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 …
Category: Personal Writings
Organizer Activists–Yevyenia
St. Petersburg St. Petersburg is a dramatic city built around islands, rivers, canals, and bridges and somehow we ended up yesterday in sunshine even as the temperature turned slightly more crisp. Little did we realize what a rare blessing this might be until we found that on the Baltic and at the same …
On the Western Front
Paris It was not part of the plan, but it seems I’m spending the day in Paris or whatever suburb the Charles DeGaulle International Airport might call home, having flown overnight from Atlanta, landed at 10:30 in the morning this time and now delayed so that I won’t leave here, if lucky, until 6:15 …