NUMBER 105, MAY 10 - 16, 1995
MEMORIES OF FORMER GLORY
St Petersburg veterans marched on the city center as
part of its role in worldwide celebrations to mark the 50 year milestone since
the end of World War II, known in Russian as the Great Patriotic War. For a
German perspective see story. Photo: Alexander Belenky. (Large jpg - 48K)
TOP STORIES
- Plans for track on course
An ambitious bid has been launched to provide St Petersburg with its own world class racetrack.
- Spaniards swindled out of cargo
A Spanish export company is suing two Russian entrepreneurs who allegedly swindled it out of a massive consignment of British gin and whisky brought into St Petersburg's sea port.
- How Sonya has changed with the times
As Russia enters a new age of permissiveness, men and women across the country have responded to sexual urges that they were forced to stifle during the Communist era. Now medical science is also playing its role in helping fantasy to become reality. ALI NASSOR reports on the sex change phenomenon.
FEATURE
- The man who opened the window on the West. (Photo)
Ten years ago Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev was elected to the post of Communist Party General Secretary. It was a move that led to policies which not only shook the USSR to its foundations but also the rest of the world. NIGEL STEPHENSON reports.
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