Word: leningraders
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...promote stability as a way of keeping hordes of hungry Russians from heading west. The Germans have promised nearly $10 billion in aid, as well as enough meat, milk and medicine for 10 million people for a month. With a sense of irony and shame, war veterans in Leningrad find themselves awaiting CARE packages from Germany nearly 50 years after the city's population was virtually starved in the siege. Many believe Leningrad is suffering severe shortages these days at least partly because hard-line Communists are trying to undermine the democratically elected, reform-minded city council...
PAINTINGS IN THE HERMITAGE by Colin Eisler (Stewart, Tabori & Chang; $85). Catherine the Great started it. She acquired important paintings, and her collection became the nucleus of the Leningrad museum. Velasquez, Rubens, Rembrandt, Van Gogh, Picasso: no visitor has seen all that is pictured here; the book itself amounts to a work...
...Even so, this is not the most stirring territory for a movie to explore, and The Russia House spends entirely too much downtime in safe houses and situation rooms with an international team of spymasters and not enough quality time with their agent on the scene in Moscow and Leningrad...
...speaks with Leonid Abalkin, Gorbachev's topadvisor on economic reform. He speaks with AnatolySobchak, a reformist Leningrad deputy. Moreinteresting, perhaps, is his afternoon with NinaAndreyevna, who gained nationwide notoriety as aGorbachev critic, an advocate of the Stalinistcommand system...
...International Development, is identifying the neediest areas and the available resources of food and transport. The plan, whose details are still secret, is to send supplies directly to the areas thought to be the hardest hit, including cities in Siberia and the Urals, as well as Moscow and Leningrad...