Crossword-Solution: LENINGRAD 9 letters, 29 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

Petersburg (formerly Leningrad) _#_Flag: red with the yellow silhouette of a crossed hammer and sickle below a yellow-edged five-pointed red star in the upper hoist-side corner _*_Economy _#_Overview: The first six years of perestroyka (economic and political restructuring) have undermined the institutions and processes of the Soviet command economy without replacing them with efficiently functioning markets.

Petersburg (formerly Leningrad); future consulates will be in Yekaterinburg and Vladivostok Flag: tricolor; three equal bands of white (top), blue, red (bottom) :Russia Economy Overview: Russia, one of the world's largest economies, possesses a wealth of natural resources and a diverse industrial base.

The longest distance I achieved was with UA1DZ a Physics Professor at the University of Leningrad in the Soviet Union." Norman: "Forgive me for interrupting you, but please explain in simple terms what you mean by meteor scatter." George: "Meteor scatter is a way of making contacts on 2 metres by reflection from meteorites--'shooting stars' as they are called colloquially--which we see on clear nights during the summer.

Within hours of Yeltsin's statement in defiance of the coup leaders, handbills reproducing his statement papered the walls of the Moscow metro and Leningrad houses.

Petersburg (formerly Leningrad), Vladivostok Flag: three equal horizontal bands of white (top), blue, and red *Russia, Economy *Russia, Economy Overview: Russia, a vast country with a wealth of natural resources and a diverse industrial base, continues to experience great difficulties in moving from its old centrally planned economy to a modern market economy.