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Down the hall, Dr. Irina Arkhangelskaya, who has lost 92 lbs. in the past year and now weighs in at 170, hands a list of foods, with their calorie content, to Ludmilla Makarova, a new client who needs help planning a diet. Makarova, who works in a mirror factory, grimaces as she notes that the suggested daily menu forbids noodles, sausage and sweets. "And no pickles," Arkhangelskaya cautions. "They are high in salt...
...didn't arrive in time for the funeral. We flew in the day after, and we spent the five days that Moscow gave us at the home of Daniel's widow Irina Uvarova...
...popularity index. Never mind that the back of his head is more familiar to audiences than his face or that he speaks Russian with a syncopated Estonian accent. Soviet viewers feel that they are eavesdropping on an intimate chat with such personalities as chess champion Anatoly Karpov, figure skater Irina Rodnina, painter Ilya Glazunov and pop singer Alla Pugacheva...
...compounded by steroids and other chemical help: indeed, one popular explanation in the U.S. for the 1984 boycott was Soviet fear that its star performers would fail drug tests. And as for the awesome women athletes, well, are they really women at all? Skeptics recall that Tamara and Irina Press, the hulking Soviet sisters who won five Olympic gold medals in the 1960s, dropped from international competition after sex tests were introduced. In this mistrustful vision, athletes respond to the carrots of cushy jobs, fancy apartments and Western consumer goods, coupled with a fearsome stick if performance falters: the threat...
...Gorbachevs have a daughter Irina, 28, who is a physician and married to another doctor, and two known grandchildren. The extent to which the Gorbachevs guard their family privacy can be gauged by some of the things that are not known for sure: Irina's married name (only the first name of her husband, Anatoli, has been disclosed); the granddaughter's name (it has been reported as both Oksana and Xenia); her age (probably seven); and the sex and name of a second grandchild (Gorbachev proudly told former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, who visited Moscow last summer, that...