St Petersburg AIDS activists marked World AIDS Day with a united front aimed at preventing discrimination against those with HIV. The International AIDS Project celebrated December 1 with its official registration after a bitter, year-long struggle with the city's bureaucracy.
A Greek merchant ship and its 21 Russian and Vietnamese crew have been stranded in St Petersburg with no means of support. The crew have been forced to scrounge for whatever food they can lay their hands on -- they recently cooked and ate a stray dog.
A debt-ridden St Petersburg businessman jumped to his death from a ninth-floor window -- the final chapter in a bizarre suicide pact which claimed the lives of his wife and parents.
DECEMBER 5 - 11, 1995
