NUMBER 155 
APRIL 16 - 22, 1996
COSMIC BOYS
A proud mother makes sure her son is ready for his first day at St Petersburg's newly opened Peter the Great Space Academy. The academy, which opened on Cosmonauts' Day last Friday, is part of a
program to give underprivileged children a boost.
See story.
TOP STORIES
- St Petersburg weather makes a mess of the city
- A sudden change in the weather dramatically illustrated
the dilapidated condition of many St Petersburg buildings and part of the
city's water system.
- City gears up for Bill Clinton
- St Petersburg prepared itself to welcome US President
Bill Clinton this week, although Mayor Anatoly Sobchak said he hadn't yet
thought of a conversation topic for the visit.
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GOD'S TABLE
An Orthodox priest blesses breads, eggs and cakes for
families' Easter Sunday tables at St Petersburg's Dormition of the Mother of
God Church.
- Bellona vows to focus the world's attention on Nikitin case
- Norwegian environmental group Bellona is determined to
present information to this week's G7 nuclear summit in Moscow that it claims
will clear Bellona employee Alexander Nikitin of treason charges.
- West slammed for complacency over Zyuganov
- The leader of a State Duma faction said during a visit to
St Petersburg that the West was underestimating the danger that Russia would
elect a communist president in the June elections.
- Police arrest man over TNT he says he found
- A 29-year-old man was arrested for the alleged theft of
450 grams of the high explosive trinitrotoluene, TNT.
- Food exhibit goes to feed hungry mouths
- Food-Expo 1996 has borne good fruit for some of St
Petersburg's underprivileged children.
- Yeltsin is our only defense vs Communists, says Chubais
- "If Zyuganov wins at the presidential elections, the
democratic movement will have to move under the table," said Anatoly Chubais,
the former privatization minister, on a visit to St Petersburg.
- Huge city education project needs cash
- St Petersburg educational authorities have announced an
ambitious development program to fix the city's education system, but no one
knows where the estimated $32 billion or more needed to carry out the plan can
be found.
- Fears aired that presidential poll will overshadow nuclear summit
- The head of a Moscow safety group has expressed concern
over the forthcoming G7 nuclear safety summit to be held April 19-20.
- Deputy mayor resigns temporarily
- St Petersburg Deputy Mayor Vladimir Yakovlev and head of
the city maintenance committee has temporarily resigned.
- St Petersburg space academy opens its doors to underpriveleged youths
- Future cosmonauts had their first day of classes last
week on the 35th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin's heroic voyage into space.
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- Is Russia's independent TV station serving Yeltsin?
- Yavlinsky urges president to drop out in his favor
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Tourism firms around the country are losing licenses,
while local firms are thriving. But an industry head warns not all is perfect
in St Petersburg. See story.
- CITY IN-BASKET
- Bank bids to finance unfinished hotel
- The Bank Sankt Peterburg has turned to a government fund
in a bid to finance the final stages of the $97 million North Crown hotel
construction project.
- Unused land plots to be privatized
- The Mayor's Office announced that it is planning to sell
unused plots in a continuation to the city's highly successful land
privatization program.
- Housing construction jumps
- Increased private investment in the St Petersburg housing
sector has almost doubled the rate of residential construction over the past
four years, according to new figures released by the Mayor's Office.
- Tourism firms thriving, says head
- While dozens of tourist companies around the country are
losing their licenses for bad service and fraud, St Petersburg's tourist firms
are thriving.
- OPIC signs loan for Nevsky 25
- A recently signed $13.5 million loan commitment to the
"Nevsky 25" partnership has completed the financing package needed for St
Petersburg's Nevsky Corporate Center.
- Assets seized by tax police to be put up for auction
- Assets seized by the tax police from debtors to the St
Petersburg Property Fund are to be put on public auction, it was announced last
week.
- Living standard up slightly in March
- The monthly living minimum in St Petersburg nudged upward
to 324,611 roubles ($67) for March, about 2.7% greater than February levels,
according to the employment committee of the mayor's office.
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PUCKY CZECHS
A Russian scrambles for the puck in his team's 2-1
loss to the Czech Republic in the St Petersburg Bolshoi Priz tourney. Sweden
won the tournament.
- SKA faces player shakeup
- St Petersburg's luckless INHL team SKA could be poised for either a purge or an exodus of unhappy players. However, nothing has been finalized yet and no official action has been taken, according to SKA spokesman Vladimir Kuzmin.
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