Candles warm up roses in a glass container as a street vendor waits for clients in Moscow, Dec. 20, 1995. Temperatures in Moscow dropped to 15 degrees centigrade (5 degrees Fahrenheit) during the last few days. (AP Photo/Jockel Finck)

Two Russian teenagers learn to play golf on the site of the Moscow Country Club-Russia, the first golf resort in the outskirts of Moscow, Sept. 1, 1995. The Russian Open golf tournament, in which professional and amateur golfers from 12 countries participate, is held in Moscow. (AP Photo/Sergei Karpukhin)

A Russian Cossack and a Cossack woman, holding an icon, cross themselves during festivities to mark the "Spolokh", a new holiday in Moscow's Gorky Park, Aug. 18, 1995. Hundreds of Cossacks converged on Gorky Park to usher a brand-new holiday invented to revive traditions of centuries-old legendary horsemen. In pre-revolutionary Russia, Cossacks were rewarded for military service to the czars with farmland and autonomy abolished by the Bolsheviks after the 1917 revolutions, although it has gone through a revival. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

An unidentified young Muscovite (left) draws on the wall while another tries to paint a photographer during a festival, held by the popular Moscow newspaper "Moscovsky Komsomolets" in the Luzhniki Stadium, Moscow, June 25, 1995. (AP Photo)

An elderly Russian woman, surrounded by Western symbols of capitalism like the Coca-Cola sign and her plastic Reebok shopping bag, sits along a central Moscow sidewalk and begs for money, June 9, 1995. Many Western investors are beginning to see Russia as a more reliable business partner and there are increasing signs of prosperity for some Russians, along with evidence of increasing economic hardships for many others. (AP Photo/Sergei Karpukhin)

An elderly Russian woman sits begging for money at the bottom of stairs leading into an underground, pedestrian walkway in Moscow, May 26, 1995. There are few large-scale charity organizations in Russia to assist those in need and the many homegrown charities that have sprung up since the collapse of the Soviet Union. Many have found it hard to survive without foreign help. (AP Photo/Misha Japaridze)

A young Moscow boy sits on the steps of an underground crossing in downtown Moscow, May 18, 1995, while an old Muscovite stands begging in the background. Both young alike are trying to cope with economic reforms and programs of the government. (AP Photo/Sergei Karpukhin)

Rockers listen to a guitar and keyboard player at an improvised rock concert in an underpass in the center of Moscow, March 7, 1995. People hang out around the underpass, with nearby kiosks playing music and selling liquor late at night. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

Seven-year-old Ivan Motok plays his accordion in Moscow's Arbat pedestrian walk, March 2, 1995. Ivan skipped school classes to earn a little extra money for his family. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

A young girl sits out on a busy sidewalk playing the accordion and hoping for donations in Moscow, Jan. 19, 1995. In a move likely to render the government's current expenditure plans for 1995 completely unworkable, the Russian Duma, or lower house of parliament, voted for a radical increase in social spending and demanded that the cost of the war in Chechnya be included in the 1995 draft budget. (AP Photo/Misha Japaridze)

An elderly Russian woman, a pensioner living on a meager fixed income, scavenges through a trash heap looking for edible food and anything of value which she may resell, in the southern Russian city of Krasnodar, Jan. 4, 1995. The elderly have been particularly hard-hit by economic reforms in the past years. The added economic burden of financing the war in Chechnya could further threaten the financial stability upon which the entire post-Soviet reform depends. (AP Photo)

A Russian man, clad in warm clothes, braves record-breaking low temperature on the Moscva river on the outskirts of Moscow, to go fishing, Dec. 21, 1994. Six people froze to death overnight on Moscow's icy streets and 14 were hospitalized with hypothermia, authorities said. (AP Photo/Pavel Gorshikov)

Salvation Army Major Sandra Foster dances with an elderly Russian as an elderly man plays accordion at the opening of the Salvation Army Seniors Center in Moscow, Nov. 19, 1994. The center was opened to provide for elderly people a safe and inviting place for a social life and to help them to escape from daily problems. (AP Photo/Misha Japaridze)

An elderly Russian woman stands near other street vendors and peddles bread and plastic bags to passers-by in Moscow, Oct. 12, 1994. Due to her meager pension she tries to earn extra money by buying bread from the bakery and selling it on the streets for a small profit. More and more people, especially the elderly, are taking to the streets, selling whatever they can to help make ends meet. (AP Photo/Misha Japaridze)

A little girl sits begging with a sign "Help me, I want to eat" and instead of giving her money a passer-by gives her some cookies in downtown Moscow, Oct. 11, 1994. The Russian ruble fell through the floor, losing one-fourth of its value against the dollar in the worst one-day plunge since trading began in 1992. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

Two men dressed in czarist Cossack military uniforms, left, are passed by members of the Russian military in more contemporary dress in Moscow, Oct. 6, 1994. Cossack and other monarchist groups held a congress in Moscow to discuss unification strategy to help restore monarchist rule on the territory of the former Soviet Union. (AP Photo)

Members of various monarchist groups gather outside a meeting hall in Moscow, Oct. 6, 1994, on the first day of their congress. Monarchist groups gathered to discuss their plans to unite and restore monarchist rule on the territory of the former Soviet Union. All those in photograph are wearing different varieties of Cossack uniforms mixed with czarist and Soviet parts. (AP Photo)

