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...wonder Vladimir Lenin looks pensive in this rare close-up taken in his tomb. It's bad enough that his eponymous city is St. Petersburg again, that statues of him are toppling everywhere and that the country he hammered together is falling apart. Now there are even threats to remove his embalmed remains from the Red Square Mausoleum, where they have lain in state since...
...early June, the center held in Petersburg a conference attended by the South African police and the African National Congress (ANC), as well as other conflicting political parties. British officials and New York City Police Commissioner Lee Brown also attended the conference, Heymann says...
...Petersburg will also be a testing ground for the conversion of Soviet factories from military to civilian production, since 70% of the city's industries work on military orders. Though some critics accuse the mayor of cozying up to the military-industrial complex, Chubais argues that the abundance of enterprises producing high-tech equipment such as satellites and communications systems gives the city an edge in attracting foreign capital. But Western firms may be reluctant to make investments in a republic as unstable as Russia. If so, Sobchak's St. Petersburg could be rocked by massive unemployment as Moscow trims...
...Kennedy and Charles de Gaulle among his role models, Sobchak, 53, is one of the most influential politicians in Russia, behind only Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev and Russian President Boris Yeltsin. Yet conservative and liberal opponents alike accuse him of resorting to authoritarianism in running the affairs of St. Petersburg. "God never gave Anatoly Sobchak the talent to work with other people," wrote one critic. Sobchak, a former law professor, dismisses the accusations as the grumblings of "incompetents" on the unwieldy, 382-member city council. Thanks to his national status, Sobchak says, he is "much more successful in solving...
...goes well with Sobchak's economic reform plans, Chubais predicts a rise in the standard of living in the city by the end of 1992. The question is whether St. Petersburg residents will have the patience to wait that long. Leonid Keselman, a sociologist who specializes in public opinion surveys, believes they will. "The people of this city have suffered for a long time without hope," he says. "Now they have something real to hope for." If Keselman is right, it may be only a matter of time before Peter the Great's old capital reclaims its place among...