NUMBER 117 
AUGUST 1 - 7, 1995
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TOP STORIES
- Refugee finds life in St Petersburg bearable
- Chabo is a victim of the war in Chechnya who has found a more peaceful home in St Petersburg. His mother was killed in the mountains of Chechnya but the five-month-old baby
is now safe and sound in St Petersburg.
- AIDS law now in force
- The federal law making AIDS tests mandatory for foreigners visiting
Russia for three months or more is now in force, but no one knows if it will be enforced.
- Contraband cars seized from owners
- A scam to avoid import duty has led to 100 St Petersburg residents
losing their recently bought cars.
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FEATURE
- Homeless are left out in the cold
- "It is difficult to describe the policy of the Russian government in relation to homeless people other than as concealed genocide." This is the brutal conclusion of a St Petersburg charity for the homeless in its appeal to the UN Committee on Human Rights.
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