In the 2018 ranking of “global cities” maintained by the Globalization and World Cities Network (GaWC), St. Petersburg occupies a prominent spot in the highly prestigious “Gamma” category – alongside such global heavyweights as Paraguay’s Asunción, Angola’s Luanda, China’s Kunming, and, most notably, Honduras’s Tegucigalpa. Okay, I revise my earlier claim: maybe the category is not that prestigious after all.