Smolensk Official Faces Charges By Alexey Eremenko The St. Petersburg Times Published: September 21, 2011 (Issue # 1675) SMOLENSK — Smolensk’s city manager was led away in handcuffs by masked officers toting automatic weapons Tuesday after his deputy was caught red-handed accepting a bribe on his behalf, police said. Konstantin Lazarev, a native Muscovite who was appointed city manager by the […]