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The Meaning of Easter: "The Rest Is Hell"

Alexander Beglov, the governor of St. Petersburg, congratulated all Orthodox Christians on yesterday’s Easter holiday during his weekly program on Radio Russia, wishing them peace and health. “Easter is a symbol of the victory of life over death, light over darkness, good over evil. Today, our soldiers are defending by force of arms the ideals of goodness and justice, and protecting the…

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Сегодня у нас в стране первый день учебного года. Поздравляю всех причастных к этому празднику жизни! И публикую фотографию исторического здания в Питере, которое имеет непосредственное отношение к образованию. На фотографии первый в России институт для женщин. Официальное название - Смольный институт. Ну, а что произошло в этом здании произошло в 1917 году и позже, полагаю, все мои русскоязычные друзья прекрасно знают не хуже меня 😊 / The Smolny is an edifice in St Petersburg that has played a major part in the history of Russia. Prior to the revolutionary events of 1917, the Smolny was Russian's first educational establishment for Noble Maidens. In 1917, the building was chosen by Vladimir Lenin as Bolshevik headquarters during the Great October Socialist Revolution. It was Lenin's residence for several months, until the national government was moved to Moscow Kremlin. After that, the Smolny became the headquarters of the local Communist Party apparat, effectively the city hall. Today, this historic building is the official residence of the governor of St Petersburg #смольный #историческиеместа #кваренги #classicism (at Правительство Санкт-Петербурга) https://www.instagram.com/p/B16ieH7AJvJ/?igshid=1l7g6r1c6gczo

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Russian journalist forced to resign for Telegram channel critical of St. Petersburg authorities

Karpenko suspects her superiors were pressured into firing her

Maria Karpenko, a reporter for Kommersant, one of Russia’s leading business dailies, says she was forced to resign after the paper’s editor-in-chief confronted her about a Telegram channel she co-administrates.

The Telegram channel in question, named Rotonda, is run by a group of journalists from other publications in St. Petersburg and focuses on local politics. It has close to 10,000 followers.

Karpenko wrote on Rotonda:

Привет, это Маша Карпенко, соавтор «Ротонды» и до сегодняшнего дня — корреспондент газеты «Коммерсантъ». Меня уволили: причиной стало недовольство Кремля и Смольного тем, что я пишу здесь и тем, как «Ъ» освещает избирательную кампанию Александра Бегло��а.

Объ��сняя причину увольнения, руководитель издательского дома Владимир Желонкин сообщил: то, что я пишу в «Ротонде», не соответствует редакционной политике «Коммерсанта». «Ротонду» он назвал «активизмом, несовместимым с журналистским статусом». Если не относить эти слова на счет критических замечаний «Ротонды» по поводу политики врио губернатора Петербурга Александра Беглова, единственное, что можно назвать активизмом — это настойчивые попытки добиться того, чтобы работа городского правительства была одинаково открытой для всех журналистов (которые я предпринимала в том числе от имени «Ъ» с согласия руководства). Такой активизм считаю не просто совместимым с журналистским статусом, но и неотъемлемой частью этого статуса.

Translated:

Hi, this is Masha Karpenko, Rotonda’s co-author and until today a correspondent for the Kommersant newspaper. I was fired: the reason for this was the Kremlin and Smolny’s [St. Petersburg city hall] anger at my writings here and my coverage of Alexander Beglov’s [acting governor of St. Petersburg] election campaign in Kommersant.

Explaining the motivations for my dismissal, the director of the publishing house Vladimir Zhelonkin told me: what I write in Rotonda is at odds with Kommersant’s editorial policies. He called Rotonda a piece of “activism incompatible with the status of a journalist.” If we ignore Rotonda’s critical comments about the policies of the acting governor of St. Petersburg Alexander Beglov, my only activity that could possibly be construed as activism were the persistent attempts to provide equal access to the city government’s halls for all journalists, a campaign which I waged with full knowledge of my Kommersant superiors and their blessing. This kind of activism I consider to be not just consistent with my status as a journalist, but an inalienable part of said status. 