An elderly Russian woman stands begging next to a parked Mercedes outside Moscow's Kremlin near Red Square, Sept. 7, 1994. Although President Yeltsin has managed to slow down runaway inflation, attract some foreign investment and complete the first stage of privatization, Russia's Central Bank forecasts a gloomy economy next year with Russia entering a "depressive phase?a balance of destructive and creative trends." (AP Photo/Sergei Karpukhin)

The Russian audience looks happy at a presentation ceremony for the Russian edition of Cosmopolitan magazine in Moscow, April 27, 1994. The Russian edition of the magazine was unveiled with hype the likes of which has never been seen before. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

Muscovites appear oblivious to the dead body lying on the sidewalk as they go about their shopping in Moscow, April 20, 1994. The man reportedly had just dropped dead and his face was covered until ambulance drivers arrived to cart the body away. Since the Soviet breakup in 1991, Russia's birth rate has fallen below its death rate for the first time since World War II. At the same time, life expectancy decreased by 1.5 years between 1989-93. Russia's population could reportedly drop by half over the next 50 years if current trends continue. (AP Photo/Sergei Karpukhin)

Russian journalist Yaroslav Mogutin, 20, right, and Robert Filippini, a 41-year-old artist from New York, kiss each other at the entrance of Moscow's Wedding Palace, April 12, 1994. The two gay men had a frustrating afternoon as they applied to have their relationship to be formally registered as marriage but were refused. Russian law forbids marriage between persons of the same sex, but the couple says the final result is immaterial and their action is more of a statement about the problems of homosexuals in Russia. They have already exchanged rings in a private ceremony, but plan a big wedding anyway and a honeymoon in Europe. (AP Photo/Sergei Karpukhin)

Russian journalist Yaroslav Mogutin, left, and his Italian-American "bridegroom" Robert Filippini pose for photographers at a Moscow's Wedding Palace, April 12, 1994. The two gay men had a frustrating afternoon as they wanted their relations to be formally registered as marriage but were refused. Russian law forbids marriage between persons of the same sex, but the couple say the final result is immaterial and their action is more of a statement about human rights. (AP Photo/Sergei Karpukhin)

An elderly Russian woman takes advantage of the above-freezing weather and feeds pigeons outside her Moscow apartment, April 4, 1994. Despite her meager pension and ever-increasing food prices, the woman tries to routinely share whatever crumbs of bread and food she can with the birds. (AP Photo/Sergei Karpukhin)

Russian factory worker, Viktor Llyushin, checks his wallet for money as his wife Nadya stocks the refrigerator with a few items bought, at their Moscow apartment, March 31, 1994. Like millions of his countrymen, Llyushin is uneasy in a strange new world of exorbitant inflation, consumer come-ons and family budgeting. (AP Photo/Sergei Karpukhin)

A homeless man uses a heating vent for his bed on a snowy Moscow street, Feb. 2, 1994. He protects himself from the cold as temperatures have dipped to -14C (7-F) for the last two days. (AP Photo/Anatoly Maltsev)

An elderly Russian woman picks through garbage bin looking for plastic bottles, glass jars and any other items she could hopefully resale for a profit in Moscow, Feb. 1, 1994. High inflation is especially hard on the elderly who live on fixed incomes. The Russian government has decided to slow down the economic reforms, but old people are still likely to suffer. (AP Photo/Anatoly Maltsev)

An elderly Muscovite walks with a cane and in evident pain, past an exchange office in downtown Moscow, Jan. 21, 1994. The ruble has fallen dramatically in the last week and high inflation has been especially hard on the elderly, who live on fixed incomes. The Russian government has decided to slow down the economic reforms, but old people are still likely to suffer. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

A Russian woman laden with heavy packages, carefully crosses a mud puddle over a plank, in downtown Moscow, Dec. 18, 1993. Millions of Russians, bitter that President Boris Yeltsin's reforms have only made their lives worse, voted for Liberal Democratic Party leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky because he offered a new national dream and hope that their misfortunes would soon be over. (AP Photo/Sergei Karpukhin)

Homeless elderly women sit on a bunk bed in a reception-distribution center for homeless people in Moscow, Dec. 7, 1993. Homeless people live in this shelter because it's better living there than in the street. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

A few homeless men are given the first aid by a male nurse of the international medical aid organization Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders), while other homeless patients, in the background, line waiting for their turn to be treated in the first aid point for the homeless at the Paveletsky train station in Moscow, Dec. 7, 1993. The MSF facility provides free food and clothing coupons in addition to medical assistance. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

Natasha Sheshmonova talks to a policewoman while her mate sits on a bunk bed in a reception-distribution center for homeless people in Moscow, Dec. 7, 1993. Sheshmonova, an alcoholic, went to the police voluntarily for the sixth time this year because she said "They feed us, wash us good." (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

Two Russians carry a newly-purchased imported color television, which costs approximately three-and-a-half times the average Russian monthly salary, through central Moscow, Dec. 6, 1993 while a less fortunate beggar with prosthetic legs sits and begs. Although many Russians have benefited from Yeltsin's economic reforms, others are suffering and have voiced their displeasure by supporting anti-Yeltsin groups in the parliamentary elections on December 12. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

A man warms his hands over a small bonfire made of cardboard and trash near a railway station in Moscow, Nov. 5, 1993. The railway stations are primary distribution points for goods which will be sold throughout the city as well as the country and former republics. Accumulated cartons and containers which litter the area is often simply burned on sidestreets and walkways. (AP Photo/Boris Yurchenko)