Helsinki Kalingrad is a Russian seaport on the Baltic farther south than St. Petersburg. Of all of the people and stories the Organizers’ Forum (www.organizersforum.org) delegation heard, this was frankly the hardest for me to sort out easily in the normal ways that I would do so. The narrative of the story is …
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Membership Lists Too
Helsinki In one of our last meetings in St. Petersburg we met with a brilliant young lawyer who had made a specialty of the new non-profit laws as the director of the Center for Education and Research Programs. Maria Kazankova had a doctorate in law and was making it her mission with precision …
Anna’s Tears
St. Petersburg We had been riding the jitney bus on Nevsky Prospect through the solid traffic even though it was way after 8 PM. Our translator pointed out lights on the 2nd story of the Press Building as we slowly passed on the other side. That was the office of Anna Sharogradskay, who …