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...absence of Kim's portrait from the People's Palace of Culture in Pyongyang was confirmed last week by before-and-after photos in a South Korean newspaper. And Stanislav Varivoda, a Russian correspondent based in the capital, says Kim's image was also missing from the city's Mansudae Assembly Hall. But Varivoda told TIME he could find no evidence that other portraits were missing. Meanwhile, an aid worker in Pyongyang said he saw nothing amiss in the dozen buildings he visited last week. However, a source close to South Korean intelligence told TIME that some portraits...
...former communist brother for a pipeline to refineries in Daqing. During a visit to Moscow last month, Premier Wen Jiabao repeated China's entreaties but received no promises. Meanwhile, Japan has offered to pay for part of the multibillion-dollar pipeline--as long as it terminates in the Russian port of Nakhodka, near Japan. Moscow seems inclined to take Japan's offer. "China feels betrayed," says Bernard Cole, an expert on China's oil needs at the National War College...
...last Wednesday of September, Russia's second largest oil company, Lukoil, hoisted the Stars and Stripes up a flagpole outside its Moscow headquarters to celebrate a landmark deal: with a $2 billion bid, the U.S. firm ConocoPhillips had just won an auction for the Russian government's 7.6% stake in the firm. The two companies promptly announced a strategic alliance to develop oil reserves in the Russian Arctic and potentially work together in Iraq. For Jim Mulva, Conoco's president and chief executive, the deal amounted to a coup, giving Conoco access to 8 billion bbl. of proven oil reserves...
...architect turned mythologist Robert Sarmast announced last week that Atlantis lies off the southeast coast of Cyprus. Sarmast says sonar scans taken earlier this month show man-made structures on the seabed, and that the area matches many of the details of the site given by Plato. OCTOBER Maverick Russian astrophysicist Alexander Chechelnitsky asserted that the lost continent was situated in Alaska's Yukon River valley, and that the change in the earth's axis - and the repositioning of the North Pole - brought about its cataclysmic end. Refreshingly undogmatic for an Atlantis hunter, he is quoted as saying...
...prestige from her labors while keeping her in salaried obscurity. (Discreetly, she refers to him only as "Tiger," after the lifelike tiger-skin rug that adorned his lavish Soho office.) In 1981, Tiger hired Erdal, then an editor and translator on the east coast of Scotland, to develop Russian authors for his Quartet Books. She found him to be demanding, impetuous and thoroughly charming, with a child's enthusiasm and an immigrant's fractured English. "His sentences were a riot of hangers and danglers," she notes. She soon found herself wrestling not with Russian prose but with Tiger...