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Supporters can also be counted among the 25 million Russians who live in the country's 14 other republics and who complain bitterly that Moscow has not done enough to protect them against ethnic violence and discriminatory new laws. At a patriotic meeting in Leningrad three weeks ago, cries of "Throw out the government!" greeted a man who had been forced to flee the Azerbaijan capital of Baku after he described how he and other Russians were being isolated at special settlements outside Moscow...
Somewhat to the north, a people known as the East Slavs began settling in the dense forests in about A.D. 500, finally occupying an area from what is now Leningrad to Kiev. From their forests, they shipped furs and honey down the Dnieper to the imperial capital of Constantinople. In 862, according to a 12th century document known as the Primary Chronicle, there occurred a semi- legendary encounter when the quarreling Slavs sent a delegation to Scandinavia to negotiate with the Vikings, whom they called Varangians, specifically with a tribe known as the Rus. "Our whole land is great...
...sounded by a sailor who jumped overboard as the ship was leaving harbor and by an officer who untied himself and radioed, "Mutiny aboard: We are off to the high seas." The apparent destination was Sweden, although another press report last week suggested that Sablin was actually heading for Leningrad to demand reforms of the Soviet system over nationwide TV. The ship was halted by aircraft fire near Sweden, and the conspirators were put on trial. Sablin was sentenced to death by firing squad...
...Leningrad writer Nina Katerli first heard about the bizarre leaflet from a friend. A cooperative venture called EXODUS was announcing plans for a special event to take place at 4 a.m. on March 13. Anyone seeking information was advised to call Katerli's home telephone. A noted author of moral parables, Katerli is of Jewish, Russian and Polish descent and has become used to such crude ethnic provocations ever since she started drawing public attention to anti-Semitism in the Russian nationalist movement...
...first Samuel Barber's elegiac Adagio for Strings; then Tchaikovsky's "Pathetique" Symphony, which Rostropovich had performed at his last Moscow concert 16 years ago; then Shostakovich's anguished Fifth Symphony, written at the height of Stalin's purges in 1937. (In three subsequent concerts, two of them in Leningrad, Rostropovich would also perform the Prokofiev Fifth Symphony, the Dvorak Cello Concerto and Stephen Albert's Rivering Waters...