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Brilliance and bondage in St. Petersburg MEANWHILE

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From: International Herald Tribune
Date: 20030605
Author:Serge Schmemann

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As President George W. Bush and other world leaders descended on St. Petersburg last weekend to help President Vladimir Putin celebrate the city's tercentennial (and to help his re-election campaign), there were many references to a ''window into Europe.'' That, according to Alexander Pushkin, was what Peter the Great had in mind when he decreed a new capital in the swampy delta of the Neva and gave it a Dutch name, ''Sankt-Piterburkh'' (it was Russified to Petrograd only in World War I). And that is what Putin, a native Petersburger, wanted his visitors to believe ã ...

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