Word: alexei
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...guard took place in skating. The kids -- relatively speaking -- took over the men's field four years before they were expected to claim dominance. Lillehammer was heralded as the final showdown among veteran champions. Instead they fell away, and the gold went to Russia's 20-year-old Alexei Urmanov, a fledgling classicist who was not tipped to win anything. The silver skater was an aerial whiz from Canada, Elvis Stojko, 21. Philippe Candeloro, 22, a blithe and showy Frenchman, took the bronze after an incendiary program to Godfather music ended with a fall on a triple Axel near...
...young gun with the gold was the most balletic in his approach, triples notwithstanding. Urmanov is no firecracker, but his program had pleasing balance. A native of St. Petersburg, he trains with one of his country's best, Alexei Mishin. For his efforts, Urmanov gets about $30 a month. Not for long...
...those of Czar Nicholas II and his family, murdered by the Bolsheviks in 1918. DNA from the remains was compared with that of samples taken later from Romanov descendants -- among them Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. The tests shed no light, however, on the fates of the young Prince Alexei and Princess Anastasia, who may have survived the execution...
...Painton was struck by the fact that the majority of women who leaped into these unions did so out of economic desperation. Reporters fanned out to probe the phenomenon. At the same time, assistant picture editor Jay Colton came across moving photos of child prostitutes in Russia taken by Alexei Ostrovskiy...
TIME correspondents traveling around Russia last week found the voters mostly pro-Yeltsin but often unenthusiastic, weary of politics, preoccupied with everyday problems. "I'll support Yeltsin now," said Alexei Svetlichny, a member of the Nizhni Novgorod city council, "but this will be the last time." Lyudmila Yakutin, a bank inspector in the city, was more firmly for Yeltsin: "The President must have the power, not those windbags" in parliament, she said. Yes, agreed economist Yevgeni Kozlov, Yeltsin may not be the ideal choice, but he is definitely "preferable to that chaotic Congress...