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...TUZLA ISLAND Russia and Ukraine nearly came to blows late last year over this strategically placed islet, which guards the only shipping lane from the landlocked Azov Sea to the Black Sea. Tensions eased last week with the ratification of an accord to share the Azov's waterways?but Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov says the fate of Tuzla itself has yet to be decided...
Sound familiar? In fact, the Soviet Union may face a graver problem this year than the one in the U.S., where medical debris and sewage have washed up on beaches around New York City and New England. Authorities, for example, outlawed swimming last month in the Sea of Azov, 600 miles south of Moscow, after a local sewage system accidentally spilled raw waste into the water not once but twice...
...holy Russian muzhik.' " He knew better; his grandfather was a peasant and his father an incompetent grocer and religious fanatic who spent most of his time praying, preaching and beating his six children. The family lived in Taganrog, a small port, a "deaf town," on the Sea of Azov, and as soon as they were able, the young Chekhovs were put to work in the unheated shop. On Sundays they were made to stand for hours in church. Wrote the author years later: "When I was a child I had no childhood...
...chatter of the pirate stations are sprayed so widely across the medium-range radio frequencies that they have become a communications hazard. In Donetsk, many of the illegal transmitters were on the frequency of the railway switching station of this important industrial center. On the inland Sea of Azov, riverboat skippers complain that they cannot hear routing orders because of interference by Elvis Presley tapes. Judged even more hazardous, however, were the broadcasts of an operator in Vilna, Lithuania, who has been sentenced to three years in prison for "anti-Soviet agitation." His crime: retransmitting Western newscasts taped from...
...grey, gull-studded morning of Dec. 1, 1825, the Azov seaport of Taganrog echoed to the tolling of death bells. Alexander I, conqueror of Napoleon, keystone of the Holy Alliance, Emperor and Autocrat of all the Russias, was dead at 48. With him had passed the hopes of the peasantry for reforms and freedoms that he had long espoused; after him came an era of intermittent repression and misrule that led finally to the Bolshevik Revolution. But had Alexander really died? Last week in Moscow, a Soviet writer once again exhumed a 140-year-old legend that Alexander faked...