UNBELIEVABLE: 14 - The Untold Story

Flurry of drone strikes hits Russia as TV, radio are hacked

Regional officials in southern and western Russia are reporting a string of drone attacks near the border with Ukraine and deep inside the country

The Independent UK · Feb 28, 2023

Russia closes airspace over St Petersburg after ‘unidentified object spotted’

Russian media reports say unidenified object was spotted near Pulkovo Airport

The Independent UK · Feb 28, 2023

Russian military says it was rehearsing after St. Petersburg airport briefly closed

Russia's defence ministry said it had carried out air defence drills involving interceptor jets after St. Petersburg's Pulkovo Airport was forced to suspend all flights on Tuesday for an hour.

Reuters · Feb 28, 2023

Plan outlined for new Tampa Bay Rays ballpark, redevelopment

A new Tampa Bay Rays ballpark will be built as part of a massive redevelopment project in what was once a thriving Black neighborhood

The Independent UK · Jan 30, 2023

John Romano: Rays have a developer and a plan for a stadium. Do they have a partner in St. Petersburg?

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — It’s decision time in the city. The same momentous, once-in-a-lifetime decision that keeps playing round and round in these parts.

Tribune News Service · Jan 28, 2023

Yevgeny Prigozhin: the hotdog seller who rose to the top of Putin’s war machine

Russian officials have said the Wagner group founder was on a plane that crashed outside Moscow. Some of those who knew him describe – what had been up to his abortive rebellion this summer – an extraordinary journey from prison to power

The Guardian - UK · Jan 24, 2023

Russians lay flowers at improvised memorials to commemorate Dnipro dead

Russians in St Petersburg and Moscow have been laying flowers at improvised memorials to the victims of a Russian missile attack on a nine-storey apartment block in the Ukrainian city of Dnipro.

Reuters · Jan 20, 2023

Ukraine war: Kremlin's campaign of misinformation keeps Kyiv and its allies guessing

During a recent visit to St Petersburg, Russian president Vladimir Putin reiterated his confidence in his country’s victory over Ukraine. Visiting a defence contractor, he also took the opportunity to reassure workers that his so-called “special military operation” was in defence of ethnic Russians and Russian speakers in Ukraine against…

The Conversation · Jan 19, 2023

Vladimir Putin to make 'very important' announcement on Ukraine war tomorrow

Vladimir Putin may make a statement on the war in Ukraine in St Petersburg tomorrow, Russian official Vladimir Rogov has claimed. There has been no official confirmation from the Kremlin yet

Daily Mirror · Jan 17, 2023

Festival of tall ships coming to St. Petersburg waterfront this spring

TAMPA, Fla. — A flotilla of a half-dozen tall ships, including a replica of the iconic Santa Maria, will sail into the St. Petersburg waterfront for a festival onshore and off March 30-April 2.

Tribune News Service · Jan 16, 2023