Hints and tips:
...Similarly, his positive heroes — like Pyotr Grinyov, the young aristocrat befriended by Pugachev — are those able to move freely between different worlds....
...Open any door and you fall into a colourful interior among young people excited by entrepreneurial opportunity....
...He summarily sacked a young Treasury adviser, Sonia Khan, for alleged disloyalty and had her marched off the premises by armed police. “He ruined a young woman’s life,” says one Tory insider....
...But almost immediately a rowdy crowd with red banners appeared on the right bank of the Neva as a regiment of soldiers hurried towards them from the other end. It seemed as if they would clash....
...Water is his church, Brodsky’s church, because he grew up [with the] Neva River.”...
...Now the swarms of young monks are back and amble about the well-tended gardens....
...The second is to rebalance a collapsed economy, whose inability to serve the country’s largely poor and young population of 180m is contributing to deepening poverty and militancy....
...Peter O’Neill is the great-great-grandson and Neva Rockefeller Goodwin is the great-granddaughter of John D. Rockefeller, the founder of Exxon and Mobil...
...Asked about free speech, two young women promoting special deals in sun-tanning studio explained: “This is free speech.”...
...Hydrofoils ferrying journalists to and from the press centre have the Neva river to themselves....
International Edition