Saint Petersburg

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Saint Petersburg is a recurring place in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between August 23, 2021 and August 11, 2023. The archive places it in contexts such as “SAINT PETERSBURG, RUSSIA ( RSVP )”; “not corrupt in Saint Petersburg”. It most often appears alongside MOSCOW, New York City, Nick.

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  • Category: Places
  • Mention count: 2
  • Issue count: 2
  • First seen: August 23, 2021
  • Last seen: August 11, 2023

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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.

August 23, 2021 · Original source
SAINT PETERSBURG, RUSSIA (RSVP) Contact: Vit, imbarus[at]gmail[dot]com Time: 2:00 PM, Saturday, September 25 Location: Aleksandrovskiy Park near Gorkovskaya if the weather allows it, near Bolshe Coffee. Look for a huge guy with a moustache and a hat. Coordinates: https://w3w.co/logged.kitchens.lined
August 11, 2023 · Original source
Short's biography certainly isn't pro-Putin, but very different from Gessen's. His Putin is somewhat defensible until the mid-2000s: not corrupt in Saint Petersburg, loyal to Sobchak and not responsible for his heart attack, not bombing apartments to come to power, willing to cooperate with the west until criticisms of the War in Chechnya pissed him off. Ultimately Short acknowledges that Putin became very evil with time, but it's quite a different biography than Gessen's in the aggregate it seemed better researched and more convincing.