St. Petersburg VIP Island Could Get Protected Status

04 December 2012 | Issue 5027

Senior officials and millionaires from St. Petersburg could be symbolically equated to endangered species if the local government pushes ahead with its proposal to designate their elite residential area on a centrally located island a nature reserve.

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