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...budget constraints, has decided not to spend any money on new road signs or stationery. But the rechristening reflects a deeper transformation that optimists say has affected many of the city's 5 million residents. "On the surface, nothing has changed in the way we live," explains Sergei Fyodorov, a taxi driver. "But the people in this city have changed. The change is in our souls. We feel free at last...
...return of perestroika, but he won't be getting much encouragement. "Among Gorbachev's top advisers, just about everybody is gone," claims John Mroz, president of the Institute for East-West Security Studies. Many other reform-minded leaders have left the country altogether. The latest departure: Boris Fyodorov, the respected finance minister of the Russian republic, who will take up a job in London later this month at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. Most of Gorbachev's policy shapers have been replaced by unknowns from the Central Committee's ideology department. Before their arrival, some of these...
Despite the concession to Yeltsin's demand for faster change, the committee is packed with Gorbachev supporters. Alongside Boris Fyodorov, 32, Yeltsin's finance minister, sit several of the President's closest advisers. Before Sept. 1, when Gorbachev returns from his summer vacation in the Crimea, the committee is to work out a plan for drafting a law to establish a market ecomomy...
...already competing is by serving the rarest thing in the Moscow restaurant world: courtesy. Customers are greeted by a courtly doorman who apologizes for the delay. The waiters startle women by holding chairs for them. In the evenings two Moldavian musicians serenade diners with folk and gypsy tunes. Fyodorov strolls among the tables greeting customers and topping up glasses of chilled fruit juice. The restaurant so far is nonalcoholic, but the partners hope to obtain permission to serve wine. The menu, chalked on a blackboard, offers hors d'oeuvres of cold tongue, crudites and home-pickled vegetables. The main courses...
...Fyodorov has been in the food-service business since 1964, starting as a busboy and working his way up to become director at the Metropol, one of Moscow's leading hotels. He dreamed of having his own restaurant for 15 years. "But until Gorbachev came along," he says, "it wasn't possible." Fyodorov surveys the restaurant with a happy, proprietary air. The chef is at the bar discussing the day's menu with a waiter. A waitress is arranging the silverware. The line outside is growing longer. Fyodorov smiles and says, "This is perestroika...