Of the roughly 5.5 million people living in St. Petersburg, Russia's second-biggest city and the hometown of President Vladimir Putin, eight are currently facing criminal charges under the country's draconian law on disseminating "false" information about the country's unprovoked invasion of Ukraine.
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The press statement, put out by a St. Petersburg company called Concord Catering and Management, pulled no punches: The elected head of Russia’s second-largest city is a crook, it suggested.
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Standing onstage before 39,000 cheering teenagers in June, the governor of St. Petersburg opened the city’s annual high school graduation ceremony with a message of defiance to those who warned against mass gatherings in the face of a surging coronavirus epidemic.
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Hundreds of demonstrators have reportedly been detained as Russians nationwide took to the streets on January 31 for a second-straight weekend of protests demanding the release of jailed Kremlin critic Aleksei Navalny amid a sweeping crackdown on his supporters.
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