In St. Petersburg, Russia's second-largest city, local politicians have campaigned to block a $1.3 billion real-estate development by a conglomerate of five Chinese state-owned companies. The concern: that the 553.5-acre project, ...
After a couple of weeks away from the blog - first a week of bvacation/b and then last Saturday a journey with a bunch of friends to Caramoor to see Sumi Jo in a first-rate concert performance of Bellini's I Puritani. ... Elena Novak, Leonid Zimnenko, Yekaterina Shcherbachenko, Alexander Naumenko, Margarita Mamsirova, Roman Muravitsky, Oksana Kornievskaya, Vsevolod Grivnov, Yuri Baranov, Tatiana Yerastova, Irina bRubtsova/b, Paata Burchuladze and Boris Statsenko, ...
