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...accepting more than $1 million in bribes from Uzbek officials during the late 1970s and early 1980s. Eight other officials will be in the dock, including the former Uzbek Interior Minister and several regional police chiefs. If found guilty, the defendants could be sentenced to death. Churbanov's wife Galina, who is Brezhnev's daughter and has been linked to a Moscow diamond-smuggling ring, may be called to the witness stand...
...prominent revolutionary before she married and never played the part of First Lady. Contemporary examples elsewhere in the Communist world are uninspiring: in Rumania Nicolae Ceausescu's widely reviled wife Elena; in China the disgraced Jiang Qing, Mao Zedong's widow. Leonid Brezhnev's daughter Galina, once hailed as the East bloc's answer to Jacqueline Kennedy, later achieved notoriety by associating with shady characters...
Last year, however, the Ziemans' eldest daughter Galina, 26, was allowed to move to the U.S. with her husband Victor Khatutsky. The couple now live in Brighton, Mass., with their 2 1/2-year-old daughter Anna. Vera's eyes sparkle when she talks of being reunited with her sister and starting a new life in the West. "I want to sing in a choir," she says. "And I'd like a dog. Our apartment here is too small for one." But beneath her infectious optimism dwells an ever present anxiety. "It's very hard for me here," Vera Zieman says quietly. "Sometimes...
...writers scheduled to read at the Signet are Pavel Srut of Czecho-slovakia, Mark Bloch of France, Dan Tsalka of Israel, Hernan Lara of Mexico, Dr. O. Sae Yung of Korea and Lada Galina of Bulgaria...
Younger Magadanians seem more interested in their present and future careers than the area's sordid past. "That was a sad time, and we feel shame for it," said Galina Fedchenko, a reporter for the regional newspaper Magadanskaya Pravda. "But we don't talk about it very much. It's far in the past." She paused, and added with perhaps more confidence than justified by history, "We know it can never happen again...