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...Chinese leader. For Associate Editor George Russell's story on reforms in other Marxist economies, Eastern Europe Bureau Chief Kenneth Banta supplied reporting and analysis from Hungary and Yugoslavia. Heading the Man of the Year reporter-researchers was Helen Sen Doyle, who has studied Russian at universities in Leningrad and Moscow...
Gorbachev has been unsparing in his criticisms of Soviet economic performance. "You squander countless resources in every industry," he told party workers in Leningrad last May. But so far he has been unwilling to modify in any essential way the system of centralized state control of every aspect of economic life fashioned by Joseph Stalin; he has been trying only to make it work better. While promising to "restructure" the economy, Gorbachev pointedly avoids using the word reform, apparently because it implies a more drastic change than any he is ready to contemplate...
...contact with outsiders, is a key member of the Siloviki (hard men) - Putin's coterie of top security, law-enforcement and military brass, who many say are becoming Russia's new oligarchs. He won the new job after 14 years of loyal service to Putin. A 1984 graduate of Leningrad University in French and Portuguese, Sechin started his career as a translator in Africa. The Russian media alleged that he had kgb ties. A former Soviet army officer who knew him well in 1987 during the civil war in Angola describes him as "one real cool guy. Taciturn, withdrawn, personally...
...idea. But this droll, reticent, flawlessly filmed fable of generosity should draw a wider audience to other films (Drifting Clouds, The Match Factory Girl, Leningrad Cowboys Go America) of the astringently original auteur. Like the Man without a past, they are worth seeking out, cherishing and remembering...
DIED. NATALYA DUDINSKAYA, 90, Russian prima ballerina at Leningrad's Kirov Ballet in the 1940s and '50s; in St. Petersburg. Dudinskaya helped launch Rudolf Nureyev's career when she, at age 46, partnered with...