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This bronze sculpture of the googly-eyed, flute-nosed Doo Doo commemorates its creator, Street Puppeteer Igor Fokin. Fokin moved to Harvard Square from Russia in 1993 and began performing a 15-minute marionette act that included Doo Doo, his favorite puppet. Fokin carved all the dozen or so puppets in his show, drawing on Russian folk stories to create new characters. Doo Doo was an original character; its name comes from Fokin’s pronounciation of “Toot Toot” in a deep, Russian-accented voice...
...marionette act soon became a favorite attraction in the Square, and Igor was selected to perform at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics. Unfortunately, the puppeteer died soon after of heart failure on September 21, 1996, three hours after his last performance. He was 36. His friends and acquaintances quickly created a fund in his name to assist his wife and three young children and a formed committee to look into te creation of a memorial. The committee decided to place a sculpture where Igor last performed and commissioned Russian sculptor Konstantin Simun...
...Before the Putin-Bush phone conversation, Russia had been sending out mixed signals about Central Asian cooperation: Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov said in Washington that former Soviet republics there would be free to make their own decisions while Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov categorically ruled out "even a hypothetical possibility" of a NATO military presence in Moscow's former territories, which it still considers an integral part of its sphere of influence. To underscore that view, Secretary of the Security Council General Vladimir Rushailo and Chief Of General Staff Anatoli Kvashnin traveled to Central Asia. Kvashnin had said last week: "Russia...
...precisely that America-first approach that has caused such consternation over missile defense, where the unilateralists are rushing events along. Powell has to shoulder the so-far unsuccessful chore of pacifying allies and adversaries who take a dim view. In more than seven sit-downs with Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov, he has tried to persuade an unyielding Moscow to say O.K. Everyone who opposes missile defense or wants to slow it down looks to Powell...
...Design Bureau. They design fine subs, but have no experience in raising them. They tried once to raise the Komsomolets rescue capsule from 1650 meters, using a steel cable. As the cable was shortening, it lost its resiliency and broke. They lost the capsule. Now, (Rubin's head, Academician Igor) Spasski shows his magic tricks with cables and ship models in a test pool to prove how swell his Kursk project is. It is as ridiculous to watch as it is painful...