I had imagined that my first report on this latest trip to St Petersburg which began with our arrival yesterday afternoon on a bus from Helsinki airport would be delivered a week from now when I would have a sufficient store of impressions to share. But as both Oksana Boyko and I agreed during her interview with me a week ago, life in Russia since 24 February is evolving at a fast clip and 24 hours here have already yielded some things which I must share while they are so vivid.