NUMBER 112, JUNE 27 - JULY 3, 1995
GETTING DOWN AND GETTING UGLY
These `Russians with attitude' were among the revelers
at last week's "Radio Fuzz" concert. A plethora of bands got fans at the
all-night show well and truly pumped Highlights were DDT and a San Fransisco
Jimmy Hendrix tribute band, Messages of Love. For more details, see PETER'S TOWN
Photo: Alexander Belenky. (Large jpg - 62K)
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TOP STORIES
- Duma deputy aides detained over mafia links
- Four assistants to nationalist politician Alexander
Filatov, arrested on suspicion of involvement in a powerful mafia cartel, have
been released from police custody.
- City police brutalize Chechens
- St Petersburg's Chechen community is accusing the city's elite OMON
police squad of terrorizing their people. They say the OMON, without just cause, is insulting, humiliating, beating up and extorting valuables from Chechens living in St Petersburg.
- Cardiac surgery put on hold by customs foul-up
- US doctors began a series of life-saving operations 10 days late after vital equipment was impounded by St Petersburg customs officers.
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FEATURE
- Generations of suffering, ruined dreams and hope
- The Budyonnovsk crisis has again splashed Russia's
woes across the world's front pages and TV screens and brought the question
"whither Russia?" to the fore. ANNA VOZNESSENSKAYA reflects on her
family's insights into the Russia of the 20th century and the prospects for her
troubled homeland in the future.
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