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Washington -- Although 48% of the respondents to a recent poll in St. Petersburg said they would like Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn to be President of Russia (only 18% picked Boris Yeltsin), the writer's wife Natalya has told TIME that he has no plans to enter politics. Despite the turmoil in Russia last month, the couple still plans to return in May after 17 years of exile in Vermont. "The decision has been made," Natalya says...
President Yeltsin had many differences with his former Vice President, Aleksandr Rutskoi. But a conviction that Russia should exercise hegemony over its former empire was not one of them. True, the two men had vastly opposing strategies. Rutskoi wanted to challenge the West by asserting Russia's imperium through direct military confrontation. He would have wiped out all the vestiges of the new states' independence and reestablished the Soviet Union's borders...
...author of 2001: A Space Odyssey, to write a new story, set in the third millennium. His tale, The Hammer of God, about an asteroid that imperils the earth, is only the second piece of fiction ever to be published in TIME. (The first was a story by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn in 1969.) The 74-year-old British futurist, who has written more than 50 books, is often as prescient as he is prolific. Clarke has long warned about humankind's vulnerability to asteroid impacts, a subject that is just now capturing the attention of the scientific mainstream...
...Ukraine as a separate country, not least because 20% of the population there is Russian. This is an emotional issue with roots both deep and broad, by no means confined to crazies like Vladimir Zhirinovsky, who calls his party Liberal Democratic but who is actually a fascistic imperialist. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's new book, Rebuilding Russia, appeals to Ukrainians not to go their own way: "Brothers! We have no need of this cruel partition. The very idea comes from the darkening of minds brought on by the communist years...
German-Soviet Military Cooperation in the 1920s and 1930s--with Aleksandr Nekrich, Russian Research Center senior fellow. In Coolidge Hall, room 4, at noon...