A portrait of the owner of private military company Wagner Group Yevgeny Prigozhin lays at an informal memorial next to the former PMC Wagner Centre in St. Petersburg, Russia, Thursday, August 24, 2023.

Source: https://businessmirror.com.ph/2023/08/25/us-intel-indicates-intentional-blast-brought-down-wagner-chiefs-plane/

Jiu-jitsu’s Kaila Napolis bagged the country’s first-ever medal—gold—in the 16-sport World Combat Games that started in 2010 in Beijing but only had one competition after that in St. Petersburg, Russia in 2013.

Source: https://businessmirror.com.ph/2023/10/29/golden-weekend-for-filipino-athletes-in-hangzhou-riyadh/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=golden-weekend-for-filipino-athletes-in-hangzhou-riyadh

One trip took a delivery person all the way to St. Petersburg, Russia, while a couple recently left for a three-year trip to Nepal, on foot, with someone’s letter in hand.

Source: https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2023/0728/Special-delivery-This-Frenchman-builds-community-letter-by-letter?icid=rss

People hold rainbow flags during the gay pride rally in St. Petersburg, Russia, on Aug. 12, 2017.

Source: https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/03/19/russia-youth-culture-putin-migration/

The building for the the Internet Research Agency, known as the “troll farm,” is shown in St. Petersburg, Russia, on Feb. 17, 2018.

Source: https://www.politico.com/news/2023/02/18/russia-wagner-group-ukraine-paramilitary-00083553

Wagner Group head Yevgeny Prigozhin attends the funeral of Dmitry Menshikov, a fighter of the Wagner group who died during a special operation in Ukraine, at the Beloostrovskoye cemetery outside St. Petersburg, Russia, on Dec. 24, 2022.

Source: https://abcnews.go.com/International/International/wagner-group-brutal-russian-military-group-fighting-ukraine/story?id=96665326