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...DIED. ANDRIAN NIKOLAYEV, 74, Russian cosmonaut whose 1962 space flight set an endurance record; in Cheboksary, Chuvash Autonomous Republic. Nikolayev circled the earth 64 times in 96 hours in his record-breaking flight, during which he also became the first man in orbit to appear live on television. In 1963 he married Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman in space, reportedly to help the Soviets study the effects of space travel on human reproduction. The couple bore two children, but divorced...
...newest fad is for even more atomization: not just republics but pieces of republics and even single cities are proclaiming themselves sovereign. Within the Russian federation, the Chuvash, Buryat, Kalmyk, Tatar, Mari, Komi, Yakut, Karelian and Bashkir autonomous republics, each the homeland of a distinct ethnic group, have all called for some form of separatism. Districts like the Irkutsk region of Siberia have adopted declarations of "equality and independence," and the city of Nizhni-Novgorod has petitioned the federation for special status...
...other two biographers sometimes accept as fact, offering the pros and cons of each argument. There is, for example, a genuine riddle about Lenin's racial background. Author Payne insists "there was not a drop of Russian blood" in Lenin, and claims his ancestry was German, Swedish and Chuvash (a Tatar tribe living along the Volga), and that it shaped his personality. Without citing any evidence, Author Possony argues that the "evidence indicates" Lenin's grandfather "was born a Jew." Fischer places the responsibility where it belongs, on the Soviet government. "The records were undoubtedly available in Russia...
Widow's Sob. Not a Cossack but a sugar refinery worker, Roman Popovich, 57, wept with joy outside his home in the Ukraine in front of the photographers who gathered to catch his reaction at the news of his son's landing. In the Chuvash Republic, Anna Nikolayev, 62, a widowed peasant woman, tugged at her handkerchief and sobbed. Newspapers all over the world carried the photos...
...established by Treaty of Union signed in 1922 by the Russian Socialist Federated Soviet Republic (Russia proper, Turkestan, Kirghiz, Tartar, Bashkir, Mountain Republic, Daghestan, Crimea, Votiak, Mari, Chuvash, German Volga areas, the Far Eastern region), the Ukrainian Socialist Soviet Republic, the White Russian S S R. and the Transcaucasian Socialist Federal S. R. The Treaty was ratified last January...
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