Oct 11, St. Petersburg

St. Petersburg’s historic skyline cannot be saved – neither by UNESCO’s cultural mandarins, nor by crusading rocker Yury Shevchuk.  At least that’s the view being driven home by the city’s governor Valentina Matvienko following a thumbs-up from the General Directorate of State Examination.  That watchdog announced on October 9th that there were no problems with allowing Gazprom to erect a 403-meter tower in the city center…more