 Karpenko refers to a series of incidents where the government of St. Petersburg allowed only reporters from publications controlled by or loyal to the city authorities to attend their press briefings, while blacklisting critical outlets.

She then writes that Zhelonkin couldn’t have come up with the idea himself. She says he was obviously pressured into firing her for her critical articles and social media posts, likely by someone in St. Petersburg administration or even the Kremlin.

Vladimir Zhelonkin went on Echo of Moscow radio station to comment on Karpenko’s allegations:

Мария Карпенко работала в двух медиа и выбрала работу в одном из них. Её поставили перед выбором и она выбрала. По нашим правилам работать в двух медиа нельзя. Я думаю, что это в трудовом соглашении прописано. Расстались мы по соглашению сторон. Я прочитал её пост [в Телеграме]. Я ей про администрацию президента точно ничего не говорил.

Translated:

Maria Karpenko worked at two media outlets at the same time and chose to work for one of them [referring to Rotonda] instead. She was given a choice and she made it. Our charter prohibits working for two publications at the same time. This must be written into her contract. We parted ways by mutual agreement. I read her [Telegram] post. I’m sure I haven’t told her anything about the president’s administration. 

Other journalists cast doubt on Zhelonkin’s version, saying that even if the rules at Kommersant prohibit working on the side, they're unevenly applied, as demonstrated by Andrey Kolesnikov, Kommersant's star reporter from the Kremlin pool:

Vladimir Varfolomeev@Varfolomeev

Как интересно устроено в "Коммерсанте": Мария Карпенко лишилась работы из-за неразрешённого совместительства с Телеграм-каналом, а Андрей Колесников по-прежнему работает, хотя и возглавляет журнал "Русский пионер". Ему совмещать можно.

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It’s interesting how things work at Kommersant: Maria Karpenko lost her job for running a Telegram channel alongside her day job, while Andrey Kolesnikov is still employed there, although he is also the editor in chief of the Russian Pioneer magazine. He is allowed to moonlight without consequences. 

Karpenko gave a short interview to Besposchadny Piarschik (The Ruthless Spin Doctor), a Telegram channel focused on the media and PR industry where she disputed Zhelonkin’s statement about the choice she had supposedly been given. Karpenko explained that she was simply informed that her services at Kommersant were no longer required.

She also stressed that she had written a number of critical articles about the city’s administration and never felt any pressure from her superiors to tone it down. But Kommersant’s leadership, she says, was evidently under pressure, in a scenario that ultimately led to her dismissal.

Alexander Beglov, 62, was appointed the acting governor of St. Petersburg last year, after the resignation of Grigory Poltavchenko. Beglov is unpopular among the city’s residents, especially after the winter of 2018-2019 when the city authorities failed to clear the streets of snow and ice, But the Kremlin has made no secret of its preferences in the elections planned for September 2019.  via Blogger https://ift.tt/2HKbzcm

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The ABC of Architects from fedelpeye on Vimeo.

This work is an alphabetical list of the most important architects with their best known building. A lot of them have been left out with grief because we only need one for each letter and we done an effort to have differents nationalities. If you love architecture, for more stuff you can follow us in ombuarchitecture.tumblr.com

Concept and Animation: Andrea Stinga, Federico Gonzalez Art Direction: Federico Gonzalez Music: The Butterfly from Eugene C.Rose and George Ruble, (Creative Commons) you can download it here: vimeo.com/musicstore/track/10358

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Here is the alphabetical list We hope you enjoy it.

