Word: yekaterinburg
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...NINE SKELETONS DUG UP LAST YEAR FROM A PIT NEAR Yekaterinburg, Russia, were not just any old bones: they were believed to be the remains of the murdered Czar Nicholas II and his family. If that were true, scientific examination of the remains could solve some of the mysteries surrounding the 1918 Bolshevik execution of the Romanovs. But would anyone believe the conclusions of the Russian investigators? To ensure credibility, government officials took the unprecedented step of inviting a team of American forensic experts to examine the remains and offer an independent assessment. "That's tantamount to the U.S. asking...
...living in a place called Yekaterinburg in Russia's Ural Mountains. You'd be working each day at a fiery steel-casting oven. And, because the factory pays wages only sporadically, you wouldn't know when to expect your next paycheck...
...elaborate "investment tour" of Russia, complete with chartered Aeroflot planes, for 14 leading U.S. investment bankers. After a two-day meeting, presided over by Strauss in Moscow, the group split up and fanned out over the country. They are currently visiting such relatively remote spots as Perm and Yekaterinburg in the Urals, Rostov-on-Don in the North Caucasus and Saratov on the Volga...
...offered for $600, and the space program's director of mission control is available for $200; $1,000 will buy time with a prisoner on death row. The Defense Ministry charges $1,500 for pictures of nuclear sites. And low-grade classified information can be purchased from a Yekaterinburg firm that specializes in defense enterprises; both ex-Soviet and foreign clients...
...different memories. They are dumping the old communists: the city of Andropov, for Yuri Andropov, party boss from 1982 to '84, is Rybinsk again; Sverdlovsk, for Lenin's henchman Yakov Sverdlov, who approved the execution of Czar Nicholas II and his family there, has reassumed the proud title Yekaterinburg, for Peter the Great's wife, Catherine...