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...yesterday afternoon were treated to the sounds of five undergraduate klappermeisters honing their bell ringing skills. High above in the belltower, students pressed footpedals as others pulled at an intricate web of ropes above. Their teachers included none other than the bell ringer of the Kremlin, Igor Konovalov, and Hierodeacon Roman Ogryzkov, chief bell ringer of the Danilov Monastery in Moscow. The Russian musical duo is teaching three master classes to the five undergraduate members of the Lowell House Society of Russian Bell Ringers. Their visit is the result of a long saga centered on the acquisition of the bells...
...Father Roman, the bell ringer at the monastery, said through a translator. “They were witnesses to many historical events.” Lowell organized multiple events to greet the Russians. Father Roman taught a master class along with two bell ringers for the Kremlin, Igor Konovalov and Konstantin Michourovski, on Tuesday, and another will be offered at 6 p.m. tonight. Konovalov spoke about Russian bell ringing yesterday, and Michourovski will host a class on Friday afternoon. The Vera Foundry, which is making Lowell’s new bells, showed videos yesterday to a group of Harvard officials...
Both sides, of course, are discovering that the post-cold war honeymoon is over. "Washington and Moscow are realizing that their interests don't always coincide," says Alexander Konovalov, an analyst at the U.S.A. and Canada Institute. "We should be mature enough to realize that is not a tragedy." One sign of such divergence is Ukraine's budding relationship with the U.S., underscored last week when Clinton increased his total aid package $225 million -- but carefully avoided providing any guarantees against Russian meddling...
Most Russians see the Clinton visit as having little impact on their lives. They believe all they have got out of improved relations with Washington has been a lot of empty promises of help. "I don't think anyone expects too much from America now," explains Alexander Konovalov of Moscow's Institute for the U.S.A. and Canada. "The romantic period in Russian-American relations is over...
Whole industries have sprung up to service the markets on the left. Printers illicitly run off copies of scarce books, while entire hidden factories make jeans and cosmetics. Truck Drivers Nikolai Butko and Alexander Konovalov developed a very elaborate triangular trade from the Caucasus Mountain city of Krasnodar near the Black Sea. They picked up purloined steel from a state factory, delivered it to government farms in exchange for off-market tomatoes, grapes and peas, and then sold the produce in Siberia, where fresh vegetables were in short supply...
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