Petersburg airport's air-traffic control tower, which then notified Tampa International Airport, Tampa police said.

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St Petersburg is the first leg of Mr Koizumi's seven-day trip to Europe which started on Thursday.

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Worse still is the intimidation of liberal activists which is set against the grim background of the unsolved murder on November 20th in St Petersburg of Galina Starovoitova, one of Russia's best-known reformers.

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Putin's allies - many of them rich businessmen, colleagues from when he worked as a city adviser in St Petersburg and fellow KGB veterans - have given no hint of transferring their support to anyone else and the opposition remains divided.

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