Slower than death: Riga's housing department

Sep 23, 1999
By J. Michael Lyons

RIGA - While the body of Yevgeny Kostikov decayed on the sofa in his fifth-floor apartment in a leafy Riga suburb, children played below his window and pensioners gathered to chat on nearby benches fronting the Daugava River.For at least one year - and perhaps three or four - Kostikov's body sat in public housing flat No. 55, gradually decaying. He was 50. Nobody, not even his cousin across the hall, knew he was there.But since neighbors and the police discovered the body last week, Kostikov's ...

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