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St. Petersburg becoming murder capital of nation.(World)(Briefing/Europe)

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From: The Washington Times
Date: 19981129
Author:Sieff, Martin

To enraptured Western tourists, it is the most beautiful and magical of Russian cities: an enormous, baroque, grander version of Venice glowing beneath the Northern lights.

St. Petersburg, so far north it is on the same latitude as Canada's Hudson Bay, was home and inspiration to Russia's national poet Alexander Pushkin, the great composer Pyotr Tchaikovsky and novelist Fyodor Dostoyevsky.

But now, Russia's second greatest city and its historic window on the West, has a darker reputation.

Like Munich, capital of Bavaria in the troubled 1920s era of Germany's ...

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