Alvar AAlto _ Säynätsalo Town hall - Finland Luis Barragán _ satellite towers - Mexico city Santiago Calatrava _ Lyon - Satolas airport railway station - lyon France Luís Domènech i Montaner _ Antoni Tàpies foundation - Barcelona Eduardo Souto de Moura _ Paula Rego's House of Stories _ Cascais _ portugal Norman Foster_ London City Hall _ England frank Gehry _ Guggenheim bilbao _ Spain herzog & de meuron _ Beijing National Stadium _ CHina Arata Isozaki _ Palau Sant Jordi _ barcelona Philip Johnson _ The Glass House _ New Canaan _ United state Louis Kahn _ National Parliament of Bangladesh _ Dhaka city le corbusier _ Villa Savoye _ Poissy, Francia Ludwig Mies van der Rohe _ barcelona pavilion _ Spain oscar niemeyer _ National Congress of Brazil, Brasília Joseph Maria Olbrich _ Secession building, vienna - Austria César Pelli _ Petronas Twin Tower _ Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Giacomo Quarenghi _ the Smolny Institute _ St. Petersburg, Russia. Renzo Piano + Richard Rogers _ Pompidou Centre _ Paris, Francia Álvaro Siza _ Ibere camargo foundation _ porto alegre _ Brazil kenzo Tange _ Tokyo Olympic Stadium - Japan Jørn Utzon _ Sydney Opera House _ Australia William Van Alen _ Chrysler Building _ New York City frank lloyd wright _ guggenheim new york _ United state Iannis Xenakis _ Philips pavilion _ Expo '58 in Brussels Minoru Yamasaki _ World Trade Center Zaha Hadid_The Pierres Vives building _ Montpellier, France

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CV

Artur Konstantinov

St. Petersburg Art Curator, Senior Architect fog.art4@gmail.com • https://art-fog.tumblr.com/ https://www.facebook.com/art.fog.9  https://www.instagram.com/fog.art4/ 

Fields of Interest

architecture, bio-art, art&science, psychoanalysis, cinema, visual arts, astrophysics, postmodern theories, metamodern oscillations, gender theories, contemporary philosophy, hybrid art

 Education

June 2019

MA in Curatorial Studies at Smolny College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia. St.Petersburg State University/Bard College

1. “Micro-, meso-, and macro-body in hybrid arts“

2. Exhibition: Oratorium 2. Petri Dish / Resilient Ec(h)osytem (bio-art) Artist: Laura Elidedt Rodríguez (Mex) Place: the catacombs of the Lutheran church (Petrikirche) in Saint- Petersburg fb: https://www.facebook.com/oratorium2019/

 June 2008

Specialist in Architecture, Moscow Architectural Institute, Moscow, Russia.

The public info-cultural centre (media-centre) in Soymonovsky proezd, Moscow.

 June 2006

BA in Architecture, Moscow Architectural Institute, Moscow, Russia.

Multifunctional residential building.

 June 2002

Specialist in art history, Russian State University for Humanities, Moscow, Russia.

Ideas and projects of reconstruction historical centres of European cities in the last third of the XX century: the strategies of postmodernism, deconstructivism and high-tech.

Employment

01 September 2011 – Present

Senior Architect at LLC “NPF RETRO”, St. Petersburg, Russia.

 02 March 2009 – 01 March 2011

Senior Architect at LLC “INTARS”, Moscow, Russia.

 15 December 2008 – 27 February 2009

Architect at  JSC Moscow Scientific-Research and Design Institute of Typology and Experimental Design, Moscow, Russia.

 09 November 2008 – 28 November 2008

Architect at LLC “Architectural Studio Concept-Design”

 15 March 2004 – 14 August 2008

Technical Architect/Architect at LLC “INTARS”, Moscow, Russia.

 Experience

Cover design for the book series With A Wind From Afar. Presentday Foreign Poetry, ARGO-RISK publishing house, Moscow, Russia (since 2013)

Tarot cards. Creation of a Tarot deck (78 pieces). May 2016 - April 2017.10 x 6,5 sm. Mixed technique, cardboard.

track-to-track exhibition, navigation system (colored threads) 

1.0.1 exhibition, spatial design 

Conference Papers, Talks and Presentations

Contemporary megapolises: terminological problems.  Architectural Science and Education: Materials of a Scientific Conference of the Faculty Members and Young Scientists of MarchI, 23-27 April 2007, Moscow. 

