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...ordinary Jew is subject to rigid quotas that often bar him from universities and good jobs. Teaching Judaism and Hebrew is illegal; Yiddish culture is severely restricted. In the streets, Russia's traditional anti-Semitism has never really died. "We may not be victims of physical genocide," says Mikhail Zand, a distinguished philologist who recently managed to get out of Russia and settle in Israel, "but we are the victims of a cultural and spiritual genocide, simply because the Russians refuse to let Jews live a Jewish life...
Solzhenitsyn's friends reacted more angrily, says Hegge; they pointed out that Jarring had given an embassy dinner for the Stalinist novelist Mikhail Sholokhov when he won the prize in 1965. The offense was compounded, they felt, by the fact that Sholokhov had compared Solzhenitsyn to a "Colorado beetle" that should be "exterminated...
There is some stunningly eerie footage of snowscapes and icebergs, but Mikhail Kalatozov directs his dramatic scenes in the overripe style of the worst pseudoepic Russian film making. The Red Tent (so titled for the makeshift shelter in which the survivors took refuge) at no time does justice to the drama of the subject. Finch and his crew are continually threatened by starvation and frostbite, but sheer boredom somehow seems a more likely fate...
...century heyday of the Maltese Knights, or during World War II. Today U.S. warships use Naples as their main headquarters in the area, and Russia has no great need for a new base. For another, despite last week's visit to Malta by the Soviet Ambassador to Britain, Mikhail Smirnovsky, Mintoff insists that whatever trade concessions he may give the Soviets, they will never get a military toehold on Malta. "We will offer our services to the one who pays the most," he says, "except for three countries which we fear: Italy, the U.S. and Russia...
...back. Last week, in the Leningrad municipal court where the earlier trials were held, nine more Jews loosely linked with the group that planned the same abortive hijacking were convicted, most of them on charges stemming from Zionist activities. Two of them-Gilya Butman, 38, an engineer, and Mikhail Korenblit, 33, a physician-were convicted of treason and sentenced to ten years and seven years, respectively, of a "strict regime" in a Soviet labor camp. (In the U.S., the minimum penalty for attempted hijacking is 20 years imprisonment...