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 ...