Word: kiev
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There are few of them left nowadays, and they are mostly ignored. On May 9, however, elderly veterans of the Red Army will turn out all across the former Soviet Union to celebrate their victory 50 years ago over Nazi Germany. In Moscow and Kiev, in St. Petersburg and Nizhni Novgorod, authorities are organizing rallies and parades to honor the old soldiers. And the old soldiers, rows of military medals pinned to their civilian clothes, are reminiscing about the war, the friends they lost and the savage, tragic history of the country they saved. Their stories are of heroism...
DMITRI ZATONSKY, 72, sits in his Kiev study beneath a portrait of his father. "I'm not sure the people in the West can understand what went on here," he says. "The history of this painting reveals something of it. It is a typical tale of our times." The portrait depicts a stern yet handsome man in the uniform of a high-ranking communist official of the prewar years. He had been a Bolshevik revolutionary, says Zatonsky. But he differed politically with Joseph Stalin in the Soviet Union's early years. He was arrested in 1937 and called "an enemy...
Fifty years later, the Soviets who beat Hitler are coming to the end of lives as hard as any in a hard century. Soon enough, they will have peace. Their children will struggle on against an enemy they cannot even quite describe. --With reporting by Sally B. Donnelly/ Kiev and Constance Richards/Nizhni Novgorod
Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma promised today that the Chernobyl nuclear power plant would be closed by 2000. Representatives from the 15-nation European Union and G-7 countries visiting Kiev called the decision "a radical change in Ukrainian policy" given the former Soviet country's grave economic difficulties. Previously, Kiev had refused to consider closing the plant, most of which has been enclosed in an unstable, radioactive sarcophagus since the 1986 disaster...
...from shopkeepers to schoolteachers stash greenbacks as a shield against hyperinflation and the sudden devaluation of their own currencies. In some cases, it is also the only way to do business. Taxi drivers in Almaty, the capital of Kazakhstan, prefer their fares in dollars, as do some restaurants in Kiev and St. Petersburg. Says a Russian importer of IBM computers, pulling a thick wad of $50 bills from his pocket: "What do I need rubles for? I want real money...