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St. Petersburg place

Named in 68 reports across 21 stories - 3 Aug – 22 Oct

also appears as St. Petersburgu

3 Aug 202622 Oct 2026
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Closest companions, sized by how often they share a report with St. Petersburg. Lines between the outer names are their own relationships - names that appear together even without St. Petersburg.

Putin and Witkoff share 9 reportsMoscow and Russia share 5 reportsSteve Witkoff and Vladimir Putin share 5 reportsMoscow and Ukraine share 4 reportsPutin and Steve Witkoff share 3 reportsKyiv and Russia share 3 reportsRussia and Ukraine share 3 reportsMoscow and Vladimir Putin share 2 reportsKyiv and Steve Witkoff share 2 reportsKanye West and Russia share 2 reportsStephen Hubbard and Witkoff share 2 reportsKyiv and Ukraine share 2 reportsStephen Hubbard and Steve Witkoff share 2 reportsPutin and Stephen Hubbard share 2 reportsKyiv and Putin share 2 reportsKyiv and Moscow share 2 reportsKyiv and Witkoff share 2 reportsStephen Hubbard and Vladimir Putin share 1 reportUkraine and Vladimir Putin share 1 reportRussia and Vladimir Putin share 1 reportMoscow and Steve Witkoff share 1 reportPutin and Ukraine share 1 reportKyiv and Vladimir Putin share 1 reportRussia and Steve Witkoff share 1 reportSteve Witkoff and Ukraine share 1 reportSt. PetersburgPutinPutin - 14 shared reports (person)RussiaRussia - 12 shared reports (place)Steve Witko…Steve Witkoff - 12 shared reports (person)UkraineUkraine - 12 shared reports (place)MoscowMoscow - 11 shared reports (place)WitkoffWitkoff - 10 shared reports (person)KyivKyiv - 7 shared reports (place)Vladimir Pu…Vladimir Putin - 6 shared reports (person)Kanye WestKanye West - 5 shared reports (person)Stephen Hub…Stephen Hubbard - 5 shared reports (person)

The stories

Russian warship makes ‘AGGRESSIVE’ approach with weapons drawn to US navy cruiser

414 outlets8 reports name St. Petersburg1 Jul 2016 – 22 Oct 2026

Evacuations continue daily as more than 83,400 civilians remain in Kramatorsk and Sloviansk communities

95 outlets1 report names St. Petersburg5 Aug – 22 Oct

Russia’s sole anti-war party targets coming elections, favours ceasefire

75 outlets1 report names St. Petersburg8 Aug – 20 Oct

CIA Director Ratcliffe Visits Moscow for Surprise Meetings

68 outlets3 reports name St. Petersburg25 Aug – 30 Sept

Fire breaks out at fuel tank in Libya’s Zawiya oil depot

48 outlets10 reports name St. Petersburg10 Aug – 22 Oct

Trump Says He Would Like to See Putin at G20 Summit

47 outlets1 report names St. Petersburg10 Oct – 21 Oct

Russia to close branches of Germany's Goethe-Institut

32 outlets6 reports name St. Petersburg1 Sept – 18 Oct

Witkoff heads to Oslo, plans Russia trip for peace talks

66 outlets11 reports name St. Petersburg20 Oct – 22 Oct

Kanye West Announces Russia Concerts, Months After Western Europe Cancellations

22 outlets3 reports name St. Petersburg17 Aug – 29 Aug

Trump says he asked Putin to release American Stephen Hubbard

46 outlets6 reports name St. Petersburg20 Oct – 22 Oct

Kanye’s St. Petersburg Concerts Reportedly Scrapped

12 outlets2 reports name St. Petersburg14 Sept – 4 Oct

Russia-China trade turnover rises 26.3% in seven months

8 outlets1 report names St. Petersburg7 Aug – 21 Oct

Who keeps naming them

Kyiv Post (Ukraine)25Anadolu Agency (AA)8Ukrinform (Ukraine)7Google News - Top Stories5Tagesschau (Germany)5DW Top Stories4Die Zeit (Germany)3PBS NewsHour3Bloomberg Politics2Politico Europe2The Hill1Axios1

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