NUMBER 150 
MARCH 12 - 18, 1996
WOMEN AT WORK
International Women's Day was already a distant memory last week as these doughty souls did battle with the solidified slush that has been making life on St Petersburg roads more than usually hellish for the city's drivers.
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- Yeltsin could extend Sobchak's term as poll row goes on
- St Petersburg Mayor Anatoly Sobchak may have his term
extended into next year by President Boris Yeltsin if the city's Legislative
Assembly fails to pass a new electoral law by March 20.
- Religious meet raided by police
- Tax and ordinary police officers staged an intimidatory raid on a Unification Church meeting attended by one American and six Russian students.
- The `last Romantic' wins St Petersburg hearts
- Whether he is wistfully reminiscing about a summer romance or anguishing over a
lost gypsy love, Meladze conveys the power, passion and pitfalls of love
without falling into the sap trap that often ensnares others artists.
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- Peter's town
- What the papers say
- Community Calendar
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JUST ONE A DAY
Renowned cellist Mstistlav Rostropovich with part of a
batch of anti-infective and pediatric nutritional medicines donated to the
city's Pediatric Academy's Clinical Hospital
- Fugitive US businessman's wife expelled from Cyprus
- Yana Gavrilovets said that after she visited her husband David Carter in jail
in Nicosia, Cyprus, she was handcuffed and put on a plane to Moscow without
being allowed to pack or find money for the trip.
- Police accused of human rights abuses
- St Petersburg special police units have been accused of
violating people's human rights in a series of raids on the city's oldest
alternative nightclub.
- Pollution-detection device launched
- St Petersburg scientists claim to have invented a
revolutionary device which can detect the presence of pollutants and toxins in
the environment.
- Fake cops held on extortion charges
- A police spokesperson verified reports on March 15 that
two men were arrested for extortion and impersonating police officers.
- Nikitin decision on lawyer deferred by court
- Environmental activist Alexander Nikitin's pending
treason case was put on hold for another two weeks with Russia's Constitutional
Court.
- St Petersburg homosexuals open gay club to fight AIDS
- "We are still fighting for the rights we were denied for decades and trying to
change the public's attitudes towards us," said Yuri Yereyev, president of Tchaikovsky Fund.
- Sobchak tells angry women to wait and see
- St Petersburg's mayor Anatoly Sobchak waged a bitter war
of words with dozens of angry women who stormed city hall last week in a bid to
air their grievances.
- Fraudulent priest gets six years
- Mikhail Chapovalov, 40, was sentenced to six years in prison on fraud charges
by the Vyborgsky District court for taking 120 million roubles from the Moscow branches of two prominent Russian banks.
- Neo-Nazis struggle to make a point
- Local musician and showman Sergei Kuryokhin undertook
yet another attempt to attract the city's youth to the extravagant theories and
politics of the National Bolshevik Party.
- Re-enactment startles train passengers
- Passengers on the electric train approaching the Kurort
station from Beloostrov could hardly believe their
eyes when out of the window they glimpsed soldiers in 1930s military uniform
launching an attack on a hill near a local sanatorium.
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- City mayoral elections: it takes three to tango
- One battle for St Petersburg is being waged, and
another is waiting to begin. BRIAN WHITMORE surveys the battlefields, the
combatants and the prospective winners and losers.
- Editorial
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BUT I WANTED TOAST
St Petersburg Mayor Anatoly Sobchak gets a rise out of
Khlebny Dom's new production line. A recent public offering helped pay for the baker's
helper.
- CITY IN-BASKET
- Baltiysky rents Astrobank branches
- St Petersburg's beleaguered banking system has taken an
interesting turn as one local bank is renting out another's branches.
- High-speed train stumbles on test run
- Italian engineers reported after completing the test run that the poor quality
of the tracks between St Petersburg and Vyborg makes it impossible to use the
Pendolino train on the route unless the tracks are totally renovated.
- Advertising council hands down opinion on watch row
- Eldoradio officially hits the airwaves
- St Petersburg companies score big at investment forum
- BUSINESS CALENDAR
- EXCHANGE RATES
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REACHING THE ZENITH
St Petersburg's High League soccer team Zenit beat Uralmash (Yekaterinburg) 1-0 on Saturday. Vladimir Kulik scored for Zenit. (File photo)
- INHL faces split during off-season
- The Inter-Nation Hockey League will face excitement off
the ice in the coming months as feuding clubs are threatening an all-Russian
league.
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