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Inside a cramped apartment on Moscow's eastern edge, Lyudmila Babitskaya never moves far from the television or telephone. For more than a month, she has been waiting to learn the fate of her husband Andrei Babitsky, a U.S.-funded Radio Liberty reporter who disappeared in Chechnya. "It started as a nightmare," she says of her vigil, "but it's turning into a horror story...
...result is a cacophonous mix of candidates bumping up against one another in improbable coalitions and alliances, not all of which were able to collect the 100,000 signatures necessary to qualify for the ballot. One of the more exotic hybrids was formed by Lyudmila Vartazarova, a grandmother of four whose strategy involved merging her Socialist Party of the Working People, based in Moscow, with a group of Cossack monarchists from the south, a loose coalition of oil executives from western Siberia and a group from the northern republic of Karelia. The resulting clash of ideologies ignited dissent among reform...
TIME correspondents traveling around Russia last week found the voters mostly pro-Yeltsin but often unenthusiastic, weary of politics, preoccupied with everyday problems. "I'll support Yeltsin now," said Alexei Svetlichny, a member of the Nizhni Novgorod city council, "but this will be the last time." Lyudmila Yakutin, a bank inspector in the city, was more firmly for Yeltsin: "The President must have the power, not those windbags" in parliament, she said. Yes, agreed economist Yevgeni Kozlov, Yeltsin may not be the ideal choice, but he is definitely "preferable to that chaotic Congress...
...company, who turn in performances ranging from serviceable to superb. The sheer number of minor characters and the indistinguishability of their names does not prevent certain actors from achieving distinction: particularly wonderful were Candy Buckley as the secretary Polixena Vasilievna Toropetskaya, Margaret Gibson as the cat-hurling actress Lyudmila Silvestrovna Priakina and Jeremy Geidt as Romanus, the conductor at the Independent Theatre. Derek Smith is not a very dynamic Maksudov; although he expresses his suicidal desperation nicely, his creative anxieties and joys are only sketchily delineated. Alvin Epstein as Ivan Vasilyevich, the director of the Independent Theatre conspicuously modeled...
...LYUDMILA ARUTYUNYAN...