Fellow English club Liverpool didn't fare so well, suffering their second successive 2-0 defeat after being beaten by Zenit St Petersburg in Russia.
The team won the national finals of Microsoft's Imagine Cup and will fly to St Petersburg in Russia in July for the world finals.
The activity is in compliance with Decision 36 COM 10C, approved by the World Heritage Committee at its 36th Session that took place in St Petersburg, Russia, in July this year.
Failing that, Russia will just have to offer tourists a better deal: and there are signs that this may be happening, if only in St Petersburg, Russia's main tourist destination apart from Moscow.
UNESCO's World Heritage Committee will consider the Church of the Nativity among 36 sites nominated for inclusion on the list at its next meeting, to be held from June 24 to July 6, in St Petersburg, Russia.
Ella Paneyakh, a sociologist and legal expert at Russia's European University in St Petersburg, said the case illustrated how in President Vladimir Putin's Russia "they are getting very creative, interpreting the law very literally, in a way which does not correspond to the spirit of the law".
Worse still is the intimidation of liberal activists which is set against the grim background of the unsolved murder on November 20th in St Petersburg of Galina Starovoitova, one of Russia's best-known reformers.
It also has the only five-star hotel in Russia outside Moscow and St Petersburg, put there in a fit of premature optimism by an Austrian chain, Marco Polo, and later turned over to local management.
The Berlins later moved to Russia and were living in St Petersburg when Lenin staged his revolution.
He has backed at least a dozen winning candidates in recent regional elections, including Vladimir Yakovlev, mayor of Russia's second city, St Petersburg.
"When many people think of Russia, they think of Moscow and St Petersburg, and not much else, " says Roberts.
The economic crisis in Russia has implications reaching far beyond Moscow, St Petersburg and Novgorod.
Witness, on January 10th, the assassination of Ilya Weissman, the Russian finance director of one of the few really successful foreign investments in Russia, the Nordic-owned Baltika brewery in St Petersburg.
At the end of this week, leaders from China, Russia and four Central Asian states were meeting in St Petersburg for a summit of the Shanghai Co-operation Organisation, a group that aims to enhance joint efforts to combat terrorism and separatist movements in Central Asia.
Back in Russia, at his home town of Vitebsk and then in St Petersburg (then called Petrograd), he worked on through war and revolution with equal fire, using cardboard when canvas was scarce.
Bandits or no, St Petersburg is in practical terms one of the richest and best-governed cities in Russia: admittedly no great boast.
This coalition of two separate movements, Fatherland and All Russia, was formed in 1999 by the mayors of Moscow and St Petersburg, Yury Luzhkov and Vladimir Yakovlev.
"Throughout the world, people will laugh at this decision in disbelief and none more so than in Russia as their own association has done everything it can to assist FC Zenit St Petersburg, " he said.
About 60 oil paintings, murals and sketches gathered together from Moscow, St Petersburg and Paris focus on the eight years Chagall spent in his home town of Vitebsk in Russia during World War 1, the Bolshevik Revolution and its aftermath.
It might take some work to change the way Russian industry is seen abroad, but the Russian corporate and government leaders behind the 15th annual St Petersburg International Economic Forum are hoping to participants leave the three day forum starting June 16 knowing that Russia is also pretty high tech.
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