The St. Petersburg Times after which it was usurped by "The Moscow Times". The St. Petersburg Times The St. Petersburg Times was a weekly newspaper issued in St. Petersburg, Russia. It served the expatriate community, tourists, and Russians interested in an international perspective on local and world affairs. Publication began in May 1993; publication was suspended on 24 December 2014. The editorial staff tweeted that the situation was connected with the economic crisis in Russia and current legislative environment. The newspaper, and its sister "The Moscow Times", which continues to be published, were published by Finnish Sanoma Oyj, publisher of "Helsingin Sanomat" in Helsinki.
History of aesthetics before the 20th century refers to Greek philosophers as the earliest source of formal aesthetic considerations. Plato believed in beauty as a "form" in which beautiful objects partake and which causes them to be beautiful. He felt that beautiful objects incorporated proportion, harmony, and unity among their parts. Similarly, in the "Metaphysics", Aristotle found that the universal elements of beauty were order, symmetry, and definiteness. From the late 17th to the early 20th century Western aesthetics underwent a slow revolution into what is often called modernism. German and British thinkers emphasized beauty as the key component of art and of the aesthetic experience, and