanya (Tania) Agafonova
Office of the Russian Federation President
Photos from other cities, towns and regions:
Marko from Jyvaskyla, Finland. Photos of Jyvaskyla.
Images of Paris, online guide to Paris:
Voila Photos de Paris - most incredible searchable map-based collection of some 350,000 remarkable facades of Parisian buildings as well as panoramas of public squares, gardens, palaces, churches and cathedrals.
Good private photo gallery with many beautiful views of Paris.
Personal photo gallery of Paris, pictures taken back in 1997 but at least some of them are really beautiful. By Tanya (Tania) Agafonova from St. Petersburg.
Other important Paris sites in English:
Paris.org - one stop information source. The site is excellent.
Paris Tourism and Convention Office
Helsinki
Helsinki - official site of the City of Helsinki
Photographie, magazine en ligne
Photographie Online, a German language resource with forum and an interactive gallery.
The American Museum of Photography - take a tour and view great (mostly of American origin) photographs online.
Revue - a bilingual photo magazine
"G's". - a site with a gallery of a student and talented photographer from the town of Sosnowiec in Poland
Photography (Technical Stuff and Printing)
Photothru.com. This website's design is clumsy, colors are atrocious and album management features are worse than bad, but you can upload as many pictures as you want, create online galleries and view other people's images. Photothru.com is a great Internet resource. Upload times can be slow. They also offer photo printing services at 0.29 US cents for a single small print plus postage (I am sure prices may change). They used to have an incredible promotional offer for its potential US customers of 20 free prints just for signing up (you'd still have to pay postage though).
Frank Derville's Art Nouveau Server
Hermitage - the Hermitage Museum
Antiwar.com is a regularly updated independent news portal displaying links to important stories published by international broadcasters, wire services and newspapers.
NPR - National Public Radio (USA), a part of the Public Broadcasting System
Robert Fisk. The site dedicated to Robert Fisk, talented and courageous journalist and Middle East correspondent for the Independent newspaper.
Eric Margolis. The Foreign Correspondent. Toronto Star. Thoughtful and balanced commentary on current events. Mr Margolis is an outstanding journalist and prominent defense analyst.
Deutsche Welle- Germany's national broadcaster - news and first class reporting in 31 languages (incl. English), delivered via Internet.
Radio France Internationale (RFI). English service. Oriented toward English speakers in Africa and Asia. Downloadable radio broadcasts.
ORF (Oesterreichische Rundfunk) / Radio Oesterreich International (ROI). News and commentary from Austria. Live audio stream.
St. Petersburg Times. An English language paper and news portal from St. Petersburg.
Russia Journal. An independent daily from Moscow.
RIAN (RIA Novosti). news agency from Russia. News is available in 12 languages. I hate to say it but some of the fare they serve reeks of sanitized propaganda.
Wire services - Reuters I AFP Agence France Presse - world's oldest news agency I DPA - Deutsche Presse Agentur I UPI - United Press International I Xinhua I IRNA I Asia News Network
Al Jazeera - English language page of the now legendary Al Jazeera news from Qatar.
Christian Science Monitor - Christian Science Monitor is more balanced than most US media outlets. It is owned and published by the Church of Christ, Scientist in Boston.
Pravda.ru (English edition) - Despite its name, this is not the same paper as the old Pravda, the mouthpiece of the Soviet Communist party. A few people who run this online Pravda were associated with the old Communist publication, but unlike its hard copy predecessor the virtual progeny is not ideological, albeit the flavor of its news coverage and editiorial pieces tends to be somewhat etatist.
Rosbalt - Rosbalt News Agency, Russian and Baltic Sea region business news.
Haaretz - main English language source of news and commentary from Israel
Jerusalem Post A publication that seems to be closer to the Israeli religious right than Haaretz. Free online subscription is an inconvenience.
Electronic Intifada. An independent but not necessarily unbiased international source of news from the occuppied territories.
Palestine Chronicle. Palestine Chronicle is an online magazine written by volunteers from various places around the globe.
Exile - Moscow's alternative newspaper
Gazeta.ru - a smaller English language summary of the popular independent Russian news portal.
Moscow Libertarium - Russian Libertarian Movement, only a fraction of information is available in English.
Free Market Foundation - links page. Links to libertarian and free market parties, movements, associations worldwide.
