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A recent survey from Men's Health magazine ranked St. Petersburg in Florida as America's saddest city to live.
Despite endless days of sunshine, according to the magazine residents of the sunshine state are the most depressed, with three cities ranking in the top ten.
The magazine used data on suicides, joblessness and use of antidepressants to come up with the results. Honolulu was ranked the happiest.
The extraordinary life story of “Jumpin’ Joe” Beyrle, a G.I. who managed to fight the Nazis in both the Soviet and US armies, is being celebrated in an exhibition in St. Petersburg.
Beyrle is thought to be the only American soldier who fought for both the US and Soviet Armies against Nazi Germany in the Second World War.
His son John – the current US ambassador to Russia – says the story is a memorable example of the wartime alliance between the two nations.
In 1944, 20-year-old paratrooper Joseph Beyrle was dropped over Northern France as the allies opened the second front. Just three days later, however, he was captured by the Germans and spent the next 10 months being moved between at least seven concentration camps.
“You have never lived until you have been interrogated by the Gestapo,” Jumpin’ Joe later said in an interview.
When US troops found Joseph's dog tag on a body, his family back home in Michigan received the news they had always feared: their son had been killed in action.
Little did they know it had actually been found on the remains of a Nazi soldier who had stolen Joseph’s dog tag.
“There was somebody up there looking after me… that wasn’t my time to go,” Beyrle said.
St. Petersburg has been a Republican stronghold as long as Rightardia can remember. In this video the show multiple vacant prime location commercial properties located throughout the greater St. Petersburg area.
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The State of Florida has also been run by Republicans for nearly 12 years. Florida's unemployment rate for December hit 11.8 percent, inching closer to breaking the state record of 11.9 percent set nearly 35 years ago.
In the Tampa Bay area, the jobless rate was 12.4 percent, driven in part by Hernando County's whopping 14.9 percent rate, second-highest in the state.
In past decades florida was able to withstand recessions because of the tourism industry. Initially this industry did not do well when the Bush recession stated because galoine prices were high. Gas prices have recovered, but tourism is till lagging.
In additon, the Republicans cut takes back while Jeb Bush was governor and have now been forced to layoff teachers, police and fire fighters as a result of their wayward tax policy.
Democrats needs to hang the Florida recession onto the Republicans. They can win in Florida with this strategy.
MOSCOW, July 28 (RIA Novosti) A communist group in St. Petersburg has published an open letter to Madonna asking her to act modestly and sing revolutionary songs during her concert on St. Petersburg's central square.
The pop star will perform on August 2 on the historic Palace Square, a focal point of the October Revolution of 1917.
"You must understand the responsibility of singing in such a place," the Communists of Petersburg and the Leningrad Region, a separate organization from the much larger Communist Party, said in a statement.
"You should be dressed modestly, sing melodically, and keep the rules of morality in mind."
"We ask you, Madonna, to include in your repertoire on Palace Square a revolutionary song in honor of those who stormed the Winter Palace." The letter goes on to suggest several Soviet songs.
The group, known for regularly feeding bizarre statements to the press, earlier this year made headlines in Russia by criticizing football star Andrei Arshavin for "displaying for sale his body for many months in front of covetous Western clubs."
It also accused the latest Bond girl, Ukrainian Olga Kurylenko, of a "moral and intellectual betrayal" in starring in a movie about the "enemy of the Soviet people."
The Fourth International Maritime Defense Show now being held in St. Petersburg is showcasing not only a wide range of ships, but also the strength of Russia's naval forces.
The naval show started in a rather unexpected place: up in the air. Two famous Russian aerobatic teams, Russkiye Vityazi (The Russian Knights) and Strizhi (The Swifts), boasted their skills over the waters of the Gulf of Finland to resounding applause.
The opening ceremony also featured the man responsible for St Petersburg’s naval prowess, Peter the Great, who founded the city in 1703 and turned it into a maritime capital.
The show features everything that can move in or under the water. Overall there are more than 50 different craft, the majority of them Russian.
According to the commander in chief of the Russian Navy, Vladimir Vysotsky, everything that the Russian naval industry can present was being shown in St Petersburg. He added that Russia will do her best to present even more hardware in future exhibitions around the world.
“I am sure that by 2010 or 2011 we will be ready to show even more and display the projects that the navy scientists have been working on over the past several years," Vysotsky said.
Hundreds of Russian and foreign companies and visitors have come onboard for a glimpse of the Russian Navy's latest equipment.
The industry demonstrated how much it has changed since the Russian fleet achieved its first victories 300 years ago, with all the stages of shipbuilding and marine equipment construction on display.
This year, Spain, Britain and France joined the show, which has been taking place biannually since 2003. Despite the global economic crisis, more than 350 enterprises from 28 different countries participated this year, and more than 50 countries sent delegations to see what is new on the market.
Two years ago this show welcomed a ship from abroad for the first time, and today it already ranks among the three leading maritime and naval fairs in the world. And St Petersburg has once again become a center for promoting Russia’s naval glory.
Russia's floating highlights included the multi-purpose frigate Yaroslav Mudry, a long-awaited recent addition to the Navy, and the corvette Steregushchiy, the newest of its kind in Russia's fleet. Rightardia has already published an article about the new Russian frigate.
Russia’s deputy prime minister, Sergey Ivanov, who is supervising the show, visited several ships and officially declared that the country's naval industry is back in action.
“In the 1990s, Russia hardly built any modern surface craft. Today, we're actively building corvettes and frigates, with full funding – in St. Petersburg, of course,” Sergey Ivanov said. “Not because of any military threat, but because of piracy off Somalia and elsewhere.”
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