Saint Petersburg, Nov 26, 2025 (AFP) - 'Severely restricted': Russia's Saint Petersburg faces cultural crackdown

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Russian bookseller Lyubov Belyatskaya sighed as she lamented the "climate of widespread anxiety" that has taken hold in her native Saint Petersburg amid the war in Ukraine. Once dubbed Russia's "window to Europe", the city has long been the country's cultural capital, a hotbed of independent thinking, artistic expression and underground dissent. But as authorities ratchet up repression, trying to stamp out any sign, no matter how small or subtle,......

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