Rainer Robra arrived to St.Petersburg to participate in the events within the framework of “Week of Germany”, and to negotiate with the City Administration the cooperation with Saxony-Anhalt.
During his visit, 19 April, Rainer Robra met at Smolny A.V. Prokhorenko, Chairman of the Committee for External Relations, and Yu.Yu. Zinchuk, Chairman of the Committee on Press and Media Relations.
The parties discussed the cooperation between St.Petersburg and Saxony-Anhalt in the moovie industry, book publishing, and media.
Mentioned was a great success of a joint project of “Russian Bureau of Film Co-production” of Andrew Deryabin from St.Petersburg and German filmmakers, on creating the movie “The Last Station” – the drama of the last year life of the writer Leo Tolstoy.
Yu.Yu. Zinchuk produced an invitation to book publishers and writers of Saxony-Anhalt to take part in the “St.Petersburg Book Salon-2011”.
News source: Committee for External Relations of St.Petersburg