Word: sverdlovsk
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Others awarded prizes were Michael D. Gordin '96 for "'Trust, but Verify': Sverdlovsk, Yellow Rain and the Crisis of Biological Arms Control, 1979-1995"; Marya L. HillPopper '96 for "From Market Building to Institution Building: The Development of Gender Equality Policy in the European Union"; Chimene I. Keitner '96 for "Revamping the Salome Myth: The Femme Fatalle and Sexual Power in Rachilde"; Thaddeus B. Kousser '96 for "'Treating' the Poor"; Alexander G. Kozak '96 for "The Myth of Hypsipyle in Greek and Roman Poetry"; and David B. Lat '96 for "Language and the Land: The Building of Community in Philippine...
Yeltsin: You know, 27 million people in our country perished during the war. We have published a series called The Remembrance Book. The volume for the Sverdlovsk area, where I was born and where my relatives lived, lists the names of all those who perished from that region during the war. There are seven Yeltsins, six of them were my relatives. So when we hold the traditional minute of silence on Victory Day, I will think, first of all, of Russia. But I will think also of what Bill Clinton and I should be doing together...
...broker was less interested in Yekaterinburg's history than he was in Sverdlovsk-45, the site of Russia's assembly plant for nuclear warheads, 124 miles farther north. There scientists and technicians have begun the process of dismantling most of Russia's 32,000 nuclear weapons, converting the weapons-grade plutonium into commercial-reactor fuel. The KGB still blocks any visits to Sverdlovsk-45, even turning away Yeltsin's nuclear-safety inspectors. But because of its proximity to all the nuclear and missile complexes in the area, Yekaterinburg has become a shopping center for the hottest market in restricted products...
...traveling companion and I found ourselves parked at the side of the road, approximately 93 miles south of Sverdlovsk-45, sharing a picnic lunch with a Russian scientist and two former military officers. Ignoring the freezing wind, we ate brown bread heaped with butter and red caviar. We drank tea from a thermos that had given up its heat hours ago, and stamped our feet in the snow as we discussed the import of a meeting held two hours earlier...
...metals from a factory dismantling warheads would have to be revamped. Even though my companion was interested in purchasing only "dual use" rare metals (rather than unequivocally illegal material, such as plutonium), there was a problem. Last summer, they said, more than a dozen plant directors and supervisors from Sverdlovsk-45 -- most of them KGB officers attached to the facility -- had been arrested and sent to prison for conspiring with the mafia to sell enriched uranium and plutonium abroad. Moscow had sent in a new KGB colonel to clean up the place...