January 16, 2004

Fire Safety in Foreign Dorms

To the Editor:

The November fire in a dormitory of the Russian University of People's Friendship in Moscow was the inevitable result of the lack of fire-safety standards in Russian dormitories ("Moscow Dormitory Fire Kills at Least 36," December 5). ...

I saw unsafe conditions when I lived in a dorm at Moscow State University for three months in 1994. ... Through 2001, I regularly visited three other dormitories in Moscow, where friends or relatives lived. Those dormitories

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