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Next year's ice hockey world championship will be moved away from St. Petersburg in Russia, governing body IIHF said on Tuesday, due to concerns about the well-being of players and officials after Russia's invasion of Ukraine. The tournament was scheduled to take place in St. Petersburg from May 5-21.

Next year's ice hockey world championship will be moved away from St Petersburg in Russia, the International Ice Hockey Federation said on Tuesday, due to concerns about the well-being of players and officials after Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Since the Tampa Bay Rays began their search for a site to build a new stadium more than a decade ago, sea level rise has changed where they can look, team president Brian Auld said Tuesday.

Strictly Come Dancing's Katya Jones and Luba Mushtuk come from St Petersburg while Nikita Kuzmin and Nadiya Bychkova come from Ukraine

A day after Russia invaded Ukraine, married couple Olga and Nikolai Kustov locked up their St Petersburg apartment, took their children out of school, and moved to a foreign country.

In the early 1990s, when he was deputy mayor of St Petersburg, Vladimir Putin was known to a member of the city’s legislature, Viktor Talanov. A psychologist by profession, Talanov prepared a study of Putin in which he concluded that one of his subject’s fundamental psychological characteristics was a very…

Helsinki (AFP) - One of the few remaining routes open from Russia to the European Union is closing down after Finland's railway operator announced the last train from St Petersburg to Helsinki will run on Sunday.

Prince Charles was a patron of trust set up by friend of Putin to back the Russian Mariinsky theatre

Today’s crackdown includes asset freezes, travel bans and measures to seize private jets and superyachts. Activists had called for the restrictions in the run-up to and after the Ukraine invasion