The St Petersburg Press

NUMBER 131 NOVEMBER 7 - 13, 1995

WHITE VISIONS OF SPLENDOR

The first snows of winter fell in St Petersburg last week. While city highways and byways turned to brown slush, areas not subject to heavy traffic became enchanting paradises liable to take a person's frosted breath away.

TOP STORIES

Electoral commission steps back after protests
Russia's top court overruled the Central Electoral Commission's ban on the nationalist party Derzhava taking part in the December election, Itar-Tass news agency said last Friday. However, at press time the court was still considering a complaint filed by economist Grigory Yavlinsky's liberal grouping Yabloko.
Trial begins for alleged mafia chiefs
Five alleged leaders of St Petersburg's most notorious underworld gang, originally accused of murder and extortion, have been charged with banditism.
Survivors remember Stalin's victims
"We cannot look each other in the eye and say that a repeat of the past is impossible." That was Yabloko Duma deputy Tatyana Yarygina's grim warning to crowds gathered near the Peter and Paul Fortress last Monday to pay tribute to the USSR's many victims.

FEATURE

The Kirov Ballet's master of the sidestep
Oleg Vinogradov -- loved by some, hated by others, but rarely held in indifference. The artistic director of the Mariinsky Theater's Kirov Ballet, having weathered the latest storm of people who want him removed, is no stranger to scandal. CHRIS GRAEME reports.


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