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Take Mikhail from St. Petersburg. A 42-year-old mathematician who taught in a high-level university for 18 years, he has been forced for the past year to sing for pennies on Jerusalem's pedestrian mall. Store-keepers shoo him away, passersby laugh at him. He cannot stand the shame of making a fool of himself before fellow Jews...
...been made to revive him, but none have really taken hold. The most recent, which may restore Canova to some popularity, is the sleeper of Venice's summer art season: a show of 152 drawings, clay models, plasters and finished marble carvings, borrowed from as far afield as St. Petersburg, handsomely installed in the period rooms of the Museo Correr on Piazza San Marco. It is 20 years since such a group of Canovas has been assembled in public...
Next year's fellows include Rick Bragg, Miami bureau chief for the St. Petersburg Times; Heidi Evans, a reporter for the New York Daily News; Katherine Fulton, editor of the Independent, in Durham, N.C.; and Barbara Gutierrez, assistant managing editor of El Nuevo Herald, in Miami...
Even sharper accusations are being leveled by M. Gene Wheaton, the private investigator appointed by the Families for Truth about Gander, Inc. The organization was founded in 1989 by Dr. J.D. Phillips and his wife Zona of St. Petersburg, Florida. As father and stepmother of one of the victims, they charged the U.S. with "failing to conduct a full inquest, or even revealing the facts it does possess...
Krikalev landed on the snowy plains of Kazakhstan, an independent country. He was wearing the emblems of the U.S.S.R., but it no longer exists. His hometown is called St. Petersburg again, not Leningrad. Understandably, Krikalev's knees were a bit rubbery. He was given a whiff of smelling salts and a cup of soup...