Word: babichev
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...city of Kaluga, residents also felt that on balance Yeltsin was better than parliament, but he has another opponent: apathy. "We're talking about the provinces here," said Igor Babichev, editor of a business weekly. "If the weather is good on election day, people will be out in the countryside collecting potatoes." And quite a few Russians probably agreed with 21-year-old Natasha Leshiner, a sales assistant, who believed, "We should do away with the whole government. We have the same bureaucrats we had in the past...
Final Parade. The heroes of Envy are exquisitely fashioned for the roles of victims. Nikolai Kavalerov and Ivan Babichev have become ne'er-do-wells who can barely breathe, let alone prosper, in the new Russia. Both are short and fat, broke and ludicrously dressed, and much too fond of beer. They are dreamers and, even worse, scoffers...
...love-in a word, almost all the feelings of which the human soul was made up. I want to organize a final parade of those feelings." A fine state of mutual contempt exists between the subversive team of Ivan-Kavalerov and the living symbols of the new order, Andrei Babichev and his protege Volodia. Babichev is Ivan's brother, a revolutionary who has been rewarded with the directorship of the Food Industry Trust. He is a glutton whose finest efforts go into the creation of a salami so good, so cheap, so nutritious that it will...
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