In the early weeks of the war, prison authorities told top guards there would be no restrictions against violence.

He considers it to be "a European city." Putin has said about the Russian capital: "I can't say that I didn't love Moscow. I just loved St. Petersburg more. But Moscow, it's completely obvious ...

Raskolhikov, an impverished student living in a garret in the gloomey slums of St. Petersburg ... set in the city of St. Petersburg, then the Russian capital. It is not, however, a murder mystery.

Poland announced Wednesday it had shut its consulate in the Russian city of Saint Petersburg, after Russia ordered the closure in a tit-for-tat move. Russia ordered the closure in December after ...