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...sudden decision to appear achieved the effect he so clearly enjoys, catching his rivals off balance and making them look foolish. This time, however, his about-face may have been inspired by more profound considerations. The day before the funeral, the one living Russian with any claims to sainthood, Dmitri Likhachev, 91, spoke on the phone with the President and urged him to attend. Yeltsin is reputed to be in awe of Likhachev, a specialist in early Russian literature and a survivor of one of the worst of the early Soviet political prisons, where in previous centuries the Orthodox Church...
...related complaint was raised in 1993 by a Russian scientist named Dmitri Kouznetsov and enthusiastically supported by John Jackson, a physicist who was one of the leaders of the 1978 research team and is now co-director of the Turin Shroud Center of Colorado. Kouznetsov suggested that the radiocarbon dates had been thrown off by the entire shroud's exposure to a fire in 1532, which could have been expected to alter its carbon profile...
...Dmitri C. Dover '00, Hensen's roommate, said the incident was "a little scary" given that it took place on a well-lit, well-trodden path. It is the primary route that Mather House residents take toward the Yard...
...film that even attempts to ground itself in history is in a short opening prologue, occurring during an unmentioned First World War, one year after the Russian Revolution in 1916. Somehow, Anastasia, born in 1901, is only eight years old in 1916. With the help of a servant boy, Dmitri, Anastasia manages to escape from Rasputin and his revolutionaries, but falls off a train, hitting her head...
...Latvia and Lithuania--which might need security reassurance more than Poland does right now--is "doable, but not immediately." It will happen over the next five to 10 years, he predicts. That is not the way it looks from Moscow. "The Baltic republics are strictly off the table," says Dmitri Trenin, a defense expert at the Moscow office of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. "That door is closed. If NATO tries to open it, even a little bit, there will be trouble...