11.   None are believed to be related to U.S. President George W. Bush, who will visit Russian President Vladimir Putin in this imperial city on Saturday and Sunday.

12.   His wife is to join him for visits to Krakow, the former imperial city in the south, and Auschwitz.

13.   Now the imperial city is threatened by another plague.

14.   The best hotel in the old imperial city serves tepid coffee, as dark as Indian ink.