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...Leaked Russian records suggest Frolova has a connection to another St Petersburg group, EKB Neva, on which the US imposed sanctions in May....
...This may be the first example of a Wagner member defecting to a western country since Putin launched his invasion last February – although another Wagner mercenary wrote, before the Ukraine war, about his...
...Russian aristocrats may be thin on the ground but culture is central to St Petersburg again, along with a happy dash of the demented....
...If you try to be in the papers every day your political life expectancy is short — and like Rasputin, you end up on the bottom of the River Neva in chains.”...
...A good example of the latter is a photograph of the Neva river. In the foreground is a statue of a lion, snow lying thickly on the base....
...St Petersburg, with its fairytale onion domes, may have been the birthplace of the Russian Revolution in 1917, but it’s long been the backdrop for the whims of the super-rich....
...Water is his church, Brodsky’s church, because he grew up [with the] Neva River.”...
...May God bless you all! Tender love. NICKY.”...
...My small collection will surely be one day the pride of my daughter Neva....
...The deals will give Britain’s largest bookmaker a foothold in the US at a time when there is speculation that the country may move towards a regulated sports betting market....
...These sumptuous gowns and elaborate military uniforms may be as potent a symbol of wealth and power as palaces or gold and silver plate but, unlike them, they offer a peculiar intimacy and an inherent fragility...
...“We are trying to keep a giant from falling,” said Neva Rockefeller Goodwin, economist and great-granddaughter of John D. Rockefeller, the company’s founder....
...Led by Neva Rockefeller Goodwin, a 63-year-old economist and the great-granddaughter of John D....
...Moscow-New York = Parallel Play (Chelsea Art Museum, New York, February-May) is the first western showing of parts of the unrivalled Kolodzei Collection....
...The two men became so close that they founded a judo club together along with two other businessmen, according to the sporting director of the Yavara Neva judo club....
...Hydrofoils ferrying journalists to and from the press centre have the Neva river to themselves....
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