Public Buildings: Meaning and Responsibility in a Contemporary City. Architectural Science and Education: Materials of a Scientific Conference of the Faculty Members and Young Scientists of MarchI, 23-27 April 2007, Moscow.

 Les Halles in Paris as the Example of the Open International Architectural Competition. Architectural Science and Education: Materials of a Scientific Conference of the Faculty Members and Young Scientists of MarchI, 23-27 April 2007, Moscow.

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The News from Petersburg

The News from Petersburg

“Mariupol. Saint Petersburg.” A snapshot purportedly taken earlier today by Tatyana Razumovskaya (see her Facebook post, below). The LED composition “Double Hearts” has been installed on Palace Square in honor of the sister city relationship between Petersburg and Mariupol, as reported on the city’s VK page. The “Double Hearts” project was approved by Governor Alexander Beglov. Earlier, the…

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Don't Let Strangers Wreck Their Minds (Putin's Palace)

Don’t Let Strangers Wreck Their Minds (Putin’s Palace)

“Protect your children. Don’t let strangers wreck their minds and their lives.” Screenshot of a social media post by the Udelnaya Library of the Vyborg District Centralized Library System in Petersburg. Courtesy of dp.ru “Protect your children”: Smolny launches mass posting before rally Delovoi Peterburg January 21, 2021 On January 21, the social network pages of Petersburg’s district…

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Presumption of Guilt

Petersburg Governor Alexander Beglov (in mask, on right) visited the city’s Maternity Hospital No. 9 on May 3. Photo courtesy of Sever.Realii

Beglov Explains Outbreak at Vreden Center Through Failure of Employee to Self-Isolate After Returning from Turkey Bumaga May 1, 2020

Speaking on TV channel 78, Governor Alexander Beglov claimed that the source of the coronavirusoutbreak at the Vreden…

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Bortko Jumps Overboard Campaign poster for Vladimir Bortko in downtown Petersburg: "Bortko: The City Has a Choice. September 8. CPRF." Photo by…

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Petersburg: Russia’s Window on the West "One day windy Petersburg won't let me light a cigarette and I'll give up smoking on its advice." Graffiti, Petersburg, July 19, 2018. 

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Don’t Protest Here Petersburg historic preservationists gathering for a "sanctioned" protest near the Sports and Concert Complex (SKK), a late-Soviet era landmark in southern Petersburg that recently collapsed while being illegally dismantled, killing one worker.

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A History of Violence

A History of Violence

Spontaneous car park amidst the rubble on the corner of Kirochnaya and Novgorodskaya Streets, Petersburg, 12 October 2018. Photo by the Russian Reader

Since I had made nearly a dozen trips to and from the Interior Ministry’s Amalgamated Happiness Centerthis past summer to get my papers in order, I must have passed through the nearby intersection of Kirochnaya and Novgorodskaya Strets just as many…

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Has Petersburg City Hall Made a Shambles of New Hospital Construction?

Has Petersburg City Hall Made a Shambles of New Hospital Construction?

Part of the old facilities at the Botkin Infectious Diseases Hospital in Petersburg. Photo courtesy of Dima Tsyrencshikov/The Village

Petersburg Municipal Hospital and Clinic Construction Program on the Skids Svetlana Zobova Delovoi Peterburg February 3, 2017

Petersburg Governor Georgy Poltavchenko has botched ex-Governor Valentina Matviyenko’s ambitious program of building 32 healthcare…

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How the Cheka Became the FSB

Мonument to Cheka founder Felix Dzerzhinsky on Shpalernaya Street, near the Smolny, Petersburg city hall. Photo courtesy of yakaev.livejournal.com

How the Cheka Became the FSB The notion of the Cheka’s superiority is one hundred years old Pavel Aptekar Vedomosti December 20, 2017

On December 20, 1917, the All-Russian Extraordinary Commission for Combating Counter-Revolution and Sabotage (VChK) aka…