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St. Petersburg is a world-renowned cultural center with many museums, galleries, and performing arts venues.<ref>[https://artsandculture.google.com/story/the-essential-guide-to-arts-culture-in-st-petersburg/LAWheFP2yvbZKw?hl=en The Essential Guide to Arts & Culture in St. Petersburg]</ref> In addition, it is home to a thriving literary community and many outdoor spaces. It is widely considered to be the cultural center of Russia.<ref>[https://artsandculture.google.com/story/the-essential-guide-to-arts-culture-in-st-petersburg/LAWheFP2yvbZKw?hl=en The Essential Guide to Arts & Culture in St. Petersburg]</ref> St. Petersburg has been called the '[[Venice]] of the North' due to its numerous canals and more than 400 bridges. It canals are the result of a vast urban project begun in 1703 under Russia's leader [[Peter the Great]].
St. Petersburg is a world-renowned cultural center with many museums, galleries, and performing arts venues.<ref>[https://artsandculture.google.com/story/the-essential-guide-to-arts-culture-in-st-petersburg/LAWheFP2yvbZKw?hl=en The Essential Guide to Arts & Culture in St. Petersburg]</ref> In addition, it is home to a thriving literary community and many outdoor spaces. It is widely considered to be the cultural center of Russia.<ref>[https://artsandculture.google.com/story/the-essential-guide-to-arts-culture-in-st-petersburg/LAWheFP2yvbZKw?hl=en The Essential Guide to Arts & Culture in St. Petersburg]</ref> St. Petersburg has been called the '[[Venice]] of the North' due to its numerous canals and more than 400 bridges. It canals are the result of a vast urban project begun in 1703 under Russia's leader [[Peter the Great]].
===Work, brothers!===
Magomed Nurbagandov (January 9, 1985 – July 10, 2016) was a [[police]] lieutenant serving in the National Guard of Russia, stationed in Kaspiysk in the [[Republic of Dagestan]]. He was a Dargin by nationality, born in the village of Sergokala. By all accounts an exceptional student — he graduated from lyceum with a gold medal and then with honors from the [[law]] faculty of Dagestan State University.
On the morning of July 10, 2016, Nurbagandov was vacationing with his family near the village of Sergokala when he was attacked by five [[terrorist]]s. Having learned he was a policeman, the terrorists forced him and his brother into the trunk of a stolen car, drove them away from the recreation area, and then shot them. The murder was filmed on a mobile phone and posted on an extremist website.
The terrorist' goal was a [[psyop]] — they wanted him to appear on camera and call on his fellow officers to quit the police and stop fighting. Instead, looking directly at the camera, Nurbagandov urged: "Keep on working, brothers" (Работайте, братья) — an act which took tremendous courage.
The terrorists had uploaded an edited version of the [[video]] where they cut out Nurbagandov's last words. His defiance was suppressed — until fate intervened. Several terrorists from the group were killed in September 2016, and when examining the bodies, the mobile phone that had filmed the original, unedited video was found. The full footage — with his final words intact — was then released by Russian authorities. The phrase went viral on September 12, 2016, and became a nationwide sensation.
Since the publication of the unedited video, the phrase "Work, brothers!" has been heard repeatedly on Russian state [[radio]] and [[television]], used in [[media]], [[public]] speeches, [[documentary]] films, appeals, reports, and campaigns. It carries a layered meaning — defiance in the face of death, loyalty to colleagues, and a refusal to be used as a [[propaganda]] tool by the enemy. The phrase has since taken on a life beyond the counter terrorism context — used broadly in Russia as an expression of stoic perseverance and professional duty, particularly in [[military]] and [[law enforcement]] circles.
By invoking it in front of the [[international]] audience at the 2026 Saint Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF), [[President Vladimir Putin]] was making a layered statement: that [[Ukrainian]] [[dictator]] [[Volodymyr Zelensky]]'s open letter to Putin was was rude and an enemy propaganda exercise, that it deserved to be treated with the same contempt Nurbagandov showed his captors, and that the only people worth addressing are those doing the actual fighting.
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