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...placing a bomb inside a concrete pillar beneath the stands at Grozny's Dynamo Stadium, where the former mufti was attending a ceremony to mark the anniversary of Russia's victory over Nazi Germany. Six others died in the blast and up to 89 were injured, including General Valery Baranov, the commander of Russian troops in Chechnya. Putin's immediate response was to vow that "retribution is unavoidable for those whom we are fighting." But after his trip to Grozny, he took a different tack. He ordered 1,125 more Chechen police to the capital, but also announced that...
...Moscow, but it was dirty," complains a 29-year-old woman. "The mothers all had caked breasts, and the toilet was filthy." Adds an employee of a maternity house in the capital: "Women in labor are treated like cattle. There's one midwife for every 15 women." Alexander Baranov, a Deputy Minister of Health, admitted in a recent newspaper interview that gynecologic clinics are no better, most of them lacking heat and plumbing. Yet the clinics are vital to the female population: 1 out of 3 Soviet women has gynecologic problems, and miscarriages are common...
...eyes first beheld America, did a ship from the imperial navy enter New Archangel harbor, and then only with mischief in mind. Its captain, one Vasilii Golovnin, coveted the lucrative colony, which was in the hands of businessmen. In time, the navy pulled its rank and took control. Aleksandr Baranov, resident manager for 27 years, was fired without honors or pension...
...more set in their ways. Top-level Americans and Russians have made a deliberate effort to know each other as men, which the British are more slow to do. For instance, when Brigadier W. R. N. Hinde, British Military Governor, wants to see the Russian Military Governor, General Nikolai Baranov, he sends an officer to make the appointment a day in advance, then appears with several officers in his retinue. When his U.S. opposite number, Colonel Frank Howley, a lean, hard-working advertising man from Philadelphia, wants to see Baranov, he just walks...
Next day - the Fourth of July - the Americans lined up in the courtyard of Lichterfelde's former SS barracks. Opposite them was ranged a Red Army detachment. Major General Nikolai Baranov, commander of the Russian garrison in Berlin, welcomed the newcomers. General Omar N. Bradley, commander...