NUMBER 142 
JANUARY 16 - 22, 1996
PLOTTING A COURSE
Cadet Ruslan Kurtov was enjoying his lessons at St Petersburg's Frunze Higher Naval College, though the instructing officer seemed ambivalent about the future steersman's progress to say the least. The college, soon to be renamed after its founder, Peter I, is celebrating its 295th anniversary. See story.
TOP STORIES
- Bomb kills police colonel in suspected contract killing
- An explosive device was detonated in the front doorway of
a city building, killing Colonel Vladimir Kutsenko, head of the Russian
Northwest Railway Police, St Petersburg detectives said.
- Mother sees son burned to death
- A mother who watched helplessly through the window of a hospital decompression chamber as her son burned to death inside -- an arm's
length away -- blamed hospital staff for not helping him escape.
- Draft law on foreign religions labeled unfair
- The rights of foreign missionary groups may be threatened by a new draft municipal law on religion requiring their missions to register with the city authorities.
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