NUMBER 152 
MARCH 26 - APRIL 1, 1996
PAPER MONEY
St Petersburg daily paper Smena became the third leading daily to cut a deal with the powers that be. This time it was the city's Legislative Assembly which bought an interest in the press. See story.
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- Mayoral poll set for May 19
- St Petersburg's Legislative Assembly has finally ratified President
Boris Yeltsin's decree to bring forward the mayoral elections to May 19.
- Clinton to visit city next month
- US President Bill Clinton will make a private visit to St
Petersburg this April on his way to the Moscow G7 nuclear arms summit.
- Gorbachev kicks off presidential campaign
- The father of perestroika visited the cradle of the
revolution last week to kick off his presidential campaign.
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- Peter's town
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- Four gunned down in crime wave
- Four men have been gunned down in two separate shootings
which police fear are the latest in a series of contract killings in St
Petersburg.
- Carter's wife appeals to Cyprus leader
- The wife of a former St Petersburg businessman jailed in
Cyprus said she had sent a letter to the president of the island nation
requesting a visit with her husband.
- Local hero sings up home-town storm after a two-year break
- Hundreds of St Petersburg opera fans filled the Bolshoi
Zal at the St Petersburg Philharmonic last Thursday as world-class baritone and
local hero Dmitry Khvorostovsky.
- Journalists' generosity helps city's homeless
- Two Scottish journalists have donated [[sterling]] 10,000
($15,400) to a St Petersburg charity in a bid to improve conditions for the
city's homeless population.
- City experts slam government over AIDS
- City health experts are unhappy that the government's
failure to effectively fight the spread of AIDS has seen a 10% increase in St
Petersburg HIV cases compared to 1995.
- No progress in Hyden investigation
- Great Britain's top representative in St Petersburg came
out empty for information after meeting with the city's police chief over the
recent killing of a Scottish lawyer.
- Charity has kids feeling good about smiling once more
- Operation Smile International plans to train medical staff locally and in
Vyatka, in the Leningrad Oblast, where hundreds of more children need
treatment.
- Dissident hits the stage to help out a friend
- Famous Russian '60s dissident poet and singer Alexander
Gorodnitsky held a benefit concert at St Petersburg University for an ailing
and distinguished friend.
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- Homeless trapped in bureaucracy cycle, says advocate
- Privatization and discriminatory legislation make it virtually impossible for wanderers to come home, according to a consultant for homeless people, and the government is doing nothing to help them.
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REV UP THOSE ENGINES
Russia's new supersonic passenger jet, the Tu-144, was displayed at the Zhukovsky airfield near Moscow last week.
- CITY IN-BASKET
- US officials prepare city for new $100 bill
- United States Treasury officials were in town last week
gearing up for the change of Russia's favorite currency.
- City council buys share in local broadsheet
- The St Petersburg Legislative Assembly (city council)
acquired stock in a local daily broadsheet, joining the Mayor's Office in
municipal bodies that have an interest in the city's newspapers.
- Moscow firm wins library alarm contract
- The Russian National Library in St Petersburg, a target
of several book thefts, will soon be getting a new security system.
- Dutch minister pledges support for transport plan
- Dutch and Russian transport authorities have pledged to
join forces over a multi-million dollar project aimed at linking the Baltic
with the Black Sea.
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- Gustafsson upsets Kafelnikov in St Petersburg Open final
- World number six Yevgeny Kafelnikov broke his own rule in
the final of the St Petersburg Open on Sunday and lost to Sweden's Magnus
Gustafsson 6-2, 7-6 in front of a home crowd.
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