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...doesn't matter who Jesus of Nazareth was or what he was. What's most important is the lessons he taught." PAUL MUSSELMAN St. Petersburg, Florida...
Yavlinsky's party, Yabloko, is the only reform-minded opposition group with a serious chance to win a large number of seats this election year. In democratic strongholds like St. Petersburg, the group tops party preference polls, attracting white-collar professionals. Yavlinsky has kept his personal ratings high by shunning coalitions with other reformers who have been tainted by involvement in the Yeltsin administration...
...never too early to start booking rooms for the Olympics, so here are the 10 cities on the IOC's short list for the Summer Olympics in 2004: Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires, San Juan, Stockholm, Rome, Seville, Istanbul, Cape Town, St. Petersburg (Russia, not Florida) and a yet-to-be-determined city in France...
Although he belonged to a distinguished St. Petersburg family with medieval roots and country estates, Nabokov never sentimentalized the old regime. Not for him the romance of serf and turf. He was above all a cultural and intellectual aristocrat, part of the Russian liberal class whose hopes for democracy were crushed by triumphant Bolshevism. Scorn for tyrants is etched on many of the pre-World War II Berlin stories, as well as others written during the '40s and '50s after he immigrated to the U.S. And woe to the poseur whose influence is based solely on personality. From Spring...
Russia's last Czar, Nicholas II, and his family will be reburied next February in the Cathedral of Sts. Peter and Paul in St. Petersburg. The family was slain by the Bolsheviks in Ekaterinburg in 1918, and their remains (minus those of son Alexei and daughter Anastasia) were exhumed in 1992; DNA tests later confirmed the imperial identities...