Maryland ends sister-state relationship with Leningrad
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Gov. Larry Hogan announced Monday that he’s dissolving Maryland’s decades-old sister-state relationship with Russia’s Leningrad region after the invasion of Ukraine. Hogan said in a statement that over the weekend he directed the secretary of state to terminate the relationship that was established in 1993. In a letter dated Monday to Gov. Aleksandr Drozdenko, Hogan wrote that the partnership was created “with a view to establishing […]