Plaque to hardline Communist Party boss sparks anger in St. Pete

Residents in St. Petersburg have reacted with anger after city authorities unveiled a plaque to commemorate the Soviet-era Communist Party boss behind the persecution of poet Joseph Brodsky and other dissidents. The marble plaque outside the former home of Grigory Romanov, the Leningrad regional party chief between 1970 and 1983, was unveiled on Wednesday in […]