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...making several pleas to their employers for back pay - at one point crashing a meeting at the mayor's office to demand their jobs back - the workers turned to desperate measures. On June 2, they staged a strike along a major highway linking the city of Vologda to St. Petersburg, blocking the route for hours. Finally Moscow took notice, and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin flew in by helicopter to force local politicians and factory owners to pay the town's workers the money owed them. Now Pikalyovo's shops, cafés and banks are doing good business again...
...ladies' lunch for more than 100 "women for Moran." When asked about McAuliffe's last-minute endorsements and get-out-the-vote efforts, Moran scoffed. "I have support all across Virginia and that's exactly what we need in a governor. The mayors of Hampton Roads and Richmond and Petersburg and here, of course, in Alexandria, all across northern Virginia, are supporting me because they know I know their issues," he said. Moran, a former prosecutor, was chairman of the legislature's Democratic caucus until he left office in December. He is also the brother of Representative Jim Moran...
...Lady of Charity school in Hialeah; her victim was 15. But she just as well could have been the 34-year-old Jacksonville public-school science teacher arrested last month for allegedly having sex with a 14-year-old student, once in her SUV; the 32-year-old St. Petersburg teacher collared in March for allegedly "sexting" nude pictures of herself to an eighth-grade boy; or the 45-year-old teacher at a private Christian academy in South Daytona who was arrested days before for allegedly having sex with a boy from her class in various Daytona Beach hotels...
...Alexeyev plans to take the case to court. He has had some success with legislation. Last year his activism helped change a law that barred gays and lesbians from donating blood. Alexeyev speaks regularly to gay groups outside Moscow to promote his message of equal rights. "Moscow and St. Petersburg is one thing," he says. "There are clubs and communities [in the big cities,] but being gay in a Russian small town is scary...
...Russians seem to like what they see in the museum, translating a day of fun into a lifelong interest in science and technology remains a challenge. Some blame the school system. "My daughter is in second grade, and they're not taught anything," says Olga Fyodorova, visiting from St. Petersburg with her daughter Asya. "The biggest problem is that our children are not being taught history, math, chemistry and physics...