NUMBER 145 
FEBRUARY 6 - 12, 1996
WHITE NOISE
Flying Finn Tommy Amossalo (l) leads Russian Dmitri Podovzhny in the Russian Open Cup Snowmobile Championship held at nearby Kavgolovo. Amossalo took the individual trophy by the narrowest of margins from countryman and pre-race favorite Pauli Pippola.
TOP STORIES
- International loans pour in to sustain health reform
- Boosted by international pledges totalling over $50 million, the city's health committee last week vowed to hold its course of "health reform."
- Cripton pays price for part in bribe row
- The Mariinsky Theater scandal took a new twist last week as theater sources said one of the central figures in the bribe-taking fiasco was back in town.
- St Petersburg joins anti-war signature campaign
- A Russian liberal party announced plans last Wednesday for a nationwide campaign to collect millions of signatures to press President Boris Yeltsin to stop the military campaign in rebel Chechnya, and already St Petersburg has joined in the petition.
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