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...mopping up of Mezhennaya began a year ago, when City Channel correspondent Alexander Kukin broadcast the report about Ryzhkova that led to the slander charge. Kukin also alleged that the heads of federal agencies in the region were beholden for their jobs to the governor. Mezhennaya says she would not have been surprised if the report had triggered a civil suit, "but criminal charges until now have been unheard of." She claims that investigators piled on the pressure, tapping her phones and impounding furniture from her modest one-bedroom apartment. While she was on vacation last autumn she popped...
...absence of a crime," to use the Russian legal phrase. The prosecution promptly appealed and the ordeal will now start all over again, in the regional court. Mezhennaya says she has no way of knowing whether she will still be free at the end of the month. Kukin, the TV correspondent whose report triggered Mezhennaya's problems, now works for the local state-run TV station. He is testifying for the prosecution that she urged him to do the allegedly slanderous feature...
These new Soviet policies raise many questionsfor American scholars, according to Mark N.Kramer, a Kukin Fellow at the Center forInternational Affairs. "You need to ask ifGorbachev will be around to implement his program,if it will work, how the Soviets will adapt, andif it is in our interest to have Gorbachevsucceed," he said...
...committee of senior faculty members headed by Rosovsky will serve as mentors to the Kukin Scholars, and assist them in either gaining further expertise in a discipline in the social sciences or focusing on a particular region. The scholars will be housed in the CFIA, and they will also use of other Harvard facilities such as the Russian Research Center and the Center for Middle Eastern Studies...
...John D. and Katherine T. MacArthur Foundation has also provided funds to help pay for the initial costs of the program, and Kukin's gift will form a permanent endowment for the Academy...