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RUSSIA Communists Out The pro-Kremlin majority in the Duma stripped the Communist faction and its allies of the chairmanships of eight top Duma committees. In protest, the left-wing oppo-sition gave up control of the three committees they still kept. The parliament has scheduled a vote for April 19 on a draft appeal to have the Communist Party banned altogether...
...outside table in warm weather. You enter from the GUM department store via several of the fashionable women's shops - don't be intimidated by sales staff. Lunch without wine is about $25. Tel. 929 3182. The National on the second floor of the National Hotel looks toward the Kremlin (and the Moskva Hotel). Good, though expensive, Russian food...
...spend a few hours in the Kremlin, a complex of palaces, cathedrals and gardens spanning five centuries (ending with the undistinguished Palace of Congresses from the early 1960s). Beautiful and quintessentially Russian, much of the Kremlin was constructed or laid out by Italian builders at the end of the 15th century. After your tour, walk across Red Square to the massive gum shopping center, one of the many self-confident edifices built during the last Rus-sian economic boom - at the beginning of the 20th century. In Soviet times a slightly furtive place, it now offers a crash course...
...favorite is the Zamoskvoreche, literally the area across the Moscow River - from the Kremlin, that is. It's a slightly rundown district of old churches, 18th century noble residences and the odd basement "intellectual bookstore," but it can be full of fascinating little finds, like a lovely white stone church with a dark green cupola, behind a wall on Bolshaya Ordynka (No. 38). It looks medieval but was built in 1912 by Alexei Shchusev, one of the most prolific architects of his time. He later designed Lenin's mausoleum and the hideous Moskva Hotel near Red Square, with its asymmetrical...
...Chechens. The journalist was later found dead. It did not have to be this way. When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, the leaders of the new Ukrainian state had plenty to worry about. Russian subversion, for example, or the ecological damage wrought on their land by the Kremlin's industrial policies. But at least the country was economically and culturally viable, they said. They were overly optimistic. Ukraine's first 10 years of independence have turned out to be a lost decade and the history of those years, in the words of a U.S. diplomat, are best viewed...