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 remains have haunted the Department of Public Housing and triggered an investigation that will li...
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