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...President is supported by ordinary Soviets obsessed with the disintegration of law and order. They blame much of the crime on "the mafia," an undefined evil that includes every criminal group from corrupt bureaucrats to clans that deal in prostitution and narcotics. Says Igor Karpetz, former chief of the national criminal police: "Not every band of apartment thieves constitutes a mafia...
...also have been a plea for attention. There was a palpable sense of injured pride in Moscow when the U.S. ignored the Soviet view and launched its unilateral police action in the gulf. "The possibilities for joint action should have been given more consideration," said Soviet Middle East expert Igor Belyayev. Finally, however, the Soviets lost patience with Saddam. On Friday Gorbachev issued an ultimatum: Withdraw from Kuwait or face "additional measures" from the U.N. Since Saddam was clearly not giving in, the way was cleared for Soviet support of an international blockade...
...people were interrogated and shot, Kryuchkov declared that the KGB is undertaking its own reforms and that "from within its walls come truth, justice, fairness and honesty." While Kryuchkov may not be persuasive enough to revise history, Soviet citizens are amazed at how far the KGB has come. Says Igor Spassky, a member of the Supreme Soviet's Committee on Defense and State Security: "Four years ago, we couldn't even theoretically consider such a meeting...
Just hours after the Chernobyl accident, a pilot friend asked Igor Kostin if he wanted to fly over the nuclear plant. "I agreed, of course," recalls Kostin, 53. "I wanted to prove that I was a man." He also proved he was a good journalist by becoming the first photographer on the scene. "There was still smoke coming out of the reactor," he says, "but I managed to get a few shots off. You could actually feel the silence. It was like a cemetery...
Four years after the world's worst nuclear disaster, an exclusive set of pictures by Soviet photographer Igor Kostin shows that the fallout is still being felt. Populated areas near the reactor remain heavily contaminated. Human health problems are on the rise, and farm animals are being born with horrible deformities, possibly caused by radiation...