Communication
 Staying in St. Petersburg you can stay in touch with the rest of the world using various modern means of communication.
The Internet has nowadays become the largest and the most wide-spread informational channel in the world. While in St. Petersburg, you can always get access to it at Internet Cafes. Their list with addresses is published by weekly computer magazines such as Computer Price and Computer Market. Those can be purchased at any newsstand or picked up freely at a computer shop.
 In St. Petersburg local calls are free, so you can always use the phone in your flat. Intercity and international calls are charged separately. There are different ways you can make a phone call to other cities and abroad:
- Buy an international phone card and use any telephone that can be switched from tone to pulse mode.
- Use post offices with international phone service to book a phone call and the operator will connect you to any city in the world that has an international access code.
- Buy a payphone card for international calls and use any payphone in the street.
- Take a GSM cellphone with you and use the International Roaming System to call from St. Petersburg to any city in the World that is covered by GSM services.
In St. Petersburg some papers are published in English such as St. Petersburg Times popular with English-speaking locals and foreign visitors. The paper comes out twice a week Tuesdays and Fridays and the Friday issue has a special section in it called All About Town where you can find the information on the city's cultural life for the coming weekend and the next week. The paper is distributed for free and you can pick up an issue in many cafes, restaurants, clubs and shops. Apart from that, you can also read The Pulse Magazine that can prove very useful for getting grips on what's up in St. Petersburg.
To those who want to read some Russian press we can recommend to buy papers sold in street kiosks and at the newsstands at Metro stations. The most acclaimed of them are: Sankt-Peterburgskiye Vedomosty, Kommersant and Delovoy Peterburg.
In St. Petersburg there are about 15 TV channels, 5 of them being received everywhere: The official Moscow channel ORT Public Russian Television, another Moscow channel called RTR Russian TeleRadio and St. Petersburg channels - Peterburg (Channel 5), Channel 6 and TNT Peterburg (Channel 11). A weekly TV program can be bought separately otherwise it can be found in most major papers beginning with Wednesday.
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