Ludwig von Mises Institute. Austrian School of Economics, Classical Liberalism and Political Commentary
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
Ethnofascist regimes in Europe are not just the ghosts of the past. At least two openly racist, rabid ethno-fascist regimes exist in the former Soviet Union. These are the so-called republics of Latvia and Estonia. Post-Soviet Russian politicians, a remarkably corrupt and submissive species, did not to prevent the emergence of the racist states on the eastern coast of the Baltic, did not “interfere” while the institutions of ethnic repression and apartheid were being erected, and still keep silent about ongoing fascist malfeasance. In the last few years NATO has become an expansionist tool of occasionally russophobia-driven American foreign policy in Europe. Inclusion of undemocratic, in this case ethno fascist states, for strategic reasons is nothing new (open scale tyrannies like former Greek dictatorship used to “enjoy” NATO membership), but the planned admission of Estonia and Latvia to NATO has only purpose Ð in case of fantastic “emergency” to advance future attack positions for US forces against Russia. Quite naturally the "expansion" has nothing to do with either stabiliy, peace or democracy. Planned EU membership of Estonia and Latvia was a primarily German undertaking, the Reconquista. Germany attempted to annex Baltic States in World War I and World War II. Germany ultimately failed but after collapse of the Soviet Union a fresh opportunity presented itself to “alter” the historic outcome of the World War, and thatÕs precisely how Estonian and Latvian ethno fascists see it.
"people of Russian origin were severely discriminated against in Latvia and Estonia, and this was an unacceptable situation " United Nations Commission on Human Rights, Press Release, March 24, 2003.
Estonia - a brief article by Michael Metsner, which pretty much explains the nature of the present day ethnofascist regime..Ê
fantastic collection of links to Slavic languages resources and dictionaries.
La Francophonie with some official language links
Online Slownik angielsko-polski English-Polish dictionary
Test your German online. A nice site from Austria with two tests.
Mega-Book's Russian-English and English-Russian dictionary.
LEO - excellent German-English English-German dictionary at the Munich University of Technology.
My favorite airlines and civil aviation links:
Air France - the best airline in the world.
SN Brussels Airlines, much smaller heir to the old Sabena, which used to be my favorite airline.
Lufthansa - plain but good.
Aeroflot - yes I positively love flying with the new Aeroflot. They are friendly and they speak Russian. Aroflot is probably the best on Russia's domestic routes.
KLM - flying with KLM is a special experience as long as you don't get trapped in aboard a flight operated by the Northwest Airlines on KLM codeshared transatlantic routes. Northwest is not too bad, but KLM is still much better.
Finnair - like most things Finnish Finnair is excellent. Finnair is very expensive on internal European routes but has an extremely competitive pricing policy for its intercontinental destinations.
Pulkovo Airlines - the airline of St. Petersburg. Food is excellent, beer is from the city's best breweries, and the staff speak Russian.
Caravelle:
A beautiful site about Sud Aviation Caravelle
Charles de Gaulle
Foundation Caravelle site - a great video selection (including
one of Charles de Gaulle visit to Moscow, with Presidential Caravelle escorted
by four early Mig-21s).
Caravelle Web Museum - an unfinished but a nice website from Sweden with lots of pictures.
De Havilland Comet
(encyclopedic) personal site by Marc Shaeffer, on De Havilland Comet, many pictures of Comets
Comet at the Imperial War Museum Duxford
Close Combat III - the close combat net, an "in-depths" Close Combat III resource with a section on game tactics and a message board.
German Soldier - a German Close Combat site with an excellent download setion.
Bush Watch - a somewhat humorous and informative site about current occupant of the White House
Bushwhackers - Bushian folklore.
George W Bush - the Antichrist, an interesting attempt to explain the nature of George W Bush phenomenon from a wild theological perspective.
Rabbit - how to say rabbit in different languages
George W Bush is miserable failure. Take a look at this story about miserable failure.
World's Greatest Books and Writers
Tove Janson and the Moomin, momintrol family:
A BBC entry on moomins and their fantastic valley
A brief page about Tove Jansson
A nice personal homepage about Moomins.
Russian translations of most Moomin stories (in Russian of course).
Beer - large commercial breweries
Budweiser (Czech Republic, Bohemia)
Radeberger (Germany, Saxony, ), excellent Saxon lager, and reportedly Vladmir Putin's favorite brew.
Stepan Razin (Russia, St. Petersburg)
Baltika (Russia, St. Petersburg) - Russia's largest and arguably the worst commercial brewery
Bochkarev (Russia, St. Petersburg) -
Vena (Vienna) - (Russia, St. Petersburg) - probably the best tasting beer from a large St. Petersburg commercial brewery
Jarpivo
(Iarpivo or Jaroslavl Pivo) - (Russia, Iaroslavl)
Sinebrychoff-Koff (Finland, Helsinki)
Hubertus Braeu (Austria, Lower Austria) - a small regional brewery from beautiful town of Laa am Thaya in Lower Austria (Niederoesterreich)
Fischer (France, Alsace) one of best commercial Alsatian brewers.
Samuel Adams (USA, Massachusetts)
Suggest a new site.
If you know of a site about St.Petersburg or if you have your own site with
pictures of the city where you live, and think I should include it in my links
"directory" , please let me know.
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