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Much of the disturbing news about Chernobyl comes from journalists who have toured the area. Among the most prominent is Igor Kostin, a photographer who % has covered the tragedy from the early days after the accident. His latest set of photographs, taken within the past four months, present haunting images, including scenes of children still living in contaminated towns and shots of animals born horribly deformed, possibly because of radiation. The pictures, which are being published for the first time in the West in these pages, are part of an exhibition organized by the Italian firm Imago that will...
Today Russians occupy the grain-growing Volga, Ukrainians the Crimea's sunny coast, and Georgians the stone houses built long ago by Turks. These relative newcomers are loath to make way for returning natives, especially in these tough times. Says Igor Krupnik, a researcher at the U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences Institute of Ethnography: "The Crimeans can't let the Tatars come back and have houses when there is a waiting list years long...
...IGOR GRYAZIN...
When Oleg's successor Igor was killed in battle by a tribe known as the Drevlianians, his widow Olga took over in 945 and reigned for the next 17 years, thus becoming the first celebrated Russian woman. When the Drevlianian prince proposed that she marry him, she asked him to send envoys to bring her to him by boat; she then had the envoys and their boat flung into a pit, where they were buried alive. She next asked that the Drevlianians send their leading men to provide an escort, then offered them a bath, locked them in the bathhouse...
...Muslims, overwhelmingly located in the five Central Asian republics and Azerbaijan. Among some anxious citizens, the discovery has touched off premonitions of disaster, as republic after republic is shaken by unrest, often with religious overtones. After Soviet troops were called in last January to quell bloody rioting in Azerbaijan, Igor Belyaev, a prominent Soviet commentator on Muslim affairs, warned that "Iran has threatened the Soviet Union with an Islamic conflagration." President Mikhail Gorbachev argued that "Islamic fundamentalism" was a major factor in the rioting against minority Armenians in the Azerbaijani capital of Baku...