NEWS
- Director shares honor
- As Russia basks in the brilliance of its first Academy Award, actor and film producer Nikita Mikhailkov, whose movie "Burned By the Sun" captured this year's Oscar for Best Foreign Film, is more than happy to share the prestige with his compatriots.
- Unions' show of strength. (Photo)
- Over 15,000 disgruntled workers marched on St Petersburg's Palace Square demanding more than $13 million in unpaid wages from the Russian government.
- British team revamps city eye clinic
- A team of 70 British volunteers pulled out all the stops to renovate the eye clinic of a local children's hospital in five days.
- Action on nuclear smuggling
- Experts from Western Europe have pledged to help combat the rising tide
of illegal trafficking in nuclear contraband across the former Soviet Union.
- Refugees under threat
- Thousands of Afghan refugees who have tried to build new lives in St Petersburg are being forced to return to their homeland where they could face execution or a life in jail.
- Local politicians in bid to secure benefits for veterans
- Millions of Russian veterans are missing out on a wealth of benefits promised them by the government but politicians in St Petersburg are lobbying on their behalf.
- New church set to benefit from the milk of human kindness. (Photo)
- A new church is rising in the shadow of a cathedral currently used for pasteurizing and packaging milk. KARL HENNING reports on the restoration of St Petersburg's spiritual life.
- Happy birthday comrade Lenin (Photo)
- CRIME WATCH! by Mike McCoy
SPORTS: Ice Hockey
- Petersburg too tough for Swedes. (Photo)
- St Petersburg played smart, tough hockey in the St Petersburg Grand Prize hockey tournament to grab an exciting 5-2 win over Sweden.
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