NUMBER 136 
DECEMBER 12 - 18, 1995
Residents of the city's northwest were shoving their
way onto overcrowded buses like the one above all last week. No one can say
when the chaos will end.
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TOP STORIES
- New acting Mariinsky head looks for positives
- The Mariinsky Theater, recently tainted by rumors of bribe-taking, received a new acting director to replace former director Anatoly Malkov. Former Komissarzhevskaya Theater director Yuri Schvarzkopf was appointed acting director of the Mariinsky by order of the ministry of culture.
- Iron `Winnie the Pooh' hits out hard
- Yegor Gaidar was in pugilistic spirit as he slammed his political opponents on a visit to St Petersburg. "The Communist Party robbed the country and presented the bill to the democrats," he said during last week's flying one-day visit.
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