NUMBER 103, APRIL 25 - MAY 2, 1995
FLEETING VISIT FOR A FLYING HORSE
Bond fever continued to grip St Petersburg last week as filming on the 007 thriller "GoldenEye" rolled on. The crew flexed their muscles to erect this statue on Ulitsa Pestelya -- which promptly disappeared three days later. Photo: Alexander Belenky. (Large jpg - 48K)
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- Vandals defile graves
Graves have been defiled and headstones destroyed at St Petersburg's Smolenskoye Cemetery in the latest wrecking spree to hit the city's burial grounds.
- Veterans to relive their glory days
More than a million St Petersburg veterans will remember their finest hour by taking part in a packed schedule of events to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II.
- New evidence emerges over fate of royal family. (Photo)
A historian studying the murder of Tsar Nicholas II claims he has new proof that bones dug up from a forest pit were the remains of the imperial ruler gunned down by a Bolshevik death squad.
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