The St Petersburg Press

NUMBER 128 OCTOBER 17 - 23, 1995

CRUISING CAR HEAVEN

"They knew how to build a good car back then!" An admirer at St Petersburg's car show checks out a 1930s vintage Zis. Past glories were uppermost in many minds, with local car production is currently well down. (See story.)

TOP STORIES

President's office seizes US firm's headquarters
St Petersburg police seized a dacha (holiday house) that was the headquarters of a Russian-American joint venture at the order of the Russian president.
Democrat alleges army bias
St Petersburg's military officer training faculties have been accused of blocking a democratic leader from speaking to their students.
Duma economic chief attacks Western firms
Sergei Glazyev, who heads the Democratic Party of Russia (DPR), told a St Petersburg press conference that Phillips has virtually ruined Russia's TV-set manufacturing industry and that Boeing aims to destroy production of civil aircraft.
Eifman show a sensation!
"A triumph" was the only way to describe the stupendous ballet premier of Dostoyevsky's "Karamazov Brothers" presented by the St Petersburg State Boris Eifman Ballet Theater.

FEATURE

The birthing pains of modern Russian maternity care
Giving birth is traumatic in any circumstances, but doing so in the presence of several other overstretched, hyperventilating women is an experience Dante should have included in his circles of Hell.


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