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MOLDOVA Language Protest The streets of the capital Chisinau thronged with demonstrators demanding the resignation of communist President Vladimir Voronin and new parliamentary elections. The protests were sparked in January by the re-introduction of compulsory Russian-language lessons in a country where most of the population speaks Romanian. The demonstrations grew after the disappearance, in suspicious circumstances, of opposition journalist and Parliament deputy Vlad Cubreacov...
...trial, expected to begin in May or June, comes at a time when new attention has been focused on the war years by a book, Crab Walk, by Nobel-prizewinning author Günter Grass. The work deals with the 1945 sinking of the ship Wilhelm Gustloff by a Russian submarine as it steamed from Danzig (present day Gdansk, Poland) back to Germany. More than 7,000 passengers, mostly German women and children, drowned in the incident. The book, which tops best-seller lists in Germany, has sold more than 300,000 copies and has inspired front-page coverage about...
...department store via several of the fashionable women's shops - don't be intimidated by sales staff. Lunch without wine is about $25. Tel. 929 3182. The National on the second floor of the National Hotel looks toward the Kremlin (and the Moskva Hotel). Good, though expensive, Russian food...
Leonid M. Ozernoy, a Russian physicist who fought the Soviet government for the freedom to leave the U.S.S.R. and teach at Harvard, died Feb. 28 in a Silver Spring, Md., hospital...
...just be the beginning of a close alliance with the U.S. It will certainly be the start of Washington's headaches. These include a corrupt system that has allegedly protected terrorists, smugglers and drug lords, and a regime that would love to use the new force against Abkhazia, the Russian-protected Black Sea region that broke away in 1993. Not to mention the tough, unfriendly inhabitants of Pankisi...