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...Galina Starovoitova, a top aide to Boris Yeltsin, has reason to fear a second coup. While visiting Edinburgh last month, she had a chance encounter with Alexander Nevzorov the ultra-nationalist Soviet TV journalist. The Yeltsin staffer says that Nevzorov, spewed his contempt for the bumblers who conducted their inept coup in an alcoholic haze. "Next time," Starovoitova says he told her, "we won't fail. We'll arrest the opposition before announcing that we have taken over. You will be one of those we will arrest...
...group in the Congress of People's Deputies was Yeltsin's willingness to work with younger and far more radical deputies and learn from them about issues he had never been familiar with, like economic privatization and the Baltics' case for independence. "Despite his age, he is teachable," says Galina Starovoitova, a senior Soviet and Russian national legislator and a longtime ally of the late Andrei Sakharov. "He has a skill at listening to people...
After 16 years of exile, Rostropovich had returned to his native land -- to give concerts, but more significantly to begin healing political and personal wounds. The homecoming, said his wife, soprano Galina Vishnevskaya, a former star of the Bolshoi Theater, "was very emotional...
...refusals to bow down before the Kremlin. When Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn came under fire for his books on the Soviet Gulag, Rostropovich took him into his house. He also wrote a letter attacking the censors who banned Solzhenitsyn's work. "For 48 hours after I wrote that letter," Rostropovich recalls, "Galina did not sleep but cried. She told me, 'You have the right to destroy yourself, but what right do you have to destroy my life and the lives of your daughters?' But after 48 hours, Galina tells me, 'Without this letter, you will not be able to continue living...
...Scotch Symphony, Balanchine's musings on La Sylphide, worked best with Yelena Pankova, 25, as the sylph. A springy dancer blessed with a high, light jump, she seemed to grasp the choreographer's oft repeated injunction: respond to the music and "don't think -- do" the steps. Senior ballerina Galina Mezentseva tried to make a romantic story out of this plotless work and as a result looked...