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...Fear of anarchy, always the darkest nightmare in Russian hearts, is now widespread. Too much has happened too soon -- in Eastern Europe, in the Baltics, in the Muslim south -- and it seems to many that things are flying apart. The front page of Izvestia asked last week, "Will there be perestroika or not?" Literaturnaya Gazeta echoed the question, commenting, "All the weak points are coming to the fore, regardless of which region you try to assess." A group of liberal parliamentarians demanded a special session of the legislature to discuss the crisis in the Caucasus. Said People's Deputy Sergei...
Most mysterious was the appearance of orange helicopters without identification marks that suddenly materialized from the hills of the Shaumyan and Khanlar regions outside Nagorno-Karabakh and strafed Azerbaijani villages with gunfire and even rockets. The government daily Izvestia ominously reported that there was evidence of preparations to smuggle a large batch of weapons and ammunition across the border from Iran...
...should I waste my time sitting on a tractor?" Dull replied in an interview in the daily Izvestia. "There are already 40 extra people here to do that." In Ohio, says Dull, he and his three sons and one son-in-law run the farm themselves; in the Ukraine, he estimates, an operation of the same size would require the services of 140 workers and six supervisors...
...Moscow, Orlov was Souther, who first surfaced in the Soviet Union last July claiming that the FBI had been harassing him. "I lost my future," he said. But Souther acquired his Russian name only after he was granted asylum last year. What was news was that Souther, as Izvestia reported last week, had been spying for the Soviets "for a long time" and had acquired the rank of KGB major...
...Izvestia correspondents probed Goldman, apparently trying to find out if the economist only expected Gorbachev to fall, or wanted him to as well...